Enlightenment, a GUEST POST by Dr. Ron Scolastico
May 5th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
Here is a contribution to our ongoing conversation by Dr. Ron Scolastico. The first intuitive reading I ever received came from him, and it was a Godsend.
In addition to writing, Ron continues to give spiritual readings by appointment. His wife, Susan, sets up appointments for him much as my husband, Mitch, does this for me. (BTW, their photo together is below.)
Ron has generously agreed to share an excerpt from his most recent book, Becoming Enlightened: Twelve Keys to Higher Consciousness.
People have many different ideas about enlightenment. Some think that by meditating, they will be hit by a magical lightning bolt and becoming perfectly happy for life.
They think that if they become enlightened they will no longer have any problems, immediately know all the mysteries of life, and have a constant awareness of the spiritual realities.
As a psychologist and spiritual teacher, I have explored the spiritual realities of life for more than 30 years. From that experience, I have come to understand that enlightenment is an ongoing process, rather than a single magical experience that transforms you forever.
It is a process of training your conscious awareness to expand beyond the limitations of ordinary human perceptions.
By a daily spiritual practice of meditation, or attunement to the spiritual realms, you can create your own personal enlightenment by a process of gradually introducing your human self into a direct experience of the spiritual realities over a period of time.
Eventually, as you become more enlightened through that process, you can experience who you really are. You can awaken to the extraordinary part of you that is your Divine soul.
The practice of your attunement to the Divine can be rooted in a personal dedication to expand your awareness to include a larger reality than would normally appear to you in the ordinary world.
If you carry out that expansion of your awareness, and, at the same time, you create personal growth and love in your everyday life, you will take a journey straight into the heart of magnificence.
Walking a path of enlightenment will literally transform your experience of the physical world, illuminating it, deepening it, and bringing you the fulfillment that you desire in your life.
There are four important aspects to be aware of on a fulfilling pathway of enlightenment.
First: Your willingness to consistently open yourself to experience more than ordinarily appears on the surface of physical life. This involves a continuing quest for deeper purpose and meaning in everything that you do.
Second: Setting aside a “sacred” time each day to expand your awareness of your soul. Make your daily attunement period a profound, holy experience that is not limited by any past confused habits of thinking and feeling.
Third: Your personal dedication to consistently remain open in your daily activities to the loving influence of the spiritual realities that sustain human life. You can accomplish that by opening to the love of your soul during your attunement period, and, by being sensitive to other people in order to bring that spiritual love into your relationships with them
Fourth: Your ongoing commitment to continually strive to bring together the human and the divine in every moment of your life. This involves the merging of personal growth with spiritual enlightenment.
Creatively integrating the human and the divine in your day to day life is vital to your path of enlightenment. If you sit at home alone and practice perfect divine love, but you never go out into the human world to love anyone, your pathway will be distorted. For the greatest mastery, not only do you need to discover truth in your inner life, but you also need to act on that truth in the outer world of other people.
By dedicating yourself to these four aspects of your path of enlightenment, you begin to choose the direction of your life in a most powerful way, instead of allowing your days to unfold haphazardly under the influence of your ordinary, limited habits of thinking and feeling.
Each day, as you go out into the world, it is as if you are boarding a ship for a journey toward your future. If you do not take command of that ship and choose where you want it to go, it might take a direction that you do not want to take. If you consciously choose what your path in life will be, and decide how you will use your creative forces to walk that path, you will find yourself using your talents and abilities in ways that take you in a direction that will fulfill you.
When you walk a path of enlightenment in which you merge the human and the divine by bringing together your personal growth and your spiritual experiences day after day, you are quite consciously choosing where the ship of personality self expression will take you in this lifetime. You are choosing to move toward a full expression of yourself in ways that will complete the important purposes that your soul has given you for this lifetime.
