There is a great deal of confusion in the world with regard to metaphysics versus mysticism and many simply believe them to be one and the same. Practitioners of metaphysics see themselves as being more evolved than organized religions, while at the same time organized religions often call metaphysics the work of the devil.
Every soul is on a spiritual evolutionary path whether they know it or not. Those who in previous lives believed in nothing gradually through lifetimes become ready for more and seek out the structure of organized religion and over time evolve beyond needing the discipline, rules, and regulations that organized religions offer and move on to metaphysics. However, metaphysical has a completion point as well because it remains in the realm of separation and at a certain point the evolutionary process will bring every seeker to a place of readiness for the deeper truths of mysticism and oneness.
Because metaphysics covers a variety of different teachings and practices, there is no one metaphysical path. Metaphysics was the foundation of the ancient mystery schools that actually continue to this day but are largely unknown. Metaphysics consists of non-traditional groups, teachings, and practices that range from Wicken, Druids, shamanism, healing centers, and many more causing many still locked in narrow religious belief systems to fear it.
New ideas having to do with God always frighten those who believe they already have all the answers about God. Beliefs based in duality and separation automatically exclude anything higher because the believer is not allowing him/her self to be open to anything other than what one has been told, accepted, and believes regardless of how ridiculous some teachings are.
Metaphysics provides a foundation that prepares the person for moving into the deeper truths. Metaphysics may be a person’s primary belief system for several lifetimes. Many continue to relate to the practices of metaphysics because they studied in the Mystery Schools of the middle ages. The tools and practices of metaphysics are meant to help the spiritual seeker become closer to God.
In general, metaphysics is about manipulating and utilizing various forms of energy in order to change, heal, correct, or shift a bad physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual picture into a better one which of course varies with every individual. The manipulation of energy is achieved through the use of crystals, chants, hands on energy work, oils, sound, color, and modalities most of which are rarely considered valid according to medical or religious belief.
In the past and even today, there are some who choose to use the knowledge of energy manipulation for selfish purposes which is how the “black arts” began and is why so many associate metaphysics with evil, the work of the “devil”. Anything that can be utilized for good or for bad represents the third dimensional belief system–duality and separation. This is why metaphysics is simply as stretch of the path leading to the deeper truths of oneness, and is not a stopping point.
Metaphysics utilizes crystals, candles, chants, ceremony, drums, and many more tools to work with energy and bring about some desired result. Generally it is taught and practiced under the supervision of a Guru or teacher of the particular metaphysical path or organization. For centuries these tools have been used as a powerful and effective means for changing energy from one form into another (healing) but it is also somewhat dependent on and reflective of the state of consciousness of the individual doing the work.
Ancient healing temples successfully used color, sound, oils, touch, and many other modalities for healing and many metaphysical healers today are beginning to remember their work from other lifetimes in the ancient healing temples, recalling techniques they used long ago but thinking they have discovered some new healing technique.
When the energy on earth became increasingly denser, many of ancient healing techniques were hidden and eventually forgotten but now that the energy of earth is beginning to rise to where it once was and beyond, many ancient practices, modalities, and techniques still alive and well in the cellular memory of many are once again becoming accessible.
Mysticism is the next and only step beyond metaphysics. Mysticism is a state of consciousness in which an individual lives, moves, and has his being in a consciousness of Oneness–oneness with Source/God/Divine Consciousness and all that IT is. The mystic knows that because there is only One Divine Consciousness forever expressing ITSELF, everything is already complete, whole, and perfect and therefore nothing needs changing, fixing, or healing. Attaining the consciousness of this is the evolutionary goal of every soul because all at some point every soul will “come home” and remember who they are. This can be delayed but never avoided for ONEness is an absolute truth.
The mystical state of consciousness is usually unfolds after a person has lived all the levels for one or more lifetimes. When someone seems to jump into mysticism with no background of religion with very little effort, it usually means that they did the work necessary for that level of consciousness in previous lifetimes.
Problems arise when a student of truth holds tightly to an earlier state of consciousness and refuses to move on from the tools and modalities that helped them get to where they are now. Metaphysical tools serve well and are an important facet of everyone’s spiritual evolutionary journey but if a person comes to believe that they need them and cannot evolve or know god without them they will remain in a consciousness of separation.
This is often true for teachers or healers that have built their reputation around certain practices and modalities. Continuing to depend upon some tool or practice after that state of consciousness has been outgrown will hold the person locked in a belief system he is ready to move on from, blocking his shift into the next phase of his spiritual journey. Beliefs of duality and separation tell us; “I am not whole and I need this tool or that practice to make me whole” whereas the truth is; “I already am everything that I seek”.
Every soul chooses their earth experiences in order to learn and spiritually grow in wisdom and knowledge but the attained wisdom and knowledge must then be practiced and lived until it shifts from intellectual knowledge and becomes one’s state of consciousness at which time it can begin to manifest and never be lost.
Evolution is simply the dedicated process involved in removing and moving beyond all the self created illusory debris one has ignorantly draped all over every aspect of ones self in order to eventually allow reality to be the self/SELF–the perfect expression of Divine Consciousness.
This does not mean that a seeker must throw away the crystals, oils, music etc that they have come to love. Enjoy these things, feel their energy and utilize it in your work, but do it with the full awareness that you do not NEED these things. They augment what is already fully present within you but give you NOTHING that is not already fully present within.
Never forget; “That which I have been seeking, I Already Am”. Joel S. Goldsmith
MCR 1/1 17 updated 9/25