Monday, December 12, 2005

YOUR EARLIEST DUALITIES: “Good-Bad,” “Best-Worst,” “Punishment-Reward,” and “Heaven-Hell,” Part Three

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The site visitor wrote: "I live my life with my head in the clouds but with my feet planted firmly on the ground, so there is no magical thinking or fantasy involved with my spiritual way of living. (I also find you to be very rude).” To continue:

F.: The author you’re quoting, Bill W., realized that many attracted to his first book and to the program he co-founded were becoming physically sober but at the expense of becoming spiritually intoxicated. They believed his notion that one can live in the dualistic fashion of having one’s head in the clouds while having one’s feet planted firmly on the ground. Yet he saw so much spiritual intoxication resulting from his words that he would later warn that spiritual sobriety was to be sought as earnestly as physical sobriety.

Religious and/or spiritual roles are still roles, and no roles can define Who You Truly Are. Bill W. agreed with Shakespeare’s advice: “To thine own self be true.” Who is that Self, that True Self? It certainly is not any role that can be played, including religious roles and spiritual roles. They are phases to be transcended on the path to finding the Great Reality he spoke of. Further, compartmentalization cannot occur. One cannot have his head in the clouds but have his feet planted firmly (that is, fixed in reality). Dual-minded people are unstable in all ways, it was said.

Yet Bill W. did offer at a core level an Advaita message by writing...
1. that The Great Reality can only be found within
2. that most of the founders came to realize that the "higher power" is an inner resource, not an outer resource of male gender
3. that what is to be sought ultimately is a reconnection with the intuitive sixth sense
4. along with residing in the fourth dimension (which is merely in the pure consciousness that is beyond three-dimensional body identification, limited to the three dimensions of height, width, and depth).

Activating the sixth sense results in natural living. Deactivating the thinking mind frees persons of the illusions of magical thinking that is the basis of spiritual intoxication and supernatural living. Freedom from assuming false identities leads to freedom from unnatural living. Seven steps are required on the journey from (a) believing that the body and the false mental selves define who you are to (b) realizing Who/What You Truly Are. The religious and/or spiritual roles are a step, yes, but they are only the third step. Those who do not transcend those roles will never be fully Realized…will never be fully in touch with Reality. Finally, being in touch with reality leaves one out of touch with the false identities/ego-states. Out of touch with ego, no persona will exist that can take offense at perceived "rudeness." Until the final ego-state is abandoned, no peace can exist since ego fights for its existence, fights for the respect it thinks it is due, and fights for its (artificial, imagined) existence. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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