Welcome!

My name is Bushra, and I have designed this site as a meeting place for all of us that are on a spiritual quest, a quest that allows our sacred essence to shine and express itself to its full potential.

I have, like many others, experienced this essence as divine light, pure joy, and mighty power. I have experienced it as Love, sweet and fierce, allowing and uncompromising. I have experienced it as nurturing, all encompassing, as absolute “isness”.

I also experienced it a place of unlimited potential. I remember referring to it, during one of my meditations, as the Gateway to all Creation. It is a place of pure abundance, where creating from pure thought is as easy and natural as breathing.

I will refer to this presence as God, but please understand that this is only a name for the ultimate source of life, for life itself.

These experiences have transformed my beliefs into knowing. I no longer believe in God. I have experienced God, or at least glimpses of God.

There are many reasons why I built this site. The first and main reason is that God is my passion. I believe the ultimate purpose of life is to know who we are, and live a divine life. If God has made us in his image, then let's display divine qualities. So my prayer is that this site is a meeting place for like-minded people, also seeking to express their full potential, also learning to live a joyful, loving, and abundant life.

I have also built this site because, in my search for the divine, I have learnt many skills, and accumulated many resources. If they can be of any help, then it is with great joy that I share them. Some of the resources are free, and for others, I ask for a fee, especially when I have myself paid for them, or when I have spent time putting them together.

I sincerely hope we all allow ourselves to shine to the fullest.

God Bless

Bushra on behalf of
The Shining Essence Team