Continuously feeling good and staying in alignment so that you can remain open and allow positive energy to flow into your life is the first step in the Law of Allowing. This is when you begin to see past what is to what could be. But in order to get to what could be, you need to master the second step and this is the one people have the most trouble with.
The second part of the Law of Allowing says that you allow people to have, do, or be, or say whatever they want. This means that you don’t cast any judgment on them at all no matter what. You’re in such alignment that you have no feelings whatsoever about how others live their lives.
Based on the Law of Allowing, the Process Perspective points us directly to the liberating viewpoint that emerges when we see every aspect of our human experience as part and parcel of the vast impersonal cosmic process. The Law of Allowing compels us to embrace nothing less than a cosmocentric orientation to life. And most importantly, engaging with this perspective enables us to break through the habit of compulsive personalization that so many of us are painfully trapped in.
Looking through the lens of this perspective, you recognize all events and experiences--both internal and external--to be products of an evolutionary process, and you see all those events and experiences from the perspective of that process rather than from the vantage point of the personal ego.
When you fully embrace this perspective, it's as if you become the whole process looking at a very small part of itself, rather than that small part beholding the entire process from afar. It's like seeing everything that occurs from the outside in, as opposed to from the inside out. And this outside-in perspective changes how you see what your see in a dramatic and liberating way. Now you see what once appeared to be discrete events as being interconnected--all the way from a shooting star in the night sky to a devastating flood to the global economic recession to the sound of a dog barking in the yard to the thrill of meeting a lover after a prolonged separation. All you see is one vast unbroken continuum.
That process has both an interior dimension and an exterior dimension. The exterior is matter--the Milky Way, Mount St. Helens, Manhattan, your physical body, a winter coat. The interior is your experience of subjectivity, consciousness, self-reflective awareness. It is also emotions like love and fear, the experience of higher cognition, and the mystical feeling of Being.
The process is you. What is so important about this shift of perspective is that you see your own sense of self as not separate, at any level, from this vast unfolding stream of development.
Through practicing, we discover the liberating truth that life is not a personal drama but is in fact an impersonal process. This shift of perspective enables us to powerfully penetrate the walls of our separate, personal existence. This "impersonal view" opens up a portal to enlightened awareness, because it renders transparent that which once appeared to solid.
When you contemplate the truth of process and impersonality, you awaken to the transparency of the material world and experience direct access to what is at the heart of evolution and is driving it forward in every moment.
Awakening to the Process Perspective has nothing to do with being removed or cold or unfeeling or uncaring. It means transcending the personal world of the separate self to such a degree that you find you care about others, about the world, about the life process itself, in a much deeper and more profound way than you ever imagined possible.
To deeply grasp the liberating truth that you are not a personal drama but an impersonal process, you will need to practice this shift of perspective over and over again. You may glimpse it for a moment, but for the Process Perspective to have the power to liberate your awareness, you need to make the noble effort to look through this lens every day. We all already know what our experience looks like through the lens of the ego's conditional habit of personalization, but this Law of Allowing points to a very different and less familiar way to see the human experience.
If you want to become an evolutionary enlightened person, this is a perspective that needs to be cultivated until it becomes habitual.
Source: Andrew Cohen: Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening
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