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Everyone who is on this earth is on a spiritual journey. You do not have to subscribe to a religious faith group to believe this to be true; it simply is exactly what it's. We know technology and also science have come a considerable way in explaining our bodies and our behaviour to us and science has done well inside this respect. But even technology and also science can not explain the human experience without thinking about the x-factor that goes along with studying humans.

What is this x-factor? What is it about humans that cause us to be different? It really is believed to be the soul. The soul's mission is to help us realize that a successful life has nothing to do with worldly stuff; rather it is the achievement of successfully living a spiritual life that ends in us becoming what we have been truly meant to be.

Considering that the beginning of humankind, society has tried to discover why we have this connection with each other as humans. Why do we feel things and are moved by them, why do we behave sometimes against our very own interests, why are we tortured by thoughts and dreams? If all that matters are houses, cars, wealth and parties and we have all those things, then why do we feel unsettled and unsatisfied?

The answer is that we have been in essence spiritual beings housed in a physical body and living in a physical world. For several of us who don't realize we have been in need of spiritual fulfillment guidance, this causes us great problems. We become negative and destructive once we aim to fulfil a spiritual need with physical things, since the core of the matter is the fact that nothing physical inside this world can ever take the place of true spiritual practice.

Looking around we can see that there is a great deal of trouble on the planet today, and people can become either totally despondent or understand that we are more than what we can see, touch, taste, smell or feel. We have been here to experience what shapes our soul. The inevitable end of our physical life means the death of our body forever, but it really is only the beginning of the spiritual journey.

No use of drugs, alcohol, food, or attainment of cash, fame, status, or beauty can truly bring the happiness that most of us declare we want, because true happiness comes from a experience of internal peace produced from living a spiritual life. That ever elusive peace is only achieved by recognizing that we have been creating marks on our soul as we move along through life.

Whatever form your spiritual journey is taking and what ever it involves, you will find that this book, Tantalus as well as the Pelican by Nicholas Buxton contains a great deal that can help you to find what ever it's you are trying to find in your life. It is a book that will inspire and be of interest to anyone who is on any sort of similar spiritual journey.