Becoming Aware of Our Formative Conditioning and Transcending Our Lower Nature in Becoming a Sovereign Being
Very few people understand the true nature and power of our initial conditioning because it occurs through what we can call a ‘hypnotic state’. The process of hypnosis works by subduing the conscious aspect of our mind, which is the ‘gatekeeper’, so to speak, that decides what to let...
Moral Strength – The Power of Being Willfully Directed
Strength is a virtue that’s employed as the means for subduing and bringing your lower, instinctual nature under your control so it can be utilized as a vehicle for higher forms of self-expression. It’s the moral strength and discipline you exercise by using your ‘will’ to control your own...
What is Our Higher Self, and How do We Connect with It?
The idea of our higher self can be a bit confusing to understand in the practical sense, because different spiritual systems present it differently by using different archetypes and allegories, while the relationship itself that’s being exemplified is basically the same. The most basic principle there is in regards...
Spiritual Guidance, the Higher Capacity of Intuition, and Moral Sovereignty
As a student and teacher of Spiritual Sciences I have encountered numerous attitudes and methods around the idea of intuition and what it means to receive guidance from higher, spiritual beings of some kind. I’ve seen many confuse intuition with psychic abilities, which they often boast about with a...
Self-Empowerment – The Relationship between Choice, Will, and Creation
This idea can seem confusing in terms of being able to actually employ it at the practical level because it involves different functions of different aspects of our own mind working in harmony with each other to produce the same outcome as an experience of reality. We have to...