Jasmine Ariti
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Rose Rosetree:
Hello, Rose! I watched your recent Youtube video about spiritual discernment. I loved it - so interesting. My question is: Even if people seek spiritual truth, they might not find it. Or they might not find much of it. What do you think is the biggest cultural obstacle (thinking of US or Western culture) to a sincere seeker of God easily finding Big Truth kind of knowledge? Thank you.
Rose Rosetree
Such a big question packed into that single paragraph, Jasmine Ariti! First of all, the video you’re referring to is here on Goodreads at my Author Page, “Wise Discernment about Spiritual Awakening.”
Now for my perspective as an Enlightenment Teacher (this being one of four hats that I wear in my work with Energy Spirituality®)....
People find spiritual truth to be a tricky business. In my experience, working as a spiritual teacher for over 50 years, two approaches are especially popular:
1* There is just one holy Church, one highest truth. Whatever the religion or system of belief. Basically, those who do not believe in that one highest truth will go to Hell.
2* Beliefs are relative. Truth is relative. Who am I to judge what is more important than any other such belief? Nobody has that right.
Personally, I don’t believe in either of these two popular approaches.
INSTEAD
My belief is based on helping clients and, in particular, having developed good skills of energetic literacy.
Those skills make it possible for me to drill down all the way to a person’s “chakra databanks” – which is where the rubber meets the road.
(Goodreaders, to learn more about energetic literacy you might wish to google "What is aura reading, really? In contrast to outdated cliches!" – and remember to use the quotation marks. )
WHAT IS A BETTER WAY TO ASSESS BIG TRUTH?
“Knowledge is structured in consciousness.” That’s what I learned during the many years I worked for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation.
In today’s language, Maharishi meant that there are degrees of spiritual awakening. By way of analogy, one person might have sleepy consciousness. Somebody else is drowsy but still technically awake. While another person is pretty darned awake, hears and sees and thinks clearly.
Thus, for somebody who’s drowsy in consciousness, an idea that seems like the ultimate in truth value is suitable for somebody with that degree of understanding. While an idea with High Truth Value might be dismissed as fussy and impossible.
In terms of your own experience, Jasmine and other Goodreaders, you may be able to look back on your life and laugh at some of the ideas that once seemed really-really important to you. By now, your beliefs are consistent with the more developed consciousness that you have now.
ALL THAT SAID, JASMINE, BACK TO YOUR QUESTION
What do you think is the biggest cultural obstacle (thinking of US or Western culture) to a sincere seeker of God easily finding Big Truth kind of knowledge?
I don’t think that culture has much to do with it. No surprise, right? Since I believe that knowledge is structured in consciousness, rather than which clothes are fashionable or which videos go viral.
Another consideration is the importance of paying attention to objective reality. Until we pay attention to what people say and do, to what is happening in current events, to living within our means, etc., we can be living in a dreamworld, regardless of whatever we’ve attained so far in terms of consciousness.
That said, provided we do engage in life as card-carrying citizens, standup human beings?
Then it matters that within each of us is the resource called spiritual self authority. Meaning: Within ourselves, we know what appeals to us – at this time – as true, as important.
Paying attention to that, whether or not it is popular culturally or in other ways, can help all of us sincere seekers of God.
Now for my perspective as an Enlightenment Teacher (this being one of four hats that I wear in my work with Energy Spirituality®)....
People find spiritual truth to be a tricky business. In my experience, working as a spiritual teacher for over 50 years, two approaches are especially popular:
1* There is just one holy Church, one highest truth. Whatever the religion or system of belief. Basically, those who do not believe in that one highest truth will go to Hell.
2* Beliefs are relative. Truth is relative. Who am I to judge what is more important than any other such belief? Nobody has that right.
Personally, I don’t believe in either of these two popular approaches.
INSTEAD
My belief is based on helping clients and, in particular, having developed good skills of energetic literacy.
Those skills make it possible for me to drill down all the way to a person’s “chakra databanks” – which is where the rubber meets the road.
(Goodreaders, to learn more about energetic literacy you might wish to google "What is aura reading, really? In contrast to outdated cliches!" – and remember to use the quotation marks. )
WHAT IS A BETTER WAY TO ASSESS BIG TRUTH?
“Knowledge is structured in consciousness.” That’s what I learned during the many years I worked for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation.
In today’s language, Maharishi meant that there are degrees of spiritual awakening. By way of analogy, one person might have sleepy consciousness. Somebody else is drowsy but still technically awake. While another person is pretty darned awake, hears and sees and thinks clearly.
Thus, for somebody who’s drowsy in consciousness, an idea that seems like the ultimate in truth value is suitable for somebody with that degree of understanding. While an idea with High Truth Value might be dismissed as fussy and impossible.
In terms of your own experience, Jasmine and other Goodreaders, you may be able to look back on your life and laugh at some of the ideas that once seemed really-really important to you. By now, your beliefs are consistent with the more developed consciousness that you have now.
ALL THAT SAID, JASMINE, BACK TO YOUR QUESTION
What do you think is the biggest cultural obstacle (thinking of US or Western culture) to a sincere seeker of God easily finding Big Truth kind of knowledge?
I don’t think that culture has much to do with it. No surprise, right? Since I believe that knowledge is structured in consciousness, rather than which clothes are fashionable or which videos go viral.
Another consideration is the importance of paying attention to objective reality. Until we pay attention to what people say and do, to what is happening in current events, to living within our means, etc., we can be living in a dreamworld, regardless of whatever we’ve attained so far in terms of consciousness.
That said, provided we do engage in life as card-carrying citizens, standup human beings?
Then it matters that within each of us is the resource called spiritual self authority. Meaning: Within ourselves, we know what appeals to us – at this time – as true, as important.
Paying attention to that, whether or not it is popular culturally or in other ways, can help all of us sincere seekers of God.
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