The Essence of You
The invisible forces of the vertical, of consciousness, are moving forward in their agenda of the evolutionary process, using the division of groups and religions and governments and individuals as the very mechanisms needed for creating tomorrow.
And as I have consistently stated throughout all of my work, the creative process is dependent upon individual transformation. So, I’d like to go over some ideas and concepts that reacted to that and how you, as an individual, can continue to grow and consciously evolve.
From the Logic of the Finite to the Infinite
To know thy Self is to know God, to know the ancient truths of life itself for life is much less a mystery than you have been taught. Believing it to be a mystery gives your mind the justification it needs not to know how life works. Believing that there is a grander reality and that the unknown is not unknowable, this position gives your mind the justification it needs to know it, to become it.
Letting Go of the Drama
There is your journey. That is your evolutionary path. It is the beautiful story of you, of all others, and of the world.
Vedic Scripture or No Vedic Scriptures
And here you are. It is your development, your transcendence, your transformation that explains and justifies your existence and provides credibility to the possibility of living an extraordinary life and fulfilling your deepest potential.
The Role of Ignorance
The biggest barrier by far in living a fulfilling life, without exception, is ignorance. Ignorance is the absence of knowledge. Those who are ignorant don’t know they are. You don’t either and neither do I. Why are you and I ignorant? Truth is abandoned as a requirement of taking birth in order to play the game of becoming and in doing so, you forget who you are or why you’re here on the planet.
Self Imposed
It’s also pretty easy to acknowledge that we have little knowledge of the rationale of the cosmos to create the opposite of itself in the form of ignorance and all forms of human unconsciousness. Because the mind is so deeply rooted in material and mental reductionism, it’s hard to convince the mind about a concept that states that the process of evolution, particularly your own unique, individual evolutionary process, is the divine seeking to realize itself in physical form. But that’s exactly what I’m trying to do and to say. Because truth is never expressed in the negative, what other purpose could there be?
Birth Death and Becoming
Now if you take a look at your life you can see three distinct (3) phases: you have birth, death, and, between those two parameters, you have the process of becoming, of you becoming.
The Innate Image
These efforts to make your real self known in the physical world create pathways for your soul to make itself known. The inner is now becoming your outer, governing everything in your outer world, and in doing so, you increase significantly your chances of awakening, of happiness, of self-realization, which by the way is the only thing that can satisfy the soul or the psychic being or the innate image, whichever one you would like to call.
The Inner Poise
When you begin to create an inner poise, you are always connected to this center…it’s an umbilical cord that the more you are aware of it, you more you practice living from that center, the more you are able to conduct yourself in your daily life from that center. The outer is slowly unnoticeably, becoming your inner. The gap is closing. The concentric circles of becoming are narrowing as the movement is now directed not outside of you but inside of you.
Lesser and Greater Mysteries
I would invite you to understand that you are the world, so, if you don’t like what’s going on in the world, then, at least, you know where to start.
Transfiguring Pain and Suffering
You may be the most enlightened individual on the planet but you’ll notice that the rest of the world is not. The struggles and sufferings that are a part of daily life cause many to feel that existence is an act of futility in trying to acquire conditions of satisfaction and fulfillment. That being the case, many philosophies have argued that life here must be abandoned and satisfaction found somewhere else…an escape from earth.
No Support
I am suggesting that a new world is being born and along with that, a new knowledge. The process of awakening for the individual is essentially the evolution for the collective, for the planet. It is essentially the changes that you see taking place in the world.
The Wreckage of Projection
Projection is a commonly used psychological term. It is a commonly used term when discussing relationships. What is not commonly understood is that perception is projection. Perception is not separate from projection and projection is not separate from perception.
If You Only Ever Read One Book in Your Life
When it happened, I was aware that my intention and my desire to grow, to evolve, to become awakened, had drawn me to the book but it was my teacher at the time who would introduce me to it. It took me two years to read it the first time. While traveling, I lost my first copy that had extensive notes and I was devastated.
Restoring Your True Self
If I ask 10 people the question which comes first: Existence or Experience? almost everyone gets the right answer. Existence precedes experience.
Suffering and the Physical Body
Each day for every person is a battle of sorts for each has barriers with which to contend. It would seem that the metaphysical and the physical are constantly opposing one another, as the labor of the battling gods, as Aurobindo calls it, wages on.
Context, Content and Your Stuff
Without context that supplies the why, you don’t know how to go about it the right way. Content is content. It’s just stuff
The Process of Emerging
But behind it all lies the secret destiny, the objective, and the outcome of your life. Except you don’t know that so the game continues over and over and over.
It's Hard to Imagine
It’s really hard to imagine that a different reality other than the one your eyes tell you is there exists. It’s really hard to imagine that a life without pain exists. But it’s also important to accept that there is so much suffering in this world.