Spiritual Freedom: The Key to Feeling Free to Be Who You Really Are

Throughout the history of the Western World, people have been met with insurmountable challenges to have basic freedoms. Wars, social movements, and massive demonstrations have slowly given way to more equality and justice for all people, regardless of race, gender, and sexual orientation.

Despite the outward changes in laws and the social and political progress leading up to the 21st century, the unconscious underbelly of the populace still remains a powerful force. This unconscious underbelly is the loyalty to old beliefs, ways of being, and family/societal stories passed on from generation to generation that justify and make prejudices acceptable.

While the enforcement of laws may protect you, chances are that if you happen to be non-white, and/or a woman, and/or LBGTQ, you will never completely feel free to be who you really are in the outside world. You will always feel the undercurrent of oppression in the unspoken attitudes of many, and that will surely caution you to not live so large, to not be so exuberant in pursuing lifelong dreams, and make more of an effort to be content with your limited place in the social fabric.

To embrace the notion of spiritual freedom you will have to align yourself with a force so much more powerful than the collective consciousness of the populace. To manifest the impossible, you will have to see it as possible, as did the first female, African-American mathematicians working for NASA in the 1950s and 60s, during the era of Jim Crow and segregation (Hidden Figures, 2016, 20th Century Fox). Despite the racism and sexism they faced, and their own internalized shame, these women looked beyond what they were asked to do, and aligned themselves with the potential that forward progress could not thwart. They were pioneers that lived in harmony with the infinite creative consciousness, carving out a future for what was once inconceivable and unthinkable, and transforming it into a reality.

To be truly free is indeed an internal state that is visionary and beyond the limitations of the external landscape. This state of mind is aligned with the dreamer, artist, musician, and shaman in all of us that we can access as part of a larger field of consciousness, a unifying matrix of infinite possibilities. When Benjamin the Bus discovered his connection to this divine field, he unleashed his power, realized his purpose, and healed his low self-esteem. We all have the potential to live the unimaginable if we just dare to be the greatest versions of ourselves.

Benjamin's next adventure will be about spiritual freedom amidst the current social and political unrest of our time. His next set of hitchhikers will be Betty Friedan of the 1960s Women's Movement, George Harrison of the Beatles, and Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, writer, speaker and activist extraordinaire! Stay tuned!