The Art of
Knowing
Wisdom is the art of knowing the difference between the ideas of conditioning
and the ideas of universal meaning. It is not necessary for the mind to follow
the way of wisdom in order to make its way in the earth plane but it is needful
for the mind to follow the way of wisdom if the full need and purpose of the
soul is to be manifested. The need for release from the karmic wheel is not
likely to become realized if the needs of the soul are not met.
We are prisoners of our own lack of insight if we do not bring forward the inner
understanding which drives the progress of the soul.
The soul does not fit into the body, therefore, we are incomplete expressions of
our full degree of knowledge. The only way to come into a clearer understanding
and more complete command of ourselves is by way of fine tuning the inner
communication processes that deal with our higher selves and those of our
friends and associates who are in spirit, including those who guide and teach.
The need to establish this inner communication system as part of our daily lives
is growing as we progress into the New Age that is before us. This age will see
the demise of ‘monolinear’ Karmic focus and see the establishment of many facets
in the life of those who choose to be aware.
The degree of development of the soul and the physical body will have much to do
with the ability of individuals who attempt to become more attuned to themselves
as a universal entity.
It is not to be assumed that this will come over night or that it will be only a
few who will accomplish this feat of knowing the soul’s purpose. It is a process
that the race itself is going through and it is part of the path of development
that all are on. If the individual does not choose to expand, then the life will
shrink to a much less productive and more earth grounded view.
The need for growth is common among those who feel the pull of the New Age and
wish to become part of a greater understanding.
There is no other process that has changed the nature of the human race as has
the evolution back to the awareness of its place in the universal plan. There is
no element of the body that is carried by the human person that has influenced
the development of mankind as much as this one fact, that man is a soul with a
body and not the other way around.
The case for spiritual evolution is one that the scientists of this generation
are just beginning to become aware of and it will be some time yet before this
awareness comes to their work.
That is not to say that the scientists are not subject to the laws of
progression yet but merely, as the rest of mankind, they are not aware that
their work is an outgrowth of the evolution which has been taking place in all
those in the physical body.
It is inevitable that the fields of belief/religion and scientific
investigation/progress will join forces. It is not possible for even the least
reasonable mind to ignore the fact that there is rhyme and reason in the
universe.
Man’s evolution has been a three point thing ever since the sojourn into matter
caused the awareness of the spirit to become lost. Man has sought to return to
the heights of understanding and awareness that are evident to the soul between
incarnations.
The incarnations themselves are expressions of the need within a soul to learn
and understand some forms of energy that it does not handle well. This process
once indulged in, leads to a stream of lessons and awarenesses at the soul
level, which are not necessarily understood from the three dimensional
consciousness.
The interesting thing is that in all generations and ages of the earth there
have always been a few who
have a greater sense of connectedness to all life than is true of the average
personality on the earth.
Until recently, for example, the last hundred years or more, it has been assumed
that there would always be just a few. Such is not the case.
This is the reason why man has been blessed with the means to communicate across
distance where technically this has not been possible before in the last several
thousand years and never before by all citizens of Earth.
The result has been the shifting of political balance, the changing of
attitudes, the consciousness raising activities of mass media. Unfortunately the
mass media has had to play the business game in such a way that its messages are
often polluted by the desire of money and power.
The average person has access to many means of communication, however, and that
has saved the day so far as world understanding and consciousness has been
concerned. Masses of information are now available to all and it is now a focus
of many to discern what information is valid and useful rather than to simply
obtain information.
This confusion is leading to a revolution in the thought process of the human
race that is a giant step on the road to enlightenment. For if temporal
information is no longer sought after and is readily available to all then what
portion of this information is of real and lasting value? The answer is that
which leads to an investigation of universal truth regardless of the profession
or focus of the individual.
For the first time in the history of the earth all citizens are able to
participate in expansion of understanding sufficient to sift what is the
prevailing notion or conditioning of the time from that which is mundane to that
which is eternal and universal in nature. The idea of the information glut is
designed to snow the greedy and power hungry under while the more high minded
see the path before them and come into their own empowerment.
Notice the use of the word empowerment not power; Empowerment is the awakening
of an understanding of the needs of the soul where power has typically meant
wealth, ownership or simply control over others in the physical dimension.
This form of organization has been necessary in the past for without it the
world would have been in perpetual chaos and unsuited to the development of the
human as a soul driven creature.
With the advent of modern science and technology it has been possible to
concentrate very thoroughly the power and control in the hands of only a few.
This is no longer a suitable means for development, for the speed of evolution
back toward awareness almost doubles with every decade in the present earth
experience.
This increasing speed of development has made it necessary for technology to
place more control back in the hands of the everyday person for it is not
possible otherwise to have development of a multifaceted multi-threaded form of
learning and awareness in the race as a whole.
This is the purpose of the New Age, not the development only of extra sensory
powers or of spectacular displays by just a few developed souls. The time for
this has passed and the need is for the evolution of ALL to take a great leap.
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