Spiritual Unfoldment With John Butler
Jun 18, 2026 · 29 min · 9 segments
Anything you can do to turn towards what we may call Truth, or God, or purpose, or meaning of life, whether it be meditation or prayer helps when we encounter the doubts and questionings in the mind…
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And one night, one of these funny things, I can't explain it, I seemed to be told to don't pray in a certain church.
I don't know if you know that during the long years of communism... 99% of Russian churches were destroyed and the faith was, they did their best to annihilate it.
And when I was there, the communism had relaxed and people were just beginning to discover their ancestral faith, which had been virtually squeezed out of existence for the best part of a century as they lived under communism.
old warehouse there that had been allocated to be reconverted into a church, and they just collected a few bits and pieces of old icons and that.
And I used to go there and just stand in a corner, because Russians like to pray standing, and I'd meditate and pray.
I was so filled with such joy that at last I'd found something I loved and I could do and that I felt I believed in.
And one night, one of these funny things, I can't explain it, I seemed to be told to don't pray in a certain church.
I don't know if you know that during the long years of communism... 99% of Russian churches were destroyed and the faith was, they did their best to annihilate it.
And when I was there, the communism had relaxed and people were just beginning to discover their ancestral faith, which had been virtually squeezed out of existence for the best part of a century as they lived under communism.
old warehouse there that had been allocated to be reconverted into a church, and they just collected a few bits and pieces of old icons and that.
And I used to go there and just stand in a corner, because Russians like to pray standing, and I'd meditate and pray.
I was so filled with such joy that at last I'd found something I loved and I could do and that I felt I believed in.
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