Sometimes I feel as though I am miles from home

RE: Sometimes I feel as though I am miles from home

There have been quite a few threads on atheism recently, and I've shared that I was one until aged about 21.

I felt much like you in my teens and virtually dropped out of school as I had to figure out what was going on with me. A feeling as if I wasn't in the right place, there was something I had to find out, and that I wasn't 'home'.I agree that it's to do with spiritual change, and that there's a lot more to life than one is experiencing at the time. Corny as it sounds, you could say it's God (or a Guru)calling you. Eventually I answered the Call!

Venetian

RE: Sometimes I feel as though I am miles from home

There have been quite a few threads on atheism recently

I was some what shocked at the reference to "athiesm" having anything to do with the feeling.

Itotally agree with your response

you could say it's God (or a Guru)calling you

I think it is god calling reminding me that I am not home. That this is a tempory existance & thereforeis an affirmation that god is at home waiting for me.

I think the feeling of being away from home is a horrible empty feeling. It maybe a sign that I am moving away from my calling. Which is very topical to me at the moment, because I am devoting my life to serve god and find that this is a huge struggle for me at the moment.

Ok so know I see the connection to atheism, because the feeling is associated.

Thank you Venetian, am in a lot of need at the moment and the fact that you have answered the calling is a fantastic result.

Love & Light
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RE: Sometimes I feel as though I am miles from home

Hi Survivor,

I think you misunderstood my reference to atheism. I only mentioned the word becuase some people read almost everything on HP, and it just happens I felt the way you do when I didn't believe in God, and mentioned it elsewhere. It's really not relevant to your post, sorry. I didn't mean to confuse!

So in my case there was this huge feeling that something was wrong, that my world and life was 'unreal' or not where I should be. In my case, as I described on some other thread somewhere, it actually led to me doing a hitch-hiking trip to the Himalayas! - but we all have our own 'trip' to make, and usually,I expect, there's not much need to 'go' anywhere but change the life whereit is, or to find something. It must be different for everyone so I certainly have no specific answer for you.

It's like - a friend of mine emailed me yesterday saying he has a yearning to go into spiritual retreat somewhere for at least months. So he's felt something too. Come to think of it, I didn't know where to suggest he go, so I'll do a thread on that right after finishing this.

It may be that some people know deeply inside what they really need to be doing, and if they touch that need, they know how to act. But in my case I really hadn't a clue. I was an atheist, remember? So I just went on a kind of full-time search, which involved some travel but a lot of reading. You find 'home' in the end. Always.:)

Venetian

RE: Sometimes I feel as though I am miles from home

Dear Survivor

There are many places called home and as Jesus said 'my father has many mansions'. There is going home to finding God within but for some there is also a knowing that their home is another planet altogether and these souls feel they have come here to help humanity through a huge transition; yet they also have a soul yearning to return home to their home planet. There is also a feeling sometimes when you go to another country that you have come home; I certainly felt that whilst in Australia a spiritual home indeed, a place where I had spent at least one past life.

We are multi-dimensional beings, spiritual beings living a human experience.

There is that wonderful saying 'Home is where the heart IS' and when we raise our consciousness and move our energy into our hearts sustainably, the home of God is certainly found within the inner chamber of the heart.

Divine Love

RE: Sometimes I feel as though I am miles from home

From my "atheist" perspective, I have experienced being "out to lunch" many a time.
The daily chores and tasks that we do become so familiar that our unconscious mind takes over and does them for us whilst our conscious mind thinks about something else. Very common for people who drive a regular route to work.

Maybe during these times we are letting ourselves become attached to thoughts and feelings that we would normally supress due to the concentration on the tasks we have to complete. I think we have so much we "have to do" nowadays that we don't have time to sit down and ponder things we want to.

Love and Reiki Hugs

RE: Sometimes I feel as though I am miles from home

Hi Survivor,

You sound like that old song "Is this all there is?….. 😉

I think we all go through these experiences (often more than once!)– I see them as my "wilderness" experiences – but the wilderness is simply a waiting place, like a diver waits before stepping onto the spring board….What you are describing is a spiritual yearning, but it’s not for any location, because "home" is the consciousness of good.

This is a beautiful poem by one of my favourite poets:

Home

Home is the consciousness of good
That holds us in its wide embrace;
The steady light that comforts us
In every path our footsteps trace.

Our Father's house has many rooms,
And each with peace and love imbued;
No child can ever stray beyond
The compass of infinitude.

Home is the Father's sweet "Well done,"
God's daily, hourly gift of grace.
We go to meet our brother's need,
And find our home in every place.

Rosemary Cobham

The belief that people will only find what they yearn for after the change called death is a delusion! You can experience all the wonders and freedom of your innate spiritual identity and existence, right here and NOW. You are never more one with God than you are right now!

When John the Revelator saw the new heaven and the new earth (Rev. 21) he was on the same plane of existence as we are and yet, as Mary Baker Eddy explains, he was:
"beholding what the eye cannot see,--that which is invisible to the uninspired thought. This testimony of Holy Writ sustains the fact in Science, that the heavens and earth to one human consciousness, that consciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material. This shows unmistakably that what the human mind terms matter and spirit indicates states and stages of consciousness." This whole page from Science and Health is well worth reading:

And here are two more similar types of "seeing" – slightly more recently, just over a hundred years ago, although these life-changing experiences are happening to individuals at all times and in all places.

The year was 1897. An American mother was preparing to travel up to a special gathering with her two children. The little girl had a nasty boil on her head and was very fretful. Her hair had to be cut away before she allowed her mother to comb the rest. When they arrived, they listened to a speech given by their hostess, Mary Baker Eddy. Afterwards, she greeted her guests on the porch and the children went up first. Here is what the mother wrote:

"I wish I could make the world know what I saw when Mrs Eddy looked at those children. it was a revelation to me. I saw for the first time the real Mother-Love, and I knew I did not have it. I had a strange, agonised sense of being absolutely cut off from the children. it is impossible to put into words what the uncovering of my own lack of real Mother-Love meant to me.