You know,
In the East,
They say that it either takes 12 years,
24,
36,
48 to reach enlightenment.
It's not a quick,
It's certainly not like a weekend workshop on self-realization.
It takes a long time for all the patterns from this life and in the East,
They say from other lives,
To be healed and transformed.
And lots of,
You know,
Gateways where you have to face your fear and move through your fear on many levels.
But as you do that,
In your body,
You become more and more peaceful.
Your body,
Any aches and pains disappear.
Your thoughts,
What thoughts you have are expanded.
And you just help by walking around in your soul energy.
It's considered in the East that all the spiritual masters in the world,
Which are probably just a few thousand,
Help hold the earth at a certain vibration and help stop it from,
Help stop the human race from falling into,
You know,
Darkness.
The presence of a spiritual master.
And seeing that when somebody reaches enlightenment,
That activates the heart of everybody in the world just a tiny bit.
So the more people who are really awake,
The more everybody's heart is activated.
Now,
I mean,
This doesn't really seem to make sense logically,
But actually it does.
If you see that everything is one,
Then it's obvious that the more people wake up,
The more that affects the world because everything's one.
It's just spiritual.
It's very logical.
I actually don't know why it's considered irrational.
It's just the logic is very,
Very big.
It's huge logic.
It's bigger logic than usually our egos can deal with.
That's the rub.
That's why it doesn't make sense to us.
But as you grow,
It will,
And you integrate your soul energy into your own body more,
Your vibration goes up and then,
You know,
What the sages are saying becomes understandable.
It becomes like two plus two equals four.
So you know,
Even just reading books or listening to videos will help support your vibration rising.
You know,
Thinking positive thoughts,
Doing good deeds,
Just being a little more compassionate with yourself.
Walking in nature,
Just these small things all add up.
It's like drip,
Drip,
Drip.
It all adds up.
Okay,
So back to the spiritual journey.
So we talked about how,
You know,
In the beginning and middle and end,
There's these,
You know,
Where somebody chooses to continue on the journey,
Or they,
You know,
Sort of give up on the idea.
And when I say,
You know,
At the end,
I mean,
Just before self-realization,
So it's beginning,
Middle,
And just before self-realization,
We have these choices.
Okay,
It's self-realization,
It's a very gradual process as well.
And what happens is one starts seeing one's grew differently,
One's teacher who's helped one get that far and start seeing the teacher as there to support your journey and to support your expression of God,
The expression of your soul this lifetime.
So you know,
When you're studying with a teacher,
It's like you follow the teacher's guidance and you're becoming more and more focusing on perfecting yourself and clearing your ego and,
Well,
You know,
Clearing,
Allowing the ego to dissolve.
That's what happens.
You let it go.
And when you let your ego go,
All that's left is your soul energy.
And at that point,
Your teacher,
Presence in the world becomes like a presence that helps you express this love,
You know,
And share it with the world.
And also your understanding of God changes.
So instead of God feeling,
You know,
Like up there,
Like the church spire up there,
And increasingly the experiences that everything is God,
That we're all God in human form,
That Mother Nature is God,
And that the physical world is an expression of God.
And that's why there's an increased reverence for all that is as somebody,
The more somebody wakes up.
And the more it's impossible to be violent or even think of violent thought about someone because the really awake person knows that it's all them,
That there's no separation between,
Say,
You and me.
It's all one.
So if I think a negative thought,
It's a negative thought about me.
And why would I do that?
Or why would I,
You know,
Hurt someone because it's hurting me.
You just get so soft.
And the joke is,
You get so well taken care of because the more awake you are,
The less you need to protect yourself because what happens is the universe protects you because you're living in this energy.
It's like you're living in truth.
And so even the need for self-protection falls away.
The ego is more focused on self-protection.
But the really wake person just doesn't even worry about money because they just know that they're going to be provided for.
It's fine.
And also,
Since everything is them,
They don't,
The whole idea of private ownership just seems a bit moot because they are everything.
I don't know how to explain it.
And also security and happiness are not seen as coming through physical possessions.
It's a completely different way of looking at the world.
But it's a very happy way.
And it's a great antidote to what we're doing right now.
To how our cultures are,
You know,
Getting how they're getting.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
Okay,
Bless your hearts.
