Here’s another excerpt from my manuscript: 

Unity Begins Within, Spiritual Healing and the Four-Petaled Flower of Wholeness.

Separation, whether physical separation at birth or the illusion of spiritual separation from Source, creates both inner and outer disunity.

And central to separation is our human craving for unconditional love.

Many of us have a hollow space within that we expected our biological parents to fill, but now that we’re older, realize this was never possible.

A human being cannot satiate a spiritual need.

Even the most amazing parents are still human. If yours made you feel unconditionally loved and spiritually connected, consider yourself blessed beyond words. For the rest of us, choosing to have spiritual parents takes the load off our human parents and offers opportunities to compassionately accept their faults and frailties. They live with the same longings as we do.

What happened in their lives that created unhealthy beliefs and distorted manifestations of love?

What caused them to become so internally disunified that they took their disconnection and suffering out on us? We can’t heal our parents, or anyone for that matter, but we can release the pressures we’ve placed on them.

 A Spiritual Parent can fill the space within the soul that needs unconditional love.

These parents come in various forms and from limitless orientations and contexts. A spiritual mother might be Mother Earth. Gaia. Quan Yin. Mother Mary. Guadalupe. The ocean. Spiritual fathers might be Father Sky. Christ. Buddha. Krishna. Mohammad. The sun. A mountain. Each is an aspect of the Divine. I’ve found unconditional love by embracing Guadalupe as my mother and Ezekiel as my father. I encourage you to find yours.

Claim Your Spiritual Parents

All you need is one. Does any being come to mind? If not, how about your favorite mountain, or the giant willow tree you played under as a child? Don’t forget about Mother Earth and Father Sky. The moon and the sun.

Create an altar and place a picture or statue of the being(s) you’ve chosen. I consider myself a Guadalupana, a lover of Guadalupe. During one of my many visits to her at the Basilica, she told me that not only is she alive there, on the original tilma, but in every existing image of her. As a result, I’ve adorned my home with multiple pictures and statues of Guadalupe. It’s harder to find images of Ezekiel, but I searched online and printed and framed one that appeals to me. He and Guadalupe sit side by side on the mantle of my red-brick fireplace.

Whoever your Spiritual Parents might be, 

Breathe in, receive their unconditional love daily,

And allow them to fill any voids within your soul.

Spiritual Parents Facilitate and Support Unity.