The purpose of life
What is enlightenment?

Is enlightenment for me -- can I effect the dissolution of my unconscious?
For the norm, enlightenment is not life's purpose 

        We all have had moments of enlightenment.  With unusual clarity, perception, and connection, we see truth.  The clouds part and aha! we are at one with it all.  Truth is no longer filtered through our troubled past buried in the unconsicous.  Truth is revealed -- clear as a bell -- at least for a moment.  

        To sustain this enlightened state, we must resolve the traumas held in the unconscious.  These wounds were inflicted on us beginning in earliest childhood and must be resolved to live fully.  When we acknowledge and grieve our traumatic history, we disolve our wounds and clear the psyche's holding bin, the unconscious.  With nothing remaining buried in our psyches, the life force and truth are free to flow through us and animate our life's purpose and gifts.  Thus, enlightenment is the dissolution of the unconscious.

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        With the planet over-populated with uncosncious masses who are destroying the earth's ability to sustain life, enlightenment has become a requirement for the right to live on the planet.  We all must resolve our unconscious issues to be worthy of our existence -- if we are to survive as a species.  

        Enlightenment is a crucial obligation that no one can neglect.  Enlightenment is no longer for effete mystics removed from daily life – it is a must for all of us engaged in daily living.  Enlightenment has become a prerequisite for the privilege of existing on planet earth, if we are to endure.

        Enlightenment needs to be demystified, since it is the primary purpose and obligation of our common humanity.  To become enlightened simply means to be filled with light.  Every chamber of our unconscious must be illuminated.  We have no secret rooms or split off feelings or memories.  All parts of our story, all of our past with its traumatic episodes, must be brought out of the unconscious to consciousness.  We must know ourselves fully.  What was tragic in our childhood, the brutality dealt us, or the hurts we inflicted on others as the result of that brutality, must be known, grieved, and integrated.  When we are fully conscious, nothing is hidden -- this is the dissolution of the unconscious.  When this arduous and cathartic task is completed, nothing repressed in the unconscious will block our innate divinity from shining forth.  And our life's purpose will no longer be distorted and our gifts will be fully activated by our life-force.

            With environmental calamity looming as the result of humanity’s unconscious practices worldwide resulting in over-population, enlightened living has become a necessity.  Neglecting this fundamental obligation will not only make us morally culpable – but extinct.

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For the norm – enlightenment is not life’s purpose

        To the average person, enlightenment is not life’s purpose in any realistic sense.  Rather avoiding this arduous undertaking is the norm.  Instead of facing the demons within us, we would rather pass them on to the next generation.  And be sure to know that anything unresolved will be passed on.  Not only is this shirking of life's purpose by having children and lots of them over-populating the planet, it is also a form of child abuse.  This terrible proctice of having children to avoid knowing oneself is given much approval by the complicite family and culture.  So the average person globally, the obligations of family and the comforts of conformity to the conventions of society are life’s purpose.  

        This tragic and devasting rationale if continuted unabated will destroy the planet.  The thinking goes for the average person, family life, being married with children, fulfills life’s obligation, insures a modicum of immortality through the next generation, and usurps any need for deeper investigation, denying the devastating consequences for the planet.  And for those who fail to marry, having and raising children as a single parent is an easy compromise and the rigors of enlightenment are avoided.

        Career is a close second culturally to giving life meaning and avoiding deeper investigation.  The rewards of money and status in the community confirm a valid life.  Enlightenment is a pipe dream, pursued by a rarefied few, and not taken seriously by the average person. 

        Traditional religions concretize this belief and ignore the harsh realties breeding creates.  Religion is culable in the destruction of our planet home when it ignores the need to self-invetigate before any one can have childen and then a responsibly few children.

        For religion, people can remain obedient children limiting illumination for the Buddha or Jesus – but not ordinary people.  And the divine spark that resides within us all, with its immense potential to evolve into enlightened living, is denied.  We rationalize that this rare state is reserved for the spiritual elite, from another dimension, whose feet never fully touch the ground.  Certainly enlightenment can not apply to me -- filled with vengeful, lustful feelings just walking to the corner to get a newspaper.  

        To be sure, most of us feel more human than divine.  Traditional Christian teaching states that only Jesus is the son of God.  Only Jesus has divinity at his core.  Only Jesus can save the world.  And the rest of us can sit back passively waiting for the Second Coming, when the first coming should have compelled us to realize that we are the second coming and we’d better get busy redeeming our lives and the world.

        For those of us who are Christian, it is easier to worship Jesus than be him.  The fact is, we need more Christs – and fewer Christians.

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