This article by James may be helpful to many who are struggling with this right now. Please go to the original.Much of what occurs for me personally, is that I no longer try to “figure things out”, particularly using the “intellect only” mode. That worked in college and in grad school, but not for today. Today I generally say I “get” things… it’s not intellect, it’s not “feelings”, it’s even more expansive than “coming from the heart”… it is an instantaneous KNOWING. No explanation necessary, and no explanation given. If I “get” to be, do, go, I simply “get” it. And that’s it. Almost NEVER, do I ask, “Why?” I just be, do, or go.
“Masters often say the mind is a good servant, but a terrible master. In the past, the mind has taken many of us on a journey of unfulfillment and dead ends. It is like giving your car to a really bad driver repeatedly, but you cannot take away the keys. It is also like an addiction to a way that is known – a comfort zone – even though this comfort zone has never brought you happiness.
“If you are truly an ageless soul, a multidimensional spirit…whose roots go all the way back to the source…a child of Creator once endowed with the same love, joy, bliss and creational powers – how do you remember?. The answer to that is… HOW DID YOU FORGET?
“When you know how you forgot and where the memories reside then you are on the path to awakening. It is often a battle with external forces keeping you from your internal awakening. It is also a battle with the ego, societal programming and unfortunately often family, friends and society in general that wants you to stay within the herd.
“Can you know who you are from the intellect? Can you know who you are through books written by intellects? It is through the development of the ego and the intellect that you got lost – forgot who you truly are, who you were. This is why every great master has said we have to transcend the ego, the intellect, to enter divine mind and know your eternal multidimensional self.
“What they are saying is you have to suspend the ego – the intellect – to tap into Divine Mind. This can be done by meditation, by initiations from those who have mastered the ego and intellect, making it the servant and not the master… Buddha said we must observe things from a fresh mind – the mind of a child – to truly understand.
“Most will resist or dismiss this altogether. Your ego will say, “Yeah, what about the real world?”. To that we say….have you LOOKED at the real word? The wars…the disease..the lack…countries governed by the elite who are spiritually bankrupt? All of this is solvable if enough people choose higher mind and operate from the heart.
“Many have a great deal invested in the intellect; they will be the last ones to awaken. They will also have the hardest lessons because they have the greatest attachment. What happens when you have years of study…have written books…have held positions of power and authority only to find out it was all based on a lie? The truth is in the heart.”
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Self Mastery, Tools for Transcending the Ego and Healing Unseen Negative Influencesby James Gilliland, March 28, 2017
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