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CHAPTER ONE
SPIRITUAL LIFE
We are going to begin our discussion about our earthly life with
spiritual life.
What is spiritual life and how should it be fulfilled?
Many of us have a very vague understanding of what spiritual life is
all about. Many people on this earth believe that there is no such thing
as spiritual life. They limit their understanding of our earthly life to
everyday activities that provide for our survival and physical and
material well-being.
Most people have a tendency to confuse spiritual life with religion.
The word “spiritual,” for them, very often, means affiliation with some
kind of religion, going to church services regularly, performing certain
rituals and ceremonies, praying, looking pious, and talking piously, etc.
In other words, for many people to be spiritual means to be religious. Yet,
these two words — “religious” and “spiritual” have nothing or little in
common.
In my encounters with many people throughout the world, I met a
number of people who had no sense for any religion whatsoever,
nevertheless, they were very spiritual people. On the other hand, I know
many people who are deeply religious but have no spiritual sense in
them. From this difference, it is obvious that what some people consider
to be a spiritual life is not necessarily spiritual life, but something else.
But, what is the difference between the spiritual life and the religious
life? Of course, there are many people walking on this earth who are both
religious and spiritual at the same time. And, of course, there are many
who are neither spiritual nor religious.
To be religious basically means to follow a certain doctrine or
teaching of one specific church or religious denomination and to perform
certain activities that are dictated by the dogma of that church and to
consider such external followings to be the only requirements of the
spiritual fulfillment of our earthly life.
On the other hand, to be spiritual basically means to recognize the
fact that our earthly life is only a brief phase of our overall life, a
transitional period, which is subordinated to some higher purpose and
meaning and which is governed and ruled by deep, subjective, internal
dispositions. These dispositions are the result of the state of affairs that
do not originate in this world or in the external factors of human life but
come from an entirely different source that we can never perceive with
our limited physical senses or properly understand with our ordinary
conscious mind.
In other words, to be spiritual is to fully recognize and accept the fact
that our earthly life has a deeper and higher meaning and purpose than
what our ordinary mind or external mind tells us. But recognition and
acceptance of this fact doesn’t necessarily mean that we lead a spiritual
life. We need to go one step further in order to qualify for the statement
that we lead a truly spiritual life. We need to act upon such recognition
and acceptance. We need to do something about it on a regular basis and
not only know about it and talk about it. Knowing, talking and doing
something about it is not determined by what this or that church says or
what this or that person says, but what feels right to us from within
ourselves, by our intuitive feelings. This is how we can primarily
distinguish between being a spiritual person and a religious person.
These two conditions are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but, they
should never be substituted for one another.
Most people do not recognize that there is something more to our
earthly life than just living everyday life with all its hassles, problems,
troubles, bill payments, interactions, activities, etc.
Even people who are neither spiritual nor religious recognize that our
earthly life is, in most instances, never fulfilled by certain prescribed
accomplishments. If we have a need to have a new car, or a better car, or
a new home, or a bigger house, etc., once we fulfill our need or desire in
this respect, we are usually satisfied only until the novelty of that
situation wears off. Once the new car or the new home, or whatever we
have, loses its novelty and our excitement about having them is over, we
start to feel, once again, restless. A new need or desire comes into our life
for which we begin to strive until it is fulfilled to our satisfaction or until
we give it up as impossible to fulfill.
But, fulfillment of any such transient need doesn’t fulfill our earthly
life. Once again, we become restless and dissatisfied and we seek
something else to satisfy our desire for this or that. Even if we were to
acquire all possible material riches of this world or to possess everything
that we need from the standpoint of material life or living, yet we, in
most instances, don’t feel happy for too long a period of time. Something
is always missing. There is always something more. Even for people who
do not believe in anything spiritual and religious, acquirement of certain
riches doesn’t make them ultimately happy. After a while, they want
more. When they get more, they are still not happy because they still
want more. This goes on endlessly. No matter how much they have, they
want still more.
The reason that we are rarely satisfied with our material
accomplishments and always want more, is because we are desperately
trying (often without being consciously aware) to substitute fulfillment of
our certain spiritual needs with material or non-spiritual goods. Our
longing for more doesn’t necessarily mean that we need more. It is an
emotional substitution of our inner need for the spiritual fulfillment of
our earthly life.
For those of us who like quotations from the Holy Bible, let me now
quote what Jesus Christ said about these matters. Of course, many
non-spiritual people who happen to read this will be disgusted with such
quotations. But, it is also for their benefit to know what various sources
say about this important issue.
In the Gospel according to Mark, Chapter 8, verses 36-37, we read:
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man
give in exchange for his soul?”
In the Gospel according to Luke, Chapter 9, verse 25, Jesus Christ says:
“For what advantage is it to a man if he gains the
whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?”
In the Gospel according to Luke, Chapter 16, the second half of verse 15, we read:
“For what is highly esteemed among men is an
abomination in the sight of God.”
And in the Gospel according to Matthew, Chapter 6, verse 33, we learn that we should:
“seek first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Now, from the above quotations it is very obvious that the true
understanding and fulfillment of our earthly life is something entirely
different than just going about our everyday regular business and that
the priorities of our earthly life are somehow off the track completely
because, as we read above, “...what is highly esteemed among men is an
abomination in the sight of God.” This is a very harsh statement! Why
would Jesus Christ say something like that? To bring to our attention
that the arrangement of the state of affairs on this earth is not normal as
most people would like to think it is and that our earthly life is some
kind of a nightmare or a trap that has very little in common with true
life. The true life is always of a spiritual origin and, therefore, in order to
get out of this trap, we have to seek first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all those other things that we value so much and
consider to be the only meaning and purpose of our earthly life will be
added to us as a bonus. But we, for some reason or other, made that
bonus to be the ultimate striving, goal and purpose of our earthly life.
As mentioned above, our need to have a greater and greater chunk of
that bonus is a cunning substitute for our genuine need to seek the
Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Somewhere along the line we
lost our proper perspective and successfully blocked off the surfacing of
our real needs for the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, that is, to
have a proper understanding and fulfillment of our earthly life and its
spiritual aspects.
“To seek the Kingdom of God” signifies that we have lost our way
from the true reality and from the true life. Otherwise, there would be no
need for Jesus Christ to say, “seek first the Kingdom of God.” Secondly, it
means that, even though some of us are aware of the spiritual needs that
must be fulfilled, we do not put those needs at the top of our priority list.
Otherwise, there would be no need to say to seek it first. Thirdly, this
statement means that our earthly life has a different purpose and
meaning than what most of us think it is. Otherwise, we would not be
urged to seek something else. And, fourthly, it signifies that there is an
entirely different reality of life which goes far beyond anything we know
or perceive as life. Otherwise, there would be no need to even mention
anything about some other kingdom than the one with which we are
familiar — our earthly life.
The statement “seek His righteousness,” signifies that what we
consider to be true and proper is neither really true, nor really proper.
And what we consider to be right and satisfying is neither right, nor
satisfying. Thus, it signifies that we live in a total illusion of what this,
our earthly life, is all about.
But, if this is so, and overwhelming experiences of humankind on this
earth bloodily prove that this is so, then how is it that we lost our way
from the true reality and our real home, and live in illusions, distortions
and falsities of that reality? How is it that so many of us consider our
earthly life and the way it is lived and manifested here to be the only
possible, feasible and normal reality? Why is it that, at the present time,
so many of us don’t even believe or don’t even care or want to think that
there is anything else or different or more real than what we have and
experience at every moment of our earthly life? Why is it that we pay so
little or no attention whatsoever, to anything spiritual or what goes on
beyond our everyday living? Why is it that we spend most of our daily
time in activities that don’t allow us to think about or devote our time to
our inner, spiritual needs? And then we don’t even recognize that we
have such needs despite the fact that all our problems, shortcomings,
sufferings, miseries, etc., are a constant reminder that we have such
needs? Why do we spend so much time doing nothing or spend hours in
front of the television screen or in similar useless activities?
Several million years ago there was a race of people on this earth that
had very little resemblance to us, except that they were humanoid as we
are. That race possessed a tremendous knowledge of science and
everything else. That race was highly evolved in all respects and we have
no ability to even imagine how far that race had evolved. The members of
that race originally were very spiritual people and in contact with the
true reality of Creation.
But, at one point in their history, for certain very important spiritual
reasons, they decided to experiment with the idea of bringing people into
life, not by spiritual means, as they themselves were created, but by
natural means without any involvement of anything spiritual.
This experiment was a very long process. After a prolonged period of
time, the scientists of that race succeeded in fabricating a certain type of
people that were made not by spiritual means (that is, by a direct
endowment of God) but, by certain genetical engineering and
manipulation of various animals and their own genes. Those scientists
could not do too much to the spirit of the individual, because the spirit is
always an endowment of the Most High and it cannot be altered by any
natural or scientific means, but they could considerably alter the
physical form of the manifestation of that spirit.
They entrapped that spirit in a physical form in such a manner as to
make that spirit dependent, in its survival in that body, on the external
factors and not on the spiritual factors. Thus, they fully preoccupied that
spirit with the issue of effective survival in that body. This survival was
made possible only by following certain external, non-spiritual ways and
means (such as, for example, physical need for food, drink, elimination of
feces and urine, etc.). A constant preoccupation with external means by
which that spirit’s physical body could survive, led to the development of
the bad habit of looking to nature and its laws, that is, to look outside
and not inside.
Now, when we are constantly outside of ourselves, and when this
state becomes the major source of our bodily survival, we will gradually
tend to lose any need for spiritual considerations.
As time goes by, at one point, we lose all interest in anything spiritual
and come to the point when some of us will deny that anything spiritual
exists or is needed or is important in any manner or way. Thus,
ultimately, we lose our way from our true home and we get lost in the
world of illusions and unreality. And, because it is the only world that we
know (because one of the major purposes of the above mentioned
experiment was to make it impossible for us to perceive directly anything
but the external world and nature), we logically conclude that there is
nothing else in being and existence, or if there is, it is so remote and
incomprehensible for us that it would be a waste of time to try to do
anything about it.
Now, we are all descendents of those people, whose physical form and
mentality was fabricated by the members of the above mentioned race (I
call them the pseudo-creators). If anyone is interested in learning more
about this issue, I recommend reading the book “Who Are You And Why
Are You Here?” and other books whose titles appear on the last page of
this book.
The main thing that was accomplished by the above genetical
engineering and manipulation was the suppression of the vital need to
seek the truth about earthly life and its fulfillment in the only source
where it could be found — in our spirit, or in what I call our Inner Mind.
By a special positioning of certain organs of our physical body and the
manner by which our spirit enters its physical form of manifestation on
this earth, that spirit, or that Inner Mind, is cut off from everything else
in us. The spirit is positioned in our body in such a manner that it is
limited in its function and influence only for a constant maintenance of
life flow from the Most High by which our body and soul are alive or have
life.
The relationship of our spirit, soul and body, thus became a very
limited one-way street, so to speak. The spirit supplies life to our soul
and body and motivates our activities, but our conscious awareness of
this fact has no direct experiential basis or a direct line for
communication with our spirit. In this manner, many people deny any
existence of spirit or soul, or consider it to be something that cannot be
understood or approached, or think that it is a by-product of our body
and it ceases to exist with the death of our physical body.
Under these conditions it is obvious that we are physically built in
such a manner as to be forced away from anything spiritual and to
consider our non-spiritual endeavors to be natural, normal, healthy, and
the only feasible and meaningful ones. Thus, the understanding and
fulfillment of our earthly life is based entirely on our non-spiritual
activities. In this manner, we lost the true perspective of our earthly life.
If we carefully and deliberately examine this situation, we come to
only one possible conclusion: all problems, miseries, sufferings, illnesses,
shortcomings, or whatever we have in the negative sense, which is a
daily occurrence of our everyday life, are the result of the loss of the true
perspective, understanding and fulfillment of our earthly life. That is,
disregard for the spiritual aspects of our earthly life produces all our
problems and miseries, no matter what they are or what form,
manifestation or symptom they take. There is no exception or exclusion
to this rule.
And yet, the true understanding and fulfillment of earthly life is only
possible from the spiritual standpoint. We need to consider and
incorporate the spiritual aspects and factors of our earthly life first
before all its other aspects and factors can be considered and properly
understood, realized, manifested and fulfilled. This is the reason why the
Lord Jesus Christ (whom I call the Most High) stated: “But seek first the
Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be
added to you.” In other words, when we have the proper understanding
and application of the spiritual aspects and factors of our earthly life,
then we shall have a proper understanding and application of all other
aspects and factors of our earthly life. If we forcefully by-pass the
spiritual aspects, we can never arrive at a proper understanding and
fulfillment of any other aspects of our earthly life. We shall end up in
nothing but dissatisfaction, unhappiness, misery, and all kinds of
problems, as it is so vividly illustrated and demonstrated by the history
of humankind since the time of the above mentioned genetic engineering
and manipulation by the most ancient race of people whom I call the
pseudo-creators.
Because of this crucial, vital and most important priority that the
spiritual aspects of our earthly life have for us, it is necessary to first
deal with our spiritual life on this earth.
But what is spiritual life and how do we arrive at its understanding
and fulfillment so that we and our Creator are fully satisfied?
There are certain basic ideas or principles which can give us an
understanding of what spiritual life is all about and how to fulfill it
during our earthly life:
1. We need to believe and to accept the fact that there is a Creator of
life, who is Life in Himself/Herself and by Himself/ Herself. We call our
Creator by various different names, such as, God, Jesus Christ, Holy
Spirit, Jehovah, Allah, Buddah, Krishna, etc. It is important for us to
realize that, even though we call our Creator by many different names,
He/She is One God Indivisible and that there is no other god or gods that
are Absolute or who are able to create the entire Creation.
Our Creator created the entire Creation from Himself/Herself and not
from nothing. His/Her Creation, therefore, is His/Her extension and
process. Because of this fact, our Creator is ever present in everything
He/She created being at the same time more than that which He/She
created and never being identical with His/Her Creation. In other words,
the process of something is not the same as that something. Something
doesn’t depend on its process or extension while the process and the
extension is always dependent on something from which it proceeds and
of which it is an extension. Thus, we can never be gods, but, God is ever
present in us. If God were not present in us, we would not live for a
fraction of a second.
The nature of our Creator is Absolutely Good and Absolutely True, or
it is Absolute Love and Absolute Wisdom. Because of this nature of our
Creator, nothing can ever come from Him/Her which is negative, bad,
evil, false or adverse. Thus, the Most High did not originate the negative
state or the hells or all those nasty and ugly things that we experience in
our daily, earthly life on this planet.
The nature of our Creator is also Absolute Freedom and
Independence. Therefore, He/She created everything and everyone in
Absolute Freedom and Independency. Because His/Her Creation was
created in this condition, being His/Her process and extension, everyone
in His/Her Creation is free, independent, unique, different,
individualized, individuated, and self-aware and has full rights and
privileges to accept or to reject God as his/her Creator. No one is forced
into anything.
Now, the acceptance of this number one spiritual idea or principle can
be one of the most important prerequisites for understanding and
fulfillment of our spiritual life which is an integral part of our overall
earthly life.
2. All problems and miseries of our earthly life originated from the
people on this earth who, at one point in their history, for certain
important spiritual reasons, decided to reject God as their Creator and
turned their back on Him/Her by not reciprocating God’s love, wisdom,
goodness and truth and everything positive. These people were called the
pseudo-creators who, as a result of their ungodly act, fabricated a human
physical form into which they forced the spirit of every individual person
in order that by and through that physical form the spirit would be led
away from God and everything spiritual.
Thus, it is not God, the Most High, our Creator, who causes our
problems and makes us suffer, be miserable and unsuccessful and fail in
our earthly endeavors, but we alone are responsible for all of this because
we rejected or neglected or inappropriately applied the spiritual aspects
of our earthly life.
For that reason, the real truth about the origin of the negative state
can be found in the story about the pseudo-creators who were people who
lived on this planet as human beings many million years ago. It was not
some kind of a fallen angel, Lucifer, who rebelled against God and
seduced Adam and Eve into disobeying God’s orders, as many people still
believe.
No one who was created on a high spiritual level at the rank of
angels, archangels, cherubims, seraphims, etc., by virtue of their very
positive nature, could ever choose to fall away from the Creator. The
story of Lucifer is a symbolic representation of the fact, misunderstood by
people and by some angels, that no one is obliged to be positive, even the
one who was created by the Most High as the very first sentient entity.
That is to say, no one is forced to be good and positive. The story of
Lucifer is an allegory which indicates that no one in the Most High’s
Creation is locked forever in one condition or state. There is no other
meaning to this story whatsoever. There has never been such a person,
who is called Lucifer, who was supposedly the son of God and brother of
Jesus, who decided, for some reasons, to rebel against his Creator.
It is necessary to realize once and for all that Jesus Christ was never
created like all others because, as He Himself says, He always was, is,
and will be. Jesus Christ is the physical manifestation of God, the Most
High on this earth and, therefore, He is not a different person,
supposedly the brother of Lucifer. The original story of Lucifer and its
understanding was purposefully perverted by the pseudo-creators and
perpetuated by all the hells and by many religions for the purpose of
taking us away from the proper understanding of the true nature of the
Most High, of the origin of the negative state and what proper
spirituality is all about.
The negative state could logically originate only in the most outward
degree of the Most High’s Creation which by its position is the most
remote and tenuous toward the spiritual world or anything spiritual. The
negative state can never originate from the top of the spiritual world,
because it is a pure condition, but only at the bottom of the natural
world, where spirituality of the positive state is in its outermost degree
and manifestation. The negative state can never originate in something
that is Absolutely Positive or in the closest proximity to the Absolutely
Positive. It can originate only in the state which is most relative and
most remote to this Absolutely Positive.
The negative state was permitted by the Most High to come to its
realization for a certain very important spiritual learning by all in
His/Her Creation.
Because the negative state originated in the most relative and remote
condition of people on this earth, and has no relevance or being and
existence in the positive state and the Most High, it cannot be and exist
forever. For that reason, when it fulfills its purpose and exhausts its
usefulness for the positive state, it will be eliminated or permanently
deactivated.
Now, recognition and acceptance of this second spiritual principle or
idea constitutes another important source for proper understanding and
fulfillment of our earthly life and its spiritual aspects.
3. The Most High who is the only one God, Creator, at one point in
time, in the form of Jesus Christ, incarnated on planet Earth, into the
negative state, into the body which was originally fabricated by the
pseudo-creators, for the purpose of becoming the Savior of humankind
and the entire Creation as well as everyone in the hells, from the
negative state.
The Most High, thus, made His/Her Godhood human. In other words,
He/She made His/Her Divine Essence human, by becoming a human
being. Through that human aspect of Him/Her, the Most High was able
to experience the negative state, conquer it, subjugate it, and put it
under His/Her control and dominance. In the process of His/Her combats
with the negative state, the Most High, Jesus Christ, gradually,
step-by-step, repudiated and removed everything evil from His/Her
human body and its negative heredity and, through that process and the
process of resurrection, He/She made His/Her body Divine. Thus,
His/Her Human was made Divine as His/Her Divine was made human.
Jesus Christ united that human aspect to His/Her Godhood, which
He/She called Father, and became integrated back into the Most High
with His/Her original physical body.
By virtue of this act, the Most High became approachable on a
personal, individual, private, intimate and very human basis.
From that moment on, the only advisable way to approach our
Creator is through His/Her Human form, which was made Divine, and
which is called Jesus Christ. Rejection of the Divinity of Jesus Christ and
His/Her Human form, as well as rejection of the fact that God became
flesh and made His/Her Divine human, leads to perversion and
falsification of the true spirituality and all its truth and is a source of
most spiritual, religious and other problems.
This third point constitutes another vitally important source of the
proper understanding and fulfillment of our earthly life and its spiritual
aspects.
4. The experiment in life without spirituality or with false and
distorted spirituality, which was carried out originally by the
pseudo-creators, caused tremendous havoc and a warp in the fabric of
Creation, and in time and space. This resulted in a peculiar condition. All
who participated in and on that experiment were thrown out of the true
Creation and swallowed by what is called the Zone of Displacement. In
other words, they became displaced from their true home. After they
became displaced, the pseudo-creators established a very different state
and condition which had not been in being and existence up to that point,
which is called hell. From that position they spread throughout the
entire Zone of Displacement and started to influence the development of
non-spiritual life on this planet and elsewhere.
It is very obvious and logical to say that whoever turns one’s back on
the Most High and rejects His/Her positive state and its spirituality
cannot stay in the same place and state where the Most High is and
where the positive state and spirituality reigns. The two such states are
mutually exclusive. It would be very miserable and uncomfortable for
anyone to stay in the same condition and place with someone who is of a
totally opposing style of life. Thus, everyone who participates in the
negative state, who agrees with, supports, perpetuates and fuels the
negative state and who loves and lives the negative state and who
disregards the spiritual aspects of our earthly life, doesn’t live in the true
universe or even on the true planet Earth, but, instead, he/she lives in a
displaced or dislocated universe on planet Earth. This is the reason why
we were advised by Jesus Christ to seek the Kingdom of God. We lost all
our contact with the true universe of the true Creation. We are
somewhere else.
The realization of this fact about the negative state in the Zone of
Displacement constitutes another important source of the proper
understanding and fulfillment of our earthly life. If we know the truth
about all this and other matters, the truth makes us free, as Jesus Christ
pointed out.
5. Everyone who is on this pseudo-planet Earth or in any other place
or region of the Zone of Displacement (hells, for example) is here or there
by his/her freedom of choice, by his/her free will. No one was forced to be
a part of the negative state. For certain important spiritual reasons and
lessons, we all agreed to come here and to become lost from our true
home and to lose the proper spiritual perspective of our earthly life, with
loss of all our conscious memories that we made such a choice. Because of
these arrangements, we are fully responsible for everything that happens
in our earthly life, to the most minute details. No one else is to blame.
By being incarnated in the Zone of Displacement, where the negative
state is fully activated and dominates, we lost our conscious awareness
and contact with the being and existence of any worlds and their
inhabitants other than with the one in which we currently live. This led
us to a considerable spiritual, mental, emotional and intellectual
deprivation, devastation, and isolation. This, in turn, led us to make
wrong conclusions about our earthly life and its understanding and
fulfillment. It placed us in a spiritual vacuum and starved our spirit and
soul, while at the same time it put us in a position of taking exaggerated
care of our body and material well-being. Thus, a one-sided or lopsided
mode of life started to dominate all aspects of our living leading to
constant breakdowns, problems, lacks, shortages, crises, etc.
Now, the realization of this important fact gives an entirely different
understanding and meaning to our earthly life and puts its fulfillment in
an entirely different perspective.
6. As human beings and as any other sentient entities in being and
existence, we consist of spirit, soul (mentality) and body. There is a
constant interaction going on among them mostly without our conscious
awareness. Each component of us has its own laws, needs, requirements,
states, conditions, and processes. Each component is positioned
differently within us, with different placements in the hierarchy of the
spiritual organization. Thus, our spirit constantly resides in the spiritual
world and with its inhabitants; our soul or mentality resides in the
intermediate world of spirits and with its inhabitants; and, of course, our
physical part or body resides in the natural world with its inhabitants.
On the other hand, by the specific genetic manipulation and engineering
of the pseudo-creators, certain spiritual, mental, and physical conditions
and organs corresponding to them were fabricated and subsequently
encapsulated our true spirit, our true mentality, and our true body. By
these components being forcefully and artificially imposed on us, we are
in constant residence in various hells, in the intermediate Zone of
Displacement and on this pseudo-earth.
Because of this arrangement of the structure of our mind, we are
surrounded by many worlds, by many spirits and entities and by many
inhabitants of the other regions of the Zone of Displacement.
But, because of the original genetic engineering and manipulation of
our physical form, we are not consciously aware of additional “beings”
with us other than those whom we perceive with our physical senses.
By our various affections, desires, wishes, wants and attractions, we
draw to ourselves and draw ourselves to many other spirits and entities
who have the same type or similar affections. Thus, by our good and
positive thoughts, feelings, affections, etc., we are in contact with and in
the presence of positive and good spirits and angels. On the other hand,
by our negative thoughts, feelings, affections, etc. (such as anger, hate,
hostility, foul moods, greed, envy, selfishness, etc.), we are in contact and
communication with evil and negative spirits, demons, satans and devils.
This is the law of correspondences and interconnectedness of
everyone to everyone and everywhere.
It is very important to recognize this situation and to learn to utilize
it to our spiritual advantage in order to properly understand and fulfill
the spiritual aspects of our earthly life. After all, our positive and good
states and affections are supported and expanded by all positive and
good spirits and angels and beings who are assigned to us and who
sometimes are called our Spiritual Advisors. Unfortunately, the same is
true about our negative and adverse states and affections which are
supported and encouraged vehemently by evil and negative spirits,
demons and entities assigned to us.
Because of the above described arrangement, and because our spirit,
in its essence and substance, is a direct endowment of the Most High in
us, our earthly life is not the only life we have. Without being consciously
aware, we live many different lives. On the quality and content of those
lives depends what will happen to us when we are ready to move out of
our physical body and leave it behind on this earth. This indicates that
our life continues in a chosen place, state and form after we physically
die. The only thing in us that is capable of dying is our physical body
because it is built from the elements of the anti-matter of this
pseudo-earth. These elements decay and fall apart. The only thing that
keeps these elements together is our spirit. After the usefulness of our
physical body for our spirit is finished, the spirit leaves the body and the
body falls apart into its original elemental particles. But, with the death
of our body, everything else remains very much alive and the same; our
spirit, our mentality, our affections, our desires, our wishes, our
attractions, etc., all remain the way they were when our physical body
stopped functioning.
At the moment of our physical death, whatever previously held
affections and state of mind we had, they will manifest themselves in
fullness in the other dimension. Because of them, we usually join those
spirits and entities who are of the same type of affections and states.
This is the reason why it is so important to incorporate the positive
spiritual aspects during our earthly life and to put them at the top of our
list of priorities. If we are positive and good, we shall continue being that
way there also, but in a more progressive and growing mode. On the
other hand, if we are negative and evil and material here, the same
condition will prevail there in a worsening state of regression until we
realize the futility of that condition and cry for help and for a desire to
change.
Thus, by our choices, made during our earthly life, we influence our
future destiny in the spiritual world where we go after our physical
death. This is a very spiritual aspect of our earthly life.
For this reason, it is very important to recognize and to accept this
sixth point of the spiritual reality in order to properly understand and
fulfill our earthly life and its spiritual aspects.
7. Whatever is and exists in the Most High’s Creation and in the Zone
of Displacement is and exists for certain very important spiritual
reasons. No matter how remote from anything spiritual it seems, no
matter how earthly, worldly, physical, material, banal or negative it
seems to be, it always has some kind of spiritual correspondence,
meaning and significance. It represents and symbolizes something
spiritual. It serves some important useful purpose. Nothing is tolerated
in the Most High’s Creation or in the Zone of Displacement that doesn’t
serve some important, useful purpose. In such a service is its true
spiritual value.
Therefore, no matter who we are, how intelligent or how mentally
retarded we are, no matter what happens in our everyday life, no matter
what it might be, no matter how miserable it is, it all serves some very
important spiritual purpose. It is allowed to happen so that some
significant and meaningful learnings and lessons could come to their
fruition for our own spiritual benefit. This is true regardless of whether
we are or are not consciously aware that such an important spiritual
purpose is being served by the events and happenings of our everyday,
earthly life. Thus, every human being serves this purpose, be it a genius
of Einstein’s caliber, or be it an idiot that cannot even take care of his/her
basic needs.
For this reason, it is very important to be aware of this fact for the
proper understanding and fulfillment of our earthly life and to utilize it
to our own positive advantage. If we learn our lessons from things that
are happening to us, or from our position, or from the way we are, we
become able to avoid the re-occurrence of unnecessary negative events in
our life. They will re-occur in order to remind us that we have not yet
learned our lessons. Many unnecessary, miserable situations in our
earthly life could be avoided if we were to learn to look upon all events as
having some significance for us and that they are for our spiritual
learning. If we purposely avoid that learning, or if we fail to learn, the
adverse events in our life will constantly re-occur until we start to pay
proper attention to our spiritual well-being. Usually, most of the events
of our earthly life are either important warnings that there is something
very wrong with the way we understand and fulfill our earthly life, or
they are a confirmation that we are going in the right direction. Because
everything serves this kind of use to us and to everyone in the Most
High’s Creation and in the entire Zone of Displacement, in that use it has
its true spiritual value.
8. The spiritual aspects of our earthly life can be found in the fact
that it is a stage on which the nature of the negative state and all its
battles and wars that it wages against the positive state are unfolding
and are being manifested, illustrated and demonstrated. By our free will,
we chose to become a battleground for the forces of good and evil and to
be actively engaged in determining the final outcome of this spiritual
encounter.
Thus, all our activities, likes, and dislikes, moods, feelings, decisions,
involvements, relationships, choices and the way we live our earthly life,
and the way we function are nothing else but strategies for that decisive
spiritual war and its battles and contributions to their final outcome. In
most instances, we have no conscious idea that we are actively
participating in this war.
This situation indicates that we are all equipped with certain tools,
weapons, abilities, gifts, talents, etc., that enable us to properly function
during our earthly life and contribute our part to the outcome of the
spiritual war and to the proper and clear manifestation of the true
nature of the negative state as opposed to the true nature of the positive
state. Therefore, it is our spiritual duty regarding all who are with us
from all other dimensions (and not only toward those whom we see and
hear with our physical eyes and ears or senses) to learn how to properly
and fully actualize, utilize, realize and to put to good use everything that
we have. If we allow certain things to remain idle and dormant in us, we
are reinforcing the negative state in undermining our own effort to live a
productive and fulfilling life on this planet. We are destroying our future
and contributing to a temporary triumph of the negative state. This
helps the negative state to prolong its being and existence.
This eighth point of spirituality is very important to be aware of, to
accept and to act upon because it puts the meaning of our life in an
entirely different perspective. It gives us the true understanding and
possibility of the proper fulfillment of our earthly life and its spiritual
aspects.
9. In order to properly understand and fulfill the spiritual aspects of
our earthly life, we have to learn the following important spiritual fact:
The proper procedure of everything in Creation is from within to
without, from inside to outside, from inwardness to outwardness. No
understanding and truth can be acquired from the outside. Therefore, it
is futile to try seeking any knowledge apart from ourselves. As long as we
avoid ourselves, our own within, we are doomed to remain blind and
confused about ourselves, about our earthly life and about everything
else.
It is difficult to learn by other people’s experiences. Therefore, no one
can teach us how to live our own earthly lives. The information about us
is not available to anyone else, but us. Otherwise, other people would be
us and we would not be us.
Under the influence of the negative state, we forgot about our inner
life where all the answers to our questions are stored. Unfortunately,
under the influence of the negative state, many of us are not even
interested in asking any questions about anything or only about
unimportant transient, material issues. Some people are not interested
in learning about the spiritual aspects of their earthly lives at all. This is
the tragedy of humankind and all its problems. If we are ever to
eliminate the negative state from our earthly life, we have to remove our
disinterest in our spiritual selves and the spiritual aspects of our earthly
life from where everything else originates and proceeds. There is no other
way out of the problems and miseries of our earthly life which is under
the dominance of the negative state.
The ninth point of this spiritual awareness gives us a methodological
tool for discovery of a deeper meaning, understanding and fulfillment of
our earthly life and its spiritual aspects.
Now, the recognition, acceptance, incorporation and actualization of
these or similar points of spirituality, can be considered as taking care of
the spiritual aspects of our everyday life.
But, how do we go about practicing these spiritual aspects in our
everyday earthly life?
One of the best and most effective ways is by a firm, personal
commitment to do certain spiritual exercises on an everyday basis in the
following or similar manner:
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
1. Tell yourself that from now on you are firmly deciding to spend
some time with yourself privately without being disturbed by anyone.
This has to be done on an everyday basis. If you have children, announce
to them that from now on this will be your everyday rule and that you
are not to be disturbed by anyone or anything except in an emergency.
You will be surprised to find out that even children can learn to respect
your spiritual needs. Tell yourself that you desire and wish to discover
yourself, to know yourself and to be good to yourself and to others.
2. Commit yourself to speak with yourself at least twice or three
times a day for a half an hour or more, or for as long as is needed and
feels right to you.
3. Make yourself comfortable in your reclining chair or some other
comfortable chair and relax your body, close your eyes, take a deep
breath, and let everything go. Spend a few minutes in this nice, pleasant,
relaxed condition making sure that everything in you is relaxed and that
you let everything go.
4. As you are nicely and comfortably relaxing, imagine, picture and
visualize yourself sitting on a beautiful, pleasant, warm, comfortable and
green mountaintop. Tell yourself that this is a special place which is
becoming your private sanctuary where nothing, no one or anything of a
disturbing, problematical, adverse, evil nature could be allowed to be or
to enter.
5. Tell yourself that the purpose of your being on that spiritual
mountaintop — your private sanctuary — is to learn how to correctly
understand and fulfill the spiritual aspects of your earthly life for the
benefit of all in the Most High’s Creation and those who are trapped in
the Zone of Displacement. And, for that reason, you are evoking your
right and privilege, without any ulterior motivation, to be in contact and
communication only with your true Creator, and all your positive and
true Spiritual Advisors and helpers and your true Inner Mind.
6. Humbly request that they give you the right answers to your
questions in any mode they desire. Perhaps, by talking to you directly in
your hearing or in your head, or by ideas flowing into your mind, or by
flashing answers in front of your eyes, or by writing them down mentally
on a nice school board that is placed on your spiritual mountaintop for
that purpose.
7. Ask them to reveal to you what are your pressing problems and
needs and what is the true status of your spiritual life? Search and
examine yourself thoroughly for the purpose of seeing how far away you
are from your spiritual awareness and ask what needs to be done to
improve your situation in this respect. Meditate on and thoroughly
discuss the above nine points of spirituality and question yourself as to
whether you truly believe all of them or part of them and to what extent
you believe them and to what extent you apply that knowledge in your
life. After all, we are only blessed when we know and do it. Ask what is
the purpose of your life and what is the best way to go about fulfilling
that purpose on this earth.
8. Ask the Most High for mercy and forgiveness for neglecting your
spiritual life for so long and for acquiring so many problems and
ego-states that are in your way and that are blinding you from proper
spiritual awareness. Ask for help for preventing yourself from falling
back into a previous counterproductive and a basically non-spiritual
life-style in the future. Listen carefully to everything that you will hear
and what will come to you and commit yourself to follow all positive and
good advices and suggestions which your intuition tells you are coming
from the true Most High. Learn to rely on your intuition only. If you have
any uneasy feelings during the time on your spiritual mountaintop,
whatever you receive under those kinds of condition, is not coming from
the true Most High and you should disregard it. But, first, explore what
the source of your uneasiness is and discover the truth about that source.
Ask the true Most High to eliminate everyone and everything that is not
part of the positive state and that is there to mislead, misguide, or hurt
or injure you or to keep you in the previous non-spiritual condition and
state forcing you to backslide into more problems. Tell all such negative
spirits that by your own free will and your own free choice you are
committed to rid yourself of everything negative, adverse and evil from
your life and that you are from now on under the protection of the true
Most High, your true Spiritual Advisors and your true Inner Mind.
Surround yourself with brilliantly white light and keep your
mountaintop and yourself penetrated and illuminated by a white light
coming from the East side of your mountaintop, from the sun where the
Most High is.
9. Give yourself suggestions that you will have the desire and need
and an urge to communicate with yourself, with the true Most High and
with your true Spiritual Advisors everyday, twice or three times a day if
possible, and that you commit yourself to do so without any reluctance.
Examine your everyday activities very carefully and see for yourself how
much time you are wasting on nothingness. Eliminate that waste and
spend that time with yourself on your spiritual mountaintop. When you
are finished, you will open your eyes and you will be refreshed and alert,
clearheaded and full of positive and good feelings and thoughts.
If we constantly do this or a similar type of spiritual exercise, we
shall acquire the true understanding of our earthly life and we shall
fulfill that life to our Creator’s and our own satisfaction. In this manner
we take good care of the spiritual aspects of our earthly life and we begin
to live a truly spiritual life.
We have to be aware, though, of the danger of falling into a ritualistic
and habitual approach or automatization of these exercises. The
habituation, ritualization and automatization of these exercises are a
deadly enemy for the fulfillment of the requirements for a truly spiritual
life.
In order to avoid falling into this mortal danger we always have to
come up with fresh ideas, situations, examples, questions and search. We
have to actively be involved and participate, always finding something
new and exciting to work on. The advice is to give ourselves suggestions,
on a daily basis, to avoid this danger, avoiding the routine and boring
aspect of this work and always being excited and looking forward to our
sessions with ourselves even if sometimes we don’t get any answers or if
not much is happening. In the latter case, it is a test of our persistence,
perseverance, determination, endurance and diligence in doing our
spiritual exercises continuously, even if nothing is happening for a while.
Such tests are a necessary and important part of our spiritual
learning and our spiritual life.
For a more elaborate, extensive and deeper understanding and
practice of a spiritual life, see the step-by-step revelations and
procedures in the book “Who Are You And Why Are You Here?” and in
some other books listed at the end of this book.
Source: UNDERSTANDING AND FULFILLMENT OF OUR EARTHLY LIFE
