While seeming paradoxical, this question contains extreme life-enhancing potential.
Put another way: through what level of dominant consciousness is our life presently functioning – authentic soul consciousness or fake persona?
Persona – meaning mask – fearing hurt through verbal or emotional attack, is constantly in defence mode. Engulfed with feelings of superiority and self-importance, it is quick to anger and retaliate when challenged. Whereas, compassion, born of soul consciousness, is quite the opposite; instantaneous by nature, it is free-flowing and non judgemental in all situations. Thus, our motto should be: when there is nothing to be hurt, there is no hurting, or, eliminate that which is prone to hurt.
Personality essentially is an energy dynamic through which the soul evolves in order to know itself consciously. Generally, when referring to our-self, we refer through the personality, through an emotionally comparing capacity. But, these energy dynamics are not the real you, rather, what the soul uses to know itself divinely. They are but temporary scaffolding to facilitate Spirit emergence, for, at some stage on our spiritual journey to soul, these fictitious templates become integrated, re-nuanced as triggers for compassion expression.
While each person has a soul, which is immortal, eternal, the lower personality is mortal or finite: it is not the eternal You. The purpose of personality is to make coming upon our true divine nature, a conscious reality. Personality dynamic is the vehicle soul engages to reflect its joy and happiness, the medium through which soul finds its way Home. We’re each encoded with this home-coming ability thus, intuitively, we’re each driven to finding inner peace. In this context, to the degree that soul is non spiritually awakened, is the degree of residual unhappiness and stress. To the degree that we accept the artificial personality as real, as king and ruler of our life, is the distance we are from our Self, Soul, Love or, Home.
Deep within we sense this calling to higher soul nature expression. But, coming upon this noble consciousness first requires acknowledgement, or understanding, that Home already exists within. If presently not experiencing this dimension, then, we have either lost our way by over adherence to artificiality, thereby, forgotten, or not recognizing, the entry point into soul. In this context, something unnatural is causing blockage, thereby impeding our perceiving spiritually. Should this predicament be our status, the obvious question arises: what is causing blockage of direct soul connection, how can we re-align and get back on track, thereby come upon authentic love?
The cause of the blockage is mental chaos, the life-sapping debris of a dominant, splintered personality. Thus, it is the chaotic mode or dynamic which we are endeavouring to re-align with soul.
To this end, we look to the physical universe. The first law of the physical universe, is order, nothing concerning the outer physical universe, or, inner life, is by chance happening — every action has a cause, or, reaction of a previous action. Without order, chaos ensues automatically, when everything appears random. In other words, as the universe functions under perfect cosmic law, if this same perfect cosmic law is not operating in our daily lives – in our mind — then chaos is the functioning dynamic. Thus, we can immediately see the potential attaching to mental chaos, to an out-of-order personality. It’s this out-of-order personality which is responsible for individual and global suffering, just to scale.
Have we ever awoken from an unpleasant dream, and, relieved at finding it was not real, how wonderfully exhilarating the awakening moment felt? We had, as if, to “push” our-self awake.
In order to defuse personal chaos in our life, we are intended to “push” through the dream amnion thereby awaken unto spiritual nature, thus freeing intellect from the grip of dominant personality. In this process, the stiller aspect-nature of deeper mind, bliss, is infused into the personality, which then becomes unblocked. When soul and personality become spiritually attuned, thus is divine order established in mind, in our life, in our immediate environment, thereby benefiting the whole o humanity.
As individualized aspects — or hieroglyphs — of Spirit, and to facilitate the seeking / finding dynamic of this higher quiet mind nature, each soul has been stepped down unfathomable levels of Power. Think raindrop / ocean, atom / star, cell / brain, same Ingredient Potential, but just to scale. Similarly, some electrical items have a filtering device to prevent short-circuiting by way of electrical overload.
While personality is the vehicle soul uses to evolve, from the soul’s perspective – not bound by time and space – all its personality traits of anger, rage, jealousy, hatred, addiction, love, joy and happiness, are lived simultaneously. With this in mind, the soul therefore needs only to make ONE CONSCIOUS lifetime journey, which can be this incarnation, should we consciously choose so.
While becoming spiritually realized can be achieved in many ways, the simplest and most practical method is through regular mental silence or personality-purifying meditation. Meditation introduces order into the mental processes, thereby making the conscious mind aware in activity, as separate from subconscious reactive personality traits.
To this end, the significant heart-emergence from meditation, is compassion. Once compassion sets in, wisdom, love and natural behaviour soon become established patterns of expression. In exposing the soul’s capacity of compassion — in making the mind fully conscious through meditation — destructive and chaotic attitudinal traits are exposed to healing. Healed personality thus becomes the prism through which divine harmony, or, soul luminance, reflects in our daily life.