2) Why Launch Spirit Australia?

There are many reasons, but here's a few dot points to get started with - 

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* To support spiritually active people and help them find their tribe. For far too long, in a modern Westernised society, it's been possible to wander without a true compass. Perhaps we've each discovered our gifts, then been misunderstood or misguided; perhaps we've gone down some roads then taken a few difficult turns, and likely retreated back into our own solo understanding and safety zone. It can be lonely. It can be hard. But we don't have to feel like we are doing it alone.

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* To appeal to mainstream community by meeting them where they are. We can help people by having a Code of Ethics & Conduct. By offering a searchable internet presence for finding education, experiences, practitioners and groups. By freely providing basic explanations of how energy healing (and other spirit-based concepts & modalities) work, and generally demystifying the language, practice and understanding of energetic and spiritual reality into manageable concepts... All these things will help people feel comfortable to explore and see the similarities, rather than focus on the differences.

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* To promote "connected and continuous life" as a viable alternative to the "perfect modern lifestyle" that is rapidly spreading across our entire planet. We are now more disconnected from nature than ever before. We live in concrete cities, we sleep high above the earth, with our heating and cooling and cars and packaged food... We largely dismiss the seasons as unnoticed, and head back indoors to our articifical realities online. Our bodies have a physical life today that can feel unrecognisable from even just 100 years ago. But it's not just our "how" we live that has changed; the "why" is under pressure, too. So much indigenous knowledge has been lost, and the increasingly homogenous nature of human culture is a becoming a real challenge. The now dominant Abrahamic religions offer so many beautiful perspectives and lessons, but sadly the leaders of these can sometimes paint our human life as a lonely, limited and finite one, with our existence overseen by a judgemental "higher power" from which we must hope for forgiveness. Even an atheistic, or scientific, worldview conceeds that our personal human struggles are of limited consequence; as a species we are part of an evolutionary cause and effect, nothing less and nothing more. It's all a bit depressing, really! And it's certainly getting harder for mainstream societies to find inspiration, when we see all around us a rapidly growing disconnect between our physical and spiritual realities.

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* To highlight that, at it's core, "the purpose of all spirit work is healing". While mental health is a very complex area with many factors contributing to an individual's unique mental health situation, there is no doubt that feelings of disconnection and separateness can only make matters worse. Mental health challenges are increasing at an alarming rate, further fuelled by the Covid pandemic, and these escalating numbers are even more concerning when we consider the general failure of conventional Western pharmacology and cognitive mind-based thought psychology to adequately ease mental health distress. Written here below are just two aspects of Spirit Australia's charitable purposes. They may not be the first thing you expect to see, but we hope, upon reflection, that they make a lot of sense to our members:

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• being a mental health focussed not-for-profit organisation that encourages a holistic model of care and healing to support outcomes of peaceful mental health for all Australians

• promoting education regarding the interconnected nature of human physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health

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* To legitimise the existence, and expertise, of spirit workers through sheer force of numbers.  As you go about your daily life, have you ever felt alone? How freely do you share your true light among friends, family, and the wider community? It's very common for spirit workers to feel misunderstood, isolated, perhaps being dismissed as an interesting quirky dreamer... It can be hard, and it can also be very tempting to simply retreat back into a small circle of likeminded friends. You know how it goes; keeping quiet about things you are sensing or understanding, and just staying a silent observer to the mainstream idea of "what life is really all about". It's time to step up, come together and support each other. You are not alone! The visible evidence of just how many people like you are out there, of seeing the location of practitioners and community groups on a searchable national geographic map, is a very powerful thing indeed.

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* To assist people - and the mainstream practitioners who assist them - in finding the services and information they need more easily, when a person experiences a growing interest in spirituality, a sudden spiritual awakening, or even a spiritual emergency. It's not just one individual who may be searching for you. There's a lot of education and experiences that can truly benefit all of society. As we evolve more rapidly, to meet the current world challenges, the groundswell of curiosity from areas that were previously thought impossible is just getting stronger. Doctors, nurses, teachers, scientists, psychologists, community leaders... We urgently need to provide a Practitioner and Community Referral Directory; a grounded, balanced and reliable source of trusted information for all who may seek it.  

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* To support spiritual practitioners and the spiritual community in uniting together, through mutual respect and encouragement, in promoting continued growth and development for the benefit of all. Expanding awareness is a lifetime (lifetimes!) long pursuit and one that progresses towards connection, not separateness.

C'mon, everyone, let's practice what we preach! :-)

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