Hello to you and Namaste. Bodan here. I created the University of Spirituality Web Site, a place that seeks to advance spirituality oriented education to enlighten and encourage prospective students to learn what the basic fundamentals of life experience are all about. I also serve as the administrator/moderator of the University of Spirituality discussion forum. This forum is what we might call the “sister ship” and compliment to the University of Spirituality Web Site. This forum is a central hub for networking with fellow brothers and sisters who seek common ground in pursuing the most important, yet often misunderstood and confusing endeavor we can ever take, the inner journey of enlightenment. Perhaps best of all, this forum is a place for discussions about the most important quality you can ever discover and build on, your individual spirituality. Your spirit is an inherent gift bestowed within you by God and serves as an integral source of guidance while traversing the inner quest for enlightenment. Your spirit is a treasure of love, light and potential, (not to mention a great storehouse of energy) that you can easily befriend and build on, producing an expanded awareness of who you are and the meaning of life. Everything that you are is all expressed in your individual unique way, through your spirituality.
My personal journey is quite lengthy, however, a brief synopsis is in order here. I consider myself a traveler, in search of meaning, purity and the divine essence of all life. My travels have taken me to places far and near, but regardless of the distance involved, it did little to narrow the gap in my search. I prayed and meditated and meditated and prayed. I practiced degrees and AUMs and AUMs and decrees. I attended various Holistic and Spiritually oriented functions looking for answers. Some functions left me satisfied, some did not. Even the functions that caught my interest, in the midst of it all there was still something missing. That was very apparent. Satisfaction seemed to be an illusion as there was a mysterious void of emptiness that could neither be explained or filled. Other functions that I attended did not even begin to wet my appetite, leaving me with an even deeper hunger for truth. Observing a few channeling workshops, I was not overly impressed with what I witnessed. I concluded, yes, this person is communicating with unseen life, but my questions were still far from being answered. It is simply another form of information, no different than reading a book and wasn’t doing me much good in my search. I also concluded that it wasn’t really a workshop at all, but another form of entertainment. For all we knew, the person doing the channeling could have had a split personality. It was not at all that I didn’t believe in life elsewhere, quite the contrary, because for me that had never been an issue. I knew the universe was vastly abundant with life, both visible and invisible to the naked eye.
Going round in circles for a time investigating the new age circuit, there was always something very consistent happening within my intuitive sense of awareness. The compelling influence of the Holy Spirit continually guided my focus back to my own soul for purposes of learning, growing, expanding and slowly discovering the meaning of life for which I so deeply yearned. The process proved slow and frustrating, but I endured the early moments of flight. I continued studying esoteric material, the masters and while still confused and uncertain about many things, sparks ignited I began to sense that something significant lay on the road ahead. I began to have memories of times and places not associated with my current life span. Though initially discounting the memories as a non-authentic product of my imagination, the memories continued to surface. I certainly had doubts as to whether the memories were real, but in time, grew to accept that the experiences were vaild and carried significant meaning. Accompanying these experiential memories came a virtual upheaval of emotions, a wild flux of energy that often left me gasping for air. The central core of my brain seemed fried with confusion and my level of anxiety nearly off the charts. At this juncture, I could not deny that a shift had occurred and something fantastic was unraveling. I knew that a door had opened and exposed me to an intense vibrational energy that proved difficult to fathom. For years I had read, thought about, yearned for, and engaged in numerous practices and areas of focus in an attempt to align my conscious awareness with this light. Now it was happening, but unfortunately, exposure to this light proved nothing like what I expected. This was my first mistake, to expect something only intellectual understanding could produce. Expanding my inner plane of awareness, I saw aspects of myself from an entirely new perspective, both positive and negative. On the positive side, the potential was there for me to create something unique. What exactly I was destined to create had not been revealed, but I knew that I would be heavily tasked along the way. On the negative side, there stood a rather large barrier that seemed to dominate the present picture. The barrier was myself. I was faced with the darkness of my own past returning to haunt me, much of it a past that was hard to consciously recollect and accept. Providing me with additional confirmation of my returning memories and everything that was happening to me, my nights also shifted into high gear. On awakening each morning, I felt extremely restless, stressed and disoriented. The dream world that I knew had become much more vivid, chaotic and dark, often leaving me with a fresh perspective on what I believed to
‘reality.’
Through it all, inspiration and ideas came of this
project that seemed quite wonderful and slowly began to take shape. What began as a series of short writings evolved into a full blown course on self-mastery. The Master Within, Building Our New Home Within the House of God was the result. The concept for the course is about building a new, spiritual home from the existing framework of one’s being. The home is constructed from the core essence of our soul utilizing universal energy as the building blocks. We already have the tools and materials to build our new home. All that is required is an open mind, sincere intention and the desire to
Know God More Fully. I had studied the teachings of the masters for quite some time and to receive such a vast array of inspiration to create my own course seemed surreal.
The Master Within, as lengthy and in-depth as the writings are, expanded into an even larger concept. Inspiration continued to flow along with the usual late nights and little sleep. The concept of the University of Spirituality arose that would very nicely compliment Volume One of the course. The concept revolved around a school that taught people about the deep, hidden mysteries of life. The University of Spirituality does not exist on the Earthbound plane and students would receive learning through the soul when praying, meditating and other wise communing with God. They would also attend this University while they slept through Out of Body Experiences.
The course writings serve as stimuli for opening the soul to receive the greater teachings of God. God teaches us directly through energy transference. The soul is the intermediary between the light of pure knowledge and what might be defined as our lower self or that part of us that yearns to learn. In other words, there exists within us a relationship consisting of both teacher and student. The process has nothing to do with channeling or anything of the sort because the intervention of a spirit entity is not required for individual teaching purposes. What we receive is undiluted inspiration meant exclusively for us.
While traversing the road of working on the project, I’ve experienced what I can only describe as a few fantastic moments of exposure to the Kingdom of Heaven. The moments were indeed brief, but authentic and served as confirmation for the legitimacy of the project. This was important to me for the following reason. Of the many new age, so called spiritually oriented functions and workshops that I investigated, some were good and some were bogus. I am certainly not criticizing the creative abilities of others, but I’ve grow to differentiate between genuine and pseudo spirituality. One leads you to immortality. The other does not. At any rate, I was very adamant about not making this material available to interested seekers unless at least some of my concerns were answered. Additionally, the Holy Spirit has a way of letting you know when its time and pushing you to accomplish certain tasks.
Oh yeah, something else extraordinary also happened during those moments of divine ecstacy. Remember the mystery of the void that I spoke of earlier that I longed to fill? Well, the mystery was solved, at least in that particular moment. Not only was the void filled, it overflowed with such an abundance of pure love that it is simply inconceivable. There wasn’t even the slightest question.
The experiences were the real deal. There is no way to adequately express what the moments were like and I elect to keep the experiences confidential for the time being.
This serves as pretty much the basis for how this project came about. I would emphasize a few key points in regards to the Master Within, Building Our New Home Within the House of God and the University of Spirituality. You can take the process of spiritual development as far as you want. The course aims to take the student to the ultimate end. The course is not for the faint of heart nor is it to be taken lightly. It is a lifelong endeavor to be taken slowly. The Master Within is a course for achieving exactly what the title implies. I know what that means...for me. It is up to you to figure out what that means to you, based on your own perspective, understanding and experiences. You may indeed figure out some things, but don't get your hopes up on figuring out everything because some things are above the realm of figuring out.
You simply have to let go and let God. 
I would also emphasize that I am still very much a student of University of Spirituality. I am a student-teacher, but nonetheless a student. I have not figured everything out nor do I have all of the answers that you seek because answers are individual. It is up to you to seek and find.
Along the lines of this introduction, you can learn more about my perspective by reading Bodan’s Welcome Message on the University of Spirituality Web Site.
http://www.universityofspirituality.com/HLBodan.htm
