There, she would be shielded from the hustle and bustle of modern living by a retinue of adoring disciples who would tend to her earthly needs, however basic, while keeping visitors at a respectful distance.

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Moriya is not a woman of great wealth, at least not in terms of money in the bank. She has to earn her living as most of us do and balance her checkbook at the end of every month but, oddly for a modern day spiritualist, she has not yet charged anyone, not even a shekel – she lives in Jerusalem – for any of the spiritual guidance she has been dispensing, humbly, quietly, in a selfless way for the past twenty years.

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For the truly spiritually evolved one, our blocked and somewhat *charged* energies can be energetically painful in ways I cannot even fathom but Moriya has accepted her mission as handed over to her by her soul - to make accessible and credible, from within an ordinary modern life, all that she knows, without the help of any spiritual-religious trappings whatsoever.

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It is Moriya’s belief that by living and working unprotected, and in the thick of it all, her inner strengths are best tested which, she says, frees her from the possibility of ever feeling that she is *special*.  In addition, Moriya neither feels at risk of burning out by having her spirit energy drained out of her and/or of becoming victim of her own ego, two well-documented conditions that affect many otherwise well-intentioned and genuine spiritual practitioners.

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Long story short, never in my wildest dreams had I ever thought the universe would connect me to someone like Moriya.

I was even less prepared to become such a person’s spiritual protégée. And yet, it is how the situation has panned out, one enlightening email at a time, over the past thirteen months.

This morning I replied to email #369.

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Besides Moriya’s fluid decoding and seamless interpretations of the anodyne, but symbolic *messages* that come my way via any of my daily moments, each

email contains an eclectic mix of teaching points, spiritual parables, and pointed analyses distilled from the hundreds of books of which she has an intimate knowledge and which cover all strands of religious and spiritual disciplines, from the most ancient expressions of the human spirit to what is now considered classic and esoteric thinking in metaphysics. Moriya has made it her business, over the past twenty-years to read and accept - or reject - all that

the major thinkers and theosophists have written on karma, the energy field, matters of the soul and reincarnation.

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Since Moriya has generously gifted me many of her books, a fair chunk of her private collection is now sitting on my bookshelf. Every time I run my hand across their spines, I am aware of the challenge each book yet unread is posing me. My time is as elastic as old putty. It is not expandable. 

I bump along like a little pinball from one deadline to another, from one situation I feel I could have handled better to another I could have handled differently.

Even when I manage to not blot my notebook, the ghosts of moments – past and future - invade my thoughts like so many phantom-limbs.

Was I ever an octopus in a previous life? If so, why can’t I reconnect with the octopus’s ability to just be - one simple propulsion at a time?

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Moriya’s approach to spirituality is the only one I have come across that requires no ritual, no picture, no mantra, no paraphernalia, no god worship, no expense of any sort, no workshops, no merchandising.

Put simply, we do not need anything beyond establishing a connection to our soul - this element of the divine, that is already within us, is all we need to tap into.

As Moriya, herself, is a massive anthology of all of that is esoteric writings, when receiving her teachings first-hand, even books are optional, if not for the intellectual stimulation of reading source material.

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Life, even a mostly pleasant life such as mine, has never stopped presenting me with challenges of varying emotional charge which, I have come to believe, probably stems from not having been anywhere near unconditional love, certainly not as a child and a young adult. Yet I know that if I could stop fretting for a moment - right here, right now, if I could stop sifting through a miasmic past while blinking apprehensively at the future, I do believe my days would flow better. Much better.

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My life, you see, is enfolding right in front of my nose, under each of my fingertips, in the present, as I press each of the keys that make up these words. If I could just be in the present and not keep loading up *now* with the stale emotional clutter of yesterday, of *the last time*, of whenever, if I could refrain from playing forward ethereal scenarios released by an insecure mind, I believe the quality of my energy field would shift.

I believe it would allow me to be more like a little mountain spring - fresh, clean and transparent.

I believe I would not only be better at all that I do, as being a woman, someone’s partner, a high school teacher, a daughter, a friend, a writer, but I would also have time to become a serious reader of inspiring thoughts with a lot of extra time on my hands in which to contemplate the meaning of my soul’s current life, this life - my life.

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Dear Reader,

To read the totality of Searching for the Moment in its original format - twenty pages and  images, simply download the attachement tagged below this article.


FYI, Searching for the Moment is merely the intro file, the first of a series of eight, written on amending karma, our ego-persona, the active acceptance of What-Is, unconditional love and all other matters of the Soul.

The global content of these files  introduces newcomers to The Path - and veterans alike -  to Moriya’s fresh and uncompromising approach to life as a spiritual person.