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Humanity is embarking on a journey of vast and rapid change. Unquestioned beliefs, subconscious emotional patterns, and delusive security needs are paw marks of what went before. During these changing times it becomes important to focus on unnatural behaviors that limit our receptivity to love and harmony with all people and the environment. How come we consider emotions less important than the mind? Why do decent, life-affirming qualities such as sharing, consideration, equality, and justice often yield to greed, aggressiveness, exploitation, and control? On the leading edge of change, spiritual and psychological conditioning requires closer examination.
Just as we do not consciously perceive the air we breathe or the space we move in, so are we unaware of our idiosyncratic behaviors. Neither are we conscious of many compromises, partialities, and preconceptions pertaining to what we cherish. When it finally becomes clear that something is obsolete, we may find ourselves yet invested in defending it. This is especially also true for all the circumstances and values that involve cultural functioning and religious beliefs.
Natural laws are intrinsic to the manifested universe. These laws never change. Scientists have discovered some of them, such as for example the law of gravity, the fact that the Earth rotates around the Sun, and that bacteria are killed when exposed to hot temperatures. Natural principles are inherent to human behavior as well. Much of what we call common sense is based on them. We possess an inherent sense of right and wrong that guides us in our actions, reflection, and planning. Customs, laws, rules, and regulations are essential in all societies where people live together, and depend on one another for survival. They may or may not, however, be congruous with natural directives. When they are not, then human beings are living against their natural purpose.
Owing to their social and cultural needs, people create standard behaviors, taboos, and regulations that do not fit the category of natural principles. Because of manmade beliefs and religions they have become distorted. Such religions see human beings as superior to creation. In essence, the universe is there to serve them. Therefore people begin to think that they are entitled to take as much as they please without regard for other’s wellbeing, or for the natural balance of the environment.
On the other hand, these same religions have also propagated concepts of punishment and crisis. Over time undue judgment began to permeate the collective unconscious in ways people did not recognize for what it was. They learned that they were not good enough, that something was wrong with them to begin with. By bringing about an illusionary kind of guilt, many people began to suppress a part of their own true nature. As a result their psychological reality became distorted. The development of subconsciously induced responses led to aggressive, submissive, or helpless behaviors. To this very day these unfortunate patterns perpetuate themselves for lack of better judgment and right discrimination.
Many people deny within their own psyche those feelings that are suppressed. They end up acting them out, or demonizing them in others. Some desperately try to atone for what they sense is unacceptable. Others have lost all connection to their emotional reality. Their maturation process is thwarted; they have become dependant on others to provide accurate emotional responses.
In the first case the suppressed emotional content is converted into an insistent behavior of blame. Individuals whose focus is mostly mental take to it in a detrimental attempt to disperse their uneasy sense of inner emptiness, insecurity, and unnatural guilt. They refuse to consider other people’s needs, rights and feelings. Their stance of superiority and authority is based on an escape into selfish use of others.
Those who are emotionally susceptible take the victim’s stance, accepting their situation in powerless passivity. In the delusive thinking that they are less than what they are supposed to be, they become obsessed with trying to find out what they did wrong, or how they could fix it.
The third reaction is utterly passive-aggressive, a defiant stance of emotional denial. These people lack affect, while they manage to attract others who make up for it.
Unnatural behaviors and subconscious imprints do not only influence and negatively shape human relations from personal to international, but they are also very destructive to the relationship humans have with their natural environment. The machinations of deterioration so painfully obvious in the progressively disintegrating biosphere are in direct correlation with a resistance to consider selfish, manipulative and abusive actions. If all of us adhered to the premises of sharing and non-violence most of us learned in our early years, people all over the world could be fed and sheltered.
The ability to see and surrender to what is naturally true, right, and equitable to all increases by far in a genuine environment free of distortion. A balanced disposition of healthy mental and emotional qualities dissolves violence, hatred, and repulsion expressed through racism, sexism, and religious discrimination. It diminishes the greed that created this extremely disproportionate distribution of wealth on our planet. It also aids in recognizing exploitation as found in the lack of adequate wages, or in the accumulation of unjustified prerogatives.
With natural conditions the desire to know the Source of all life is greatly boosted. This is the point in time where humanity is meant to move in this direction. Old patterns are coming to conclusion, and new ones are randomly emerging. This requires the courage to let go of old, familiar ways of thinking, behaving, and acting. Through purging judgment and releasing blame or guilt, healthy responses begin to emerge from within. When people recognize their innate resources, they are also more likely to dismiss selfishness, and excessive need for control or power. Thus, consciousness expands in the realm of natural truths that respect all life.
On the edge of discernment between light and darkness we gain new skills to know ourselves. These skills give us the strength to fight with fearless heart the battle truth that is always worth fighting for. With increasing confidence in the process of becoming (evolution) we can allow the changes to unfold naturally. When we find the courage to let go of the past, we can build a solid foundation in the present moment. The core of this process is a gradual shift from artificial paradigms to natural principles. Without any doubt, a society that is built and operates on the premises of natural dynamics is far more likely to cope with change in a constructive way. Such societies discover new ways on political, economical, social, spiritual, and psychological levels. When this awareness is collectively integrated, inequality and despairingly afflicted situations begin to improve.
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