NOVEMBER 19 ~ DAILY REFLECTION ~ from: ALONG THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT ~ by: Dr. David R. Hawkins ►The average person’s psyche is overwhelmed by layers of programmed belief systems of which they are unaware. Out of naïveté and the belief in the principles of causality, the supposed causes and their solutions are sought ‘out there’. With maturity and the wisdom of spirituality, the search becomes directed inwardly, where the source and resolution are finally discovered.◄ From: “I: Reality and Subjectivity” (2003), Chapter 4: The ‘Ego’ and Society, p. 81 ------------------------------- With Additional Context: ------------------------------- Q: Society exhibits such widely divergent extremes. How is it possible to not be judgmental? A: Human life exhibits the collective karma of individuals as well as groups, which expresses all possibilities and options from the most severe to the beatific and sublime. It could be viewed, therefore, as purgatorial in that there is the opportunity for ‘bad’ karma to be undone, for forgiveness to replace condemnation, and for love to replace hate. There is also the freedom to choose differently and to refuse the accumulation of merit or ‘good’ karma. The evolution of consciousness requires a wide range of opportunities and a playing field that affords almost unlimited options for development. If human life represents a learning process, then society is the ideal school that affords an extremely wide range of options for numerous levels of consciousness to develop, progress, define, identify, and grasp endless subtleties as well as learn more gross lessons. The ego is extremely tenacious and therefore often seems to require extreme conditions before it lets go of a positionality. It often takes the collective experience of millions of people over many centuries to learn even what appears upon examination to be a simple and obvious truth, namely, that peace is better than war, or love is better than hate. The level of consciousness is determined by the choices made by the spiritual will and therefore is the consequence as well as the determinant of karma. Freedom to evolve requires a world that affords the greatest opportunity to ascend or descend the spiritual ladder. Viewed from that perspective, this is an ideal world and its society is constituted by a wide range of experiential options. Freedom is the opportunity to fashion one’s own destiny and learn the inherent spiritual truths that are essential. For merit or demerit to occur, the choices have to be made in a state of belief and experience that they are ‘real’. Thus, even illusion subserves spiritual growth for it seems real at the time. Human life thus subserves the spirit. The world is less painful to witness if it is appreciated as the ultimate school whereby we earn salvation and serve each other by our own lives. Q: What is the best attitude from which to view society? A: One of compassionate benevolence. ►The average person’s psyche is overwhelmed by layers of programmed belief systems of which they are unaware. Out of naïveté and the belief in the principle of causality, the supposed causes and their solutions are sought ‘out there’. With maturity and the wisdom of spirituality, the search becomes directed inwardly where the source and resolution are finally discovered.◄ From: “I: Reality and Subjectivity” (2003), Chapter 4: The ‘Ego’ and Society, p. 81
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