When we talk about spiritual evolution a window of ideas, beliefs and hypotheses is opened that directly relate the spiritual to the religious, or that rule out the religious from its true meaning. Both approaches have, as is to be expected, defenders and detractors, who defend their points of view using endless scientific, religious, mystical and some fanciful arguments.
Spirituality goes beyond a religion. Although many times it goes hand in hand with it; embedding itself in the depths of our being, calling us to think, feel and act based on a series of values that show us that we are on this planet fulfilling a mission and that we must do our best.
In this sense, what we call spiritual evolution it is intimately linked to the understanding of the natural laws that govern the universe and therefore humanity. These natural laws find in energy the basis for existence, since it is found in everything that exists and has been the main engine that originated life in the universe.
According to some scholars of the subject, the process of spiritual evolution It takes place according to three states of consciousness in human beings.
First level. «ordinary state»
In this man clings to the events that have happened in his life since his birth and those that are likely to occur later. This causes them a constant anguish that does not allow them to live the present moment to the fullest, enjoying the achievements and good times to the fullest and learning from negative experiences.
If you attach great importance, for better or worse, to the opinions of others and constantly expect to please others in order to be recognized, you will tend to move away from a basic question about who you really are, to allow others to define you, creating a dependency on the approval of other people to follow your path and make ordinary and/or significant decisions that could affect your life in a decisive way. Therefore, at this level of consciousness the greatest obstacle is the ego, which must be overcome, leaving aside the need to stand out and be accepted in order to seek truth and absolute freedom.
Second level. «Awakening of consciousness»
This begins to emerge when we recognize that we are dependent and even slaves of our thoughts, ideas, emotions, and above all of the social roles that we must fulfill. Although the fulfillment of roles is of the utmost importance for the construction of a just and free society, we should not be slaves to it.
However, this should not be confused with the irresponsibility that is often generated by not fulfilling life commitments, falling into inaction that affects our environment, such as specific examples we can cite: abandonment of children, the elderly, dishonest acts such as delinquency and all that it carries.
In this sense, all our actions must be motivated by love and the desire for self-knowledge, in order to understand that everything that has been created in the world is transitory and only what we create for ourselves can make it permanent until we decide. . Here the process of «give and receive» plays a fundamental role, which according to Deepak Chopra is the first spiritual law of success. Therefore, if we are aware of the importance of this process, we are heading towards the discovery of who we really are.
Third level. «Absolute Freedom»
We must achieve absolute freedom so that our consciousness evolves, through the total acceptance of the present and the celebration of the now, day by day, minute by minute, freeing ourselves from the past with the good and the bad, and from its expectations for the future, concentrating in living the present just like that: a gift. At this level you learn that true freedom consists in accepting life as it is, without judging or analyzing, but simply contemplating and accepting with gratitude.
By taking a step forward to pass from an ordinary state of consciousness to an awakening of consciousness, the doors will open to meet a spiritual being who is free and aware of his now, who can achieve great things on the spiritual, human plane. , social and material, the material should not necessarily be excluded, since we live in a third dimension that leads us to touch and need the physical world to survive.
Everything must start by achieving a change of consciousness to reach the self-knowledge of what we really are inside, it means, therefore, reconnecting with our inner self, giving a main place to the divine and the celestial as part of ourselves, understanding that we are a small part of that God who guides our steps.
The change of consciousness and spiritual evolution
Achieving this includes a process of transforming ideas, beliefs, habits and attitudes that makes us feel things differently and therefore leads us to act internally and externally based on freedom and love, using our energy as a fundamental pillar throughout everything. the process, in the here and now.
These cosmic energies influence our inner being to determine our aptitudes and attitudes, our way of life and style, preferences, feelings, thoughts, creating an energetic or vibratory field that directly affects the so-called aura on which many aspects of our lives depend. lives, including our physical and mental health. Therefore, by changing consciousness, this vibratory and energetic field is reinforced and makes us transcend to dimensions where the mysteries and enigmas that life contains can be more easily understood.
Consequently, the spiritual evolution It is achieved with an awakening of consciousness to go in search of absolute freedom, leaving behind the ties of mental and material order on this earthly plane and that do not allow us to have an understanding, acceptance and application of the natural laws of the universe, since which we all have access to, if we set our minds to it, with firm intentions and detachment from results.
The creation of a full awareness of the world that surrounds us and how it works, makes us more human, more understanding of the reality that other people live, in order to apply our empathy for humanitarian causes that help us to evolve spiritually, since It is also about acting, putting into practice what we think and say, through actions aimed at improving the world.