The ageless wisdom

3. Development of consciousness

Life is a continuous process, which displays consciousness and creates awakening to larger possibilities. Evolution is fundamentally the development of an underlying, divine intent or purpose. Thus there is a meaning or purpose of everything, which is gradually displayed in the evolution of all living beings. It is the immanent qualities of life rendering visible. As life is a constant metamorphosis or transformation of consciousness, the meaning is not to be found in the purpose but in the process itself. Each phase is a purpose itself and at the same time basis of the next transcendence of barriers. The unceasing changeability or dynamic of life is the underlying, indescribable divinity or spiritual reality being expressed. Faith in life is thus a faith in continued awakening, a faith in development of consciousness and realization of what we fundamentally are. Generally the belief in reincarnation and karma is connected with this conception, in the understanding that the human being as a spiritual being will return to the physical world in its continued process of evolution, and that everything we send out will return to us again, so that we in this way can learn and develop.

4. Many levels of reality

The physical reality is just one dimension out of many levels of reality. Besides the outer, material reality there are psychical, mental and spiritual levels, which each in their level have justification and significance. The multi-dimensional reality is coherent and yet still apparently divided. In many New Age relations it is a matter of levels of consciousness, often seven, of which the physical world is the most dense and compact. Openness is often connected with these levels of consciousness, which means that the individual has the possibility to directly perceive and experience the non-physical levels of reality, either through meditative experiences or by virtue of psychical senses, which all people have the possibility to develop, but which are often latent and quite unconscious. Reality is not an unambiguous entity or something absolute, nor is it definitively definable. Reality is excessive and contains infinitely numerous realities, just as it appears in infinitely numerous ways. Truth is neither absolute nor static, but depends on the position and level of the observer. This causes a natural capaciousness towards different points of view and preferences, an acceptance of the multiplicity.