A Note About an Email List Group
Devoted to
the Topic of Spiritual Surrender
Introduction
In
mid-August 2007, I was guided by Holy Spirit to create this website
about spiritual surrender and also to start a list group at
Yahoo Groups for persons who are sincerely engaged in the process of
surrender to Holy Spirit and Supreme Heart. The list group is named Spiritual Surrender,
and its shorthand name is spiritual-surrender.
Here is some more information on the list group:
Description
This
list group is devoted to discussion of the radical act of spiritual
surrender, that is, complete surrender of one's life, breath, thoughts,
feelings and actions to Holy Spirit, to God, to Supreme Heart, but
without the stigma of ties to the dogma or baggage of any religious
denomination, religious tradition, or religious agenda. The group is
intended as a support group for sincere persons who are committed to
the path of spiritual surrender. The group is not intended
to be a forum for the intellectual discussion of spirituality, nor of
New Age concepts, nor of politics, nor for the spouting of ego-based
fear-driven pseudospirit-babble about the need to save humankind,
dolphins, whales, rutabagas or the world from some kind of
imagined impending disaster, but rather, the list group is intended to
offer support for those on the path, and to provide a
place
for sharing actual real-life tales of surrender to Holy Spirit and
Supreme Heart. Due to the fact that list groups devoted to topics such
as this tend to act as a magnet for many lost New Agers and New
Age-like crusaders who feel the need to save the world, it is worth
repeating here that intellectual discussions and particularly
fear-based ego-driven overtures will not be allowed. The group will be
firmly moderated to keep it on topic, although a bit of humor and
light-heartedness is always welcome.
This group was founded by
and is operated by Vinny Pinto, a degreed scientist and a mystic. The
concept of letting go of the desires and aspirations of the local self
(which many traditions call the ego) and surrendering our life instead
to the guidance, Presence and Grace of Holy Spirit and Supreme
Heart is one which has emerged in numerous religious and spiritual
traditions -- both Eastern and Western -- since time immemorial. The
same concept has also been espoused by numerous spiritual masters,
including Jesus Christ, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna, Jean
Klein and Lester Levenson (although his message has often been somewhat
re-framed by those trying to market some of his concepts about
releasing and letting go since his death!)
One of my primary
reasons for forming this list group was due to a recognition of some
inherent limitations in the various email list groups (one of which I
operate) and forums devoted to the "releasing" or "letting go" work
promulgated by commercial enterprises which market some of the "letting
go" concepts of Lester Levenson, due to the focus of marketers on
releasing as a tool to achieve the goals of the local mind, i.e., goals
such as wealth, fancy cars, travel, great health, or a perfect lover;
they also preach the message that we must "work" at a
technique
called "releasing". In contrast, while I believe that the act of
releasing and letting go is essential and is also nearly universal to
all esoteric spiritual traditions, there is no need to overdo it and
turn it into one more struggle and effort, one more thing that we
"should do" in order to "succeed", and rather the path of surrender
which I mention is one of Grace and Ease.
How to Join
To
visit the home page of the Spiritual Surrender list group at Yahoo
Groups -- where you may join the group by clicking on the button labeled
"Join This Group" -- go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spiritual-surrender/
Alternatively, to join the list group via email, send an email to
spiritual-surrender-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Have fun!