Science of the Spirit
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 spiritual Ego.
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.
About the author
Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D is a professor of psychology, a consciousness researcher and writer. Frank is the author of the books The Flames of Alertness: Discover the Power of Consciousness!, The Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment: How to Escape from the Prison of Mind Games? and several books on consciousness. With a lifelong interest in the mystery of human existence, Frank's work is to help others wake up from identification with our personal history and the illusory world of the forms and shapes, and to find our identity in what he calls "the Miracle", the mystery of the Consciousness.You can also follow his blog HERE
Reader Comments
1...First were born & taught to be, in the main, egotistical & self centered.
2...Second we live & work, in the main, to service & become slave to our egos & selfishness.
3...Thirdly, for those that wake up, we realize all is NOT what we were taught & brainwashed to believe rendering a change on our views on life & how we perceive others.
Whether it's spiritual or just natural who knows but if this realization is recognized & accepted by the selfish & egotistic is another matter on how strong number 1 was..and our material & social success level in number 2..
Of course all in not black & white so shades of recognition will vary & change from time to time.
The famed holocaust survivor and psychiatrist, during a Q&A following a presentation on Jung and Freud was asked, "Can you distill for us how you see Freud and Jung?" Bettleheim replied, "Certainly. To understand human beings, I need Freud; I don't need Jung."
Jung had many more things to add to the human condition besides pure raw survivalist materialism.
Now it's interesting about psychopath/narcissism -> Freudian
While reading the comment below
"Bruno Bettleheim, really??? By: C-dog
Isn't he the guy who falsified his PHD credentials and went on to abuse and misdiagnose children entrusted to him at the University of Chicago's Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School?
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I can honestly say with my hand on my heart: I've never wanted to f*** my mother, and I've never wanted to k*** my father.
He would need to know why not..???
Man your making me laugh..
Dont know about the old man though...been tempted at times...well maybe not that bad
Another one = "penis envy".
I've been with a lot of girls in my time: I swear. I've asked. I've looked for signs of insincerity around the eyes when I've asked. I've surreptitiously monitored behaviour in pursuit of the truth, and, unless I am an absolute and complete smash success in the face of all, at maintaining my naivety, or unless women are such fantastic liars/actresses/blaggers/whatever, they've managed to slip it by me, I think I can say unequivocally and without fear of contraception, feminism-be-dashed: There's no such thing damn as penis envy.
Maybe you asked too many hetrosexuals...My wife always tells me to go & fu*k your your self..Is that not envy..
Another one = "Kissing is a perversion".
What kind of a meany would say a thing like that?
@HFL:
When you learn to speak the language of animals and plants and other 'lesser items', things become more clear.
When you constantly need a dictionary and speak only English (or some other, similar), things remain muddled.
Freud needed a dictionary, as did Jung and so apparently, do you.
Nice try.
And not to worry either, because most humans are like that (Freud, Jung and you), nowadays. They are all making real nice tries. Everyone is really making nice tries.
It (requiring a dictionary and a set of encylcopedias, a library of law books, ohh and now the internet as well) is a trend, a veritable vogue happening, an exclusively human thing.
Nice try!
signed,
'only human'
Sounds horrible..
He may have one here..
Nah. Maybe Freud was suffering from penis envy himself. Maybe it got worse when he saw some porcelain-skinned Viennese gorge-pot snogging the handlebar moustache off some guy on the Wiener Riesenrad.
Let's face it: Circumcision - it's a life sentence.
Anyhow good to have a laugh with you HFL
Matt
Anyway. Merry Xmas, Matt, and to all.
Mmm. 1:55. Time for my first glass of Dry Oloroso. Like a carnival to the brain it is.
Time to get my unseasonal haggis out of the refrigerator an' all.
Easy on the Oloroso you might confuse Jean with Gene.
I'm not a drinker so don't even know what Oloroso is but I'm about to learn in a sec.
Isn't he the guy who falsified his PHD credentials and went on to abuse and misdiagnose children entrusted to him at the University of Chicago's Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School?
by Sonia Barrett
After all is said and done there is beauty in the human experience. There is splendor in the dance. At what point do we begin to feel the humor and excitement in having moved about on planet earth. Memory is our ticket to the pleasure of the ride. To re-member is to reassume sovereignty while setting aside the illusion of imprisonment. We stand at the brink of an opportunity to take real flight once again, unlimited and uninhibited by the magic spell cast oh so long ago.
The games we have played; race wars, religious wars, cultural wars, political wars, competitive wars, the gender war and oh so many disharmonic themes. All of which has been an essential part of discovery, the anthology of the expedition. When we begin to ask questions which go deeper than the commonly shallow views this is a sign that we are being stirred to return from our position as sleepers/pawns in the game. It is a sign of accomplishment, we have discovered life, we have discovered death, we have danced in the valley of both. We have rung the human experience dry, its time to create something new.
The great realization is that although we have been operating in the slowest time line of the seven plains, we have amassed a wealth of knowledge having pushed the human experience as far as potentials would allow. The worth is immeasurable for it takes great courage to journey into this field of forgetfulness to accumulate data for the overall expansion of the whole. You have gathered a record of experiences which could not be calculated out of mere speculation but only through emotions. To feel, to taste, to have your consciousness integrated into the dream, the matrix itself is an amazing feat of bravery. Relationships have been the magnificence in the journey. It is through our relationships with one another that we have been able to weave these emotional experiences. It is through the joy, the pain, the anger, the love, the bitterness, survival, struggle, the caring, the selfishness, the unselfishness, the competition, the horror, the thrill, all of which we have willingly gifted to each others lives. Without the unselfish sacrifice of our brothers and sisters you could not have experienced the splendor of the game in this playing field of the great cosmic dance.
The intimacy experienced between man and woman although miniscule in the more expansive richness of the eternal orgasmic flight we have tasted of its electrifying captivity. Through relationships of the heart we touch the core of our souls, we tap into the core of creation as our bodies simulate the rhythmic formula seen throughout life, as we breathe in we breath out, it is the formation of a vortex where two points meet as energy spins at opposite ends and come together, bodies move in and out coming together in further simulation of the point zero effect forming antigravity points, a vortex. It is at point zero, the point of no spin where we create. From point zero all unfolds in creation and so it is with our movement in physical intimacy as we bring forth life. We have never stopped simulating the great formula, how could we. In our descent into matter we have simply reduced the infiniteness of ourselves to an essence, a much reduced vibration of who we are in the vastness of the unlimited. The chimera has been that we are the sum total of this diminished essence. When this realization comes home to us there is laughter as we can now see and enjoy the comical realization of the blindness and forgetfulness experienced, when we realize that it was all real yet it wasn’t.
The realization that there is nothing out there, but that it is all happening in a deep aspect of mind, collective agreements of optical illusions seated next to our private realities created. We validate each others existence, we validate each others dream, we are therefore important to one another despite these reduced feelings for others in our lives. What profound love, what profound allowing, and what beautiful sacrifice for without these amazing players your journey would not have unfolded the way it has. Every moment of all of your experiences have lead you to this glorious moment, a moment of discovery, for its time to return home to who you are. What worlds will you create after this one, what will you imagine into existence in another potential of time. You are a melody playing endlessly as an echo throughout creation. You are felt in all potentials of time. You are time itself. You are what you seek. Again I feel a profound love for the journey and the many aspects of myself which you are, I am you and you are me.
Death is but an illusion an un-mastered aspect of the journey. Your coming home without the previously experienced booby traps and dead ends requires your mastery or reintegration of the atomic field as matter will no longer appear as a barrier or ruler of your movement through space and time. Decay and old age will be but a memory, simply an essential experience in the matrix. The matrix operates on temporal principles in order for you to return again and again to the experience. You are timeless. You have the ability to regulate the molecular structure of your body moving beyond the illusion of this system designed for the human experience of limitation. Gravity is your fear yet it exists as a strong defining point in the matrix. It is a reminder of your physical limitations, our inability to defy the laws of physics that we have come to accept as a truth. We defined the laws of physics by which we would move about in the system now we must redefine who we are beyond the old operating programs stored in our biology and in our consciousness, our perception.
The game is beautiful once we allow ourselves to re-member only then will we enjoy being here on a much grander level. The transition can be painful and challenging and not for the faint of heart but you must ask yourself just how many more times are you willing to relive this limited aspect of what you have created. There is no rush for ultimately at some point in time we will all return home to conscious awareness of who we are as co-creators. As the old programs fade away our lives change and everything around us changes, pain comes as we experience withdrawal systems to the chemical addiction/bonds formed with people, places, things, experiences and personalities which have formed our identity. We are being pulled away from the formula of the matrix by our own choosing and desire to regain memory. We can no longer be the same. We must weather the illusionary obstacles in our path. They will present themselves but you need only change your perception by utilizing them as opportunities to grow stronger and more self assured in who you are. They will pass but there will be a desire at times to return to the old as an escape from the pending difficulties that appear to be before you. Attempting to go back will only result in intense difficulties as what you left behind was only an illusion which you are now attempting to recreate, illusions whose time have now past. The beauty of flight stands before us, as we unfold, and our bodies are reactivated as the amazing star ships that they are. Those returning home to sovereignty, to freedom will begin to make discoveries not yet seen by science but it is who you are. You are a divine cosmic scientist whose abilities will far exceed what this matrix has to offer.
Oh yes it’s been a beautiful journey and we have only just began. Just simply allow yourself to be what you already are!
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I already got a taste for this years ago. It tastes like mumbo jumbo.
Nothing inside that article explains what to do. It's cointelpro New Age, to tell us to sit and things will change.
Maybe you see something more useful here. I just see word salad.
Jung wasn't speaking word salad. There is useful ways to use archetypes, etc to help ourselves with issues.
This just doesn't offer anything, it's just a pretty cover of a book that has nothing of substance.
Really gone completely? I (my personality) does not agree with this completely, because there remains a kind of transparent being that relays communications to the world of physical presence. A kind of hip-hop between the internal reality in which we know and realize and the external reality in which we act. Gradually act as a unique immortal spirit being materialized out of cosmic dust.