The Covetous Psychrobe

We are all slaves to our own intrinsic belief system and there is nothing we can do to escape from it. But this is not something to worry about because what’s in our belief system is what we want in it: we hope. In other words, we are slaves to a master of our personal designation.
But all is not quiet on our submissive front.
A human being is born into the world with a preordained belief system, evolved over many previous incarnations, which will determine the initial course of its life and will evolve further as it perpetually interprets its relationship with its present incarnate experience. It is the human being’s belief system which holds the key to its concept of material wealth, amongst many other things. And it is this key which unlocks the “door” to everything it believes it needs to be a viable human being, in the sense of fulfilling its worthiness to itself in cohesion with the rest of humanity.
Because human existence (human awareness) is essentially an imaginary conceptualisation, outpictured as the manifest world, what we have in our belief system determines what we conceptualise and as our conceptualised imagination outpictures, what we essentially want in our life, materialises. (Just quietly, this is an extreme oversimplification).
So, basically, we really don’t have any control over what materialises in our life because we cannot change our belief system on a whim. Not that we are likely to ever need to because our belief system, also determines our persona, and therefore, what we get in our life should be synonymous with who we inherently are.
What could be more straightforward than that?
Yes, but worryingly, the human psyche is the most unstable faculty in existence and the “elemental” structure of it, is a conglomeration of many dubious characteristics, not least of which is covetousness. Without this insidious characteristic, we could be a much happier and content bunch of beings, but sadly, we often are not, because whatever we have in our belief system is regularly usurped by our egocentric, covetous nature which makes it one of the most ruinous contributors to our sense of well-being.
What this insidious little psychrobe does, is sabotage our inherent belief by implanting a counterfeit one in our imagination. And because our imagination is determined by our belief system we end up with the manifest expression of something that is incongruent with our overall concept of ourselves. In a way, we could live with this, except that, it underhandedly changes the way we view the world and how we interact with other people. We come across with less integrity and others can sense that we are insincere. Not to mention the fact that we are now, partially enslaved to what is already manifest rather than what we genuinely believe. It’s okay to be enslaved by our inherent belief system because it treats us in the manner we want to be treated but to be sold as slaves to a foreign “power” is bad news.
To be a happy human being we have to try to understand who we are, or rather, who we believe we are. If we are not happy, a major reason for this is that we are not living the life of ourself. Our ego has a need to be accepted, more often than not, by other people but it can survive solely on self-acceptance if it understands its true underlying nature. Acceptance is a fundamental condition for survival. Put it this way, if we don’t accept ourselves we can’t maintain a manifest persona because our actual presence in the world is predicated on the acceptance of ourselves as viable human beings.
This prerequisite for survival through acceptance, leads us overcompensate as we try to gain acceptance through universality. As we grow up, our relationship with our friends evolves and we become more discerning and more desirous to be normal, as in, similar to everyone else in a material sense, but, with our own unique personality.
The trouble is, this uniqueness comes from being dissimilar, so something has to give. If we want to be genuine people we have to maintain our material expression in line with our own persona and not with our egocentric inclination to want to be admired. And we can easily accept this and be happy in ourselves if we KNOW ourselves in relation to the world.
And often this can take many, many years because we haven’t learned it. What will often happen, is we’ll get into our fifties or sixties and wonder why we haven’t achieved what we think we should have. Or we have achieved great material success but are not happy. And there are those who come to the realisation of who they are late in life and become content in that understanding, and adjust their lives accordingly to accommodate it. Usually, this is a minor adjustment because they most likely came to know who they are by arriving there fortuitously. The only adjustment they have to make is to gratefully accept it.
So get to know who you are. There are many Gurus out there who tell you they can change you into something great or how to become a new you. This is mostly false. I’m not knocking them for doing it, after all, you are facilitating it, all I’m saying is, they cannot make or change you into something you are not.
Many of these “life-changing” retreats or seminars do work for most of the participants for a while, sometimes a few weeks or months, but on the whole they don’t “stick”. However, their teaching will take permanent root in a few, because there will be those whose core beliefs are in line with it, and it will seem like second nature to them. They might have previously “felt” it but hadn’t realised it until it was laid out by the motivator.
But for the rest, what they learn will slowly fade away because it doesn’t relate to who they intrinsically are. Some people participate in many seminars until they finally find one that inherently relates to who they are and it “sticks”. But there are many who never find the course that “connects” with them.
This whole learning process can be problematic because of this insidious covetous psychrobe. Many people tend to go from Personal Wealth seminars to Personal Wealth seminars because they want what others outwardly have, not realising, that outward personal wealth is not part of who they are. Still, along the way some of them pick up insights into their true nature and skew over in that direction.
Unfortunately, our true nature is often pushed down deep inside our psyche as we grow up and are taught the ways of our material world, so it’s understandable that it can take a while to resurface again. The key is, try to find something that you instinctively relate to, and even though it might not seem what you want at the time, when your core belief is acknowledged, even if only briefly, it will open up inside you and change your longing to a sense of belonging. You’ll know when you’re on your right path because life will seems like an influx of fresh air, even though it might actually be more grueling. Doing an arduous job you instinctively identify with, is so much easier than doing an undemanding job that is not in you.
If you know something about the New Testament gospels, you can relate this essay to the Parable Of The Sower. If what you are being taught is not “in you” it won’t take root. A particular teaching has to find a belief system that will immediately latch on to it and never let go. There are many messages out there, and in you, is the perfect soil for one of them. But don't try to find your true path based on covetousness.