Passover begins Saturday night and it traditionally is about obtaining freedom from oppression. I would like to speak instead about spiritual freedom. This is not to minimize the importance of freedom from physical slavery. Being an American, I appreciate freedom as the primary key value.

     The first step towards freedom would be physical. On the other hand, it does not stop there. We need to have emotional and psychological freedom. We need the freedom to express our uniqueness, our needs, and our creativity. If someone is oppressing these freedoms in you or you are oppressing these, this would be the next stage of freedom. We also need intellectual freedom—freedom to read what we want to, freedom to explore the logical and the illogical. Furthermore, we need religious freedom—the entitlement to pray and believe as we wish, the privilege to express our religious beliefs. The right to explore other beliefs and religions cannot be undermined.  It is only through explorations that we find our spiritual path.

     It is not our spiritual path; however, that I wish to discuss, it is obtaining the freedom of our soul. Freedom of our soul is about having a unique relationship with ourselves. It is about not being slaves to our own distortions. The distortions of mis-beliefs, such as the belief that you might not be as good as another might. Another example is the mis-conception that you are not a divine seed--the mistaken belief that you are not enough. These negative beliefs, that I call the lower-self, influence and can oppress us. It limits us from being an expression of God, our higher-self.

Another area of spiritual freedom is the freedom from “having to have life proceed in a certain way.” We become tied to a model or comfort level. This comfort level can enslave us to a limited lifestyle, a limited financial level, and perhaps an unfulfilled life.

     No discussion of spiritual freedom can take place without talking about our ego. It is the unhealed ego, I will discuss here. It is unhealed in that it is in an internal state of pain-- Pain from not being loved, cared for, abused, hurt, disrespected, reproached, shamed, etc., etc. The unhealed ego will force us, through our subconscious to live in terms of feeding it, giving it what it wants, fulfilling it, and designing a life that provides it with its relief from pain or perceived pain. This is not divine. Even when the ego drives us to success, it may be in a manner that does not allow the real expression of whom we divinely are but in a reactive expression to its environment.

     Finally, freedom means being free from “having.” This means we need to be free from habits, addictions, attachments to people, things, places, ways and ideas. Freedom means we are free or our soul is free to listen to when God speaks. We are free when we commune or connect to spirit. Freedom is ours, when we choose to allow the Light, God, the Creator, our higher-self to lead, and not our subconscious needs to manipulate us. We are free when we can turn away from something and not feel lack, but still feel full. We are free when our souls drink deeply of the divine spirit and that never leaves us. Freedom means we have no doubt that we are the same substance of God and one soul. Finally, we are free when we know that the universe will fulfill our divine path merely because we have dominion over our soul and that soul is Divine. We then create a life that is spiritually free and divinely formed. Blessings for Passover, may you find your freedom.

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