Einar Adalsteinsson – Iceland
Einar Adalsteinsson (1941 - 1998)
I see an interesting awakening going on right now, and it will probably become much intensified in the years to come. Real initiation is a "serious business," a transformation of both the psyche and the body (Sthula-Sharira, that is), that takes some serious time traditionally seven consecutive incarnations.
I also would like to refer to an entirely different possibility, which to my mind fits quite well into these ideas of mass spiritual awakening. It would be more like an "advanced self-aware opening" to the spiritual realms, a natural evolutionary process of an order of higher degree than previously. I agree that it will be propelled by the mass spirituality process, as in Dr. Sheldrake's theory of Morphic fields and the 100 apes.
If we take the theosophical theory of the evolutionary process of life on the earth, it evolves through first sensing influences of "a new field of consciousness," to later acting on that field.
Thus we can cut in with the mineral kingdom's ability to "sense" forces in nature including the life force, Prana, Chi, etc. You can store vital energy in crystals, and we interact with nature in that sense all the time. The next, the kingdom of plants, include use of the vital energy in all its life cycles, and according to experiments they are highly perceptive of emotional energy.
The animals are clearly active emotionally, and the higher species seem to have quite advanced way of perceiving, and even acting on the thinking principle. When we come to the human domain, we at large seem to be still engaged in the gymnastics of the lower Mind, the rational thinking, but we all enjoy more or less the advanced "intuitional understanding" of the higher mind.
What, then, would be the further progress?
It would surely be the higher intuition, the direct perception of the truth, the wisdom consciousness. This is obviously the next perceptive phase, and we are already touching this "Next Principle" of evolution.
Now, what would be the "active" part of such "direct perception of truth," higher understanding, intuition, seeing, or whatever we agree on calling it? How about LOVE, about loving kindness, about the "initiate" type of selfless compassion? It is the autonomous act of higher understanding, isn't it? Love and understanding are two sides of the same principle, Unconditional Loving Kindness. There is no real Love without Understanding, and no real Understanding without Love!
I believe that this is the next stage of evolution, and we are more or less practicing it in our best moments, in the global spiritual movement of New Agers.
Being aware of the process and going with the current within enormously enhances its movement, but we have to leave the argumentative stage and move into the intuitive, acceptive, listening state of free communication, without either believing or denying what we hear or see. This is the open and unconditional frame of mind that will bring us to the spirituality of the future.
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Note from the editor: The author, a remarkable theosopjhist, passed in 1998. Read the TRIBUTE that appeared on Theosophy Forward the e-Magazine, click HERE: