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Although the ego dream is the most destructive force on earth, the human being is closer to being divine than any other creature to evolve on this planet, perhaps in the Universe. Of course, I am not saying that other creatures do not also share in this state of divinity. What I mean is the level of consciousness we humans can reach.
Ego bashing is a major part of the messages you will get on this Web site. However, reality goes so far beyond the dream of separation and the problems it causes that the ego is seen as the nothingness it is. Yet, that ego process has been helpful in the evolution of our realization of who and what we are. There is something very powerful going on right now in the world. It is the birth of the closest thing to a god you are apt to see, and you are it.
What a paradox this is! On the one hand, we are seen as lost, foolish, hateful, violent, selfish, ignorant, and blind to reality. On the other hand, we are incredibly creative, loving, caring, intelligent, thoughtful, life serving, holy beings. Will the real human please stand up? That is our calling: to express the best we humans are capable of, which is a limitless wonder of creativity.
We are animals, mammals, at least as far as our present bodies are concerned. However, we go so far beyond the limited specialization that other animals express that there is no comparison. I am not putting down our brother and sister animals. We are also one with that whole kingdom, but we are without a doubt the top of the creative chain of life on this heaven of a planet.
Most animals have been around far longer than humans have, we are the new kids on the block, but we have evolved incredibly faster than any of our animal cousins. Ironically, it has been the ego that forced this rapid evolution to take place. There are many theories as to what caused the human brain to develop as fast as it did. Now I will add my own: The ego process, with its inherent level of constant stress forced the brain to grow to deal with the complexity of the problems it created. Animals did not need the brain capacity we humans do. They are far more instinctive and automatic in their actions. They also do not have the emotional burdens we humans carry. Of course language played a major role in the development of a mind that could create the fiction we call ourselves. As our complex ego mind developed so did the languages of the world. If you will take a mental journey into the past from the perspective I am writing about you will see clearly how this all came about. It is not difficult to see once you realize that the ego is just a mental projection within the thinking conditioned mind. See how by learning to use memory to help us stay alive, then that capacity led into the ability to abstract information, we could see something and form a mental image of it, and this led further to the ability to use simple language. With the development of language we came to see the mental ideas as things in themselves. Then the development of identity as the self who sees these images/ideas and then the need to protect everything that helps keep that identity alive. It is all so very simple.
Spirituality is not something we evolve to, it is what we find when we are no longer present as that separation called me. We are already as spiritual as we are going to get. However, there is no limit to where this expression of creative energy will take us as humans. We don't really start to express the fullness of our humanity until we see beyond the ego dream. When we do, we will realize we are now in Heaven/Nirvana and it has always been this way.
Look what we have done as humans, even while asleep to our deeper reality, we have created such wonders as music; taking the sounds we hear around us and the ones we have learned to create such powerful and moving expressions of the deeper human heart/mind. What power to move our emotions to levels we could not even recognize as animals. We have taken some basic material and created art that can move us as deeply as music. We can take our language and put together words that can inform, teach, share ideas, and move us to cry with joy. Now we are on the edge of creation itself. We are taking evolution out of the slow natural processes and seeing how we can change life. This can be both possibly good and very dangerous. There are some very good arguments against messing with life at any level. We may well destroy ourselves in the process. All I am saying now is we are powerful creative beings.
The human mind/Mind can take us to the deepest understanding of the creative energy of the Universe. We are seeing how life began and coming to understand what we call death. We are living miracles.
The problem is that far too many of us don't realize who and what we are. The conditioned mind will keep us blind and limited to a past that had no real understanding. We need to start deeply questioning who and what we are and why we do what we do. When that process begins, there is no end to it. Not that we have not been doing this for a long time, but not from the perspective beyond the ego.
In my own life, I have seen a miracle take place. At one time, I was, so history says, a hateful, violent, fearful, ignorant, angry, and insecure conditioned human. With luck, I started to question why this was and why just about everyone in my life was the same. In time, the mind started to see beyond itself and found freedom. I now see nothing separate from my real Being. It is impossible for me to hate and so very easy to love. Where there was once ignorance there is now the capacity to open to the Wisdom we all have as our real Being. I could not be violent. That does not mean I could not defend this body or others who were threatened by violence. That is not violence, it is a natural response to protect life. I cannot be lost in any conditioned belief. I realize there are no limits to the creativity that we can all use for whatever propose life demands of us. I know that I am not expressing the level of perfection that someday will be our norm, but compared to where I came from I am a transformed human being. Believe me, if I can do it, so can you. I am not special, ask my family and friends. Of course, I am speaking about a me that is only history of a seeming identity. Words are difficult to use when writing about such things, but it is all we have now.
We need to step out of the ego dream and see what it means to be mere Humans. May we all awaken and express the highest level of reality we can as this creative wonder.
Melvyn Wartella |
