In my last post: “The De-glamoured View,” I said that at a certain point in our journey to enlightenment most of us need to undergo a gigantic ”humbling” - although, to be honest, we usually experience lesser humblings prior to this, as if to soften us up for the big, painful one! In today’s post, I thought I would elaborate on this very important aspect of our spiritual/soul journey, which can be, if we allow it to be, a major turning point in how we live our life.
The Purpose of Our “Humblings.”
All humbling experiences are intended to strip us of our arrogance, and one of our greatest arrogances is our tendency to believe we have the ability to manage our life successfully, and often the lives of other people, as well. To believe we have this power to control most of what happens in our own and other people’s lives, is both an illusion and an arrogance, and our “humblings,” are attempts by our soul to cure us of this hubristic attitude.
Quite simply, our soul attracts a humbling experience to us so that the size of our ego can be reduced. In plain language: so that we can be firmly put in our place and shown that we are most certainly not the captain of our own ship - our own life. Neither are we capable of being the captain of other people’s ships, or lives. This is a very important lesson we all have to learn in life and we discount it to our cost. Incidentally, I’m using the term “ego” in this sense, to mean our sense of individual self, IE. the little “me” or “I,” that we perceive ourselves to be.
If you’re one of those people on the spiritual path currently feeling depressed and/or disillusioned, take heart, because you’re probably suffering from the ”de-glamoured view, “ a term associated with alchemy which describes a phase that spiritual seekers must go through if they are to assimilate with the Unus Mundus, the One World - see my articles, “Finding Heaven . . . Once Upon a Time” and “The Unus Mundus (One World) and the Holy Grail, ” for information concerning this experience.
We are all susceptible to glamour, meaning, we are blinded to how things really are, or who some people really are, it’s as if our vision has been placed under a spell. Then, unexpectedly, it’s as if this spell suddenly breaks and we start to see people and things as they truly are, not how we have imagined, assumed or expected them to be.
The de-glamoured view is usually depressing and discouraging for us, especially if it also involves a new and unflattering perception of our self, because all at once, we’re not the person we always thought we were. In fact, in my experience, we discover we’re almost exactly the opposite of what we thought we were.
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