Spirituality-The totality of Acceptance

Written by Mathew Naismith

If anyone is tired of reading about the true controlling factors of the ego or their own ego is telling them what else would I want to know about the ego don’t read on however if you fear not you just might get something out of this post even if you think you know it all already.

True spirituality is about the totality of acceptance of all without exception & yes this also includes anything to do with the ego. Becoming spiritually aware, especially in the west, we have the understanding to become truly spiritual we must rid ourselves of the ego & related judgement, we are told this quite often from the people we have put upon pedestals but what are we expressing when we put these people above all others? We are of course expressing the ego which we are fighting desperately to rid ourselves of.  This seems a funny way to rid ourselves of the ego, put someone up upon a pedestal above all else but isn’t this too being expressive of the ego? What would be the reaction from people who look upon connected people in this way if I said these people who say to rid yourself or even judge the ego wrong in anyway are not quite correct in their assumptions?  I think I just lost a few more readers but why? It all comes down to the controlling ego telling us someone like me is wrong.

I’m going to tell you here that spirituality isn’t about ridding ourselves of the ego at all because as soon as we become totally accepting of all the controlling factors of the ego automatically plays no further role without effort. This of course means being accepting & non-fearful of expressing the ego in anyway, I think I just lost a few more readers but you must ask yourself why!!  It’s funny, even when we think where not being controlled by the ego we are which I call the hidden ego.  This would seem completely ridiculous to those who have read from the ones we have put upon pedestals, how can you rid yourself of the ego if you accept expressing the ego? This seems at first like a paradox but it isn’t for the main reason what is telling you to judge the ego wrong in some way?  The ego of course because as soon as we judge something wrong we are in judgment. The trap is the ego wants you to judge it wrong & once it’s done this you are entrapped because you feel you have rid yourself of the ego when you haven’t, this is what I call the hidden ego.

Again this would seem quite unacceptable to anyone who has put another upon a pedestal who has told you something quite the opposite, you must again ask yourself why do I put one person above another when this is obviously expressing the ego when I do so but at the same time I’m supposed to be ridding myself of the ego?  I ask why can’t I or anyone else be more correct than the ones we have put upon these pedestals?  If they are expressing anything to be wrong in anyway why are we listening to them, why are you listening to people like me?  

Spirituality is all about acceptance & through this acceptance we will find no judgement & if we have no judgement we are not obviously being controlled by the ego because the ego is all about judgement.  When we look at people like myself we are in judgement & yes we do express the ego in various ways so therefore we are not truly spiritually minded.  This statement is absolutely correct however people like myself don’t judge the ego being wrong in anyway even when we express at times the ego being wrong. This sounds like double dutch/confusing, this is where awareness comes into play.

I’m aware of my judgement but many people who try to rid themselves of the ego aren’t which comes back to the hidden ego again.  I accept being in judgement even of judgement itself & of anything of the ego however I am aware I’m still in judgement unlike if I convinced myself I am no longer in judgement. This brings us back to spirituality being all about acceptance & through this acceptance we will find no judgement. The apparent paradox here is to accept judging being in judgment but also accept being non-accepting as well.  As soon as we see wrong in anything we are immediately in judgement. All we really need to do is be accepting & not be fearful of expressing the ego in anyway & at the same time be aware of the controlling ego judging itself & eventually we will find ourselves in utter bliss. Once we reach this stage we know we have expressed & accepted all of what is.  

Spirituality & Non-Inquisitiveness

Written by Mathew Naismith

For a human being or any being brought up to believe one can’t know unless one inquires seems like  one can only know through inquiry which for beings brought up to believe this seems to be the truth of the matter full stop however that’s not quite correct or the full story.

Collectively we are brought up in this way since the dawn of man, how could man possibly advance if it wasn’t through inquiry?  If we take a look at holly men/people, they first had to inquire especially to find enlightenment.  It would seem to them one can’t attain anything without inquiry first up however once you become enlightened you learn you had nothing to inquire about because it was always there & has always been there no matter what.  We must think here, why can’t we personally or collectively attain knowing & wisdom without inquiry? First of all we must ask, what human trait makes one inquire? We could say because we are inquisitive or we want to better ourselves in some way or in various ways however what actual trait is behind this inquisitiveness or need/desire?  A need or desire to know denotes egoist tendencies no matter how you look at this, so is this saying holly men/people desiring or even needing to become enlightened are expressing egoist tendencies?

It’s virtually impossible to avoid expressing the ego in some way for a being with taught perceptions that one must inquire to know or advance in some way, this answers the question to why we can’t personally or collectively attain knowing & wisdom without inquiry, it’s to do with taught beliefs going right back in human history which are controlled by the controlling ego.  If we didn’t have an ego we wouldn’t bother becoming enlightened or knowing or aware of anything so does this mean we wouldn’t have advanced?  At first glance it would seem so because we are looking at this with a perception controlled by the ego but what if you take away the influence of the controlling ego?  You would then perceive through a perception not controlled by the ego so your perception is going to be somewhat different than it was with a perception controlled by the ego wouldn’t it? Of course it would but this doesn’t seem to answer the question in how we would advance without inquiry?  

The only people who can answer this are people who are enlightened because as I said once you are truly enlightened you realise you didn’t really have to inquire to know or become enlightened. As soon as you truly stop the ego being in control you realise basically straight away that you needn’t have inquired about anything as it’s all there sitting right in front of you without you thinking/ inquiring period.  It’s the controlling ego telling us we must inquire because to inquire one must have a need or a desire to do so & both these traits denote ego tendencies.  

I met a particular person years ago that flawed me & in fact while approaching him I stopped & actually took a couple of steps back because of the vibrations I was getting from him, I realised straight off this was a being who had no controlling egoist tendencies however on the other hand he still expressed  human egoist trait. The difference between people like this & others is they as humans seemingly have control over the ego & use the ego to whatever way they want. It wasn’t the ego using him but him using the ego.  Once you come across people like this you know straight away that these people are special if you are aware enough, they put out a different vibration to the average person.  

So how can you express the ego & not be of the ego at the same time? Being of the ego is being controlled by the ego even when we egotistically don’t think we are however when you control the ego, so to speak, you allow the ego to function as it does normally only to fit in with the rest of humanity but you know you have full control.  I will explain why they use the ego to fit in. Like I said I spotted this bloke straight off but I know I haven’t of others I’ve come across, they just don’t want to be spotted so they use the ego instead of the ego using them. People used to the ego controlling them put out quite a different vibration to a person who controls the ego, a person in control of the ego will stick out in a world full of people controlled by the ego so they hide themselves by expressing the ego seemingly in the same manner as everybody else.   

Now let’s look at control, is it not being of the ego when controlling even of the ego?  I used the word control because that is what it seems like we are doing when we are in control of the ego but it’s not because there is no real control just an awareness that is beyond the understanding of people who are controlled by the ego.  Awareness alone gives us an understanding that the controlling ego is unable to penetrate to take control over us thus it looks like we are controlling the ego. I say controlling the ego because it’s easier for a person who is being controlled by the ego to understand this.  

Spiritual awareness is a very powerful tool to use if used & understood correctly because all what one has to do to make things happen is be aware enough to make any one thing happen, it is that simple however one must always be aware of our desires for they will allow the controlling ego to take control over us again sometimes without us knowing it.  This means be careful in using your newly found awareness in a desirable way for in this lies the controlling ego  which a lot of people throughout the ages have, unbeknownst to them, been tricked into expressing again.  

Spirituality-What’s What??

Written by Mathew Naismith

I should advise here that anyone who is knew to spiritual awareness shouldn’t read this post as it could confuse you even more which of course is not what I want to do here also anyone fixated on a set ideology might find the following quite annoying so I will leave it up to your own discretion/intuition to read on or not.

First of all I better clear up what I refer to as spiritual. At the human level it mostly for me refers to the inner self however at the soul level I go a little further & refer to spirituality as oneness itself in its totality which means spirituality is actually of everything we are & experience. I will use the human term of spirituality more as more people relate to this however at times I will refer to it within its totality (oneness).

What’s consciousness itself or universal consciousness? I believe we are all consciousness itself, nothing can possibly exist unless it was of this consciousness , this doesn’t just refer to everything physical but the totality of all which of course makes reference to oneness. Let’s take a look at this a little closer, nothing can exist without being of consciousness itself, this also includes everything we express & feel at the human level. Now consciousness is thought by most of us to be eternal for which I concur with so if consciousness is eternal it can’t be of time like we seem to be in. If it’s not of time everything we are expressing & experiencing has always existed remembering consciousness is eternal & not dictated to by time.  This of course means egotism, judgment, love, hate & so on & so on have also always existed as well within consciousness itself as pure consciousness, where else did it come from unless it was from consciousness itself remembering here that everything is as one so everything has had to come from the same source & has always existed.

Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying consciousness itself (God) is let’s say egotistical, consciousness, unlike us humans, isn’t dictated by egotism or any one set trait for the main reason consciousness itself doesn’t have the fixation we do as humans however in saying that it does through us by expressing smaller parts of this consciousness  which we are. Humans are smaller parts not separate parts of this consciousness acting out & expressing portions of consciousness (God), this is where the illusion is, thinking this is all we are.

 The reason I wrote this post up is recently I’ve been in certain states of consciousness that has allowed me to see the totality of all of what this reality is experiencing, no one  trait like the ego stood out, it’s as if all was one, no separation of supposed opposing traits where noticeable. I should express here that I’m only referring to this reality not consciousness as a whole here.   This is also of course going on from my last post titled A Faultless Reality.

An important question to ask her is, how am I experiencing such things?  Acceptance of all of what is & expressing very few attachments let’s say love over hate for example or ego over egoless.  Attachments believe it or not no matter what they are will give us judgement because we will see anything else opposing our attachment as a threat, so is this saying we shouldn’t focus on love for instance over hate?  No not at all because love is healing & we definitely need plenty of that at the moment to heal centuries of abuse & ignorance however what we need to do is be aware of our attachments to love in this case.  Look at what attachments to hate has given us, don’t think for one moment attachments to love couldn’t do the same to one degree or another. Having no set attachments to one or the other has given me insights to all of what is of this reality which indicates to me that all of what is is all of what consciousness is & has obviously always been because again it’s eternal & isn’t influenced/dictated to by time. This is saying nothing accept realities influenced by time has a starting or end pint of origin, it has always existed but not in physical form. Time gives us form however pure consciousness isn’t of time therefore form, everything has always existed in pure conscious form not in physical form.  This is saying that our form has always existed but only as pure consciousness, time gave parts of consciousness physical existence.

 In all, what I am saying here is nothing we do or think isn’t of consciousness itself, that’s an impossibility & because consciousness itself doesn’t have the problems with fixation like we do it’s not influenced by any one trait like the ego which of course includes love for instance however it does express these separate tendencies & traits through its smaller portions of itself which is what we are all about I believe. We are indeed all serving consciousness itself. So why do we separate & deny that these traits like hate & ego from let’s say love & egoless exist within consciousness itself?  The ego wants us to believe that consciousness itself (God) couldn’t possibly be a part of these unbecoming traits; it’s very human not truly spiritual to desire this. When we accept all of what is for what it is, portions of consciousness, influences from any one set trait vanishes as if it can never influence us but you know it will always exist within consciousness itself.   The only way these traits can influence us again is if we preferred to experience one of these traits in preference to another like hate over love for example & of course that is our free will to do at any time we want. Because it’s all a part of consciousness itself it’s always there for us to experience which is what can be achieved in realities like this one at any given time, that’s pretty special.  

A Faultless Reality

Written by Mathew Naismith

Fault Finding: First we should ask, what would a faultless reality be like? This of course depends on one’s own perspective; to a spiritually aware person it would have to be a reality full of unconditional love, understanding, contentment & acceptance however to a materialist for example what we have right now is perfect as it has all the right ingredients to manifest materialism for our desires.  Materialism isn’t of unconditional love, understanding, contentment & acceptance, it’s more self-serving & needs none of these attributes that spiritually aware people try to obtain so is a materialistic reality faulty to a spiritually aware person?

The answer of course is a big fat yes however if we asked, let’s say, a spiritualists as opposed to a spiritually aware person from India, what would their answer be if asked,” is this reality faulty’?  You most probably won’t get a direct answer but an answer like this, “If you perceive it to be faulty then it’s faulty”, so what is this answer actually portraying? By the act of seeing a fault in the first place we are inadvertently manifesting the said fault into existence & by persisting with this fault finding we are enhancing such manifestations most of the times unbeknownst to us.  Spirituality isn’t the only form of existence that does this, materialism works in the same way.  

Materialism is all about fault finding, how else can we improve on materialistic objects & the way we sell these materialistic objects to people if it wasn’t for fault finding but what does fault finding portray?  Pure & simple judgment however if materialism is all about judgement what is spirituality portraying when it finds faults like with this reality for example? Judgment of course even after we have convinced ourselves we are no longer in judgement. To improve on anything judgement is first needed so if spiritually aware people like myself see that we can improve on this reality what are we doing? Judging of course, we just don’t seem to be able to get away from judgment but that’s not quite true.  An actual spiritualist doesn’t first of all see a fault with this reality so therefore no judgement has been made so what do they see? First of all true spirituality is about acceptance, it’s pointless becoming spiritually aware without being accepting straight up otherwise you will most probably be chasing your tail around for some time.  To a true spiritualist there can be only a difference at most because a true spiritualist is foremost accepting of any circumstance they find themselves in & this is why acceptance is so important straight up.

Need & Desire: So does this all mean we just sit back & let it all happen & do nothing? No, this is why we have human form to make changes & be non-accepting therefore judgmental & fault finding on the things we need, not desire, to change.  The big difference between a materialist & a spiritually aware person should be one is of desire the other of need & it’s the difference between these two that makes the difference here in regard to judgement & fault finding.  A true spiritually aware person will have a need to amend our ways however spiritually aware people must be aware of the difference between need & desire here as to desire to amend our ways can be far more destructive & disruptive & more about  being judgemental  instead of just being in judgment.

Let’s go back to a spiritually aware person being non-accepting so they may help amend our ways, does a true spiritualist look down at this kind of behaviour?  To a true spiritualist it is also accepted to be non-accepting even of themselves at times displaying non-acceptance, they accept that this non-acceptance is human & we are human so of course we will all portray such human tendencies as being non-accepting however once again it is wiser & more spiritual to be accepting than to judge.  This brings us back to the dilemma, to do anything one must be in judgement to act however this also comes back to making judgement on a need compared to a desire.  It is far more desirable for a spiritually aware person to make judgement on a need & the need in this case for a spiritually aware person is to amend our ways & allow the Earth & ourselves collectively as a species to heal however we must realise we are still in judgement otherwise we wouldn’t lift a finger without judgement but judgement for our need not desire.

Faultless Reality:  To me there are no faultless realities because there are no realities with faults to start with. An average spiritually aware person will see faults like with the ego for example or the chaos & mayhem that is going on in the world because to a spiritually aware person this is disruptive to their newly found feelings of oneness, enlightenment, unconditional love, acceptance & the big one, contentment for without contentment you really can’t truly attain any of the other experiences mentioned here.   If we are not content we can’t obtain these attributes mentioned so spiritually aware people find themselves in a materialistic reality that is quite disruptive to them so they judge this reality as being faulty in some way but what are we really doing here, is this of a need or is it of desire?  

It would seem like a need but before I answer this question we should ask here, why do we feel discontent when becoming spiritually aware? It’s mainly because of the disruptions to our spiritual lives but it goes much deeper than that.  What we do is compare this reality to our newly found realties because we do, while becoming aware, find ourselves experiencing different realities & some of them are far less chaotic than ours. Now we can see desire come into the picture here. We desire to keep feeling good & positive as opposed to what this reality is mainly because we have found faults in it in comparison to our newly found realities.  This isn’t a need but a desire, if we are at all discontent it is of desire but if we are content it’s of a need obviously.

Using myself as an example; I have had a chronic disability since I was six years old, I am now fifty years old & with this chronic injury comes never ending chronic pain. I do to this day I can’t see any faults within this reality at the spiritual level & my disability is only the tip of the iceberg in what I have experienced throughout my life. I should also mention here I don’t take pain killers of any kind so how do I cope so well? I just don’t see a fault just an experience that is different to most people. I did mention I don’t see faults at the spiritual level so does this mean I see faults at the human level? Most definitely however it’s more about fault finding as a need than a desire most of the times however  I love expressing my human self so yes I do at times judge through my desires but I do notice the discord in this as opposed to my judging through a need these days.

This reality is one big WOW for me, I wish I could do this feeling justice & explain it better but WOW will have to do. How could I feel this about such a disruptive & destructive reality?  We spiritually aware people keep focusing on the disruptive & destructive parts of this reality but it’s much much more than that. Every conceivable emotion & experience can be encountered here; this is not a common thing in realities. I don’t just feel disruptiveness & destructiveness but all of what we are able to experience in this reality when I get the big WOW feeling all at the same time; it’s a very special reality believe it or not.   So should we all be this content with this reality the way it is? Not on your nelly (life) because that is what makes this reality such a big WOW, we see a fault & then we see a need as opposed to a desire to change it however non-spiritually aware people will display more of a desire than a need which adds to the flow of things within this reality. Trust me this is a very special reality indeed so in all to me it’s a faultless reality. 

Logic's v Spirituality

Written by Mathew Naismith

Sorry for this being a lengthy post but I thought I would share where the discussion on a Noetic site is going between me & a logically minded person, we all have our own concepts of understanding. The following discussion was brought about by one of my recent posts titled The Psychological Benefits of Spirituality. The following shows only the recent discussion between me & this other bloke so I’ve inserted the relevant link below for further reading if you are interested.

http://noetic.org/discussions/open/466/?c=8753#comments_form 

@ Matthew,

Again, I am pleased to see that you are willing to engage in a discussion in an investigative manner. This will moves us away from a debate of abstract terminology and allows us to construct a model shaped by mutual understanding.

You seem to be on the right track in your descriptions of spirit as it applies to the two examples. Spirit, as it applies to the concept of a team spirit or school spirit is a sense within an individual. There might be a collective synergetic energy that is created within the dynamic of the networked group, but the motivative for this is generated by the individual's mental perception of what it is they imagine they are participating in.

If we were to analyze the individual members of a sports team, and measure the total of their individual abilities, the sum of their collective abilities could be more than the sum of their individual abilities. A team's ability to generate this added accomplishment is sometimes referred to as "chemistry" being the individuals. This is what we might say is the spirit of the team, but as we can see it has a material explanation.

Might this be the case of what is referred to as a spirit with in the individual?

I can suggest that from a historical perceptive, spirit was a concept invented to define what was unexplainable to humans at the time. "Spirits" were assigned human like qualities and were assign to the unexplained to such as forces of nature forces, animal behaviors, and other things which we now have a material explanation. This same invention of spirit was also applied to ourselves. The essence of a person , both their subjective senses and their objective being was embodied in a spirit or soul. These essences of ours were thought to exits in a place where others that created the forces of life on earth dwelled once we cease to be alive, since they were not visible to us.

The term consciousness and psyche are similar terms. If we look at the term "eudaimonia" it too has a similar aspect to it that can serve to illustrate my point. While we may think the word means or refers to a persons happiness, it does so from an objective sense; others observe whether or not a person had had a happy life.

When we are afforded this historical perceptive for our understanding of our spirit, and can see that the concept was a human invention, shaped into its present understanding through many factors, mostly religion.

If we now turn our attention to how it is that we have come to develop our own personal understandings of spirit, we will find that it was acquired in much the same way that we acquired a language; spirit was spoken about, in particular ways, in the environment in which we were raised. This might be personal in that it was an aspect of our family and, or, in a more general sense in cultural ways.

Either way, our own understanding is not our invention, it is instead something that was shaped out of the elements that we find. Since there is not evidence of an actual soul or spirit, we can only speak of it in terms of an unsupported belief. One that might be explainable in a material sense, given our propensity to assign agency to the unexplainable.

G'day dustproduction

All our perceptions came from learned behaviour even if we don't realise it so to a scientist their perception is going to be logically based because this is the behaviour that is expected of them but a religious person perception is based on faith. Each other’s perception is obviously going to be wrong to the other even though both have their basis of existence. Neither one is wrong or right over the other in my opinion because they both have their basis for existing however on occasions when they are joined by a person who is both a spiritual & science minded we get a different perception again.

Which perception is wrong? We have to choose for ourselves either as individuals or as a collective. At times certain perceptions are forced upon us in certain cultures which brings us back to learned behaviour which doesn’t make one right or wrong over all else just different.

Both science & spirituality were formed by other factors of perception, what will the perception of science & spirituality together give us? Just a different perception which will be neither wrong nor right but to a person with a different perception this of course will be wrong, human nature!!

There are scientific finding of sorts that hint on ourselves having a soul like measuring the body soon after death for example which isn’t sound proof but a theory but what hasn’t started out as a theory & been proven to be fact further on down the track when we latter on could measure such things scientifically? We have only scratched the surface to our own self-discovery as science keeps finding out as it evolves.

Mathew

Re: Both science & spirituality were formed by other factors of perception,

But science limits it's investigation to understanding what is material. It has a framework that allows for self correction.

 There are a myriad of spiritual models, each based on rather antiquated concepts, thousands of years old. These models require blind faith and speculate endlessly about an alternative intended to distract us from our current subjective existence.

G'day dustproduction

Yes, science is limited to certain abstracts of life where’s spirituality isn’t as opposed to religion. The self-correction of spirituality is shown by its balanced approach to its environment & self, science doesn’t care what it destroys in there endeavours to reach a conclusion & of course it serves to feed the destructive consumerist materialistic form of life we have now as well.

Yes, science within its limited logics is self-corrective but only within its own deductive reasoning’s, it doesn’t correct itself when it devices destructive & harmful chemical products or weapons like we have seen lately for example.

The way most of us make babies is still the same from day dot but it doesn’t make it antiquated so why should the way we find a connection & peace within ourselves be any different. Science has proven to me that not all newly formed concepts are beneficial by far; chemical weaponry is a good example of this for starters.

You seem to be just into logics which can & does hinder one's objectiveness in what they see because it's limited, logics used on it's own is limiting just like spirituality on it's own is limiting. Modern day science derived from philosophy & mysticism, both philosophy & mysticism on their own are limiting but together they gave us science. Science on it's own like any deductive reasoning process is limited to it's basic concepts but joined together with another concept gives us yet another deductive reasoning process. We have always evolved through this process of different & sometimes opposite concepts coming together to form a totally different concept of understanding. Logics hopefully isn’t the be & end all otherwise we will stop evolving.

How do new science techniques come about? We now have quantum vacuum, physics & mechanics which are slightly different within their deductive reasoning’s & concepts especially from basic sciences, they evolved by taking on different deductive concepts of understanding. Not all of what quantum physics is about is of logics; there are some real strange theories bandied about.

The Psychological Benefits of Spirituality

Written by Mathew Naismith

In the following link there is some info on the positive attributes on being spiritually aware plus there are some interesting little quizzes & surveys to fill out. I only completed the first quiz scoring high on self-direction 5.8, universalism 5.2 & benevolence 5.2. My score in power was zilch.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cant-buy-happiness/201302/why-be-spiritual-five-benefits-spirituality

It matters not if we gain or enhance on our spiritual abilities because the psychological benefits alone are world changing on their own. If everyone or even if the majority took up some form of spirituality that wasn’t preferably dogmatic this world would obviously, just at the psychological level, be a lot better off. The link above & below tells us why scientifically. The link below, specifically, goes into the nitty gritty of why & how spirituality is so beneficial psychologically.   

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/treatmentswellbeing/spirituality.aspx

With the obvious psychological benefits of being spiritually aware & with our own ideological principles & practices one can’t help but not miss the mark in improving on our own lives & the lives of many around us.

The following link takes a different psychological look at how spiritually aware people can suffer more with mental health issues than religious or non-religious people. They of course can’t see why this would be but I’m going to make a stab at it.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201301/troubled-souls-spirituality-mental-health-hazard

Spiritually aware people, unlike religious people, delve into different aspects of spirituality to a greater degree than religious people because usually spiritually aware people have no boundaries or doctrinal inhibitions & because of this spiritually aware people can connect quite differently with the universal consciousness I believe, so what’s the problem with this? A lot of spiritually aware people already well connected realise how difficult it can be in becoming spiritually aware, it can bring out a lot of gremlins in the form of the ego for instance for which our brains have to  psychologically sort out usually without assistance unlike religious people. Reprogramming the brain to accept a lot of human faults as being a flaw is harrowing in any circumstance, we can at times expect too much from our human psyche. There is something in spiritually aware people forming groups to support each other psychologically.  

There is another reason why spiritually aware people can suffer with mental traumas, ESP is one. While becoming spiritually aware we don’t just have to deal with our own psyche but the psyche of others we can automatically pick up on through ESP for example. I could at one time pick up on what the victims & perpetrators of crime were going through physically & mentally & yes this did affect me mentally, I was quite emotionally ruffled/upset at times. But of course this isn’t all what a spiritually aware person has to go through mentally. Our experiences in what we pick up on vary greatly from person to person but of course the up side is, as we become more experienced the less traumatised emotionally we become. Like I said before, I think it’s important for us to think seriously in getting into groups of people with the same spiritual interests either on the net or one on one for our own psychological wellbeing.

I would also like to add here a little more about myself. I don’t have a problem in expressing my ego like becoming involved in verbal conflicts for instance; I accept this as being a part of me. I accept a lot of my human vices & attachments as this is a reflection of my life which wasn’t pretty at times. I just don’t, at the spiritual/soul level, have a problem with this & I do understand why a lot of other spiritually aware people do but we are not all the same nor are we meant to be in this human reality. We are supposed to learn from diversity as only through diversity can our souls learn more about our whole selves.  I would also like to say, please don’t be too hard on yourselves if you can’t or don’t want to stop being your human self, warts & all. 

Something to Be Aware Of Spiritually

Written by Mathew Naismith

The big question is, are we in fact improving & reflecting good will onto the world? As spiritually aware people yes most definitely, living & thinking positively would have to be helping because we feel better for it so it must be helping, this is called spiritual manifestation, the next big question is why is the world seemingly & noticeably getting worse? This is a complicated question to answer & I will do my best to answer this question as follow.

I thought I would insert part of a reply I sent to an atheist internet friend of mine  relating to illusions & delusions which believe it or not I believe has everything to do with what is going on in the world today.  The funny thing is this atheist is saying people who have faith are living in a delusional world but these same people who he is referring to also believe that this reality is an illusion!!!!

I will show you how different I think: The world despite all this good will & spiritual harmony is getting noticeably worse but it shouldn’t because we have all these spiritually aware people around who are trying to rid themselves of this horrid illusion/ego so it should be improving. There are no illusions or opposing realities to escape it just is & everything has always been, there are no illusions to escape or that we think we are entrapped in, the real illusion is thinking everything is an illusion in the first place & that we are entrapped & by thinking this we are actually helping to manifest what we have in the world today.   What’s happening with spiritually aware people is they are feeling better within themselves as individuals or in small groups but they are actually making things worse because we think we have something to run away from but we don’t, that is the illusion.  If we think it’s bad like the ego for instance it will be bad & this imagining reflects on the rest of the world even if we ourselves are feeling better, self-serving has never been good for the common good of all man!!!

The following is an interesting link but not for you Paul as it’s all delusional of course, this has a familiar ring to what spiritually aware people think of this reality doesn’t it Paul, you accuse others of being delusional & living in a delusional world & certain spiritually aware think that everything is an illusion, the similarities are amusing. The pot calling the kettle black again of course!!!  

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=your-thoughts-can-release-abilities-beyond-normal-limits

Love you Paul as I love myself at any given time!!

Best wishes

Mathew  

We are inadvertently manifesting what we are trying to rid ourselves of like the ego for instance, we ourselves as individual spiritually aware people might have rid ourselves of the ego but it’s obvious it hasn’t helped the rest of humanity, we should have by now seen some sort of improvement but we are seeing quite the opposite. Seeing the ego & this reality for starters as being the enemy has inadvertently added to this because any disdain adds to the negatives of this reality, it’s like we are thinking more positively but where not really. You could call this the real illusion; this brings up the question of illusions.

Why are we calling this reality an illusion? This comes from the creative consciousness’s or our inner self’s imagination so it has to be an illusion that we are entrapped in & need to obviously escape from, this is 3^rd dimensional thinking which we need to grow out of, it’s this 3^rd dimensional thinking we need to rid ourselves of not a supposed reality of illusions. So why don’t I think this reality is an illusion? Simple, anything of consciousness which everything is of is real in one way or another, it’s still a part of consciousness plus there is no start or finish because again this is 3^rd dimensional thinking. If we think there is an illusion there must also be a reality like there is a wrong or right which of course we really know there isn’t accept in certain dimensions like this one. I believe everything didn’t come from something it already was & has always been which means there was no starting point & that everything that we could imagine ourselves has always been. This of course means nothing was actually created from a creator however, this is the paradox, it was. The consciousness’s knowing has always been there however the experiences of such knowing haven’t & this is where we are being confused in my mind.

The consciousness’s knowing or awareness has always been there which we are calling reality, our true selves however the experiences that we are experiencing from this awareness we are calling an illusion that we presume we are trapped in. There is absolutely no entrapment or illusions in reference to this reality, all we are doing is experiencing this awareness first hand which we as a collective species dictate to how it is going to go.  For starters, how about using the ego more positively instead of negatively, this would on its’ own change the world quite dramatically without showing distain which of course inadvertently manifests a more negative reality. We are indeed our own destiny in more ways than one!!