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Spirituality–The Enlightenment Secret

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The ultimate goal of many spiritual seekers is to find enlightenment, which is another way to say awakening to spiritual awareness or illumination. A tall order, but with discipline it’s possible to make serious progress on your spiritual path.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.”
Billy Corgan

We’ve found those words of wisdom to be true. As teens in 1981, we recall listening to the song “Spirits in the Material World” by The Police on their album Ghost in the Machine. To us, it meant everyone is a spiritual being having a human experience.

As you mature and your spiritual heritage (soul) emerges, you begin to recover the wisdom you were aware of on the other side, but temporarily forgot. The recovery process would be helped along if every parent encouraged their young children to explore any memories of the other side or past lives (which many children recall up to about age seven), but the memories are usually dismissed as a child’s imagination. Unfortunately, the veil of forgetfulness is further fostered by society; rarely do friends, family, teachers, and neighbors encourage you to go within and rediscover your true essence underneath a lifetime of programming.

We’ve been interested in non-religious spirituality for as long as we can remember. The dead-ends we encountered in our younger years, exploring various spiritual paths, disciplines, and methodologies, piled up like leaves in autumn, but the journey was worth it. Most of the fruitless avenues were heavy on hope and inspiration, and light on reason, or were too superficial to be taken seriously.

Over the course of more than 30 years we’ve managed to identify several reliable spiritual disciplines. Our long-term findings involving meditation, past life regression, psychic perception and comprehensive astrology and numerology lead us to this conclusion: a permanent state of enlightenment, a blissful one where you are completely free of all fears, defenses, and biases doesn’t exist. The secret to enlightenment is that you must work at peeling away the layers of your inner nature (such as through meditation) to make progress and you probably wouldn’t still be incarnated if you didn’t have more to discover.

The reason you can’t completely free yourself from your fears, defenses, and biases is because you can’t control your subconscious mind. It will think what it wants, and you’re powerless over it. However, you can detach from it through meditation, and work with it with tools such as hypnosis and subliminal audios.

Be wary of those who say they never get irritated, upset, angry or experience other “negative” human emotions. It’s not spiritual or normal to project a phony “I’m always blissful and peaceful” facade. Stay clear when that repressed beach ball of emotions finally bursts through the water’s surface while they are under pressure or stress.

Spiritual seekers eventually realize that you can encounter more wisdom in your own backyard than you do in some exotic location on the other side of the planet.

As Harry Nilsson belted out in 1971 on Jump Into the Fire, “You can climb a mountain, you can swim the sea, you can jump into the fire, but you’ll never be free.” We’re not sure exactly what he meant, but those words remind us that true freedom, and spiritual satisfaction, are found within, not elsewhere.

“Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.” Ludwig van Beethoven

The most illuminated people you’ll ever meet frequently don’t look like the “spiritual” type. A construction worker, military colonel, waitress, and nurse, for example, may be far more spiritually adept than a priest or a beads, crystals, and caftan wearing author of the spiritual best-seller.

On your journey of enlightenment, wisdom comes from within, and music, prayer, quiet reflection, walks in nature, and regular meditation are all effective ways to remember it.

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Copyright © 2015 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

The Truth About Enlightenment

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Across the globe, it’s very common for spiritual seekers of all types to believe that enlightenment is something that you find through painstaking searching and sacrifice.

Tales of magicians and gurus in distant lands such as Tibet and India entice aspirants to travel abroad for a glimpse of enlightenment.

These beliefs appear to have formed largely due to what we believe to be a corruption of mysticism, an unhealthy emphasis on escapism and fantasy instead of authentic spirituality.

Contrary to popular New Age thought, our findings show that becoming enlightened mostly involves giving up suffering, though not how you may think.

Surrender your need to be attached to your conscious mind–your non-stop thinking mind. The root of your misery is the attachment to the collection of all your fears, defenses, expectations, ego-self demands, worries, dramas, and other mental constructs.

Seekers are dismayed they don’t find enlightenment in exotic locals and they may be shocked to realize that it can be found in their own living-room, sitting quietly by themselves.

They may be even more shocked that some of the most enlightened people they will ever find are not in the New Age movement. They are the everyday types you find in all walks of life: taxi drivers, wait-staff, artists, business owners, construction workers, pilots, housekeepers, and others (but usually not politicians!)

Enlightenment is simply absolute detachment from your conscious mind, accessing your higher-self (or “God-self,”or “God,” etc.). Therefore, enlightenment doesn’t really exist. It’s an absence, not something to acquire.

It’s the opposite of monkey-mind, when your mind is racing and obsessing over things, and a peaceful state of mind seems light-years away.

Meditation is one way to “become enlightened.” We can assure you, if you haven’t already found out, that meditation takes practice and discipline and you won’t get the hang of it or in the healthy habit of doing it regularly after just a few sessions. Your subconscious mind will resist it at every turn in the beginning. It’s your mind’s way of attempting to maintain control, to keep you in the monkey-mind mode. But once you get in the habit of regular mediation, detaching from mind-chatter becomes easier.

Directing your focus toward one single thing exclusively for at least 20 minutes (much easier said than done), such as your breathing, or the terrain in front of you as you walk, instead of your thoughts, is what meditation is all about. It is also, with practice, one sure way to become enlightened. The more detached you are from your mundane mind, the closer you are to your true spiritual self.

By the way, one sure way you can tell if you are still chained to your thoughts is if you are actively passing judgment–judging your experience (instead of simply experiencing it), yourself, or other people, for example.

We also believe that the closer you are to a consistent state of enlightenment, the more you realize that you can’t avoid negative thoughts, such as annoyance at a rude individual sitting next to you on an airplane, but you certainly can detach from those types of thoughts on your way to a more blissful mindset. Your mind will react the way it will react and the best you can do is acknowledge it, while distancing yourself from it.

It’s okay to have believed the falsehood about enlightenment being something that you discover, like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But now you should act on the truth–that enlightenment is simply a lack of attachment to the constant dialog in your mind. Start detaching from your mind now to improve your life.

Copyright © 2013 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo