Writing The Spiritual Journey

For a long time now, I've had a category on my website for "Spirit" that I've barely used at all. It's just sitting there, waiting to be called up. The problem is, every time I think of writing something in this category, I think to myself, "Is that appropriate for a professional website?" Thing is, this is the place I send people who are considering hiring me as a writer, a programmer, an educational consultant or an instructor. Is it OK to write about my spiritual journey on the same site where I write about Android hacks, unschooling philosophy and the best way to practice layback spins?

Some of my favorite blogs are written by professionals in marketing or business who aren't shy about sharing their own spiritual journeys along with their business advice. Many of those blogs are written by Christians who have deep personal belief systems and who make their decisions based on their spiritual lives. I'm not a Christian, but I do honor the role of spirit in the rest of life. Understanding how these people apply their spiritual journeys to the rest of their lives -- including the business they do -- is often deeply inspiring to me.

I have a very different spiritual path than those Christian writers, but the journey has many shared aspects. I look at all of my experiences through the lens of my spiritual beliefs. My belief system color my actions and my perceptions.

That belief system is a bit illegible to most of the world outside my head. I'm a Jew with a shamanic bent. I have been initiated into two different Druid orders and served as a priestess and leader of a grove. I'm unorthodox, sometimes irreverent. I analyze everything in depth and construct my worldview with a level of examination that seems to be fairly uncommon. Some of my teachers come in the form of humans that I have studied with or whose books I've read (r. David Mivasair, r. Gershon Winkler, Izzy Haviv, Kerr Cuhulain, T. Thorn Coyle, Scott Cunningham, Emma Restall-Orr and so many more). Some of those teachers would be horrified at the mix! Other teachers have come in the form of plants and animals, visions and dreams. This is the fuzzy stuff that makes "rational" folk shudder.

So, is it appropriate to share these things here? I've decided that it is. Now. At this point in my life when I am embracing all the parts of myself, bringing together the various bits into a unified whole, despite the fact that it freaks most people out. (Wait, how could you be a programmer and an herbalist? And where did you learn Thai yoga massage? Ice skating? When did you have time to learn that?!)

If discussions of philosophy and religion and spirit bother you, then go ahead and skip these blog posts. It's OK. I'll never know the difference. But if writing about what I'm learning and how I'm growing helps me, and if it may inspire some of you on your paths as well, then it seems like a fine thing to do.