Hazrat Inayat Kahn and Ramtha on nature as the true religion

We have tortured the innocent mystery of our magnificent beings with words and their worship. And oh how quickly the free Spirit departs what does not embrace it.

It is our necessity now to leap off our gelded stag and mount again the wild stallion within us, that we might run unbridled upon the vast land.

Hazrat Inayat Kahn speaks of the power of such a move- of returning to our natural selves, mirrored in our return to nature:

"Something in us has been touched by the rhythmic movement, by the perfect harmony which is so seldom found in this artificial life of ours; it lifts one up and makes one feel that nature is the real temple, the true religion. One moment standing in the midst of nature with [an] open heart, is a whole lifetime, if one is in tune with nature."(Hazrat Inayat Kahn, The Mysticism, etc....p80)

Here Kahn invites us to briefly digress upon the subtle virtue of the heart of the earth- Nature. For, after all, the Earth is the Hearth, upon which the Heart worships. Though I needn't go into a lengthy apology for the obvious positive and healing effect of living with nature, it is enough to say that raw wilderness is inherently 'in Tao' and is also inherently devoid of mankind's conceptual insults to the mystery of life, and therefore there is no idea, thought, philosophy, nor understanding which has anywhere near the transformative value for the individual who chooses to exist for a time amongst nothing but a natural setting, away from the constructs, concepts, and illusions of man.

As such, Ramtha observes:

“¼if you ever find the courage within your being to get away from the ideals and intimidation and the limited consciousness of man, and go to live in the wilderness...you will find that life is really quite splendid; that it is an ongoing, unlimited, beautiful thing. ...[For] Nature allows you ... It also [allows] that you don’t know what you are, and it allows that unknowingness, so you touch that which you are.” (Ramtha, p160, Destination Freedom II, p145)

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas