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“Spiritual Activism” for a New Earth

[Updated March 16, 2023] How to “not fight injustice, but create justice” from a spiritual perspective.

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CONTENTS

[0] What is “Spiritual Activism”? [1] The Spiritualist Perspective — [1.1] Separate but Shared Universes — [1.2] An Infinitely Expanding Universe — [1.3] Everyone is a Manifestation of “God” [2] The Realist Perspective — [2.1] Spiritual Bypassing — [2.2] A Meditation to Get You There [3] Spiritually & Actively Changing Our World — [3.1] Balancing the Outer-Ego-Self & the Inner-Soul-Self — [3.2] Enlightened Action: Passion & Miracles — [3.3] Creating Our Reality [4] How to Not Fight for Justice, but Create Justice — [4.1] Seek Harmony [5] Applying a Soul-Level Perspective — [5.1] This is Not Easy… and It is Easy [6] Related Resources

A READER’S QUESTION:

Why do I have people in my life who have different political beliefs and ways of behaving from me? How can I understand these relationships, especially when I see injustice and greed in the world, which triggers my anger? You have said that we should “not fight injustice but create justice”. How does one do that? (edited from the original question submitted)

ANSWER (from Me & my Higher Self):

[0] What is “Spiritual Activism”?

“Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.” — Wikipedia

For many, spirituality (and religion) presents a vision of a “greater good” for humanity and our planet that we should advocate. Freedom and liberation are common descriptions of the ideal, utopian world that spirituality envisions. Like religion, spirituality teaches us how to free ourselves from suffering, which some describe as The Matrix that is imprisoning us.

Where religions often taught how to enter “heaven” (and avoid “hell”), contemporary New Age spirituality teaches us to expand our consciousness toward enlightenment and becoming 5th Dimensional (or “density”) beings. But unlike religious teachings, spirituality envisions the creation of a new, enlightened global humanity where we would experience a “heaven on Earth” reality (or a “New Earth”). For example…

“Spiritual Activism” is how spiritually oriented people advocate for the New Earth they desire.

Spiritual activism is a practice that brings together the otherworldly and inward-focused work of spirituality and the outwardly-focused work of activism (which focuses on the conditions of the material or physical world). Spiritual activism asserts that these two practices are inseparable and calls for a recognition that the binaries of inward/outward, spiritual/material, and personal/political all form part of a larger interconnected whole between and among all living things. — Wikipedia

The “binary” or duality of “spiritual/material” is the main challenge of spiritual activism. It is also described as the “idealism/realism” binary.

Too much realism, emphasizing the material world, increases duality and divisions. That is the opposite of spirituality, which seeks oneness and overcoming separation. From a spiritual perspective, excessive realism results in greater suffering.

But too much idealism, emphasizing inward spirituality, may ignore the immediate suffering and needs of people and the planet. It can become “spiritual bypassing”, which appears to blame the victim for their predicament. The popular spiritualist phrase, “you create your own reality”, is often seen as an example of that (see section [3.3] below).

The challenge is reconciling, balancing, and being both a material realist and a spiritual idealist at the same time.

Below is my attempt to understand that challenge from the spiritual teachings I am familiar with. If you search the internet on “spiritual activism” or “sacred activism” you will find many other perspectives on this topic — many of which contradict one another.

[1] The Spiritualist Perspective

[1.1] Separate but Shared Universes

WE EACH live in our own separate universe. Collectively, we create a shared universe with others based on some level of shared resonance or vibration. But we are each at the center of our personal universe.

We react to others, and they react to us. But we have no control over another. We can only change ourselves (which is challenging enough). We cannot truly change another person at their deepest level of beliefs. We can only exhibit our true self and allow the other person to react to that.

There are an infinite number of different shared universes (or shared worlds or realities) that we can experience. We choose our current world at our soul or deepest inner-self level. We (our soul-self) chose the specific world we are now in because it most resonates with what we (our soul-self) want to experience now in this life.

You (your soul-self) chose your gender, your body, your ethnicity and nationality, and your friends and family, for example. The souls of your friends and family members interact with each other because your individual energies/vibrations resonate in a way that each will benefit from.

You may feel exactly the same as another, or you may feel completely opposite to another. Either way, you are energetically drawn to each other for a certain period and experience.

“Each world is so cunningly constructed, again, that each consciousness, regardless of its degree, plays a vital part. And each of your actions, however inconsequential, becomes connected in one way or another — in one way or another — to each other reality and each other world.” — Seth/Jane Roberts, Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, volume 1, chapter 5, session 903, February 25, 1980

For more on the Soul, see:

[1.2] An Infinitely Expanding Universe

WE EACH have something to teach or offer to each other to expand our personal and shared consciousness. That is true for all interactions between all entities. Whether positive or negative, all interactions support the infinite expansion and ascension of the universe.

But unless we are at a level of soul consciousness (such as “unity consciousness”), we may never know clearly what lessons we are teaching and what we are being taught in any specific relationship.

Our universe and everything in it (including you) are always expanding and ascending to higher vibrations and states of consciousness. That path is hard to see from our limited, physically embodied 3rd Dimensional (3D) perspective. That is because expansion moves through oscillations of positive (+) and negative (-) energy forces, which we humans define as “good” and “bad”.

From a higher spiritual perspective, both (+) and (-) are needed to drive expansion and ascension. Neither is better than the other. Positive and negative energies, and lower and higher vibrations, all serve a spiritual purpose and have equal value.

For more on how positive (+) and negative (-) energies underlie all creation, see:

We can be “happy” at any vibrational level. Happiness does not depend on the vibration of the universe (contrary to most interpretations of David R. Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness). Different vibrations produce different states of consciousness and levels of dimensionality or density.

Happiness is being in harmony and flow with the vibration of yourself and the world around you. It is when our ego-self is not resisting the universe that our soul-self has created. When we do that, we are fully within the infinitely rising vibration of the universe.

Our human morality places great emphasis on differences between positive and negative, good and bad, and right and wrong. That is because it only sees the limited 3D perspective.

You cannot normally see the higher spiritual perspective that operates on a different morality. Spiritual morality is more about harmony and flow than specific acts judged as good or bad.

But if believe or feel there is good/bad and right/wrong in your world, then you must always seek and support what you see as good and right, and work against what you see as bad and wrong. That is part of your spiritual growth.

“There is no destruction and there is no evil. But while you believe that there is, then you must act accordingly. While you believe that to murder a man is to destroy his consciousness forever, then you cannot murder, and in your terms, it is an evil.” — Seth/Jane Roberts, The Early Class Sessions, Book 4, ESP class session on May 25, 1971

For more on the implications of an infinite reality, see:

[1.3] Everyone is a Manifestation of “God”

THE “OTHERS” who you interact with (both human & non-human) are each a unique manifestation of the infinite ways that Source/God/All-That-Is expresses itself in your present universe.

That included everything (including your own body, thoughts, & emotions) and everyone that you experience. They are all expressions of Source/God showing its vast creativity before you (before your pure awareness).

As a reflection of Source/God, everything in existence is perfect in what it is at any moment in time. Everyone/thing is performing at the highest and best level that they can at each moment in time. We seldom see that because, as noted previously, we normally lack the higher and broader perspective of our soul or higher self.

Love is the energy of Source/God that enlivens everything in the universe. We feel love when we overcome separation and move toward oneness with another or with ourselves. Separation and division are the opposite of love.

But everything we experience expresses the energy of love in some way. Some are at lower vibrations, reflecting greater separation. Human morality often judges those lower vibrations as “bad” or “evil”.

But from the soul-self perspective, nothing is inherently bad. The universe and everything in it are always ascending toward higher states of consciousness, vibration, and knowing — even though it might feel like a roller-coaster ride to get there.

As constantly changing and evolving creations of God/Source, and driven by the energy of Love, everything is perfect as it is at this moment point in time.

Until we reach our own state of “unity” or “god consciousness”, we need to have faith in this perfect design of the universe. We need to trust that the infinite intelligence of Source/God/The Absolute knows what it is doing.

For more on the perfection of the universe, see:

and on the universal energy of love, see:

[2] The Realist Perspective

[2.1] Spiritual Bypassing

MANY FIND it difficult to accept higher self, soul, or other spiritual perspectives on our physical 3rd Dimension world. It is hard to see God/Source in everything. It is hard to understand the implications of an infinite reality.

That is because most of us, whether we have had glimpses of spiritual awakening, spend most of our days in 3D physical reality. From that materialist world experience, the spiritualist perspectives I describe above are “Spiritual Bypassing”.

Spiritual bypassing is using spiritual arguments or explanations to generalize (or stereotype) the reality of our own or other’s negative experiences. In doing so, it denies or plays down the immediate pain and suffering of ourselves and others in the world. Because spirituality places a lot of responsibility for our experiences on the individual, it is seen as blaming the victim rather than the perpetrator of the suffering.

Such a realist perspective often views those who espouse spiritual approaches to address our personal and global challenges as having their head in a cloud and denying the undeniable truth of reality.

(Note: I heard someone say that to accuse another person of spiritual bypassing is itself spiritual bypassing. That is because the accuser is generalizing and putting the other in a definitional box. They are increasing separation, rather than seeing the other as a real person equal to themselves.)

Some even see claims of oneness and all-is-God as fake spirituality. That is potentially true because anything that our ego-self overly identifies with or uses to generalize/stereotype the world can be a “matrix prison”.

The realist believes we must act to create change. As Wikipedia says, we must actively promote what we want, impede what we do not what, and otherwise intervene to change the world from its current trajectory.

But is that really the opposite of what a spiritualist would do? I don’t think so. The main difference might be more perspective than behavior.

[2.2] A Meditation to Get You There

ONE WAY to come to a spiritualist way of perceiving the world is to quiet all our thoughts, opinions, and judgments of what we perceive. We are quieting our outer self, or “outer ego”. This is how we connect to our inner self, or true self.

These instructions are for an eyes-open form of meditation that is sometimes called “spacious awareness” meditation. Follow these steps:

1. Quiet your mind by imagining yourself as the “space” that contains everything in your sensory perception.
2. From that place, you can either see the entire space as the single “Oneness of Source/God”, or you can see each individual thing in your perception as a separate manifestation “God” or “Source”.
3. The key, and hardest part, is to stop all judgments. When you stop judging things, you automatically accept that, as “Source/God”, everything is being the best that it can be in this moment (including yourself).
4. Without judgement, you allow everything to be what it is (including yourself). You simply observe, with awe, the incredible diversity of reality.

I describe this meditation in more detail as a 3D-level meditation here…

“Attend to what is directly before you. You have no responsibility to save the world or find the solutions to all problems — but to attend to your particular personal comer of the universe. As each person does that, the world saves itself.” — Seth/Jane Robert, Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfilment, volume 1, message on October 23, 1981

[3] Spiritually & Actively Changing Our World

[3.1] Balancing the Outer-Ego-Self & the Inner-Soul-Self

A COMMON definition of an initial spiritual awakening is realizing we are more than a realist / material / ego-self. We are also an idealist / spiritual / soul-self. And as noted at the start, integrating and balancing those 2 perspectives is what spiritual activism is all about.

From a spiritual perspective, you (as your outer-ego-self) cannot change anyone or anything, not even yourself. Your outer-ego realist self is always reacting to its environment based on its beliefs and judgments. That is what it was designed to do — to navigate physical reality as an apparently separate identity.

The problem is nothing is permanent in the 3rd Dimension. Our 3D material experience is like a dream or illusion that is constantly changing as our ego-self’s beliefs and judgments change. At best, our ego-self can implement temporary changes. But each action or change it takes results in unpredictable changes that the ego-self must then judge and react to.

Your ego-self cannot change the deeper and more permanent spiritual foundations beyond 3D. But as your inner-soul-self that is beyond beliefs, you can create anything that you want. At that level, you have total free will to manifest realities instantly. That is because your soul-self is the part of you that is closest to God/Source/The Creator.

In fact, you (as your soul-self) are unconsciously creating your entire reality all the time. Everything that you are currently experiencing is what you (as your soul-self) think your outer-ego wants. Those wants are based on beliefs that your ego-self has adopted through its life experiences.

(Note: I have also heard some teachings say that our soul-self also has no free will to create anything. From that perspective, the only free will that exists is at the level of Source/God.)

As powerful as your soul-self is, many spiritual teachings say (but not everyone agrees) that your soul has no opinions and cannot make any moral judgments (like right/wrong, good/bad, want/don’t want). That is because it operates from a state of unconditional love.

Unconditional love means we accept and love everything equally exactly as it is, with no conditions of any kind. That means our soul accepts every belief that the outer-ego holds about its reality as equally true.

That is often impossible for our 3D ego-self to comprehend when we experience and see so much suffering and evil in our world. But remember that from the soul-self perspective, we are infinite beings. We never die, even when this incarnation ends.

And nothing can ever hurt us, even if our ego-self feels excruciating pain and suffering. Many spiritual teachings say that suffering comes from resisting our inner-soul-self and over identifying with our outer-ego-self.

One way to address the problem of suffering is through faith. You need faith that God/Source and our soul have a broader and truer understanding of your reality and experience. And they/it knows what is best for your ego-self overall. That, of course, is easier said than done.

Another way to address the apparent conflict between our outer-ego-self and our inner-ego-self is to bring them into balance.

Balance means the ego-self understands the soul-self perspective (universal oneness), and the soul-self understands the ego-self perspective (3D diversity & morality). We then act from that state of balance and mutual understanding.

When you (as your ego-self) are working with your inner-soul-self, there is greater understanding of how everything has value and purpose, and every moment is always a synchronicity.

For more on the relationship between our outer-ego and our inner-self, see:

[3.2] Enlightened Action: Passion & Miracles

“Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.” — Ramana Maharshi

AS NOTED above, we often describe awakening as our outer-ego-self realizing that it is more than it thought it was. We realize we are also an inner-soul-self (among other terms).

Enlightenment has many meanings, but one common one is being in a state of consciousness where we function as both our ego-self and our inner-self simultaneously. From that state, we can see a full perspective of reality and we can take action that best supports that full understanding.

That is sometimes called Enlightened Action. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi often referred to that as living 200% of life — 100% from the outer-self and 100% from the inner-self.

We know we are acting from a state of Enlightened Action in 2 ways:

(3.2.1) We feel we are fulfilling our deepest purpose in life (also known as our dharma). We feel passion, excitement, creativity, and love flowing through us as we act and interact in the world. That is the opposite of acting out of guilt, duty, and responsibility. We are not acting because of a “should” belief. We are acting the way we do because we want to with every part of our being, and we see the positive impacts we are having on our world. — Enlightenment does not mean we have no more emotions. If anything, emotions are more intense because they are no longer filtered through ego-self judgments. We then see emotions as the energy of love that underlies all reality. Feeling compassion, sadness, and grief, and even anger, despair, and suffering, can be helpful to find your passion. Those are feelings of love for a possibility that is not a perceived reality. If that love is strong enough, your dharma in this life may be to create that possibility. That is being spiritual activist.

For more on living your dharma, see:

(3.2.2) We feel we our actions have the full support of nature and the universe. Enlightened Action is in full alignment with the goals of our planet, our soul, and the universe. We see that support through synchronicity. Things happen that make our lives and our work easier. Our life is full of miracles, both small and large. Our efforts feel effortless as we flow with the rhythm of the universe. — Synchronicities and miracles are indicators that we are on the path of Enlightened Action. We (our ego-self) cannot create miracles. But our soul-self can — and it does all the time. As we awaken spiritually, our ego-self becomes more aware of those synchronicities/miracles and uses them to guide our activism. That is being spiritual activist.

For more on awakening and enlightenment, see…

“Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us accident-prone.” — Suzuki Roshi

(3.2.3) A fully awakened or enlightened world (a New Earth) is not likely to happen for a long time, if ever. Even our own spiritual enlightenment is beyond anything that we (our ego-self) can do. It will happen when our soul-self is ready for it to happen.

Many see Radical nondualism as the most extreme form of spiritual bypassing because it completely denies the existence of everything. All phenomenal experiences are unreal illusions by a non-existent self. But even the most radical nondualist can “appear” to be a spiritual activist when passionate and compassionate emotions and actions arise in their world of illusion.

For those of us who are less radical, we (our ego-self) have faith that our spiritual practices will make us enlightenment-prone. Those practices include the lifestyle we live (karma yoga) and the thinking and knowledge we pursue (jnana yoga). This article attempts to contribute to our higher knowledge.

We do the best we can based on who we are (our karma) and what we know (our highest knowledge). That is our ultimate responsibility to ourselves and our world.

“What is right for me to do that demonstrates the wisdom within me?” — Matt Kahn, July 7, 2020

• For more on karma and synchronicity, see…

• For more on Radical Nondualism, see…

• For an example of the type of spiritual activism knowledge that we want to cultivate, see…

• Also, see section [6.3] below for “Sacred Activism”, which is more aligned with more traditional religious teachings.

[3.3] Creating Our Reality

“You form your own reality. That reality contributes to the experience of others, but each of you possesses a unique, original stance in space and time that is yours alone in quite practical terms…” — Seth/Jane Roberts, The Nature of the Psyche, session 800 on April 4, 1977 (An extended version of this quote is in section [6.1] below.)

There are 2 ways to understand what Seth means when he first coined the phrase, “you create your own reality” in the mid-1960s.

(3.3.1) Everything our 3D ego-self experiences is filters through our senses and nervous system.

Our beliefs interpret those sensory inputs, giving them definition and meaning. Our 3D self only knows interpretations of events and things in the past — things that already happened.

Our interpretations are based on what we believe is true. We judge our experiences based on how we interpreted past experiences.

We expect continuity in our experience — that new happenings will be the same as previous ones. If something is not the same, then we do our best to change it or we ignore it. Occasionally we learn from it.

In that way, everything we (our ego-self) know is a subjective experience. That includes everything we know about our body, mind, and ego. We also never directly know who we are as an ego identity and body. We only know ourselves indirectly, through the beliefs and expectations we have adopted.

If we change our beliefs, then our interpretation of our sensory experiences change. That is how, psychologically, we create and change ourselves and our reality through our beliefs. Many spiritual teachings and psychoanalysis therapies work on this model.

Doing shadow work, for example, is based on this approach to creating our reality. Shadow work is often a personal endeavor, but we can also do it collectively to heal group trauma, such as the trauma of war. In that way, it is a form of spiritual activism. (See Thomas Hübl’s work on Healing Collective Trauma as an example.)

But as valid as that might be, this is a 3D interpretation of creating our reality. It does not consider the soul-self perspective.

(3.3.2) Our soul-self is the creator of our reality.

Our deeper soul-self’s understanding expands on the psychological 3D perspective above. Our ego-self forms beliefs based on its experiences in physical reality. Our soul-self accepts the ego’s beliefs without judgment and creates our physical/material reality based on them.

As discussed in section [3.1] above, our soul-self creates our reality and can change our reality, and the soul-self does that from the perspective of unconditional love. Many associate those characteristics with a 5th Dimension (5D) state of consciousness. As we ascend from 3D through 4D to 5D, we also increase our unconditional love and our ability to create (or manifest) our reality.

There is some debate whether we (our ego-self) can become that kind of soul-self being. Some teaching suggest that the ego-self must end to allow the soul-self to emerge.

But a surprising number of people in spiritual groups on Facebook claim to be in a 5D (and higher) state of consciousness. Only the ego-self would make a statement like that because our soul-self understands that such words only strengthen 3D duality. Such statements weaken the nonduality oneness that is the basis of unconditional love.

The Bodhisattva Guan Yin, who is one step below full Buddhahood, is the best model of a pure 5D consciousness that I know of (although many say she is an ascended master at a higher spiritual dimension). As the “Goddess of Mercy”, she represents pure compassion and unconditional love for all beings. As a god, she creates new realities by performing miracles to save people who are in need.

When our deepest beliefs change, our universe changes. If we want a world that is in harmony and free of suffering, our soul-self can give that to us. But it will only do so when we change the deepest parts of ourselves. We do that in one of 2 broad ways:

1. Shadow work, as discussed in the previous section (3.3.1) above, and
2. Spiritual practice, like karma yoga and jnana yoga discussed in section (3.2.3) above.

Both are essential for spiritual activism. Without at least one of these, we cannot reach higher states of consciousness to tap into the power of our inner soul-self to transform our reality. Our activism is simply not spiritual.

The paradox is that as we reach a higher state of consciousness and a deeper part of ourselves, we increasingly realize the perfection of reality, just as it is. That realization is another aspect of unconditional love. We have more power to create our reality, but we also have less desire to do so. Instead, we effortlessly contribute in our own unique way (our dharma) to a world that is forever evolving into a better place.

For more on how to create your reality, see section [6.1] below, and this article:

[4] How to Not Fight for Justice, but Create Justice

“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.” — John Lennon

I MENTIONED above that your ego-self cannot control or change anyone. Your outer ego-self can force superficial and short-term controls and changes in people and things. But it cannot work at other levels of reality and consciousness beyond our physical 3D. (Some disagree with that, but even then, the ego is limited.)

This is how most humans have approached their world over the past 5000 years. During that time, our 3D focus and by 3rd Chakra (Solar Plexus) energies have dominated our planet.

Under these influences, we have mastered physically forcing superficial change by using external pressure. Wars are an obvious example of that. Other examples include advertising and all sorts “entertainment” media that seek to influence how people think in our technology-driven age.

That form of change, being forced from the outer ego, works to a certain degree. But it is challenging to do because it is so far removed from our soul-self.

That is why some spiritual teachings suggest that you “not fight injustice”. “Fighting” for something is an outer ego-self effort at manifestation. Depending on one’s state of consciousness, it may be the best action that one can take. That is because the person has yet to learn that fighting (and resistance in general) is a 3D behavior that increases separation and division. It strengthens the ego-self and increases suffering.

Spiritually, the closer we work from our soul-self level, the more powerfully our manifestation will appear. They will have the support of the universe. And we will see that support through synchronicities and other “miracles”. That is more of an upper 4D and 5D approach, which is what we are here on Earth to learn.

That does not mean that we acquiesce to the injustices that we perceive on Earth. What it means is that we see the bigger, soul-level picture as best we can, and then place our personal Earthbound actions within that context.

We are 3D physical beings as much as we are spiritual beings. We need to acknowledge our corporality by pursuing passions that most enliven our beingness and benefit our world. We feel that passion for a reason — it is our dharma or purpose for existing.

But it is our soul-self level reality that we want to act from. That is the “yoga” (union) that Lord Krishna is referring to when he told Arjuna:

“Established in Yoga Perform Action.” — The Bhagavad Gita

[4.1] Seek Harmony

WHEN WE see something that we judge as a moral injustice, our passion will direct us to fight or resist it for the betterment of the world. That is how our ego-self has been taught to respond. But spiritually, we know such actions will also increase separation and division. And they may also increase the power of what we oppose.

An alternative soul-self level perspective is to work toward harmony. Harmony is when actions support the whole. Everyone is a winner, and no one is a loser. Each being feels fulfilled and supported by all others.

Harmony is the natural order of the universe. It is what some call a “both/and” perspective, as opposed to an “either/or” view. It is also the “middle way” as taught by the Buddha. Reaching that requires creative solutions beyond the boundaries of the conditioned responses and limited worldviews that guide so many of us.

In spiritual activism, our actions should always be toward supporting and creating greater harmony in our world. To do that, we must develop harmony within ourselves, including our body, mind, emotions, relationships with others, and our relationships with our planet.

That is why spiritual and other self-practices are so important.

“Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

For more on both/and thinking, see…

“If you have a loving regard for yourself, then you will trust in your own direction. You will accept your present position, whatever it is, as being a part of that direction, and realize that from it can come all the creative elements that you need. Being yourself and trusting in your own integrity, you will automatically help others.” — Seth/Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 676, July 9, 1973

[5] Applying a Soul-Level Perspective

HERE ARE are some basic guidelines for our ego-self on how to use our soul-self perspective to create justice in our world:

1. Try to hold Unconditional Love and Non-judgment of Yourself and Others. — Non-judgment means holding the beliefs you most oppose in the same frame of mind as those you most support. It requires try to understand that nothing is inherently “bad” because it is all variations in the vibration of the energy of Love. — Non-judgment means that you recognize that everyone and everything is performing at its highest capability in the present moment. Everyone is doing the best they can within the limits of their life experience and state of consciousness. — Non-judgment means that you are not taking action to change anyone. If they change, that is their decision. It is not a reflection of you and does not change the unconditional love (or at least neutrality) you feel for everyone and everything.
2. Seek Harmony, instead of Judging. — The best moral goal we can have is to be in harmony within ourselves, in our relationship with others, and in our relationship with the world. Harmony is beyond ego-self moral judgments of good/bad, right/wrong, and like/dislike. Harmony is how morality is discerned from our soul-self perspective. — Seeking harmony is good. Seeking or causing disharmony is not bad — it happens for a reason. It is always a sign that more spiritual (inner) work needs to be done. Spiritual activism supports actions, decisions, policies, and people who bring harmony to any challenging situation. That is what we want to support.
3. Have Faith that Source/God/The Universe Knows What It is Doing, and that Everything is Constantly Evolving to Higher Vibrations and Ascension. — Rather than “fighting” against something, add your soul-level “energy” (love) to help it evolve and ascend. — Because Source/God/The Universe knows what it is doing, everything is a purposeful synchronicity for that moment. Our limited 3D ego-self may never know the purpose or lesson our soul-self is delivering. But we trust it is there and we act accordingly toward every person and every event. Remember that you assign the meaning to every interaction and event.
4. Following your Passion — Do what Excites You the Most and Brings Benefit to Others from All that is Available at Any Given Moment — Know that the present is not the result of the past. You create the past and future in the present moment through the vibration that you express. So always choose the highest vibration available at any point in time and allow others to respond to that as they wish.
5. Adopt and Follow a Regular Spiritual Practice. — We are most effective in our actions when we balance 100% outer-self and 100% inner self knowing and action (see section [3]). We cannot force that ideal level of Enlightened Action. But we can lay the groundwork for it through karma yoga (action/lifestyle), meditation, jnana yoga (learning/knowledge), and many other spiritual practices. — See, for example…

We may use these guidelines in diverse ways. One way is to apply them to the past, present, and future of a situation that you are passionate about.

FIRST: Apply the guidelines above to everything that has happened in the past.

Accept and allow the past to be the past. Realize and accept that everyone in the past was behaving in the highest and best way that they could at that time. We may judge the past as “bad” or “good”, but realize that mature people make these judgments in diverse ways. And no one way is the one and only “right” way. Be humble. The ultimate morality is living in harmony with our body, mind, soul, and world.

SECOND: Apply the guidelines above to create the future.

When focussing on the future, generate the energy or vibration that you want to manifest for the future. Be open, innovative, and creative — tap into your soul-self, higher self, or higher consciousness. Everyone wants happiness and harmony. Follow your passion but be humble and aware that each person is doing the best they can from their point of being and that everything is always ascending. Your desire is to help that ascension in the most positive way available to you.

Working on the past and future is a way of shifting timelines. This article might be helpful in that:

“The problems exist in the inner realms — you can solve them there. You help indeed by trying to solve them in your community and in your society. But they will actually be solved in inner reality. Use all of your courage and your brain and solve the problems at their source. Find out what the nature of inner reality is. You can then use inner reality as a secure basis from which you can look outward and see the world’s problems more clearly and in better focus.” — Seth/Jane Roberts, The Early Class Sessions, book 1, ESP class session on April 8, 1969

[5.1] This is Not Easy… and It is Easy

IT IS difficult, if not impossible, to do spiritual activism from our outer-ego level. That ego-self is always wanting to change others. Spiritual activism will never work if that is a goal.

Ideally, we would become completely heart-centered and filled with love within ourselves. We need to work on coming into harmony within ourselves if we want to create harmony in our world. That is why meditation, connecting to our soul, and evolving our inner-self are so important.

We “create” justice by becoming our inner soul-self and acting as best we can from that level of deep creative intuition and loving energy.

Others will change, or not, when they are ready and not because we tried to change them. Maybe they change in reaction to who we are. Maybe they change for other reasons. We can guess, but we can never truly know what motivates another soul.

We can only change ourselves and, as a result, our universe will change because that is how we create our reality. And our outer-reality is a mirror of our inner-reality.

Seth/Jane Roberts suggests…

“The trick is not to try too hard, to realize that the answers are available, that they are there, that you can find them.

All that is necessary is given to the flower. And all that you want will be given to you, but you must want what you want desperately enough, wholeheartedly enough. An intellectual curiosity will give you some answers, but it will not give you the deepest answers.

You must be willing, quite willing; not only willing but anxious to travel in dimensions that you are not acquainted with on an egotistical basis. And into this reality, you do not go as a grown man with preconceived ideas. You go as a wonderer without preconceptions. And you become acquiescent, and the answers are given to you… and to you…. and to you.”

— Seth/Jane Roberts, The Early Sessions, book 9, Session 483 (bold text by me)

• Simcha Lev gave this interesting interpretation of how we can be aware of our nondual self (no other & no time) and be an activist in our actions…

[6] Related Resources

[6.1] ⬇ Here is an extended version of the quote that opened section [3.3] above. Seth, channeled by Jane Roberts, explains the higher dimensional context of the suffering we see in the world. He shows how we should focus our spiritual energy on creating the reality that we want, rather than inadvertently supporting what we do not want.

“You form your own reality. That reality contributes to the experience of others, but each of you possesses a unique, original stance in space and time that is yours alone in quite practical terms, regardless of time’s relative existence.

Only when you operate from your own stance can you help others to the best of your ability. To anticipate danger or to imaginatively take on the troubles of others robs you of the very energy with which you could help them. I am not saying, therefore, to turn your eyes from the unfortunate conditions of the world. Practical help is needed in all areas of the human life. Yet it is far better and more practical, ultimately, to concentrate upon the beneficial elements of civilization — far better to organize your thoughts in areas of accomplishment than to make mental lists of man’s deficiencies and lacks.

Such a practice leads to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, in which effective action seems impossible. Life possesses an exuberance. If this is cherished, nurtured, encouraged, then additional energy is generated that is not needed for the purposes of daily private life — a superabundance that can be effectively directed in those areas of the world where help is most needed.

The strength, vitality, and effectiveness of thought is seldom considered. Thought, you may say, will not stop a war — yet what do you think started such a war? …

Despite all appearances, conditions of an exterior nature do not cause wars, or poverty, or disease, or any of the unfortunate circumstances apparent in the world. Your beliefs form your reality. Your thoughts generate practical experience. When these change, conditions will change. To add your own energy, focus, and concentration to dire circumstances in other portions of the world does not help, but adds to such situations.

To close your eyes to them in an ignorant fashion, to wash your hands of them, so to speak, is equally shortsighted. To pretend such situations do not exist, out of fear of them, will only bring the feared reality closer. It is far better to situate yourself firmly in your own reality, acknowledge it as your own, encourage your strength and creativity, and from that vantage point view those areas of the world or of your own society that need constructive help. Purposefully in your own life, in your daily dialogues with others, in your relationships through your groups or clubs, reinforce as well as you can the strength and abilities of others.

That reinforcement will add to the personal power of all other individuals with whom those people come in contact.”

— Seth/Jane Roberts, The Nature of The Psyche, chapter 11, session 800 on April 4, 1977

[6.2] ⬇ Simcha Lev gave this interesting interpretation of how we can be aware of our nondual self (no other & no time) and be an activist in our actions…

[6.3] ⬇ Andrew Harvey has advocated for what he calls “Sacred Activism” since the 1990s. Like what I try to convey above, it is the integration of spiritual teachings and social activism. His approach is somewhat more aligned with the deeper teachings of traditional religions, which the word “sacred” implies. But his message on his website may resonate with you. (Also listen to this interview with him, on YouTube.)

[6.4] For a quite different take on spiritual activism, see “Buddhist Politics 501". That article/book chapter argues that Libertarianism is the best political path from a Buddhist/spiritualist perspective. Many New Age spiritualists believe that which is why I include this link here. Someone suggested it when I posted the original version of my article, above, on a Facebook group.

From my perspective, any kind of “ism” (including religious/spiritual ones) comes from the ego and duality side of reality and is inherently divisive. Spirituality (which can be an “ism”) requires transcending duality as much as possible, which is what I tried to get across above.

[6.5] I channeled my Energy Group / Higher Self for part of this article. I updated the original in May 2021 based on teachings of Lincoln Gergar, Channel for Higher Self. Additional ideas come from a channeled ET named “Elan”, who I wrote about in Time to Join the ‘Galactic Federation of Worlds’. Harmony, as moral discernment, comes from Pravrajika Divyanandaprana. The original title of this article was “What is Spiritual Activism?”. I changed it to the new title in May 2022. A further update was made in July 2022 to include additional ideas I have come across. A grammar update to clarify some statements was made in March 2023.

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