During my 24 years of spiritual training, I have realized that many people had misunderstandings and misconceptions regarding the four phases of spiritual growth, spiritual training, spiritual power training and spirit training. To be sure, many heroes were already on their path of exploration, but their incorrect thinking and behaviors created some “stereotype”. We can’t blame them because they are heroes who are exploring their inner self. No one should be blamed because “on the way back home” we are “one.” Not like others, these heroes are willing to be the first one to step out to explore blindly on the path of truth. Like blind men, they touched an elephant’s trunk, ears or legs and thought they had found truth. How could we insist that they are “wrong?” Perhaps it is their courage that allowed us to see clearly what truth really is.
It does not matter which state of consciousness you are in, whatever experience you have had, or if you believe there is a “greater” power than the self. Instead, what matters is whether you are willing to give yourself a chance to know yourself and the world once again, and whether you have the desire to explore, and discover a new, unknown world.
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The moment you feel the “current that runs in your heart” or when you get a feeling like “Yes! This is it,” it means you know that you are flying in the mysterious and infinitive sky. There is a well-known old saying from the Bible: “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32, World English Bible)
This word, “truth,” has caused countless conflicts, arguments, debates and even wars in human history. You will acquire a brand-new vision and wisdom once you approach it, experience it, and feel its existence.
In fact, all founders of religions and their gods share the same identity of “wisdom-body” but take on different “metaphors” and “masks.” They all represent the mysterious “ultimate foundation,” the cosmic source, the origin beyond everything, which is also the origin of the profound mystery in everyone’s mind.
You will recognize the existence of unity when you approach the ultimate foundation. It integrates science and religion; body and mind; West and East, and allows all humans to break through various conscious barriers to be unified as one based on mutual understanding.
You may transform your thoughts into exploration. When you embark on the hero journey, you may convert knowledge into wisdom and experience what I have experienced - “frisson” triggered by one’s profound experience, as proposed by Vladimir Nabokov. *1 This profound resonance of “frisson” that is evoked from your deep soul will bring you unimaginable ecstasy.
Overall, this is not an easy book for you to read, it might even make you feel uncomfortable, because many things challenge your consciousness as well as completely deviate from the world and dogma you have expected. This book might let you clearly know your spiritual status and blind spots, no matter how long you have been on this path, no matter if you are a friar, cultivator and healer with decades of cultivation. The arguments in the book might activate your “self-defense” mechanism and you may thing that “this book sucks!” Even worse, you may want to throw it into the trash can.
This book may be different from other books on spiritual growth; it will let you clearly see the current situation, challenges and trials in our society. When it comes to “the origin of the profound mystery,” either “the people of the world and the supra-mundane,” or your internal and external parts, are inseparable as “one.”; the reason why this book exposes the world crisis is to give more people the courage to step out of their comfort zone, enhance their own sustainable cultivation, and do something to contribute to the whole of mankind. Perhaps you are someone who refuses to turn on the TV to look at the world trend, or you are a “hermit” living in the city, and you might hate this book, feel sick of it or even feel annoyed.
This book offers a distinctive energy of “the source field of divinity”. For me, each page, each chapter, each picture, each voice, each feeling, and each touch that is evoked in your mind is like a “wormhole of consciousness”, a “door” or a “significant point” that has enormous power of mental healing. It enables you to move into the vast ubiquitous “intelligent ontology” (Big Data), even into the consciousness and state you have never had.
I hope that every lucky reader who has picked up this book can go home with their inner self: their own gods. Through the four phases in the evolution of human consciousness – confusion, enlightenment, exploration, and cultivation, we can find a solution to the greatest obstacle between us and the world, that is, some problems and errors we think we can never solve, due to some misconceptions and old perceptions. We can be reborn from old perceptions through courage, accept new wisdom from real, powerful awakening, thereby display some enlightening light from our human nature. Thus, the world will be filled with hope and vision.
Are you ready?
A long-awaited heroic journey begins from here.