Spirituality has always been a key aspect of human existence, as it involves seeking meaning and purpose beyond the physical realm. One of the most influential spiritual figures in history is Buddha, who introduced the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. But have we made any spiritual progress since then?
In this article, I'll dive into humanity's spiritual journey since Buddha's era and discuss ways to further evolve our consciousness based on my spiritual journey and my spiritual research into collective consciousness and higher vibrations.
What are Consciousness and Awareness
Consciousness is all about being aware of yourself and thinking about your own existence. It's something only humans have and no computer, no matter how advanced, can match.
Awareness, though, is more about knowing and understanding that something is happening or exists. I see Awareness in a spiritual way, as the level of consciousness a soul has reached. Picture a 12-story building representing different levels (or dimensions) of consciousness in the universe. Someone can take an elevator to explore these floors. If they get off on the 3rd floor and start looking around, their awareness would be at the 3rd level out of the 12 possible levels of consciousness in this scenario.
Alright, let's break this down a bit more for clarity.
Horizontal Awareness refers to how much someone knows about the world around them through their five senses and what science has proven. It's basically what most people experience in their everyday lives.
On the other hand, Vertical or Spiritual Awareness is about how connected someone feels to higher dimensions or vibrations, or at least believes in things beyond the physical senses. This includes concepts like energy, God, prophets, miracles, spiritual guides, kundalini awakening, soul growth, and so on. This type of awareness is often emphasized in religions and spiritual practices.
How does spiritual awareness in Buddha's time compare to today?
When thinking about ancient times with figures like Krishna, Buddha, Lao Tze, and Jesus, it’s clear that their world was way more limited in terms of horizontal awareness compared to ours. Imagine that over 2500 years ago, an average farmer probably never traveled more than a few dozen miles from their village in their entire life. Even many nobles rarely traveled beyond their hometown and the capital, and only a few ventured abroad. Back then, traveling long distances took a lot of time, was expensive, and could be dangerous, so people were pretty isolated. Plus, there was no middle class and no science, so all authoritative information came from sacred religious texts.
Another continent might as well have been another planet since it wasn’t part of the collective knowledge. People thought the Earth was flat and at the center of the universe, and precise timekeeping didn’t exist since clocks as we know them only appeared around 150-200 years ago.
When we look at the Spiritual Awareness of ancient times compared to today, it's clear that while people in the past didn't have much exposure to other cultures or science (limited horizontal awareness), they often had a deeper sense of the unseen world and felt a strong connection to nature which meant better Spiritual Awareness. This connection is evident in the rise of religions and spiritual practices like yoga and other spiritual schools. Nowadays, thanks to technology, we have much more horizontal awareness, but we've become more disconnected from nature and spiritual traditions.
Modern spirituality in the XXI century
Talking about the 21st century, it's pretty clear that our level of horizontal awareness is way beyond what it was in ancient times. If someone from 2500 years ago were to see our world today, they'd probably think they've landed in a paradise and that we're all gods. Our technology today would seem like the miracles described in the Vedas, Bible, Quran, and other ancient texts.
Thinking about Spiritual Awareness nowadays, things get pretty interesting... Back in ancient times, emotions and feelings weren't seen as important; only God's word mattered. Human emotions were thought to be temporary and unreliable. But starting around 300-400 years ago, we began to delve into our emotions more, shifting the focus from God to our inner feelings. As Nietzsche famously said, "God is dead," meaning the focus had moved to human emotions. This change separated the average person from his connection with his soul, God, and the spiritual world, making atheism common—something unthinkable in ancient times.
Our disconnection from nature and the idea of a soul has diminished our spiritual awareness. Focusing more on human emotions than on faith in God has led to a rise in atheism, with many people now seeing science as their personal God. This reliance on science has made many people, including Harvard grads, dismissive of anything not scientifically proven, showing a lack of higher awareness you might expect from such high achievers.
As a civilization, we're disconnected from both higher vibrations and Earth's energies. Modern humans are more energetically and spiritually disconnected, treating science as their ultimate truth and dismissing anything else as nonsense. This disconnection makes spiritual processes like kundalini awakening and kundalini rising harder now than in ancient times.
Concerning Spiritual Awareness, global access to higher education purely based on science has made many people, even those from top institutions quite simple-minded in this regard, seeing things only in black and white. A high IQ doesn't guarantee higher awareness.
On the flip side, global information access means anyone can now explore spiritual knowledge and practices without having to leave their job, which was impossible in ancient times. This widens the gap between atheists and the "spirituals."
Conclusion
So, to sum it up, I think the ancients were more in tune with vertical awareness, while we modern folks are more focused on horizontal awareness.
The tricky part is that even though I separated these ideas to make it clearer, horizontal and spiritual awareness are meant to be interconnected! A truly spiritual person should balance both. In other words, it’s the age-old challenge of juggling the material world and the spiritual one and finding harmony between the two within ourselves.
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You can learn more by reading other posts in this spiritual site that are coming from a very different and fresh angle and based on a very long and personal experience and research, and not from books.
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