PinnedNo Religion: Consciousness Creates Reality — List of Story Waters’ articles.Listing by subject of my dogma-free spiritual philosophy on medium. — In his song Imagine, John Lennon invited us to collectively imagine a world without religion. This was because the world’s religions have placed a horrifically distorted mask on something he loved — the experience of exploring his consciousness. For those of us who have had profound experiences of consciousness, which…Spirituality2 min readSpirituality2 min read
Sep 26Member-onlyOur spiritual home is coming home.Love, individuality, and our dissociation from home. — One of the primary qualities we are exploring through the Earth is diversity. We are exploring what it is for the one to become the many, as expressed through the analogy of white light being diffracted through a prism into a rainbow of diverse colors. Even though each of us…Spirituality5 min readSpirituality5 min read
Sep 22Member-onlyHow ‘the dark’ is an illusion.Open your eyes to dispel your fears. — You are the one eternal, infinite consciousness. You are All That Is. You contain / have access to everything. Within you is the collective consciousness of humanity, which does not experience itself through the division of time and space. This is the same being that walks within each of us…Spirituality7 min readSpirituality7 min read
Sep 16Member-onlyConsciousness 101 — The giant mandala of ‘be yourself’.All is well. The mandala is beautiful. — “The purpose of walking the spiritual path is to understand your humanity better.” You are a part of the big picture. You are a part of the painting / mandala that is humanity. The landscape of your psyche may ‘just’ be one brush stroke in the painting, but every other…Spirituality6 min readSpirituality6 min read
Sep 5Member-onlyEvery day you live again.Elevate your typical day to blossom your life. — “When reading spiritual literature, where you hear mention of the ‘now moment’, do not think of it as a separate ‘Zen thing’. Think of it as the living of your day, and you will find a new layer of meaning.” Most spiritual literature describes the present ‘now’ moment as ephemeral…Spirituality9 min readSpirituality9 min read
Aug 28Member-only25 Infinite Spiritual Perspectives.Live in the celebration of being alive, of being on fire with life. — 1) Opening yourself is extending the possibility of what you can be. It is opening yourself to be more. This is how we create. We do not create “things” — we create by extending what we know ourselves to be. 2) Within the smallest step can be the greatest invitation…Inspiration8 min readInspiration8 min read
Aug 7Member-onlyThe transformation & exploration of self through wounding.Wider consciousness burdens you to transform you. — “To heal a wound is to find yourself going back in time through your experience of self regressing until you arrive back at the wounding moment.” Only once we have cleared our primary fears can we fully embrace our passions. For as long as we carry the burden of fear…Spirituality5 min readSpirituality5 min read
Aug 4Member-onlyMetaphysics 101–The wisdom of many lives speaks within you.We bring forward our emotional baggage to add richness to life. — “Your emotional baggage is a gift that makes your life far more interesting and revealing through its increased potential to be a mirror of self.” Through exploring the human experience, we have turned the singular, fast, original experience into a river that keeps branching out into a colossal tree-like structure…Metaphysics6 min readMetaphysics6 min read
Aug 2Member-onlyDon’t be in a rush to get to Heaven — you have a time-filled blueprint.You have chosen to create time-filled branches in the timeless flow of life. — “No matter how predetermined a life may seem, no matter how many tributaries a blueprint intends to create, there is always infinite freedom on top of that.” It is possible to have a much easier life than you have had and there are infinite other realities that are easier to…Spirituality7 min readSpirituality7 min read
Jul 31Member-onlyConsciousness 101: the timeless flow of ‘all is well’ within you.Allow your focus to enter the timeless flow of your spirit. — “The best way to break a habit is to clearly see that habit and how it manifests. Don’t try to control the habit. Try to see the habit. Because when you see through its camouflage, when you see it naked, it will dissolve.” The timeless flow is the state of…Spirituality8 min readSpirituality8 min read