 The Meta-Personal
Tutorial for October 2022 As you engage in the process of self-liberation, spiritual understanding, and realization of One Life, you are likely to experience times when you feel stuck, times when you feel exhilarated, and times when a deeper and more fully unfolding reality begins to manifest. This reality is the outcome of consciousness allowing itself to encounter realms “beyond” the realm of the personal--what we call the Meta-Personal realm. This may be how you experience meditation, and it may be how you experience doing the dishes. There is no real or defined way to enter the Meta-Personal realm, there is just an innate intuitive sense that consciousness has been altered, even if seeming to be only minutely. The Meta-Personal begins to appear in your life when you become aware of the nature of your perceptions as being predictable and habitual. Whatever takes you into a new direction of thinking or causes you to be curious; whatever can remove you from the habits you employ or overrides the predictable, That energy can grant you access to the Meta-Personal realm of experience. The realm beyond the personal does not exist as an actual boundaried or unboundaried segment of All That Is, as All That Is is indivisible. However, a label of “beyond personal experience”-- Meta-Personal-- can describe accurately what you feel when a consciousness shift occurs. We suggest that “beyond” the realm of the personal lies the “formless”, “cosmic”, Meta-Personal sense of One Life unfolding. Usually, the sense of the Meta-Personal realm includes a dissolution of egoic attachment, a knowing that there is no separate existence, and something that seems to be beyond or outside the boundaries of the body. Your very sense of form, primarily determined by the boundaries of your body, is somehow allowed to diminish until there is only “formlessness.” Sometimes, you sense this awareness, this Meta-Personal realm, as transcendent, and disengaged with the workings of the world. There is a tendency to idealize formlessness and transcendency and believe that these aspects of All That Is represent a certain kind of spiritual attainment. You can become confused, believing that a dip into formlessness, or egolessness is realization or liberation. Most spiritual practices orient towards methodologies that promote experiences of “beyond” worldly experiences. This is a limited view. While there is great potential to develop a pure view in the other-worldly experiences, there is also great potential to get lost in the prejudice towards these experiences and value them more than other more mundane experiences. No matter how far you go, how deep you dive into the Meta-Personal, you will always be brought back to the world, for that is where you as a human belong. It is important to simply allow consciousness to be wherever it is in the moment. Do not seek to alter reality to fit your ideas of spirituality or enlightened states of being. Just live your life fully and keep your motivations aligned with loving kindness for everyone and everything. Then all personal aspects of your existence will naturally integrate into what is your totality and you will understand One Life with greater clarity. It is only possible to be liberated, realized, or spiritually evolved if you incorporate everything that is personal into all that seems Meta-Personal, or “beyond form.” Let your Personal reality and your Meta-Personal reality naturally reflect and refract each other, for no spiritual practice is complete without appreciation for all aspects of All That Is. If you are seeking understanding and realization of One Life, all the personal views of what that entails are as relevant as all the transcendent, cosmic, and formless experiences. Always allow the balance, allow the fluidity of consciousness unfettered by your expectations and desires. If you simply let go of what you think is spiritual, you will actually be spiritual. The Meta-Personal and the Personal are truly One Life, even if they seem to be experienced as independent and separate. Be all that you are, as truly you can be nothing less and nothing more!
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