The Fallacy Of Living A 'Spiritual' Life
Developing ourselves to see through the illusion of the ‘spiritual game’
As life on the planet continues to develop, the human collective will increasingly come to realise their own inherent nature as a result of a variety of different events and experiences that unfold over that period of time. This process of realisation, as a collective, is part of something much greater unfolding at a cosmic level, as the whole cosmos gradually inches towards realising itself through its parts. With each new stage of realisation in that process being completed though, new challenges and conflicts will emerge that are each related to various different blocks in conscious perception which need to eventually become resolved as a part of that progression.
An example that we can briefly look at to illustrate this point in more modern times is the dissemination of many of the Yogic practices into the Western World over the last few decades. Although this has undoubtedly produced notable benefits for millions of people, at the same time, it has created a generation of ‘spiritual warriors’. Although these individuals have come in touch with many of the Yogic concepts and practices, they have not gone through the rigorous training that a guru would have placed them under in order to establish these ideas within themselves in a balanced way as a part of their lived experience; let alone being able to teach such concepts and practices to others. Therefore, there is typically some gap that exists within an individual’s perception that has come across Yoga in this manner as a result of the accelerated and not fully integrated manner in which they have absorbed the information. This gap we can think of as existing between the knowledge they have gained, precisely because many of these practices have become so prolific, and the current conscious level of perception of many of these practitioners based on the degree to which they have integrated their experience of life.
Practically speaking, the existence of this gap is in some way representative of many of the conflicts that we see emerging in the world around us at this time, these conflicts finding their root in the gap between what we know and where our internal landscapes have been developed to perceive. If we want to bring more harmony to us, and for that matter the world in general, these conflicts must be resolved. In broader terms then, lying at the root of this gap in all instances we could come to see the difference between intellectually understanding that everything is one, and consciously realising this as a truth within ourselves. The basis for such a statement becomes even more obvious when we realise that the word ‘yoga’ itself can be roughly translated as ‘union’. Therefore, the practice of Yoga will only be able to create this perception of unity in the individual up to the point that they have developed their internal landscape to be able to perceive it. In other words, engaging with Yoga at whatever level an individual has developed themselves to will produce the equivalent level of results within them. Even though practicing yoga will help an individual to realise this union to a greater degree, the point that is being made here is that an individual will never be able to directly experience this union if their own internal landscape has not come into a unified state.
