MEMBERSHIP

REGISTERED MEMBERS

To become a "registered member" one must seek out the nearest gathering of the Ministry of Spirituology in their community and make contact. Our recognized affiliates maintain nominal visibility unless circumstances make it impractical. Otherwise, upon contacting your local gathering, you will be asked to fill out a Registry Form and stand before its Council (the order of 12 prime registered members) for a formal review, pay an initial minimum monthly due (set at no more than $20.00 monthly) for sustainability expenses and henceforth be expected to make yourself available at gatherings whenever possible. See the "FELLOWSHIP" tab for more details.

If one discovers within their geographical location, participating in a local gathering is extremely difficult due to distance or some other apparent reason, one may apply for a 'Charter' to start a Ministry of Spirituology Gathering in their community. To apply for a Charter, please send an email with its header titled "Application for a Ministry of Spirituology Charter" with a brief introduction of yourself describing any attributes you feel you have that make you qualified to operate a spiritual circle and specifically why you want to operate a gathering and what you intend to accomplish if given the privilege to <ministryofspirituology@gmail.com> and allow up to 28 days for processing. Permission to operate a gathering is reserved for "Official Members" of the Ministry ONLY; mandating you must also submit an "Application for Official Membership in the Ministry of Spirituology," see modalities below. There is no fee for forming a local gathering, but gaining an official Charter requires certain prerequisites be met as defined in the ministry's "Charter Protocol" which you will receive if your application for a charter is approved.

OFFICIAL MEMBER

If you are interested in "officially" joining the Ministry of Spirituology, you should first ask yourself, 'Why do I want to join the Ministry of Spirituology?' The first thing that may motivate someone to want to join a “gathering" obviously may be a strong desire to identify with like-minded people who "think differently" in relation to mainstream society. However, with experience, this is what has led many to join such an organization and at last grow bored and cold towards their affiliation when they, from lack of self-initiative, feel they are "not gaining anything." Official Membership is for those who wish to take a more active role in the Ministry of Spirituology. Official Members are legal representatives of the ministry in their community and uphold our aspirations. They have passed through the Degree Course of the Ministry and act as advocates of Naturalist Spirituality in their spheres of influence.

We do not promise wealth beyond your wildest dreams. We are not a happy friends club for weekend socials. Our ministry is not a gateway to political power and we are not a coven group for those seeking others for feverent prayer sessions or to dabble in the performance of “occult rituals". As already clarified, we do not claim to hold a monopoly on esoteric spiritual truth which can only be gained by being a member of our organization. These ambitions are realized at each member's own individual level AFTER they have asked and answered for themselves; why do they want to join the Ministry of Spirituology? If any of the fore-mentioned is your sole reason for wanting to officially join our ministry, we may recommend you to a number of other organizations that may better fulfill your ambitions. If you have the objective of joining a ministry that internationally advocates for the rights and culture of Naturalists, what is at time condescendingly referred to as "pagan" by Judeo-Xtian fundamentalists, then Spirituology definitely can be your calling.

What we do offer is access to a unique collective consciousness which guarantees synchronized guidance along ones path to self-realization while allowing the individual to maintain their autonomy. We require those seeking to officially join our ministry to have extremely high personal ideals of themselves and an ambition of which they seek to manifest in their life. This is the prime requisite, for by setting a goal upon applying for official membership, one establishes a success indicator by which they will gauge their progress spiritually. Once you have set your consciousness on what your highest "wish" of attainment is, then in exchange for its fulfillment, you must next ask yourself, 'What can I contribute to the evolution of human consciousness?'

When one must have considered all of this, the next step is to submit one's "Application for Official Membership in the Ministry of Spirituology." We practice a system where each individual member is directly engaged in interaction with the other members of the ministry which re-enforces our psychic atmosphere. Registered members MUST complete the Degree 1 Course to fulfill the requirements for official membership. To officially become a member, please send an email to <ministryofspirituology@gmail.com> with “Application for Official Membership in the Ministry of Spirituology" in the header and the following statement in the mail:

"It is my sincerest honor and privilege to submit this request to become an "Official Member" of the Ministry of Spirituology. I recognize "If soul exists, then consciousness shifts" as a fundamental principle of human spiritual evolution and acknowledge the Universal Consciousness or "God" however it may be conceived has manifested humanity in its seeming diversity in ideology and physique with objective unity. It is my intention to rationally observe the basic principles of the ministry and uphold the disposition of neutral toleration and harmony in both my private and public life, while maintaining my right to complete individuality on my path of awakening. 

It is not my intention to engage in any illegal activity as a member of the ministry, of which may result in termination of this membership. I hereby attest that I am a legal adult in my current country of birth.  Justifying this I have included a copy of a legally recognized form of photo identification as proof of my identity and age." 

With this statement include as a scanned email attachments:
1) The said form of photo identification
2) Recent full body Photo (Head to Toe)
3) 4x4 Passport Photo

You will receive your form within 5 business days. Upon completion of the application, you are to re-submit the application via email and patiently await a maximum of 28 days for processing, depending on other pending applications. Taking full advantage of the technological advancement of humanity, we at present are working only with electronic mail until further notice granted it is faster and to a degree more secure than postal mail.

Though our ministry is a public body, we retain the right to revoke the application for "Official Membership" of any individual who we feel may jeopardize the integrity or challenge the genuine interests of our gathering.  If your application for any reason is rejected, you may file an appeal to your local or nearest gathering, which will then review your case and then file an appeal on your behalf IF enough reasonable doubt is established that the reason to reject your application was pre-judgmental.

Otherwise, upon admission, you will receive a Confirmation Letter recognizing your membership registration. Along with your Confirmation Letter, you will receive an Official Membership Card with a membership number. You should print out this card, have it laminated (plastified) as you will need to present it to confirm you are an “Official Member" and gain access to benefits and any special gatherings which may be exclusive to only Official Members. You may also request to receive our Electronic Newsletter (the mailing schedule for this is “as needed”) so you can receive announcements pertinent to your affiliation. Send an e-mail to us asking to be added to the list, along with a scan of your signed Membership Card. Official Members have the privilege of ordering e-books from our exclusive catalog from a range of authors on topics concerning various scientific, esoteric, philosophical and spiritual subjects.

You are encouraged to make a non-mandatory donation when applying for "Official Membership." Please view the "DONATIONS" tab on this blog for modalities for making a contribution. 

NOTE: Only the "First" Ministry of Spirituology processes and grants requests for "Official Membership" and  "Charters" to form officially recognized local gatherings. Please be prepared to submit any additional evidence to support any claims made in your applications. 

PURPOSE OF MEMBERSHIP

To identify with the Ministry of Spirituology one must not actually register or officially join the organization created to formally represent the active Cosmic Initiation of which humanity naturally partakes. Spirituology exists autonomously to humanity just as the Sun is Light, but light needing not a Sun or star shines from an eternal source of Illumination. Just as physics is a discipline of study, spirituology being the same, is a systematic research and observation of spiritual phenomenon. The collective human consciousness finds itself in a three-dimensional reality and has evolved a system of traditions through the ages that seeks to synchronize with the underlying meaning of its creation and manifestation. Our ministry studies these systems, traditions and paths and our members advocate harmonious spiritual understanding of all paths, though they may have their own opinions about each's relevance.

As a ministry of the undivided path, we hold NO DOGMA or teaching which states we founded this system. Under the UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH ministry, our major tenet follows the basic creed "DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT." The spiritual evolution of humanity exists of the Universal Consciousness. The first multitude of the original humanity of the earth knew this, lived it, experienced it and taught it collectively. As time passed on humanity drifted into its clusters of the regions of the earth. The complete tradition of Spirituology was divided and slowly, some forgot and others became seduced by inter-dimensional beings or "archetypes" as Neter, which inspired variant teachings that even denied certain fundamental realities all as a result of the illumined in those regions seeking to control the collective consciousness of those they found under their responsibility. Our ministry gathering comprises those who recognize this state of collective consciousness as "Awakened" or "Enlightened" individual human beings.

For fear of destruction and persecution, accuracy of the full knowledge of Spirituology was hidden by the enlightened who knew it should be preserved in particular teachings handed down through initiate paths which formed orders or esoteric communities. Devoted adherents of such communities have initiated many of the worlds prominent religious paths. The Golden Age of humanity has descended into the Dark Ages, which has so been characterized by our heavy reliance on materialism beginning with the Stone, Copper Bronze and Iron Ages hundreds of thousands of years ago. Yet as this technology has begun to reach its peak, knowledge once "hidden" has increased on the earth, revealing what the "orthodox" had suppressed. 

In merging with modern quantum physics, harmonizing what has been taught and what was not, we have arrived at a point in the spiritual evolution of humanity when there is a grand "awakening" of the individual consciousnesses of many with a scientific understanding of the nature of the human being and our relation to the universe. A recollection of prime spirituological truths has returned and many are even learning knowledge they were never taught, just from embracing a few principles. It is in the stride of this awakening that this formal organization of the Ministry of Spirituology manifests itself as a pinnacle where those who have "awakened" may identify themselves in preparation for the next stage of human spiritual evolution.

We merely advance we acknowledge the PATH where individual initiation, as awakened beings in the natural system of "God" through which all forms of consciousness manifest; is recognized without division.

The path to self-realization can be walked and is easily achieved with an alarming success rate by anyone who acquires adequate "knowledge of self" of that which they seek to attain first proceeding steadily after their conscience. In each and every one of us is the capacity to attain whatever we fix our consciousness to experience alone without assistance from others. However, nurturing desire to achieve what may seem impossible requires the determination to access one's total potential and to a degree, fortification from other consciousnesses that see the vision as possible, whether they contribute materially to it or not.

Everyone needs this form of spiritual and emotional fortification, and it is at this level that one may decide to become a “registered" member of the Ministry of Spirituology or start a "gathering" in their community, what many after the orthodox system of Christianity laud as the "church". Registered members benefit from a unique collective consciousness which they can be assured is not based on some strange belief, entity or tradition that directs the souls of its adherents at “that which they know not" as is common with many orthodox spiritual traditions.

Contrary to popular assumption, the word "church" does not refer to any physical building, but as used in  early pre-Roman Catholic Christianity was used to represent the word "ecclesia" translated from the Greek,  which means "called out" depicting a coming together, "assembly" or "congregation" of people.

The word “church” comes from the name of the Greek goddess “Circe” who was a “patroness of magic, sorcerers, medicine and herbs” said to live on the island of “Aeaea.” In the Greek pantheon of inter-dimensional beings or "gods and goddesses" she was the daughter of Apollo (Helios, Roman), the “god of the sun” and Perse an oceanid. The term “church” as used in the New Testament is synonymous with the Greek “Circe,” Scottish “Kirk” and German “Kirche” with other variant forms of usage as “Kerk and Sirse.” From her rituals we have the notion of today’s “witchcraft circles” or “witchcraft covens.” The meaning of the word "witch" is misunderstood being etymologically derived from the Anglo-Saxon "wicche" or "wicce" meaning simply "intelligence" or “understanding," used as a noun for someone who is "wise." As a compound word, "witchcraft" is the strength, power, force or skill (craft) of using intelligence, understanding or "awareness" which itself is consciousness. A “witchcraft circle" then is a "congregation" for the manifestation of the power of consciousness. This definition can be applied to any spiritual tradition including the formula for prayer applied in "orthodox" Christian churches.

William Tyndale (AD 1494 – 1536) one of the earliest translators of the bible when referring to the “temples” of Artemis in the Book of Acts 19:37 used the term “circe” and employed “ecclesia,” when referring to the gatherings of the 12 disciples, implying literally to be “called out.” William Whittingham who followed him in translating the bible in 1557 consistently used the term "church" to represent "ecclesia" insinuating a “state  of consciousness” or “state of being” and not a physical structure but a meeting of individuals for the  attunement of consciousness, coinciding with the Greek usage of the term "circe."

Coming together under the acknowledgement we are in direct contact with the "God-Head" or Universal Consciousness, first alone as individuals, "created in its image," we form a psychic atmosphere with which we project directly into collectively, to cause manifestation in the higher dimensions of that which will later crystalize in this three-dimensional reality if we can but mold our tuition to receive it by making the right decisions at the right time to embrace it as it manifests.

Continued research into a study published in 1998 by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel entitled, "QUANTUM THEORY DEMONSTRATED: Observation Affects Reality" has recently led to more concrete research proving observance by individuals effects the outcome of reality. This is not at all strange as Max Planck, considered the father of quantum theory, and a collaborator of Albert Einstein, in 1944 had already suggested there is a "matrix" of energy sustaining what we perceive as the physical 3-dimensional world. Countless proponents have emerged including Greg Braden, Michael Beckwith, Oprah Winfrey, Rhonda Byrne, Terence Mckenna, the famed Napoleon Hill and others all advocating the usage of concept techniques that allow the human consciousness or "soul" to reconfigure its experience. What the religions and spiritual paths have always taught as "faith" for thousands of years, has now been scientifically confirmed with evidence human consciousness does in fact effect the outcome of reality as an individual simply shifts their own thinking, emotional base and makes suggestive acts to have a particular experience. Prayer, visualization, meditation, etc. are all spiritual techniques for influencing the manifestation of a specific nature or particular outcome. This is just one of the "practical" subjects the Ministry of Spirituology researches as a fundamental aspect of reality and assists those with dedication to achieve individual attunement.

"As above, so below; as below, so above"

 
Understanding the etymology of the term "church" as stated above we have adopted the appellation to our meetings  as a "gathering" of “awakened" individuals who are "called out" of the majority of the dormant humanity, sharing a unified "state of consciousness." Metaphysically, this is the essential formula for most of the 'orthodox' church, mosque, order, lodge, temple, coven, occult society, witchcraft circle, etc "gathering" all over the world. We only prefer to use modern terminology seeing there is no need for mystification in our gathering. Detractors and scoffers may say what they like, but the workings of prayer through the "Holy Spirit," meditation, invocation, etc. all are made manifest by Universal Laws which may not fully be understandable and as such are "magik," (if that word may be applied) but can be  used to the equal benefit of any who desire. It just so happens we call ourselves a "gathering" to depict what we come together to do, "research and experience," through the application of "theory and  practice," as opposed to the "physical place" we gather.    

The simple metaphysics of prayer, ritual ceremony, visualization or group meditation, etc. is illustrated symbolically in recognition of a lit candle representing a human. A single candle causes the darkness to flee allowing that which was clothed in it to be revealed. Yet, many candles cause the darkness to flee faster, illuminate space brighter, permanently even so long as the candles are kept continuously lit. Symbolically each member brings a candle to each gathering which is lit together with those of other members as a representation of our coming together to dispel the darkness, itself symbolic of ignorance. Those who approach the Ministry of Spirituology are those individuals who are serious about growing spiritually and further awakening the faculties of their consciousness to stand in union with others to harness the forces of the Universe for their benefit and that of humanity. For the record, as sober and even-tempered as any gathering of awakened souls must be, the Ministry of Spirituology is for individuals interested in experiencing and researching advanced spiritual concepts, we are NOT your puritan society. OUR INTEREST IN MEMBERSHIP IS QUALITY NOT QUANTITY.

FINAL STATEMENT OF MEMBERSHIP
  
The Ministry of Spirituology and its gatherings are one and the same thing. The Christian Church, Islamic Mosque, Buddhist or Hindu Temple, Jewish Synagogue, scientific laboratory, philosophical school, etc. are all gatherings of institutionalized spirituality in one way or another. They use specific terminology and hold themselves to be unique from their counterparts and even self-preferred, believing themselves to be the only or "best" path to the Light. Spirituology is the spiritual logic observed from Nature of their philosophies concerning existential phenomenon, both mundane and paranormal, in its raw form, not at all an institution. One who recognizes spirituology simply accepts there is no dichotomy in the subject matter of these institutions and recognizes their labels and terms are holistic. He or she who embraces Spirituology is not divided in their consciousness of reality for the whole it truly is. We refer to ourselves as simply "Awakened" or "Enlightened," and NOT "Spirituologists." This is a state of awakened consciousness which our participants attain by going through 3 primary degrees of course lecture and research before being inducted into the inner circle of Spirituology. 

It is with this mechanism of thought that spirituology must infiltrate all spiritual, educational and mundane systems and establish the Highest Rule of LOVE. This is not the erotic or compassionate Utopian love, eulogized in poetry, but the real existential meaning of Love which is neutral toleration and harmony. In a world divided along the lines of labeling and prejudice, to seek Love and Unity is the most rebellious yet effective formula for improving on the established system. It is with acceptance of this burden that our official members distinguish themselves in the world.

The official member undertakes the obligation of acting as an agent of LOVE, when and where ever possible,  being neutral in matters of conflict, always giving impartial judgment and advice if asked, but normally  preferring to hold their peace. He or she subtly is an activist capable of raising personal initiatives or contributing to such to challenge discrepancies in their sphere of influence that they see ultimately thwarting humanity from successfully attaining the collective consciousness and that is going to say much by only saying a little. Our Official Members acknowledge assisting in the awakening of another individual who is ready or one on the path is part of their own spiritual progress and touches the lives of others as possible and capable without disrupting their own evolution.

It must be re-iterated we hold no obligation for anyone to join the Ministry of Spirituology or to identify with our path. We understand the true paths that exist are few and so are their numbers in comparison with the “orthodox" traditions that are "wide paths." All paths will ultimately lead to an encounter with the Light of God as we all must go into transition at the end of our physical earthly lives.  As with the tradition of the Essenes, we understand each and every member of humanity is initiated into this world as individual consciousness of the Universal Pure Consciousness, what the Yogi refer to as the Brahman-Atman, which many refer to as "God," but they may not fully or be even remotely aware of it; there are even those in denial.

We are all members of the Universal Consciousness which has had many earthly names throughout the ages existing behind the fabric of this dimension which is based on light and sound. By seeing reason in our objective of promoting interfaith harmony in religious teaching, science and spiritual tradition one can rightfully acknowledge themselves as a member of this path.

You may freely familiarize yourself with the information on this blog, which will be updated as often as possible and use it to guide your progress of awakening along your personal path of initiation and choose not to affiliate.

The membership information herein should not be considered an appeal to join our gathering, but merely the necessary explanations for those who may have the prerogative of joining "this" ministry with an aim to identify with our universal ideology which transcends the divisions of humanity or fulfill a particular objective to advance the evolution of human consciousness.