What is Your Spiritual Goal?

What is Your Spiritual Goal?

Tourmalayne trough A. S.

Posted on February 19, 2025

My dearest Earth friends,

It is wonderful to be able to connect to you again.

Today I would like to ask you: what is your spiritual goal? What are you hoping to accomplish with your spirituality?

There is no right or wrong answer here, but it is good to be conscious and to be honest.

People might say that their goal is spiritual growth, but spiritual growth can be quite painful and uncomfortable and perhaps isolating. It won’t necessarily make your life easier or feel good, at least in the short term.

Is spiritual growth what you’re after, even if it doesn’t feel good in the short term?

From what I’ve observed, many spiritual people just want to feel good. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. That’s not a wrong goal to have. It is understandable that people on Earth, who often have suffered much, would have that as their goal.

People’s desire to just feel good is illustrated by the spiritual ego that many spiritual people indulge in — which often feels good to the person who is being spiritually egoic, but it’s obviously detrimental to their spiritual growth.

The desired state of being that many spiritual people strive for is feeling good most of the time, and being unaffected by external negativity.

If you read spiritual sites, it might seem like pretty much everyone is doing amazing and is feeling amazing all the time, and you’re the only one who isn’t.

That really isn’t true. This is just the facebook effect, where people only post their happy moments and are quiet about the things that aren’t happy. In reality, most spiritual people have dysfunction in their lives and they still quite often experience suffering. They just don’t talk about it.

Of the minority of people who genuinely feel good for the vast majority of the time, most of them are in a bubble, for either survival or narcissistic reasons. In this bubble they basically just ignore everything and everyone that isn’t immediately feel-good. They kick everything that isn’t immediately feel-good out of their lives, and they don’t do even nearly as much as they could to help others or to heal their old wounds. And possibly they also suppress their own pain or unhealed parts. So it’s more than them no longer consuming excessive amounts of intel and news and no longer meeting toxic people, which by itself is a fine thing to do.

It may be the case that this person is in survival mode and he or she simply needs a bubble to get through life. So making a bubble for yourself is not necessarily the wrong choice to make. It’s certainly better than just being depressed. People should put their own air mask on first, after all.

On the other hand, some people in a bubble are mostly just interested in having a pleasant life for themselves, and they could do much more to help others but they choose not to. In this case, their bubble is more like a narcissistic kind of bubble, even if they dress up their lives in spiritual statements such as “my service is that I keep my own vibration high.” We’ll address that argument later in this message.

If the person is in a bubble for narcissistic reasons, then that is in fact separation consciousness, because the person in such a bubble is ignoring all the other people who are suffering.

Being in a bubble for narcissistic reasons is a bit like a hand deciding that it wants to keep its vibration high, and therefore it is refusing to extinguish the fire that is currently burning its foot. Because from a unity consciousness perspective, if you are a hand, then that homeless person is like your foot, and it is metaphorically on fire.

From a unity consciousness perspective, spending a substantial amount of time on helping others is the only thing that makes sense.

Now, if the hand is deeply struggling itself, then the hand is ALSO metaphorically on fire, and it’s entirely justified that the hand focuses on putting out its own fire first. In other words, if a person needs a bubble for survival reasons, then that is an entirely valid and possibly necessary choice.

Now, let’s meet Jack. Jack is in a bubble and he is able to bliss out during meditation. He usually feels happy and loving and connected to the universe. He can quote beautiful-sounding spiritual principles. He has some spiritual abilities and can manifest pretty well. He has a nice life. Yet, despite feeling good and having the energy and resources necessary to help others, he is not in fact helping others.

Or picture Teacher Tom. Everything we said about Jack applies to Teacher Tom too, except Teacher Tom sells spiritual courses online for thousands of dollars. Teacher Tom really doesn’t need to charge so much, he just does because he can. Teacher Tom also isn’t isn’t using that money to help others. Instead he’s just hoarding it, or spending it to maintain a fancy, expensive lifestyle.

Now to be clear, it’s absolutely fine if Teacher Tom charges a reasonable sum of money for his services. There’s no problem with that. All I’m saying is that if Teacher Tom charges far more than he needs, and then is just hoarding the money or maintaining an expensive lifestyle, then is Teacher Tom serving others or is he serving himself?

Teacher Tom might present a false binary here, pretending that the only two choices are charging zero dollars and starving, or charging thousands of dollars. But there is a middle ground there where you charge a reasonable amount of money.

Teacher Tom might also argue that it’s fine to charge thousands of dollars, because people should just manifest that money. Perhaps Teacher Tom points to a free manifestation video he made. But there’s an inherent contradiction here. Anyone who can already manifest thousands of dollars at will, perhaps via that free video, may not need Teacher Tom’s course. And people who do really need help may not be able to just spend thousands of dollars on a spiritual course.

At best, Teacher Tom is refusing to help the people who most need his help in favor of people who are already doing pretty well. He’s in the desert and he is selling expensive water to those who already have something to drink, and he is ignoring the people who are dying from thirst.

Jack — the one in the bubble who wasn’t doing anything to help others — and Teacher Tom — the one in the bubble who sells super expensive courses — may very well think they are in unity consciousness. After all, they can bliss out during meditation, they have some spiritual abilities and they have a great life. They feel good most of the time and aren’t bothered by external negativity. Teacher Tom’s very expensive courses may even genuinely be helping out some people.

But in fact, both Jack and Teacher Tom are in separation consciousness.

Why? Because if you’re a hand and you’re doing well and your foot is on fire, and you’re not putting out the fire on your foot, then really you’re proving that you don’t see that foot — that homeless person — as being part of yourself. Therefore, it’s separation consciousness.

If you ignore the foot that is on fire so that you can sell super expensive courses to your shoulder when that shoulder is already doing pretty okay… that is still separation consciousness. Because if your actual foot was on fire — if people really were struggling in awful ways and you saw those people as part of you — then you wouldn’t put up such high pay barriers that most people can’t benefit from your work.

People might at this point argue that the best kind of service they can offer is to keep their own vibrations high. But if your own foot was on fire, would you extinguish the fire or would you let your foot burn while trying to keep your vibration high? If you were struggling, would you want someone else to keep their own vibration high and carefully avoid you, or would you want that person to help you?

There are plenty of ways in which you can profoundly help others — and thereby raise their vibration — at not too much effort to yourself. So if you think that high vibrations of the people of Earth are important — and they are — then helping out others and thereby substantially raising their vibrations is probably more efficient than you just being in a bubble. Except if you’re struggling very much yourself and you need that bubble as a survival strategy.

Someone who is actually in unity consciousness will probably feel that their unity consciousness makes their life harder — because every time they feel reasonably good and rested enough, their unity consciousness will nudge them to take on yet another project to help others. And while it will be very satisfying on one level, it won’t always be fun or comfortable. But then again, it also doesn’t feel good anymore to the unity conscious person to just excessively indulge in fun while their foot is on fire (while other Earth humans are suffering).

A person who is genuinely in unity consciousness may wish on some level they weren’t in unity consciousness, because it’s much nicer to just bliss out and have fun in a bubble than it is to help those who need it the most.

Now, the exception here is a fully enlightened person. Such a person is in unity consciousness, and they’re happy to be in unity consciousness, because they’re not suffering or stressed when taking on projects and doing lots of work and helping large amounts of people. In fact, they love doing that. So fully enlightened people are probably the only ones who enjoy being in unity consciousness.

But unless someone is regularly told by the people around them that their very presence feels amazing, they probably are not fully enlightened.

Hence if anyone claims they are in unity consciousness and they feel amazing and they have a great life… well they’re probably in a bubble, which ultimately isn’t a super advanced state of being. And they might also be doing the facebook thing where they tell you how they feel in their best moments and they don’t tell you about the other half of the time.

The irony is that to a spiritual novice, a well-rested and well-off person in a bubble for narcissistic reasons looks more spiritually advanced than a person who is actually in unity consciousness and who has some amount of stress and fatigue and pain because they’re talking to and empathizing with and working to help others who are suffering.

So, to come back to the earlier question: what is your goal with spirituality? What do you want to reach?

Do you just want a more pleasant and happier and less painful life? Nothing wrong with that — if currently you are struggling, that is quite possibly the best thing to focus on.

Or do you want to help others or be of service?

Or do you want spiritual growth?

Or do you want some kind of mix of improving your own life, helping others and spiritual growth?

If you want spiritual growth, is that for you a means towards a happier life? Or is spiritual growth a goal in and of itself?

If at some point you have to choose between more happiness in the upcoming years and less spiritual growth, or less happiness in the upcoming years and more spiritual growth, then which would you choose?

Or is your goal something that I haven’t mentioned?

There are no right or wrong answers. But it is good to be honest and to be conscious. And I am curious — feel free to share in the comment section, if you wish.

With all my love,

Your star sister,

Tourmalayne

Channel: A.S.

 

For Era of Light

 

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Be conscious about self-labels

 Be conscious about self-labels

Tunia via channel A. S.

Posted on December 28, 2024

 

My dearest brothers and sisters,

This is Tunia speaking. I love you so very much.

I hope you had a great Christmas and happy holidays.

And I hope that you will have a very good new year. I expect that in 2025 things will finally turn around for the better, including on the physical and practical levels. New Earth may not yet fully unfold in 2025, but things will likely significantly improve during 2025.

For today, I want to share something that I hope may be able to help you let go of blocks and barriers, so you can embody love to a deeper degree.

In past messages, we have noted that people often don’t see reality. Instead they see labels. So for example, a person may see someone who is on the other political side not as another person, but instead they may see them as A Democrat or as A Republican.

In that way, they no longer see an individual. Instead, they see someone who is lazy, or someone who is dumb, or someone who is racist, even though they don’t actually know the other person. After all, the other person is a Democrat or Republican, and Democrats or Republicans are lazy, or dumb, or racist.

Now, I don’t want to say that you should never label anyone. After all, your mind is a labeling machine, and if I tell you that you should never label anyone and you accept that statement, then what will likely happen is that you will continue labeling people subconsciously, while telling yourself that you’re objective and that you never label people. And then your shadow and your amount of unconsciousness will grow.

So instead, I will say that you should be conscious about labeling people. Observe yourself, and if you find yourself labeling people and reacting to those labels, then just observe that you’re doing so. And try to be as fair as possible in your words and actions.

And today, I will also note that you should also be conscious about your self-labels. Namely, about the labels that you have put on yourself. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t apply self-labels, but I am saying that you should be conscious about self-labels.

To an extent self-labels are useful. If you earn a living as a programmer, then it’s not that bad to label yourself as a programmer. Or, preferably, to label yourself as a person who makes a living via programming. You are more than your job, after all.

If you care very much about spirituality, then it may be fine to label yourself as a person interested in spirituality.

That said, I would be slightly careful with labeling yourself as a spiritual person, because that can make it sound like everything you do is automatically the spiritually optimal thing to do, because you are a spiritual person.

That is the same pattern that you see when people label themselves as democratic, and then they want to ban for example a political party or political candidate, and they see nothing wrong with that because they have labeled themselves as democratic. So they’re protecting Democracy by banning a political party or politician, and in their mind that makes sense because they have self-labeled as a democratic person, or as a defender of democracy.

Or a person might label themselves as a scientific person, and they might want to ban an expert or a scientist from speaking, and they see nothing wrong with that because they have labeled themselves as a scientist. So they’re defending science by violating the scientific method.

So in that way, positive self-labels can be a bit dangerous, because they can be used to justify behavior that otherwise clearly seems bad.

On the other hand, negative self-labels can make you depressed or can really hold you back from trying things and taking risks and pursuing what you want.

A quality of many Americans, for example, is that they often don’t have “I can’t” as a self-label.

You can really hold yourself back if you label yourself as some kind of victim. Even if you genuinely are a victim in some way, it’s useful to be able to see multiple perspectives. Perhaps one perspective is that you are a victim. And perhaps another perspective is that you still have some genuine qualities or skills. You may still be able to build at least an okay life for yourself. Even if you were dealt a bad hand, that doesn’t automatically mean that your life is destined to be miserable.

Plus, perhaps you genuinely are a victim in one way, but perhaps you also have some amazing talent. Or perhaps you have great parents. Or perhaps you were born with a high IQ. Or perhaps you have good friends. Not everyone has that.

And sometimes people even think they’re being held back by something that they aren’t in fact being held back by. For example, there are women who think their life is harder overall because they’re a woman. And there are men who think their life is harder overall because they’re a man. So, probably at least some people are excessively focusing on the negatives of their situation and are insufficiently looking at the positives.

The grass isn’t actually greener on the other side. It only seems that way if you don’t appreciate your own grass.

Also, different people may go through the same thing and stick wildly different labels on themselves as a result. This means that the labels that you have stuck on yourself may not be the objectively correct ones, and in fact your self-labels might be quite subjective.

For example, imagine that five people have the exact same, very painful childhood. One sees themselves as a victim. One sees themselves as irreparably broken. One sees themselves as a survivor, as a strong person. One sees themselves as having gained important perspective and lessons from their suffering. And one sees themselves as a wounded healer, as someone who can help others because of the suffering they themselves endured.

One experience, five different labels that people can put on themselves. Which means that certain self-labels that people have may be a lot more subjective than they realize.

The words “I am” are powerful, so be conscious about how you use those words.

So, what labels have you stuck on yourself?

I invite you to take a minute to reflect on that.

What kind of person are you?

Again, start out by just observing. Observe first, don’t immediately judge or tear down your labels.

Next up, how do you view your time here on Earth? Is Earth a prison? Is being there pretty okay, despite all the painful and hard things? Is being on Earth just genuinely fun and rewarding? Or do you not enjoy it but you are willing to be of service? Or do you not enjoy it at present but are convinced that if you keep working at it, one day your life will become enjoyable?

If you want to share in the comment section, perhaps anonymously, please feel free to do so. I love hearing what people think.

Regardless of how you label yourself, I think you are amazing, and I love you so very much. You are fully worthy of being embraced as you are right now. And I wish you an amazing Christmas, and indeed a great 2025.

I love you so very much.

Your star sister,

Tunia

For Era of Light

 

These channelings are exclusively submitted to EraofLight.com by the channeler. If you wish to share them elsewhere, please include a link back to this original post.

If you are interested in local meetings with other people also seeking first contact with benevolent ETs, then please see https://eraoflight.com/2024/06/19/hakann-local-meetings-for-those-seeking-first-contact-with-benevolent-ets/ . If you search with control-F for @, then you can quickly find email addresses of those who are organizing local groups. It’s also not too late to post a new (secondary) email address yourself to start a new local group, because we plan to keep linking to that post for the foreseeable future.