SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
by James W. Patterson, Ph.D.
Contrary to what we might otherwise think, and what most religions suggest... the movement back to God is not a gentle walk up a garden path, or something that begins at one's death, and certainly not something one can accomplish by intellectual means. At least for those individuals with whom I have spoken who have been initiated by a Perfect Living Master. They say that life is anything but gentle, or easy, or even mostly pleasant.
They remind us that all mystics and saints have repeatedly said that this plane is a veil of tears. They also tell us that we create much more Karma in each life than we are able to pay off, therefore, we accumulate stored or "Sinshit" Karma. They say we have mountains of such Karma... which would ordinarily mean lifetimes of it. But, with Grace, and when the time is right.... when the Chela is "ready", he/she meets a Master. And, upon initiation, the Master takes-on the administration of one's Karma. That is the "Official" beginning of one's Spiritual Transformation.
Spiritual Transformation involves an elevation of one's Apapsyche, and this awakens Knowledge from within oneself. This "Knowledge" is the result of ones completing Karma. As one completes some bit of Karma, a unique and fascinating collection of Esoteric dimensions within oneself does its thing... I refer to this as Esotransmutation, and this "process" converts completed Karma into Knowledge and Empathetic Understanding, and this is returned to ones Apspyche per se. When one needs a bit of this Knowledge [assuming one has "earned" it] this bit is presented to one via ones intuition. This unique phenomenon is no more known in the West than is the faculty of intuition itself.
Each bit of Knowledge [intuition] one awakens to subtly alters ones perception of the illusion of life. The reason is that what one intuits is Truth as a whole concept, and this automatically replaces the relative truth that one previously held. And there is just a tinge of embarrassment each time this happens. As you become more aware of the many ways in which your MIND is dishonest [more that it deals in relative truths], you cannot help but be embarrassed and humiliated. Of course you needn't tell anyone what you are discovering about yourself, but the need to share what you are discovering is pretty strong... if for no other reason than to receive feedback that you are not going crazy. This is only one reason to search out other people actively following a Spiritual path. As lonely strangers in a strange land [whose insights and intuited awareness are either scorned or actively hated], we need support and the familiarity of others experiencing the same strange insights and discoveries. Few possess Esoteric Knowledge, and those who do "Know" those who share this same Knowledge.... via resonant "empathic" Understanding.
In my thirty years as a "psychotherapist" [I now refer to myself by the term Esochologist, because this more precisely describes what I was doing then, and when needed, now]. Most of my clients came to me seeking help with various states of confusion. For them, their confusion was very distrubing and produced considerable anxiety. For me, I intuitively used empathic communication to discover what specific misperception [bit of dissociated Apapsyche in the form of a misperception] whose time it was to be released by that person's MIND, but their MIND, due to habit of repression, refused to release that "bit". The point of studying and discovering Esocholoogy within oneself is to be prepared to assist such people by using the Virtue of Acceptance to encourage the client's MIND to release the dissociated bit of Apapsyche back to the Apapsyche per se. This is the "key" to competent, efficient, and successful therapy.
The MIND cannot perceive any form of Spiritual energy, and this includes the ApaPsyche. Your brain. likewise, cannot perceive the MIND. So, I helped my clients discover first the pertinent operational restriction of their MINDs [the original reasons for the Misperceptions], and then through DEC [Direct Esoteric Communication] directed to the person's MIND from my own ApaPsyche, the person's MIND responded to release its misperception. Direct Esoteric Communication, or DEC, is a vibratrional communication.... utilizing ones Apapsyche... and this is entirely Esoteric.
As one's Apapsyche per se increases in Knowledge, one's Apapsyche is elevated, and one's Spiritual evolution increases. This is the part of Spiritual Transformation that is the individual Soul's work. Once a certain level is achieved by the Soul, after many lifetimes of struggle, then and only then, does God manifest Himself to a Soul in the form of a God-Man, or Saint, or Perfect Living Master. Upon the Soul's initiation that Master takes over the administration of that Souls Karma. This is the "absolution" that all Souls seek. This signals the Homeward Journey of that Soul, and that Soul has been "saved". Within four lifetimes that Soul will be done with the cycle of birth and death forever. Hopefully within that very lifetime is what such Souls are told.
If this topic is of general interest to you, you might check out your local library for this book: The Path of the Masters: by Julian Johnson. A truly exceptional book.