What is Enlightenment?

At the core of all religions and spirituality, there is an experience of the sacred beyond ordinary human ken. It is often called awakening or enlightenment in the East, and salvation or redemption in the West.  Achieving this state of being is the goal of all systems of spirituality and religion. It is an awakening from the illusion of only being human to recover your consciousness of Who You Really Are: an spiritual being, part of and always connected to the One Infinite Being, Source of all that is. It is a continual experience, of self as an immortal spirit, and individualization of the One Infinite Creator Being from which all that exists comes. It includes recovery of your innate perception of and communication with the One of whom you are always a part.

To fully understand enlightenment, we must first understand its context, the fundamentals of all existence, the cosmology of true spirituality:

The only thing that really exists is a single, infinite, Being of Aware Will, the One. This BEing has 13 Primordial Characteristics; Oneness, Infinity, Light, Consciousness, Wisdom, Will (Power), Perfection, Beauty, Magnificence, Love, Truth, Peace, and Joy.  She has many human names:  Brahma, Tao, Creator, God, Yahweh, Allah, etc

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This Being manifests out of its own energy substance, out of its own Essence, out of Love, everything that exists: the Creation, the  Cosmos. She is both Creator and the Creation. She is the Essence of all that is.

The purpose of the Creation is experience, every kind of experience possible. The Creation is Essence expressing, exploring, and experiencing Herself in all Her infinite possibilities of being. The creation is the playground, the Disneyland, the cosmic movie theater of God. The creation is an illusion (maya), the ultimate and only Truth is Essence.  Essence individualizes part of Herself into limited beings, spirits, and these incarnate into the Creation to play, adventure, and enjoy. 

We are each one of those individualizations of Essence, of the One. We are an immortal spirit, a particle of the One Infinite Being, a “chip off the old block”. Our separated individuality is an illusion; we are always the One; there is nothing else we can be. We are all the One pretending to be the Many to have others to play with and against, and above all, others to love (otherwise, we would only know self–love).

We are currently incarnating in the creation to explore the Human Experience, to play the Human Adventure Game. (The Human Experience is the exploration of all that we are not in Essence; the exploration of negative energy, obstacles, struggle and effort.) To fully live the Human Experience, to immerse ourselves in the role of human being, to take life seriously and dramatically; we must truly experience ourselves as only a human being. We must not-know Who We Really Are (immortal spirits, particles of the One Essence). We must block out the 13 Characteristics. We do this by creating a shell of negative energy around our consciousness that blocks out Essence and generates for us the illusion of a human identity. (The exact mechanics of this shell, how it works and how to free yourself of it, are well know, but beyond our scope here.) The shell is part of the Creation and therefore an illusion;  in Truth,  we never cease to be Who We Really Are.

How to Achieve Enlightenment

We can awaken from the illusion that we are only a human being. We can do this by discreating the shell  of energy that limits our consciousness to that of human and generates for us the illusion of the Creation, of being human. Essentiality is a system, a technology for this discreation. This restores our awareness of self as an immortal spirit, and restores our perception and communication with Essence, with the One. When we are permanently awake such that we do not fall back into our human identity illusion, we are “enlightened”.

Essentiality is a new science of spirituality backed by a precision technology that produces enlightenment in only five years of effort. 

Misconceptions about enlightenment and achieving it:

  1. 1. Enlightenment is difficult, almost impossible to achieve for the average person. Truth: Enlightenment is neither hard nor easy;  it is like climbing a mountain: you do so one step at a time.  It requires constant effort for the 5 years it takes, but the Essentiality School of Accelerated Enlightenment  guides you step-by-step, week by week, in all that you must do.  “How do you eat an elephant?”  Answer: “One bite at a time”.
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  3. 2. Enlightenment is something special and reserved for a few. Truth:  Not at all.  We are all equal beings and all divinely capable of enlightenment.  Furthermore,  ALL human beings will enlighten eventually in some lifetime;  no immortal spirit (you are one) comes to Earth for all eternity.
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  5. 3. You have to renounce the world (job, family, etc.) and dedicate your life to your spirituality.  Truth:  You can continue with your normal human life and achieve enlightenment in only 5 years working on yourself about 2 hours per day. (Obviously, you will need to prioritize your activities and be more efficient with your use of time. )
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  7. 4. You must put on special robes, let your hair or beard grow, use special talismans or symbols or ceremonies to enlighten. Truth: Enlightenment is a spiritual state; nothing in the physical universe affects or can produce it. Of course, you do need to take care of your body to maintain good health and high energy.
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  9. 5. You have to renounce sex (and other pleasures of the world). Truth:  On the contrary, you can and should have an abundant sex life as one of the expressions of love and beauty (which are characteristics of Essence).  However, you must not lose yourself in lust or in the external quest for sense pleasures. 
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  11. 6. You have to meditate many hours every day. Truth: You do need to develop control of your mind and your attention. However, you can begin with as little as 20 mins per day and work up to one hour per day over 3 years. Enlightenment in the Essentiality system does not require more.
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  13. 7. You can achieve enlightenment by yourself; you do not need a school or a teacher. Enlightenment is hard enough to achieve when you do have a really good school or teacher.  With a bad one or by yourself, it is almost impossible; you simply do not know all that is necessary. True Spirituality is complicated and vast. And there are some things that require external guidance because you will not be able to see them in yourself.  One example of this is negative ego. Negative ego blinds us to our negative ego. Those who have achieved enlightenment apparently without a teacher (such as Jesus and Buddha) had incorporal guides (as did Mycal).
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  15. 8. Highly spiritual people and enlightened beings have little personality and little sense of humor. Truth:  On the contrary, such beings have re-created their personality to be however they choose to be.  They are no longer the product of their upbringing, education and past history as is the ordinary human being.   Most of them are joyous and happy all the time.
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  17. 9. Once enlightened, you have mystical perceptions and powers. Truth: An enlightened being (4th Level of Consciousness) does have more power of manifestation than an ordinary human being. And they are more perceptive of the thoughts and feelings of others.   However,  full power over the physical universe you do not have until you achieve the 5th level:  total Self-Realization in which you are fully Essence again.   
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  19. 10. Once enlightened your life is free of negative events. Truth: Life will continue to unfold however it does with positive and negative events.  What does change is that you no longer suffer because you see the perfection of it all and do not resist what is as it is. 

The only thing that exists is the One, a single Being of 13 Primordial Characteristics. These are: 

1. Light

2. Infinity

3. Oneness (Unity)

4. Consciousness

5. Wisdom

6. Truth (certainty that Essence is Ultimate truth)

7. Will (Power)

8. Magnificence

9. Perfection

10. Beauty

11. Love

12. Peace

13. Joy

Whenever someone reports a contact with the Deity, as in meditation, religious, mystical or entheogenic experiences; he will report one or more of these 13 Characteristics.[1] Whenever you experience these Characteristics in your human life, such as when your child is born, or you go to the mountains or the sea or the forest, or look up at the starry night sky, or you feel inspired by the magnificence of music or art or architecture, or you perceive the intrinsic beauty of mathematics or science; you are experiencing a twang of your Divine Essence.

[1] We will always capitalize the first letter of all words that refer to Essence, the Deity, and there will be many more than just these 13.

Whenever you experience the opposites of the 13: anger, fear, hate, guilt, sorrow, depression, powerlessness, worthlessness, badness, jealousy, envy, shame, desire to harm or destroy (as opposed to create or build) etc.;  you are experiencing the negative polarity of your Essence, which is what you came to earth to do  (as explained in the book Essentiality I).

The 13 Characteristics are all the One and the same thing.  The Characteristics are “1 into 13”; and “13 in 1”. They are  One Energy, One Essence, One Life Force, the One Being.  They are all the same energy much like white light is one energy at the same time it comprises the many colors of the rainbow. We will use “Essence-13” or  “Love– 13” whenever we want to remind you we are referring to one of the Characteristics.   (You will find the Characteristics explained in the book Essentiality II.)

The One creates everything that exists out of Her own substance, her own energy; out of Her Essence.  We shall call her Essence, for She is the substance, the Essence, of all that exists.  She is both Creator and the Creation. [2] All things are formed of Essence, by Essence. There is not that which is not Essence. 

[2] “Creation” versus “creation”. “Creation will have a capital “C” when referring to the entire Creation, the Cosmos, which is everything that exists, all dimensions and universes.  The Creation is Essence manifested.  A “creation” is any thing, any reality, with the Creation. Examples: The Creation consists of an infinity of creations.  Every thought is a creation of the person experiencing it.

You are Essence. We are all Essence. We are all the One and Only Being. We are all ONE. There is nothing else we can be for there is nothing else but Essence. She is Ultimate Truth, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all existence.  

In physics, She is known as the quantum field, that no-thing out of which all energy and matter arise. What science does not understand about the Field is that She is alive; She is Life itself. What science does not understand is that we are the Field incarnating within the Creation. She is here, there, everywhere, all the time. You are in Her right now. She is fully conscious of you; you are unconscious of Her; you are asleep in Her. You can change that: you can learn to perceive Her and communicate with Her which is to communicate with your Higher Self.

Deriving from the 13 Principal Characteristics are 20+ qualities of being you will experience as you enlighten, as you grow in and towards Essence. They are the Qualities of Pre-Essence and include: Transparency, Responsibility, Power, Trust in Life, Self-Worth, Humility, Simplicity, Sincerity, Detachment, Liberty, Enthusiasm, Patience, Harmony, Compassion, Kindness, Serenity, Abundance, Gratitude, Service, and Happiness.

Together, the 13 Characteristics and the 20+ qualities of Pre-Essence are the properties of spirituality. You are spiritual to the degree you are living in the

EXPERIENCE and EXPRESSION of ESSENCE,
of the 13 Characteristics, particularly
Wisdom, Power, Love, Joy, Humility and Abundance.

You are not part of Essence; you are all of Her. There are no parts in One. Both your spirit (psycan) and your body are formed out of Essence by Essence, by you. Your apparent individuality, separated and isolated from the One and from all others, is an illusion.  The human mind cannot encompass that you are the One, that you are all of Essence, but you-spirit can experience this with the right guided meditation. 

Likewise, everyone and everything else is also the One. As Essence, you are everyone and everything, and they are you. You-Essence are in all beings and all things, everywhere. The appearance of Many is a necessary part of the illusion that is the Creation; but the Truth is We are all One. To the human mind it appears impossible and preposterous that we are all One, but in enlightenment, you live in this experience.

You are the One partitioning your Self into the illusion of a separated individuality, of a small spirit.  You do this with the ego force.  You are not an ego; you do not have an ego; you are an individualization of the One Consciousness.

Why You Do Not Experience your Essence

As a psycan (spirit), you created a shell of energy around you that blocks out Essence and generates for you the experience, the illusion, of being only human. You then descended into the Creation to play and adventure and have many experiences of all types. You are currently incarnated on earth in a human body to star in your Human Movie experience.

To be a human being, you must not-know Who You Really Are, not-know your Divinity and true Power. You are suffering from auto-created mystical amnesia, called “avidya” meaning “ignorance” in Buddhism and Hinduism. Only by creating mystical amnesia of your Essence, of your True Nature and Divine Creator Power, can you have obstacles and problems and challenges and conflicts and drama, essential elements to any good movie. To be human and to live the Human Adventure, the Human Drama, the Human Dream, you must be asleep to Who You Really Are, the Creator of it all.

Avidya allows you to lose yourself in the illusion of being human. Coming to earth is like going to a theater to watch a movie. To fully savor a movie, you must forget who you are in real life. You must identify with the protagonist and become absorbed in his goals and challenges. A good movie makes you forget who you are outside of the theater and has you become the hero, sweat his obstacles and trials, and live as much suspense, drama and emotion as possible. 

In all movies, stories, sports and games, the ultimate purpose is to feel, to experience, to live, as much as possible, both positive and negative experiences. (By the Laws of Polarity, you can’t have one without the other.)

Congratulations!  You have been totally successful in hypnotizing your Self to believe that you are only a human being.  With the same power you have put yourself to sleep, you can wake yourself up and recover Who You Really Are.  That is Enlightenment.   To guide you to your Enlightenment is the purpose of the Essentiality School of Accelerated Enlightenment. 

An infinite space stretched out before me; I was only a tiny speck of consciousness. The pure Essence of Love washed over me in waves of sound, color, and ecstasies. In that infinite space, a nameless number of worlds existed, each with their own life forms and experiences. Countless dimensions / planes / worlds inside countless spheres on countless tendrils of God; and It was in the act of experiencing all of them at once.

God is sitting quietly on Her Eternal Couch watching countless movies all at once, the very movies we are making every second of our lives. More than that, God is living each life with the liver, literally looking through our eyes as we go about making the choices of our experience. God allowed me to feel what being It felt like; and inside It. I lived every life in existence, infinitely.

It is everything and everything a part of It, everything one with It. I saw that nothing that anyone does can be “good” or “bad” because God is only Love. Even in our judgments and hate and horror, we are searching for Love, searching to return to It. Everything is truly okay.

Anonymous report of a mystical experience of the Creator

Being the One, the 13 Characteristics, is an ecstatic experience—for a while. However, in the Unmanifested One, there is nothing: nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to play with, no challenges, no games, no goals, nothing to play with, nothing to play for (prizes), no drama, no good, no evil. Over a long time, such as eternity, you can understand how that could get monotonous.

But not a problem. Essence is Infinite Power, Infinite Energy, and Infinite Possibility. She can be anything, do anything; She has no limits of any kind. So She creates the Cosmos, the Creation. She manifests Her Self as everything that exists.

She creates everything that exists out of Herself, out of the spiritual Essence She is; there is nothing else out of which to create anything. With Her Infinite Creator-Will, she forms Her own Substance into all that exists. She is both the Creator and the Creation. She exists before, outside and beyond the Creation. She is inside the Creation. Taking form, She is the Creation. There is not that which She is not[1].

The Creation (aka the Cosmos) is Essence manifesting Her Self in everything that exists, in an infinite number of dimensions, each with innumerable universes, each full of realities and teaming with beings.  (A reality is any form of energy being what it is; everything that exists is a reality from a subatomic particle to a galaxy.)  The Creation is everything that exists, all created reality.  The Cosmos is the Creator expressing, manifesting, forming Her Self into all that exists, into every experience possible.

[1]“Creation” and “Cosmos” with a capital “C” refer to the entirety of all created realities, as opposed to a specific reality which is a creation with the Creation.

Essence is the unmanifested, the unchanging. The Creation is a kaleidoscope of change and impermanence. New forms and expressions of Essence always arising as old ones are experienced and subside.

The Creation is a never-ending parade of creations-realities; new ones ever aborning, current ones ever changing, old ones ever dying away, for all of eternity. Birth- Life-Death; Creation-Experience-Discreation. The Cosmos is a kaleidoscope of ever-changing forms of Essence.

Our physical universe is but a grain of sand in our dimension of physicality, of matter. Our dimension is only one frequency in the spectrum of dimensions that is Cosmos. There is a finite amount of grains of sand on the planet; there is no limit to dimensions and universes in the Creation.

You might think of the Creation as a multi-dimensional, super-real hologram. Our dimension containing the physical energy and matter, is dense and slow, far down in the spectrum of dimensions, near the bottom. (I know this because I and my advanced students travel up through higher dimensions when we visit Essence, which anyone can learn to do.)

Analogies:

1- The Creation is like a megaplex movie theater with an infinite number of screening salons each presenting a different movie.  Psycans choose their movie—but they don’t just watch it: they incarnate within the movie and live it in 4-dimensional, total reality.  This can include, as it does for the Human Movie, that they completely block out Who They Are Really (spirit and Essence) to identify and lose themselves in their character, games and drama.

2- The Creation is like the matrix in the movie The Matrix (1999).  In the movie, our world is a perfectly real illusion in which all the people are in cocoons outside the illusion dreaming they are people in the world and living their human lives with no idea they are in an illusion, in the Matrix.  The world is exactly like that, a perfectly real illusion in which we psycans incarnate to live a Human Experience, our Human Adventure Movie. Except that, outside the Matrix there are no “evil machines” but Essence, the Creator. Enlightenment is to wake up to Who You Really Are, psycan and Essence, while still in the Matrix.  You then live your Human Movie from that level of consciousness, one of Essential Wisdom, Creator Power, Love, Joy and Abundance.  

3- The Creation is like a MMPORG:  a Massive, Multi-Player, Online, Virtual Reality Game, pronounced MORG.  These are computer games played over the internet with hundreds or thousands of other players.  Examples include Second Life, World of Warcraft, Multiverse, Star Trek Online.   In a MORG, the players are represented by an “avatar”, an iconic character that exists in the virtual world.  In the same way, your human identity, personality, represents you-psycan in the MORG that is Earth.  

The Purpose of Creation

The purpose of the Creation is EXPERIENCE, every experience possible, without limits.  Essence creates space, time, energy and matter; then partitions Her Self into the illusion of many beings and descends into the Creation to experience it and play in it for all eternity. This is what the Creator does:  She creates and experiences Her creations, infinitely and eternally.

The Creation is Essence manifesting Her Self in all Her infinite possibilities of Being to explore and experience all She can BE. The Creation is Essence manifesting Her Self into everything possible to know Her Self in all Her infinite possibilities of being, for all eternity.  

She can be anything and everything and She is doing so.  She has no limits; there is nothing She cannot be. There is nothing She should not be; there is nothing “bad”. This includes that She is the negative polarities, the Darkside of the Creation:  Drama and Evil.  The purpose of the Cosmos is every kind of experience possible: from the greatest Light, Love and Creation, to the darkest Evil, Destruction and Suffering.

Essence is Infinite Power over Herself, over the energy-essence of everything that exists. The Cosmos is Essence forming Essence into All That Is to explore Her infinite varieties of expression, to know Her Self and enjoy Her Self.  She is being the galaxies and the atoms, the stars and the planets, the animals and the plants, the rocks and the air.  She is being you and me. She is being all thoughts and all emotions, all happiness and all pain and suffering. There are no limits to what She can BE, and there is no thing which She is not.

The Creation is the sandbox, the toy box, the playground, the movie theater, the game board, the amusement park of Essence. The Cosmos is the “Disneyland of God”, full of rides and shows and adventures and dramas. Our world is the Matrix as in that movie.  It is a perfectly real illusion where we spirits come to immerse ourselves in our Human Experience Movies.

There is no experience that Essence denies Herself.  There is no experience She thinks is bad, that it “should not be”.  That would be to limit Herself and She has no limits; She is infinite freedom to create everything possible.  She wants all experiences, all kinds of experiences, every kind of experience, all possibilities of experience, bar none — including evil, as we shall see. There is no end to what She can be and do and experience: the Creation is infinite and ever changing and She has all eternity to enjoy it. There is nothing else to do in all of existence except create and enjoy the creations.

This is what She does: She creates and then She explores, plays with, experiences and enjoys that which She has created. For all eternity. Never ending variety. She incarnates in life forms by imbuing them with Her Self, with Life, with Consciousness, as appropriate to that form and then uses the form to experience matter. You are Her doing this now, in your Human Adventure.

You-spirit are a particle of Essence descended into the Creation to experience it and all that you can. Your life is an adventure, a game, a 4-dimensional, total reality movie. You are currently playing in the Creation, living your Human Drama Movie.

We may use any of the following words as synonyms for your human incarnation: Your Human: Experience, Exploration, Adventure, Game, Drama, Story, Movie, Theater, Illusion, Dream, Sleep, Descension, Amusement Park, etc.   You are also a creator, and you expand the creation by creating all that you do:  family, houses, business, art, music, cars, boats, airplanes:  everything is a creation. You also create all your psycanics realities:  thoughts, emotions, relationships, identities (states of being), love and happiness—or pain and suffering.

Maya

In Hinduism, the Creation is “maya” which means “illusion”.  It is a Perfectly-13 real illusion. The world is Essence appearing to our senses as all things, all forms of energy. The apparent reality of the material world is an illusion, a hologram, a matrix; the only Truth is Essence. Physical science confirms maya in that the world is subatomic particles which themselves are patterns of energy which are vibrations, perturbations in the quantum field which is No-Thing, i.e. à Essence. We see the world as solid matter, but we are not seeing the real nature of the universe:  Essence.

It is spiritually helpful to always remember that the Cosmos is an illusion; never Ultimate Reality, never Truth. Behind everything, behind all appearances, behind matter and energy is Essence. Everything is really Essence, made of Essence by Essence. She is the Infinite Consciousness Energy who forms the Cosmos from the Energy that She is. She is the Quantum Field that emanates the energy that becomes matter. She is always here, there, everywhere, everyone, everything. She is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. There is nowhere She is not; no thing She is not. Nothing She cannot do. There is nothing She does not know, past, present and future.

No Bad

The definition of “bad” is: that which “Should Not Be” (abbreviated SNB) apparently justifying the use of negative love to stop, change, punish or destroy it. (Negative love is all forms of negative energy.)

To repeat: The purpose of the Creation is experience, every possible experience. In the Creation, Essence manifests Her Self in all Her infinite possibilities of being and doing and feeling. Everything that exists is this One Being exploring Her Self in infinite varieties of expression for all eternity. This includes the positive and negative sides of all polarities, for example:  Love<>Evil. (Evil is the polar opposite of Love.) She has no limits; there is nothing She cannot be. There is nothing She does not want to be, and nothing that should not be; there is nothing that is “bad”.

The human being thinks some experiences “should not be”, that they are “bad”. For examples: negative emotions, pain, suffering, evil, gays, poverty, failure, problems, conflicts, etc. As long as you think any experience is “bad-SNB”, you have not understood Essence or the Creation.

“Bad-SNB” is a hallucination of the human mind. There is no thing which Essence should not be: there are no “bad” things. “Bad” does not exist in the vocabulary of God. This includes what we call evil, which from the Creator’s point of view is but another and magnificent exploration of Herself in Her negative polarity. She is Creator and She is Destroyer. This is the significance of Shiva in Hinduism.

 If something can exist, it does exist, and it exists because Essence wants it to exist. If Her Omnipotence did not want something, i.e. evil, to exist, it would not. Who am I to say that something should not be when the Creator wants it there?  Who am I to deny that experience to Essence? 

If you have studied spirituality, mysticism or religions, especially the eastern ones; you have heard of states of consciousness or being beyond ordinary human awareness. These states have many names; a partial list includes: 

  • The Tao
  • Enlightenment
  • Illumination
  • Self-Realization
  • God-Realization
  • Transcendence
  • Gnosis
  • Liberation
  • Salvation
  • Redemption
  • Integration, Re-Integration (to the One)
  • Birth of the Spirit
  • Awakening (of the spirit)
  • The Kingdom of Heaven
  • The Coming of the Holy Spirit
  • The Totality of Oneself (Toltecs)
  • Christ Consciousness
  • God Consciousness
  • Divine Union
  • Nirvana (Buddhism (extinction of individuality)
  • Satori (Zen)
  • Samadhi (Hinduism, Buddhism)
  • Bodhi (Bud)
  • Buddhahood
  • Kensho (Zen)
  • Moksha, Mukti (Hindu, Bud)
  • Jivanmukti (Sikhism)
  • Kevala Janana (Jainism
  • Ushta (Zoroastrinaism)
  • Prajna (Hindu)

They are all One and the same thing: The One Infinite Creator Being, the Essence of All That Is.   

All of these names are different facets and gradients of one experience, the experience of the One, the perception of Essence, which as we have said, has 13 major characteristics (and at least 15 minor ones (Pre-Essence). The 13 are: Light, Consciousness, Will=Power, All-Oneness, Infinity, Magnificence, Wisdom, Perfection, Beauty, Truth, Love, Peace and Joy.  The variations, combinations and intensities of experience — and the enormous differences in the narration of them — make it seem like there are many states.  But no, there is only one; there is only the One. 

All spiritual paths, if they go anywhere, lead to the One. 
(And It is the same One, or there would be two.)

The experience of the Essence is a spectrum that runs from the opposite experience of evil, through avidya (no experience) ; to an experience so powerful, so grand and ecstatic and joyful that it obliterates perception of the physical universe and requires great focus to recover perceptions here (should you wish to do so).  Samadhi and the ecstasies of the saints are instances of losing all contact. For example, the book, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a beautifully written book in which the author Robert Pirsig relates his entry (as Phaedrus) into such a state by pursuing Quality (another name for Essence) as the creator of reality. However, he is not prepared for awakening, and those around him do not understand what is happening to him, so he is put in a mental institution and electro-shocked back to “reality”. (This is one of reasons you need a school: you are prepared by those who have already gone through the experience.)

At the lower levels of perception, any one characteristic, or any combination, may dominate any given moment of your experience of your Essence. In mysticism, there is a well-known story from India about six blind man trying to understand an elephant.  Each one is given to feel a different part: trunk, tail, legs, side, ears, tusks, etc. They report variously that an elephant is like a serpent, a rope, a tree, a house, a fan, a log, depending on the part that each experienced. Similarly, at the beginning of opening to Essence, we will each experience different aspects and in different intensities, producing very different reports. As you perceive better, as you advance towards enlightenment, you will perceive them all and as a single thing, as the One.  

If you would like to investigate more deeply what Essence feels like beyond my poor description of the 13 Characteristics, google “mystical experience” and “near-death experiences” (www.near-death.com is a good site). I give here one of my favorite descriptions, not because it is complete (it is very partial), but because it is so poetic.  This quote comes from the book “Cosmic Consciousness”, by Richard M Bucke[1] (1898). He is writing of his own experience in the third person. 

[1] One of his basic assumptions, that consciousness develops from matter, is wrong, but the rest of the book is a notable study on spiritual illumination citing more than 30 probable cases.

“He was in a state of quiet, almost passive enjoyment. All at once, without warning of any kind, he found himself wrapped around as it were by a flame-colored cloud. For an instant he thought of fire, some sudden conflagration in the great city; the next, he knew that the light was within himself.

Directly afterwards came upon him a sense of exultation, of immense joyousness accompanied or immediately followed by an intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe. Into his brain streamed one momentary lightning-flash of the Brahmic Splendor which has ever since lightened his life; upon his heart fell one drop of Brahmic Bliss, leaving thenceforward for always an aftertaste of heaven.

Among other things he did not come to believe, he saw and knew that the Cosmos is not dead matter but a living Presence, that the soul of man is immortal, that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all, that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love and that the happiness of everyone is in the long run absolutely certain.

He claims he learned more within the few seconds during which the illumination lasted than in previous months or even years of study, and that he learned much that no study could ever have taught.”

In researching mysticism, if you decide to do so, do be careful. There is a lot of ignorance and mis-understanding out there by people who have never experienced it, and by those who think it can be explained by the mind or psychology or science, or that mankind is high on the totem pole of being (when he is close to the bottom). (One psychologist equates mystical experiences with psychopathology!)  

While it is scientific and useful to compile reports and experiences about mystical experiences; there is a huge difference between reports and opinions.  If a commentator has not been there personally, he really has no idea what is going on; a blind man trying to understand an elephant by only hearing about its tail.  It is encouraging, however, to note that more than half the population in the US reports some degree of mystical or expansive experience at least once in their lives.

Look for descriptions by people who have actually been there. One example is the near-death experience of Mellen-Thomas-Benedict: Click here.

(Notice how he reports light, love, beauty and perfection.) 

Another experience worth reading is that of Diane Morrissey: Click here.

Note that they both are perceiving these experiences through a human filter and also through the personal filters of their spiritual beliefs. This is normal until you have enough personal experience to transcend such projections.  

These people had experiences of Essence by “dying”; you can have them by systematic effort through following the protocols of Essentiality. 

You are an immortal spiritual being playing at being human in the holographic, virtual reality that is the physical universe. 

You are a player in the MMORPG that is life on earth: Massive MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Game  (pronounced MORG; examples are “Second Life” and “World of  Warcraft”.)  Instead of “online”,  it takes place in a perfectly real, 4D illusion that is matter.   

You are literally living in the Matrix (reference to the famous 1999 movie).  Outside and creator of the Matrix is the One Infinite Creator Being from which you come and are part of. 

You are a spirit incarnating on earth to play the Human Game, to explore the Human Adventure. 

You are literally living in the Matrix (reference to the famous movie).  Outside and creator of the Matrix is the One Infinite Creator Being from which you come and are part of. 

You are a spirit incarnating on earth to play the Human Game, to explore the Human Adventure.     

You are the star in your Human Movie:   The entire planet is a movie set for billions of Human Movies.  Your life is a perfectly real, four dimensional movie and you are the protagonist.  Others are supporting actors in your Movie, and you in theirs.   

You are not your body; you are not your mind; you are not your human identity. You do not come from matter.   You are a non-physical, aware-will entity, a spirit. You are a particle of the Creator incarnating in the creation to play in it.  

Your body and your human identity is your avatar, your character, in the Game.  Your human identity is an illusion, a role, that you-spirit are playing in the MMORPG. 

To truly live the Human Experience, to take it all seriously, to really feel all that a human does;  you must not-know Who You Really Are.  You must forget Who You Really Are to lose yourself in your movie and identify with your human character.  You have hypnotized yourself to believe that you are only a human being, created for yourself what is called “avidya” (ignorance)  in Hinduism and Buddhism.

The purpose of the Matrix as it is for all movies and games, is EXPERIENCE:  adventure, fun, games and drama including pain and suffering. (Movie heroes always suffer before they achieve their goals.)  The Matrix is the Creator exploring and experiencing Her Self in all Her infinite possibilities of being and experiences.  

The first two stages of the Human Experience are, by design, more negative experience, more drama, than happiness.  The first two acts in the Human Theater are more about problems and obstacles, conflicts and difficulties, loss and failure, pain and suffering, than they are about winning and happiness.  You-spirit came here first to explore negative experiences (something like choosing a horror movie to terrify yourself).

Many more positive, even inimaginable, experiences are available to you when you awaken from your Human Dream and recover consciousness of Who You Really Are.  You-spirit are a particle of the Creator, a chip off the old block, capable of manifesting your human life as you would have it.  You are capable of “graduating” to a life of transhuman wisdom, power, love, abundance and joy.  

To the degree that you are deep into your human illusion, all that we have said above may seem preposterous.  That is the measure of the perfection of the Matrix, of the illusion, you are trapped in. Throughout history, some people have awakened with the illusion and tried to tell others.  Their explanations have been mis-understood and distorted and you know them now as the world’s religions.

No need to believe the above, but do take it as a possibility, as a hypothesis and simply be open to having it all explained and proven to you.  What do you choose? You have the same two options as Neo: 

A-  Blue Pill:  continue in the illusion that you are only a human being and continue with a life of problems, drama and negative emotions.   

B-  Red Pill:   Wake up, recover awareness of Who You Are, perception and communication with the All That Is, and your divine power to create your life in your ideal. 

If you chose A read no further. You do not want to know what is in it because it could trigger your process of awakening.  Just know that, sooner or later, you will tire of the Human Game and want to return to the Infinite–Love Joy when you come, to your spiritual Essence.  You will feel emptiness and dissatisfaction with your human life and long for something more, for true happiness. 

If you chose B, Enlightenment, welcome aboard.  This website and our free eBook is the story of the what, why and how you are in the Matrix; and most importantly:  How to Awaken. This eBook is the story of what spiritual awakening and enlightenment are and how to achieve them in a few years.

Please read "Understanding What and Who you Are" before reading this article.

The theory of achieving Enlightenment is fairly simple; most of the concepts you need to understand are on this page, (although maybe not with sufficient explanation).  

As a spiritual entity, as a psycan, you are a “bubble of being” in the One Infinite Being of Infinite Will and Consciousness.  (If you have not read the article:  Understanding What and Who you Are, you should it read it first and then come back here.) 

  • Will is your innate power to decide and to move energy and so create realities.
  • Consciousness is the ability to perceive and experience realities (energy forms) which can, if desired, discreate those realities.
  • You are a Creator and Discreator of realities. (After all: Son of Tiger: striped)

A reality is any form of energy, physical or psycanic.  All thoughts are psycanic realities, all emotions are psycanic realities. Consciousness is the power to perceive, to experience, energy (realities).  Realities act upon Consciousness to produce experience as illustrated here:  

As a human being, you are a psycan, a spiritual being, existing inside a cocoon or shell of energy, of realities, millions. (A reality is an energy form, explained below.)   Those realities act upon your consciousness to: 

1.-  Create your mystical amnesia which has two aspects:

a) block your memory and your experience of yourself as a spiritual being.

b) block your memory, perception of, and communication with Essence.

2.- Form your human identity complex which acts upon your consciousness to generate for you the experience of human being and all the characteristics of your personality and character.  Your human identity complex (aka “avatar”) is like a computer program controlling the electronic energies which act upon the display (your consciousness) to generate the colors and forms you see (experience) on the screen.   Knowing no higher experience because of your mystical amnesia, you are thus “hypnotized” to believe you are only a human being.   

As a “son of the One, of the Creator” you-psycan are a creator and discreator of realities. 

Your enlightenment is a matter of freeing your Self from your cocoon of non-physical realities by discreating those realities.   You free yourself of the cocoon by discharging its energy using the Essentiality Being Transformation Technology (BTT).  As you dissipate the cocoon, both your blocks to spiritual perceptions and your illusion of human being diminish.  You recover your spiritual experiences of Who You Really Are and dis-identify from your human illusion.  When this new state of experience, of Who You Really Are, is real and permanent, you are enlightened. 

If you wish more detail on all of this:

Definitions and Concepts

1.- You-psycan: You are not a human being. You are a nonphysical, life-energy entity, a spirit, which we shall call a “psycan”. You are the Aware Will that possesses a human identity and body on planet earth. You use a human being (body, mind, personality complex), but these are things, tools, instruments, that you-the-spiritual-being use to operate in this physical reality. You-psycan are Will and Consciousness. You-will moves energy to form realities, causing them to exist (i.e. creation). You-consciousness experience your creations, which discreates them: they cease to exist.  

2.- Your origin: You-psycan are an individualization of the One Being, of an infinite field of Conscious Will. She is both Creator and Created; we call He “Essence” because She is the essence and underlying nature of all that exists. She is Ultimate Reality; the only Truth. The Creation is an illusion; it is a movie theater, a playground, a Disneyland.  Essence manifests the Creation to explore Her Self in all Her infinite and eternal possibilities of being. You do not come from and are not part of the Creation; you are part of the Creator and are playing in the Creation at this moment in the eternity of your existence, the Human Game. You are Essence; everything is.   

The following definitions are circular–no way to avoid it. You can only understand some of them when you have understood the others. Please read through this section twice as latter information will deepen your understanding of the earlier information. 

  1. 1. Consciousness: Consciousness is a fundamental property of existence; one of the 13 Principal Characteristics of Essence. It is the power to perceive energy/realities, to experience and thus to know them. There is only ONE Consciousness, infinite. Individuality, separate beingness, is an illusion generated by the Ego Force Field.
  1. 2. Experience (perception, feeling, vivance*): is consciousness in operation. Experience is the effect of a reality on consciousness causing the cognizance-sensing-feeling of that reality. Realities cause experience; experience is the effect of realities (on consciousness). *Definition: vivance: a new word created to make a distinction about experience. Vivance is the ongoing experience of something, as contrasted with a onetime or momentary experience of something. Example: Awakening is a momentary experience; Enlightenment is a vivance; a continual, every day, all day experience.
  1. 3. Energy: everything that exists is formed of energy. All energy obeys exact laws and principles. Just as understanding the laws of physical energy has given mankind power over the physical world, your understanding the laws of non-physical (psycanic) energy gives you power over your internal world.
  1. 4. Realities: A reality is any energy form, any mass of energy with a particular identity making it a particular thing. Examples of physical realities include: star, planet, ocean, house, car, tree, your body, animals, insects, etc. Examples of psycanic realities include all emotions, all thoughts (ideas, memories, dreams, plans, etc.), and the most important of all your identities (creation of self, of what you are and what you are not). Realities cause experience; experience is the effect of realities (on consciousness). To change your experience, i.e. eliminate pain and suffering, discreate the causing reality. (Resisting your experience does not work; resistance is energization and causes persistence.) 
  1. 5. Create: Create is to cause a reality to exist. Your will is creative:  it can form energy into realities.  You are the creator of all your emotions, all your thoughts, your identities, your relationships, your success or failure in life, and your vivance of love and happiness.  You are also the creator of the reality (but not truth) that you are not the creator of your life when that is your reality-experience.
  1. 6. Discreate: To discreate is to discharge the energy from a reality by which it ceases to exist; it is discreated. As it no longer exists, it no longer causes you (negative) experience. You-consciousness have the power to discreate all your psycanic realities: all negative emotions and identities, any negative mind content.  The principle is: Experience experienced discreates; resistance causes persistence. 
  1. 7. Subconscious: Your subconscious is the psycanic space around your consciousness, your being, in which your psycanic realities are outside of your perception-experience for the moment. For example, every human being carries around charges of negative emotion in his subconscious (i.e. around his being but outside of perception). When a trigger event occurs, these charges implode into consciousness–experience and we feel that emotion (anger, fear, sadness, guilt, depression, etc.) (What you do with these activations is critical to your happiness. The correct action is to discharge their energy which eventually frees you of all negative human emotions so you live in serenity and love-joy all the time.)

Illustration: Realities cause experience; experience is the action, the effect, the impact of energy, of realities, on consciousness.

Part 2: Putting the pieces together

The Cocoon

You-psycan-consciousness are surrounded by a thick casing of psycanic realities, something like a caterpillar in a cocoon, or an egg in its shell. We call it the Contra-Essence Identity Mass (CEIM). This cocoon of psycanic mass is multi-dimensional and is more massive and more complex than your physical body. Most of it is subconscious most of the time, but it still acts on you to control your perceptions, experience and behaviors. (For example, all of your negative emotions come from this mass.) Your CEIM has multiple effects on you-consciousness:

#1 It blocks your perception of Essence and generates avidya (mystical amnesia) of Who You Are, where you came from and how you got here, what you are doing here, and where you are going when you finish. 

#2 Using counter-creations, it suppresses your level of being (consciousness, power and love) from that of Essence (i. e. God) to that of a human being (very low on the cosmic scale of being); and

#3 It impresses onto you-consciousness the experience, the illusion, of being not only a human being, but a particular and unique human being, one of a kind. (A loose analogy for this is how a computer program controls the shapes and forms that appear on the monitor.)  

To enlighten yourself, you have only to reduce the mass of your cocoon.  This reduces the strength of your illusion of human being and unblocks your spiritual perceptions. The BTT (Being Transformation Technology) is a very precise method of dissipating the cocoon. 

The only thing that exists is the One, a single, Infinite Being.  She creates everything that exists out of Her own Essence; She is both Creator and the Creation.  She has 13 Principal Characteristics: Light, Consciousness, Wisdom, Truth, Infinity, Oneness, Will (Power), Magnificence, Perfection, Beauty, Love, Peace, and Joy.     

You are Essence; you are the 13 Characteristics.  There is nothing else you could be; there is only the One.  Your experience of separated, isolated individuality is a marvelous illusion generated by the ego force field.   In the illusion of individuality and of the Creation,  you are a “particle”, a “child” of the Creator, descended into the Creation to play in and explore it, and to expand it with your personal creations from within.

Likewise, everyone and everything else are also the One. As Essence, you are everyone and everything. You-Essence are in all beings and all things, everywhere. The illusion of Many is a necessary part of the Creation, but the Truth is we are all One. To the human mind it appears incredible that we are all One, but in enlightenment, you see the Many but you feel the One; you feel your Unity with the universe.

In this article, we are going to speak only of consciousness, but your individualization includes all 13 Characteristics of Essence:  you are all of them. Your most basic characteristics of being are consciousness and will; you are willful consciousness. You are an aware-will entity. You can think of yourself as a sphere of consciousness.

You are Consciousness, one of the 13. Consciousness is the power to perceive, sense, feel, experience and therefore to know.  Your “I” is your consciousness, your perception of yourself.   THERE IS ONLY ONE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS, ONE BEING.   Your “I” and the “I” of others is all the same “I”.   There is only the One “I”. 

The Ego Force Field

The question is:  How does the One Being create the (illusion of) many beings?   She does so with the ego force field, or simply, the ego. The ego force grid partitions and isolates your consciousness from the One Infinite Consciousness and from all other individualizations of the One.   You are the One dividing your Self into many illusions of separated individuality.  Each individuality so generated is a spirit, a psycan.   

Ego is something that has been poorly understood in both psychology and spirituality.  The ego is a force field that overlies the entire Creation and partitions the One Consciousness into many areas or spheres or “bubbles” of consciousness.  You are not an ego!  You do not have an ego!  You are consciousness delimited by a membrane of ego. 

These “bubbles of I” experience themselves as separated and isolated individualities, as individual spirits.   The bubbles of consciousness appear to each other as isolated individualities, as other beings.  You are experiencing ego when you look at any person or thing and experience “I” and “not-I = other” instead of Oneness and unity.

The technical name for a bubble of being, for the aware-will individuality that you are is “psycan”. You are a psycan, an individualization of Essence 13, living in the illusion of separation and isolation from the One All That Is. The purpose of your individualization is so that you can descend into the Creation and play in it with “others” (who are likewise illusions).

You are a psycan, an entity of aware will (and the other 13 Characteristics). There is only One BEing, One Infinite Consciousness, and you are all of IT. However, you can’t play in Creation as the One, as Infinite Consciousness and Power. So You-Essence create the ego field so that you-psycan can have the illusion of being a small, limited, and isolated individual.

Only so reduced in being can you experience being a human being and explore being little, isolated, alone and relatively powerless. Only by creating small, apparently separate beings do we have others to play with (allies) and to play against (enemies) in the Matrix (the Creation).

Bubbles of Being

We can illustrate ego and psycan with an analogy of soap bubbles. Surely you have blown or seen blown soap bubbles.  

1- The air, the atmosphere, represents the One Infinite Consciousness.  Before the ego force operates, it is everywhere one and the same. 

2- The ego force is the soap membrane that forms the bubbles of air.  Ego force generates “bubble membranes” which separate an area of air (consciousness) from the atmosphere, from the One Infinite Consciousness.  The ego separates the air inside the bubble from the air outside the bubble, and from the air in all the other bubbles.  The ego isolates and individualizes a volume of consciousness, thereby forming an “I”, a psycan. 

3- The air inside all the bubbles and the air outside all the bubbles is all the same air, the One and the same Consciousness.   The ego force membrane isolates the air=consciousness inside the bubble from all other “airs” (both outside and inside the other bubbles) thus generating the illusion of separate individualities. This generates an experience inside a bubble of “I” and “here”; and an experience of the other bubbles as “not-I”, of “other”, over “there”.

Illustration: Psycans produced by the ego force individualizing the One Infinite onsciousness (Essence), thereby generating the illusion of separated and isolated beings.

You are Consciousness (Essence) delimited by the ego force to generate the illusion of individuality. All others are in the same illusion. In Essence, we are all One. Individuality is an illusion.

You are experiencing ego when you look at any person or thing, and experience “I” and “Not-I = Other”, instead of Oneness and Unity-13. As you progress towards enlightenment, you will transcend the illusion of ego and separation and feel Oneness with all others. The ego permits us to explore individuality, negative ego, enemies, Drama and Evil on this planet as we treat each other without Unity and Love, as “bad” others.

You-psycan are not matter; you do not come from matter. Will and consciousness do not come from matter. Life does not come from matter. Matter comes from Life. Essence is Life. You are the Field, Essence, individualizing and extending Itself into the Creation, into matter, to experience, create and play. As you are Essence, you can experience Her Presence when you learn how to transcend and perceive beyond “maya” (“maya” is the illusion of the Creation in Hinduism). When you are enlightened, you can perceive Oneness, and your experience is “I and another form of I”. You experience the Perfection 13 of all manifestations of the One, you live in Love and Joy and appreciation and gratitude for the wonder that is the Creation.

Essence creates the ego force to individuate Her Oneness into the illusion of Many, many entities of more limited being, many small beings of lesser wisdom, will, power and love than Herself. No form of Essence is less than any other form.

There can be no greater or lesser in the One, for that requires two. For enlightenment, you must live in the consciousness that in our spiritual Essence, we are One. Always, no matter how strong our illusion of individualization, we are all equal beings, equal children of the One. We come to earth as different beings and play many roles. We come to earth to play games of negative ego (defined below), but no actor is greater than or less than any other in the Greatest Show on Earth.

A Buddhist master was once asked to explain Buddhism in one sentence.

His response:

“You are an illusion.”

 

Enjoy your illusion but do not take it seriously. 

Negative ego

Outside of the Creation, there is only undivided Essence and Oneness.  Within the Creation, there is a gradient of ego, of individuality.  In the upper part of the scale, the ego is weak and we can perceive Oneness and feel our Unity-13 with the Creation. 

In the lower part of the scale, where the illusion of individuality is complete such that there is no perception of ONEness and Unity at all, we fall into the hallucination that is negative ego.  Negative ego is the hallucination that one person is more than or better than another; ergo that the other is worse than or less than the first.  Obviously, humans live in this hallucination:  almost everyone believes they are better than someone else, and less than some other person. 

Negative ego is a hallucination.  Where there is only One, there cannot be more<>less, better<>worse; these require two.  We are all equal sons of the One Creator.  No “piece” of the One Being is more or less than another “piece”; there are no pieces. Negative ego is a great source of drama on the planet (and drama, you will remember, is the purpose of Stage 1 and 2 of the Human Game.)    

The hallucination that you do not have negative ego

Some people will deny that they have negative ego.  The greater the negative ego, the less likely it is that the person can see his.  It is a law of negative ego that if you do not see your own; it is because it is so big its limits are beyond the horizon of your perception — never because you do not have one.  To see your own negative ego, make a list of 10 people you know.  One by one, do you think or feel yourself better or worse than that person?   Why?  What do you believe makes your better or worse? — not that it matters.  Either way, better or worse, that is your negative ego.  

Negative ego, egotism, egomania, is a form of insanity suffered by humanity.  Hitler is a famous example of egomania, and once you know what to look for, you can see it all around you, from frictions in the family, in the workplace, to the posturing and peacocking, expansionism and conflicts between nations.  

Law:  Negative ego destroys.  (Again, Hitler as an example.)   As this planet becomes crowded and if unchecked with a new spirituality, negative ego will lead to the downfall of civilization, as it has for countless others. 

Spirituality requires eliminating our negative ego by understanding that no “child of the Creator”, as we all are, is less than or more than any other.   Spiritual requires humility and equality of all.  Humility is the remembrance that we are all One and that there can be no more or less in the One.

Ego is a large and fascinating phenomenon and you will find much more information about it in the Essentiality books.    

Enlightenment is not just some experience or state of consciousness sitting out in the middle of space all by itself.  No!  It is an integral part of the nature of all existence, of the entire Creation, and particularly of the Human Game. There are many factors and elements around enlightenment, which we shall call its ecology.

To fully understand enlightenment, you must understand its context, its ecology of elements and factors. There are many and some are foreign to human beliefs about existence. To understand enlightenment, you must understand:

1. The One

2. Essence

3. The 13 Primordial Characteristics of Essence.

4. The Ego Force and the Psycan.

5. The Creation

6. The Purpose of the Creation.

7. Experience and Realities, Creation and Discreation.

8. Polarities and the Laws of Polarity.

9. The Hallucination of Bad-Should Not Be.

10. The Essence Polarity of Being.

11. The Darkside, Love<>anti-love.

12. Avidya and neg-Essence (neg-power).

13. Shells of Being.

14. Game Theory, Game Conditions, and Drama.

15. The 5 Stages of the Human Adventure: Evil, Drama, Awakening, Enlightenment and

       Illumination.

16. The Nature of Evil and why it should and must exist.

17. Drama

18. Samsara

19. Being Transformation Technology

20. Spirituality and Ascension.

We call all of these the Fundamentals of Essentiality.  Here is a brief introduction to many of the fundamentals.  You will find more information in the free e-book, Essentiality I. 

Essentiality, the Cutting Edge of Spiritual Science and Technology for Awakening and Enlightenment

Essentiality is the vanguard of spiritual science and technology on the planet. It is a system of knowledge and practices that guide the being to awaken from his human dream and recover his true identity of immortal spirit, and his Oneness with Essence and all that is. 

The Fundamentals of Essentiality

Here follow the basic teachings of Essentiality, excerpted from the book Essentiality II.  This knowledge comes from the 40 years of mystical experiences and travels outside the Creation of Mycal and his team of students and investigators, and on extensive (telepathic) communications with Essence (thousands of hours).

They claim nothing special in all this; we are all equal beings; we are all Essence.  Anybody can learn to do what they have done.  The Essentiality School of Accelerated Enlightenment (ESAE) teaches all who wish how to do so, so they can verify Essence in their own experience.   

IT

Down through the ages and all around the planet, there have been rumors and legends of some place, being or state of consciousness beyond man.  IT has as many names as there are cultures and religions: Tao, Brahma, Cosmic Consciousness, Self-Realization, Enlightenment, Awakening, God, the Great Spirit, the Holy Spirit, Grace, Yahweh, Jehovah, Nirvana, the Creator, Paradise, Kingdom of Heaven, Enlightenment, Satori, Samadhi, Illumination, Self-Realization, to mention a few.  All the great spiritual masters of humanity including Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tze, Krishna, etc. have tried to teach us about IT.  IT is the heart of all religions.

IT is NOT a Myth

IT exists.  All of those names and all the religions are referring to the same thing, to the same place / being / state of consciousness:  to the one and the same IT.

Religions are the interpretations, dogmas and myths that have grown up around the perceptions and experiences of IT by the Great Mystics (Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tze, etc.)  However, as their followers did not have themselves the Experience, they could not understand and have lost or distorted the true meaning of the original teachings.  Essentiality is a new and detailed statement about IT, based on the experiences of a modern mystic, Mycal. 

The ONE

The Ultimate Reality, the Highest Truth of existence is that everything that exists is ONE BEING a single, infinitely wise, intelligent, powerful, loving, joyous, Life Energy Entity.  This BEING is the ONLY thing that exists.   She is the ONE and ONLY.  Out of Her own Essence, she forms the Creation and everything that exists within it. But the Creation is an illusion; the only and ultimate reality is Essence.  We shall call Her Essence for She is the Essence of all that exists.  She is your Essence.  You are She.  There is only the ONE; there is nothing else you could be. 

Characteristics

Essence has 13 Primordial Characteristics (and many secondary ones).   Her 13 Primordial Characteristics are Infinite:

Light,

Consciousness,

Wisdom,

Truth,

Infinity,

Oneness,

Will (Creator Power),

Magnificence,

Perfection,

Beauty,

Love,

Peace, and

Joy.

When anyone has a perception of Essence (in meditation, near-death-experiences, mystical experiences, entheogenic experiences, child birth, etc.), they will report one or more of these Characteristics.  These Characteristics produce many secondary qualities, humility, liberty, and responsibility, for examples. 

True Spirituality

Your spirituality is your degree of Experience and of Expression of Essence (EEE).  Essence, and therefore spirituality, has 13 Primordial Characteristics and 20+ secondary ones.  The major ones are:  Cause/Creator, Wisdom, Love, Humility, Peace, Compassion, Joy, and Abundance.

To the degree that you are feeling and living these Characteristics and treating others accordingly, you are being spiritual.  To the degree that you are generating negative energy, harm or suffering for others, you are being anti-spiritual, aka evil. 

Note that the Characteristics are also the components of happiness.  Essence–Love-Joy is the only happiness that exists.  You are happy to the degree that you recover your Essence.

Essence-Love is the only happiness that exists.
You are happy to the degree that you recover your Essence.   

Your spirituality is your happiness; 
your happiness comes from your spirituality. 

You can also measure the spirituality of others by their degree of expression of the Characteristics of Essence.  Many are the “false prophets” who preach (and profit) in the name of God, but who are neither examples nor sources of true spirituality.  If  you do not see humility, detachment from material things, responsibility, patience, compassion and all the other qualities of spirituality, beware.  They cannot give you what they do not have. 

 

“By their fruits, you will know them.”  –Jesus. 

Psycans

You are a spirit incarnating on Earth as a human being to enjoy the Human Adventure Movie. You-spirit  are an individualization of Essence with the same 13 Characteristics.  Several of the Characteristics control your human life:  Wisdom, Power, Value, Goodness, and Love. We call the individualization of Essence you are a “psycan”.  (Others have called it spirit, soul, or being.)

You come from Essence; you are Essence.  We are all Essence.  There is nothing else that anyone can be. There is only the One. We are all One Infinite Being of Infinite Wisdom, Power, Love and Joy. This is your True Nature.  What individualizes you to the illusion of a limited amount of being, of Essence, is the Ego.

The Ego Force Field

All is One, but the Creation needs the illusion of Many.  To produce the illusion of Many beings, Essence overlays the Creation with the Ego Force Field.  The Ego Force divides, partitions, the One Infinite Consciousness into areas or spheres or bubbles of Itself, of consciousness.  Consciousness is the ability to perceive, feel, experience, know; it is your experience of self, of “I”.  Each bubble is a psycan, an “I-here”, with other bubbles appearing to be “Not-I, over there”, i.e. others.   Thus the One within the Creation generates the illusion of others with whom to play and to play against. 

You are not an ego.  You do not have an ego.  You are a bubble of the One, an individualization of the One Infinite Consciousness, a psycan.  All others are the same: we are all equal beings, all psycans, illusory bubbles of the One. 

The Creation

The Creation is Essence manifesting Her Self in an infinity of universes.  Essence is the Creator of all that exists manifesting everything out of Her own Essence.  She is both the Creator and the Creation:  there is only the ONE.  The Creation is the One Being manifesting Herself in an infinite variety of forms and realities. 

Look at the walls around you; you are looking at Essence being wall. Look at the sky; you are seeing Essence being the sky. Look at your body; you are looking at Essence being your body. However, the Creation is an illusion, “maya” in Hinduism. The only Truth is Essence.

The Purpose of the Creation

The Creation is Essence exploring Her Self in all Her infinite possibilities of being and doing.  Her purpose is to express Her Self, to explore Her Self, to play, to be and experience all She can be, and thus to know Her Self in all Her infinite possibilities of forms, for all eternity.  She is being everything possible and everything is possible; She has no limits.   The Creation is the playground, the amusement park, the movie theater, the Disneyland of God. The purpose of the Creation is experience, play, adventure.

You are an individualization of Essence who descends within the Creation to play, to experience and live adventures; and to expand the Creation by creating from within.  Everything you do and experience, Essence always experiences.  You are a sense organ for Essence. 

Polarity

One of the magnificent ways in which Essence creates a great variety of experiences in the Creation is with Polarity.  A polarity is the stretching of an experience into two opposite directions or poles, creating a spectrum of variations of that experience.  Example:  Temperature is stretched into hot and cold with millions of degrees between the two poles.

While there are many polarities in the Creation, the most powerful and important one is the Essence Polarity of Being.  The positive pole is Essence in Her 13 Characteristics, particularly Love.   The negative pole is all the opposites of Love.  That includes all forms of negative energy, of anti-love, such as invalidation, hate, jealousy, polarization, prejudice, harm, lies, theft, fraud, corruption, indifference to the well-being of others, vengeance, destruction, war, slavery, torture, killing, to name a few. The opposite of Essence-Creator-Love-Joy is Evil-Destructor-Hate-Suffering; short name:  Evil.  

Evil permits Love to exist.  Not only is Evil a rich experience in itself, but it is impossible to have one side of a polarity without the other.  Essence wants everything possible to exist, including the Darkside of the Creation; including Evil. 

One of the purposes of Earth is to provide psycans a place where they can come to explore and express Evil, to experience being all that you are not in Essence.   Notice that there is no shortage of Evil on this planet.    

No Bad

Bad is what “Should Not Be” abbreviated SNB.  When something is Bad-SNB, we humans generate negative energy to attack, stop, change, punish or destroy that Bad-SNB thing.  That, our own, negative energy is the only pain and suffering that exist in life. 

More importantly, Bad-SNB is a hallucination of the human mind.  In the Creation, there is no such thing as Bad-SNB.  The Creator, Essence, is exploring Her Self in all Her infinite possibilities of being.  She is Infinite Freedom and Infinite Power and Infinite Love.  She places no limitations of any kind on Her Self.  There is nothing She does not want to be; nothing She does not want to exist; there is no experience She denies Herself. 

This includes Evil.  Essence is the Creator of Evil.  She creates Evil out of Her Self, out of Love, and She loves Evil infinitely. Evil is a valid and rich experience, another in the infinite manifestations of Essence. 

For enlightenment, you must transcend the hallucination of Bad-SNB to live in transparency and acceptance of all expressions of Essence.

Games

One delight of the Creation is to play Games.  The Creation is a Game Field.  A Game is the struggle and effort to overcome obstacles to reach goals.  The essence of a Game, all the juiciest experience in a Game, is not getting the goal, but the struggle and effort to overcome the obstacles.  It is in the struggle that we challenge and experience our wisdom and our power.  It is only in the struggle that we live Drama, a rich kind of experience.  Drama includes suspense, uncertainty, doubt, surprise, betrayal, loss, failure, defeat, anger, frustration, fear, guilt, sadness, all the negative emotions.  Notice how all the best sports and movies are very dramatic; we-spirits love Drama.  No Drama is boring.    

To maintain Drama, you must not win your Games, produce your desired results.  Humans play for Drama much more than to win.  You avoid getting your results by suppressing your creator power.  You recover your power when you are enlightened. 

Playing in the Creation

In your Essence of great Wisdom, Power, Love and Happiness, you cannot play Games, experience struggle or explore Drama.  You are too Wise and Powerful to have obstacles.  You are innately a creator; you can manifest any result you want immediately.   To come to Earth and play all the human games  with all their Drama: relationships, family, work, career,  business, success, money, fame, power, military, etc.—everything in life is a game.  You must suppress your Divine Essence to play Games, experience Drama and explore Evil. You must become human, ignorant of Who You Are and powerless.  You do this by creating a shell of energy around your being. 

Your Shell

To generate for yourself the illusion you are only a human being, you created a shell of psycanic (non-physical) energy around yourself. That shell acts on you-psycan = consciousness = experience  (all one concept) to block and suppress your experience of Essence,  and to generate for you the experience (illusion) of being only a human being.  While we know the exact mechanics of the shell, that is beyond our discussion here. 

The purpose of your shell is to counter-create Who You Really Are so you can explore all that you are not in your Essence, which is the negative, the Darkside of the Creation.  The Darkside includes Drama, Evil, pain and suffering.  Remember:  these are not Bad-SNB!   The Earth is a place to explore all that you are not in Essence.

Incarnation on Earth

Inside your psycanic shell of realities, you-psycan incarnate into the Matrix, into the human world, and live your Human Adventure Game as a human; that is to say: dramatically.  It takes 600+ incarnations to explore all the possibilities of the Human Experience:  rich<>poor, healthy<>sickly, success<>failure, king<>beggar, warrior<>priest, nun<>prostitute, wise<>stupid, retinue<>alone, etc.  

As a human being you are exploring the Darkside of the Creation, all that you are not in Essence.  This includes:  ignorance, no-power, problems, conflicts, poor results, failure, pain, suffering and evil. The Darkside has two bands of experience:  Drama and Evil. As we shall see, humans are exploring Evil.

The 5 Stages of the Human Experience

The Purpose of the Creation is EXPERIENCE. The Human Adventure is all about experience, particularly of the negative energy side of the Creation. The Human Theater has not just one act, but five, five stages, five different movies. Stages 1 and 2 are the exploration of the Darkside, Evil and Drama.  Stage 3 is Awakening.  Stage 4 is Enlightenment.  Stage 5 is Illumination.   

Stage 1 is the exploration of Evil

To understand Evil and to reach enlightenment, you must relinquish your current ideas about Evil and understand as we present it here and in Essentiality II. 

Evil is much more than what you might think. Evil is all forms of negative energy and actions; all that is unpleasant, painful, undesired, contra-productive, damaging, destructive. Evil is all human actions that are entropic: that reduce the energy, the order and organization, or the well-being of others.  It is all that increases disorder and chaos; that hurts, harms, damages or destroys. Evil is all actions that violate honesty, that fail or betray agreements, duties and responsibilities.  It includes lies, theft, fraud, corruption, and all war (no matter the justification).

Love unifies and harmonizes; Evil divides and creates conflict. It includes ignorance (avidya), neg-ego, rage, hate, destruction, prejudice, polarization, war, etc.  Evil includes mediocrity, clutter and disorder in our being, our life and results. It includes: irresponsibility, victim, self-sabotage, laziness, heaviness, depression, pessimism, all forms of darkness, heaviness and low productivity are Darkside. 

There are only two possibilities for every energy and action:  it is love, or it is the opposite: evil.  Everything you and everybody else does is one or the other:  love or evil.   Look at the planet:  we are swimming in Evil.  Watch the news:  much of it is about Evil. 

What the UHB does not understand is that Evil is not bad-SNB! 

  • Evil is the polar opposite of Essence, of Love. By the laws of polarity it must exist.
  • Nor would the Creation be complete and Perfect-13 without it.
  • Furthermore, Evil is a valid and rich experience in itself.
  • Further furthermore, you need to experience Evil to refresh your experience and appreciate your Essence
  • You came to Earth to explore Evil.

Essence–Love is the Creator of Evil (as She is of all that exists).  She creates Evil out of Herself, out of Love.  Evil is just another of Her infinite forms of expression of Her Self. 

She is Infinite Love and She loves Evil infinitely.  You do not love as Love loves until you love Evil as Love loves it.  You do not Return to BEing Love (Essence) until you love as Love loves, including Evil.  This is a teaching of Jesus who at his death continued to love despite the worst evil possible being done to Him. 

Resist Not Evil for Resistance Causes Persistence.  To use Evil (any form of negative energy) against Evil is like trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline it.  You only succeed in putting more Evil into the world. 

Until you understand the above paragraphs, you do not understand God. 

Once each psycan has experienced enough Evil, he will tire of it and graduate to Stage 2. 

We have much more to say about Evil in Essentiality II, including how to eliminate it from the planet:  the World Transformation Project.  

Stage 2 of the Human Experience is Drama

Drama is all the rich experience, mostly negative, that we savor during a game, sport or movie (struggle to overcome obstacles). Drama includes: suspense, surprise, tension, doubt, dilemma, eagerness, expectation, impatience, anticipation, uncertainty, perplexity, confusion, indecisiveness, shock, problems, challenges, conflicts,  effort and struggle, difficulties, errors and mistakes, faults and failures, losing and winning, victory and defeat, and all the negative emotions: anger, anxiety, fear, guilt, resentment, hate, sadness, sorrow, regret, desire, depression, among others.[1]

The Purpose of the Creation is experience;Drama is rich, intense experience, especially when you are feeling your negative emotions (which you cannot experience in Essence).    Drama fulfills magnificently well the purpose of the Creation:  experience.  

Is your life Dramatic?   Then, good job!  You have what you came here for.   You can stay in Drama as long as you want, but eventually you-spirit will tire of it and want to go Home, back to Essence, to Light and Love and Joy.

[1] When Drama refers to the overall, grand concept as presented in the chapter, it will be spelled with a cap “D’. Small “d” is used when referring to a specific drama or one with only a few of the elements of Drama, as “She has a lot of drama in her marriage.”

Stage 3:  Awakening

Awakening is a transition stage between Drama and Enlightenment.  It starts with the Dark Night of the Old Soul  and then Search for a source of True Spirituality. 

You are awake when you are certain that there is something beyond man you can achieve AND you are working on yourself to achieve it.  Awakening is an unstable state.  If you do not work for enlightenment, you will fall back to sleep. 

The ESAE has a 4 day retreat in which the participant learns to perceive Essence and can commit to his enlightenment.  Thus awakening can be achieved easily. 

Stage 4:  Enlightenment

You are enlightened when: 

#1- You have discreated enough mass from your shell to perceive through your illusion of human being to your spiritual being and Essence.  Thus you recover your consciousness of yourself as spirit and now live in the “experience of psycan”, of being an immortal spiritual being just visiting Earth.   

#2- You can perceive, feel, Essence, the Tao, and communicate with Her. You live in the experience of Presence, Oneness, Vastness, Wisdom, Perfection, Beauty, Truth, Love, Peace and Joy.

There are many more characteristics of enlightenment such as creator power to manifest what you want in life, freedom of all negative emotions, freedom of Drama, all relationships are in harmony, serenity and love.  See the article "The Characteristics and Experiences of an Enlightened Being" for a long list of the characteristics of enlightenment. 

Stage 5:  Illumination

You are an illuminated or self-realized being when you release all individuality, all illusion of separation from the One.  You are pure Essence again.  This was the level of Buddha and Jesus and only 235 others since the beginning of history.  Illuminati are God walking the Earth in a human body.  If you speak to one, you are speaking directly to God (The Father and I are One.)

Because they are Essence, they have Absolute Power over the Creation (which is Essence) and can manifest anything instantly, calm storms, walk on water, turn it to wine, heal the crippled and blind, or raise the dead. We experience their Power as miracles, but they are just Essence being Essence. 

Illumination is optional. You can retain individuality if you choose, or return to individuality when you please and dive into the Creation for more adventures.   

How to Achieve Enlightenment

First step is to verify in your own experience the existence and omnipresence of Essence. The Essentiality School of Accelerated Enlightenment has procedures through which you can temporarily bypass your shell and feel Essence. Once you know that Essence exists, you have the classic “blue pill<>red pill” choice. You either commit to working on yourself to achieve enlightenment or you return to your human life without action; you will fall back into avidya (sleep), Drama and Evil.

There are 4 main areas of work:

1- Wisdom: You must acquire a substantial amount of knowledge and learn how the non-human Intelligence of Essence thinks and operates. She is quite foreign to human thinking. For example: evil not only is not bad, but it is a valid and necessary experience, part of Essence, and beloved by Essence. (Remember She is all things: She is both Love and Evil which is the polarity opposite of Love.)

2- Liberation: You must discreate the shell of energy, the cocoon, around you-consciousness that blocks your perception of Essence and produces your illusion of human being. The Being Transformation Technology is an exact system for liberation.

3- Re-Creation: Once you have eliminate negative identities and realities, you can create and install positive ones. You re-create your being in your ideal of Who You Want to Be: wise, creative, powerful, serene, loving, abundant and joyful. Think of Jesus and Buddha.

4- Ascension:  You are currently at the bottom, the south pole, of the Essence Polarity of Being, exploring the negative  characteristics of being. Through spiritual disciplines and practices as detailed in the Essentiality School of Accelerated Enlightenment,  you must ascend the Polarity of Being to return to  being the 13 Characteristics of Essence

Your spirituality is your degree of experience and expression of Essence, of Her 13 Characteristics.   Your daily experience of unity, love, happiness, power and abundance are proportional to your recovery of your Essence.

The Essentiality School of Accelerated Enlightenment

The ESAE offers a 5-year program of study and work on self which scientifically and surely produces enlightenment.  The program comprises 200+ weekly, online modules of knowledge, exercises, discreation processes, disciplines and practices, and several live retreats each year.  

Click here for more information on the School.

There are many individuals, groups and organizations on the planet purporting to be sources of spirituality. There are religions (3000+), churches, congregations, preachers, gurus, schools large and small claiming that they are connected to God and presenting themselves as sources of spirituality. How do we know which are real, which are true sources of spirituality? We cannot depend on what they say; most tell a good story, and most claim to be the “truth”; many of them claim to be the “only truth.” However, only a few are real sources; many have only dead dogmas and beliefs, many are businesses; some are rackets and scams.

How can we know what are true sources of spirituality and what are not? The answer is ancient and simple, contained in the saying, "By their fruits you will know them." A true, internal connection to Essence always produces visible, external results: the characteristics and behaviors of spirituality we list below. If you note these qualities in a person or a group, you know they have a contact with true spirituality, with Essence. If you don’t observe these qualities in any person or group, you know they do not have contact. They cannot give or teach you what they do not have.

A true source of spirituality has nothing to do with the theology it uses. A true source is anything that connects you, that puts you in communion, with your Essence, with God. True spirituality is any idea or practice that gives you the experience of Essence, of the truth of Who You Are.

Mumbo Jumbo of the Congo, witch doctor of a tribe of aborigines, seated beneath a tree in the jungle, can have a real contact with Essence and be a true source. A worldwide religion with sophisticated theology described in thousands of books, with doctors of philosophy preaching and executing rituals and ceremonies in gilded cathedrals, may not have it. Only the expression of Essence in that person and those under his leadership show whether or not she is a true source of spirituality.

This is so important it bears repeating: No quantity of knowledge, philosophy, theology, doctrines, dogma, sermons, books, bibles — not of all them summed together – can ever give you a true connection or real spiritual development. In fact, feeding the mind is a great danger in spirituality because it will mislead you: "Aha! You have understood; you now know it; you’ve done it; end of the matter;" when really you have achieved nothing.

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Knowledge only serves for two things:

  • Indicate what you need to do and how to do it to achieve the experience;
  • When you have the experience, confirm its validity for you. "Aha! So this is what that source was talking about."​

How can you know recognize true sources of spirituality? How can you distinguish between the real thing, a real source of spirituality and all deluded and the fakes?

First, understand what spirituality is not:

Your spirituality, and that of others, has nothing to do with:

  • doctrines, dogmas, theologies, philosophies, creeds, beliefs or faith.
  • holy books, revelations, prophecies, commandments or catechisms.
  • going to church (Essence is everywhere all the time).
  • ceremonies, rites or rituals.
  • prayers, songs or psalms.
  • worshipping or adoring or obeying God or ecclesiastic authorities.
  • occupation: an atheist can be a highly spiritual person where a preacher might not be.

To detect real spirituality, look for Spirit, for Essence.

Spirituality is the experience and expression of Essence.

The spirituality of any person or group can be measured by observing their degree of expression of the Characteristics of Essence.

The 13 Principal Characteristics of Essence are:

Light, Consciousness, Will–Power-Creator, All-Oneness-Unity, Infinity, Magnificence, Wisdom, Perfection, Beauty, Truth, Love, Peace and Joy.

The Secondary Characteristics of Essence include:

Humility, harmony, responsibility, integrity, security (confidence); freedom, non-attachment, abundance, transparence (acceptation of all without invalidation or negative energy), service, enthusiasm and passion, gratitude, simplicity, serenity, patience, compassion and harmony.

The observable characteristics of spirituality, of Light, of Essence, in a person include: 

  • Humility (free of neg ego, of thinking himself is better than others (or less than)).
  • Responsibility and accountability for decisions and actions.
  • Integrity, honesty (speaks only the truth, keeps their word and commitments).
  • Detachment from material things, from accumulation and hoarding.
  • Simplicity: lives simply, has no pretensions or ostentations.
  • Lives in positive emotion: peace and serenity, happiness and joy.
  • Transparency, acceptance, recognition of the Perfection of all forms of being.
  • Compassion and kindness.
  • Service and assistance to others (part of love).
  • Generosity, an expression of Abundance.
  • Consciousness of self, centeredness.
  • Harmony and cooperation with others.

Examples of how the Characteristics express in daily life:

  • Acceptance and love of what is, and of all as they are. Never resistance, invalidation or rejection to anyone or anything. Knows that all are forms of himself, of One Essence.
  • Serenity: is never activated in negative emotions. Is free of anger, hate, fear, sorrow.
  • Being powerful, responsible and producing desired results. Never in victim or complaints.
  • Always having what is needed without accumulation and hoarding.
  • Unattached to wealth and fame and power. Uses them to serve Love.
  • Wisdom: understands human nature and can point out to others why they have the problems they have, if they should ask.
  • Radiates peace so strongly that it is perceptible to others.
  • Is generous with his time and money to help others.
  • Is free of social programming and lives his life as he pleases. Is not the effect of the opinions and judgments of others.
  • Is humble, simple and unassuming. Does not try to present himself as more or greater than others.

Your spirituality is your degree of Experience and Expression of Essence, of all these characteristics. Your Enlightenment is your degree of Experience and Expression of Essence, of all these characteristics.

  • Experience is how much you perceive and feel Essence, in any and all of Her Characteristics.
  • Expression is your behaviors and actions: how much you act in accordance with the Characteristics of Essence including unity, humility, integrity, transparence and love. How do you treat others, animals, plants, the environment?
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If you see these qualities in others, then you know that they have a genuine connection with Essence. When you see the opposites; you know that they are far from Essence, still in the Darkside.

The opposites of spirituality, the characteristics of Darkness, include:

egotism, egoism, self-aggrandizement and ostentation, failures of integrity (lies, dishonesty, fraud, breaking word and promises), indifference to harm done, indifference to the needs and suffering of others, irresponsibility, corruption, division and polarization in good<>bad, invalidation and attacks with negative energy, identity politics, conflict, competition, greed, over-accumulation, attachment, hoarding, anger, hate, fear, domination and tyranny, warmongering and war.

Where you see such things, there is no expression of Essence and therefore no spirituality. Where you see them in people and institutions that profess to be spiritual, you are seeing hypocrisy.

You can’t fake or pretend spirituality for long. Who you are will come out of you sooner or later, especially when you’re under pressure. The only way to develop it is by working on yourself. Serious spiritual progress is complicated and requires dedication (if you want to achieve much in this lifetime). Only those who truly, “Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven,” those who put their spirituality above all else, ever have much results. To achieve good results with minimum TE, you need a teacher and a system. You should evaluate their spirituality to know if they will be effective for you or not.  

HAPPINESS

One crucial thing about spirituality that people do not seem to understand is that
YOUR SPIRITUALITY IS YOUR HAPPINESS.

Compare the characteristics of spirituality, of Essence, with those of Darkness. How does a person feel when experiencing and expressing the Light versus experiencing and expressing Darkness? Spirituality is Essence and Love, and Essence–Love is the only happiness there is.

Values are an expression of spirituality. For example, all politics are the spirituality of that person or group expressing their values. Humanity is not doing well spiritually.

Examples of current, counter-spiritual values on earth include:  

  • The ends justify the means: lie, cheat, steal, corruption, force, war.
  • Power, to be obtained by any means, but used for me and mine.
  • Political office for ego, personal advantage and wealth, versus as a sacred trust of others to use wisdom for the greater good.
  • Money and profits at any cost, including pollution and destruction of the environment.
  • Political lobbying for industry interests no matter the harm to others (e.g. alcohol, drugs, tobacco, processed foods).
  • Negative ego and personal glorification; versus humility, altruism and love. (see article on Ego).
  • Adulation of public figures (politicians, musicians, stars in sports or arts).
  • Wealth for a few versus well-being for all. Accumulation; versus sharing and distribution, and especially of education.
  • Hoarding versus generosity.
  • Use of threats, intimidation, force whenever we think we can get away with it politically. Armed conflicts and wars are ok, and good for business.
  • Instant gratification versus discipline and what is best for the long term.
  • Whatever is best for me and mine now; versus the greater good for the greater number for the long term.
  • Goodbad: attack and destroy the “bad.”
  • Unsustainable environment practices and exhaustion of non-renewable resources.

The values of spirituality include:

  • Unity, as opposed to separation and division, us against them.
  • Love: Acceptance of differences, and service.
  • Humility: No person or group is greater than another.
  • Equality: We are all equal children of Essence; Essence has no favorites.
  • The Greater Good for the Greater Number for the Long Term.
  • Government, leadership and power are trusts to administer for the Greater Good.
  • Abundance: to have what you need without hoarding what you don’t.
  • Assure basic necessities, including education, for all.
  • Win-win negotiations when there are differences of opinion.
  • Your work on yourself is the most important thing in life, and the origin of everything else in your life.

Until we apply the values of Essence, of true spirituality, to the problems of the world; these will not only remain unsolvable, but will worsen.

The big question for each of us is,
“Are we part of the solution, or are we part of the problem?”

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
 but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

LEADERSHIP

There are two kinds of leadership: human and spiritual. A human leader is one that has a vision and goals, and organizes people and resources to achieve them. A spiritual leader is one who inspires others by his example and radiation of Essence; who thus reminds them Who They Are and motivates them to seek Essence.

There are many who present themselves as spiritual leaders but are not.
You can identify them by the following characteristics:

  • Negative ego, for self or for his institution. “We are better; we are ‘righter’.”
  • Dogmatic, with a narrow viewpoint on spirituality, often focused on tradition and ritual. Promotes belief and faith over experience.
  • Serves and protects the institution and focuses on its objectives.
  • Controls through authority, by power or fear, rather than genuine leadership.
  • Unreliable, does not keep his word impeccably.
  • Lacks openness, sensitivity and attention to complex aspects of life such a gender, sexuality, poverty.
  • Talks a good story and with lofty goals, but few results.
  • Denies responsibility for problems and failures, nor does he hold subordinates accountable.
  • Enriches himself beyond his real needs. Ostentates his wealth and worldly success.

As you can see, there are many ways to identify true sources of spirituality. In Essentiality we present you with One path, there are many others. Always listen to your heart, it will guide your way.