Serious spiritual students attempting to practice service and unconditional love are often unaware of how intensely they are still programmed by old religious beliefs and outdated concepts teaching that spirituality means “saving” anyone who does not hold “correct” beliefs, that is those held by the person or some religious group.
Because feminine energy is a intuitive, gentle, loving etc. energy, these beliefs have caused many women to embrace this idea more readily than their male counterparts. Many women still believe that they are being loving when they attempt to save someone that they believe is in need of saving.
Women have been taught and preached to, until many of them believe that it is their spiritual duty to sacrifice their own goals and needs for the good of their someone else–children, husband, family, church, etc.. This belief is a flat out denial of one’s Divine individuality and right to express it. It is the surrender of one’s innate power.
The concept of service at the expense of self as being spiritual, has been and still is promoted by those who see themselves as separate from others and thus interpret love in terms needing to “fix” everyone and everything not in sync with their own beliefs. Many believe that only their personal truth is real truth because it resonates so strongly with them and therefore it is their spiritual duty to bring others to the “truth” by any means possible, often with judgement and criticism toward anyone who refuses their “truth”.
In these times of new and higher dimensional awakenings, many evolving souls are finding themselves confused about what they should to do when confronted by someone a who is struggling through a difficult time. They understand that they should not align with the other’s energy, but at the same time feel pressure to step in with advice or action. It is important to honestly examine our intentions when helping others because a great deal of the world’s “do gooding” is simply ego based activity that is not flowing from spiritual awareness but rather from a desire for praise and attention.
In the third dimension, there are and always will be problems because it is an energy of duality and separation and will therefore always manifest as pairs of opposites. Over the course of living many lifetimes on earth, people have come to know and experience the pairs of opposites–good/bad, man/woman, young/old, rich/poor, healthy/sick etc. as reality.
Over time people have developed three dimensional solutions to practically every three dimensional problem. Loving souls work very hard to serve in the ways they understand according to their state of consciousness. However, awakening, spiritually evolving individuals are beginning to evolve beyond the old energy into the more highly resonating energies of the fifth dimension. This energetic shift will bring with it a new understanding of love and service and many of the old ways will either disappear or express in higher forms the outer is always a manifestation of the inner.
Human beings live fully in third dimensional consciousness usually do not concern themselves with the problems or suffering of other people or life forms because they believe themselves to be separate from anything or anyone other than what personally concerns them. The three dimensional human get all his pain and pleasure from the physical.
As they work their way through more lifetimes of good, bad, and horrible experiences a tiny sense of connection to others begins to open. He or she may discover that they are becoming more sensitive to others’ issues and problems because they are similar to his own. He begins to feel a spark of compassion for animals and other living things and may even find himself drawn to help others although at first it usually involves only his own family or group.
The master Jesus seeded universal collective consciousness with the truth about unconditional love and oneness allowing individuals to access it. Those spiritually ready began to understand and recognize that LOVE IS THE ACTIVITY OF ONENESS. The idea that it was possible, even necessary to love all people and living things not just one’s own family or friends was new and as these seeds of truth began to take root in human consciousness, the outer world began to slowly but surely evolve. At that time, few actually understood this sacred truth, but for those ready then and now, came the realization that THAT WHICH I DO TO ANOTHER, I DO TO MYSELF.
When this deeper level of awareness becomes one’s state of consciousness, all facets of life begin to manifest as new and higher expressions. He begins to develop compassion those around him, and may be tempted to step in and embrace another’s problems (sympathy). He becomes an good listener but does not feel the need to rush around in the belief that it is his duty to fix everything.
An enlightened consciousness understands that outer experiences reflect the state of consciousness of the individual and that lessons need to be learned. He can relax, knowing that everyone is on earth to experience the lessons that they themselves chose pre-birth for spiritual growth. He rests in the realization that every individual has a Higher Self, Guides, and a contract that they themselves set up before coming into this particular experience. He also honestly examines his own state of consciousness, asking; “What am I believing about this situation? Am I giving power to appearances? What is the spiritual truth?”
Relieved of the burden to “save” everyone, the evolved individual is able understand the needs of others from a level of compassion rather than sympathy (alignment). He does what he is intuitively guided to do, taking whatever human footsteps are necessary, but always respecting individual choice. He knows that there is no one needing to be saved for every person is in and of the Infinite ONE (God). His hand is always ready and available should another reach out, but he fully understands that there is NEVER OBLIGATION to reach into the “gutter” and force someone to change who has chosen to stay in the gutter. Saving those who do not want to be saved is often an ego exercise and may interfere with someone’s chosen lesson. Many are still in need of intense third dimensional experiences in order to evolve.
This new way of seeing the problems of others never means handing someone a stone when their need is for a piece of bread while loudly proclaiming; “God is all, everything is illusion…” This would be very three dimensional indeed and indicate that one’s consciousness was not as evolved as one thought.
Spiritual love acknowledges the spiritual truth about every person and if possible or guided helps to meets their needs, not their wants.
At first this way of working can be confusing because from our higher perspective, we find we can easily see the another’s issues and the temptation is to rush in with advice. If the individual is receptive to our awareness of the issues involve, we can give our advice, but it must be done without attachment to a particular outcome, force, conditions, or demands and always respecting of the person’s choices.
In order to live the spiritual sense of service, one must learn to listen and trust their intuition in every situation and learn the difference between needs and wants (for self and others). Release old programing regardless of pressure that may come from those around you. Unconditional love is the ability to drop an individual along with any negative appearances and deal with whatever beliefs you may still hold about the person. The highest level of service you can give is to acknowledge every person regardless of appearances as God individualized. Silently and secretly say to every person you meet; “I know you who you are, Christ, the son of God”
All are Divine beings having human experiences no matter how ignorant they may be of this. Take whatever human footsteps you are guided to take but only after knowing the truth about them which will result in an inner freedom from the burden of “saving the world”.
2/23/13 en Yarn