A new series of posts is about to begin, and each new post will begin with the same lead-in:

“How to live as if we know or strongly suspect that …”

These new posts will be shared from this author’s latest little “Spirit teaches a simple seeker” book, not yet ready for publication, but expected to be on the market by early Fall 2026.

“Spirit teaches a simple seeker – How to Live – as if …”

As if what, you might ask. “as if we know or strongly suspect that …”

Suspect what? Each post will offer something different to suspect.

Before we begin this new series, perhaps I should explain what and/or who “Spirit” is, at least to my simple understanding.

Inspiration comes, if it does, to everyone, more or less, and now and then. But where does inspiration come from?

Perhaps inspiration is a fundamental quality of the mind of humanity, or a manifesrtation of the highest and/or most expanded state of awareness that humans are likely to reach in the forseeable future. Inspiration is a mystery to understand, and yet we’re each and all, now and then, inspired to do this or that, or to go here or there, or simply to be what we know we are. It’s a mystery, for now.

So, the problem arises, at least for this simple seeker; how to interact with Inspiration, whatever it is?

Inspiration is a one way flow of creative energy. It’s like a monolog, as a source of information that allows for no questioning.

I have always seemed to need to question even myself, so my source of information and creative energy (such as it is) must be questioned, but how?

Perhaps Inspiration itself provided me with an ideal way out of the problem. Personify inspiration, and so I did, and it works, at least for me, for now.

In the series of little “Spirit teaches a simple seeker” books, Inspiration becomes Spirit, my psychotherapist, with His wise and yet down-to-earth style of interaction with his not too bright (but eager to understand life) student, me, who He calls Chela. This set-up allows me to interact with my personal source of inspiration, whatever it might be. Inspiration personified seems to serve me well, and perhaps some of my readers will also dare to pretend that Spirit exists as even more than the personification of a mystery. For all we know …

I hope you come back, soon, to learn more about what Spirit is teaching this simple seeker.

Love,

Jean Whitred

(a simple seeker)