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Wh at Is a Spir it ua l
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You can tell that you have reached this level of aware-
ness when you no longer feel stuck: a process has begun.
With greater expansion, unseen forces come to your aid.
You move forward according to what you desire from
your life.
There is no struggle.
Desires reach fulfillment spontaneously.
The next thing you want is the best thing that could
happen. You benefit yourself and your surroundings.
The outer world reflects what is happening in your
inner world.
You feel completely safe. You are at home in the uni-
verse.
You view yourself and the world with compassion and
understanding.
mother, and when you turn around, you can’t see your
child.
At work you are sitting at your computer when some-
one casually mentions that there are going to be lay-
offs, and by the way, the boss wants to see you.
You open your mailbox and find a letter from the
Internal Revenue Ser vice.
While driving you approach an intersection when,
out of the blue, a car behind you swerves past your car
and runs a red light.
You walk into a restaurant and see your spouse sitting
with an attractive companion. They are leaning in to-
ward each other, talking in low voices.
Perceptions
Beliefs
Assumptions
Expectations
Feelings
just outlined is far from the norm. In fact, it’s almost the
opposite, because although everyone would agree that
buildings must have blueprints, life doesn’t. Life is viewed
as a series of unpredictable events that we struggle to con-
trol. Who will be foreclosed on or lose their job? Which
household will be struck with accidents, addiction, di-
vorce? There is seemingly no rationale behind these events.
Stuff happens. Obstacles arise of their own accord, or
simply by accident. Each of us justifies our contracted
awareness by accepting such beliefs, and they run deep.
Human nature, we tell ourselves, is filled with negative
drives, such as selfishness, aggression, and jealousy. At
best we are in partial control of these drives as they rise
up inside us. We have no control at all over the negativity
in others, and so each day presents us with a struggle
against random chance and against people who are out
to get what they want, no matter that it causes problems,
or even loss, for us. As a beginning to expanded aware-
ness, you need to challenge this worldview even if it is the
social norm. Normal isn’t the same as true.
The truth is that each of us is entangled in the world
we call real. Mind isn’t a ghost. It is embedded in the
whole situation you find yourself in. To see how that works,
first abolish the separation between a thought, the brain
cells the thought stimulates, the body’s reaction as it re-
ceives messages from the brain, and the activity you de-
cide to pursue. All are part of the same continuous process.
Even among geneticists, who for decades preached that
genes determined almost every aspect of life, there is a new
Th e Essence
Every problem is open to a spiritual solution. The solu-
tion is found by expanding your awareness, moving be-
yond the limited vision of the problem. The process begins
by recognizing what kind of awareness you are working
from, because for every challenge in life there are three
levels of awareness.