Act, Don't React
If we ever want to become fully realised, we must come to internally realise the difference between taking conscious action within our environment and unconsciously reacting to our environment.
Understanding the difference between taking conscious and appropriate action and reacting
When we begin to truly start engaging with the spiritual or self developmental process, or what is referred to throughout the Unified Consciousness Framework as the Involutionary Path or Involutionary Process, we generally find ourselves having to look at the details of Life more closely than we ever did before. This is because we start to become more conscious of our interactions with the world, as a new level of understanding begins to become formulated within us that relates to many of the phenomena which we thought we had fully understood before.
On some level, we understand that if there is a path then this is something that we can ‘walk along’. The idea of walking along our path is therefore an apt metaphor that we often use when looking at this process. If we can understand where we are on the path and where the destination of the path leads to, it then becomes possible to be able to plot our route on that path. It is the observation of our progress along that route which makes us feel as though we can, in some way, ‘observe’ and measure our progress along it. This is something which makes us feel more comfortable with the process because we feel as though, even if we do not have ‘power’ over the process, at least we have the power to observe our progress with it.
Although this brief summary of things is an attempt to try and summarize what is occurring in some way, it is not exactly the reality of the situation. Having said that though, it does provide us with a solid enough basis to spark up a discussion from. For a more in-depth understanding it is best for the reader to work through the Unified Consciousness Framework, where much of the framework helps the reader to come to a greater understanding of the whole process in its entirety. Although what has been discussed so far will not be the focus of this article, it is worth having taken the time to cover this briefly to provide any readers who have perhaps not read many other articles with some vital context.
Towards the beginning stages of us engaging with this process, we find ourselves trying to understand the process so that we can feel more comfortable with the fact that we are engaging with it. In some way, we are trying to allay any fears we have of engaging with the process by understanding what engaging with the process will entail. To this end, we often try to look at and observe those individuals who we consider to be further advanced along that same path than us in order to try and gain some idea of what our lives will come to look like after significant progress has been made by us along the path.
