Higher Consciousness
& Your
Career
by Stuart Wilde
 Our life's journey of
self-discovery is not a straight line rising from one level of consciousness to
another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus that take
place within our spiritual perception and psychology.
We begin our spiritual understanding in a
mundane place: the ordinary world of survival, where the ego reigns supreme, and
tribal attitudes and ideologies are promoted as sacrosanct. The plane of
day-to-day existence that most experience as "life" -- this is what I call
"tick-tock".
When an individual is bored with tick-tock
and wants more -- when they crave a higher awareness -- then changes at a deep
inner level take place. This is especially so if the individual starts to
control the ego with discipline.
Looking within, their energy quickens, and
they begin the long, slow climb out of the consciousness of tick-tock. Usually
the climb from tick-tock up to the first inner plateau of awakening takes about
a thousand days.
Soon you realize that in order to sustain
your progress upwards, you have to discard much of your mental and emotional
weight. When you become less cluttered, new perceptions come to you quick and
fast. The inspiration of your rising consciousness infuses you with a new vigor;
you want to align to a new energy -- possibly a new career that is more
spiritually aligned or has more meaning, except that you don't clearly see what
direction to take.
The best thing to do is to concentrate on the
climb -- work on yourself rather than trying to carve out a new career just yet.
If you head out too early, you'll shoot yourself in the foot. I have seen it
happen a thousand times: an individual has become so inspired by their new
perspective and their desire to abandon tick-tock that they have set themselves
up in a new business -- usually related to self-help, alternative healing, or
assisting others in some way -- before they really have the energy, perception,
or capital to pull it off. They usually falter or go bust, or they never get off
the ground. Their self-confidence level will not yet let them feel secure with
their changes, so they cannot pursue the knowledge and experiences necessary to
complete the climb.
Instead, do this: Recognize that what you are
doing at this moment is changing and climbing -- nothing else. Simplify your
life, and support yourself any way you can, providing it does not take too much
of your time and energy. Or, you may decide to hold onto your tick-tock job.
It's better to do that and have a strong financial backing to your quest than to
be terribly spiritual. A third possibility is to keep your former means of
financial support in place and begin a new venture, perhaps on a part-time
basis.
Once the thousand-day climb is over, you
reach the first plane of understanding. As you consolidate on that inner plateau
of consciousness, you'll find that opportunities in the external world will
begin to emerge. At first, they seem rather small and relatively unimportant.
Follow them: they will lead to greater things. It matters not if you head up the
wrong path a little way as it will help you learn about yourself and your needs.
Eventually, you are bound to find what you seek.
As you make the inner journey from one
plateau to the next, the ego's dominance over your life is loosened, and the
light of the Infinite Self begins to melt it somewhat. When those melt-downs
occur, they seem to your psyche as if bits of your personality are dropping off.
In those periods, you will feel overwhelmed by the thought that you are dying,
but you are not dying -- your ego is. When the sensation becomes oppressive, put
yourself on a vigorous discipline of some kind -- fasting, silence, meditation,
whatever. The negative thoughts will pass, and eventually the ego will agree to
lessen its grip on your life.
Proceed, climb, and travel your inner journey
some more. You will eventually, after a number of years, come upon a very
strange place: the Plane of Desolation. In the mind, it feels as if you're
moving in slow motion across a vast, empty desert. I'm not sure if the length of
time we spend on the Plane of Desolation is the same for everyone, but in my
case it took three years to walk across it. At the other end is a door. As you
approach it, the melting process of the ego becomes so intense that it's like
walking toward a raging fire.
Close to the threshold, you will begin to
sense that time is getting slower and slower. This is because around the doorway
to the other worlds there is a singularity of space-time, where the inner
reality is compacted to the extreme, and time is almost at a standstill. Here
you are close to eternity. Imagine a world where it takes you a year to lift
your foot and place it a stride in front of you. Time is so thick and you move
so slowly that you get the feeling you're never going to make it. I expect that
many a traveler has quit at this point and turned back. You need tenacity and
patience; if you don't quit, you'll get through.
On the other side is another dimension. Its
beauty is pure, pristine, and utterly beyond imagination. It covers you with its
presence, and the first thing you do is fall asleep.
I can't say how long that inner sleep lasts
in the time-frame of our world, nor can I say whether the sleep period is common
to everyone. But in my case, fifteen months passed on the earth plane. Then you
wake, and another journey begins. Good traveling!
This article was excerpted from:
Whispering Winds
of Change
by Stuart Wilde.
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About the Author
Author and lecturer Stuart Wilde is one of the real
characters of the self-help, human potential movement. His style is humorous,
controversial, poignant, and transformational. He has written numerous books,
including those that make up the very successful Taos Quintet, which are
considered classics in their genre. They are: Affirmations, The Force,
Miracles, The Quickening, and The Trick to Money Is Having Some.
Stuart's books have been translated into 12 languages.
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