Our present Human experience is currently a fragmented reality.  Our brains break everything into the I and the Not-I. This is an organic reality. The Not-I becomes our lifelong enemy. Our Societies reinforce this mis-perception. Our lives become a war between the I and not-I. And eventually, we grow up to become adults who find ourselves at war with everyone and everything…relationships, the environment, the neighbors, the red-necks, the tree-huggers, the Republicans, the Gays, the Blacks and on and on it goes. This “us” vs. “them” consciousness is caused by a perceptual anomaly in our brain function which favors fragmentation over Unity. Historically, though, this was not always the case and there is now a lot of research data supporting this contention. For instance, we now know that every synaptic cleft of every human being on Earth has key-hole-like receptor sites that, when filled with the correct neurochemical keys, creates the subjective experience of a collective wholeness in the individual. It is described in both Eastern and Western literature as a state of Unity with everything. Taking LSD, Mushrooms, Peyote etc. is just an artificial way of filling these receptor sites for short periods of time. A much more effective and life-enhancing way is to employ a wide variety of what I call “Spiritual Technologies” to gradually enliven these dormant “holistic” neural receptors.  If there is no true ORGANIC EXPERIENTIAL connection between people, if it remains just mental, if it if just a mood of connection, then all that we are doing to create this new and better reality for our families, will be of limited use to the Planet. We will invariably re-create our fragmented Past.  Why is Spiritual Enlightenment important? Think of it this way. If I experienced everyone, everywhere to be as near and dear to me as my own self, how could I ever hurt anyone? If I experienced my Earth as an expression of my own self, how could I hurt it again. Our understanding of life and our choices are structured in consciousness.

It's easy to lose sight of the rest of our lives. But, in the end, this is where we live. We live here in the West. We live in a society made up of individuals with families, day-jobs and mortgages. After all, living in the "real world" is the truest test of spiritual evolution. The only problem is that many of us have been so engrossed in our spiritual "journey" that it can sometimes be difficult to find our way.