By Jim Koury, Seeker of Inspirational Forces
© 2014 James R. Koury. All Rights Reserved.
As I begin to write the introduction to my newest endeavor and future syndicated column entitled, “Eyes Wide Open,” I am also reflecting upon the spiritual journey I have been traversing and which has brought me to this point in my life. This is a journey which I have never really spoken of publicly but I have hinted to it numerous times on my Facebook wall and other social media.
For a number of months now I have had the compulsion to publicly indulge you with my innermost spiritual thoughts and have been mulling this column idea around in my head and how I wanted to approach it. I have appeared to have arrived at that point with the guiding hands of the inspirational forces of the universe and the soul which resides with me.
My soul is the very essence of who I am. It is the power, the furnace and the mass of divine energy that drives me to do what I do, what I say and all that I am on my deepest, most intricate level. Over the course of many years the soul force within me has been directing me toward the pinnacle point in the evolution that we all are allowed to experience if we choose to. It is the ultimate transformation of our past selves into the person that we have strived to become. I believe I am on the verge of finally being able to grab on to the highest point of the mountain and have begun to pull myself up to the top and view what my life will be like from that point on.
Unfortunately many do not choose to leave their earthly bounds and forge ahead into the uncharted territory of their soul. We are given an innate ability to trek forward into this new plane of existence but humans are equipped with cognitive thought and we make decisions in our lives that we feel are the best ones or ones that are easier to endure than igniting a fire of change beneath us to get us to move from our comfort zone and out of the box we put ourselves into.
The universe has given us all the power to charge forward above the intentional blocks that are put in front of us to test us, to make us stronger beings. It is how we deal with the challenges in life that determine whether we can get beyond each wall and learn valuable lessons from the obstacle. It is these life lessons that will energize us to move forward and overcome the next challenge that will shape our character and worldview.
It is when this energy becomes self-perpetuating without cognitive effort on our part to induce it forward that we get to the point where we cannot look back to the past and have it shape our worldview. Nor are we able to return to the person we were in the past, no matter how hard we try. The energy of change catapults us forward on a path toward becoming who we are meant to be shaped by inspirational forces of the universe that have now been unearthed, uncorked from our self-imposed banishment.
My journey began many years ago as a child being reared in an institutional church that was guided by man-made dogma and rules that restrict individuality and pursuit of opportunities for change outside of the designated paths laid out for us by a religious hierarchy; a hierarchy that is resistant to change that challenges its worldview. I was part of this organized experience for many years and I clung to it as truth until I began to evolve as a gay male coming out of his closet. That story out of my closet has been quite well documented. However, the accompanying spiritual journey that began at the same point as that when I came out of my closet was not divulged as openly or at all for that matter.
It is the purpose of “Eyes Wide Open” to document that journey and to assist those that may be experiencing the same inspirational forces that emanate from within us that have been impacting my life to move forward as well. “Eyes Wide Open” will attempt to enlighten others about the amazing experiences and the many possibilities that await them resulting from their evolution of their internal essence from what they were into who they are supposed to be.
I am very excited to embark upon this journey with you and look forward to sharing my innermost thoughts that have up until now been locked inside for my own use. However, we must learn how to use the divine energy within us all for ourselves before we can help others in their journeys of enlightenment and awareness. “Eyes Wide Open” will be a more in depth chronicling of who I was, the events and the people that influenced my path forward and led me to the point where I am at today to feel free enough to share my experiences openly and freely.
When we begin our paths of enlightenment we discover an uncanny thing. Our eyes are more wide open to the possibilities of change. We begin to seek out avenues upon which to traverse to learn more about ourselves and the inspirational forces that guide us. We cannot learn about ourselves and who we really are if our eyes are tightly shut because past worldviews have been entrenched and forced upon us that prevent us from seeing what we need to see. It is at that point where we begin to see through the veneer of false truth that we begin to open our eyes wider and let the light of change shine upon us and enter our awareness.
Even when we get to the pinnacle of achieving the highest evolution of who we are supposed to be with eyes wide open, there are new things to learn in this new capacity of awareness that we will have obtained. We will always need to learn new lessons until such time our bodies grow old and we die and cross back over to the spiritual realm from whence we came to either return again in a new human manifestation or remain in energetic spiritual form.
