Many people seek to find a way into genuine higher human development and cosmic states of God-Consciousness, but they become confused by the many conflicting claims of various authoritative teachers, groupings and schools, lineages or traditions.  This confusion can take a long time to reach a strong commitment or standpoint of certainty, and even then, no matter how calming the choice may be at first, the commitment or certainty is subject to further doubts, inner turmoil and interpersonal disturbance.  This is because both belief and disbelief, faith and doubt, are all too much self-deceptive things of the material human brain.

          Real clarity and sense of direction come from a higher level of consciousness that is not seeking a petty certainty that would seem satisfying to the confusions and doubts operating in the material human brain.  The outer physical cognitive system is not the means of fulfilling an inner quest of the Spirit.

          One of the main reasons the seeker is kept stagnate, unevolved, doubting and unable to make the right higher connection is basic human selfishness and laziness.  The seeker, though apparently interested in evolutionary subjects, wants relief from material responsibilities and does not want to have to perform any works of valid service for the real good of all.  The seeker feels too lofty and advanced in his or her own mind to have to "go down" to humane levels of helping out where help should be given.  And such seekers do not go to spiritual heights.  They go into various hells and purgatories in the afterlife, followed by bad rebirths in more difficult kinds of circumstance than their present one.  Their arrogant laziness and nasty judgements toward various spiritual teachers and situations only lead them on a downward path of endless scepticism, cynicism and personal rotting.  They can sometimes see the limitations of various obvious, well-advertised paths, but they do not see their own unworthiness for the real thing.  In fact, the real thing hides itself from such self-rotting doubters.

          The Sufis have a very wise saying which any seeker of higher dimensional development should keep in mind: "Do not seek the way in a place where the unworthy seek it."

          Many of the Sufi and Yogi schools in the East, as well as other lines of valid esoteric work elsewhere, sometimes retain traces of elements of what was at one time a conscious, living form of higher evolutionary work of various advanced teachers and advanced individuals cooperating together in a promising manner.  The sad fact is however that most of these lines of work have degenerated into socio-cultural activities carrying on in imitation of their predecessors.  These socio-cultural activities then went on to "set up shop" in a variety of other countries, indiscriminately drawing emotionally disturbed, selfish and lazy doubters and shallow believers into useless situations.  The unworthy have sought and found something they like in thousands of silly, pretentious situations, which has caused further degeneration and good reasons for doubting, hesitating and personal rotting of isolated seekers.

          There is this on-going proliferation of groups of gullible emotionals surrounding silly, self-styled "teachers" coupled with a vast scattering of isolated brainy esoteric critics who want to argue with anyone they can get attention from.  To expect anything from ordinary emotional or brainy type people is a waste of time.  They will continue in their neurotic emotional groupings on the one hand and their cynical self-stagnating isolations on the other hand.  They will go on living in their lower mind of dull fantasies, daydreams and superficial knowledge.  They will sometimes think they are people of practical intelligence, but they will have no real creativity or higher intuition.  This is because both their higher emotional and higher intellectual centres are not yet awake and functional.  These two higher centres are called in Tibetan Yoga, the Bodhichitta, awakened heart-consciousness of compassionate feeling and wise voidness.  In the Sufi path, these are called the higher subtle organs of Qalb, Heart and Ruh, Spirit.  In India, these are called Bhaktiyoga and Jñanayoga.  Seekers who lack the balanced and true awakening of these two higher inner centres are beaten before they begin on the upward path of human development.

          Are you prepared to face these facts in your own spiritual quest?  You know, the hidden structure of surrounding spiritual realities is not difficult to see when you are no longer desperate to satisfy emotional greed or intellectual arrogance.  Subtle perception thrives on mental peace.  Social experiments and brainy arguments make one's consciousness too superficial and limited for higher purposes.

©2004 Kevalin Absoluto