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.
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The Inner Pathway
Q: “How does the inner pathway differ from traditional religious experience?
A: The emphasis is on the inner experiential subjective realization and internal validation of spiritual truth. In contrast, religion is formalized and historically structured in an authoritative context that stresses conformation to observances, rituals, customs and belief systems. … In religion, Divinity is contextualized primarily elsewhere in time and location and is also described as having human motivations, limitations, and defects. Religion emphasizes belief rather than inner realization of truth.”
The Only Thing We Have To Handle
It is surprising that the only thing to be handled in these acute catastrophic events is the energy of the emotions themselves. If we look at the experience, we see it is not the event that happened or we think happened in the world that is the problem but the way we feel about it. Who cares about facts? They do not mean anything in and of themselves. It is one’s emotional reaction to the fact. The fact is only a fact, a ‘nothing’. How we feel about the fact is therefore the only thing we really ever have to handle about the events in life.
From “Healing And Recovery”, Handling Major Crises pg 234-35
The Greatest Gift
Q: So what can the spiritual seeker do to be of help to society?
A: To endeavor to evolve spiritually is the greatest gift one can give. It actually uplifts all mankind from within because of the nature of power itself. Power radiates and is shared, whereas force is limited, self-defeating, and evanescent. All society is subliminally and subtly influenced by every kind and loving thought, word, or deed. Every forgiveness is a benefit to everyone. The universe notes and records every action and returns it in kind. Karma is actually the very nature of the universe because of the innate structure and function of the universe itself. In the universe time is measured in eons. Beyond that, it does not even exist at all. Every kindness is therefore forever.
From: “The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden” (2002), Chapter 13: “Explanations”, pp. 203–204
The World is Amorphous
Q: Is a given event an opportunity, or is it a temptation?
A: From the view of consciousness itself, one might say that the world is really amorphous, and that all meaning is a derivation of projected value, perceptual interpretation, and mentation. If the predominant lesson that is arising at a certain level of consciousness is nonattachment to success, desire, or pleasure, the temptations of the world could be refused. Also, a surrender of positionalities might result in deciding to actually surrender the world to God. A person in a similar situation might see a worldly event as a call for selfless service. Another might view it as a call for taking an integrous stand or, on the contrary, refusing to take any position and may be seeing it as a reflection of perception and any decision as a vanity of egoism.
There is no point to jumping in to ‘save the world’ when the perceived world is merely an illusion of projected values, presumptions, and interpretations. The integrous student chooses what appears to be the highest, and to evolve spiritually is actually the greatest gift one can give the world. This is done by virtue of what one is and not just by what one does. The truly great have come and gone, and what they left behind was the consequence of what they were and had become.