33. Why there is no quick-fix

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the book The Least You Should Know About Life.

Over the past several decades, as the increase in self-help has grown, many people have started using a self-help or spiritual technique, often spurred on by lofty promises of fast and dramatic changes to their lives. Many of these people have reached a point of feeling that they were fed empty promises because the promised changes did not manifest or did not manifest as quickly as expected. What can explain this lack of results? Only one thing, namely the understanding that before your outer situation can change, you must truly purify all levels of your mind from the imperfect energies and incorrect beliefs that have accumulated there. These energies and beliefs did not appear overnight, which explains why they cannot be overcome in a short period of time.

If you are to be successful in applying the teachings in this book – or any self-help or spiritual philosophy – you simply MUST develop a long-term perspective. There truly is a way out of human limitations, but there is no quick and easy way out. Thus, if you fall prey to those who promise an easy way out, you are setting yourself up for a disappointment that can cause you to give up on the spiritual path just before you would have seen major results. This is not to say that you will not have results within a short period of time. Many people experience some results almost immediately but then go into a phase where it seems like the results require more work. You will make it through this phase only when you have a realistic assessment of what it takes to anchor yourself firmly on the path.

Incidentally, by acquiring a long-term perspective, you will also be able to answer one of the fundamental questions of life, a question that neither materialistic science nor traditional Christianity can answer. The essence of this question is why there seems to be such injustice in the world and why God seems to favor some people and condemn others to a life of suffering. For example, some children are born with immense physical or psychological handicaps while others are born with more than they need. Some people always strive to do the right thing, but they still get a terminal illness while others violate the laws of both God and man yet – or so it seems – get away with it.

Science has no answer other than saying life is a game of chance, and Christianity has no answer other than saying it is God’s will and that the Lord works in mysterious ways. Yet a logical answer is available by contemplating the consequences of the fact that you are a spiritual being that can exist independently of the physical body. You were created in the spiritual realm and the Conscious You then descended into your physical body. As a vehicle for acting in the material world and as an interface between the Conscious You and the physical body, your identity body, your mental body and your emotional body was created. Most spiritual teachings on the planet say that your being, can survive the death of the physical body and continue an existence in the spiritual realm. Yet logically, there is no reason why your being could not have existed in the spiritual realm before you descended into your physical body.

This leads to the logical conclusion that – over time – your conscious self has descended into more than one physical body, meaning that your journey on planet Earth goes back hundreds or thousands of years. This explains both of the questions raised above. If you have incarnated many times in various situations, you have used your co-creative abilities to set in motion certain causes, and in this lifetime you are experiencing the effects. This is what Eastern religions call karma, and it is simply the return of an energy impulse that was sent out by you in a previous lifetime. Einstein thought the space-time continuum forms a closed loop so that if you keep traveling in the same direction, you will eventually return to your starting point from the opposite direction. Thus, science seems to have confirmed what Jesus expressed when he told people to do unto others as they want others to do to them. What you do to others will eventually come back to you because the cosmic mirror will return to you what you send out

If a child is born with an illness, the cause of that illness was created by the person in previous lifetimes. While this might seem harsh, it is an empowering concept. If the child’s illness was the result of a game of chance or the will of an unjust God, there would be no way for the child to ever improve its life. Yet if the situation is the result of choices made by the child in a previous lifetime, then the person can change the causes that were set in motion and thereby overcome the adverse effects.

This also explains why it can take some time before you see major results from your efforts to improve your life by working with your mind. You can now see that in order to completely purify the levels of your mind, you must also resolve the limitations created in past lifetimes. It is not realistic to expect that imperfect energies and beliefs created over many lifetimes can be whisked away in a short period of time.

34. How the past becomes prologue

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