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Developing Our Higher Consciousness
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Levels of Change of Consciousness
As individuals with the
higher power that is mind proper to self-conceptualize what we wish to
be, we can determine to what level we wish to change and evolve. We can
minimally change our limiting nature, such as our poor attitudes,
limiting skills and knowledge, limiting ability to organize, etc. This
is one level of change. Another is to open to the Force to enable even
greater life response. We can also connect more deeply within into our
inner being to experience life in its fullness and wideness. We can also
undertake the triple transformation to become the new evolutionary
spiritual being. In all cases, we start from where we are now, and
decide that which we want to become. That is the process of individual
accomplishment and creation.
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The more conscious you
are, the more you realize your imperfections, even down to the very
smallest details.
Highest Consciousness
Perceives Highest Purpose of a Thing
At the highest levels of
consciousness, culminating in Supermind, one sees a thing in its
greatest Clarity, its greatest Truth, and for of its Highest Purpose in
the universe.
Greater Subtlety, Higher
Consciousness in Higher Planes; Higher Consciousness in Depths of Plane
As we rise among the
planes (physical, vital, mental and beyond, including their sub and sub
sub planes) there is greater subtlety of substance, as well as greater
consciousness. Also the consciousness of each plane is greater in the
depths than on the surface. E.g. Mind has greater subtlety of substance
and greater consciousness than the vital and even more than the physical
below it. And the consciousness in the depths of the Mind (i.e. the
Inner Mind in the Subliminal) is greater than that of the surface normal
Mind.
Higher Plane,
Consciousness, Depths Reveals Greater Truth of Situation
Since at higher
planes there is higher consciousness we are able at the higher plane see
more of the situation in a truer light. E.g. at one plane we may see the
tragedy of Shakespearean play, where as a higher level we see the
tragedy as a Marvel of Social or even Spiritual Becoming. Similarly, as
we move toward a higher plane, we move away from the social and ethical
considerations of a situation. E.g. at one plane we may experience
something as shame, whereas at a higher level it is brought out in its
truer, perhaps we can say, more positive light and purpose. In the
depths of that plane this is even more so.
Effects of Being
Centered Within
When you are centered in a
deeper poise you are less likely to react to the world from your
ego-sense, your assertiveness, your contact and conflict with others or
the environment. You are more in tune with others, with the events that
are unfolding, rather than fighting them or conflicting with them
through your ego-based separateness.
Move from Sense-Bound
to Rational Mind
We need to move our center
of consciousness from what we call the sense-based mind to a higher
status of mind, where we are using the more logical, rational part of
mind. From that higher rational, conceptual status of mind we are more
objective, more likely to see the varied sides of a truth, which enable
us to get at most of the facts that lead to insight.
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We need to move mind from
sense mind to objective intellectuality. (Paraphrase of MSS)
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The need to think is a
transitional phenomenon in human evolution. (Paraphrase of The Mother)
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For transformation what is
needed is aspiration, and the end of ego. To those who are sincere in
this regard will receive the divine help. (Paraphrase of The
Mother)
How We Can Bring Being
into Becoming
The Divine Reality is an
essence of Being. Our lives in the universe is the form of Becoming.
Spiritual life for the individual is to bring the Being into the
Becoming, the spirit into every nuance of our daily lives.
Moving From Time to
Timelessness
In the inner life one
should no longer be burdened by time; e.g. the sorrow and failure of the
past should not burden (unless the essence is learned from), nor the
impatient anticipation of the future. These are indicators of living in
time, which should be abandoned for a life of the timelessness of the
ever-present. It becomes truly ever-present when we also simultaneously
experience the timelessness of the Divine presence. Living this way
releases the infinite into our finite existence.
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We can compress, or merge
the future into the present by moving to higher consciousness, such as
touching the psychic, surrender, consecration and other methods. If we
rise high or deep enough, we reach a point where the compression of the
future is no longer separate from the present. The future is in the
present; enabling the Ever-Present.
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A key to a higher future
life is to see the practical concept of infinity; that the infinite can
actually emerge in any finite moment in time; enabling the vast future
results to appear in the present, thereby overcoming our notions of what
is possible in space and in time.
Mind and Supermind
Mind is the agent of the
supramental consciousness, Supermind. Mind is the dividing mechanism
that enables us to distinguish; and yet is also intimately linked with
our separateness, our ignorance, and ego. Therefore, Supermind can
replace mind one day, enabling us to see the oneness of existence, where
divisions are perceived as unities or emerging unities that we now we
miss in mind.
Indicators of Advancing
Consciousness
As you advance in
consciousness a softness envelopes your behavior; e.g. you no longer
insist on things; on ideas, actions, etc. You also begin to be guided
from without by the spirit, rather than one's own initiative. It is a
different way of living within the same day to day reality.
On Passivity
Passivity is NOT dullness.
It is a state higher than dynamic activity which includes the energy of
that dynamism. (MSS)
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Levels of Service
There are many levels of
service. There is the servicing of one's ego, the service of the
ordinary life, the servicing of one's attempt to grow and evolve, and
the service of the Divine spirit to bring about an evolution in the life
of humanity. 95-99% of people are in the first two categories.
Ego, Self, and the
Universe
Man lives
in ego and sees the whole universe in terms of himself. His scope for
achievement is to add more duality and division to the world. However,
the man who lives within and finds his true Self, contains the whole
universe within him. He can utilize all of its knowledge, powers, and
force for the greater good, and can in turn move the world from within
himself since now all of the outer is contained in the inner.
Force Absorbed at
Different Planes
The Force is pressing down on life. That fact is easiest to perceive and
experience and embody when we rise to spiritual mind and beyond, and
increasingly less so when our consciousness is centered in our vital and
physical beings. However, when these later, less subtle planes absorb
and integrate that Power, it will be an indication of the cumulative
culmination of our evolutionary transformation.
Overcoming Limitations of Physical
Consciousness on our Ascent
We open to the Force, we
go within, we remain calm and patient, we wish to change our nature,
etc. After a while our physical consciousness takes over and says
"forget about these things," and so we resume our previous ways. The
reactions of the physical consciousness come periodically to stop our
growth. Be patient and calm and it will pass.
The physical consciousness
may even make us sick or tired or prone to accident after we have made a
progress. We should open to the Divine asking it to come into our
physical consciousness and transform it. Also we can ask for protection
from it and its accomplice, the subconscious.
Spiritual Evolution and
Romance
Spiritual evolution is the
spirit's quest for adventure and self-discovery. Normally man seeks that
adventure at most once in a lifetime, then settles down into a
survival-based existence. If he pursues this spirit adventure through
romance, of culminates in marriage, here the adventure stops (Romance
ends with marriage.) If one seeks further spiritual progress is should
normally come through one's career. If it is through another mate, the
relationship bust be at a higher level, otherwise one will repeat and
grow no further. (Paraphrase of MSS)
On Inner
Self-Conception
When man's self-conception becomes [inner, spiritual-based]
Self-conception, the man who is dominated changes into one who now
determines the outer as well as inner forces. It is a decisive moment in
one's life. Once he reaches there, he becomes the master of his own
destiny. (MSS)
Results of Spiritual
Power
Results of Spiritual Power when released into action by the truth of
inner sincerity are INSTANTANEOUS. (MSS)
To Be Categorized
Development of
Consciousness
All That Matters for Our Soul is Our
Growth in Consciousness
Key
Every experience serves a role in the awakening of consciousness
and knowledge in us, which is the
central goal of the soul's evolutionary
experience. We respond to crises and
opportunities in order to obtain
results, but the greatest result that
can come from these experiences is to
become more conscious. The rest is
by-product. (Garry Jacobs)
The Movement of Consciousness Toward
the Light
The movement of consciousness toward the Light is of the
realization of a higher Truth,
Awareness, and Power in life. It is a
movement toward Integral Knowledge,
towards the many-sided Truth of things,
to perceive our spiritual nature behind
the form, culminating in supramental
perception, which is ultimate Wisdom
married to ultimate power for its
manifestation as real on earth.
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