One of the secrets of writing is that you can create a compelling argument for almost anything. Regardless of its logic, veracity, or fact, almost anything can be created as verification to justify a point of view or a manipulation of reality.
Clearly, this has relevance to just about every topic under the sun. But nowhere is it more prevalent and proliferating than in the areas of spirituality and consciousness. Long the province of charlatans, mystics, scientists, and religious fanatics alike, the field of spiritual awareness is peppered with half-truths and unproven beliefs. Partly out of necessity, because the traffic of meaning between the spiritual and material realms is unreliable at best. But partly also because people like the truth to agree with them, to support them in their own interest and they like to talk about what interests them most: themselves.
The truth, however, is less partisan or preferential. It is strictly speaking, at least spiritually, impersonal. Let’s take some popular but nevertheless erroneous beliefs from the Mind-Body-Spirit camp (also known as New Age) and take a critical look at what they are really saying:
1. Only consciousness creates the world.
Everything is consciousness. Do not believe anything, it is already all that it is, or it is not. Both the pre-manifestation and the post-manifestation, the void and all possible potential. So consciousness does not create the world, it is self-sufficient, it is the real world!
2. There is a new spiritual teaching that allows people to rescue themselves and humanity.
People do not need to be rescued, nor does humanity. They both need to see themselves for who and what they really are, then no rescue is needed or appropriate. The idea of a new spirituality that saves or rescues is an excellent example of taking a relative subject like heroism and drama and turning it into spiritual terms, even though it doesn’t work, because it’s not relevant.
3. Our belief in the fallacy of the existence of objective physical reality that does not depend on consciousness is limiting.
The belief in existing objects is only limiting when we do not see the world as it really is, a reflection of the absolute and all objects that arise only in consciousness. This gibberish is popular, perhaps stemming from the popular idea that Maya same illusion or that samara It is not Nirvana or whatever. Read more deeply into your own religion: Maya it is a relative reflection of the divine in the world of time and space.
4. Only the consciousness of a human being contains all the elements of existence. The consciousness of a human being is the same undifferentiated consciousness that exists within, through, and without, and pervades all existence and all existing objects of this and any other time. The great sages are levellers, they insult our arrogance and complacency. This consciousness that I arise within as an individualized form is exactly the same, exactly the same as the consciousness of a dog or a stone, why? Because there is only one consciousness.
5. Alter human consciousness because it includes all other elements; if one person were to use the knowledge, the world around us would change in crucial ways.
The consciousness of a human being or anything else includes all the elements. This already crucially influences the world; there is no need to instruct people on how to do this, just help them see what they are already creating!
6. Knowing how to achieve harmonious development together with the universe allows us to have a healthier physical body and a happy life, and the world will develop accordingly.
When a human being is too concerned with health, happiness, and harmony, he inevitably misses the most important point, which is that the world, like human beings and everything else, rises and falls in consciousness. Since all this, from the point of view of reality, that is, where we really are, is happening simultaneously, spiritual evolution and harmonic development are strictly relative terms with no real relevance to the spiritual, transcendent, and divine. Playing with the incidence of synchronicity and convergence for the sake of self-interest carries its own consequences and dangers. But more importantly, when you get involved in it, you miss the main point of the psychological and spiritual effort, which is the search for truth that is substantially more expansive than these material and quasi-spiritual concerns.
Finally…
7. Everything that surrounds us, the earth, the sun, space, nature, people and objects, is based on the structure of our consciousness, which includes the consciousness of the Creator. When we discover what spirit and consciousness are, we can manage our state of being, we can build the world and control all creative action and manifest results.
But this it is what we are doing now! Also, does the earth, the sun, etc. really exist around U.S? Are they not more truly in us (from the point of view of individual psychology)? Or from a deeper truth these manifestations and us are not really the same thing, that is, consciousness? Does consciousness have a structure? How can the Whole truly have a structure? If the world wasn’t rational and reasonable and made sense? Instead of being uncertain, irrational, arbitrary and random? Do we really want to control (what? We are all consciousness!) and manifest results when we are already doing just that, without being aware of how and what and why and when we are manifesting something? In any case, what do we mean by results? This world, the truth, is a manifestation of all possible worlds at all times waiting for us to witness and become one with it.