Proof of Something Greater and The Eternal Search For Meaning

New age ideas, like religion, can become boundaries that restrict us when we use them as validation tools rather than methods of expanding our perception. Using religion as an excuse to permit or condemn certain actions often ignores the reason for placing judgement over those actions in the first place. People do things "in the name of" religion, faith, trust, or even belief that these actions are right and others are wrong. But the ironic thing is that this sense of righteousness is the cause of conflict — each "group" believes their worldview is "right", and therefore we have a clash of differing beliefs and perceptions.

Fluid Perception

To be spiritual in the truest sense, to have faith in the truest sense, does NOT mean being attached to one idea of "right" while cancelling out all other perceptions as "wrong".

The place that spiritual development goes wrong

The current level of consciousness in our world seems to conflict with the paradigm of different levels of awareness. It is not so clear and apparent all the time that we all use social standards to compare and contrast behaviour — but if we step back from that it becomes apparent that this perception is not fluid at all, it is quite fixed rather.

In fact the modern worldview is often based on reinforcing a sense of being "right". So what happens a lot of the time with spiritual development is a person transfers their same validation process of the world onto new ideas about the world. To question our current consciousness and to find out that it might not be "right" is also the same as asking "what is right then, if not this?"

But does there have to be a "right"?

Can perception be fluid without those fixed notions?

How Scepticism Can Pull You Under

Being too sceptical tends to affect how often we validate our experiences against what we want to be acceptable and what we are willing to live with. For example, take a look at this picture:

It looks like pages in a book or pieces of paper in a file, if it has to be categorised as a specific single object, or part of an object. However a person who keeps attempting to fit all the possibilities in the world into tight categories also tends to limit themselves in how wide their perception can go.

How Open-Mindedness Can Fool You

Imagine on the other hand that the picture above is a close-up photo of a brush, or something else altogether. There is no method to be sure about the meaning of life and existence when the context of life can be expanded forever. Like the picture above, if we step back we might see the title of the file or the bottom of the brush, if we step back further we might see the table it on and where it is located and so forth. It keeps gaining more meaning, the further we step back, forever.

Our perspective expands when we step back and consider what else there is apart from our initial reaction to categorise something.

On the other hand stepping back to often can cause confusion. It is often the beliefs that we hold so righteous that come apart when we step back from them. Yet looking past them all the time can make the obvious impossible to see.

The Kingdom of Heaven Exists Inside You

The search for greater meaning should not be based on validation. As human beings we are in a constant process of stepping back, then reinforcing beliefs, then stepping back again to have new experiences to integrate with those beliefs, and so forth. But sometimes we get stuck in the process of reinforcing beliefs. So instead of searching for meaning sometimes we almost go on a vendetta to prove or disprove something — when in fact we're just attempting to prove or disprove the belief that we place there in the first place.

The greater meaning that awaits within awaits in a place that can be seen when a person steps back from their beliefs. Not through their attempts to perceive that meaning through their existing beliefs and validations of a "right mode" of living.

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