Evolving To Become The Super Self

With seemingly countless therapies available to the "seeker of the self", and thousands, if not millions, of books dedicated to the subject of self-help, we live in an age where personal development is big business. Undoubtedly, it is a natural progression according to Maslowes' hierarchy of needs, and it fits with our innate evolutionary drive to explore. Having arrived at this new age of discovery both for the individual and the mass, we are undoubtedly going somewhere we have never until now, really allowed ourselves to go before - deeply inward.

Until of late humans have been externally driven, striving to control their external circumstances to survive. We have done this, perhaps too well, or equally, not well enough depending on your point of view. But what cannot be denied is that our efforts have all been for the sole purpose of one thing: to abate our fear, doing all that we can to feel more secure, more in control.

The irony is of course, personally, individually and collectively, we aren't really feeling in control, and deep down we all know that security is an illusion that we have settled for and work hard to maintain. Regardless of how much one might personally accumulate, it is never enough, greed only begets the same, and of course once one has accumulated so much, there is the problem of securing those ‘securities', causing more anxiety, more fear.

The mind is driven by fear and is mostly always busy looking for trouble. If it is not analysing things, judging things, planning things, worrying about things, preoccupied with trying to control the outcome of things, it is repeating troubling thoughts over and again compounding their effect on us, and orientating us to become negatively fixated both outwardly and inwardly. It means well, but it is having the opposite effect. It is no wonder we are searching for relief, and having been disappointed that we haven't found it outside of ourselves, we have nowhere to go but within.

It was once thought that all roads led to Rome. That may once have been true, but what has always been true and always will be true is that all things are born of the mind. And if we are to truly find the self that we are all, in one way or another, seeking to find, then we have no choice but to overcome the negative aspects of the mind that has served us only too well. We must learn to develop a mind that is not oriented by fear, or the need to control. Fear is a primal instinct and it has served us well, it has brought us to this place. But we have outgrown its need to dominate us.

As a species we have approached an evolutionary fork in the road. Some are and will undoubtedly continue along the path of fear and will consequently (I suspect) terminate, or at best remain a ‘backward' species in the evolutionary chain. For those who chose the other path, they will transcend what we now are, becoming liberated from the shackles of a fear driven existence.

The question of course is what does the other path, the assumed ‘higher' path lead to? There is only one antidote to fear. It is love, peace, joy, compassion, allowing. When the mind is developed to become oriented to love and all its equivalent expressions, it becomes transformed and the process of self-actualisation is its natural outcome. For true love of course must first be experienced as self love before it can ever be extended to and experienced beyond the self.

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