Your Spiritual Journey

[Lucyan28]

Originally Posted by David K

Thank you for your reply. Our ego is of course linked to our spirit and the ego is very important to our survival. It drives us forward to want what we haven't got. If our ancestors didn't worry about tomorrow then they would have probably starved. Our ego comes from a our survival instinct. We inherited a constant and never ending dissatisfaction. It is natural to be dissatisfied with what we have, it helps us to survive.

Back in the early days of man's existence he had to constantly look for food and shelter. If he didn't worry about tomorrow he would not have one. We inherit this from our ancestors.

We see this in children, always craving a new toy and dissatisfied by what they have. This follows us into adulthood wanting a new job, car, house etc..

This survival instinct has become a destructive force leading some of us to unhappiness.

When the spirit is awakened and linked to the ego it can see this for what it is and is able to build on the model. The spirit's realisation is, "yes I want a new house or car but I don't have to put my happiness on it and be dissatisfied with what I have. Everything I have I wanted at one time." I can now move forward and still be happy with what I have. This is the awakening of the inner self.

Exactly this is the way to maintain a balance between the apparent opposites, there is no inner self, there is only self, it's up to us to find the harmony in this awakening

[running]

Originally Posted by David K

To see a world in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake


The Ego Self
Your ego drives you. It sets your goals and is responsible for the way that you feel about your place in the world. The ego is never satisfied; it longs for material gratification and to be anywhere other than where it is. It looks to the future with longing and the past with regret. It is never happy with the status quo. Emotions only exist in the past or the future. The past is loaded with emotional intensity, and the future with your hopes and fears. Now is the only place where emotional states do not exist. The past is a now that once was. You cannot change the past, just what you think about it. The future is a now that is yet to be. The only reality is now, and now is just a nanosecond. In that nanosecond of time there is not time to apply an emotion. Now is always still.

The Spiritual Self
The stillness of now has a spiritual intensity that sits above the ego self. When you observe your ego in action the observer is the spiritual self. The spiritual self has a strong sense of purpose above the ego. It has a charity and compassion for the world as a whole, is tolerant of others, but courageous in confronting injustice. It is your spiritual self that will ultimately guide your life purpose whether you are aware of it or not. The spirit enjoys the higher positive emotions of togetherness, universal love, oneness and peace.

When you die, which is the only certainty there is, all you will leave behind on planet earth is a dash between your date of birth and the date of death. To your ego this is devastating, to your spirit this is liberating. To know that all the ups and downs of your life don’t mean anything in the fullness of time, liberates the spirit from the ego self. The next time you are stressed by what you think is a significant event; remember it is only a dash.

Where are you on you spiritual journey, how far have you come?

And or the spirit may works its way through the nervous system and your left with a background of intoxicating bliss. And then your mind can wonder, desires can wander, emotions, and so on but the joy see's its way through it. Why? I don't know? But it happens. Happened to me. Its a witness I suppose in that its superceding everything else. And just is. It to me is cool cause feeling good has value to me. And having to do something to feel good is a bummer cause it will always come and go. This can only remain from what I have seen.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by David K

...remember it is only a dash.

Where are you on you spiritual journey, how far have you come?

I'm still in the - .

At Tipharet, came from the womb.

[Swami Chihuahuananda]

Originally Posted by wstein

There is no yardstick, I have come as far as I have come.

Far enough to see that there's no yardstick is pretty far , by my measure

Originally Posted by Hadit

At Tipharet, came from the womb.

Could you expand on that please

[Swami Chihuahuananda]

It might be from that wierd Star Trek Next generation episode, where the race of Nimnulls only spoke in metaphor

It's from the kabbalah. But it's something that I know little about. It's worth listening other views, even though they may seem strange to us.

93,

I follow - to an extent and in my own way - the tree of life as a guide to training my mind and reaching my idea of enlightenment in general keeping with Thelemic belief. Tipharet is about the halfway point, about the time - for me - when knowing one's True Will and listening to one's HGA (higher self / daimon / voice of god / etc as metaphors) becomes much more commonplace. Essentially I have seen the universe as a hyper interconnected place, have enjoyed the "hippie" stage of ones spiritual journey, and have become successful in the practice of magick. I still am battling my egoism and semi-trained mind and have a good distance to go, but - in keeping with my system - I'm farther than the average Joe.

"Where are you on you spiritual journey, how far have you come?"

Still trying to plat fog alas.

I figure that corporeal is to do with corporeal and that beyond corporeal is another matter for soul/spirit.