Welcome To The Spiritual Hitchhiker

Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Spirituality. Ideally, it’ll have the same vibe as a Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, but with a little different subject matter… but there may be some overlap from time to time. Anyway, let’s get started…

Somewhere along the way I realized there was more to this world than I had been told.

I was raised to pick a profession, climb the career mountain, achieve a dream, maybe get married and have a family, get rich, then die.

My self worth was to be measured by what I accomplished materialistically in this world.

I grew up seeing organized religion as a means to control the masses. I never felt God in any church, synagogue, or holy place I went to. I just saw hypocrisy and a need to control. And so I went searching.

I tried everything. Entheogens, yoga, new age spirituality, shamanism, Native American spirituality, martial arts, reiki, crystals, Kabballah, tuning forks for human frequencies, medicine wheels, and so many other things. I've forgotten more self help books than I can count. In the end, it all amounted to partial answers, contradictions, and confusion.

I went down every conspiracy rabbit hole I could find and entertained every fringe idea I could Google. I plowed through as many esoteric books on religion and spirituality as I could, gradually moving closer to something that resembled a universal truth. As I progressed, I found that the more I studied the more I realized that they are all just different paths to the same place. Roads that lead us all back to The Creator and the Endless world.

Somewhere along the way I realized I had become a Spiritual Hitchhiker. I'm a guy who bounces from place to place traveling the world of spirituality, following wherever the road takes me next. It has led me to unbelievable highs of personal tranformation, and rock bottom lows of depression, paranoia, and what has often felt like borderline insanity. Over the years, though, I've built up a tolerance. Things that used to rock my world now become common threads. Ideas that at one time seemed impossible now feel pretty run of the mill. I live in a new normal, and there's no going back.

I'm writing this for people out there who used to be like me. People who have questions lots of questions they quite seem to get straight answers on... or for every answer they get, they then get presented with an equally convincing counterargument. I'll give you my answers and research in as simple a way as I can... like a Cliffs Notes version of how to find your own inner truth. Don't believe mine. Use what I believe as a closer way to find what answers YOUR questions.

The reason I've committed to writing this Hitchhikers Guide to Spirituality is that no one gave me a map, so this is the map I wish someone would have given me to save me a lot of time and aggravation. My hope is that whoever reads this will level up 10 times faster than I ever did and thereby reduce the amount of time for them to reach their own personal spiritual awakening.

I call this Spiritual Hitchhiking because I move from place to place, idea to idea, and religion to religion, trying to connect the dots to a picture I know I'll never fully see. Everything I post is part of a destination I found along the journey, and an effort to find some kind of coherent map that stitches together our cosmic mess into something that can be parsed and used by the average person, built on a foundation of truth. The goal here is to save you time down the rabbit holes, reduce the possibility of going insane, and present to the world something that feels rational, consistent, useful, and valid while still managing to take into consideration the full scope and potential of the human experience. Everybody needs a hobby, and this is mine.

I've been a lot of places and seen a lot of things. I've seen ghosts, spirits, orbs, faeries, witches, and portals. I think I saw a UFO but am not completely sure. I have been healed by a tree, connected psychically with a mountain, survived a near death car accident with barely a scratch, have had telepathic moments with animals and people, have experienced energetic healing, and have had my entire consciousness and way I perceive the world completely turned upside down. And that's only a small part of it. It has been a really weird ride... and the only constant is that every time I think I've figured something out, something new gets placed in front of me that changes everything.

Somewhere along the way, I went from a guy who hated organized religion and only cared about his career to finding God, discovering there was a spirit world, realizing reincarnation, magic, and astrology are actually real things in this world with profound impacts on our lives. I saw the commonalities in all religions and mystical practices. I have discovered how outside forces, the planets, and astrology play a much larger part in how our world works than we have ever been told. I have seen the flaws in our political, cultural, and monetary systems, and how those relate to spiritual causes... and that every ailment and disease originates from a spiritual problem that you probably have no idea that you have.

I have done a full 180 and discovered the wisdom of the bible and how it is a cosmic code that sees far past any universal understanding I have ever heard. I now see how the Big Bang Theory and Creationism are compatible, and how quantum theory and mystical traditions all relate. I discovered Star Wars is largely a documentary, how Good and Evil are balanced, how the Tree of Life works, and that blackmagic, demons, witchcraft, spirits, and sorcery are very real things the average person has absolutely no clue about. I believe that Atlantis used to exist, that Giants use to roam the land (and still might), that psychic abilities and supernatural phenomenon exist dormant within every human, that Skinwalkers and magic are real, that there is an inner Earth and that dimensional travel is possible and has been used for millenia, and that the world is an insanely weird place that the average person (including myself) doesn't even begin to understand, and likely never will.

More or less, I discovered that the world was a far weirder place than I imagined possible. Crazier than any movie ever made, and the more I study, the more I realize that I don't know. I think Douglas Adams knew a lot more than he let on when he wrote Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy.

So, grab your towel, telepathically say hi to the dolphins, stay away from the Vogons, and realize that the answer to all of this might still be 42... but this isn't a book. It's the real world... except the version of real you knew may not be the version of real you come to know. That's what happened to me, at least.

BTW, I don't care if you believe me, agree with me, or think I'm completely crazy, or whether that opinion varies based on which post you read. I know what I've seen, know what I've studied, and also reserve the right to contradict myself on a regular basis as I am continually presented with new information. My one certainty is that I will never know the absolute truth about everything. There is always another level to be discovered.

Anyway, welcome to A Hitchhikers Guide To Spirituality. Enjoy the ride... wherever it ends up taking you.

- The Spiritual Hitchhiker