Turn to the Sun

 The Dark Side of Spirituality: Remembering the God Within For most of my life, I believed that if I wanted to connect with God, I had to go somewhere to find Him. I thought the path was inside church buildings, sitting in pews and listening to sermons. Later, when my spiritual curiosity expanded, I believed the answers might be found in medicine ceremonies and spiritual gatherings that promised healing and awakening. I was searching everywhere outside of myself for the divine. What I eventually realized, however, is that both paths—while meaningful for many—became distractions in my own journey. They were places I kept visiting in hopes that someone or something else would hand me the connection to God that I was always capable of discovering within myself. The turning point in my life came when I stopped outsourcing my spiritual authority. In the quiet moments of reflection, I began to feel something deeper than any ritual or ceremony had ever given me. I discovered that the conn...