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..:: Relationship ::..
By
Alan Schneider
All relationships are
fundamentally Karmic in character – we end up involved with other people
with whom we can optimally share spiritual development, for positive
or negative outcomes. If we maintain a relative degree of
objectivity and detachment, thus fostering a conducive learning
environment for ourselves and our significant others, the results will
tend to be more identifiably positive – we will be ready to release the
involvement and progress to our next spiritual gradients when the
current relational lessons have been learned. If we become infatuated,
enamored, or perhaps comfortably addicted, within the context of the
relational situation, this will gravely interfere with our ability to
learn what we spiritually need to know from the relationship, and this
will probably result in a traumatic personal wound when the relational
Karma finally “times out”, and things simply come to an end. This is the
situation that often occurs when none of the individuals involved
in the relational situation have achieved much in the way of real
spiritual insight – the social context disintegrates and vanishes,
scattering the participants in many directions to begin the learning
process again elsewhere.
It is of course true that
dual intimate relationships (hopefully involving a more or
less exclusive pair of individuals) are particularly prone to
romantic infatuation, and even codependency and addiction, within the
relational involvement. The outcomes of such bonding have a lot to do
with the frequently subconscious motivations of the individual
participants. If they have a certain level of awareness that their
involvement with each other, however intense and rewarding it may be, is
occurring within the larger context of the Universal Cosmic Mind as the
result of their shared Soul Karma, this will enhance the spiritual
gradient involved. If they are fundamentally motivated to avoid
the Truth of the Soul, and are doing so by subconsciously seeking an
environment of relational distractions that will support their
flight from that Truth (and the responsibility for their Soul
involvement on the Physical Plane), then the best that can be hoped for
is a temporary escape from the confrontation with Karma that will
inevitably occur anyway. We must ultimately acknowledge growth
in spiritual awareness as the only real positive manifestation in
life – apart from that, it is a battle, always has been, and
always will be. Even the attainment of Enlightenment – the very
process of spiritual growth – is a battle unto itself, and
perhaps the most intense battle at that, because it demands so much of
us as the price of success – the sacrifice of all of our most cherished,
comfortable illusions about existence.
There is no escape –
the only way out is through. Eventually (and this may be
after the elapse of many lifetimes spent in the attempt to
escape) the individual will come to terms with spiritual reality and
begin to shift the assessment of relational involvement directly to the
consideration of the probable or possible spiritual vectors present. At
this point, real progress becomes possible, instead of just another ride
on the relational merry-go-round. Now, to be sure, there seem to be a
large number of fundamentally “new” Souls presently incarnated on the
Physical Plane who have little other awareness than that of the
merry-go-round, and this must be taken into account by the seasoned
spiritual Seeker. The question which must be asked here is this: how
much time do I have to spend on distractions which will only leave me
right back where I started from at the Karmic “ticket booth”? The truth
is that we do not have time – life and incarnation are gone
almost before we notice their presence, and the only ameliorative is
becoming fully conscious in the present. Living among the distractions
will prevent the development of that form of consciousness indefinitely.
We succeed in life to the
extent that we learn to consistently Love and Honor the Soul and
the Logos as the combined motive principals of all
manifestation. If anything survives physical mortality, it is this
composite phenomenon, and is attained only on a purely spiritual level
of awareness through the practice of compassion, selfless love, and
devotion to a simple, graceful life.
In certain instances, as when
diametrical opposition is an element of Soul manifestation
potentially present in a relational involvement, we are given a
relationship that shows us our opposite energy signature by way
of highlighting the lessons to be learned. The Divine Light of
Consciousness, the Logos, is certainly concerned with our well being as
human organisms, but is more concerned with the evolution of our
Souls as Spiritual Beings, and will use any means necessary to promote
this evolutionary growth process. In this sense,
opposition-as-reflection remains another very effective mode of
instruction and development. After all has passed, the body will
disintegrate, but the Soul will persist as the spiritual essence of the
organism.
Ultimately, we enter and
leave the Physical Plane as Souls intimately associated with discreet,
isolated physical bodies. The entire Physical Plane is an expression of
the Logos (vibrating at the lowest spiritual frequencies, however) set
in place as a series of complex sensory mirrors to enhance the evolution
of the Soul on its journey back to God. Our relationships with other
limited, isolated human expressions of consciousness, however exciting
and satisfying they may be, are doomed to experience the same transitory
excursions amid the eternal turbulence of the Physical Continuum, as we
are tossed about on the stormy sea of ego awareness. The only
relationship which we can rely on as a consistently stable lighthouse of
consciousness, always visible from the sea of confusion and ego
involvement, is the spiritual relationship of our Souls and the Logos.
When this relational bond is made the first priority of living,
the frustration and remorse so often experienced with our human bonds is
considerably abated.
It is often very difficult
for human beings to comprehend the Will and Presence of God. The
conditions of the Logoic Plane are as different as is conceivable from
those of the Physical Plane, and the ego, which has evolved as the
mediator of consciousness on that lowest of Planes. We tend to evaluate
the supposed motives of the Divine Intelligence from our acutely limited
mortal human perspective, and come away from the experience angry and
perplexed. How can a Loving, Caring God permit, let alone Create,
a universe apparently filled with suffering and imbalance? Why must we
repeatedly die out of the body in fear and discomfort? Why is the human
condition and ego so evidently disposed toward selfishness and cruelty?
From the rote human perspective, life is a puzzle at best, and agony at
worst...
The answers to these
quandaries can be known through the investigations of the altered
states of consciousness available to us, most notably the Yogas, and
meditation techniques of several disciplines, but a prolonged interval
of personal sacrifice, discipline, and austerity is required as the
price of this knowledge. Under these circumstances, it is not so
surprising that most of humanity shirks the task in favor of transitory
material distraction. In the essays to come, I will endeavor to provide
the reader with the results of my life of sustained inquiry into the
Mysteries of the Mind, in the form of my insights into the Divine
Existence of the Logoic Plane, and what God wants from us as Souls
incarnate on the Physical Plane!
- With Love, Alan -
(Copyright 2009, by Alan Schneider)
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