Post –Enlightenment continued

Previously, I have discussed the use of

Ω. Omega signifies enlightenment, spiritual progress.

Its most prevalent definition is tied to spirituality, bridging the human experience with the divine.

CEP is Conscious Enlightenment Practice

Finishing the Journey

Stay in Reality if you wish

The Journey

It is not about burying ones head in the sand and ignoring “reality”. It is simply about releasing an identity, a reactivity.

“I am the Witness”.

The mind will go on creating scenarios, even though the reality is that is temporary. We All will die! (Just to get started on this topic). We react to death and the processes of moving towards it. (Called “life”). Then we go downwards spiraling sometimes into darkness, mental sickness, stress, and fearful reactivity.

Why?

In conjunction with our Higher Spirit, our Higher Power, or with our supra-human self, we can release fear, grief, and reactivity. It is not present in our Higher Rooms or Special Space – we are free.

A simplification perhaps, but our True Self is full of Light and free to interact without getting bogged down in the ego based personality processes. We can still grieve, love, may be even lust!

However, it is all seen for what it really is, just like waking from a dream. Or, realizing we were frightened in the dark by a snake that turned out to be a length of rope!

Thus, we accept our thoughts and our mental convolutions in reactivity, knowing that they pass of their own accord. The day will pass; your shift at work will pass, as indeed will all the things that you call “mine”.

“Fight or flight” is now mostly redundant. We are not cave dwellers and are slowly changing to meet the modern age of technology. Oh yes, I forgot to mention. We are now getting into even more serious trouble, brain wise! (Due to modern technology).

As a child I lived initially with no TV, and no phone in the house. Forget about the internet. Forget about social media. (Or limit its grasping tentacles).

We still have our ego based personality, with its foibles. Modern information technology and artificial intelligence is now adding a whole new range mental health disorders. Individual as well a societal. It’s so called progress because we can give new medication, and cure the electrical and chemical imbalance within the brain. And all will be sorted!

The ancient seers and sages had answers. For all time. For any eventuality. They said we can be liberated, have our freedom, be able to step back from confusion and the scary daily news. Connect within, or connect to your external Deity/Guide, if that is your way.

Karma

You choose desire and want.

You act and then get.

You reap the results of action.

It is Karma.

Why though?

Why choose a job, a partner, or even a life to be born into?

Something to do with learning perhaps?

Maybe so that a person’s human nature can become spiritual in nature.

Even when it comes to being on the spiritual journey, it seems you want to get it as a human experience. Not necessarily as a true spiritual experience. Not as a spiritual experience dictated by the higher powers that be, but one on ones own terms. We continue to hold our own scheme of how our spiritual future will pan out.

How it is meant to work for me.

It is all about me!

So we don’t need a spiritual journey, we need The Journey!

To know and be known at a higher level requires a jump away from Karma.

Transcend it.

You may have had experience of therapy, and were enabled to proceed beyond the original issue that you sought support for. You have may have had some spiritual experiences, brief, momentarily, or more extended, perhaps because you are a regular practitioner. Apart from these experiences, you may well be based psychically in your everyday. A life that every day comes to pass and is dictated by rules. Karma rules. Its base on what you did in as far as your microcosm is concerned. You could argue that you have no control over the sun and moon etc., and therefore are not responsible. I could argue that you chose to be re-born in a human birth, and this got you whatever the circumstances are. Hindu/Buddhists scriptures say that a human birth is very auspicious. This is because you could have been born an animal, but as a human you get an opportunity to go beyond life and death, via Self-Realisation. Anyone’s intentions regarding personal development can change at any time, and focus may change when you have “had a taste”. (Of the Transcendental Life).

I’m just adding more options here.

The potential is to be at one with your true Divine Self/Inner Spirit, even as you insist that you are who you say you are.

Some people are impacted by experience of mental health issues. Or, physical issues. With regard to how it affects their practice, this experience of ill-health can hold a person back, if not addressed and “accepted” in a positive way. On the other hand, sometimes a very powerful spiritual/personal awakening or urge is driven by those very same mental and physical experiences. They can be painful. Anything that holds you back from your Journey needs to be addressed, even just to have a decent life. You may well require treatment, medication, therapy, or whatever works for you as an individual. Just to become available to be strong for this Therapeutic Journey to Self-Realisation.

In mental health terms, if you call yourself a depressive or an alcoholic or trauma sufferer, then there is also another danger. Whilst recognition of these disorders is beneficial to some degree, there is a risk of being stuck in a loop, where ones only identity is that of an “unwell person”. A person may become enmeshed in the mental health system, potentially ending up with getting more and more medication, and experiencing illness that is more chronic, plus side-effects, and pain. Even more sadness is not what is wanted! The mental health system is can even be very good at times – up to a point. So is therapy, counselling, and all that is on offer. What’s on offer doesn’t tell you about your very valid and absolute right to this Therapeutic Journey to Self-Realisation.

If you always were whole, how come you don’t feel that way? How do you know what it feels like to be whole? There is no contrast for you to experience wholeness from comparison with Life and the Universe. However, even after experiencing what seems like complete separation, you can return to wholeness and actually know what Self-Realisation feels like. As far as I am concerned, this is the “point” of creation, spirituality and religions and, and  …..? (Insert all your “points” here).

Separation and suffering can never be a permanent state, because it is not real in the first place. It feels very real, but that is only because some thinking/thought/emotion/ego identity is still caught up in illusion. Imagine life is a dream, and when you die, (or get Enlightened), you wake up. You return to wholeness and see that the material world is nothing more than a dream. Nevertheless, you do not have to die to realize this Truth. You can realize it while you are still alive. I believe this is what a God, if you have one, should want. Heaven is not some far off place in the sky where you go when you were good. Heaven can be experienced here on earth, in the present moment. This is also what is referred to as Nirvana.  This is the only place in which I can make peace with what happened in my past. Therefore, whether it my belief is true or not is in a sense irrelevant. It is the only explanation that makes sense to me.

I may have missed out on many things, and I may still have some regrets. However, I also know that life keeps getting better, and I have an explanation that works for me now. I strongly believe there can be a transcending of the past fully, and seeing everything with true clarity makes sense in the bigger picture.

Spirituality what is it?

Maybe this is the wrong question.

Maybe it is about why.

Maybe it is about what we are.

We are spiritual beings because we are spirit.

We do not then really have to be spiritual or do spirituality. We are already that.

Ego-based personalities would have it otherwise, and hence choices from that direction tend to lean towards the destructive.

Proof?

The history of mankind.