Reclaiming Our Essential Nature

We are continuing our Sunday series based on the book, Birthing a Greater Reality: A Guide for Conscious Evolution by Robert Brumet. This week's exploration considers the process by which we lost touch with our essential (spiritual) nature, instead identifying with the persona formed around our ego-identity.

I know that we are all well past our formative years- so you may be asking, why are we re-hashing our childhood at this point? The answer is that we are conscious evolution.

That process also holds the key to a deeper sense of freedom, purpose and peace for us as individuals. We are being called to wake up to the ways that we have mistaken our identity and to reclaim the truth of our essential nature- that which is Spirit within us. While this does take into consideration the psychological aspects of our identity, it is ulimately a spiritual issue in that we have mistakenly intentified with our persona over our true, essential nature. 

I will let  the following excerpts from Brumet explains this process:

The human personality develops so that we can survive and function in the world. We have already addressed our human dilemma of living with two conflicting drives: rhe drive to survive as a separate entity and the drive to experience our true self, to be all that we are capable of becoming. Our deepest need is to experience our essential nature, but this need is usually trumped by our survival needs (Brumet, pg. 79).

In a perfect world, personality is integrated with essential nature and is an expression of it. When parents are consciously attuned to their own essence, they are able to perceive their child's essential nature. As the child's needs are met with her essential nature recognized and supported, the personality will develop as a natural expression of the essential nature. The child develops an inherent faith in life and in herself; she learns to rely upon her own essential nature to function in this world (Brumet, pg. 79).

But this is very rare. Most often our needs were not met in this way. Most likely, our parents were imperfect human beings who lived ignorant of their own essential nature; they were probably identified with their personality. As such, they were most likely wounded by their past and carried unhealed wounds within their own psyche. They, too, lived in a culture that did not support their essential nature. Our parents could not give us what they did not have, and they could not help but pass some of their own wounding on to us. Even the most well-meaning parents cannot give their children the essential support they are unable to experience within themselves 

(Brumet, pg. 80).

In order to survive we unknowingly abandon our essential self and follow the instructions provided by our caregivers and by the world around us. In a multiplicity of ways we were taught not to trust our own essential nature. We learned to rely on the outside world, not only for our survival but also for our identity itself (Brumet, pg. 80). 

As we we come to understand this process, we can consciously enage in the process of reclaiming our essential nature. 

Join us at 10am as we contiune this exploration!