Reality Check: Is it them or is it me?

Any form of spirituality of religion that ignores and does not address the reality of our emotions is at best slow as a snail or at worst inefficient and bound to fail.

Every human being faces the gap between how we envision life to be and how it actually is. In that gap, we activate frustration and irritation, and as this frustration and irritation accumulates without being addressed, it gradually morphes into anger. As this hidden and unexpressed anger accumulates, it comes along with a quest for release. But because our society generally does not condone the release of anger, we seek situations that give us justification to release this anger. Therefore, when we clearly determine that “somebody else is wrong,” then we enter the path of unleashing our negativity upon the target. This target can be just about anything: The person who cuts in line at the grocery store, or the man/country with the wrong religious or political orientation. Once we have the target that deserves to be hit with our now sanctified, self-righteous anger, we let him have it. This takes place on the individual and collective level and is so subtle and fast, it takes incredible training to intercept.

To even go so far as to admit that we carry multiple dimensions of poison within that require cleaning, that itself takes a great deal of maturity. It really is easier to point and say, “You make me do it.” And then to go about and actually clean out the dark chambers of our life takes even more maturity.

There are very few spiritual avenues that I am aware of that present a clear and concise insight into the need to clean our negative emotions on a daily level, not just to maintain a basic level of sanity, but to clean it to a point that awakening becomes possible.
This severe presence of negative emotions in human beings is the reason why we do not access our deeper core, where awakening resides, even if we try hard with all forms of meditation and prayer. (Besides, it is painful and unpleasant.)

Yesterday I read a piece by Sri Chimnoy. He gave a pristine, crystal-clear presentation of the various levels of Samadhi (Awakening) that simply impressed me. He also said that none of his students where nowhere near to having Samadhi experiences. This admission shocked me, but I was again impressed by his honesty. Of course, given the man taught for over 40 years, this is a sad recognition. The question of course arises, what was missing in the body of his teachings?

One of the first steps to cleaning up our hidden negative emotions is to identify our shadow, our personal saboteur, always waiting to sabotage us just at the right moment.

Imagine you are facing your shadow, your saboteur in the chair opposite you. Ask: What is your name? How do you sabotage me? Do this and be surprised, because you will hear an answer.

Oh, a bio...

Various sources are requesting a bio to better present our work. So, here are some biographical notes.

Andreas Mamet has been on the spiritual journey since 1973 and was initially trained in Hatha Yoga, Mantra and Kriya Meditation. In 1975 he went to the Himalayas in India for six months. There he received further training from yogis in caves and ashrams at the Ganges and the Tibetan border. In 1976 he returned to India. For the next 5 years he continued to deepen his practice there.

In 1981 he toured Japan, the USA and Germany where he began to give his SHAKTI workshops that were aimed at sharing with participants what he calls “the opening of the inner space.”
He lived in Mount Shasta, CA, for 18 years. He met his wife Raylene in 1996 and now teaches with her in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A.

“When your inner space opens and expands to the point that you recognize other beings to exist within that same space, you have reached the beginning of substantial spiritual cultivation. From that point your relationship with “others” changes.”
Andreas Mamet

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Raylene Abbott’s spiritual training has spanned over the last 30 years and she received initiations by both Western and Eastern traditional teachers. She has formed the essence of this training into teachings relevant for our contemporary world. These teachings recognize the need for balancing the masculine and feminine at this point in history.

She is an international author. Her book In Between the Visions, available on www.amazon.com, has been also published in France as L’Emergence de la Femme Divine (The Emergence of the Divine Woman). This same book is now also published in Italy and Japan.

Raylene has been traveling and teaching with her husband Andreas Mamet over the last three years in Europe and Japan.
http://lamoursacre.tripod.com
www.sacredjourneyeurope.blogspot.com