Pantheistic Nondual Spirituality

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OUR world, our species, and all the species on the planet are in jeopardy. We are killing off the planet for our con-venience while adamantly denying it. The unsustainable lifestyle most of us lead is depleting natural resources and destroying living environments. Environmental crisis, wars, social injustice, and social dysfunction; these are inevitable as we become more and more disconnected from one another and the natural universe. We are mur-dering ourselves and all other life on this planet. All is One presents transpersonal and pantheistic nondual spirituality as a solution. By participating in a spirituality connected with the natural universe, we can begin to mend the dissatisfaction we suffer. Incorporating transpersonal practices …show more content…

There is the biological self, fabricated self, and the natural self. The biological self is the self which is ruled and influenced by instinct and biological drives. This is DNA coding and the Jungian Shadow (as-pects of our self we wish to hide from the world). The sur-vival functions; the social survival functions and the re-productive functions. These are the underlying features of our decision making. They lay silently in wait within the dark recesses of the mind; the part of the mind which does not communicate with an inner vocabulary. If they remain below the level of consciousness they are influ-encing us night and day in every situation. It is only through thorough scrutiny of our inner processes that this arbiter of motivation (the biological, instinctual self) is subdued by the will of …show more content…

It is our persona. It is the Ego. This is where our conditioned responses (either through temperament or by cultural influence, or both) to the world, and our dis-play of how we want to be identified are collected and ac-tivated. We generally identify with this collection of traits as “I”. This is a mistake which causes much trouble. By identifying with this aspect of our mind we are under the impression that it is who we are. By identifying with the fabricated self we are really identifying with our habits. These habits become our go-to responses. Once we have a go-to response, our mind is resistant to come up with an alternate solution. This conditioning becomes how we relate to the world; driven to and fro by likes and dislikes developed unconsciously throughout our life. If our per-sona is too different then who we truly are, we suffer dis-comfort. This disconnection is disruptive, frustrating, and confusing. We wind up in a state of conflicted

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