Now that events are speeding up because of all the mental energies being released on our planet, we are faced with violence and bloodshed more within countries than between countries. Now we have corruption manifesting in the highest offices. Now spirituality, which is a private and personal connection with your inner self or the God within, has been reduced to organised and systematised religion, particularly in the itemised steps to enlightenment found in current Buddhist dogmas. Now that all this continues, the only way you can rise above the quagmire of ignorance caused by our conditioned sense of separation from that which man calls 'God' is to break through the illusion of a separate self by seeking union within.

If you seek first the kingdom of God, which is within, all else is added to you. Personal suffering ceases. Not because you ignore it, but because you no longer attract it into your life. None of the violence and corruption will touch you personally if you break through the delusion of separation.

In his play 'A Sleep of Prisoners' Christopher Fry puts forth a challenge to humanity which is becoming increasingly urgent: "Thank God our time is NOW when wrong comes up to face us everywhere, never to leave us till we take the longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul-size. The enterprise is exploration into God. Where are you making for? It takes so many years to wake, but WILL you wake, for pity's sake."

There is a story about the devil walking along with a friend when they observe a man bend down and pick up something. The friend warns the devil, "You had better do something. That man just found a piece of Truth." The devil smiled knowingly. "No worries," he replied, "they will soon turn it into an organisation and systematise it." Enlightenment is the ultimate do-it-yourself.

When you do make contact with the God within and its all encompassing truth you will lose your desires for anything else. It is an on-going process. When you spend more and more time in the awareness that God is expressing and experiencing through you, you will attract all the abundance of the universe into your life, all the personalities that, ideally, are to come into your orbit and all the experiences you need to pass through in this current lifetime in order to take another learning step on the path of enlightenment. There is no final moment in the physical plane when you are fully enlightened. In all the endless omniverse, this current experience on the grain of sand we call 'earth' is but the blink of an eyelid. Enlightenment is not a piece of knowledge, an 'ultimate' truth, it is a state of being wherein there is no longer any suffering. Religious or psychic experiences do not bring with them enlightenment, nor does enlightenment come at that wonderful moment of release that we call 'death'. Life in the body is but a fraction of the Soul's experience, but enlightenment as we think of it in the materialised plane is Self-realisation. And Self-realisation is God-realisation. You will know that you have always been, are now, and will always be an eternally valid aspect of God and that nothing can ever harm you but that which your own fears create. Even then, your suffering is not a permanent condition.