What's New in the New Age - Part One [1]
WHAT'S NEW IN THE NEW AGE? - PART ONE
By David Arran Anderson
Transformational Books
Author of: The Last Avatar
Self-Mastery is what this new time is all about. It’s about everyone becoming masters of themselves; which is something they don’t teach you in school. You can get a piece of paper to hang on the wall that says you have mastered many things. You can be a Reiki master, a Sufi master, a Kung Fu master or a Master Chef. You can be a Reverend, a Doctor or have a PhD; but no one has a diploma that says, “Master of My Multidimensional Self.”
Let’s talk a little about how Mastery relates to words like Enlightenment, Awareness and Freedom. For Enlightenment you have to first look at where the word originally came from, which is Buddhism.
Buddhism did not start out to become a religion. It was originally intended to be a form of psychology. A young prince who lived in India 2,500 years ago set out to discover why people experience unhappiness. That’s just basic psychology, and ever since that time, Buddhists have studied the human mind through meditation, and have developed a thorough understanding of the brain in ways that western psychology has yet to discover.
Modern psychology, as we know it, didn’t really take hold until Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud developed some theories about human behavior about 100 years ago; but Buddhist psychology is 2,500 years old, so who do you think knows more about the mind?
Buddha taught that the reason people suffer is because of their attachment to an impermanent Self, which includes your body and your mind; and of course your mind is absolutely full of thoughts, emotions, beliefs and moods that Buddha called “dukkha,” meaning “total garbage.” Not only are we firmly attached to all of this garbage, but we actually think it’s who we are.
Enlightenment means to have an expanded awareness that goes beyond the intellect (the Self); and is therefore not definable. The moment you try to define the word, with thoughts or beliefs, you limit it. An enlightened mind has no limits, no boxes, no borders and no boundaries; but all of our thoughts and beliefs create limitations. As long as you believe anything, your mind is in a state of limited consciousness, and yet we want to believe in something.
What about Freedom? What is Freedom? It’s not what you were taught in high school history, or what our founding fathers thought Freedom was. People all over the world seem to be crying out for Freedom these days; but what they’re doing is looking for more power in their life. They want to be a part of the political process, which they believe will give them more power.
True Freedom means to live “a life without power.” Pursuing any kind of power keeps you in the illusion of the matrix, and keeps you limited, because it feeds off of other people. You want what someone else has because you think you need it; therefore, you can never get enough, always want more, and remain in a state of limited consciousness. Power drives our culture; but to experience “freedom consciousness,” power cannot be on your agenda.
Just listen to the way people talk. Everything they say is either, “I want this, I must have these, or I need that.” The pursuit of power occurs whenever you think you want, must have, or need something that you don’t already have. I’ve seen too many people lose their dreams because of that kind of limited thinking. To seek out any form of self-gratification is the same thing.
Freedom Consciousness simply says, “I exist,” or “I Am,” but even to say that limits you. It is to be in the light of knowing that everything is already within you. You don’t need to seek anything outside of what you already are.
So now we get to Self-Mastery, which is about getting out of your brain. It’s about getting past your thoughts, emotions, beliefs and moods. Most of what you think, and what you believe, came from someone else, who put them into your brain. They are not yours. They don’t belong to you, and they are not who you are. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have them, I’m saying you don’t need to have them. You don’t have to believe in anything, because it limits your discovery of the real you, your multidimensional Self.
So, if we get out of our brain, where do we go? Where is this so-called state of expanded awareness? Do we go to some higher dimension, like the 4th dimension, or perhaps the 5th dimension, as so many claim these days?
There is no such thing as a “higher” anything. The 5th dimension isn’t about being higher; it’s about being lighter and freer. All of the dimensions are intertwined with each other, in all directions; up and down, back and forth, in and out. Although each one has its own qualities and personalities, no dimension can stand alone. No dimension is higher than another; however, some do have more lightness and freedom than others.
What holds us back from experiencing our inter-dimensional Self is all of the garbage we think and believe to be true; but how do we get past it? How do you move into Self-Mastery? That’s what the next couple of weeks will be about; so just be thinking about the fact that (1) any thought is a limitation, because it confines energy, (2) any belief limits the expansion of our awareness, and (3) any emotion or mood limits our experience of feelings. We keep ourselves trapped in 3-D, on this earth plane, in this global prison, by having limited consciousness, rather than freedom consciousness.