Entry 425 - Stages of Widening One’s Perspective

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Stages of Widening One’s Perspective:


1. Trusting one’s religion or set of beliefs and distrusting all other religions and the world.

2. Exploring different branches within the religion and different beliefs, but still distrusting other religions and the world.

3. Exploring other religions and their belief systems, and making connections between their old religion and the new ones they are exploring.

4. Realizing there is a deeper commonality between all religions and starting to trust the world more.

5. Hopping from belief system to belief system, going from identifying with beliefs to not identifying with beliefs. Seeing each and all more as one.

6. Realizing that beliefs and religion are temporary, but our oneness with all is eternal. Starts trusting oneself and one’s own instincts. Goes within and explores the depths of one’s being. No longer believes the limiting doctrine: “You can’t trust yourself.” Also starts to trust others from all over and the world, as they now realize they and everyone else are the co-creators of their current realities.

7. In a perpetual state of non-judgment and acceptance. Constantly observing without adding negative energy or being defensive. They understand at an intuitive level that they are not threatened by any thoughts, ideas, beliefs, or memories because they do not identify their self, as in who they are, with them in general. They realize these are all temporary, but they themselves are eternal.

8. Freedom is felt in Being.



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