You are on a journey. The nature or purpose of that journey comes down to what you choose or refuse to believe.
If you’re at that point in life where you’re noticing that things are not working out the way you thought they would, and you’re questioning the beliefs underpinning it all, you’ll find some refreshing insights in this book of reflections.
In Sharing the Journey, self-confessed reluctant mystic, Peter Mulraney, invites you to reconsider the journey you think you’re on and lets you know that you are not alone.
If you’re not ready to examine your beliefs and push the boundaries of your mental comfort zone, this is not the book for you. If you are ready to take a look at your beliefs and start living consciously, you’ve found a friend for the journey.
Excerpt
A reluctant mystic knows there is an inner journey but needs a bit of encouragement to get started, and then some more to keep moving, along the path of inner exploration.
I count myself in that group.
I’ve known about the inner journey for a long time. I was a small boy when I first started sitting high up in the trees and silently contemplating the world. Life was a mystery to me but, at the same time, life had to be lived. There were games to play, teams to be part of, school work to complete and girls to fall in love with.
Like most of us on the planet, I got distracted from the journey by the dazzle of the world and all the things that had to be done: get an education, get a job, get married, buy a house and raise a family - make something of yourself.
Somewhere in my thirties, when I had the education, the job, the marriage and the kids, I encountered a dull, colourless and boring state of mind and started looking for answers, or maybe the questions came looking for me. You never can tell with the soul. You’re convinced you’re in control and making all the decisions, until you discover that you aren’t.
That was when I started looking for inspiration outside the boundaries of the traditional catholic world I had grown up in. There was something about the message that I was hearing on Sundays that no longer resonated, so I started looking elsewhere.
Today my library holds works by authors like Hans Kung, Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong, Richard Rohr, John O’Donohue, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wayne Dyer, Tara Bach, Cynthia Bourgeault, Paul Ferrini, Eckhardt Tolle, Deepak, Chopra and Osho, to mention a few of the minds that have informed my journey.
It was in those dull and colourless years that I discovered A Course in Miracles. If you haven’t worked your way through that book, let me warn you, it challenges all your beliefs.
Over the last ten years or so I’ve been a student of the Way of Mastery, which covers the same material as A Course in Miracles but is a lot more user friendly to the average pilgrim, like me. You can find out more about that at www.wayofmastery.com.
The other thing that’s had a huge impact on my journey is meditation. It takes a long time to remember that the voice of God is silence, and that in that silence you can hear the voice for God - your soul.
In these pages you’ll find my reflections on a journey we are all on, and some observations, influenced by my understanding of the workings of the universe, of the state of the world we live in.
Most of the material in this book first appeared as posts on my blog at www.petermulraney.com. The articles have been edited for this format.
This is not a book to read in one sitting or in any particular order.
If you haven’t read my blog, be warned. These reflections will challenge some of your cherished beliefs and ask you to move out of your mental comfort zone.
That’s why we’re all reluctant mystics at the start of the journey home - no-one likes moving out of their comfort zone, even when there is no other choice.
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