C. G. Jung
believes that we need to go through three births in our lifetime. The first is
our physical birth, then the
birth of our Ego, and spiritual birth of Consciousness. In accordance with
that fact, we also undergo three phases of development in our life. In the
first third of our lives, emphasis is on our bodily growth, in the middle phase
of our lives our Ego grows, and the last third of our lives is the period of
our internal development. While at the first two births the most important
thing is the maximum exploitation of the opportunities offered by the external
world. In the third phase, however, the emphasis shifts on our internal
development potentials. Unfortunately, the majority of people will never
experience the spiritual birth for various reasons. Let us examine the possible
reasons for that, to find out what factors prevents spiritual birth in us.
The Programming of the Mind
Our spiritual
birth is usually prevented by the
conditioned deep programming of the mind. These programs place the
development of the Ego in the foreground, and make efforts to sustain that
development until the end of the life of the individual. The programmings
support the progress of the Ego, they urge us to develop a powerful and
efficient Ego for ourselves, and they make us believe that it is the ultimate
goal in human life. These programmings regard any effort at suppressing the Ego
as a sign of weakness that we should be ashamed of, and that we should avoid at
any cost.
These
conditioned mental patterns are realized as various systems of beliefs and
patterns of thoughts in our lives. These patterns of thoughts and beliefs are
not created by ourselves. They have been handed down to us by our parents, our
community and the society in which we grow up, and we have also borrowed some
from the media. We very often accept these ready-made mental patterns and beliefs
uncritically, without any thinking; what is more, we identify with these
patterns that will, in this way, be incorporated into our personalities.
That is how our
different convictions have been created over the years, that is how we have
created a system of values and beliefs for ourselves, and we now organize our
entire life based upon those systems. Those conditioned mental patterns serve
as a background to the events that are happening to us day by day. The majority
of our worries, desires, pleasures and motivations are derived from those
mental patterns and all these, in turn, further reinforce those patterns.
The Social Pattern
All what has
been stated above will lead us to the conclusion that our
programmed Mind is a social product. Reinforcing the Ego and the never
reached spiritual birth, in fact, serve the interests of society. The most
important system of social co-existence on Earth today is the consumer society.
It means that the basis of social development is economic growth, and economic
growth depends on how much we consume.
The most
important consumer is Ego, since all products obtained (house, car, expensive
clothes), improve the imaginary greatness of the Ego. The more commodities or
more power we possess, the more important members of consumer society we are.
If we are able
to divert our attention from Ego, and concentrate on our internal development
and our spiritual birth, our qualities as consumers will considerably drop,
since we are no longer attracted to the things that so far fattened our Egos.
As in the recent
decades more and more people have felt a need for spiritual birth, social
strategy changed accordingly. Spiritual development has also been made a
consumer product, which largely supported by the survival instinct of the Ego.
The Ego, which has been interested in money and power, now turns towards
spiritual development, and disguises itself in the dress of a spiritual Ego. We
try to decorate those spiritual clothes by adding more and more spiritual
knowledge and experience so as to make it more colorful and individual. With all that, we hope that our spiritual
progress will serve the further increase and eternal happiness of our spiritualEgo.
Consumer society
is all too pleased to serve us in those needs. A glance at the vivid market of
spiritual books, methods and masters will suffice to convince us about that.
Nothing has really changed; the pattern of the consumer society is the same,
only its contents have been partially replaced.
Spiritual Birth
From the aspect
of our spiritual birth and internal development, however, the amount of
spiritual knowledge gathered, the spiritual development methods acquired, and
the sophisticated spiritual events we have had in our life are all unimportant.
Spiritual birth
can only be the result of consciousness. Our internal development therefore
does not only depend on our life experience; it depends much more on our ability
to divert our attention from the outside world to our internal world. Are we
able to turn away from the patterns of Mind, programmed by our Egos, and is
there a deep desire to know the true answer to the question ”Who am I?”
The patterns of
the consumer society are determined to prevent us from making the
necessary adjustments in our orientation by gluing our attention to various
consumer products or a spiritual development scheme that involves the Ego. A
major element of this spiritual development pattern is that we are trying to
understand the contents of our Minds, to analyze our thoughts and emotions. Our
attention is thus engaged by the various methods that we are using to examine
our thoughts and emotions. That is what we regard as our real internal world,
and we create the illusion of toiling on our spiritual birth.
From the aspect
of our spiritual birth the–often chaotic–world of our Mind and emotions is not
our real internal world. Our attention should not be directed to the analysis
and comprehension of these; instead, we need to concentrate on becoming
conscious of our existence, to find the center of our Self behind our external
life and personal history. That is our real internal world.
In the course of
our spiritual world we become conscious of, and alert to that internal center,
to that internal world. Once that has been accomplished, our life is placed on
entirely new foundations. The Mind stops functioning the way it used to and,
together with that, our sense of identifying with the Mind vanishes. The spiritual
Ego, our separate little self disappears, and we are permeated by a
permanent, light presence. The personality is gone, and what remains is silence
and presence, as the real essence of our existence. From that time on, that
will serve as the real foundation for our internal development.
Are you spiritual Newborn?
Why not
complete the following
~From the book: Frank M. Wanderer:
(This book is an anthology, a collection from his most interesting writings.)
CONTENTS
I. THE AWAKENING
Are you Awake?
The Signs of Spiritual Awakening
The Suffering as Wake-Up Call
3 Turning Points During Awakening
3 Gift of the Mindfulness
Be Mindful and Conscious!
The Age of Spiritual Awakening Has Really Begun – New Research Confirms
II. THE SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Who am I Beyond my Personal History?
You are an Immortal Being, Who is Lost in a Separate World
The Secrets of the Spiritual Journey
The Last Chapter of our Personal History
The First Step of the Journey
Are You a Mature Soul?
4 Levels of the Spiritual Growth
The Three Birth of the Human Spirit
Take this Simple Step to Know Your True Self
The Magical Power of the Real Self-Knowledge
Negative Thoughts as a Teacher
The Shadow of Spiritual Growth: the Guilt
Bad Karma–Obstacle or Challenge on the Spiritual Path?
Transform Your Life with the Power of Acceptance
5 Powerful Steps to Emotional Healing
III. THE MIND
Forgotten Purpose of the Mind
The Power of the Conditioned Mind
The Deepest Unconscious Condtionings of the Mind
The Secret of the Constructive Energy
4 Potent Ways of Accessing the Most Creative Forces of Your Mind
Meditation - an Effective Remedy for the Overburdened Mind
Jump into Unknown!
IV. THE EGO
The Ego – Friend or Obstacle?
The Rise and Fall of the Ego
The Tricks of the Spiritual Ego
Is the Ego the World's Biggest Illusion?
Listen to the Message Beyond All Fear and Anger
Tear off Your Mask
The Secrets of The Embrace
V. THE MATRIX
The Spiritual Seeking – Only a Program in the Matrix?
Does Positive Thinking Free Us From the Matrix?
How to Exit the Matrix in 6 Simple Steps?
The Law of Attraction vs. The Law of Oneness
VI.THE CONSCIOUSNESS
The Revolution of Consciousness
How to Live in the Flow of Life
How the Higher Levels of Consciousness may Appear in our Life?
Where is Your Soul on the Path of Consciousness Evolution?
The Power of Solitude
The Lover of the Silence
Magical Power of the Real Meditation
(C) Frank M. Wanderer, 2013-2018.
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- 3 Stages in the Evolution of the Human Spirit EGO – ALERTNESS – CONSCIOUSNESS
- The Revolution of Consciousness: Deconditioning the Programmed Mind
- The Flames of Alertness: Discover the Power of Consciousness!
- The Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment: How to Escape from the Prison of Mind Games?
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