Enlightened awakening
QUESTION: Masters, living a new life in an old world: The world is changing and I feel like I’m changing with it. I feel like I’m changing faster than others in my environment. Part of me is ready to take the next step and let go of all material attachments, yet it feels like society forces me to do things like finish my studies and work a job, because otherwise I don’t have a way to sustain myself. This makes me feel like I’m doing things because I must, not because I enjoy doing them or because I chose to do them. In my mind I have an image of the new world, yet it feels like I’m stuck living by the rules of the old one. I don’t know how I’m supposed to look at this or how I’m supposed to deal with this? Could you please give me your perspective? ~Bas, Netherlands
ANSWER: The world is constantly shifting but it still contains equal amounts of negativity with the positive. What you are doing is awakening to the reality that people make their own environment by their daily choices and how they choose to look to the future. There are many around you who see only the default negative choices for living, and their ego demands they grade and rank everything in existence.
You are a human in a physical body, living in a society that has set rules and regulations. The evolution into a spiritual being is the next step. It is movement away from ego, or judging every action, and into a space where you just observe what is happening and make the choice to join in or not.
There are phases of enlightenment. One first becomes aware of the process of letting go of ego and material attachments. That is not to say you can exist in the physical world without physical materials; you merely use only what is needed to complete whatever you have chosen as a life project.
If your project is something to do in normal society, then you do have to finish the requirements of the culture such as education and apprenticeship. If you wish to work with others in a metaphysical world, you will find you need little and the universe will help you obtain what you need. The choices are all yours.
The new world you see is not a completely physical one. You have to decide how deeply you wish to leave the society-driven Earth and live in spiritual energy. If you want to have all the “goodies” available in the world, but don’t want to be attached to them, make those choices. Wanting to have the use of such things as cars and houses in your life doesn’t negate your ability to be spiritual if you can reject those things and not be controlled by them.