Morality & Higher Planes of Consciousness – How We Receive Higher Knowledge

The spiritual perspective of personal growth and development is based on intelligence and morality, rather than physical accomplishments and worldly achievements. Naturally, many who live out of a separatist mentality have an attitude of separating the intellect (mind) and feeling (heart), usually posing them against each other as one being better, more desirable or worthy than the other, yet as we move away from purely material ideas and towards spiritual ones, we move back into the mindset of unity. What we refer to as conscience and morality exists on a higher plane of consciousness that includes the entire lower plane of the body and brain states, and acts as the power capable of controlling the lower planes, and in doing so, is able to utilize them as a means of expressing in the world in an intentional and meaningful way without being intoxicated or corrupted by it.

Many have been taught that morality is based on an idea of what’s right and wrong, good and bad, and rules that we use to guide and direct our conduct, which holds a form of partial truth in the sense that it pertains to and works within the lower planes only, where rules are laid down that only require us to obey them, in place of laws which require understanding and practical application. In order to use Universal Laws as a means of directing our own conduct we have to gain a fundamental understanding of them along with the ability to utilize our higher capacities of reason, choice, and will to employ that knowledge in a deliberate manner as a means of directing our own behavior and creating in a more intelligent and responsible manner by working according to those laws. In the true and ultimate sense, our moral development comes by way of our ability to rise above and separate ourselves from all the animal passions, emotions, and desires that govern our lower nature and the material plane. Where we no longer lend our higher will to our lower, animal nature and allow it to utilize us in creating a world of delusions and moral degradation.

To achieve a high, well-developed level of morality, we must detach and dissociate from the material world in terms of identifying with it and building our character out of it. We must master the ability to prevent the emotions being projected by others and being transmitted through the atmosphere from entering into our body and affecting us. We must become aware of our own emotional states and the ones we’ve taken on and used to shape our identity by expressing the reality they imply, and prevent them from rising in us and saturating our mind, and as a result, controlling our thoughts and perceptions. It’s about acquiring the presence of mind that allows you to exercise your will in not taking on and being influenced or emotionally controlled by others and the world around you, where you become a vehicle for the magnetic forces which are experienced as passions and emotional charges, that propagate fluently and abundantly within the material plane (atmosphere). Emotions are the electric energy of the material plane that stimulate instinctive reactions, and our physical body, comprised of the Earth’s substance, is magnetic, and acts to absorb electrical impulses automatically, where they take hold and begin running our thoughts. Emotional thinking produces illusions that are mistaken for being real, because we don’t always realize we’re the one creating them.

Cultivating a high level of consciousness and morality is “to be in the world, but not of it”. It’s to gain a full awareness of how the magnetic forces of the astral plane operate in and around you, while maintaining a steadfast awareness that’s not disturbed or influenced by them. It’s the ability to exercise full use of your will at all times, and never allow someone or something else to take control of it. It’s the ability to stand in the presence of intense emotions that magnetically appeal to your own passions in some way (pleasure, power, greed, wanting, needing, etc.), and to witness or remain centered in the midst of activities that normally engage you unconsciously, and not only be able to resist them (temptation), but not allow them to stimulate you and produce a correlating effect. Resisting isn’t hard when you no longer feel passionate about something. When you no longer harbor a desire for something or find it compelling, or somehow need the experience it offers to fulfill some longing or void inside of you because you’ve wrapped your identity around the story it allows you to keep telling about yourself, you step into a higher form of consciousness that allows you to willfully use and direct the magnetic fluids and Elements of the material plane (emotions and passions) to create experiences in an intentional and deliberate way.

The way to ascend the laws governing one plane is to rise to the plane directly above it and operate by way of the laws that govern that plane, which exist in polarity to the lower plane and act to orchestrate and determine it. What this means is that we can’t work within the divine planes through the same laws that govern the lower plane which is created and controlled by entirely different forces. The material plane is the plane of the subconscious mind, which is automated and governed by instinct which operates through passions, emotions, and unconscious impulses of some sort that produce automatic behaviors that don’t require thought, decisions, or will to act out. When the human soul, which is divine in nature, comes into the lower planes of mineral, plant, and animal consciousness, possessing higher capacities of the mind that bestow it with the ability to think in an individual manner, evaluate situations in order to make calculated decisions, and the will to intentionally and deliberately act out those decisions, it becomes unconsciously subject to the magnetic forces of the earth’s astral plane. When our higher mind couples and bonds energetically with an animal-body, which renders it largely unconscious and driven by compulsions of one form or another, self-awareness and recognizing its higher abilities become the primary keys for freeing itself from the lower rungs, and acting as a powerful creator by utilizing its will to command and direct the magnetic forces of the material plane instead of being directed by them.

As a general rule, we can’t control whatever is acting to control us. If we can’t resist a strong desire for something, or have formed an addiction with a relentless craving, the insatiable need for something we imagine we don’t have, then we are controlled by and become subject to it. So it’s not about deciding whether or not to engage in activities based on man-made rules that have been laid down for us to follow in order to be considered good, obedient, and righteous people. It’s about stepping outside of the concept of both good and bad, right and wrong, should and shouldn’t, and not be compelled by the passions and emotional states of either one, and in doing so, lose all passion (towards or away from) for ideas that govern our material existence as a member of the animal kingdom, born out of a form of training as blind acceptance of other peoples ideas for you. It’s not being swayed one way or the other by concepts of complementary opposites necessary to define yourself where you begin defining yourself instead as being separate, apart from, and unaffected by them. You learn to reside instead in a calm, silent, and peaceful state of mind, unaffected by the world around you. Through this form of self-awareness and inner grounding, comes the ability to consciously work with the emotional forces to positively influence the mind of those still living out of a primarily unconscious state, and able to direct them towards a form of awakening to their real nature as a result. However we’re being through our presence, directly influences everything around us with that same mental state.

All of what’s referred to as sin is merely an error in thinking and misuse of our ability to make calculated decisions and act based on our own thoughts about things. Whatever we create internally sets the basis for what we experience externally. As we think, we create the reality of our thoughts, first inwardly as what forms our perceptual lens and tunes us to the vibration of that reality, which then resonates and forms a gravitational field with that same energy and type of reality all around us. As we think and imagine we simultaneously connect ourselves to the outer equivalent of our thoughts. We keep ourselves tuned to the frequency of our thoughts, where we act as a tuner and receiver to draw in and internally express more of the same type of thoughts. We determine what we act as a channel and vehicle for based on how we calibrate ourselves through repetitive thoughts that initiated through our formative conditioning and become habitual. Thoughts, and how we present ideas to ourselves internally, act to generate and maintain correlating emotions, so as our thoughts become habitual, so does our emotional state.

We all have the ability to break patterns as unconscious tendencies, wake up and become aware of what we’re actually doing and creating for ourselves through a primarily unconscious state. If we develop a strong enough desire for gaining spiritual knowledge that will provide us with the means for tuning into a higher realm of self-awareness where we begin realizing who we truly are as a divine and creative being, where we step outside of ourselves long enough to realize what we’re actually doing, and we begin utilizing our higher capacities of thought, choice, and free will to intentionally begin disconnecting from our habitual patterns and perceptual dynamics, we begin loosening their grip on us. When we begin opening our mind to contemplating other ideas and concepts that change the way we think and perceive the world around us, we simultaneously begin changing the way we perceive ourselves in relation with it all. By thinking and feeling in new ways, we begin tuning into those ideas all around us, and they multiply and grow in dominance to the point where they take on a life of their own, and a literal shift in consciousness takes place that moves us to a higher level of self-awareness and creativity.

Our moral development is more about our character and the type of person we become through our own ability to make decisions for ourselves as to what we engage in and become a part of (like) and what we don’t. It’s something that we are fully responsible for as awake and conscious beings that have the ability to self-create by way of our own hand and mind. It’s detaching from the constant emotional states of our body that keep us engaged in illusions of our own making and keep us locked into an unconscious existence. In the most basic sense, our spiritual quest for higher forms of consciousness comes by moving out of the role of “created” and into the role of “creator”. When we live out of emotional reactions and distorted sensitivity, we’re being created by the very thing we’re reacting and sensitive to. By disassociating from our material existence and residing instead fully within our divine nature, we are no longer compelled by passions and physical urges, and as a result, are not affected by them. By employing higher levels of consciousness on a steady basis, we gradually become sovereign beings who are fully self-determined.

Once we fully gain the ability to direct our own mind and consciousness, and not let others or passionate states take control of us and command our will, we step into our true nature as powerful creators of our self and our reality. Through sovereignty we begin exercising our ability to impose a powerful influence on others and the collective unconscious of humanity, which is still governed and ruled over by emotions of some kind. By relinquishing all passions, desires, and material needs as a way of creating ourselves through the illusion they provide, we no longer harbor the need to control others through agendas of some sort, and lose the need to acquire material possessions and play significant roles in the grand illusion of society, and we step into a more universal identity that’s of an entirely different plane and level of being altogether. When we learn how to reside permanently on the higher plane of our conscious mind, embodying our divine nature, we’re no longer affected or determined by this one.

All of our choices and actions become based on our identity as a superior being that has no needs that need to somehow be fulfilled through material means, and we begin working in the world by mastering our ability to direct the forces that control it. By becoming more universal in our identity, and no longer needing to manipulate the world to fulfill a need of some kind, we begin working for the benefit of humanity as a whole in helping others develop their potential and ability to ascend into higher levels of consciousness. When we act as a neutral force in the world we acquire the ability to willfully influence it by directing it along a course that serves the greater good of all involved in terms of their souls evolution. When we begin working agenda free in every situation, we become a force for good in the world that always serves the benefit of the whole. Higher consciousness exists in a unified state that perceives the world around it as a greater whole, and realizes that one small action, no matter how seemingly insignificant, creates a rippling effect that multiplies as it propagates through space and time, effecting and modifying the entire lower plane of consciousness.

Summary

To achieve higher morality is to have total control over your physical nature and be able to always make good decisions that take everyone involved into consideration. It’s to achieve a state that lacks physical desire and primal needs, and all agendas and manipulative schemes as a result. It’s to embody a selfless state where you put yourself in service of others because you have no personal needs that need to be fulfilled by others or by trying to control how a situation play out. It’s the ability to walk into any relationship or situation, not looking to get, but instead only to give because you’ve learned how to draw your source of power from within instead of trying to get it from an outside source. By maintaining a neutral and unbiased state, we act to neutralize and balance the volatile emotional forces that are being actively, and sometimes aggressively, expressed around us. When we no longer react in kind to the emotions being expressed by others, it serves to neutralize and dissipate them. Neutrality acts to temper the active forces in any situation because it doesn’t take them on and act to amplify them, and can redirect them through the simple fact that we’re not being controlled by them.

When we achieve a state of conscience and high morality we maintain principles in a steadfast manner and make conscious decisions for ourselves and our life that set high standards for ourselves. A standard, in this case, can be thought of as an “ideal” formed out of a level and quality of consciousness, where we utilize latent potential in always applying ourselves as best we can in any situation to cultivate and maintain a virtuous nature and character. Once a virtuous character is consistently cultivated, setting a standard based on moral values, it never falters from this standard because it can’t be degraded or tempted by lower forces that fail to produce an effect. A person of high morality is a person that represents higher standards as a code of conduct that they consistently live out of and hold themselves to. High standards are not formed as a set of rules, so to speak, that we hold ourselves to that require us to willfully resist temptations from engaging in degrading ideas, but is a state of mind and internal nature (character) that’s literally incapable of moving outside of that level of consciousness in order to create in a lower manner, and is therefore immune to the contamination and corruption of an unconscious animal existence.

Dr. Linda Gadbois

Transpersonal Psychologist, Personal Transformation Coach, and Spiritual Teacher