The Importance of Personal Development -the Importance of Becoming “Gooder”
I believe that the development of the personality toward beneficence (becoming “Gooder”) is development toward reaching higher spiritual realms.
As a clinician I have observed when I called an actual goodness within-natural buoyancy of the soul. I have seen this repeatedly in group therapy. After a short period of time, the group unites and develops a family feeling. Each member can hardly wait to be helpful to the other. It is a natural rising of the goodness within.
We owe a great debt to Freud and the study of psychoanalysis, for he has laid bare the dynamics of the personality. He has revealed the stages of development as well as the resistances that impede development. Through this knowledge we can know more about how to move ourselves forward on the ascending path of development, and how to recognize and remove the resistances to development, — when removed they allow this natural beneficence and community of feeling to arise.
Today society has an increasing awareness of these things. Society recognizes an alternative reality, alternative to the one that it has so tenaciously held, namely the view that to waking a material world was THE world of reality. Now society recognizes the subtle realms and the subtle energies the subtle energies that emanate from us, as well as are gathered to form us.
Today Science studies the energies of Reiki., Emotional Freedom Technique, Thought Field Therapy and other modalities that are described in Energy Psychology. However these studies, valuable as they are, neglect something of prime importance. These studies are essentially mind-to-body energies. What is lacking is the study of mind-to-mind energies as they are expressed in acts of love, in person-to-person communication, and in all realms and human behavior, — and most especially in the realm of communication called psychotherapy.
Years ago I had an epiphany experience. I had the privilege of a private meeting with Muktananda. To my surprise, in his presence I felt EXTREME love and in expansion in my heart of a desire to help the world through my profession. It grew HUGE. When Muktananda would touch me with Peacock feathers, or rub my chest, I would go into orgasms of love. What was this Shaktipat, this transmission of forceful love-energy imparted in such a powerful way? In fact, what are the person-to-person energies in all of OUR acts of love? Or our acts of aggression? What are the energies involved in inspiration, mother love, heroism, devotion? Are not these energies of a higher plane? And would it not be well to not only study them but to cultivate them through personal effort. This would help us to open to the higher regions, allow the soul to rise and be actualized in our lives, expressed goodness, — expressed as feelings of community, empathy, consideration for others and humankind and indeed for all of God’s creations.
These are the signatures of the ascended personality. These are the marks of becoming “gooder”. These are the marks of our ascending journey to the higher spiritual realms.