The greatest aspect of my own views on spirituality is the ability to stretch what you believe without restriction, and the ability to accept all other forms of spirituality and religion and to accept where others are by their own searching. This opens to widening my own beliefs while maintaining the ability to reject those parts of any path that do not ring true for me while allowing others to be where they are in the eternal search. Accepting that we are on a spiritual path is just that, accepting. We are all on one whether we acknowledge it or accept it. We are still on a path of our own creation, based on what has gone before and what we see as a furthering of our own truths. Good luck to us all and may we always search for that which will light our own paths.

one big difference

most paths to the light involve going to a 'place' and worshiping whoever is 'the light'. my own search denies that, it says rather, that we join the light and become a part of it. this makes much more sense to me than any other interpretation of the divine that I have heard of.

the spiritual planes

May we all walk in the light..................
at the peak of the spiritual plane is a 'white light', a light which, if faced here in the physical world, would blind and probably simply burn you to a crisp. viewed in meditation it is a pure light, pure because it is the essence of god, a light, which, if drawn into a person's being can purify ones thoughts, cleanse your own spirit , heal your whole being, including the physical. It is the goal of the searcher, to sit within the immediate area of this light.
as you climb through the spiritual planes, the light becomes more intense and pure. it will burn off the chaff which we all carry with us, allowing us to rise higher and higher, as we are able.
where is this light? it is above and beyond the astral, made up of seven major planes, or levels, above which are the spiritual planes, and, as are the astral, these spiritual planes are made up of seven major levels.
there are many minor levels within all of these but they are not of a major importance to the majority of seekers.
the chaff we carry are the wrongs we have done, a darkness which can grow if we do not know it is there. when we seek god, the divine, the white light, we come into areas where the darkness cannot exist. if we become locked in the lower, astral planes, this same darkness is food for the denizens of these planes and if you do not keep your eyes and mind on the spiritual light, these denizens will try and trick us, holding us in the astral to feed off of us and prevent our rising to the divine.
there are many paths to god and this is but one. whichever path you may be on, if it is truth that you follow then it is where you should be. truth is truth and is not limited to only one path. may you always seek god and to rise above above the evil around us.