Some believers will tell you that communicating with the Higher Power (or whatever you choose to call it) is the same as talking. Sure, the practice of prayer is common through all religions; and, most often it takes the form of speaking the words out loud or thinking them. But if you take a look at how indigenous people of old and even today communicate with the God, you will see that there can be a lot more to it.

For them, speaking the words is still important, but they know that the ‘answers’ can come in many forms. They can come in the form of feelings, images, dreams or even things (and people) acting in an unexpected manner in a way that speak to them. The key here is that you are attuned enough to pick up on them as they can be subtle. People living as part of nature have the advantage over us ‘modern’ humans, since being aware of their environment to the fullest ensures their survival. For the rest of us, life is less of a hustle, even though it may not seem like such at times. There is nothing waiting around the way to eat us, and our food is safely accessible at the grocery store.

Speaking from personal experience, I can say this with confidence: trying to see more of what’s going on around me has helped me to be a better spiritualist. When I have questions or concerns, answers and solutions can come to me and their benefit can reach beyond just the given problem. It feels very rewarding and leaves me with of sense of belonging to the whole.

There is also the issue of putting too much emphasis n the written word as in the Bible or any other scripture for that matter. The Bible in particular has been around for thousands of years, granted. Still, there must have been hundreds of millions of people who had no access to the knowledge contained in it due to a number of reasons. These reasons could include: no one told them about it (lost tribes of the Amazon), a translation wasn’t available in their language or they didn’t know how to read and even that they lived long before anything that is in the Bible today was ever written down. It is hard for me to think that even if Christianity is the one true religion that God would abandon these people. It stands to reason that there has to be other avenues that this higher power can use to get through to a person. Oh, and not to mention there must be several valid paths by the same token. But that’s for another time.