| I listened to an online introduction on evolutionary | | | | just that up until now (in a cycle that is to end |
| spirituality and evolving beyond the ego led by Craig | | | | around December, 2012), the higher self's priority was |
| Hamilton earlier this month (April 2010). Craig is an | | | | to learn through the firsthand experiencing of--how |
| amazing speaker (and seeker) who shared many | | | | can I put it?--the "school of hard knocks." In fact, the |
| insights on evolutionary spirituality and evolving | | | | reason the higher self's plan worked so well was that |
| beyond the ego. This article is second in a series of | | | | the ego mind was not conscious (of the higher self's |
| three. | | | | plan). (You would not remember planning your life |
| In the first article on this topic, Craig shared that | | | | before you were born.) Anyway, I can pretty much |
| despite his 13 years of spiritual work and involvement | | | | promise you the higher self is of the opinion that the |
| in top-rate spiritual gatherings, no real change | | | | ego has been doing its job brilliantly. |
| happened in that profound way he knew was | | | | I suppose you could then blame the higher self, but |
| possible. He was still reacting out of his old patterns | | | | that would be jumping to a false conclusion. When |
| and reverting back to his old self. | | | | you get to know the higher self's priorities and |
| Craig claimed that the ego (the part of ourselves | | | | motivations firsthand, you can't stay angry at it for |
| susceptible to collective, ancestral conditioning) has an | | | | long for you'd be filled with a deep awe and love and |
| agenda opposite to that of the divine. For example, | | | | appreciation for all of creation, a love and appreciation |
| we don't want to change our habits because we | | | | that would not have been possible had it not been |
| don't want to go beyond our comfort zone; we'd | | | | for a "wide range" of experiences on Earth. |
| rather keep things small, familiar and comfortable than | | | | I experienced my awakening not because I had a |
| take a chance on living a transformed life. | | | | conscious intent to evolve beyond my ego--I didn't, |
| Craig said that the idea that radical change can | | | | certainly not in those terms. I was more interested in |
| happen has been pretty much written off, even in | | | | my higher self's perspective. Furthermore, it was in |
| the highest spiritual circles. But in spite of the world's | | | | my higher self's plan to place me in a predicament |
| resignation, deep down he knew something more | | | | where I had no choice but to go within to look for |
| was possible, he knew there was an extraordinary | | | | the answers (there was a good chance I could |
| opportunity available and that this change didn't have | | | | actually find them). I was one of those who knew |
| to take a long time. The answers, he felt, were in | | | | the answers were nowhere to be found in the |
| evolving beyond the ego. | | | | collective conditioning. Really, I just wanted to solve |
| "How do you transcend this powerful motivating | | | | my own problems, and if I could help people with |
| force that has its hands on the steering wheel of | | | | what I discovered then all the better. |
| human experience?" was a question that motivated | | | | I know this is where we're all headed. I also feel we |
| deep inquiry in him and inspired the answer of | | | | are headed for some challenging times ahead, really |
| evolving beyond the ego. | | | | soon. In fact, I just got a timely "alert" in a |
| "There's a part of the self that has nothing to do | | | | newsletter (of channeled material) as I write this |
| with the ego, that doesn't need to be healed, that's | | | | article, April 26. The message was channeled by |
| not stuck, that cares for the greater good but most | | | | Nancy Tate and she said, "...dear ones we see into |
| of the time it's in the back seat," Craig said. "If we | | | | the future of your lives in the next few months and |
| can awaken it and allow it to drive our life we can | | | | we see that you are going to be faced with some |
| take a radical leap beyond ego and never look back." | | | | events that you will rise up from, and will rally round |
| I am intimately familiar with this kind of awakening | | | | together and build a new earth from. These events |
| because it's what happened to me. Craig and I may | | | | are seismically necessary and as they wend their |
| use slightly different terminology and he is more | | | | way over and through the earth, you will be able to |
| scholarly than I (wish I could articulate as well as he), | | | | see within yourselves the part that you will play in |
| but I have some ideas and insights that complement | | | | holding the earth in your arms and hearts...You will |
| his body of work. | | | | see what you are capable of doing on all levels of |
| Rather than evolving beyond the ego, however, I call | | | | your being...It is all coming together now."--Nancy |
| the process I experienced reconnecting and | | | | Tate |
| integrating with the higher self. It is more a matter of | | | | These kinds of messages are often more metaphoric |
| the integration of the two parts, of the conscious | | | | than literal, but I do believe we are headed for some |
| mind learning the agenda of the higher self and | | | | "earth-shaking" events soon that will catalyze real |
| learning to trust it enough to "get behind the plan," so | | | | change (and inspire evolving "beyond the |
| to speak. | | | | ego")--which is good news, actually; it's what we all |
| Yes it's true; the higher self is the part of us that | | | | wanted. Getting yourself as familiar as possible with |
| always had the upper hand when it comes to human | | | | what is going on and reconnecting and integrating |
| spiritual evolution, not the ego as many have claimed. | | | | with your higher self is what you can do to help |
| Furthermore, the divine plan, the higher self's agenda, | | | | yourself and others in the trying times ahead. |
| is working perfecting and exactly on schedule. It's | | | | |