Mankind’s collective spiritual inheritance (karma) and destiny were also enunciated in the Book of Genesis as a result of the lapse from the primordial, nonlinear, heavenly paradise (the Garden of Eden) to the descent into proclivity for falsity consequent to falling into the consciousness realm of duality and the linear domain (the dichotomy of good and evil).
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All Truth is Subjective
Q: Where is that reality of eternal truth to be found?
A: Begin by accepting the very important statement that all truth is subjective. Do not waste lifetimes looking for an objective truth because no such thing exists. Even if it did, it could not be found except by the purely subjective experience of it. All knowledge and wisdom are subjective. Nothing can be said to exist unless it is subjectively experienced. Even a supposedly purely objective material world, if it existed, could be said to exist only because of one’s subjective sensory experience of it. Even the most rabid materialist is stuck with the fact that in the end, it is only their own subjective awareness that gives it the authority of believability.
Paradigm Allegiance
Each person perceives, experiences, and interprets the world and its events in accord with their own predominant level of consciousness. … each level tends to be self-reinforcing … this process results in what is best described as ‘paradigm allegiance’ or the presumption that one’s own personal perceived/experienced world represents ‘reality’ (Protagorars’s error as pointed out by Plato).
… For comfort and mental reinforcement, people seek for agreement and thus tend to congregate with others who share the same paradigm or worldview…
Paradigm thus predetermines the range of possible experiences or discoveries and is a factor about which the ordinary consciousness is unaware.
The World is Not a Trap
To survive, the ego has to believe it is real, and that it has a separate, independent existence…
At some point, the illusion breaks down and the opening for the start of the spiritual quest commences. The quest turns from without to within and the search for answers begins. With good fortune, one comes upon the teachings of true enlightenment…
… Does spiritual commitment mean one has to give up the world? No, of course not. It means merely that worldly life needs to be recontextualized, restructured, and envisioned differently. It is not the world that is a trap, but one’s attachment to it, along with one’s observations that cloud the search for Truth.
Unload the Mind
Spiritual evolution is supported by education and information up to the point where the intellect is no longer a primary tool as it is in ordinary learning. The spiritual ‘work’ then transitions from the mental/intellectual/conceptual linear to the nonlinear region of human consciousness that relates more to context than to content and form or data. This major shift entails reliance on different qualities, such as faith, intention, devotion, volition, and will. Character traits are called into action, and attitudes are of greater practical use than specific ideas.
Whereas ordinary information is ‘acquired’ by effort, in spiritual endeavor the emphasis is on relinquishing, letting go, and surrendering.
… the core of spiritual work is aligned with undoing of and the unloading of the mind rather than its enrichment. To seek Enlightenment is major decision. The decision itself is akin to a ‘Yin” posture. While the ordinary ego is programmed to ‘getting’, spiritual intention now shifts to ‘allowing’… The actual process is innately simple yet challenging of accomplishment by virtue of the innate structure of the ego/mind…
… Its actual practice is not so much a matter of ‘doing’ but a way of ‘being’ or aligning with the subjective awareness of life.
… Whereas the consciousness level of the witness/observer increases awareness, the ego watches with the expectation of ‘doing’ or ‘getting’ something.
… The field is independent of content.”
– Dr. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God p. 61-67