The Power Of Being Human: Elements Of Spiritual Growth And Development (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781737412427)

Spiritual growth and development is that inner movement toward knowledge and wisdom, where we learn to ultimately address, resolve, or transcend our most challenging questions and heartfelt problems. We approach honest self-understanding and self-realization. We come to understand the nature of our primary creative power and how to direct it constructively. We develop our perception of the ultimate nature of life, the meaning of existence, and the qualities of Spirit, God, Intelligent Infinity.

Chapters include:

• Some Fundamentals of Spiritual Growth and Development.
• Two Selves; Basic Challenges, Problems and Tests.
• The Increasing Need For Our Active, Creative Participation.
• The Increasing Need to Engage With the Subtleties of the "Hidden" Spiritual Realms and the Inner Realities of Our Human Experience
• Living Solely Within The Ego - By Choice... Or By Default.
• Why Is Life So Difficult? (Tests And Challenges In Addition To The Ego And Instincts).
• When We Are Manipulated By Experience: Resistance and Blaming.
• What Way Forward, to Deep Growth and Development? To What Extent Can We Depend On Our Emotions, Feelings, Thoughts, Culture, Beliefs?
• The Increasing Need for a Simple, Basic Acceptance of Experience... and for Neutral Awareness; We, Our Spiritual Selves, Are Not Our Experience.
• Beyond Awareness, Into Perception; Some Problems And Challenges Inherent To Human Perception.
• Why Is It So Easy to Overlook Our Perception?
• Our Self-Conscious Awareness: How Does It Arise, Along with Our Personal Volition and Our Ability to Perceive Time?
• More on Self-Perception and Self-Judgment.
• Spiritual Creativity: Spiritual Self-Direction and Self-Refinement Through Values.