How To Learn SPIRITUAL URGENCY VERSUS RELIGIOUS URGENCY
We hear a lot of people these days using the phrase "more spiritual than religious," which makes us wonder what they really mean when they label themselves as such. It has been our experience that there is a soul-deep difference between the truly spiritual and the religious—a difference we call spiritual emergence versus religious urgency.
Spiritual Emergence is the gradual unfolding of spiritual revelation that causes minimal 'disruption' to our daily activities because we are somewhat prepared by our nature for the mystic. On the other hand, there are individuals who experience what we call religious urgency, which can cause significant disruption in their daily lives, as these people are often unprepared for mystical experiences because they consider themselves more religious than spiritual.
Urgent spiritual experiences such as visions, deep-felt meditation, out-of-body experiences, apparitions and precognitive dreams are usually exhilarating and can be life-changing and very transformative -- moving to a place that is more spiritual than religious. . However, these same experiences can also be deeply disturbing for people who fall into the category of being more religious than spiritual.
