It is important that you recognize what are your motivations for entering the spiritual Path. If your motivations are pure and uncontaminated with egoic agendas, you are setting up the best conditions for authentic and lasting spiritual progress.
Our evolutionary goal is to become Soul-aware in the here and now, in our bodies. In order to reach this goal, it is not just enough to evolve and expand our consciousness, we also need to evolve our bodies, the medium through which our consciousness expresses itself. What exactly do we require?
We require: 1) a strong, healthy physical body bursting with energy and vitality, 2) a purified and refined emotional nature full of love and joy, 3) a highly developed mind full of light
The Spiritual path sometimes feels very slow and methodical in terms of sensing the Spiritual growth made. Spiritual growth is a very subtle thing. There are actually three levels of Spiritual growth. There is the Spiritual level, consciousness or psychological level, and physical/Earthly level. The Spiritual level of growth deals with building Light Quotient, Light Bodies, initiations, anchoring Chakras and this is a very slow intricate process. Most people are not even aware when they take major initiations let alone the path to get there.
Our current evolutionary goal is to step out of our humanity and into our Divinity. Now, in order to reach this lofty goal, part of what we have to do is build higher bodies and develop higher senses. The idea of building higher bodies and developing higher finer senses may sound like wild fantasy on first hearing, however, evolution being a fact in nature, does it not make sense that as we expand our consciousness and reach up into higher frequencies, as per the law of magnetic attraction and resonance, higher matter becomes accessible to us and out of that higher finer matter we then build higher finer bodies serving as suitable mediums of contact on these higher, finer planes?
When we examine the meaning of scriptures, we discover there are two major approaches to understanding them: exoteric and esoteric methods. Exoteric methods include literal, analogical, and symbolic strategies for understanding the scripture.
Life is like an echo. The call we send out returns to us. We carelessly say, „I am sick, I am broke, I am lonely“ without realizing that our alleged powerless words are anything but weak and powerless. The moment we send out a call, the moment we say „I am sick, I am weak, I am broke,“ we are setting into motion a current of magnetic force that goes out into the world to magnetically attract and return to us thoughts, people and conditions in harmony with the dominant note of our word and thought.
Are there mantras that can help get through mental blockages?
Meditators report seven major types of blockages that impede them from going deeper in meditation:
1) They are locked into physical pain or the symptoms of disease, and they cannot detach their attention from these deep body sensations.
2) They encounter an etheric blockage in their inner vehicles of consciousness that stops them from further deepening in meditation.
What is the nature of a Spiritual Teacher and how can you spot one? Some people think that a Spiritual Teacher has no ego and that he is devoid of self-interest. I tell you, if someone had no ego and were devoid of self-interest, they would not be a Spiritual Teacher, they would be dead!
If you have gotten yourself into this predicament of grandiose and delusional beliefs, it is all right to ask for help and get yourself back into touch with your humanness again. It is OK to be human. While communing with your spiritual nature, you may recognize you are a god-like being—but if you embrace that god-likeness and abandon your humanity, you may drive yourself insane.
One of the most difficult lessons of the Spiritual path is the challenge that people face in dealing with relationships. It is in relationships that people often build the most amount of negative energy. The focus of this article is how to effectively deal with people and neighbors who are extremely run by the negative ego.
Of all the attitudes and qualities that need development in a healthy personality, none is more important than personal power or the development of the will. This last statement and point cannot be emphasized enough. Personal power is the key that makes the theory and ideals work. Personal power, or will power, is the first golden key.
every Soul on this Earth is bombarded with mass consciousness programming. Besides our parents, extended family, school, church, temple, a social group growing up, peer pressure, and social pressures which are massive, there is also a lack of true understanding of Spiritual psychology which leaves everyone vulnerable.
Nothing is more important for the unfoldment of our Spiritual light and potential than the elimination of the old. We must learn to let go of old limiting thoughts, desires and belief systems and make room for all the wonderful new things we have desired, prayed and worked for. What we need to do is take the initiative to cast away old, limiting thoughts
It is not possible to advance on the Spiritual path without going through a process of purification. The word purification comes from the Latin and means „to make pure.“ („purus“ = pure; + root of „facere“ = to make) It literally means „free from extraneous matter.“
It is extremely important to understand that everything in life happens for a reason and there are no accidents. Everything in God’s infinite universe is governed by laws. If something happens in life, be it positive or negative as you interpret it, it has happened to teach a Spiritual lesson.
The conscious mind is the reasoning mind, whereas the subconscious mind is the non-reasoning mind. The superconscious mind is the all-knowing mind. Another metaphor is that the conscious mind is the captain of the ship, computer programmer, decision-maker, gardener. If the conscious mind is the captain, then the subconscious mind is the shipmate below
The purpose of life is evolution. To evolve, by definition, means to become less matter and more Spirit. On a practical level, we become less matter and more Spirit by being committed to daily improvements. The easiest and quickest way you can improve yourself is to watch yourself very closely each day.
Everyone has dharma in life as they say in Eastern tradition. Your dharma is your Spiritual path. The problem or the lesson is that life is filled with temptations and life is filled with false gods, idol worship, alternative lovers, and life is filled with detours that take you off your path. In the twinkling of an eye, this can happen.
