The word "Religion" comes from the Latin, to bind us back to our Divine origin. This is what all religions on the deepest level is supposed to do, bring us back to ourselves, this in turn will bring us back to humanity!
There are essentially two types of human beings: those who are on the outward path, and those who are on the inward path. A person following the outward path looks away from Bindu [known by another name in Judaism's Kabbalah as Binah] towards the outside world. He is almost entirely motivated by external events. This is the path of most people, and it leads away from self-knowledge and into bondage.
The other path, the reverse path is the spiritual path, the path of wisdom. On this path, the person begins to face the Bindu, turning inwards towards the source of being. This path leads to freedom. The path of evolution is the outward path of manifestation and extroversion. The path of involution leads back along the path that has produced your individual being. It leads back to the Bindu to Sahasrara. In fact, the whole purpose of yoga practice is to help direct your awareness along the involutionary path. -Excerpt from Kundalini Tantra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
"It represents the point in the soul’s evolution when it attains immortality. Through the ascension, the soul merges with the I AM Presence and returns to the Father-Mother God, free from the rounds of karma and reincarnation. This process of returning to the source is recognized throughout the world's major religions, although the terminology used to describe it may differ."-Elizabeth Clare Prophet-
Elizabeth Clare Prophet if you don't know was a New Age spiritual leader. She and her husband started the church of the Summit Lighthouse. At first, they belonged to the Great White Brotherhood, a New Age religious organization. Then broke away and started their own organization. She and her husband wrote a large volume book on Soul Mates and Twin Flames on the spiritual dimension of relationships. Elizabeth Clare Prophet wrote a much smaller sized book on the subject.
The Great and Universal White Brotherhood based much of their wisdom on the esoteric wisdom of all the major religions, as well as the Summit Lighthouse.
The esoteric part of all the major religions are a much different concept to their mainstream counterpart. This is much due to the deep understanding of the soul. Mainstream religion focuses on our ego in relation to society, and worships a God outside of us. While their esoteric counterparts get in touch with the soul inside of us, whom is deeply connected to a God that transcends the mainstream God.
Back to ascension: All of the esoteric wisdom talk of uniting our limited ego and spiritual soul-this is where our human nature merges with our spiritual soul, which is absolutely connected to the Beloved force outside of us. This is ascension. The ascended masters as well have reached this level. Elizabeth Clare Prophet uses her own words for this process, but it is based on the esoteric wisdom of religion.
Ascension is done on our own with the help of our true soul mates, who wake us up to our spiritual soul. When we reunite with our twin flame, we ascend even further.
This is ascension. Are you ready to do the work that is involved?
I can't promise you; you are with or going to meet your Twin Flame. No one can, because that is a sacred bond between your soul.But I can offer you, a model of the authentic soul connection experience.
My books, courses, and consultations prepare you for an authentic soul connection.
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There are essentially two types of human beings: those who are on the outward path, and those who are on the inward path. A person following the outward path looks away from Bindu [known by other names such as Shekhinah, Sophia] towards the outside world. He is almost entirely motivated by external events. This is the path of most people, and it leads away from self-knowledge and into bondage.
The other path, the reverse path is the spiritual path, the path of wisdom. On this path, the person begins to face the Bindu, turning inwards towards the source of being. This path leads to freedom. The path of evolution is the outward path of manifestation and extroversion. The path of involution leads back along the path that has produced your individual being. It leads back to the Bindu to Sahasrara. In fact, the whole purpose of yoga practice is to help direct your awareness along the involutionary path. -Excerpt from Kundalini Tantra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
The path leading toward authentic Twin Flames is the inward path. If you are not on an inward path, you are following an age- old system that does not adhere to soul connections.
Do You Believe The Brain Is An Organ And Needs To Be Medically Fixed? Or The Mind Is Complex And Needs To Be Understood?
Some people exercise, while others engage in intense workouts. For the past 38 years, I have been deeply committed to fitness and intensely workout. I owned a personal training business, triumphed in bodybuilding competitions, and teach yoga. I maintain a healthy diet and never take my health for granted. However, my physical well-being did not compensate for my mental and emotional challenges. My robust health could not offset the trauma and turmoil I experienced. Serena Jade On Loving Your Body — With that said —
A few years ago, I watched Andrew Solomon, a writer who focuses on politics, culture, and psychology, deliver a TED talk on depression.
In the comment box, I wrote: “Great talk… Is medication the answer? In my experience, no! My dysfunctional upbringing was the cause, and depression was the effect. I have spent years reversing the impact of my unhealthy childhood.”
I appreciated the part in the speech where Andrew mentions, “you relapse and relapse.”
Depression is an important part of healing, because it is telling you issues that were once repressed are coming to the surface and must be brought into one’s conscious mind. Medication will rob you of this precious gift!
In response to the medication issue I expressed, many become defensive when medication is perceived as a weakness. However, that’s not my point. My argument is that transformation requires us to connect with our pain, to comprehend its message. Medication, on the other hand, deprives us of this pain.
We have a tendency to say everything is okay, when the pain is not there. Medication is a mask covering the pain.
Just Like, if your back hurts, your body is telling you something is wrong and needs attention.
Our mind is the same, the pain is telling us something is wrong and needs your attention. However, the answer is not right in front of us. That is where therapy and doing one’s homework can and will, transform the unhealthy mindset, and after years will bring you a serene mind!
I received another response: The person says, I agree in part, but what if it is a chemical problem?
I answer: I feel if doctors viewed my brain years ago, they would have viewed a very different brain than what my brain looks like today. A different state of mind changes the molecules in your brain.
If one goes into the psychotic phase, one needs medication. However, how many of us are going into the psychotic phase?
I came across an article I saved from 15-years ago it says, “Our society’s medical insurance and how pharmaceutical companies attack Freud and Jung, and say we don’t need therapy anymore, and that therapy doesn’t do any good.
Just take these pills.
The whole advance in psychology, all that is thrown away and you simply give people pills for their depression.”
No one could have told me that taking pills years ago would transform me. The pain and my determination to understand myself bestowed upon me the greatest gift: I sculpted myself into a complete individual with a tranquil mind.
“The inner light, the mind, never conflicts with the brain, and is not the brain. The mind and the brain are to be observed as the inner and outer, the metaphysical and physical aspects of the brain.” -Rabbi Berg
Over the past 150 years, our society has witnessed significant advancements in understanding the mind and brain. Psychiatry and psychoanalysis have both evolved considerably. Yet, there remains a stark dichotomy between them.
Psychiatry And The Brain
While psychiatry is derived from the concept of healing the soul, contemporary perspectives often exclude the soul — and even the ego — from consideration. Today’s focus lies predominantly on neuroscience, psychology, biology, and brain chemistry, rather than on the concept of the mind itself.
Contemporary psychiatry suggests that if the brain’s wiring is flawed, resulting in chemical imbalances, these must be corrected medically. This perspective implies that self-awareness is unattainable, emphasizing the need for medical intervention to ‘fix’ the brain.
Psychoanalysis And The Mind
Psychoanalysis involves conscious thoughts, unconscious thoughts, emotions, defense mechanisms, and the soul. Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, aimed to increase self-awareness and reduce societal repression.
Do you stand for the Brain is an organ and needs to be medically fixed? Or the mind is complex and needs to be understood?
This past weekend, I viewed the Japanese remake of The Ghost in the Shell. A SciFi film, The Ghost in the Shell focuses on preserving the brain, then encasing the brain in a mechanical human like body. The story wants you to think, if the brain survives then the essence of the person is still there, even in a mechanical shell. It's a movie, and its hard to capture the intangible, but the brain is the steering wheel for the human shell-the body. The mind is intangible, and is the essence of one's ego and soul!
"Travel down the abyss of your mind and discover your eternal soul!"-Serena Jade True Soul Mates "see" one another down within the mind in their shell! Do you recognize your body as a shell?
Recently, I read an article about marriage. As I was reading the comments, most people say a great relationship is based on mutual respect, common goals and love.
I ask you: Do you think we are living these values?
It is easy to say mutual respect but to have mutual respect means both people have to be autonomous-that means free from outside influence.
If most people are following along with their family and friends, they are not autonomous. Most marriages, if not all are based on the common goal of family and children, and not a common goal of the two individuals!
Now, we have love-the grand elusive word. However, connecting with someone at the heart is very profound because we are on bridge that connects our personality with our soul.
When we connect personally with our soul, we will connect with someone at the heart level. Now, we are a real lover as opposed to an actor! But, this takes a tremendous amount of understanding of one's self.
Are you ready to stop the fantasy bond about the traditional marriage?
"Self-Knowledge is the Jewel."-Serena Jade Bringing unconscious wisdom to the world... www.serenajade.co
I was broken into submission by my mother at a very young age. I didn't have the freedom to separate from my mother like most people.
However, living in the free world gave me the freedom to understand the dysfunction I was brought up with. In so doing, I became aware that our society mates for unconscious survival needs. Emotionally, we are still living in the 13th century, when it comes to coupling!
We have so many freedoms in the west, where one can live on their own and understand and transform into a whole human being. When we become whole, we can live happily ever after!
Neo-Platonism that transpired in the early centuries of this Common Era and was revived in the European Renaissance believed human perfection and happiness were attainable in this world, without awaiting an afterlife. They knew self-knowledge was the key to achieve heaven on earth! However, they were not living in a free world, but we are!
Why are you not taking advantage of our freedom?
"Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge."-Serena Jade www.serenajade.co
In his book, Jung and the New Age, Professor David Tacey states: "It is Jung's belief that the human ego (Personality) must voluntarily serve and attend a larger spiritual mystery. This is in contrast to the widespread popular belief that the spiritual mystery must serve and attend the needs of the ego." In my experience, people who say they are "Spiritual" are just following along and living a conventional life. Their egos have attained a certain amount of stability and now they want to capitalize on the new spiritual mindset that has been developing for some years now!
In this inauthentic age, the soul is just an avenue to meet their own needs; this is narcissistic!
Years ago, I attended a lecture on the Kabbalah and the Rabbi said it all: People think that relaxation is being spiritual. "To live authentically true to one's soul is following unseen passion and wisdom that doesn't adhere to society's rules."-Serena Jade
The purpose of the ego is to express the soul. After many years, the ego has attained authentic stability, has personal power and becomes autonomous! The ego now can serve their spiritual soul as their authentic self is born- the incarnation of the human with the Divine!
We live in a world, where our rational ego minds dominate. What if we lived in accordance with our intuitive mind? What would that look like?
Our rational mind says, we need to abide by the extroverted rules of our social order. We are ruled by our five senses. What we see, hear, touch, taste and smell is the law.
Very logical, objective thought is accepted and never questioned. If one deviates from "the law" and lives by an inner knowing, they are thought to be crazy. Fear, sets in for the people around this person as that person is reflecting fear in the other.
Living in conjunction with our intuitive mind, opens our lives to an infinite number of possibilities. To be intuitive is to have a sense to look within and pay attention to the information, that is not logical!
"Our rational mind is finite, our intuitive mind is infinite."-Serena Jade
Are you ready to take a journey to connect your intuitive mind with your rational mind?
I was walking on the boardwalk in Long Beach, New York on a hazy, hot and humid day two years ago. I was listening to a friend's Ipod and the Moody Blues song, The Other Side of Life began to play.
The song was released in 1986 and I am sure, I have listened to it many times before. But, on that July day, absorbed in my favorite east coast weather, weeks before, I would make my move to California and cross the threshold, the words deeply resonated with me!
The risk the lovers and fighters take, are on the other side. For me, that meant separating from my narcissistic mother so , I could be my own person. As the song goes, you know the only way to get there is to take the very difficult first step. I took that step and the arduous journey on the other side was necessary to ready myself for my deepest love!
Are you wiling to take a risk and investigate the other side of life?
"Self-Knowledge is the Jewel."-Serena Jade Do you have Self-Discipline to bring your unconscious, conscious? www.serenajade.co
Two weeks ago, I was watching the TV show Blackbox. I was appalled at what the writer's put out in the world. Blackbox is about a woman who is bipolar. The woman's psychotherapist tells her to forget the past and focus on the now.
OH MY GOD...I COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I WAS HEARING.HOWEVER, I DID HAVE A REALIZATION.
"There is a big difference between thinking vs. understanding one's past."-Serena Jade
If I did not understand my past, I know for a fact I would be dead right now!
Most of us think, forget the past, what is the past going to do for me now?
Thinking about the past is not going to do anything. But, understanding will transform your present and future as opposed to recreating the past!
A wedding in our culture is a beautiful event. However, is it celebrating a relationship built on solid ground?
If you were to build a house; you would lay the foundation and then pour the concrete to form a strong structure. Then the walls can go up and a roof is put on. The floors and windows are put in to create the home, where you can now have fun and decorate the sacred space!
So, the decoration is the last fun step. A relationship should be the same; first you lay down a foundation. Two people understand their past and transform their childhood wounds.
They pour the concrete by coming together to create a healthy supportive relationship. Now, they are ready to decorate their bond, by having a ceremony to celebrate their creation of self to the relationship!
"In our society, we put tremendous amount of effort for the wedding as opposed to putting that energy into building a strong and beautiful relationship, first to the self and then to the other."-Serena Jade
Don't you want a solid structure before you start to decorate?
If you are a regular reader of mine, thank you. You know, I discuss one's security, sharing one's body and money as opposed to using another and to own one's power for a functional self.
Functional parents will provide their members with the above in a healthy manner. A dysfunctional family will not, the parents don't have the knowledge to provide in a healthy way.
Functional parents will provide emotional security, will role-model equal sharing of sex and money and will demonstrate equal power. "Equal power means one person doesn't control both people but are two independent humans!"-Serena Jade
When functional parents exude the issues of a healthy survival system, the members are ready for the ultimate jump in our evolution!
The person can relate to dependency and independency thus becomes interdependent. There is sharing of empathy with another and the person can be a true lover as opposed to acting the part.
What does sharing empathy mean?
This means neither are identified with being dependent nor co-dependent. They are interdependent and they take into consideration being in the other person's shoes. They are in tune with the other person's feelings and problems.
The co-dependent is the caretaker and the dependent is dependent on the other person. The dependent doesn't have the insight into the other person's feelings or problems.
An example: What if one person is having financial problems, the dependent person is not in tune with the feelings of what the other person is going through. Now, if both people are interdependent, they will know what the other person is going through.
This is just an example and can be applied to any situation. The couple transforms into true lovers as opposed to acting the part of a lover!
In the west ,we live in a secular society. Joseph Campbell, the world's expert on comparative religion said,"Our culture has gone into an economic and political phase, where the spiritual principles are completely disregarded."
Over the years, I have witnessed our secular social order, just follow along with their inherited family's religion. If parents, do not adhere to the religious system, than why do we continue?
We continue because we don't stand either way. If we have strong convictions, we will stand up to them. Like Joseph Campbell said, our society is purely economical and political.
We lost a sense of mystery to the cosmos. People will say they are more spiritual than religious. But what does this mean and can we bring up our kids to be more spiritual?
I have a profound saying," To be religious is to have an obligation to a particular religion but to be truly spiritual is to have a commitment to your soul."-Serena Jade
Can you let go of the religion you were born into?
If so, can you get in touch with the mystery in relation to yourself and the cosmos?
All of us ask a question when we form a relationship. The questions are: What can the other person do for me? or What can I do for the other person? The questions involve sex, money and procreation.
Can we transcend these questions? How do we do it?
Both of these questions create the exploiter and the martyr. One person manipulates and the other feels guilt.
To go beyond this mindset, we honor the other person. "We can say, I would like that mate in exchange for sharing our bodies for sex and to share our money resources for the mundane and for a higher purpose."-Serena Jade
"When we honor one another, we create abundance and fulfillment."-Serena Jade
However, in order to share we need to be able to share without losingour own power (independence).
I don't want to sit at the head of the table I don't need to be lord of the house All I'm asking for is you and I to be lovers The above lyrics are from You Belong to You, a new song by Johnny Hates Jazz.
Observe our world and you will notice MOST relationships and must likely all, are on a parent to a child level. One person wants control over the other (The Parent). The other is more than likely to obey (child).
Only until we become conscious of this dynamic, will it change. It takes a well-developed man to be an equal with their lover. It takes a well-developed woman to be an equal with their man.
Until this imbalance is resolved, a soul mate will be beyond your reach. Click on the link below to view the profound lyrics to another new Johnny Hates Jazz song... The Soul Mate Prep Blog: The Soul Mate Prep Blog#33: Do you want to hear a...: I can see it in your eyes you're a spirit I recognize feelings I can't explain and I don't even know your name Do we only ...
Are you ready to resolve the parent and child relationship?
"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."-Stephen R. Covey The author of 7 Habits ofHighly Effective People, Mr. Covey, touched on the very essence of a soul mate/Twin Flame connection.
"When we become conscious of our soul's mates and or twin flame, we will be in the presence of a holy deity."-Serena Jade
"This extraordinary encounter makes me feel
as if I have just arrived at a temple. I have been given access to the Divine. As
I enter the room where the holy of holies resides, I can feel the spark of the Almighty
deep within her. Her intense vibrant force makes me want to cry, and I am
struck by the realization of how very close to her I am."-Excerpt from Charismatic Connection
The above paragraph is taken from my book, CharismaticConnection. I am putting into words what Chris Antley and I experienced. Chris was the high priest and only the high clergy has access to the holy of holies.
"Only our soul has access to the holy of holies of another."- Serena Jade -However, our lower nature must be in accord with the spiritual God or Goddess before us.
Are you ready to work on your lower nature (Personality)?
