Spirituality has become a new form of ego

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AVAlexander VolchekSpiritual development and the spiritual pathSpiritKarma, free will, and causalityKarmaChildren, parenting, and family life

What is said here

• 00:00You are asking whether someone can disguise ego-driven ambitions as spiritual development, when in fact there is no spiritual development at all.Spirit · Time
• 01:45An incredible number of these structures. First, let us look at why this happens. It comes down to what a person means by spiritual development.Spirit
• 05:02If you can develop only yourself as an individual in scientific terms, then let us not discuss spiritual development at all.Cause and effect · Time · Spirit
• 06:36They have certain indicators. They might measure access to knowledge, for example. Obviously, access to knowledge in the world has increased enormously. That is obvious.Artificial intelligence · Spirit
• 08:04Imagine a person who is born, and whose soul—their entire spiritual structure and system—understood at birth that they would need to live through various events and die young.Spirit · Karma
• 09:17No. Everyone wants to fix it, right? Everyone wants to upgrade it, to improve it. Even with astrology, people do not really go to an astrologer to learn something. They want adjustments…The soul · Spirit · Wife
• 09:56The spiritual structure contains more than the soul: spirit, soul, the astral body, etheric body, physical body, and the “I.” It is an enormous structure, a large one.Spirit · The soul
• 19:52Perhaps it is people's ability to keep looking for some criteria for comparison.Spirit
• 21:15But how can you measure something if you do not know where you are going? How can you measure it? Where does that desire come from? People want to be ahead of someone else. They do not want to fall behind.
• 22:41Because from the perspective of the spiritual world, human development is infinite. The development of any spiritual structure is infinite. There is no end.Spirit · Time

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• 00:42

  Because most of these messages aim to manipulate people on one hand, and to give those people ways to manipulate others on the other.

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• 01:23

  We need to examine why this happens, what it is, and what each person can do with themselves—how to make decisions in these circumstances, when you realize you are surrounded by an endless number, an endless multitude…

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• 05:48

  Yet they do not understand why, for example, there was a time when there were a billion people, then two billion, and now eight billion.

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  Imagine a person who is born, and whose soul—their entire spiritual structure and system—understood at birth that they would need to live through various events and die young.

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• 12:52

  So when we discuss what real life is, the position you are looking from matters.

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• 13:42

  Even when we consider life and its quality, someone says, “I would like a healthy body, so I will not eat sugar, for example, or smoke, or drink alcohol.”

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• 16:14

  As you then experience a series of events, do you really understand the causes and effects that arose from that expansion of perception? So again, when we discuss what it means to truly live, we also need to examine what we mean by it.

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• 21:42

  That question will keep arising automatically within the system, because a person's main task is to come to know themselves.

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• 23:20

  So someone who lives with the understanding, or the desire to understand, that the world is spiritual will not want to measure this indicator.

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• 24:18

  Any reasonable person, any reasonable person who is moving toward continually coming to know and studying their life, understands that all those goals and points may always remain unreached, because they are only points.

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