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What Can We Do? The Relevance of Higher Levels of Consciousness to our World Crisis - Part 2

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Blair Gelbond
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--- Practicing "Right Effort:" as the Buddha pointed out, the strings of a lyre need to be neither too taut or loose, i.e., "make haste slowly."

--- Practicing generosity and recalling this quote by Gandhi:

"Service to others can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it.... Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

--- Studying the law of karma (e.g. Lifecycles by Christopher Bache)

--- Contemplating the "re-sacralization of knowledge," which is the reverse of the process of the modern secularization of life.

The central premise of re-sacralization is that our knowledge of our daily world is inextricably connected with Ultimate Reality or our divine source - which has been severed in modern times. Transpersonal and spiritual psychologies have sought to re-establish right relationship between ourselves and our Source.

--- We need to learn to work with "higher forces." We are living in a time in which we can plant seeds of transformation.

(See: The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels)

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I work as a psychotherapist with an emphasis on transformational learning - a blend of psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches, and am the author of Self Actualization and Unselfish Love and co-author of Families Helping Families: Living with (more...)
 

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