On the path of spiritual development, a person first undergoes personal transformation, then spiritual transformation.
Read about the difference between them and how this transition from personal to spiritual transformation occurs.
What is Personal Transformation
Personal transformation begins with the need to understand some life situation, with the need to somehow help yourself.
A person studies relevant literature that touches on their question or problem.
If a person has traumas, they work through the traumas. If there are problems in the past, they bring something up from the past.
The basic knowledge, what is called spiritual practices, has a practical application here. In order to fix something, to learn to value and love yourself as you are. As the outcome.
But not to fix yourself, because I am so bad and need to be repaired, because I am broken, but rather to take one step closer each time to returning to yourself.
And since spiritual tools are used in personal transformation anyway, a quantum leap happens regardless.
Then, everything you wanted to fix, you seem to have fixed, you started moving in the right direction, and in some areas of life it suddenly turned out that what you wanted to fix doesn’t even need fixing.
And the question arises: what’s next?
See also The Hero’s Journey — Stages of Personal Transformation
Where Spiritual Development Begins
Next, spiritual development begins. When you do something, not to change something in your life, because everything is already wonderful for you. You are already satisfied with everything, everything is harmonious and calm.
You can improve endlessly, but in principle, everything is already good.
And you step onto the path when you start to share. But this is impossible to do if you haven’t assembled your own worldview for yourself, adding some fundamental things to it.
For this, there is deep literature, starting from Blavatsky, the Roerichs, ending with Aivanhov and so on. There are many of them. They have written multi-volume works that you study, study, study, quenching the thirst for finding deep answers.
Will this help change your life in any way, make it better, brighter, happier? No.
That is precisely why I say that you should engage in all this when you have already saved yourself. When you have carried out those necessary, essential transformations with yourself so that life becomes harmonious, at the very least.
And then you can go into a real search, to seek. But not answers to questions, but rather to assemble your own worldview. This is not even a search, but a gathering of information, research.
And then you can no longer stay silent, it bursts out of you, you share it, you tell everyone about it. Is this a mandatory stage? Not necessarily.
It seems to me that a state of harmonious acceptance, of blissing out on life, is quite enough.
I often hear: “We are so spiritually advanced here and we suffer.”
As soon as this thought about injustice (social, familial, etc.) appears, I send them to study deep literature.
You begin to feel an inner calling and start digging, and sometimes it happens precisely from moments of such injustices.
See also Spiritual Development, Evolution, and Imitation of Development — What’s the Difference — [Answers to Questions]
Turn on Discernment
I teach everyone how to use Yandex and Google search, how to ask questions there. But it turns out, it’s important to have discernment. Where does it come from?
Some people have a truth resonator, where you read and understand that this information resonates, and this one does not.
But there are omnivorous people who lack the knowledge to understand that something is a fake.
At the same time, there is a lot of information on the internet retold by third parties, hence the distortion. So turn to primary sources.
Personally, I don’t undertake to retell other people’s theories for this very reason. I have my own vision, and I will add it anyway. Whoever retells something to you, they will add their own vision, and it’s not a fact that it won’t distort the original information.
Therefore, you need to dig deeper, and the more you dig, the more information and knowledge appears. Not just skimming the surface.
See also: How not to get lost in studying new information when there is too much of it
Please share how your transformation went, where it began, and how you transitioned from personal to spiritual?
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