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24-02-2019, 01:09 PM
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What really is spiritual development?
How do you define it.
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24-02-2019, 03:58 PM
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Master
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Location: Lowell, Massachusetts
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Hi,
I would define it as Self Discovery.
John
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25-02-2019, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by John32241
Hi,
I would define it as Self Discovery.
John
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That's the title of a book I'm reading at the moment
"Self discovery, the spiritual psychology of CJ Jung" |
25-02-2019, 11:44 PM
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Master
Join Date: Sep 2013
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Discovering the Creator/God through your heart, not organized religion.
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26-02-2019, 02:03 AM
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Master
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Location: Delhi, India
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Continuous contemplative consciousness correction
Leading to
Continuous meditative Oneness connection
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The Self has no attribute
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26-02-2019, 10:04 AM
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Master
Join Date: Oct 2014
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Spiritual development is just ego development. Necessary to an extent. Its just too easy to become fixated on insights and experiences. You come to certain realizations or develop certain insights and without knowing you start clinging to it. Then you want to stop, share, express, teach, preach, etc. The more developed the ego, the more smarter it becomes, and the more subtle the deceptions become.
Unless you've examined yourself to the point where you are left utterly confused and afraid. Where it becomes more like a total meltdown. But that would be more along the lines of spiritual dismantlement instead of spiritual development. As your spiritual identity would likely be the first to be dismantled before many other things.
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26-02-2019, 11:13 AM
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Guide
Join Date: Dec 2013
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A growth in awareness
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Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. - Shari R Barr
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26-02-2019, 07:30 PM
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Master
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Golden Bay, New Zealand
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I consider spiritual development as the journey from identification with personality to identification with Consciousness. We then function through a Soul-infused personality.
The next stage is identification with Being, where the Soul-infused personality becomes an expression of Spirit.
Peace.
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26-02-2019, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by iamthat
I consider spiritual development as the journey from identification with personality to identification with Consciousness. We then function through a Soul-infused personality.
The next stage is identification with Being, where the Soul-infused personality becomes an expression of Spirit.
Peace.
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I admit that I really hate all these different words - Soul! Spirit! Consciousness! Being!
Who knows who means what? Right? 
Regardless of that, can you talk a bit more about how you see the difference between these two stages you mention?
A soul infused personality VERSUS Spirit?
How does that come into being, and how is that really different in your mind?
Thank you
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04-03-2019, 12:25 PM
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Knower
Join Date: Oct 2018
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The sense of no-self. Free from thought. But can still think if you want to.
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