Energetic literacy reveals Enlightenment to anyone who can read chakra databanks — the type of aura reading with Stage Three Energetic Literacy.

Our challenge, living today, is that so few people have attained Enlightenment. Today’s Guest Post by JILL aims to help us move there, live there, with full self-authority.

Blog-Buddy JIM’S Comment 3 at Enlightenment and the Astral began this thread, and JILL has responded with this wonderful guest post. (Headings added by me, ROSE.)

Thank you for this very well thought out question.

In your analogy of the birth process there are a couple of elements that can be used to describe enlightenment.

To the Enlightened, which is the dream?

First, enlightenment is a resting in your true identity which does not take thought or planning. Your true identity is so “natural” that it makes everything in this world seem more like the dream state than “real”.

When you are resting in your true Self, you are also “communicating” with the True Self of everyone else.

Even saying “everyone else” feels a little foreign.

Conscious thought comes from your ego, which is designed to fail by its very nature. You may appear to be winning or losing for a time, but it will all cycle back on itself eventually. And, there will be a constant sense of striving that feels unfinished and a little fearful.

However, the ego is so loud and forceful that it sometimes needs to be given a toy to play with to distract it and get it out of the way.

That is what the Zen Koans do. I think all systems designed to position you for enlightenment have this element of attracting the ego to a set point so you, eventually, “hear” your true voice.

Self-Authority on your path to Enlightenment

Our True Self has brilliantly designed many different systems for accomplishing the distraction and quieting of the ego, and gradual amplification of that True Voice. The ones that worked for me may not work as well for you.

We each find our own way. Some find it by a “lucky” happenstance, like Eckhart Tolle’s seeming random thought as he was about to commit suicide.

JIM, your analogy of the discomfort that causes us to take a breath and find relief is a good one. It is usually a discomfort with our life here that causes us to seek another way – something.

We may not even know what it is we are seeking, but we just know there must be something that will make sense of all this.

It is when that discomfort is the focus of our seeking that we go wrong.

That is what I was addressing in this particular post. When just escaping the discomfort is the primary goal of our “methods,” then we stay caught up in the ego’s loop of chasing an illusory safety and comfort for the “life” of the body in some way.

We seek comfort and romance and success according to our bodily needs. Even when we seem to be seeking enlightenment, there will be that subtle hint of ego gratification involved that keeps it just out of reach, and keeps us reaching into our wallets again and again. It’s a very subtle thing. I got into that last loop, that is why I can speak to that.

Planning for Enlightenment

Planning, Jim, is a fine way to position yourself for enlightenment. But, the planning must be of the sort that is designed to distract the ego, or tear down every one of your ideas about reality so your True Self can step in and be heard to show you what is Really Real.

The ego, being the clever thing that it is, needs to be bypassed altogether.

To play around with any shiny toy that promises safety, riches, knowledge or comfort in a worldly sense is only going to end up sending you in circles around the ego. And, the ego loves to be circled around.

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