It is the Spiritual Initiate that seeks a positive state of mind in which he is able to look with balanced serenity on all the many things that would ordinarily upset him and stir up negative emotions and cloud his judgment.

It is the Spiritual Initiate that knows SIMPLICITY IS TO LIVE DIVINELY. There are too many complicated, sophisticated, and untruthful things in the world. People boast and bluff and deceive each other to control and elevate themselves above others.

Carl Jung said "We are living undeniably in a period of the greatest restlessness, nervous tension, confusion and disorientation of outlook.  Among my many patients from many countries, all of them educated persons, there is a considerable number who came to see me, not because they were suffering from a neurosis, but because they could find no meaning in life or were torturing themselves with questions which neither present-day philosophy nor religion could answer."

Jung’s observations have since become a statistical certainty.  Jung also said “Man is never helped in his suffering by what he thinks for himself, but only by revelations of wisdom greater than his own. It is this wisdom, which lifts him out of his distress. Hence we find that after years of therapy, some people’s quest for deeper meaning is still not quenched. They then become spiritual seekers, drinking from the fountain of their inner perennial wisdom.”

Connecting With spirit is a mystical quest. Spirit is powerless in matter until one begins the spiritual quest. Spirit never relaxes its thrust, its desire to get our attention. But many do not hear "the still small voice" that calls from within.

Thoughts and feelings of confusion, anger, pain, grief, sadness, depression, worry and fear all drown out "the still small voice" of spirit. These negative thoughts and emotions block the natural and creative healing processes of our whole being.

Connecting with Spirit is man’s highest achievement. Spirit is of Divine nature. Connecting with Spirit puts one in touch with a depth of love within self that everyone else can feel. Our higher consciousness alchemically affects our whole being and our world. We feel better than ever. We think better than ever. We act better than ever because we are better than ever.

Bulgarian-born spiritual adept Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov (1900-1986), who was one of the twentieth century’s greatest luminaries of Western spirituality said  “You will never improve nor transform yourself by accumulating knowledge in your head. To be sure, this knowledge can broaden your mind and point of view but that is only on the surface; you will always be the same underneath: remarkable as far as general knowledge is concerned, a veritable one-man information bureau. But as far as character, virtues and qualities are concerned, nothing will be changed. Whereas knowledge of your spirit; the divine science, obliges you to penetrate to the depths and climb to the heights, and it is not possible to be unchanged by it. It is through inner knowledge that we grow and mature.”

The Spiritual Initiate seeks to know Spirit. The spiritual initiate goes through many spiritual initiations in his or her spiritual quest. Each lifts the initiate to greater discoveries within self. To know oneself does not mean to know one’s character with all its faults and failings, or to know the limitations of human nature. The Spiritual Initiate seeks to know The Higher Self, the  immortal Spirit, something indescribable but real which exists on a far higher level. Finding and uniting with this Self is the key to love, peace, joy and creative manifestation. One knows self only when one knows that indestructible, unconditionally loving Higher Self.

Writer John White states the next stage of evolution is Homo noeticus.  He said "I see Homo noeticus as the next stage of human evolution precisely as Cro-Magnon superseded Neanderthal. The full emergence of Homo noeticus is probably several thousand years away. But the forerunners are here now, in increasing numbers, making their presence felt, crowding Homo sapiens, creating their own niche in the eco-psycho system and pointing out to him his own potential to change consciousness and thereby evolve, directing his own evolution and accelerating the process."

The spiritual Initiate goes in and out amongst the people, eats and sleeps as they do, buys and sells in the market, marries and takes part in society, and never forgets Spirit for a single moment.

In the ancient mystery schools, spiritual initiates developed their inner senses for the purpose of knowing their inner world. Their emphasis was twofold. They sought to know Spirit, touch Spirit, see Spirit and feel Spirit through having Mystical experiences. They also were most concerned with cleansing their auric egg, the energy fields that surrounded their physical body. They knew, through the purification of their stagnant and negative thoughts and feelings, they could ascend even higher in consciousness for the spiritual purpose of bringing greater light, wisdom and spiritual awareness into the world. It is said that if individuals have been involved in one of the ancient mystery schools in the past, they will be drawn back again. Their spiritual memory and abilities will return quickly so they are able to continue their spiritual purpose.

Psychologist Ron Miller, author of "What are Schools For?" says "a basic premise of holistic education is the belief that our lives have a meaning and purpose greater than the mechanistic laws described by science, and greater than the 'consensus consciousness' of any one culture. This transcendent purpose is a creative, self-guiding energy which we ought not attempt to suppress."

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his well-known essay on History "There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what the saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. It is the Spirit and not the fact that is identical. By descending far down into the depths of the soul, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity."

Enlightenment is lifting and transforming your present state of consciousness through bringing light to your thoughts and feelings. The thoughts and feelings of all Enlightened Beings form a powerful Light that positively influences all people.

Delphi University offers certification as a Spiritual Initiate and 4th degree Initiate in The Holy Order of the Dove upon completion of the Connecting with Spirit Program.