What do you think is the difference between the concepts of spiritual development and evolution?
These two terms seem to be about the same thing — moving forward, broadening one’s horizons, personal progress. But still, there is a significant difference between them.
There are people who think they are developing by reading books, but in reality it is imitation. Others, on the contrary, have no time to waste on studying books; they learn about life through practice.
In this article, we will talk about different aspects of development and the evolution of consciousness. You will learn how to develop harmoniously so that it brings you the desired results in life.
I want to move forward, but I don’t know where
Such reasoning is a trap of the mind. Knowing with the mind is impossible and unnecessary. You need to feel.
When you doubt, are busy searching for confirmation, ask yourself questions, at that time you are in your mind.
When you are in your mind, your heart center is turned off, which means the channel that guides you is blocked.
You are in your mind more often, which is quite understandable.
Record in your achievement (awareness) journals everything that can serve as proof for the mind that you are moving in the right direction.
Use simple everyday situations to train yourself to “turn off the mind” and turn on intuition and the heart center, as well as to track body cues.
Tune into your sensations, play with them.
Over time, you will begin to notice that your primary subtle signals (from the body, heart, intuition) give you the most truthful information. This is how you will develop your ability to feel.
See also Practices for Opening the Heart Chakra and the Higher Heart
Imitation of development and broadening horizons
Many people are into mechanical “practicing” (imitating) development, while their consciousness remains at the same level, and there are no serious changes in life.
Often, this category includes people who know a lot, read a lot, but do not apply this knowledge in practice.
Such people consider themselves very well-read and intelligent; they are well aware of their traumas and limiting beliefs, but remain satisfied with their own status of “the one who knows” and nothing more.
“Imitators” of development do not strive to obtain practical results of transformations.
Development, or rather evolution, is a practical process for changing life for the better, not just “something to listen to.”
See also Re-identification of the awakened: integration of experience and transition to collective service
On the need to read books to expand your worldview
At the same time, there is another category of developing individuals who, on the contrary, lack erudition, i.e., a knowledge base that expands their worldview.
These are often people who are actively involved in the matrix, living in a “work – home – family” mode, and have a conservative environment.
For such people, information that allows them to broaden their thinking paradigm and expand their understanding of the world beyond familiar boundaries is useful.
It is very important to have a person or people in your environment who could serve as an example to follow and a source of inspiration.
Nowadays, finding such examples is greatly facilitated by the internet.
However, the internet does not negate reading books for general development.
Reading recommendations: books by Barbara Marciniak “Path of Power: Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos” and Gregg Braden “The Codes of Consciousness: Change Your Beliefs.”
Gregg Braden “The Codes of Consciousness. Change Your Beliefs.”
Direct experience and knowledge are the catalyst that breaks the shackles of previous perception, which have bound you to an old system of views.
Spiritual development and evolution require leaving the current environment, the current conditions.
Otherwise, when a person sits in their “own little swamp,” they do not learn about the world and cannot gain the direct experience that is a necessary condition for development.
See also: Stages of Spiritual Development. How to Determine Which One You Are At
How to Read Books Correctly
Take from books what resonates.
Sometimes the mind gets stuck on some perceived information. This “stuckness” indicates that processing of something important has begun, which will eventually manifest as new insights.
Sometimes the perceived information causes complete rejection.
Listen to yourself — set that information aside.
Such a reaction does not mean you have encountered a bad book. It simply means each person takes what they need today.
Perhaps later, when you are ready to perceive this information, it will resonate.
In every case, be guided by the feeling of resonance.
At Life’s Crossroads: “Where to Go?” Crystals on the Life Path
When a person is at the beginning of their development path and is gathering strength, they are guided.
A person is guided by their own Higher, non-physical essence.
According to Steve Rother’s metaphor, this Higher Self of a person places “crystals on the path” before their birth.
Crystals on the life path are a kind of hints regarding optimal choices that a person can make when finding themselves at a crossroads in life.
Upon seeing this crystal, a person remembers (rather than learns or studies) what they set for themselves before birth.
Upon seeing such a crystal, a person makes a choice and simply follows that route, paying attention to their feelings.
Practice for choosing the optimal option:
- write down many choice options on paper;
- ask another person to lay out these options with the “invisible side” up;
- with your eyes closed, describe each option, guided by your feelings and bodily sensations;
- choose from all the options the one that feels most pleasant to your body.
Thus, the body reads the optimal option.
If you tend to doubt or are at a crossroads, use this practice to choose the best option.
Take a step and listen to how your feelings respond — whether you are comfortable or not. If not, choose a different direction.
The trap of a state of stupor is that a person stands still, moving nowhere, and doors (opportunities) begin to close.
Therefore, it is important to take a step: if you don’t know where to go, just go and you will see further.
This is like a walk in the woods when you have left the path: when you keep the final goal in mind (where you ultimately want to arrive) and just keep walking, the route begins to take shape.
Also read: 5 mistakes people make when engaging in spiritual development
On development and gaining experience through deception
There are people whose path of development includes the experience of development through deception. Simply put, there are people who need to be deceived.
Various kinds of magicians, charlatans, and similar specialists “serve” this category of people, creating the necessary “rakes and bumps” for them. Through such (self-)deception and the disappointment in it, people regain their Power.
Every person always measures by their own standards.
For one person, for example, interaction with magic is of no interest; they understand that their true power lies in a different plane. For another, it is precisely interaction with magic that can become the first step on the path back to themselves.
Every piece of information, practice, and tool has its own time and place. Symbolically, some need to start in first grade, some come to second grade, and some go straight to fifth grade.
It can be said that in every direction (approach, school, method) of development, some component is missing for completeness. It is completely natural that in search of the missing component, a person explores and discovers new and new sources of information.
In school, all grades are equally respected.
See also: How the matrix principle unfolded in the topic of spirituality
The article is written based on materials from spontaneous live streams within the rubric #conversation_on_the_couch “Answers to Questions” and “Development and Evolution”