Spiritual Enlightenment

by Lynn Claridge -

The first step to attain higher levels of spirituality is through Spiritual Enlightenment, a process of absorbing knowledge and wisdom without Judgment.

Are you able to tell me what enlightenment means? If not let me explain. 

When I put this question to my clients, they give me a list of things, not just material items but many other things that include love, family and peace. In all the cases, there is something to attain. 

Let me tell you that there is nothing to attain because you already have it, however, there is stuff to discard. 

Once you do this, it leaves you in an enlightened state and it is in this state that you will find happiness.

There are many reasons to seek enlightenment. 

Enlightenment is an ideal state of being, that you achieve via an ongoing process. It is a process of allowing the right amount of consciousness to shine through your physical being. 

Let me explain it another way. When you are enlightened, you liberate yourself from the physical world. This means you have the ability to witness your thought process.

Your thoughts create your future and physical reality. 

You currently identify with your thoughts, you live your life inside your thought process, and you should realize your thoughts are separate from you. 

The vast major of your thinking is done without you being aware of it. When you are enlightened, you free yourself from being swept up in your thinking process, therefore, you liberate yourself from any thought that is not your choice.

Did you know you currently suffer every time you wrestle with your emotions, argue about something or agonize over a decision? Sometimes this can be short lived and mild, however, at other times, it is extremely painful and remains with you for a long time. 

When you are free from suffering, you are free and have more choices.

Desire means you are unsatisfied and in this state, your wants are driven by your emotions. 

Without desire you can still have, however, your wants are closer to preference. When you experience this, you will understand freedom from the material world. This does not mean you cannot have something you want; it just means you are unaffected if you do not get it.

The “truth” is the way that the world really is. 

Being able to see the “truth” means you see beyond the physical side of others. You see who you really are. It means you can read between the lines and you hear what others are saying.

Some people know the process of looking for spiritual enlightenment as “the search for the holy grail” however, this is not so, it is achieved by removing the obstacles. These obstacles are inside you, they are created by your mind.

Have you noticed how I have said nothing about religion, have you also noticed how I have not mentioned morals and have you noticed how I have not told you what you can or cannot do. Good. 

Now I will tell you how enlightenment really helps in everyday life.

To get into this state means you can transmit energy in the form of ideas and words.

What does it mean to experience Spiritual Enlightenment?

• Enlightenment is a continuous realization that you are an eternal being. 

• It comes from a deeper knowing that you are beyond body and behind the mind. 

• It is celebrating every moment of the day, with the feeling of being connected to the universe, as if it is a living, breathing conscious, which loves you unconditionally. 

• It is surrendering to the truth everywhere you are.

Experience Your True Self

So here is, you answer, spiritual enlightenment is a process of peeling back the many layers of your ego to experience your true self. 

It is a process of opening up to your inner most being. Reaching towards the center of you, true enlightenment is the very essence of your being it is where your true spiritual knowledge resides.

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Understanding Enlightenment

by Lynn Claridge -

The following will take you closer to an experience of spiritual enlightenment. Read on to understand more about bringing Inner awareness into your life.

Free yourself from the illusion that you are separate.

Feeling separate and discounted is how you create failure after failure in life. Once you untangle yourself from this belief, you can move on.

All experiences of suffering are created by your minds lack of awareness in seeing who you really are.

Quieting the incessant chattering in your mind.

Your ego is a thought program, like a computer. It just spits out information and computes ideas that are about the past and future. 

The mind/ego is a limited construction of ideas and beliefs about who you are. 

The more you can silence the chattering mind, the less likely you are to become trapped in your ego. 

Only through the constant release of the ego can you live in true spiritual enlightenment. You become aligned with the truth and you infinite spiritual being.

Embrace and release all you fears.

As you may have heard, fear really stands for false evidence appearing real. To find what you are afraid of, open yourself up to intimate conversation. Eventually you will be able to see into yourself again and understand truly what you are running from. 

Once you know what you are running away from, run towards it, and embrace it. It will dissolve the fear from your life allowing you to move forward.

Embrace and release all mental, emotional and physical attachment or aversions to everyone and everything in your life.

As a human being you will become attached to people, you will care about what they say, do or think about you. 

This happens because you have an automatic habit of trying to avoid what is painful and stay with what is pleasurable. 

The problem arises when you become too attached to having what is pleasurable all the time. Pain and suffering is the universe telling you to let go! The purpose of pain is not about creating more suffering, it is about creating change, this change is necessary for you to drop your ego-trip and return to your spiritual source again. 

This allows you to start enjoying your life. You experience pain because of one thing, ignorance. Think of the word ignore add a little dance to it and you get ignorance. When you ignore the truth of your being, your ignorance transmits into suffering. 

To transcend this ignorance and find spiritual enlightenment again, you need to find a deep awareness. With this profound state of consciousness, you can let go. The truth is, all you need to do is to re-discover the truth of who you are.

Freedom from unconscious myths and everyday stories of separation.

What was your story of failure or separation? Usually when you hear your parents and siblings having problems, you attach yourself to it, this is where the separation beings.

Your parents would have sent you off to an education system (which by the way only works 15% of your brains potentiality and capacity), this system is to support and help you learn about life. 

What society never taught you was how to be still inside, quieten your mind and emotions, meditate; focus on who you are or how to achieve inner bliss.

Society leads you to believe that success and truth is all about status, money and career. While these are important, the reality is, success is defined by how fulfilled you are as a human being.

You need to stop thinking that thinking is a way of getting what you want.

Thinking has become the norm. It has become abnormal in society to sit and be silent. 

You might find you run away from meditation because you cannot quieten your mind and you feel you are losing control of it. 

The ironic thing is, that all of the suffering, chaos and illness in life are cause be a lack of control and awareness of the mind. 

Instead of tuning to silence to find the answers, you’re taught to think more and know more, so you can achieve what you want. You are not taught to discover about being in the here and now.

Do not hide from your true power in a safe little fishbowl.

Thoughts are safe, while experiences are real and unsafe. You will find it easier not to take the risk of getting hurt by diving into the ocean of experience in life.

Not only you but also everyone stays comfortable in a fishbowl because it gives you and them a sense of confidence and security. 

Life is like an uncontrollable roller coaster ride because you do not know the future. In other words, you do not know how to respond to experiences that occur outside your fishbowl. Instead, you think about an experience without having one.

Through television, films and books you hide from your powerful spirit and pretend to be complete.

Let go of the need to be right all the time.

Being right can be the hardest ego trip to get off. To get off, means that you need to be wrong sometimes.

If everyone tells you from birth to death that life is a struggle and that it is hard, painful and unfair, you will believe them. 

So how can you relax and let go and trust yourself?

You think you must fight to get what you want. If life is serious, you are probably going to gain love, success and freedom by stepping on or over others. 

The world is a community of beings, it is a playground, a play and a stage where you can choose any role you desire.

Replace with positive.

Lack of awareness (ignorance) of your ever-present connection, stems from a lack of inner peace, power and playfulness, which can create low energy, this means you stay asleep.

When you do not respond with awareness, you just react unconsciously from past habits of being a victim and you create more experiences of being a victim. 

The truth is, you are really a human program. You have the same thoughts day after day. This creates a seriously deep rut in your life and the only way out is through being responsible for your thoughts and by choosing more empowering thoughts to help you move forward.

Choosing to suffer and stay unconscious.

Your society loves people who step out of line. The people around you often criticize you the moment you try to break out of the societal of unconscious living. The unconscious way is acceptable, it’s advertised on the television, films, news, media, radio and newspapers. 

However, we can all agree on one thing, and that is society teaches that everything you need to end your suffering is outside of you, not inside of you!

You may be caught up in the rat race to reach a certain status and to give you the luxury you want, this you believe will rid you of suffering. This never works. 

The cheese you are after just gets bigger. I am sure you are aware by now that suffering comes from constant desire. When you desire less, you remember again how connected you are to your spiritual self.

To have spiritual enlightenment, means waking up from the rat race. It takes a lot of effort to go against what you believe to be true. The great part however is that the universe will not let you down.

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The Freedom of Consciousness

by John Gregor -

“When the path of truth is clear of all obstacles then the seeing of truth, the hearing of truth and the feeling of truth becomes clear. Purification leads the way to experiencing freedom of consciousness. 

The objective of purification is to clear the way for the experience of Enlightenment. So what is Enlightenment? Enlightenment is the true essence of all sentient beings. It is what is left when all illusion has been stripped away.” --Hieu Doan

This is how Hieu Doan explained it to me when I first began to ask these questions. My main concern at the time was that I needed to take on the external and internal appearance of a spiritual man, to say the right things and to think the right things and so on. 

I slowly started to ‘click’ that it was impossible to find my true self if I kept hiding from the doors that led me to it. 

These doors so to speak had been popping up my entire life but because I was so attached to them showing up in a certain way I had rejected them for what they actually were.

It was the same with Enlightenment. 

I had heard so many stories about it that I was bent on making myself into a carbon copy of all these teachers and gurus at the expense of who I actually was. 

I lived in a monastery for over a decade, meditating and believing that this was what I needed to be and what I needed to do in order to achieve Enlightenment and awakening.

So why had it never come?

In all those years I felt no closer to Enlightenment than the day I asked the question. All I had was more questions. 

When I first talked to Hieu I can honestly say I wanted to hit him when he said that I was rejecting the very answers I sought as quickly as I could ask the questions! 

I was angry because I knew that this was the truth and he seemed to see right through me. That night I cried in meditation for the first time in years – because I’d come back to that initial truth. 

All these years I’d rejected my self in search of a “higher” truth and in doing so I’d rejected that very truth that I’d been seeking from the start. 

I’d fooled myself into thinking that I’d somehow surpassed the need to heal those fears and hurts at the core of my being.

Over the next few days I practiced in a new and humble way. 

My whole body would shake at times as deep emotions were released and often I would cry for hours on end as deep pain and sorrow would arise from what seemed to be my very soul. Then on about the 3rd day I entered a deep stillness. I felt my entire body resonate with this stillness down to the smallest cell. 

Something shattered then and I felt the entire world around me shift into this stillness that I was enveloped in. I opened my eyes and it seemed like time had stopped. I saw a leaf hovering in mid fall as it was caught in this stillness.

A pinpoint of light appeared directly in front of my eyes and began to open up into a larger vortex which eventually encompassed me. This spread into a deeper stillness and with it the most profound peace and I could say happiness that I’ve ever had the pleasure to feel. 

It was then that I realized that I’d experienced this state because my consciousness had become free. In time I was to know that this was only the beginning of understanding the true state of Enlightenment.

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3 Simple Things to 'Enlightenment'

by Ray Kamille -

Keeping it simple…

“It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” --Albert Einstein

The 3 simple things to observe that lead to ‘enlightenment’.

Observing these three simple things, time has no meaning, money is irrelevant and the concept of selfish… evaporates like the morning dew.

1. Every creature, every person, every thing, every where, makes the very ‘best’ action, makes the very best choice… considering all the information they perceive.

2. Every creature, every person, every thing, every where is intimately connected to one another, as if it is one grand organism.

3. The very ‘best’ action, the very ‘best’ choice is the one that considers every creature, every person, every thing, every where to the benefit of one another, as if it is in fact one grand organism.

In truth, we are all one. 

We are all apart of each other. The observance and awareness of that connection between each other is what is known as Enlightenment. 

The practicing of seeing that connection and acting upon it with virtue and honor strengthens bonds and builds powerful relationships with ourselves, each other and the higher connections that are far beyond our knowing in these physical vessels. 

We are One.

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The Heart of the New Paradigm

by David Karchere - 

In the developed countries of the world, we live in a world paradigm that is so clearly unsustainable. I am not trying to persuade you of this. So if you believe that the current world paradigm is functional, please don’t take this as an attempt to persuade you otherwise. 

I am writing simply to consciously acknowledge what great numbers of people already know—that the current world paradigm is fatally flawed. This doesn’t mean that there is no hope for humanity; only that our future lies beyond the current paradigm.

I don’t want to dwell on the evidence but I think it helps to become conscious of it. And I don’t want the facts that I am addressing to be a mystery. 

They include the following:

• In the United States, where I live, according to the Gallup Poll, 82% of Americans disapprove of the Congress. Many have come to believe that large financial interests, which are largely out of touch with the interests of the populace, control the United States government.

• 44% of Americans report that they are struggling in their life and 4% percent report that they are suffering.

• Global warming is changing weather around the world, and scientists are now more than 90% certain that it is caused by humanly created greenhouse gases. It is becoming clear that we are past the point of no return relative to severe impacts, such as the rise in the level of the oceans.

• We are so dependent on fossil fuel that we are taking extreme measures, like fracking, to extract petroleum products from the earth, endangering the ecosystem.

• In the United States, and elsewhere, we continue to create money and incur debt that is out of proportion with our real wealth, creating global financial instability.

• Worldwide, the richest 85 people hold more wealth than the poorest 50% of the global population.

How would you describe what is at the root of the world paradigm that is creating these results? It seems to me that it is important to see the issue clearly, both as it relates to the world at large and as it relates to our own life. 

Here is what I understand it to be. 

The current paradigm in the developed countries of the world, which increasingly dominates the whole world, is a mechanical model of existence. It is a worldview that diminishes and disregards the sentient Being within both people and Nature. 

Because the world is seen as stuff and not as a living Being, the goal becomes to manipulate that stuff to be most pleasing to the manipulator, without seeing that the Beingness of all people, all of Nature and the planet as a whole, is seeking to thrive all together.

It is a worldview that sees Creation as a big machine with a vacuous center—no soul.

The current mechanical paradigm has the individual distrusting themselves; distrusting their own thinking, their own heart, and their own soul.

It is a soul-numbing model in which the individual is highly subject to the manipulation of others.

There are many factors that have contributed over millennia to the current paradigm. Human history is complex, and it can be difficult to see the larger pattern that has defined the current human reality.

What I see is that human institutions have convinced people to lose faith in the truth that lies within their own soul. 

Religion has given the message that we are sinners, we are unenlightened, unevolved and unworthy. And the majority of people are all too ready to be convinced.

Logic tells me that spiritually empowered people who think for themselves are not subject to devious political, religious and financial leaders the way the mass of humanity is.

There are so many positive things happening around the world with visionary people who have a new vision of humanity, of technology and of our place in the universe. 

At the core of that new paradigm is the awakened soul; the soul that has recovered from the numbness that is present in the current paradigm because it is warmed by the reality of Universal Love. 

In the new paradigm, the awakened soul is honored for its place in this world and for its place in humanity, and not shunned as being sinful and shameful.

It’s the soul redeemed, not by religion or any religious figure, but redeemed by the very reality of Love that’s present in the soul, connecting the soul to all of Being.

I am not talking just about some isolated soul, separate and alone. I’m talking about the soul that’s connected with all souls and with all of Being. 

That connection brings the redemption that allows us to live powerfully and meaningfully and truthfully as human beings.

Are you ready to see the gravity of the problem that humanity finds itself in? 

It’s hard to look at and yet unavoidable. At the same time, there is the magnitude of the solution that is available. That solution is available to us if we seek it. If we truly seek it we find it and make it available to the world in which we live.

My own soul is committed to the solution to these things. My life is committed to never giving in to the old paradigm—in myself or in the world around me. We all walk through the paradigm as it is. Let’s admit that it’s impossible not to. We live in the world as it is. 

Virtually all people in the developed world use electricity that comes from the humanly created grid. We use fossil fuel for our transportation and heating. We swim in the ocean of human consciousness as it is. 

As William Stafford says in his poem, “It is important that awake people be awake,” because we are swimming in an old paradigm. And yet, in swimming in that paradigm, you and I have the opportunity not to give in to it. 

We can understand that the human manufactured world is created out of a natural reality that transcends it. After all, that is where all fossil fuel and all chemicals come from. Our own Being is sourced from a reality that transcends the humanly created world. 

In never giving in to the old paradigm, we can give ourselves to the new paradigm that acknowledges the underlying reality of our Being. 

At the heart of that new paradigm is the connection of our own soul to all of Being.

To fully enter the new paradigm, a person has to seek it. The kind of seeking I am talking about is primarily of the heart. 

The heart has a natural attunement with the new paradigm. So if we set it free to pursue its natural connection with Being, then our soul follows. 

Our thinking reflects our seeking, and we begin to find that for which we are looking. When we do, it is up to us to do something about it. We have to reciprocate when we find the reality of what we are seeking.

I want to speak personally about this, because these things get personal for you and for me. In the middle of my own seeking, I found people who knew the new paradigm. What they shared with me was meat for my hungry soul. By now, I have come to know what they taught me for myself. But that came later. Initially, the new paradigm was introduced to me by another person who was having that experience.

The people I met were having a real experience of God. 

How they named that experience wasn’t important.

In fact, I don’t really remember much of what they said. The answer they provided for my hungry heart was credible to me because the God that was being presented to me was not the God of religion. It wasn’t God the Impossible, the God of sinners. 

It was God the Possible, the God of the Universe, the God of Gods, and therefore the one God for all people. 

The reality of Being was presented to me in a credible way. I found that, as I embraced the reality that they had introduced to me, I was not following a God that enslaved or put down or shamed or limited. I was following the God that held all potential for my life and for life on this planet.

Having touched the reality that I sought with all my heart, I could not help but follow it. I could not help but reciprocate. And the ultimate reciprocation is to pay it forward. As the great Master Teacher said, Do thou likewise. 

This is the creative action that is at the heart of the new paradigm. 

There are teachings that come out of that new paradigm; there is technology and the basis for new social and political systems.

The new paradigm sets our genius free.

Without people who let their hearts lead them to a discovery of the reality of their own Being, it has no soul. And if it has no soul it has no life and no hope and no answer for this world that so desperately needs one.

So in my life I’ve done my best to reciprocate. It’s quite a path to be on. It’s a path of learning and transformation and change. It’s a path of becoming. To reciprocate is to become. 

If, seeing the numbness of your own soul, you also touch the beauty and the warmth of the reality of Being, does not every ounce of your integrity call you to change? 

To become that reality that you’ve touched in your life, so that you can credibly bring that reality into the world and make it stick? 

Certainly there have been people down through the ages who have promised all kinds of wonderful spiritual things.

I believe what’s left to do is simply to be a person, and then a constellation of people around the world who so reciprocate with that reality, who so respond, that they become that reality in their living, they bring it credibly into their world, and they make it stick without shadow of turning.

I have the privilege of passing on the same opportunity that came to me. I do so without thinking that the opportunity is all about those who introduced it to me, or all about me sharing it with you. 

The opportunity to let your soul be warmed from its numbness by Universal Love and lit up by the truth of Being is about simply that—the opportunity itself. 

And now, what will you do…? If you are embracing this opportunity with me and many others, I say, this world needs us.

I understand that, according to the old paradigm, what I am speaking of means almost nothing.

According to that paradigm, what happens in the human heart and soul is, at best, simply a measure of our ability to endure that paradigm. I say that it is the cornerstone of a new world.

The world we are here to create—and the worlds we destroy—rely on that cornerstone, and they suffer from the lack of it. 

Let’s create a new world.

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Having Patience for Others

by Rev. Michelle Coutant -

The light continues to increase upon the planet. There is much discomfort for those who are slow to embrace the light. Be patient with your brothers and sisters at this time. You must focus on your own well being, your own en-lighten-ment at this time.

Each of your brothers and sisters are on their own path, their own sacred journey. There are many of you who are of the belief that you can shift these Blessed beings into the light by pressing your beliefs upon them. This is not so.

 Each Sacred being must find their own way, their own path into the light. It is for you to gently hold the light, to fill yourselves with the light of truth and radiate it out to Mother Earth and all life that dwell upon her.

In this way, you are truly helping those who are searching to find their own way. They are drawn into the light, as more and more radiate this light. In this way, a shift will soon occur for many. You cannot press this shift upon them and you will only find that you have lowered your own vibrations through these actions.

Love, understanding, non-judgment and forgiveness, will carry you through your contact with those that are slow to make the change. 

Allow them to see how you live, to be in your presence and feel the radiation of your love for them. This is how you will change your world, one Blessed being at a time.

Patience is a virtue that you may practice at this time. 

It is a lesson many of you came in to learn and now is a most wondrous time to learn this lesson. Live, and be the shining example, in patience and in love, a beacon of light for all those around you.

You are the example; you are the Love of the Creator. Your shining Essence will draw many to you, who desire to know what this Essence is that you are radiating so brightly.

They will desire to know how they can make changes in their lives to begin to experience, the love, the joy, the peace, the abundance that you are living and radiating to the world.

 This is how you may change your world. This is how you may bring your brothers and sisters with you into the new Golden Age. Trust that this is so and let go of your attachment to all those around you who do not see the miracles happening in your world. They will see in their own time, in their own way.

Set your intention each day to live the highest version of your Self that you are capable of with ease and grace. 

 Fill yourselves with the God Light and the violet flame, and radiate this love and the violet flame to all around you. At this time, the light must be filtered through you.

The vibrations on the planet have increased to such a high level that the light must be radiated through you to the masses. The masses may no longer access this light on a daily basis, if they are still living in the darkness.

However, this Light of God is accessible instantly, to any who choose to set their intention to access this light, to begin to lift themselves up, to begin their journey of ascension back into the God light. At any time, a being may step onto the path of light.

Through your intentions to clear your field of negativity and access the living light of the higher realms, you help all of these Blessed beings who come into your field each day; you help all those who are searching.

Treat these Blessed beings with kindness without exception, with compassion, with forgiveness, with love and understanding, all the while holding your boundaries firm and using your discernment.

Trust in your inner wisdom, you will know when it is time to speak your truth to those around you. 

 You will know when it is time, when they are ready to listen to what you have to say. Only then, will the light begin to filter into their consciousness and they will begin to lift themselves up. Only they can do this for themselves but you can be ready to assist them on their journey, when the time comes.

We know you are ready and waiting, and eager for the new world. We tell you it is here now, ready to be molded and created in love and joy, but you must create that which serves the highest good of all creation. 

Your manifestations will unfold joyfully for you if you will only do this. The time is past when you may create that which does not serve you and all creation. These manifestations will come back to you with the imperfectness of the vibrations in which it was sent out from you.

 It is a daily learning experience, yet as you choose always, to create for the highest good of all, you will see that the new world is indeed already here.

Call upon us, we are here to guide you and assist you in your creations. Walk the path of highest light, you will never be disappointed and you will rejoice in the knowing that you have come home to your own Mastery. I surround you and enfold you in an auric field of love.  --Archangel Michael

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The Ultimate Test In Unconditional Love

by Nicolya Christi -

Love In a Cold Climate:

When we speak of unconditional love, we understand this to constitute a state of loving unconditionally, come what may.

When we meditate on unconditional love, we consider the evolutionary need to transcend our emotions and thus contemplate our present capacity to be able to do so.

We recognize the need for mindfulness so as not to split off from our emotions in our quest to become a living embodiment of unconditional love – for doing so will only keep us caught in conditional love.

Unconditional Love and Integrated Neutrality

When we consciously seek to embody the very essence of unconditional love we arrive at an understanding that reveals how we must first attain a level of psychological integration, conscious evolution and spiritual awakening before we are able to centre ourselves fully in unconditional love.

Conscious evolution and spiritual awakening compels us (unconsciously) to attract intense and uncompromising life challenges that support and facilitate our psychological integration, karmic healing and ultimately serve our spiritual awakening.

When we consciously choose to enter a deeper exploration of the profound spiritual teaching of unconditional love, we will invite into our lives (consciously and unconsciously) the most profound, extenuating and testing of situations and circumstances.

These facilitate the attainment of a level of psychological integration and spiritual awakening that prepares us for living in and as unconditional love.

That is not to say that we cannot know great happiness without having arrived at this advanced level of spiritual development, for indeed we can. However, the most boundless expression of inner peace, fulfillment, joy, bliss and harmony belongs to those who meet everything in life from a place of integrated neutrality and unconditional love.

So Far Out of Our Comfort Zones

Our evolutionary development will inevitably lead us to the more advanced levels of the teaching of unconditional love. And so it will transpire that we will be taken so far out of our comfort zones, into environments, realities and life experiences that appear to represent the polar opposite of our most cherished visionary and soulful ideals. 

The embodiment of inner peace as a sustained reality can only be achieved when we truly understand and master the core teaching of unconditional love and when this has been fully integrated.

The Space In Between

Aligning and merging with the essence of unconditional love raises the Self to a level of consciousness where nothing can pull it off centre.

We are lifted up to merge with and become One with the pure essence of unconditional love. 

Our conscious connection with the Divine becomes an extrasensory, extraordinary, moment-by-moment, day-by-day, living reality. The unconscious, conscious and super-conscious are aligned in perfect balance and harmony.

Whenever aspects of self (note small 's' representing ego/inner wounding/un-integrated self) remain disconnected, split off, repressed or denied, one cannot be centered in a fully conscious and awakened relationship with Self, other/s, and the world.

When we radiate as a pure expression of unconditional love we recognize that unconscious and conscious 'shadow' material can no longer enter the psychic and energetic space between ourselves and another, and ourselves and the world. Instead, we experience clear and direct access to other and the world. Such is not dependent upon ‘other’ having attained the same level of awareness that we may have attained ourselves.

Unconditional love dissolves all that exists in the space in between another and Self. What once occupied this space (unhealed, unprocessed and un-integrated shadow aspects of self) is replaced by a clear and tangible sense of All That Is. All That Is becomes all that is present in the psychic and energetic space between ourselves and another.

This fertile and tangible space in between is a pure and true experience of heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul communion.

Until one has arrived at a level of conscious evolution that facilitates the embodiment of such an elevated state, then the unintegrated human shadow will continue to fill the ‘space between' - the presence of which remains fundamental and instrumental to our core healing, psychological integration, karmic resolution, conscious evolution and spiritual awakening.

From Compassion to Unconditional Loving Presence

In Latin, compassion means 'to suffer with'. When we are feeling compassion we are suffering with, immersed in an alchemical process that renders us as emotional blotting paper, an energetic sponge, absorbing and processing, ebbing and flowing, healing and feeling the story of suffering that is shared by another and mirrors our own.

Compassion affords us deep and immediate insight into 'what the other may be feeling'.

It gifts us a humbling opportunity to put ourselves in another's situation and feel our way around their emotional landscape and, by doing so, feel around our own. Compassion facilitates a mutual exchange that serves the highest good of those bonded in it.

Such a mutual exchange fosters communion (common-union), and is a pure and true offering of heart and Soul. When united in compassion (common-passion), we literally 'go there' with the one who is suffering, be it human, animal, aquatic, winged, insect, plant, flower, mineral, land, ocean or sky.

Suffering produces many symptoms, the most common of which are sadness and anger – both are expressions of passion. Compassion allows us to make contact (consciously or unconsciously) with our own inner wounding, or felt-sense of what was once a resonant personal experience. 

It reveals and expands our capacity to express the deepest levels of love, humanity, tenderness and care. It reconnects us to humility and anchors us in the realm of human emotion, a necessary process, yet one we shall ultimately transcend on our journey towards enlightenment.

Compassion facilitates direct access to unhealed emotions, unresolved psychological wounding, karmic history and core trauma held within the physical, emotional and astral bodies and the psyche.

The Rainbow Bridge of Awakening

Our conscious evolutionary journey propels us towards ever ascending levels, carrying us all the way to the border of The Rainbow Bridge of Awakening where a higher level of consciousness, frequency and vibration is to be found.

This Rainbow Bridge of Awakening connects Self with Higher Self - the conscious with the super-conscious. This evolutionary juncture is a pivotal threshold for it is the place where we transcend 'me' (self with small 's') and embody 'I' (Authentic and Integrated Self). Transcending the emotional self is a prerequisite for elevating us to living from its higher octave - Feeling.

Our conscious evolution propels us towards fully embodying unconditional love and integrated neutrality. Compassion is a fundamental psycho-spiritual developmental process, an instrumental evolutionary phenomenon to facilitate liberation from suffering with, as we evolve into living in love with All That Is.

The transpersonal psychotherapy ‘Psychosynthesis’ teaches a core process model - 'identifying in order to dis-identify'.

Compassion supports us to identify with suffering (another’s or our own). Unconditional love calls upon us to dis-identify from suffering and to embody unconditional love, unconditional positive regard and integrated neutrality in relation to ourselves, and when present to another.

As souls incarnate, we have lived countless lives over eons of time. Layer upon layer of trauma memories remain held or hidden deep within the psyche, cellular memory and genetic blueprint. Each incarnation affords us an opportunity to heal these layers and ultimately dissolve suffering at a core level, through psychological integration, conscious evolution and spiritual awakening.

Rise in Love or Fall

The teaching of unconditional love at a consciously awakened level is the highest of all.

Everything that exists and every word, action or deed, is an expression (and teaching) of unconditional love, even when delivered through an un-integrated, dysfunctional personality caught in reaction for it bestows upon us an opportunity to practice unconditional love.

Every dysfunctional external reaction and action we experience conveys a higher calling from Soul to Self for us to align with and embody, and respond with unconditional love. When another speaks against us or treats us with disrespect we must remain ever mindful that we have a choice – we can choose to either rise in love or fall - in counter-reaction and the resultant conflict.

Choosing to rise in love does not for a moment suggest we must remain in any situation which may cause suffering to us. On the contrary, in such circumstances we would be wise to seek to establish and maintain a physical, emotional, mental, psychic and energetic distance between the other and ourselves.

Unconditional love seeks not to support suffering, yet instead invites us to understand and meet the needs of another, whilst, at the same time, understanding and meeting our own.

Who Am I to Who I AM

Individuals working at this level of Self-Realization will experience an overwhelming evolutionary compulsion (conscious or unconscious) to manifest ultimate tests, presenting as the seeming antithesis of unconditional love!

Unprecedented challenging circumstances will crash into their lives like an evolutionary tsunami.

Those who choose to stand, unwaveringly, in the centre of the initiatory fire of unconditional love, will undergo an unprecedented shift into Who I AM consciousness and awareness.

And so it is that the spiritual teaching of unconditional love will bombard us with the most extenuating trials, ordeals and circumstances, the very moment Self recognizes it is ready for this high-level initiation.

The Penultimate Level of Self-Realization

The high level teachings of unconditional love are not by any means, light and fluffy. They call upon us to rise in love in the most challenging of situations, to integrate and embrace the very essence of what unconditional love is, and to become elevated and uplifted by the consuming darkness that can present to the one who steps forth to embrace this ultimate initiation.

It invites us to BE unconditional love, most especially when immersed in intensely challenging circumstances.

Unquestionably, this level of initiation, this ultimate rite of passage, this new dawn breaking out of the dark night of the soul will throw our lives into chaos and turn our world upside down until we are spinning from the unplanned for, the unexpected, the uninvited and the seemingly 'negative' circumstances assailing us from all directions.

Only when immersed in such trials and tribulations can we face the ultimate test that precedes an evolutionary leap in Selfrealization and Self-actualization.

How simple is the concept of unconditional love when practiced in ideal circumstances? However, committing to Selfintegration and Self-mastery, so as to be able to fully embody unconditional love as our day-to-day reality, brings an unprecedented intensifying of uncertainty into our lives.

It exposes us to an externally generated set of experiences/tests that include the irrational and contrary, the unfathomable and perplexing, and invites reaction, projection and accusation through the medium of others, to test if we shall rise in unconditional love or fall victim to our un-integrated emotions.

If you are one who feels centered in love, connectedness, goodness, truth, harmony, integrity, open heartedness, gentleness, selflessness, loving kindness, humility, tenderness, are deeply grounded, consciously awakened and psychospiritually mature and integrated and yet your life continues to feel outside of your control, seemingly dominated by one relentless challenge after another, think twice as to just why this might be before arriving at a conclusion that suggests that the reason for this is a result of your psycho-spiritual healing process (and this may well be the case). 

Instead, consider that you just might be in the midst of a profound initiation preparing you to take an unprecedented leap in your own conscious evolution.

An Evolutionary Leap into Unconditional Love

Unconditional love elevates us to such a level of awareness that the one who lives, sleeps and breathes it discovers they can step into any situation, without reaction, attachment, personal agenda, condition or any (conscious or unconscious) 'driver' to manipulate a desired outcome.

This high teaching requires us to let go completely into the moment, the unknown, to trust, and to be anchored in unconditional positive regard and unconditional love towards all - all of the time - irrespective of whether we are enraptured in sublime bliss or in the midst of chaos and turmoil.

It invites us to relinquish the more subtle levels of attachment, and any need for physical evidence of the spiritual as a condition for embracing unconditional love.

Through the teaching of unconditional love, we encounter our innate and infinite capacity as pure love. Those who walk this path are Beacons of Light, even in the darkest of times and conditions.

The Diamond Path to Enlightenment

Cultivating unconditional love as a core spiritual practice catalyzes an uncompromising and radical evolutionary push to our psychological edges.

We are exposed to residual elements of our own hidden agendas, motivations, ulterior motives and strategies, conditions, attachments, unspoken needs and expectations, intricate and complex defense mechanisms and unconscious patterns that can only be dissolved in pure love.

Only when we have healed our historical wounds (including karmic) and integrated our psychological shadow can we fully embody living unconditional love at every level of our being.

Only then are we able to experience and express the full spectrum of our humanity. Only then can we shine fully in our true identity as Divine Love incarnate. Only then do we step upon the Diamond Path to Enlightenment.

The Diamond Path to Enlightenment is a transcendental path we step onto when we have fully understood the meaning and purpose of true compassion (to suffer with), and how to transcend it to its higher octave – pure unconditional love.

Expressing unconditional love towards Self is equally as important as expressing it to another. If an act we believe to be one of pure love causes even the subtlest of discomfort within us, then it is not unconditional love.

In its pure essence, unconditional love infuses us with a deeply felt sense of peace, fulfillment, and radiant wellbeing. Ultimately, it is unconditional love that will lift humanity out of suffering, and catalyze an accelerated and unprecedented evolution of personal and global consciousness.

Unconditional love is multi-layered from its outer levels to its inner core. Its core essence transmits a necessity for transcendence from compassion (suffering with) into fully embodied unconditional love and integrated neutrality.

Teetering on the Edge

So, if it feels as if life is throwing you a seemingly unending round of challenges and yet you continue to fly onwards and upwards into higher and higher levels of consciousness, frequency and vibration, if you continue to act only from purest intent and if you have cultivated an unwavering capacity for unconditional presence in absolute neutrality, in any situation, then your connection to Higher Self, Soul and Spirit will strengthen and expand to unquantifiable levels.

Even though you may feel exhausted by the intensity of those life circumstances that assail you, at this pivotal juncture on your journey of enlightenment, understand that you may be teetering on the edge of merging with, and living, the very heart of pure unconditional love.

Know this - there is no lotus flower without the mud from which it grows. If you are as the lotus flower rising out of the mud, if you are a beacon of Light even in the midst of darkness, if you are able to remain centered in love, no matter what, then know that something profound is unfolding, something so extraordinary that when you emerge from the other side of this transformational process you will never again be the same.

In transcending the level of consciousness that is preoccupied with the existential question of who am I to becoming anchored and centered in Who I AM, you will have truly liberated and lifted your Self into a whole new spiritual reality.

I conclude this sharing with this quote from the great Light  Being, Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov:

"In certain people’s presence, when you see the expression on their face, how they look at you and feel everything they radiate, the word that immediately springs to mind is ‘Light’. As if they were able to distil an imponderable substance in their heart and soul and then project it out in the form of Light. Or as if they had captured something of the Light diffused in space and had condensed it within them. Their whole body seems made of a translucent substance within which a flame is burning.

For many this Light remains a great mystery, because they do not know it is the result of very real processes in the inner life: the Sage, the Initiate, has acquired it through constant work. From each thought, wish, feeling and action that they manage to make more disinterested, generous and purer, they extract an infinitesimal amount of Light.

It is said in the Sacred Books that the human soul has the power to move the Heavens. Yes, the soul can shake the Heavens but only through its desire to obtain Light. If it insists, God, who is Light, cannot refuse to give it."

May we always remember – Love is the answer to everything.

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