The Universe Spirit movement recognizes there is a universal and transcendent core found within all of the world's authentic spiritual traditions. It is Ultimate Reality, the source of all reality.
Universe Spirit recognizes that all of the world's spiritual traditions contain within them diverse, effective and often complementary processes for achieving spiritual growth through the transformative, direct spiritual experience of Ultimate Reality and that the differences in the plurality of processes is a essential and necessary result of our cultural, developmental, learning style and individual personality differences. Additionally, because Ultimate Reality can be encountered, conceptualized, and responded to in numerous and diverse ways, the different perceptions of Ultimate Reality that are possible can represent both different aspects of Ultimate Reality itself and/or perceptions conditioned by cultural, learning style and individual personality differences.
The most common forms of direct spiritual experience have been described as a numinous experience of the holy or a mystical experience of unity. These common forms of direct spiritual experience as well as other forms of direct spiritual experience have been found to be substantially the same in different cultures and religions. This lends credence to the view that a single, universal direct spiritual experience underlies and interconnects all the major world religions.
Universe Spirit believes that by assembling and sharing both the universal and diverse aspects of all processes of direct spiritual experience from the world's authentic spiritual traditions the tools for supporting direct spiritual experience can be made more easily available and understood and the process of an individual’s own direct spiritual experience can be significantly enhanced.
Interpretations of direct spiritual experience of Ultimate Reality tend to become codified into religious practices beliefs and doctrine. Universe Spirit recognizes that because of cultural, learning style, developmental and personality differences there will naturally and always should be a multiplicity of spiritual practices, beliefs and doctrines relating to the interpretations, processes, levels and results of direct spiritual experience.
Universe Spirit promotes direct spiritual experience of Ultimate Reality to develop the spiritual awareness that creates the realization of the immanence of Ultimate Reality in all beings and things of the universe. From this awareness and realization all beings, life and nature becomes a sacred reflection and expression of Ultimate Reality. From this awareness and realization one's relation to everything in the universe is transformed.
We believe that because of the Infinite nature of Ultimate Reality, the theological systems of the world's authentic spiritual traditions will always provide a unique, but partial view of this infinite reality. Therefore it is important to experience as many of these unique but partial views of Ultimate Reality to obtain the most complete and complimentary experiences of Ultimate Reality from the world’s great spiritualities.
Articles
Integral Spirituality - Ken Wilber
Integral Spirituality, a new synthesis of western and eastern spirituality – the Institute of Integral Evolution
Integral spirituality, modern science, and conscious evolution - Thomas Maxwell
The Eye of Spirit: Contemplative Experience and Integral Science - Thomas Maxwell
The Inner Knowledge of Spiritual Experience - Thomas Maxwell