Q: As a spiritual person, what is our responsibility in relation to world events?
A: This depends on one’s current prevailing level of consciousness. Confusion arises from mixing the levels. To act according to the spiritual principles of mercy, forgiveness, love, and compassion applies at all levels, of course, but how these are interpreted and what they are understood to signify regarding action depends on perception and degree of spiritual maturity.
Earthly life affords maximum karmic opportunity to not only acquire ‘good’ karma but undo negative karma. For example, whole populations and groups have accumulated both positive and negative spiritual consequences as the result of barbaric savagery, just as they do in today’s headlines. Thus, there are spiritual ‘debts’ as well as benefits.
…Human life is a major spiritual opportunity for consciousness to evolve and even reach Enlightenment. It is an expression of the gift of life, through which one can eventually realize the Self. Worldly temporal life is transitory and brief, but its consequences are very long term. It is therefore best to treasure the opportunity with gratitude. Spiritual endeavor is, in and of itself, an expression of appreciation for that gift of life.
From Discovery of the Presence of God, ch. 10, pg. 160 & 161
A spiritually-oriented person values all of life’s experiences and sees each one as an opportunity to evolve spiritually. The technique of processing out involves very simple steps that all depend on willingness and the capacity to surrender.
Stay with the feeling and stay focused on it unswervingly. Realize that all pain is due to resistance. The suffering of loss stems from the attachment and specialness.
Be willing to become immersed in and surrender to the feelings without avoiding them. Notice that they come in waves and that surrendering to the most intense waves tends to decrease their emotional severity.
Ask God’s help and surrender the personal will to God.
… Be willing to endure and suffer out the process. If not resisted, it will process itself out and come to an end.
… A helpful source of strength during the processing out of painful emotions is to identify with all of humanity and realize that suffering is universal and innate to the phenomenon of being human and the evolution of the ego.”
The progressive letting go of positions and moving into an ever-enlarging context brings us to the overall general nature of spiritual work itself. All that is within the Scale of Consciousness is the ego, from high ego states to low ego states. The letting go progressively is beneficial because the levels represent points of view – letting go of judgment and vanity that come out of prideful “I know.” Surrender through humility allows the process of revelation by which the truth is revealed. There is the progressive process of letting go of these restrictive positions, all of which block the inner consciousness and awareness of the truth. This awareness automatically emerges out of an energy field and gets progressively higher until it finally reaches a point where one is open to the Grace of God.
