Myswizard

Mass illusion is overtaking the populous. For example, politics is all about struggle and control. It is internal self-importance projected onto the world. People have a narcissistic investment in their beliefs. Consequently Truth appears to be dangerous. Truth is not popular. What is popular is popularity. Everyone wants to be part of the crowd. This is known as herd instinct. It’s what captivates the mind of humanity most of the time. That is why…

There is no more allegiance to the truth, but to a popularity or dedication to an “ism.” The narcissistic core of judgementalisms is to proclaim your superiority. In this society that superiority has often transformed into a vocation—as in one’s personal religion, moral values, race, gender, ideologies, and sexual orientation for example. Socrates perceived that man doesn’t know the illusory good from the real good even though he chooses what he believes to be the good. Because of this, humans project the good on to that which they desire. But we cannot disregard that…

The most profound fact of all is karma (Divine cause and effect), and that it does not excuse ignorance. What the serpent knew (in the Garden of Eden) was the inner innocence of the child, which is that part of us that identifies perception as essence. [The serpent, being a representation of seduction or wickedness] plays upon the naiveté of the gullible. This is significant because…

You absorb everything like a computer. With Spiritual intention you begin to sort out the truth from fallaciousness, and when the Buddhic eye opens (at level 600,) you instantly can recognize essence from perception. Love, consideration, and reverence for life, which is what you have become, compensates for the much of the negativity of all humankind. Therefore take solace in the knowledge that…

Divinity is a field of propensities and likelihoods. We exist within a state of inner freedom like an iron filing inside an infinite field of infinite power, and when we align ourselves with that field, we counterbalance all of humankind. When you search for enlightenment you benefit all. Without this fact (and the intentions and actualizations of those on the inner path) the world would certainly destroy itself on its present course.

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Does politics have anything to do with the path to enlightenment and God? Surprisingly the answer is yes. The path to God is inclusive of everything in life. What I find interesting is “ethics” are extremely low on the list of what people find important in this election. Although politics as an entity does not calibrate high due to the many nuances of its inherent nature, your choices, decisions and above all intentions are essential on the path to God. Since this is the direct path to God, Divine Protoplasmic Analysis is essential to eliminate what is Truth from what is falsehood (unless you have reached a level of 600 and beyond).

Testing whether the individual is above level 200 is primary. Next, test for certain intrinsic positions which may calibrate below 200. In order to make a balanced decision, you have to educate yourself via all means available. If there are similarities in the level of consciousness of individuals, then basic positions will weed out what is higher from lower. Now you’re on your way.

It’s quite easy to find out if there are secrets being held, hidden agendas or other factors. The process is complex, however. The longer the course, the bigger the game of politics and politicizing gets. The very act of “izing” anything takes it below 200. Confusion, malaise, and anger occur the more the process is drawn out. Eventually the entire creation calibrates way below the level of integrity. What is left when politics becomes war and the entire process seems exasperating?

This is not as difficult as you may think. Getting back to the basics is a higher way of seeing everything. The basics are the inherent qualities of a view. Politicians are not on the path to enlightenment, but they can be on the side of what is sacred. This is the quintessential center of the universe and God. Godless may just be a word, but it has a meaning. Godlessness removes the sacred, the spirit, and the soul from the linear or material world. Everything is mental, spiritual, and physical. You cannot extract one from the other even in a political world. The world and everything in it belongs to God, however. All life, and all non-life is an intrinsic part of the whole of God. What would God say, if He spoke to you right now? I believe it would be to take everything into consideration because karma is involved. What you do, your intentions and decisions reflect what you are. Put all of this together and you have more of your continuing karmic legacy.

The answer to that question is yes from the view of a linear world. The level of the collective consciousness of humankind is lower than it has been in a long time. There is a direct reason for this occurrence. Humans are presently caught up in their ego (collectively) and all of the fallout which ensues from it. (Enlightenment and the Decline of the Level of Consciousness of Western Civilization, What’s Going On With The World?)

The next question would be, “Is there anything which can be done to alleviate this situation?” The answer to that is yes again. In a world of continuing hardships and relativism, there is only one thing to do. That is keep your own level of consciousness high in spite of what’s going on around you. This is done by not getting caught up in the fray. The path to God is not about whining, anger, and righteous indignation. If you want to help the world– be kinder, more compassionate, less critical, and more discerning.

Personal spiritual practices such as meditation may keep you aware, and are recommended to stay level, focused, and calm while on the journey. In this incarnation it may be more difficult than ever to remain on the path to enlightenment and God, nevertheless hang in there and buckle up for the continuing bumpy ride called life.

Biography Summary

Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. is a nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and lecturer. He co-authored Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling that helped revolutionize psychiatry. His national television appearances include The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, The Barbara Walters Show, and The Today Show. Winner of the Huxley Award, knighted by the Sovereign Order of the Hospitaliers of St. John of Jerusalem, nominated for the Templeton Prize and honored in the East with the title “Tae Ryoung Sun Kak Tosa” (Foremost Teacher of the Way to Enlightenment), Dr. Hawkins’ honors are vast. His background is detailed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World, and his work has been acclaimed by many world leaders and Nobelists, including Mother Teresa.

Dr. Hawkins has lectured at the University of Argentina; Notre Dame, Stanford, and Harvard Universities; Westminster Abbey; and the Oxford Forum. In addition, he has been an advisor to Catholic, Protestant, and Buddhist monasteries. He has conferred with foreign governments on international diplomacy and has been instrumental in resolving long-standing conflicts that were major threats to world peace. He is the author of the best-selling trilogy, Power vs. Force (published in 17 languages), The Eye of the I, and I: Reality and Subjectivity, and three additional books, including Truth vs. Falsehood, Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, and Discovery of the Presence of God.

SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Hawkins is an internationally known spiritual teacher, author, and speaker on the subject of advanced spiritual states, consciousness research, and the Realization of the Presence of God as Self.

His published works, as well as recorded lectures, have been widely recognized as unique in that a very advanced state of spiritual awareness occurred in an individual with a scientific and clinical background who was later able to verbalize and explain the unusual phenomenon in a manner that is clear and comprehensible.

The transition from the normal ego state of mind to its elimination by the Presence is described in the trilogy Power versus Force (1995), which won praise even from Mother Theresa; The Eye of the I (2001); and I: Reality and Subjectivity (2003), which have been translated and are available worldwide in foreign editions. Reviews (such as those on the Internet at amazon.com) have awarded the works with five stars.

The trilogy was preceded by research on the Nature of Consciousness and published as the doctoral dissertation, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Calibration of the Levels of Consciousness (1995), which correlated the seemingly disparate domains of science and spirituality. This was accomplished by the major discovery of a technique that, for the first time in human history, demonstrated a means to discern truth from falsehood.

The importance of the initial work was given recognition by its very favorable and extensive review in Brain/Mind Bulletin and at later presentations such as the International Conference on Science and Consciousness. Many presentations were given to a variety of organizations, spiritual conferences, church groups, nuns, and monks, both nationally and in foreign countries, including the Oxford Forum. In the Far East, Dr. Hawkins is a recognized “Teacher of the Way to Enlightenment.” (Tae Ryoung Sun Kak Dosa”)

In response to his observation that much spiritual truth has been misunderstood over the ages due to lack of explanation, Dr. Hawkins presented monthly seminars and provided detailed explanations that are too lengthy to describe in book format. Recordings are available, along with questions and answers that provide additional clarification.

The overall design of this lifetime work is to recontextualize the human experience in terms of the evolution of consciousness and to integrate a comprehension of both mind and spirit as expressions of the innate Divinity that is the substrate and ongoing source of life and Existence. This dedication is signified by the statement “Gloria in Excelsis Deo!” with which his published works begin and end.

LIFE EVENTS OF INTEREST

Awards and Recognition
• Inducted into the 2006 American Psychiatric Association 50-year Distinguished Life Fellows honor
• Inducted into the 2006 Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame
• Established Devotional Nonduality as a major spiritual pathway and the Science of Consciousness Research
• Published numerous articles in spiritual periodicals, 1990 - current
• As appeared on The Today Show, Science, Barbara Walters, the McNeil-Leher News Hour and talk radio shows worldwide
• Presents lectures and workshops throughout the U.S., along with monthly full-day seminars, 2002 - current
• Gave annual Landsberg Lecture at the University of California Medical School at San Francisco
• Listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World
• Appointed consultant to the Unity School of Religious Studies and post-graduate curriculum, including establishment of the Unity School of Consciousness Studies, 2003
• Published research on Science of Consciousness in series of books in 14 languages
• Establishment of worldwide independent study groups
• Nobelists and world leaders accorded recognition in support of world value of research and writings: Dr. Linus Pauling; Mother Theresa; Lee Iacocca; Sam Walton; Bill W. (founder of Alcoholics Anonymous); numerous clergy and businessmen (spirit in business).
• Consultant to government leaders, South Korea, 2000
• Received title “Tae Ryoung Sun Kak Dosa” (Teacher of Enlightenment), Seoul, Korea, 2000
• Knighted by the Sovereign Order of the Hospitaliers of St. John of Jerusalem by authority of the Priory of King Waldemar the Great. The Order was established in 1070 and arrived in Denmark around 1164. The ceremony was conducted by H. H. Prince Waldemar of Schaumburg-Lippe on October 7, 2000. He was elected to the Order in October 1996 and was sponsored by Fernando Flores, then an ambassador to the United Nations. The Danish Order then established a branch in the Americas, which supports humanitarian projects in third-world countries.
• Physicians Recognition Award, American Medical Association, 1992
• Elected to Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Founded 1077), 1989
• Invited to become Commissioner of Mental Health, State of New York, February, 1983
• Citation from Medical College of Wisconsin for “Contribution to Medicine”
• Taught classes on Advaita
• Published articles with Bill W., cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous
• Taught classes based on A Course in Miracles
• Consultant to clergy, cloistered nuns, Episcopal and Catholic dioceses, the Zen Monastery (NYC), and spiritual groups
• North Nassau Mental Health Center Award for “Dedication to the Alleviation of Human Suffering,” 1978
• Huxley Award for “Inestimable Contribution to the Alleviation of Human Suffering,” 1979
• Published Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobelist Linus Pauling, 1973
• Published numerous scientific papers in the American Journal of Psychiatry amongst other fine publications, 1953 - current
• Founder and Director, The Mental Health Center (largest practice in New York City), 1958 - 1980
• Training Psychoanalysis by Prof. Lionel Oversey, M.D., at Columbia University Psychoanalytic Institute
• Supervising Psychiatrist, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, 1957
• Awarded Fellowship in Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, 1956
• Intern, Columbia Hospital, New York School of Psychiatry, 1954
• Mosby Book Award for Scholastic Excellence, 1953
• Alpha Omega Alpha – National Medical Scholastic Honor Society, 1952
Founded
• North Nassau Mental Health Center, Inc., 1958
• Federation of Mental Health Centers, 1963
• North Nassau Clinical Laboratories, 1970
• North Nassau Research Division and Laboratories, 1971
• An Integrated System for the Care of Schizophrenics, 1971
• Academy of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 1971
• Institute for Applied Spiritual Studies, 1980
Co-Founded
• Schizophrenics Anonymous (Board of Directors; Medical Advisor)
• Schizophrenia Foundation of New York State (Incorporator; Director)
• Schizophrenia Foundation of Long Island (Board of Directors; Medical Advisor)
• Institute for Scientific Communications (Incorporator; Board of Directors)
• Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry (Editorial Board)
• Journal of Schizophrenia (Editorial Board)
• St. George’s Day Activities Center (Medical Advisor)
• The Attitudinal Healing Center of Long Island (Board of Directors; Medical Advisor)
• Christ Church Day Activities Center (Medical Advisor)
• The Masters Gallery of Fine Arts (Co-Director)
• Mental Health Fairs
• The Gateposts Halfway House (Medical Advisor)
• Garfield House (Halfway House)
• Day Activities Center of Port Washington (Medical Advisor)
• Brunswick House (Alcoholism; Psychiatric Consultant)
• New York Association of Holistic Health Centers
• Life Support Systems (Board of Directors)
• Space Form (Ecologic Communities and Low-Energy Housing)
• Became Director Emeritus of the North Nassau Mental Health Center in 1980 and gave up psychiatric practice to spend full time on spiritual research.

Membership

• American Medical Association (Life Member)
• American Psychiatric Association (Life Member)
• New York State Medical Society
• Nassau County Medical Society
• Nassau Physicians Guild
• Nassau Academy of Medicine
• New York Academy of Science
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• New York State Psychiatric Association
• Qualified Psychiatrist, New York State Department of Mental Health
• Nassau Psychiatric Society
• New York State Clinical Directors Association
• American Association of Psychiatric Administrators
• Academy of Orthomolecular Psychiatry (Founding President; Chairman of the Board)
• International Academy of Preventive Medicine
• American Holistic Health Association
• The Huxley Institute for Biosocial Research (Board of Directors)
• Academy of Religion and Mental Health
• New York State Association of the Professions
• The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
• Schizophrenia Foundation of New York State (Board of Directors; Medical Advisor)
• The Attitudinal Healing Center of Long Island (Board of Directors; Medical Advisor)
• North Nassau Mental Health Center (Director Emeritus)
• Medical Society of the Brunswick Hospital (Director of Psychiatric Research)
• Attending Staff, Gracie Square Hospital
• Youth Consultation Services, Episcopal Dioceses, Long Island (Psychiatric Consultant)
• Editorial Board, Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry
• Editorial Board, Journal of Schizophrenia
• Editorial Board, (Alcoholism), Journal of Psychotherapy
• American Schizophrenia Association (Scientific Advisory Board)
• National Society for Autistic Children (Professional Advisory Board)
• Long Island Council on Alcoholism
• The Federation of Mental Health Centers (Co-founder)
• American Medical Society on Alcoholism
• Arizona Medical Society
• Arizona Psychiatric Society
• Brunswick House (Director of Research, Alcoholism)
• The National Acupuncture Research Society
• American Geriatric Society
• International Council on Applied Nutrition
• The Academy of Preventive Medicine
• Canadian Psychiatric Association (Associate Member)
• American Society for Psychological Research
• Monroe Institute for Applied Science
• International Kirlian Research Association
• National Council on Alcoholism
• The Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
• The Society for the Study of Addictions
• American Institute for Scientific Communications (Co-founder)
• International Society for General Semantics
• Consultant on Alcoholism, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
• American Ontoanalytic Association
• Consultant, New York Foundling Hospital
• New York Paleontological Society
• Consultant, Operation Hotline
Non-Medical Memberships
• The First Zen Institute of America, 1960
• The Institute for Applied Spiritual Studies (Founder, Chairman), 1983
• Institute for Advanced Spiritual Research, Inc. [501© (3) Public Charity], 1983
• Sovereign Order, St John of Jerusalem, 1995
• Devotional Nonduality Community (Founder, 2003)

I have respect for that phrase because it’s very descriptive of the state of suffering. It usually means that you are in a position where no matter what decision you make, it may be the wrong one. Any decision that you make however, could mean you’re between a rock and hard place. This is because you have an infinite number of choices to make throughout your life regarding everything. Often it refers to a crisis in which you do not know which way to go. It always assumes that no matter how you choose, it’s hopefully the best of the array.

What we fail to realize is that any decision we make comes with (karmic) consequences. With that in mind our decision-making process (which is part of the sentience that stems from being human), should be looked upon with reverence and respect. How often do we shoot from the hip only to feel like we’ve made a horrible mistake?

This subject isn’t referencing what time to make a haircut appointment (although that in itself could have consequences). This is regarding the path your life is taking, who you are going down that path with, and what you are doing within the beingness of your essential self. When the decisions you make have to do with these subjects, being in a difficult situation is just what the spirit ordered.

When confronted with suffering and difficulty you have to trust that your higher Self often knows the correct decision to make. It could feel like conscience or a gut feeling, but Divinity is always having a conversation with you if you care to listen. It may come in the form of a whisper or a sign from just about anywhere. It is always aware that you are spirit occupying human form, with all that that entails. If however, you take a wrong turn, who is to say it wasn’t in your highest good? All decisions come with a lesson and everyone is your teacher.

This sacred journey is about difficult decisions and their ensuing consequences. Enlightenment must be earned because the voyage is not for the faint-hearted. It’s the brave soul that sees each difficult decision as an opportunity to transcend karma and suffering on the path to higher consciousness and enlightenment, for its own sake. So the next time you find yourself between a rock and a hard place, send out a prayer of thanks for the opportunity to learn.

The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive.
The Eye of The I…David R. Hawkins, M.D., PhD

The Straight Path to God
In order to get on the straight path to God, you must by-pass the inexplicable such as psychics and the mysterious. Those things reveal themselves when conditions are appropriate.

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You cannot change others. If you don’t stop trying to have others be the way you desire them to be, you will always be dissatisfied. You can only work on your own essential Self.___Myswizard

“True teachers are few and pretenders abound. If the masses were headed in the right direction, sainthood and enlightenment would be common. They are not.”
- Dr. Hawkins

“Straight and narrow is the path…Waste no time! Gloria in Excelsis Deo!”
- Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., PhD.

This article is in response to Dr. Hawkins most recent lecture regarding spirituality and issues of our modern civilization, which I’ve just attended.

The errors of modern society have made the spiritual path more difficult. What we’re witnessing today is perception becoming everyday truth as opposed to Absolute Truth (The Truth of Divinity). This is the Truth of Divinity via the Infinite Field of Consciousness (God) through the use of higher levels of consciousness and Kinesiology. This has led to Western civilization’s level of consciousness falling to non-integrity. This was tested on stage by Dr Hawkins.

What is happening?
Due to present events this has become a significant issue. We are at a critical point because what is being witnessed through the media, politics, business, and education is relativism in its most radical form. It is the collapse of society through the repetition of false-speak as well as errors in thought and action due to lower levels of consciousness often in the form of evil run amok. Relativism is the truth according to the individual. This would imply that there are as many truths as there are people and beliefs.

There is only one Truth about anything. You either have Truth or non-truth. The Truth itself has its levels of essence according to the realm of its existence, nevertheless Truth is still Truth. The light is either on (regardless of its luminescence) or it’s not.

Since we are already witnessing world relativism what we’re left with is the truth according to personal beliefs run rampant. Cynics and skeptics abound, creating more of the same. Cynicism and skepticism both calibrate beneath the level of integrity (200) Power versus Force, Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.)

What is there to do? (Articles…What’s Going on With the World?, Forgive Them For They Know Not What They Do).
In the real-world perhaps a march or a protest would be involved, but the path to enlightenment precludes force and activism. Only the Power of Divinity stands as a certainty to those who choose to embrace the path to God through Truth.

Although following Divinity through religion or religious doctrine may find you kinder and forgiving, the path to God through Truth leads to enlightenment. What needs to be known is why this is happening, and the why is the current level of world consciousness. Nearly 85% of the world calibrates below integrity. That would certainly prohibit forcing change upon all of the worlds’ societies. By raising yourself up, you help to raise up the world. This is teaching by example. The power of the levels of love and kindness, is stronger exponentially than all the lower levels combined.

Where are we going?
The where does not matter to most of the world because of the above evident reasons, but the implications of what we do here are karmic and can be lasting nevertheless.

The short time we spend in our earthly life, has led many to wonder where we spend eternity. Although this question may not become relevant until we’ve reached a certain level of consciousness, the Truth of eternity is we reside where we have become as a result of what we are. This is a personal choice — a choice our essence makes as an eternal being.

Why is this important to know?
What we create on earth is a part of our eternal journey and the mere tip of the iceberg of what we can aspire to be when the realization of Divinity is within us. It all depends on whether or not the journey to be with or be like God, is essential to you as an infinite spirit. Only the fear of the loss of the ego self prevents us from being our Highest Self. Relativity/perception becomes Essence when we are aware of the presence of God. Until then, what we have is what we are witnessing. To paraphrase Dr. Hawkins, There is no opposition to upholding your own Highest potential. To perfect the potentiality of that which you are, is revering God in the Highest, and is your greatest gift to the world.

What does the body have to do with enlightenment and God?

The body is a physical representation of the manifestation of the presence of God, in a separate linear form containing our individualized spirit/essence — all of which is within The Infinite Electromagnetic, All-Powerful, Omniscient, Omnipresent Field of the Source of All That Exists.

The scientific evolution of our human form, is the content within the context of the entire evolution/creation from the Godhead to this nonlinear/linear point in time. The exclusion herein of the explanations of scientific form, is due to the vast amount of integrous information available. In keeping with the journey to enlightenment and spiritual explanations, further material regarding evolutionary descriptions will be deferred to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

The word “the” has been used for our body because personalization of the body, immediately creates ownership. ‘My body’ has a different sense than ‘this’ body or ‘the’ body. When ownership is assigned to the body, all personal feeling stemming from the ego takes precedence.

The purpose of the body is to represent the essence of what we are on a material plane for karmic consideration. This is a tough karmic school. Our karmic inheritance and proclivities are worked out best on a linear world, even though the eternal Spirit is in a constant mode of learning and experiencing in all realms.

Feelings arise prenatally. Sensory perception allows us to recognize feelings such as pain, pleasure, discomfort, heat, cold, and eventually how we view ourselves in the world against the backdrop of others. As we age, our opinions of others and ourselves form from our parents, peers, society, media, worldly glamorization, and both subtle and overt indoctrination.

What our intentions are regarding the use of the body in each incarnation, is more relevant than what happens to the body. For example: an event may cause severe limitations on the body, but how one chooses to accept and use the situation to the highest advantage, is related to levels of consciousness and karma. Ones choice of acceptance and surrender versus regret and anger is directly connected to the purpose of that particular karmic journey. Each journey is a gift from Divinity to work out our individual purposes for incarnating.

How we relate and react to other bodies is a direct response from one’s level of consciousness also. As physical beings we have infinite choices in how to react to or view others. The ego can be condemning, judgmental, and solicitous. On the other hand, as ego diminishes, we can be accepting, kind, considerate and compassionate. All of our choices have karmic consequences.

At higher levels of consciousness what we become does not judge, nor denigrate what we see. Everything as every body, is a gift from God to the rest of the world. All life forms on the planet are to be respected and revered for the separate but divine entities, which they are, spawned from the Infinite Unified Field of the Divine Presence.

What really matters regarding the body?

Our care of the body is related to how we view, as well as feel about it. Some take extremely good care of the body throughout their lives via proper nutrition, exercise, and general health considerations. Others have no concern whatsoever about these matters.

How we treat the body has more to do with personal intrinsic levels of consciousness which often preempts what has been learned. Addictions, and extreme or base behaviors, exemplify one’s disrespect for the body. Plying the body with alcohol and drugs, and/or intense interest in extreme actions in the form of high-risk taking sports and other such behaviors, is a clear indication that life is being lived for the thrill, and not for spiritual growth.

Basic respect for the body as our form of worldly transportation in this life, is a product of higher levels of consciousness. With spirituality and/or religious devotion to God, the body is seen as a divine gift to be treated with reverence and respect. Higher levels of consciousness do not look a gift horse in the mouth.

Fears regarding the body tend to spring forth from fear of pain or death. Unnatural or overly intense fears should be addressed through proper professional counseling due to certain psychiatric conditions, and both physical, mental, and spiritual manifestations (i.e. disease).

After this world, what?

As spirit passes from the material to the non-material realm, physicality is left behind like an old set of clothing. It is uninteresting and unimportant to our essence at this point, although our survivors tend to treat it with reverence as the disposal, burial and grieving process begins.

Life for spirit continues on in the realm we float to according to our level of consciousness and karmic inheritance. You might say we retain a nonphysical body, which encompasses our essence or essential nature. At higher levels of consciousness, any form is not necessary although a non-linear sensory perception is retained. Essence sees without eyes, hears without ears, speaks without a voice, and thinks without a brain. We are what we are at the level of our consciousness and other factors, and we are privy to this body (of ) knowledge only after crossing into the nonphysical realm.

Lifetimes of incarnations, spiritual knowledge and ascending levels of consciousness, are the path to God. Just like in the earthly realm, the non-earthly realm does not preclude spirit from remaining at certain levels infinitely without overcoming obstacles to higher levels. Neither does the spirit realm mean that we have instant access to God or are godly in our essential existence. Hierarchies preclude spirit from having access to other realms and our spiritual intentions send us toward what we become, as we continue throughout our eternal existence.

As a new incarnation begins, we again are prepared to accept spiritual amnesia, as we go forth into the unknown with our tiny body and our karmic inheritance, ready for a brand new life and a tough school of learning ahead. This is the perfect sequence of evolution/creation via The Presence of Divinity.

While it’s perfectly clear that if you walk into the spiritual section of any bookstore you are bound to see hundreds of books about manifesting abundance. The word abundance is synonymous with wealth, however it also means “great quantities of.” What is it that we need great quantities of other than money? Of course the abundance that is spoken of, is usually about money, due to the fact that the majority of the people on the planet (especially in modern societies), never think they have enough. The fastest way to sell a book, if you are out there promoting it, would be to make it about getting more, having more, and how to manifest more.– The more being wealth, which it is assumed no one has enough of.

To presume that you don’t have enough of something is putting yourself in the position of believing that you know what is best for you. This is presumptuous considering the majority of the population of the world cannot discern Truth from falsehood on their own. How can we as humans know what is best for us when we don’t even know as a majority what the Truth is about anything (even though we think we do)?

There is no secret to getting or having money. You can work hard for it, go to school to earn a degree in a particular field, purchase something that luckily appreciates in value, or inherit it. You may also be clever enough to discover something the world needs that it didn’t have before. So you see there are no secrets here, other than potentiating the conditions under which you will create what you need.

Furthermore, there are no secret rituals of manifestation which will provide you with what you need to survive. Being given the gift of physical life precludes all other egoic wishes. We are here to endure and learn until we are relieved of the physical, and return to our essential state. The one thing which must be known at your core level, is that everyone is worthy of creating. This is about the “what” of the creation and not the how. Once inspired (motivated), the how becomes clear.

This journey is to enlightenment and there are no secrets to manifesting enlightenment.– Just transcending the obstacles to that state. That is why we are here and you are here reading this. There is nothing more important than the realization of God and our transcendence of the obstacles.

The beauty of all this is that we have eternity to get all this under our spiritual belt. When a certain state is reached, the realization that we are complete and perfect at all times becomes perfectly clear. Money at that point becomes more than a means to an imaginary end, but something that we must as stewards, take responsibility for. The glamorization of society shows that an overabundance of money in the hands of people who are not ready for the responsibility, tends to be used frivolously.

If we want to place a higher meaning on wealth and/or abundance on our journey to enlightenment, higher manifestation is a necessity. This would take the form of lovingness, generosity, wisdom, discernment, patience, willingness, orderliness, fairness, peacefulness, intelligence, and kindness. When manifestation such as this is actualized, you have cracked the highest secret code—being like your Creator.

Some of the most unobtrusive things that happen in our lives are unrealized miracles. We often call them coincidences, but a ‘coincidence’ is in truth, a notable occurrence, and not a mere fluke. While witnessing these fortuitous events in my own life for decades, it seems as I get older, their occurrences are accelerating. Perhaps, I said to myself, it’s because my journey has been progressing. Maybe I’m just noticing them more because my life is focused on God and the journey to enlightenment. Sometimes I even jokingly ask God if He’s recognizing that I’m getting closer. In my heart however, I know that Gods knows. Being psychic or intuitive, I never asked these questions of myself before, having taken them for granted while being grateful for the gifts.

With 6 1/2 billion people on the planet, many people are experiencing the exact same thing, but are expressing it in their own personal ways. It’s on the Internet every day, in the bookstores, in the new publications arriving daily, and through the media. Many of these people know these experiences are what we call miracles or divine providence, and most have no recognition of it whatsoever. In fact, miracles are occurring continually to everyone, but below LOC 200 (Map of Consciousness) the mind blocks the recognition of them. In Middle Eastern religions, some of these subjective experiences are referred to as Moksha and Siddhis. In any case, there are a thousand names for the same thing. Calling them miracles, is putting a simple identification onto that which is anything but simple. My own grammatical limitations compel the use of the word ‘miracles’, however.

What are these everyday miracles? We can’t expect to see the red sea parting, or the lightning finger of God engraving the 10 Commandments into stone, but what we can do is recognize what they are and what they look like. All of these events are personal occurrences, but are certainly not unique or exclusive.

• Necessary messages that are delivered to someone by someone else at a point in their life when they needed to hear it, are miracles.
• Necessary messages that are delivered to you through other people, various media, so-called coincidental meetings, and any other form of communication that lights up like a light bulb in your life.
• Sudden but not serious, illnesses, which force you to slow down to rest, think, or meditate.
• Help arriving at opportune moments when you need it the most.
• Simple things like parking spaces becoming available to you when you need them.
• Turning on the radio and hearing a favorite song from a deceased loved one, or a message in the words of a song, in response to a communication with the other side.
• After surrendering a situation and putting it in God’s hands, resolution occurs.
• You call someone unwittingly when they need you, or they mysteriously call you when you need them.
• Answers to questions reveal themselves in a timely manner. (Without testing using Divine Proplasmic Analysis)
• Things that you need, or things that you are looking for, seem to find you.
• The perfect response to a question or scenario comes forth of its own.
• Regular visitations or communication from the nonphysical realm occurs in various forms.
• What appears to be miraculous healings. (There are many books on the subjects of miraculous healings and miraculous healers. However due to karma and karmic inheritance, healings may occur on their own or not depending on the individual karma involved. Therefore, although I have put this under the miraculous, karma plays an important role in the events regarding our health.)
• Occurrences related to ‘chance’ sightings such as: awakening to instantly witness a shooting star after dreaming of a recently deceased loved one, clouds parting and the sun shining through just as you were wishing for it to happen, or looking up to witness a magnificent sunrise, sunset, or unusually colorful sky when you were thinking of God or a loved one who has passed.
• The radiance of a beam of sunlight appearing through your window shining directly on your face when you were thinking of, discussing, or speaking of God.
• People coming to your aid, apparently from nowhere, when you are in distress.
• Strange occurrences such as being alone, suddenly tripping and falling, yet being caught and placed upright by something unseen, averting potentially harmful injuries, in a moment when time seemed to stand still.
• Signs of warnings to avert dangerous situations. i.e. Something put in front of you to slow you down, or a sighting of something to warn you of impending danger.
• Signals to alert you to witness something. i.e. Sudden awakenings in order to see an event, knowing that an important phone call was imminent, a forced detour which ‘shows’ you something or prevents another event from happening. (This is often karma in action)
• Asking for a miracle and receiving it.
• Having a feeling of being surrounded by tremendous love and an invisible presence which fills you with extreme Kundalini energy. This often occurs regularly.

Spiritual enlightenment is the subjectively experiential realization of the presence of God.

See topics under Religions/Religious Doctrines/Religious Philosophy

Discovery of the Presence of God_ Devotional Nonduality, by Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., PhD. is the clearest, most concise way to God, written by a modern day sage. It is pure genious and yet intelligible, arising from the highest level of intrinsic understanding of the levels of consciousness. There are no writings preceding this book which have had the ability to clarify what the doorway to enlightenment is, from within the radically subjective experiential state of enlightenment.

Dr. Hawkins, through his books, lectures, and The Map of Consciousness, has brilliantly lit the most direct route to God for the serious spiritual seeker of enlightenment. This book transcends all former explanations of the state called enlightenment. Devotional Nonduality is devotion to God in the Highest. I honor the presence of the teacher.

Advanced reading-Advanced Spiritual

This book may be purchased directly from Veritas Publishing.
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This is an excerpt from the original Wiki article. The rest is mathematical computations. The link to the complete article is at the end of this article. I bring this law of probabilities up because it has to do with physics, and how it relates to our lives, as well as one’s spiritual journey. Although the repetition of dangerous practices leads to the conclusion that there is a higher likelihood of having a negative ending, repetition of higher spiritual practices on the journey to enlightenment, increase the odds for leaps of consciousness.

The Law of Large Numbers is a fundamental concept in statistics and probability that describes how the average of a randomly selected sample from a large population is likely to be close to the average of the whole population.

In formal language:

If an event of probability p is observed repeatedly during independent repetitions, the ratio of the observed frequency of that event to the total number of repetitions converges towards p as the number of repetitions becomes arbitrarily large.

This means that the more units of something that are measured, the closer that sample average will be to the average of all of the units — including those that were not measured. (The term “average” means the arithmetic mean.)

For example, the average weight of 10 apples taken from a barrel of 100 apples is probably closer to the “real” average weight than the average weight of 3 apples taken from that same barrel. This is because the sample of 10 is a larger number than the sample of only 3 and better represents the whole group. If you took a sample of 99 apples out of 100 apples, the average would be almost exactly the same as the average for all 100 apples.

While this rule may appear self-evident, it allows statisticians to draw conclusions or make forecasts that would not be possible otherwise. In particular, it permits precise measurement of the likelihood that an estimate is close to the “right” number.

There are two versions of the Law of Large Numbers, one called the “weak” law and the other the “strong” law. This article will describe both versions in technical detail, but in essence the two laws do not describe different actual laws but instead refer to different ways of describing the convergence of the sample mean with the population mean. The weak law states that as the sample size grows larger, the difference between the sample mean and the population mean will approach zero. The strong law states that as the sample size grows larger, the probability that the sample mean and the population mean will be exactly equal approaches 1.0.

One of the most important conclusions of the Law of Large Numbers is the Central Limit Theorem which, generally, describes how sample means tend to occur in a Normal Distribution around the mean of the population regardless of the shape of the population distribution, especially as sample sizes get larger. (See Central Limit Theorem for details of this application, including some important limitations.) This helps statisticians evaluate the reliability of their results because they are able to make assumptions about a sample and extrapolate their results or conclusions to the population from which the sample was derived with a certain degree of confidence. See Statistical hypothesis testing as an example.

The phrase “law of large numbers” is also sometimes used in a less technical way to refer to the principle that the probability of any possible event (even an unlikely one) occurring at least once in a series increases with the number of events in the series. For example, the odds that you will win the lottery are very low; however, the odds that someone will win the lottery are quite good, provided that a large enough number of people purchased lottery tickets.

Realm: compass, dimension(s), extent, orbit, purview, radius, reach, scope, sweep, region, territory, sphere, domain, range

Paradigm: pattern, model, example, compare, exhibit

Field: A region of space in which a given effect (as gravity, magnetism, or electricity) exists and has a definite value at each point. A continuously distributed entity in space that accounts for actions at a distance, such as as electric field or gravitational field. A complex of coexistent forces (as biological, psychological, and social or interpersonal) which serve as causative agents or as a frame of reference in human experience and behavior. A field of force that is made up of associated electric and magnetic components, that results from the motion of an electric charge, and that possesses a definite amount of electromagnetic energy.

In the spiritual domain, there are infinite fields with just as many levels of intrinsic power. There are fields of force, which are negative attractors. (See Attractor Fields, Oppressor Fields and Energy Vampires) Entrainment to a particular field, is the bringing along or carrying the energies of that field. One may be aligned with, attracted to, or repelled from a field of either positive or negative energies. The higher the human level of consciousness, the more positive and powerful the fields we are attracted to. Lower consciousness tends to attract the same in the way of fields. All sages both past and present have stressed the importance of avoiding that which is not congruent with higher levels.

There are an infinite number of realms and fields in existence, which would give rise to an infinite number of paradigms. Each time we think we have a handle on something, the universe unfolds, showing us that we are aware of merely the tip of existence.

As information is received, or a question arises, other ways of explaining Truth come to mind. It is however, different explanations for the same thing. A human explanation for that which isn’t human, is for the most part, indefinable. Infinity allows infinite answers to the infinite questions about infinite realms, fields, and paradigms. The complexity of creation and existence however, is ineffable within our own realm, therefore the ability to describe that which is not within our own realm is at best difficult and piecemeal. The level of consciousness that one is within the realm in which one exists, may be the only way to clearly describe that domain, and perhaps not. When the Buddhic eye opens (The third eye), many things become apparent which are inexplicable to those not familiar with the domain of the level 500’s and above. The Siddhis (see Siddhis, Moksha and more) are inherent abilities in which the miraculous become commonplace.

Our concern needs to be our realm of existence, and our reality as it relates to the human paradigm. This is where we live now and where Karma is being eliminated or created. In order to grow spiritually and reach enlightenment, we must do it from where we are within this physical realm. Having knowledge of other realms, fields and paradigms adds to our knowledge of why things happen which we cannot explain. More than that is not necessary to become enlightened, for Ultimate Truth removes the veil of eternal ignorance.

The question, which always arises, is, “Why do so many spiritual aspirants, get lost in the world of other realms, channeling, chasing ghosts, reading cards, UFOs, and seeing psychics for knowledge? It’s all about glamorization and adding excitement to the spiritual path. When one is on this path with true seriousness and conviction, detours make the journey longer and there is no time to waste. Enlightenment is Self-Realization. This is about absolute devotion to our Essence, which is God, and not the trivialities of side shows.

When the spiritual fantasy world is put aside and the Reality of the Truth is revealed, the past is where we leave the show. Fields, realms, and paradigms reveal more about creation, as everything is being created eternally within a Field __The All Encompassing Field of Existence, God. If we are to utilize even an infinitesimally small portion of that field, we need to have the knowledge of how to use it with expertise and good intentions. What can be created when we use the power within and of God, is astonishing.

Enlightenment is a higher goal of the spirit, and yet there is no one that becomes enlightened. Once fully realized, the Self is ineffable, therefore enlightenment is merely a positionality or projection. The way to enlightenment is through surrendering everything to Divinity and overcoming obstacles on the path, while not giving importance to that end. It is actualizing ones’ potential without struggling to become anything.

Due to my experience with many modalities, I’ve included exercises which will release emotions and issues which prevent us from achieving the spiritual goal of being our Highest Self. Whichever exercises work best for you, the thing to keep in mind is the intended result is to release blocks to higher consciousness. Whatever comes up be it denial, failure to take responsibility for what is happening around you, clinging to the past, fear of releasing and surrendering unsuitable beliefs or upsets, or refusal to own and recognize the ego, all exercises have the ability to create radical inner change.

I will be adding exercises as time goes on for you to do as your time permits. You may find some work for you more than others, as you become proficient in practicing them. Each one has the propensity for eliminating the road-blocks. There are many ways one can reach enlightenment, but that end is not as important as the journey, and what we are as we travel the path. You can think of these as your own personal class exercises without the travel or the expense. As always, these exercises are not meant to treat serious conditions, and I always defer to and recommend contacting professionals, whenever issues necessitate. God Bless you in the Highest.

There is so much rhetoric in the world, especially when the subject is spirituality. Some spiritual advisors of prominence are always coming up with the 5, 10, or 100 things that we have to remember, or of utmost importance. These are usually words which have a particular meaning, but when used in the context of spirituality, take on different meanings, like spiral and integral. Motivational speakers are adding the spiritual to give your psyche a push in the right direction with a rousing “you can do it” cheer on a set of DVDs you can listen to while driving to work, or the grocery store. Movie stars will pitch in to give their accolades.

There are hundreds of different kinds of spiritual practices or modalities. People are coming up with new names for spirituality, which are more confusing than ever. There are “steps” to remember, and illusions. There are remembrances to remember. Classes are great, but when we get home the exercises seem fine for a while, but then the dog needs walking and the kids are coming home from school. It’s like meditation or exercise. We may practice for a week, month or a year, but then everyday life takes precedence. Sometimes an issue comes up or a life change, and everything is put aside. Few seem to have a simple answer to growing in our spiritual journey, when it is simplicity which is imperative.

In my article, “Don’t Get Sidetracked,” I speak about roads leading to roads, which lead to confusion or dead-ends. In “Keep it Simple,” opinions, doctrine, theories, and endless intellectualizing, are discussed. When confronted with the complexities of daily life, there should be less to “think about” on our journey. Divinity in It’s Infinite love and wisdom, wouldn’t make the journey so difficult that we would “give up.”

What is it that we can do to witness our progress toward enlightenment or our path? The answer has to be simple in its’ application. How difficult we make it is up to us, and our attention to our intention.

Start with the beginning of the day. This is easy. You’re brushing your teeth, eating your breakfast, or transporting yourself to work. This could be the time to forgive someone by surrendering anger or frustration, to God with one of my simple prayers, or one of your own. Next time you’re in a parking lot, give up the space to someone else, or let them know you’re leaving and where your spot is. If you see someone who could use a hand, give it to them. Smile at the person in the car next to you. Open a door for someone. Allow someone to go ahead of you in a line. Bless the person who cuts you off in traffic. Let go of your past and stop being a victim of something or someone, finally. Give up an addiction to a person or a thing which isn’t in your highest good. Don’t complain about anything for just one day. Give up blame, for a day and then a week, etc. Have reverence for all life, including your own. Let your ego take a rest by not having to be right all the time, or being angry about that which you cannot change. Stop trying to change everything, as if you know what’s right for anyone else.

I could go on, but you get the picture. It’s like the 10,000 diets that are out there. You only need one. The simple one. The one that tells you just to eat healthy and cut your portions.

Enlightenment and our expanded context of our spiritual self, does not have to be any harder a goal than we choose to make it. The “critical point” of a person’s spiritual journey may be as simple as one decision. It is the decision to be of a higher consciousness than that which you were, only a second ago. It’s not what you do, but what you are as you do it.__©Myswizard all rights reserved ‘05-’06

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ’twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on. Author: Henry Burton

If kindness were your daily food
Hunger would indeed elude
And acceptance was the air you breathe
With every breath comes gratitude
Then in some distant future be
The seed you’d sown eternally.
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In turn, every advance that we make in our awareness benefits unseen multitudes and strengthens the next step for others to follow. Every act of kindness is noticed by the universe and is preserved forever. (Dr David R. Hawkins, Eye of The I, 118)

Enlightenment is not a cause, belief, or position. It is a path to God.__Myswizard

To idealize, romanticize, and glorify is glamorization. Other meanings of the word are an elusive, mysteriously exciting, and often illusory attractiveness that stirs the imagination and appeals to a taste for the unconventional, the unexpected, the colorful, or the exotic. It is a fascination, an irresistible attraction or charm. There is intense interest. It can also be charming, alluring, irresistibly attractive, engaging, challenging, transfixing, or being held spellbound by something. The “something” doesn’t matter. It could be something as trivial as toothpaste or as important as your dwelling.

I’m sure all these words and meanings ring a bell. We’ve all been there. From our infancy on, we’ve been attracted to or felt a pressing need for something which we could not do without. It’s been the history of most human lives, especially in these modern times.

Because of the qualities of our egos’ neediness, our entire world society can play upon our weaknesses. Advertising agencies thrive on it. Businesses bank on it. The media squeezes every detail out of the news for ratings and sensationalism. The money flows whether we have it or not, bank accounts suffer, relationships fail, our psychosis’ keeps psychiatrist’s offices busy, and billboards keep blaring what we should have and really need, in order to be happy.

Another aspect of glamorization has to do with physical appearances, groups, religions, races, places, ideas, intelligence, knowledge or any other subject related to humanity. If you aren’t “there” you’re square or worse, you’re “out” and others are “in” (so to speak). It’s the fodder for ostracism, hazing, and bigotry. This also has shown itself to be dangerous throughout time when utilized by narcissistic megalomaniacs.

One of the worst forms of glamorization is that of the spiritual. The circus of the metaphysical and the paranormal have seduced people for thousands of years. People love to sit on the edge of their seat, while fortunetellers, psychics and false sages spin tales of intrigue, mystery, and generic wisdom. Sorry to disappoint, but most of it isn’t true and the rest aren’t interested in the journey to enlightenment. These are avenues which will sidetrack the dedicated path for eons and lifetimes. It’s the ego’s curiosity and unquenching thirst for the illusory and imaginary. It’s a path which will not lead to enlightenment, but it may lead to blockbusters at the box office. There’s the glamorization again.

Once we are seduced, the ability to go back to the smaller needs of before is nearly impossible. Because we have been trained and programmed from birth to need something, all it takes for our neediness to grow is time. As we grow older, needs tend to get bigger, seemingly more urgent, and more expensive. Although mid life has the tendency to slow these needs down, as the body grows older our health becomes the most pressing issue. Our individual personalities, consciousness levels, and other societal factors tend to preclude our ability to resist these persistent needs.

The problem lies within our attachment and/or addiction to the neediness. As our level of consciousness progresses we gain the capability of seeing the illusion of glamour and the glamorization of society. By stepping back into the context of our existence we become the witness to the frivolity. When we practice non-attachment, we are able to enjoy the fruits of our labor, the niceties of life, and luxuries, within the parameter of our capabilities, without the suffering, attachment, addiction, and neediness which society imposes upon us with voracity.

Since we are concerned with enlightenment, and the road to that state, the consideration of glamour has to be addressed because we are living in a modern-day society. Many of us who have made the commitment to the Devotion to Divinity, are not apt to sit out the rest of our lives in monasteries or caves. Although the state of enlightenment precludes neediness, we have to be aware of the seductions that our daily lives will throw at us. Perhaps when we have reached that state, all worldly goods and unimportant ideas will become entirely meaningless, and those who know and love us, will tend to our needs until we leave this earthly existence. If not, so what?

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I receive e mails from various sites I like to hear from to see what’s new regarding today’s spirituality. I have selectively narrowed my e mails to a few authors. I’ve found an increase in the complexity of what’s being said around the spiritual globe, and the increasing egoistic positionalities. All kinds of new “catch” phrases are being thrown around and I’m not certain I understand what the authors are trying to say. With daily practices, my life is getting simpler (spiritually speaking). If I were new to this path, I could get pretty confused about the languaging and opinions out there.

If some of the explanations being used to explain enlightenment and that path are confusing, it is because writing about that state is difficult at best. Enlightenment is subjectively experiential. It is only through teachers such as Dr. David R. Hawkins, that we now have a modern day, comprehensible, and illuminating understanding of the state of enlightenment.

Much of today’s verbiage borders on distortion based on misleading subjective experiences. Unless True enlightenment is being discussed from that state, trying to identify, describe, or elaborate on the subject, can become a mass of meaningless words, leading to total confusion.

Discourses on relative Absolute Truth are not Truth at all. This can lead to great stories, which are only relative to the storyteller’s positionalities. Ones’ level of consciousness may also preclude them from getting True responses. Humans are not born with the capacity to discern Truth from non-truth. Consciousness Research is one of the gauges we have now to affirm Truth. Another is when the Buddhic (third eye) opens to connect the spirit to the “The Infinite Field of Knowledge,” which is another aspect of Divinity.

The best way to attempt to describe (for those who need explanations for) that which is ineffable, is to keep it simple. What does it feel like to realize Ultimate Universal Absolute Truth? No one says it better than my teacher, Dr. Hawkins on page 305 of, “Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, The Stairway to Enlightenment.” He speaks of all illusions, including the self being surrendered. The rest is perfect in its’ simplicity and all further explanations I defer to him.

Note: Absolute Truth, Enlightenment, AK and Consciousness Research are just a part of this path. Any questions or confusion can be eliminated, by merely being reverent to all life, having the highest intentions always, eliminating all positionalities, and taking the highest personal form of responsibility for being here, while studying and staying the course.

Pre-Kushana Ayagapatta from Mathura Jainism (pronounced in English as /ˈdʒeɪ.nɪzm̩/), traditionally known as Jain Dharma (जैन धर्म), is a religion and philosophy originating in the prehistory of South Asia. Now a minority in modern India with growing communities in the United States, Western Europe, Africa, the Far East and elsewhere, Jains have continued to sustain the ancient Shraman (श्रमण) or ascetic tradition.

Jainism has significantly influenced the religious, ethical, political and economic spheres in India for well over two millennia. Jainism stresses the spiritual independence and equality of all life with a particular emphasis on non-violence. Self-control (व्रत, vrata) is the means by which Jains attain moksha, Keval Gnan, or realization of the soul’s true nature.

A lay Jain is termed a shravak (श्रावक) i.e. a listener. The Jain Sangha (संघ), or order, has four components: monks (साधु), nuns, lay men and lay women.

Overview of Jain Dharma
Jain philosophy is considered a compilation of eternal, universal truths. Over a period of time, these truths may lapse among humanity and then reappear through the teachings of enlightened humans, those who have reached enlightenment or total knowledge (Keval Gnan). Traditionally,in our universe and in our time, Lord Rishabh (ऋषभ or रिषभ) is regarded as the first to realize those truths followed by Lord Parshva (877-777 BCE) and Lord Vardhaman Mahavir (महावीर) (599-527 BCE).

Jainism teaches that every living thing is an individual with an eternal soul, jīva, and responsible for its actions. This teaches the individual to live, think and act with respect and honor the spiritual nature of all life. Jains view God as the unchanging traits of the pure soul of each living being, chiefly described as Infinite Knowledge, Perception, Consciousness, and Happiness (Anant Jnän, Anant Darshan, Anant Chäritra, and Anant Sukh). Jainism does not include a belief in an omnipotent supreme being or creator, but rather in an eternal universe governed by natural laws, the interplay of the attributes (gunas) of matter (dravyas) that make it up.

The primary figures of Jainism are Tirthankars. Jainism has two main divisions: Digambar and Shvetambar. Both believe in ahimsa (or ahinsā), asceticism, karma, samsar, and jiva. Jain scriptures were written over a long period and the most cited scripture is the Tattvartha Sutra, or Book of Reality written by Umasvati (or Umasvami),the monk-scholar, more than 18 centuries ago.

Compassion for all living beings, along with humans, is central to Jainism. It is the only religion that requires both monks and laity, from all its sects and traditions, to be vegetarian. In regions of India with a strong Jain influence, often the majority of the local non Jain population is also vegetarian. In many towns, Jains run animal shelters, e.g. a bird hospital in Delhi is run by a Jain temple. Historians believe that various strains of Hinduism became vegetarian due to a strong Jainism and Buddhism influence.

Jain layman worshipping at the temple at Ranka