04/07/2024
What is neurosis?
In the eighties, I had a profound experience up at the top of the Sierra Buttes. I often seek out energy spots to meditate on when in sacred places. When I stepped into this particular spot, I experienced a state of bliss, like I was I heaven.
We have no idea how neurotic we are, until the moment we are not. Each time I stepped into that energy spot, I felt at one with everything I could see or even think of that was going on. There was no sense of separation. I experienced a profound sense of oneness and bliss regarding everything I could imagine.
Each time I stepped out of that energy spot, my mind would focus on another thing happening in society that I was displeased with. Immediately, I could feel the pressure and distress building up in different parts of my body, just thinking about that. But when I stepped back into that energy spot, whatever that was, it was unfolding precisely as it should. All the distress and bodily pressure and discomfort would instantly release. There was nothing I could imagine that existed that should not be.
I stepped in and out of that energy spot for a couple hours and every time it was the same. It turned out that everything I considered wrong about society, was unfolding exactly as it should in the present moment. The past and future are illusions created by our subconscious brain. The present moment is all that really exists.
In every village and town in the world, each day more people are waking up to the present moment where their heart is in charge of their consciousness. The signs of spiritual awakening are everywhere you look. If, instead of focusing on all the problems, as most people still do, you actively look for the signs of awakening, you will observe immense spiritual growth and the increasing of communication systems to let ever more people participate. We are seeing so many more signs of spiritual growth in the animal kingdom also.
I am starting to understand that peace of mind, kindness and unity are our natural states of mind; that what we think and believe, for good or bad, dreams our own unique world into being; and that all our unique worlds are mysteriously enfolded into the greater dream of Creator.
So, what is neurosis? If we start from the perspective that we are all creators: All the ways we are not happy about life are neuroses. Neurotic thoughts, feelings, attitudes, values, principles and beliefs are all inventions of a subconscious brain that believes itself trapped in a past/future prison it has created. Every moment that we are unhappy with what we are focusing our attention on, we are co-creating a problem that we are blissfully ignorant of creating. This is how I define neurosis. It’s probably not how psychologist define it. But that’s alright.