Your Conscious Re-Education
YOUR CONSCIOUS RE-EDUCATION
We are all involved in a marvelous re-education process which we don’t understand, and which may seem banal, boring, tragic, chaotic, or foolish, but we finally come to a crisis in which we can begin to understand what we call in spiritual psychotherapy “the Great Reversal.” Things that look tragic, foolish, or symptom-like, when understood properly, become symbol-like, symbols of an inherent spirituality which we have lost track of, but which now we can consciously engage. It doesn’t matter whether you finished the eighth grade or post-graduate school, the Great Reversal educational process is for everyone, because we have all been brain-washed, short-changed and socially conditioned.
You may have spontaneously picked up on pieces of this process hit-or-miss or after a major life crash, but at some point you can consciously and deliberately enroll in the process of spiritual awakening as your major life purpose. Whether we have assumed that life is normal or abnormal, fair or unfair, successful or not, we can now begin to re-examine our life story in a reverse format manner. What previously passed below the radar screen of our awareness now becomes our main focus. The Great Reversal process will open up the Great Mystery Awareness within you. We don’t know the invisible meaning of the visible. No wonder we feel confused, ambivalent, and anxious. The Great Reversal Process can be accelerated by realizing that 1. We are never upset for the reason that we think, and 2. Everything happens for a reason, and 3. All things work together for good. Life is truly a Great Mystery governed by infinite intelligence, compassion and purpose. Until we commit to this process, we will continue to function at a mediocre level of anxiety and mis-creation.
Mis-imagination is our only problem. That is, we have developed an unconscious story that we live by which has produced our experiences. This story is a mis-creation, a mis-imagined and fictional account of who we are and what the world is. We are dead wrong and don’t know it. We are so proud and certain that we see things as they are. When you see what you don’t want, you are not seeing things as they are. Our life story contains a whole repertoire of things we feel justified in fearing, resisting and resenting. We think we know. But all that we know is what we have imagined. Most of our knowledge is mis-imagined opinions and judgments.
Humility is when you begin to get an inkling of the truth about this fictional knowledge. You begin to see that your control issues stem from the fear that this false knowledge is true. As shocking as it may seem at first, it begins to dawn on you that the story of good versus evil is fictional. Only the Infinite Good is real. All of the rest is mis-imagination.
The Great Reversal re-educational process then is awakening to the fact that without exception, everything that has ever happened to you, since the beginning of time, is for your Infinite Good. Now you will begin to know honesty at a whole new level. Lies. Lies. Lies. Our whole story has been a lie. What a terrible but comforting piece of good news! Terrible for the ego, comforting for the True Self. You thought the visible I and the visible world were the foundation of reality, didn’t you? Through the Great Reversal re-educational process, you begin to see that every single experience begins at the invisible level and becomes visible.
You unknowingly created every single experience you ever had! The outer circumstances of your life are the precise result of your inner invisible story. Right now you are creating your tomorrow. You have a choice, but only when you become conscious. Default choices have ruled your life up until now in the form of the story of good-versus-evil. Can you honestly tell me that the conscious knowledge of the Infinite Good informs your choices? I didn’t think so. Your life can begin anew each morning that you inquire into your assumptions, thoughts, feelings and behavior. Just ask yourself: Is that so? Or, use my formula: “Anxiety is unawareness” to shock yourself awake.
We are all involved in a marvelous re-education process which we don’t understand, and which may seem banal, boring, tragic, chaotic, or foolish, but we finally come to a crisis in which we can begin to understand what we call in spiritual psychotherapy “the Great Reversal.” Things that look tragic, foolish, or symptom-like, when understood properly, become symbol-like, symbols of an inherent spirituality which we have lost track of, but which now we can consciously engage. It doesn’t matter whether you finished the eighth grade or post-graduate school, the Great Reversal educational process is for everyone, because we have all been brain-washed, short-changed and socially conditioned.
You may have spontaneously picked up on pieces of this process hit-or-miss or after a major life crash, but at some point you can consciously and deliberately enroll in the process of spiritual awakening as your major life purpose. Whether we have assumed that life is normal or abnormal, fair or unfair, successful or not, we can now begin to re-examine our life story in a reverse format manner. What previously passed below the radar screen of our awareness now becomes our main focus. The Great Reversal process will open up the Great Mystery Awareness within you. We don’t know the invisible meaning of the visible. No wonder we feel confused, ambivalent, and anxious. The Great Reversal Process can be accelerated by realizing that 1. We are never upset for the reason that we think, and 2. Everything happens for a reason, and 3. All things work together for good. Life is truly a Great Mystery governed by infinite intelligence, compassion and purpose. Until we commit to this process, we will continue to function at a mediocre level of anxiety and mis-creation.
Mis-imagination is our only problem. That is, we have developed an unconscious story that we live by which has produced our experiences. This story is a mis-creation, a mis-imagined and fictional account of who we are and what the world is. We are dead wrong and don’t know it. We are so proud and certain that we see things as they are. When you see what you don’t want, you are not seeing things as they are. Our life story contains a whole repertoire of things we feel justified in fearing, resisting and resenting. We think we know. But all that we know is what we have imagined. Most of our knowledge is mis-imagined opinions and judgments.
Humility is when you begin to get an inkling of the truth about this fictional knowledge. You begin to see that your control issues stem from the fear that this false knowledge is true. As shocking as it may seem at first, it begins to dawn on you that the story of good versus evil is fictional. Only the Infinite Good is real. All of the rest is mis-imagination.
The Great Reversal re-educational process then is awakening to the fact that without exception, everything that has ever happened to you, since the beginning of time, is for your Infinite Good. Now you will begin to know honesty at a whole new level. Lies. Lies. Lies. Our whole story has been a lie. What a terrible but comforting piece of good news! Terrible for the ego, comforting for the True Self. You thought the visible I and the visible world were the foundation of reality, didn’t you? Through the Great Reversal re-educational process, you begin to see that every single experience begins at the invisible level and becomes visible.
You unknowingly created every single experience you ever had! The outer circumstances of your life are the precise result of your inner invisible story. Right now you are creating your tomorrow. You have a choice, but only when you become conscious. Default choices have ruled your life up until now in the form of the story of good-versus-evil. Can you honestly tell me that the conscious knowledge of the Infinite Good informs your choices? I didn’t think so. Your life can begin anew each morning that you inquire into your assumptions, thoughts, feelings and behavior. Just ask yourself: Is that so? Or, use my formula: “Anxiety is unawareness” to shock yourself awake.
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