The IDEA of Easter isn't just for Christians.

When souls have been seeking answers or as understanding of their own existence or in the case of many religions, they have been seeking "God", there have been two schools of thought most prevalent. To know or find the answers through: 1. knowledge or intellect which is more "external" to mankind; 2. experience, or an inner knowing of the essential Spirit within whether it be called God or Higher Self or what have you.

So, we have "outies" and "innies" so to speak.

Some people are more "wired" for the inner experience it seems; while others are more prone to see from their intellect or outer knowing and accepting which would include the more scientific, "prove-it-to-me" point of view. Yet this latter group will often admit to one's needing faith to some extent.

Many of us are more one way at times than others but we often borrow from both points of reference. I know I do. In my own personal journey I have found that the knowledge without the experience isn't quite complete and the experience or more feeling, internal reference point is not quite complete without the intellectual, more practical one. I would conclude from my point of view that both are necessary for progress and balance.

What's this got to do with Easter? Easter is a time of renewal, a time for NEW life to sprout, a time for calling forth that part of us from the TOMB that has lain dormant. One does not have to be a Christian to grab a hold of this concept and bring alive within them all the goodness and teachings of Jesus the Christ which is already within them. For I believe what he came to do and came to tell us, has nothing to do with any particular religion. The same holds true, I believe, for the Buddha and other great teachers and souls who have come and gone in the centuries before us. If we can listen deeply enough and let go of preconceptions and we are honest in our seeking and searching, I believe we will find Truth everywhere. It is to be found in the kernel or core of the original ideas and thinking and teachings of those great souls.

So as I have one foot in the immediate circumstances in which I find myself and all the responsibilities I have right now, I am also keenly aware of the Easter season and my continuing along my spiritual path. This is what is essential to me. And I can do both for I am as you are, spirit and matter.

May this Easter season bring a renewal in Spirit for you. May your path be just rocky enough to cause you to stay awake yet smooth enough to not discourage you. May your Spirit within leap for joy and announce the coming of the wondrous, fantastic, shinning, beautiful soul that you truly are.

HAPPY EASTER