Blog#4-Chris A-Spirituality and Religion

So picking up from where I started from my last blog, I am both spiritual and religious even though both have different meanings. I lean more towards being spiritual because religion has too many obligations in order to classify yourself as "religious." This distinction between spirituality and religion is an important one because a lot of the time people say they are religious, but they what they really mean to say is that they are spiritual. It is important that those of you reading this blog understand and realize that spirituality is not the same as being religious.

This year, I have taken my spirituality to another level, a new direction, a different approach. I have began to train my mind to do certain things that is above what the mind can do. This will be a little hard for most to comprehend, but if you try to look past the material things in the world, and really try to put your mind in a state of "non thinking" you will realize that your mind has the ability to operate more than what we can perceive...

Through my research I have come to find that all of us believe that we live in the third dimension, but many do not know that there is the fourth dimension and the fifth dimension.   
Our reality comes from this 3rd dimension concept that revolves around space and time. There is a valley though, that comes between the 3rd dimension and 5th dimension. This valley is long and may take a long time to get across (meaning it may take a long time to enter the 4th dimension),  "Yet, by applying Love, Trust and a willing heart, you can create your own reality shift from the mundane experience of simple third dimensional living into a life of purpose, joy and flow as you cultivate your expanded spiritual self in the fifth dimension." - Spiritual awakening and consciousness website. 

1. http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/20568813?&Search=yes&searchText=meditation&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dmeditation%2B%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=4&ttl=73017&returnArticleService=showArticleInfo (JSTOR)
2. http://www.lavoisier.fr/livre/notice.asp?ouvrage=1785777 (Google Scholar)
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15979795 (NCBI)

1. http://www.examiner.com/article/spiritual-consciousness-moving-from-the-third-to-the-fourth-and-fifth-dimension

2. http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/freedom/freedom_04.html