Hello, and welcome to the lecture on spiritual activity. This lecture is an honor of the endless inspiration My wife has given to me and so many other people. She was born a prodigy ballerina. She started dancing when she was five years old, and she just never stopped. And if you're not familiar with ballet, ballet is grueling on the physical body. And dancers are extremely tough under that beautiful and graceful facade.

When I found out how difficult it was, I asked her, Well, how did you do it for so long? And she simply replied, every time I put on my shoes and danced, it was a direct connection to God. Dance was and still is a spiritual experience for her. And now it's remarked To see your open hearts and souls of so many of our students to that experience. So everyone has an activity in this life that will provide a direct connection to a benevolent energy that's much bigger than themselves. We're human beings.

We are naturally programmed for that experience. It's the portal to the divine created by the divine, who longs for that transcendental connection. Now, if you say you don't have an activity that connects you to spirit, it's only because you haven't found it yet. So some examples might include any art form, gardening, cooking, social interaction, sex, meditation, building, traveling, or any kind of creative endeavor. The key component is, that must be something that you'd love to do that connects you to something bigger than yourself. The telltale signs Is that the experiences tend to be awesome.

So what might it look like? Well, I can't say for you, but I can only share my own experiences. So for me, it happens anytime I go into nature where there's no people. So what happens is that my mind slows down. And almost sometimes it seems like it ceases to exist so that the monkey mind chatter almost goes away completely. Time ceases to exist or becomes very different than linear time.

So I kind of go into this, this warp of a different experience of time. And then at that point, spirituality just seems to naturally open up and then you connect, and you can communicate to this presence. And so I don't communicate to this presence in words. It's more like a connection of feeling or connection of experience. So things will start to happen. And then, in that experience, I will either feel joy or very alive.

Or very present in the moment. So that's one activity that does it for me. Also, another experience I had this was years ago, I used to play bass guitar in a band. And so, so what would happen when we're playing music, it didn't happen all the time. But there were times when we would get into what I would call a synergistic groove. Where we were just, the music just grouped is, is the only way I can think, to explain so there was a connection that happened through the music to each other person in the band that opened us up to a larger presence.

It was electrifying, spiritual experience it and they were they're magical and incredible. So, so that's I've experienced that to music also. So when you're involved in your spiritual activity, it's meditation of the highest order because it's a direct connection to source itself. So let's go to the following exercises, and see if we can expand into that awesomeness. I'll see you there.