Enlightenment: not only a game, it’s also a competition ;)

(This post was originally written with “Anton”, hence the “we” instead of “I”.)

Although most spiritualists would hesitate to admit it, we have noticed that even highly advanced souls take spirituality as a competition – we are no exception. Why we bring this up is that feeling competitive is one of those traits that we instinctively try to oppress and play down and deny when we discover them in ourselves. Oppression of emotions is never a good idea; what we should do is to channel them into something that is either harmless or for our benefit. Competition is one of those things that will make us reach forward, do better, be better, faster, quicker, smarter. This is the reason we evolve.

I am in a constant telepathic connection with Anton. Unfortunately, I cannot hear his every thought, or rather, unfortunately, he hears all of mine. This includes the moments when I realise that I’ve figured something out before anyone else in the universe and I get an instinctive “SCORE!” emotion coming through. This is totally embarrassing when we’re talking to God at the time or some highly evolved spirit or soul, or even worse, someone who is less advanced than we are. Of course, we all carve our own paths to solve this puzzle and what I understand is not directly comparable to what someone else understands or knows, so the emotion is not completely rational. The point of it is that I discovered something of high value to me before anyone else did, and God damn me if that’s not a good enough reason to feel proud. (And he won’t damn me, no.)

Spiritual teachings do not allow emotions like feeling competitive over spiritual matters. Yet you can sense the point scoring whenever you talk to another spiritualist, be it New Age, Christianity or any other philosophy. We’re even scoring points against each other, Anton and I, and I’m winning! (And I’m the one who gets to hit “publish” on this post so he can’t argue on that one. 😀 “This is true – this is Anton intercepting – this is completely true, no point arguing!”) What we must do is not allow the emotion of competition consume us, whether we’re winning or losing, and try to just laugh it off if we can’t do anything else. I personally suck at losing so I’m not one to give you pointers, but it does help a lot to just allow yourself the emotion of being elated by winning or being crushed by losing. A 12-year old girl taught me how to lose. She kept beating me in a video game and I hated it. Eventually, all I could do was to admit she was better at it than I was and suck it up, and then I was able to laugh it off.

Suppressing the negative emotions that will arise – what humans consider negative emotions that is – will make them fester. You have to release them somehow, and the first step to it to accept you felt that emotion. Allowing yourself to feel it doesn’t make you a bad spiritualist or a horrible person, it makes you a free spirit. A spirit will never attempt to suppress their emotion because it can’t. The second you feel it or think it, every other soul around you is already aware of it and trying to deny it makes you look like an asshole. 😀 The only thing left to do is to laugh at yourself and your weaknesses and apologise if you must. You cannot begin to guess the amount of apologising I’ve done over the last few months and I don’t like apologising any more than losing!

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