Spirituality a Series of Spiritual Discussions

By Albert J. Young

This book is about Spirituality a book that starts off telling the story of a young boy who develops a very rare neurological disease that effects balance, coordination and is genetic, progressive, incurable, untreatable and can be fatal.

This book is not really about that though, it was necessary to explain and describe it because it was an important part of the journey that led to a Spiritual Awakening and a deep Spiritual consciousness.

This book is not a self help book, It is not written to imply that the author has reached a higher Spiritual place than anyone else or to convert anyone to his way of thinking. It isnt about a transformation from poor to rich, from sick to a cure or even a How to fix your life.

It is also a message to everyone that you don't need to be a Spiritual guru, psychic, religious or considered gifted and so on, to be Spiritual. I believe every single one of us are born a Spiritual being A Spirit Experiencing a Temporary Human Experience.It is a book of Spiritual discussions on certain subjects and experiences that have helped the author personally understand the world we live in.

Spirituality, is an awareness that you are much more than a body that we are a Spirit experiencing a temporary human experience.

Our spiritual journey is an infinite journey experiencing many mortal incarnations and many realms. Our world is similar to a Spiritual university where we learn from the many experiences and we try to address much of the confusion and clarify as much as we can. Humans have complicated God.

We include a "Quote" at the end of each chapter which we consider thought provoking and in some way appropriate to the chapter.It does not mean that the original author of the quote does.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Feb 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504937450

Albert J. Young

"This book is about Spirituality a book that starts off telling the story of a young boy who develops a very rare neurological disease that effects balance, coordination and is genetic, progressive, incurable, untreatable and can be fatal. This book is not really about that though, it was necessary to explain and describe it because it was an important part of the journey that led to a Spiritual Awakening and a deep Spiritual consciousness. This book is not a self help book, It is not written to imply that the author has reached a higher Spiritual place than anyone else or to convert anyone to his way of thinking. It isn’t about a transformation from poor to rich, from sick to a cure or even a “How to fix your life”. It is also a message to everyone that you don't need to be a Spiritual guru, psychic, religious or considered gifted and so on, to be Spiritual. I believe every single one of us are born a Spiritual being “A Spirit Experiencing a Temporary Human Experience”. It is a book of Spiritual discussions on certain subjects and experiences that have helped the author personally understand the world we live in. Spirituality, is an awareness that you are much more than a body that we are a Spirit experiencing a temporary human experience. Our spiritual journey is an infinite journey experiencing many mortal incarnations and many realms. Our world is similar to a Spiritual university where we learn from the many experiences and we try to address much of the confusion and clarify as much as we can. Humans have complicated God.

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Introduction

This book is a compilation of Spiritual discussions, subjects that are thought provoking. I never imagined writing this type of book, It's not an autobiography as you might think from the first chapter or so.

It is just focussing on a certain part of my life in order to show the reader how my life was influenced by the early part of my life, like most people I guess. Then later at a certain point seemed to take a huge turn, A turn that was so dramatic looking back now, was no accident and could never be designed by myself.

I included a picture of myself on the front cover of this book just to illustrate an image of a typical seven year old boy and on the back cover a current photograph at fifthy one year old, representing everything that has happened in between.

As a child effected out of the blue by a rare degenerative uncurable and untreatable neurological illness that at that time was completely unknown to science. I call it a Genetic Time Bomb, that was armed unknown to my parents by them, having one defective Gene each and sealed at the moment of my conception.

Then ten years later the time bomb went off effecting my body through my central nervous system, reaking havoc on my body, firstly effecting my balance and co-ordination and then feeling the agony of wasting muscles and dying nerves. A pain I imagine even rarer than the disease itself as it varies from each person. All while no doctor or medical professional had any idea what it was or where it would end.

To make things even worse many years later, realising that I was not the only one in our family to go through this. We had to watch as my sister had to go through a similar nightmare. Two out of three children in one family suffering the same faith and doctors denial that they were the same illnesses or disability or connected in any way.

I had to seriously consider writing this book and how it would be interpreted by critics, the fact that I was writing a book on Spirituality and Positivity while suffering from a disability and poor health and not a story of a A Miricle or rag's to riches and so on. I started to think that in fact this is exactly the reason I should write the book, because of how these problems actually brought me to a Spiritual Awakening despite all the issues, that they brought me to it rather than bitterness or self pity, this was my journey.

It is also a message to everyone that you don't need to be a Spiritual Guru, Psychic, Religious or Gifted and so on, to be Spiritual. I believe every single one of us are born a Spiritual being A Spirit Experiencing a Temporary Human Experience.

We are all challenged from the very moment we enter this world from a barrage of Ego filled human beings. We are faced with pre-defined standards and systems, schools, religion, employment, media, politics, and much more which hides the true reason we are here on this earth. That is no accident!.

I try to show you that someone like me, no one special, not religious, not a saint just an average man the same as everyone reading this book can learn from experience and move from being somewhat self focussed to a new understanding of life and Spirituality.

Saying a New understanding of life, is not really correct, more a return to an understanding of who we really are and because of this you understand life from a different perspective.

I guess you might be asking yourself why does this guy think he has the answers to life. Well I do not, not by a long shot, what I am trying to do with this book is discuss various topics based on my own experiences and thoughts and that maybe it will help people realise that there is much more to life than just existing and dealing with things, fire fighting through life as they happen with no understanding that there is much more going on than that.

At the time of writing this book, I have never had a book published but have written a few out of the enjoyment of doing so. I find it enjoyable as well as reading other peoples books. Although I had written a children’s book, a story I had made up many years ago for my children when they were very young and the book expanded every time I told it. My children loved it and would ask me to tell them it much more often than the other books they already had.

I wrote it and even have a publisher, because it was a children's book I needed illustrations. I used to work in Animation Studios back in the late eighties to mid nineties, cutting a long story short, the book is finished and awaiting the illustrations and will be published very soon.

I also had a Novel in progress a thriller type of story, it's about a third of the way through but this book, you are reading now somehow has taken priority over the rest.

The first part of the book is about me, It was necessary to give you some idea of my background and experiences in my life that got me to the point where I could confidently write this type of book.

When I started writing this book, I had no idea what it was going to be about, I woke up every morning with a topic in mind and brought my iPad with me to every room, especially in the morning. I typed while eating my breakfast while the topics were fresh in my head. I could while I could remember the topic each morning.

I typed them as they came to me with no structure to them, normally I would write with a structure in mind and a flow, this was very different than normal. I have been helped in my Spiritual journey via a kind of telepathy and as time has progressed, It has increased through dreams too.

During this time, I was away on a respite holiday for six days and the day before I was due to go home (my left arm had been particularly troublesome all week), my tremor in my left arm was quite bad.

I woke to a voice saying very clearly to me You need to finish the book, I had never experienced a voice contact before and the timing was perfect. Just at that moment when you normally have just woken but not quite opened your eyes or had a thought in your head.

This put me in bad humour straight off, because I first thought it was warning me that I needed to get the book finished while I was physically able to do it. It may have been the case, I can't worry about that at this stage.

Then I realised it may have just been a reminder that I had my break and now I needed to concentrate on getting the book completed. I am convinced that over the next few weeks I was faced with lots of circumstances or situations that were put in front of me to make me consider and learn from, almost like mini lessons or subjects to discuss and contribute to this book.

I have never channelled anything before but I am one hundred percent sure that many of these chapters were, lets say influenced by Spirit and that these discussions were brought to me and placed in front of me as subject matter by Spirit.

I have thought many many times that this book was completed and am just about ready to print off and start editing and reviewing etc but then I get a reminder in my head of an additional piece or chapter that needs to be included.

One of the things I want to get across in this book is that you can be a Spiritual person, without being afilliated to a religion, without being or living like a saint. Since you are here in body and are mortal you can have bad