All Behaviors Make Sense

In the days when abnormal behavior was believed to be the result of demonic possession, the treatments for such individuals seemed to make perfect sense at the time—for example, feeding people a mixture of sheep manure and wine to get them to “vomit up” the demon—although now they sound barbaric.

This is because beliefs drive behaviors; the examples are endless, millions if not billions of them every day. The belief that cholesterol causes heart disease drives people to behaviors that reduce their cholesterol levels. The belief in the superiority of the Aryan race led to behaviors that exterminated six million Jews. The belief that one is a victim easily leads to behaviors that support this victimization.

A belief can be conscious or unconscious. An unconscious belief that profoundly affects us all is the belief in ego-separation, the concept that your life, my life, everyone’s life, is separated from the life of all other beings and all other things.

For the sake of ego’s survival, this concept powers superiority-related behaviors that are the source of immense pain and suffering: subjugation, division, arrogance, conquest, selfishness, greed, pride, envy, judgment, gluttony, fear, and wrath. People unconsciously act out these superiority-related ego-behaviors every day.

The Answer: Spiritual Awakenings

To become conscious of such behaviors, you must undergo a series of spiritual awakenings, which means raising your spiritual awareness one step at a time. First become conscious of what propels them: the belief that we are isolated and disconnected beings. That belief is the DNA of ego consciousness. But becoming conscious of this belief—which is to say becoming conscious of consciousness itself—this is Spiritual Consciousness.

Then you must become aware of how ego functions inside of you: where it hides, how to look for it, how to recognize it when it appears. Spiritual guidance can help a great deal in this regard. As you become more and more aware, you will experience a deepening in your understanding of others: why people act in selfish, greedy, arrogant, fearful, hurtful, and judgmental ways. Always, these acts result from the belief in our separateness from others. Always, in short, they result from ego. And always, they make sense from a spiritual perspective. In this understanding grows the seeds of acceptance, non-judgment, compassion, charity, benevolence, love, and all things of the Spirit.—of Pure Consciousness. 

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