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Old 06-09-2019, 10:53 AM
Greenslade
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Originally Posted by Jyotir
A perfect description of human life - the Spiritual Adept being the Master within, God, except conditionally unknown. But especially the part about ignoring what is known, as when ego becomes consciously aware of Spirit but resists and evades its call; a self-perpetuated schism if you will. If conscious and deliberate, that could be the very definition of spiritual complacency and dysfunction, some unfortunate suffering, - or even perhaps, the genesis of what we call 'mental illness'. But that's another thread.
It's called cognitive dissonance, it's when people either can't or won't accept information that could potentially conflict with their current mindsets. People become attached the the definition of "Spiritual Adept" or the label of "Spiritual", which is often a reflection of their self perception, For others it's an alter ego or even an escape from a reality that they either can't or won't deal with and Spirituality itself can be the genesis of a mental health issue. Spirituality is not the genesis of Spiritual complacency and dysfunction, the potential for that to be created already existed in the dysfunctional mind. The Spiritual mind is no different to any other mind in its psychological or neurological functions and thinking that it is is dysfunctional. Those functions (including the subconscious) are at the root of Spirituality and are largely responsible for the Spiritual framework.

So you see, an understanding of the Jungian ego has indeed understandings for the Spiritual Adept because it underpins their Spirituality more than Spirituality itself. Sadly, the Spiritual Adept, because he/she chooses to ignore what is not labelled as Spiritual, has limited their consciousness and self-awareness willingly. Similarly, categorising consciousness and placing it into hierarchies are obvious signs that the ego the Spiritual Adept often considers non-existent within themselves is existent after all and is effectively 'steering' their Spiritual development. The Spiritual Adept is both Spiritual and Adept because of the Jungian ego.

Perhaps we could gain more wisdom if we simply admitted that, in a thread such as this and a few others, we're so far out of our boundaries all we have is mere speculation and no real answers other than ego and opinion. We're not going to really understand the Universe around us because we'd rather ignore the mechanisms that are largely responsible for the creation of our own realities.

You see, matter is emergent of consciousness as so many religious, Spiritual and scientific sources will tell you and consciousness that is emergent of matter - what Tolle defines as "object consciousness", which is basically form or anything to do with electrical and chemical processes of the brain/mind mechanism and including beliefs and knowledge - is backwards. Like the Spiritual Adept gaining knowledge and understanding via books, forums and YouTubes.

Perhaps what we need is a thread that gets back to basics.
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