How to Accomplish Democratization of Enlightenment?

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December 31, 2013 by Dr. Marc Gafni 0 Comments

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The second part of the how is then to do the practices, to actually make some form of
wisdom practice or spiritual practice or consciousness practice an essential part of my
life. It could be a form of meditation, a form of sacred dance, a form of introspection or
contemplation, the study of sacred text, the engagement in significant nature mysticism,
or prayer to engage the personal face of essence (what we might call the second face of
God, the personal face of All-That-Is, that knows my name and holds me through
prayer). All of these practices, engaged regularly, and made part of your life stream, day
after day, begin to open up the space, much like going to the gym and working out.
Exercising the body builds physical muscles. The way I build the muscles of the Eye of
the Spirit is to engage in practice at the level of Spirit.
So at the body level, we call that the gross realm not gross as in yucky, but gross as in
the physical incarnate realm. Then the next realm is the subtle realm, which is no less
real, which is the realm of subtle energies. So the emotion of love is a subtle energy.
Excitement is a subtle energy. The feeling of delight is a subtle energy. So at the level of
subtle energy, what I need to do is to practice. I need to practice at the level of Spirit,
and all the practices I just listed are practices that develop spiritual intelligence.
So thats the second part of the how. The how is to engage in committed, regular
practice and allow that practice to transform you. Ethical practice is essential. To
develop a sense of ethical mindfulness, to transcend narrow small Self for Other all of
this is part of practice.
So there are two parts to the how. One is setting intention, and the second is
committed practice. These two hows need to become part of the essential birthright
education of every human being. Thats how we democratize enlightenment, meaning
this is no longer the province of merely the elite. Thats what democracy means.
Democracy means the king is no longer the only Unique Self. In the old world there was
one Unique Self who was the king. What were now saying is, no, actually, just like weve

moved to self-governance, weve also moved to an expansion of the right and the
obligation and the possibility of moving from Separate Self to True Self, to Unique Self.
That movement becomes part of the raison dtre, the very purpose of existence of every
human being, and to begin to inject that potentia, that potential into the source code of
consciousness. That is the movement towards the Democratization of Enlightenment.
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