Imperishable Inheritance

For so long I thought human­is­tic “states” of con­scious­ness were the only way to truth. I found so much hope in philo­soph­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal sys­tems that pro­moted the self-value and abil­ity of the com­mon man.

“Exis­tence pre­cedes and rules essence.“
Jean-Paul Sartre

I attempted to learn my way to truth, and I found the fight to be of no avail. The strug­gle left me stronger, because when I real­ized I had truly found some­thing that had real truth and sub­stance I am sure now not to let it go.

To Self-Actualize

Maslow’s Self-Actualizing state of exis­tence seemed the state to which I aspired the most. The sys­tem seemed sim­ple enough: get past the phys­i­o­log­i­cal, emo­tional, and other needs to rid myself of all in a state of self-actualization.

“Self Actu­al­iza­tion is the intrin­sic growth of what is already in the organ­ism, or more accu­rately, of what the organ­ism is.“
Abra­ham Maslow

Maslow even taught in his basic prin­ci­ples that man is basi­cally good and not evil. It amazed me that this sys­tem was thought of even in a light in which all men could achieve. The “peak expe­ri­ence” was even the high­est state of a self-actualized consciousness:

“Feel­ings of lim­it­less hori­zons open­ing up to the vision, the feel­ing of being simul­ta­ne­ously more pow­er­ful and also more help­less than one ever was before, the feel­ing of ecstasy and won­der and awe, the loss of place­ment in time and space with, finally, the con­vic­tion that some­thing extremely impor­tant and valu­able had hap­pened, so that the sub­ject was to some extent trans­formed and strength­ened even in his daily life by such expe­ri­ences.“
Abra­ham Maslow

The focus is squarely on the Self (always cap­i­tal “S”) and the nature and respon­si­bil­ity of the man. And yet, even if the man does not achieve the state of self-actualization, no harm is done, it only serves as a sat­is­fier (as opposed to a dis-satisfier). It should also be noted that if you look in most moti­va­tional or psy­cho­log­i­cal books you will not find the true high­est state of the hier­ar­chy of needs which was in fact called “self-transcendence,” because Maslow put reli­gious lead­ers in that cat­e­gory; and we can’t put any­thing in there that all can’t achieve. But of course my joy ride through human­ism did not end at Maslow; I con­tin­ued to find more inter­est in the east­ern philosophies.

Where Is My Third Eye?

Bud­dhism is truly a bench­mark in philo­soph­i­cal sys­tems that appeal to the intel­lect. The word “enlight­en­ment” still gives me chills. To find the con­cept of the “Third Eye” caused me to be all the more curi­ous and excited. In a few east­ern ideologies(and now the New Age move­ment as well) a Chakra becomes an impor­tant part of the ideology.

The Third Eye (also called the “Mind’s Eye,” or “Third Eye Cen­ter”) is one of the seven Chakras. The Third Eye (some­times given the sub­ti­tle: “Christ Con­scious­ness Cen­ter”) is the sixth and is asso­ciate with intu­ition and Extra-sensory per­cep­tion (ESP).

The Third Eye is also nec­es­sary if you are to see through the lower four dimen­sions (the first three being the phys­i­cal world and the fourth being the emotional/astral plane), because every­thing is sub­ject to dis­tor­tion in these planes with­out a func­tion­ing Third Eye (be sure to replace your bat­ter­ies monthly). Also, with the Third Eye you can enter the fifth or spir­i­tual dimen­sion; wow, this is excit­ing stuff. I had no idea I needed three eyes to access the fifth dimen­sion, on the third planet from the sun, dur­ing the twenty-second year of my life! Finally, I found this descrip­tion of the Third Eye which I believe sums up the ide­ol­ogy the best:

“The third eye is the cen­ter of psy­chic pow­ers and higher intu­ition, you can receive guid­ance, channeling,and tune into your higher self. This is the cen­ter that enables you to expe­ri­ence telepa­thy, astral travel and past lives.”

So, now that I have the instruc­tion man­ual on how to get my self-actualized Third Eye—what am I sup­pose to do? Poke it out.

Pok­ing Out The Self-Actualized Third Eye

After spend­ing way to much time frol­ick­ing about in these worth­less philo­soph­i­cal sys­tems, I was then shown that I couldn’t even think about a Third Eye; because my first two were still closed.

“For My peo­ple are fool­ish,
They know Me not;
They are stu­pid chil­dren
And have no under­stand­ing
They are shrewd to do evil,
But to do good they do not know.“
Jere­miah 4:22

When I look back on all these ide­olo­gies it’s not coin­ci­dence that all of them made some pro­vi­sion for Jesus some­where in their scheme. They knew they couldn’t deny His impact, so they had to find a way to “fit” Him into their pre-conceived sys­tems. (He is most often labeled as “one of the enlight­ened” or He existed in realms out­side of our own.)

What a rev­e­la­tion it was to not see Jesus as only “one of the enlight­ened” along­side Bud­dha, Muham­mad, and the like; but to be shown that He is the author and per­fecter of faith, and in fact, all is made through Him (Hebrews 12:2, Eph­esians 2:10). It is still odd to think how I per­se­cuted Chris­tians and hence­forth the liv­ing God Himself.

“Chris, Chris, why are you per­se­cut­ing Me? […] it will be told you what you must do.” (cf. Acts 9:1–9)

This month is a year from my con­ver­sion, and I am in awe of what has changed in my life. I’m so thank­ful He stopped me before I wasted any more time. Well, at least the Self-Actualized Third Eye makes a good fairy tale.