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!
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.
My Beloved Readers, this is a most interesting lesson. The first question that comes up in people’s minds upon reading the title of this lesson is, how is this possible for there are people in my life who are definitely not supportive of me. They are attacking, angry, judgmental, divisive, they hold grudges, they are into their negative egos, they are victims, run by their emotional body, disturbed, they even have betrayed my trust.
Every time we think of ourselves as being weak, we literally make ourselves weak. Why? Because we cannot think a thought without setting up an analogous vibration in our bodies. Whenever I, the Soul inhabiting my bodies – physical, emotional, mental – think a thought, have an emotion, say a word, I set up a vibration in my bodies that emanates from the very center of my Soul outwards via the medium of my bodies. Remember, matter is the vehicle of the manifestation of the Soul.
Each of us is 100% responsible for our subjective reality, i.e. our private mental and emotional space, our own universe. This includes our interpretations of events, based on our beliefs and memories, attachments and fears, and our corresponding emotional reactions. The corollary is that we are certainly not at all responsible for another person’s subjective reality, i.e. their thoughts and feelings.
We live in a world of energies and forces. One of the reasons why people are so tired and why they suffer burnouts is because we continually waste our forces. Uncontrolled thinking wastes our forces.
