Abundance And Beyond: A New Paradigm

For over three decades, my life's work has been an exploration into the depths of human discontent. This journey has led me to the teachings of spiritual masters from both the East and the West, including Jungian psychology, Gurdjieff's 4th Way, Ramana Maharshi's Self Enquiry, Leonard Orr's understanding of the birth trauma, and David Hawkins Map of Consciousness. In this blog post, I aim to share my findings, encapsulating insights from 35 years of meditation practice. My primary goal is to engage you in an evocative inquiry into the root cause of human suffering—how misidentification with the false creates scarcity.

But First:

We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Before we became children of a mother and a father, we were children of the "universe," born of mystery and grace. Forgetting our spiritual heritage, we learned to misidentify our eternal nature with our body-mind identity:

Born fearless, innocent, trusting, loving, playful, right, and knowing, we learned to be afraid, guilty, guarded, hateful, austere, wrong, and doubting.

We still are those children.

Nature's Abundance:

Simple observation reveals nature's overwhelming abundance. In fact, nature's yield is always greater than the initial investment. For example, a single seed can feed for a lifetime. Scarcity, whether it be a lack of love, money, intimacy, security, sobriety, or self-esteem, family, or health, contradicts nature. The question is why?

The Mechanics of Unhappiness:

In spite of nature's abundance, the majority of people live lives of quiet desperation. At the core of scarcity is a condition of misidentification rooted in our first experience of life: the trauma of birth.

Pain causes our awareness to pivot outwardly, our consciousness to imprint pain as a "first impression," and orients the mind to the negative, setting the disposition for how we interpret future experiences.

Parental Approval/Disapproval:

At this early stage, the infant is encouraged to maintain its outward focus. In time, the infant experiences a "first impulse" of separation, marking this momentous occasion with an outcry of its first thought, "Ai...Aiiii." Thus, the ego self is born, referring to itself as "I."

The child proceeds to deepen its body-mind identity, cultivating it through a process of behavior punishment, and reward. Accordingly, it determines that love is therefore conditional, and that happiness is an external achievement.

Education Indoctrination:

At school, the journey of misidentification continues, as the child is taught to view life in terms of problems and solutions. Learning to orient its attention-focus into the future, it distances itself from the present, which until now it had experienced as a place of play, exploration, and discovery. In time, the child's mind becomes wholly fixated on the future, incapable of abiding in the here and now.

Religious Indoctrination:

Throughout the child's formative years, it discerns ideas of a greater power, residing outside itself. A power that can redeem it from its wrongs, offering salvation. Thus, we learn to worship a power outside of ourselves, further orienting our mind's attention into the abstract.

Adulthood:

By the time we reach adulthood, identified with the "body-mind identity," we no longer recognize or discern our spiritual heritage. Trapped in time and the landscape of our distorted thinking, any suggestion of the idea of being spirits is treated with disdain or is seen as circumspect and fantasy.

A New Paradigm:
The narrative we hold true about ourselves is that we are physical beings and that consciousness is a product of our thinking mind. And that, unlike our nature all around us, our capacities are finite and limited.

It does not occur to us to suspect any interference until crisis strikes, and we begin to wonder if we are not doing it all wrong, and if there is such a thing as lasting fulfillment after all. Until now, our energies had been exclusively focused on securing for apparent needs: scarcity, desire, fear, and servitude. Suddenly, we find ourselves interested in things unseen:

Thus, our journey of recovery begins.

Enlightenment:

Understanding the root cause of human suffering is the first step toward liberation. Scarcity, stemming from distorted thinking that, in turn, is the product of misidentification, is a condition that can be ended. We have but to turn on the light, and the darkness vanishes without a trace.

Conclusion:

Lasting fulfillment is a product of self-realisation, not sense-gratification. We are vibrational beings. Truth elevates us, and falsehood disables. Through self-awareness practice, we can raise our frequency and liberate ourselves. Abundance is intrinsic to our nature, with lasting fulfillment being part and parcel of who we already are.

If you are ready to begin your transformative recovery journey and self-realization, reach out. And don't hesitate to share your thoughts in the comments below.

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