Spiritual Awakening: “The Supernatural is Becoming Natural”

Our spiritual terrain is changing dramatically. One of the largest and fastest-growing religious groups is the “nones”—those who spiritually identify with nothing in particular.

But that doesn’t mean they are atheists or even agnostics. The larger portion of that group considers themselves to be spiritual, not religious. These are seekers looking to explore the sacred in ways different from their parents or grandparents. What is growing in cultures around the world is the interest in mysticism, self-actualization, the supernatural, unity consciousness, and so much more, including the paranormal. Traditional religion as we’ve known it may be waning, some say dying, but the individual Inner Search is stronger than ever. Our interest in the unknown is expanding … one step beyond previous generations.

For years, I’ve hosted broadcasts and written on comparative spirituality, consciousness, holistic health, and parapsychology. I rarely, if ever, entertained the relevance of the so-called “paranormal”—shows about earthly visitations from angels, unexplained sightings, and even aliens and related phenomena. I held little interest in them.

But in my time with the Unity Renaissance Spiritual Life Center and my current association with the former PBS program New Thinking Allowed, I am beginning to see the connection between so-called paranormal or supernatural phenomena and the expansion of consciousness and spiritual awakening. There is a relationship between psi phenomena—metaphysics, psychic gifts, parapsychology—and so-called supernatural events like Near- and Shared-Death experiences, UFO/UAP encounters, visions of the Virgin Mary and angels, and crop circles.

The connection is becoming more apparent as cultures and governments the world over are releasing information they have on these kinds of experiences, specifically UFOs/UAPs. On October 18 of this year, by law, the US national security agencies must divulge information they have collected for decades on paranormal activity, e.g., UFO/UAP crashes, technology, and perhaps even biology.

Far fetched? Several years ago, such evidence was reported in the New York Times and on other news outlets, and now on current news broadcasts. A previous Congressional hearing this year addressed these topics. There is much more to be revealed, and more laws will push the release of such information and protect whistleblowers.

If such evidence exists and is admitted by governments and religious institutions (e.g., the Vatican), how will it change religion and our own spiritual journeys? What does it say about our reality? What is our place in the universe? What will be our perspective of the afterlife? If these events are true, we will begin to fully question who we are, and our interrelationship with the universe and perhaps other civilizations, both seen and unseen.

That is precisely why this September and October, Unity Renaissance Spiritual Life Center is hosting a four-part seminar series on Wednesday evenings on Spiritual Evolution: One Step Beyond in person and across the nation via Zoom and video-on-demand. For more information go to unityrenaissance.org/onestepbeyond.

As author, speaker, A Course in Miracles teacher, and series’ guest speaker Alan Cohen succinctly states:

The paranormal is becoming normal, the supernatural, natural, and the extrasensory, sensory.