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Introduction
Research has lately found evidence that the body has at least three
mind centers. There’s the one in the head, the one we all have known
about. But there’s another one in the heart area. And a third in the
intestines. Or the gut… if people would just listen to their body and its
reaction to a certain situation or person, often they would read the
circumstance more correctly.
Within you is the inner voice of Soul, your true identity, the source of all
truth. The purpose of life is for each of us to master our own spiritual
destiny, where we can find happiness, balance and divine love under any
circumstances.
One of the tasks entrusted to the Prophets from the very beginning
was to liberate people from their internal locks. We need to free our eyes,
tongues, ears and minds from satanic thoughts and actions. In the
contemporary age, human beings live in total confusion and bewilderment.
Do you think that we are truly free to think, decide, choose and vote?
Given the extent and overwhelming nature of the external propaganda and
pressure of our own lusts and lower desires which are heavily expanded in
the culture of materialism, we have more or less lost the essence of true
liberation within and without. It is the power of a true religion that can
liberate us.
Discussion
The vulnerability of the organism is the root of both pain and pleasure,
because the organism must evaluate the stimuli which impinge upon it in
terms of their significance for its well-being. But the greatest source of
human suffering and delusion is the reality principle itself-- which ironically
is the mind's very solution to the problem of the body's vulnerability.
Treating its experience as real is its primary adaptation to the world upon
which its survival depends. The reifying tendency of the mind is its
capacity to extend reality, or "objectness"-- on the model of literal physical
reality-- into areas which are non-physical or not literal. It is, in effect, a
form of hallucination. The solution becomes the problem when the sense
of reality runs amok.
The most effective way to control people is to define the games they
will play-- including the cognitive games by which they experience the
world and themselves. Perhaps the essence of intelligence is the ability to
make mental connections leading to a global, comprehensive, and
adequate model of reality upon which appropriate and effective action can
be taken. To manipulate or obstruct the information flow of this modelling
process is to control or limit the behavior arising from it. Disinformation is
communication given out to control the model-- either by creating a
distorted image in the subject's mind or by flooding the communication
channel with irrelevant information. Facts are disarmed, or become
outright lies, when isolated from their proper context, history, or unity with
other facts in a total picture.
The human mind is potentially an open system. Working within its own
limits, it is able to see greater truths than what is built into in the system.
This remarkable fact is the essence of what sets consciousness apart from
animal servitude to instinct. To pursue a modern idiom, it is what gives us
a degree of freedom that machines do not possess. It is the basis of the
longing for transcendence at the core of the religious and intellectual
traditions of both East and West.
In the biblical myth of the Fall, taking in the knowledge of good and evil
implies the right to judge, to evaluate experience. But this puts the cart
before the horse, for this "right" is the precondition for survival of the body,
the essence of the natural state of the organism. The self-conscious
human mind may feel itself trapped inside a system whose premise is
survival of the separate embodied ego, so that the Fall in effect is
conceptualized as the fall of the soul into nature and embodiment. In this
ancient view of the existential position of consciousness, we are spirit
sojourning in a fallen material state. This is directly opposite to the more
modern view that we are material systems which, having passed a
threshold of self-consciousness, are dualistically aware of the limiting
context which is the very condition of our being here as consciousness. On
this reading of the myth, the Fall was the fall from a pre-subjective state
into self-consciousness and its Faustian desire for freedom and self-
transcendence.
The myth of the Fall carries another interpretation, in which to be naked in
the Garden is to be totally self-accepting, spontaneous, non-judgmental.
To be naked emotionally and psychologically is to be uninhibited,
guileless, intimate, fearless of the others' responses, without guilt. When
our eyes were opened in self-consciousness we lost our innocence and
covered this naked vulnerability with all manner of psychological defense
against the possibility of pain and all manner of calculation to achieve
pleasure. The Fall was thus the fall from the innocence of the small child
into the defensive personality structures we associate with adulthood, the
fall from essence into ego. From this point of view, the spiritual goal is to
recover, within adult autonomy and creative power, the natural state of
innocent surrender to life.
The world always surprises us, and no formula adequately captures it.
The longing for peace and transcendence cannot be parlayed into a
program to avoid entanglements, for then this desire would have its
disappointments and create its own suffering. We must be free even from
the desire for peace, ultimately even from the desire for the freedom of
desirelessness. We simply are free-- to choose surrender-- in each
situation as though for the first time. As a discipline or practice, a
conscious relationship to experience is simply the willingness, each and
every moment, to meet what is. Spiritual freedom is not freedom from pain
and suffering, and does not guarantee the ego's concepts of happiness,
but is freedom from a self that craves happiness and abhors suffering.
When we are willing to be fully in experience without having to do anything
about it, then even death can have no sting.
Conclusion
We have learned not only to regard part of the phenomenal world as real
and out there, but also to regard part of it as subjective and in here. The
part of the continuum of consciousness that constitutes an experience of
the body is held to be me, not something in the world. Similarly, we identify
with the contents of consciousness that constitute thoughts and emotions:
my thoughts, my emotions, as well as my body.
Reference
http://bruiger.leftfieldpress.com/doc_html/27.html
https://www.quora.com/What-is-spiritual-freedom
SPIRITUAL FREEDOM
ACADEMIC
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EDNALYN J. RAPANAN IPHP
JEROME S. TRINIDAD MR. NINO ARANEZ
XII- H.E- 1