by Lawrence Wilson, MD

ATTITUDES AND DEVELOPMENT

Certain attitudes seem to favor the type of spiritual development that is advocated on this website. Other attitudes seem to block development, or at least slow it down.

The most obvious attitude that is helpful is openness to change and growth on many levels. The most damaging attitude is thinking that one knows it all, and that one can just dream or believe whatever one wishes and the process of development will occur. This latter attitude usually leads to sloppy eating, sloppy lifestyles and greatly slows development.

This is different from an attitude of “I don’t know”, or just plain ignorance of these matters. Some rather ignorant and agnostic people develop very well because little is in their way to block it and their underlying attitudes are often excellent. This means they are basically hard-working, self-sacrificing, caring people who keep a positive attitude.

Stress and development. It is important to note that stressors of various kinds seem to promote development, while others do not. For example, giving to others and caring for others in a genuine way is helpful, even if it is wearing on the person. Stress due to hunger, extreme poverty, war and such is usually not helpful, however, as it causes so much fear.

Letting go of the ego is always helpful. Egotistical attitudes such as arrogance, know-it-all, closed mindedness, meanness, competitiveness beyond a healthy competition in business, for example, are not helpful.

A spiritual arrogance is particularly harmful, since, in fact, this type of development is extremely complex. It is far more complicated than one can even imagine. Thinking one understands spiritual matters therefore usually gets in the way. Development has to do with the opening of the seven major chakras or energy centers of the physical body. This is discussed in a separate article entitled The Chakras. It also entails the development of the seven subtle human bodies with names such as the etheric body (the main one at this time), and others such as the whole body, mental body, spirit body and others.

OTHER IMPORTANT ATTITUDES FOR DEVELOPMENT

Many other attitudes may help promote mental development. These include such things as openness to guidance, openness to compassion for oneself, and willingness to let go of all of one’s past, if needed, in order to heal the physical and other bodies and allow them to grow and develop.

Others include a certain courage to move ahead into the unknown, a certain type of fearlessness, and a certain relaxed quality that allows one to move ahead without too much fear or drama. Healing reactions that will occur provide enough drama for most people.

Other important personal qualities include a healthy sense of discipline to keep one focused on the path ahead, and a willingness, particularly, to take the time to rest more, eat very well, and do the procedures such as saunas and coffee enemas. These are essential, in fact.

Another, more subtle factor in development is a willingness to learn new things each day. It may seem surprising, but learning anew is very difficult for most people. They have fixed ideas about the truth of things, and when these are challenged, many people feel quite uncomfortable. In part this is due to conditioning from schooling. However, it is also a psychological fact with many people who build their lives and identities upon certain foundations that they feel they must maintain.

Another very important attitude has to do with contentment. People who are restless and must travel a lot, must be with new people a lot, need their friends, must speak on the phone daily with family and friends, and so on, will have a much harder time.

Travel. Frequent travel interferes with development in most cases. It is far more difficult to rest adequately, eat well, take saunas and coffee enemas, and to study and relax when traveling.

Air travel, in particular, is quite toxic. One is exposed to quite a bit of toxic radiation at the airports and due to high-altitude travel. One must also breathe less than pure air for hours on planes, and often one is exposed to many germs on planes as well. Some aircraft are also sprayed with pesticides and toxic cleaning agents on a regular basis.

Hotel rooms are often sprayed with pesticides or may not be as clean as they could be. Restaurant food is variable, and one may have more difficulty finding healthy food, though most restaurants today offer eggs, fresh meats and fresh cooked vegetables. As a result, members of the “jet set” generally do not develop well at all. If you must travel for business or other reasons, please recognize the problems, bring your own food and water as much as possible, and take extra precautions to rest enough and relax.

Another helpful attitude is a spiritual focus for one’s life. This might be working as a healer, reading the bible every day, going to church regularly, or even a true love of nature and spending time in nature every single day by taking a walk in the woods, for example. This is subtle, but quite powerful. It probably helps by separating a person from “lower chakra” concerns which include money, power, family, friends, sex, and even some kinds of fraternal or romantic love that can become obsessions for millions of people. Having a spiritual focus has to do with giving to others, particularly to strangers, self-sacrifice, and letting go of selfish considerations that rule so many people’s lives.

Even having a business that is not seemingly spiritual is helpful. On the other hand, taking welfare and spending one’s days at the pub, the coffee shop, or the bars and the parks, is not nearly as helpful. This may have to do with self-reliance, one of the attitudes that is also helpful for development. This is one reason that welfare states seem to do less well with development in most cases. The United States is currently transforming into a welfare state, and so I hope that trend will be reversed.

RELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT

Organized religions are helpful for development. This is the reason I believe they will remain for many centuries on the planet. This does not mean they won’t change, but they do help millions of people develop to a small degree, at least. They do this in many ways. Among them, however, is to foster a lot of the attitudes that are discussed in this article. Also, they should help people live more peaceful, orderly, healthful lives.

Among the organized religions, the best, in my experience so far, is Christianity. It is not clear to me why this is so, but it seems to work well, and this is quite a consistent finding. Judaism is not as good as Christianity, but not bad.

Buddhism and Hinduism are not as good as these others, perhaps in part because they suggest vegetarian diets, which we find are absolutely harmful for development. This may have to do with the low zinc content of most vegetarian food, or perhaps deficiencies of sulfur amino acids in vegetarian and raw foods. Islam is about as good as Judaism or Hinduism, in terms of helpfulness with development.

Sadly, new age thinking and religion is actually harmful, in my view, for development in almost all cases. This includes the newer churches such as Unity, Science of Mind, Ethical Culture and Unitarianism. While I am not sure, I believe the reasons are that these religions make things “too easy” for people. Little discipline and sacrifice are required. Few doctrines are taught and those that are taught are quite mild, by comparison with traditional religions. This is just an educated guess as to why people in these groups do not seem to develop as well. One possible reason is that Christianity, most of all, teaches a person that only God understands and one must let go of figuring out the reasons for everything. The new age churches often use affirmations that encourage a person to “think their way to success”. This is not the same as letting go and letting God, for instance. The latter approach seems to favor development much more.

POLITICS, NATIONALITY AND ATTITUDES

An interesting area has to do with one’s political leanings. A love of freedom is an important quality for development. We find much slower development in those who are living under communism and socialism, for example. Americans have developed fastest, in general, but many are now so ill, and with many, especially in California and New York, their attitudes are much less freedom-oriented than before. I hope this changes back soon.

The next best nations appear to be Australia and New Zealand. Next appears to be areas such as Germany, Ireland, and parts of the former Soviet Union such as the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia. Romania, Hungary, Poland and other Eastern European nations are also gaining some momentum, although poverty also slows their development to some degree. For development to occur, one must usually have enough good food and water, and at least a little free time to contemplate and for recreation.

Southern Europe is not developing as well for unknown reasons. Perhaps this has to do with diet or other factors. People in southern areas of the world seem to develop slower.

Attitudes that are not helpful, for example, are rigid thinking, guilt, shame, anger, hopelessness and a desire to control others. Political attitudes that appear helpful include a desire for freedom, a positive outlook, and what are called free market, laissez faire capitalistic attitudes that encourage freedom, hard work, entrepreneurship, making money, and following your dreams – and allowing others to do so as well.

The use of drugs such as marijuana is growing fast in America. We find that ALL DRUGS, including cannabis, hinder or stop development altogether. This occurs for several reasons that I want to elaborate upon:

1. The drugs are toxic. I don’t care what “studies” show, all mind-altering substances are highly toxic to the brain or they would not have the effects that they have. Smoking anything, of course, is totally toxic to the lungs, throat, and bronchial tubes.

2. Drugs take one away from one’s center. This is obvious to anyone who has tried cannabis, or any other toxic substance. Often this is the reason why people enjoy the use of the substance.

3. Drugs often deaden very delicate nerve centers in the brain. This is why they appear to stop or interfere with development in an important way. Drugs may do this by interfering with the nutrition of the brain, or by more subtle means. Regardless of how it works, it is always damaging.
Please do not make this mistake and believe that some drugs, notably marijuana or a little alcohol for social drinking, is okay. They are not okay if one wishes to develop quickly and easily. In most cases, we find we must remove all residues of all drugs taken in the past for development to proceed well. Fortunately, sauna therapy with a near infrared light sauna, along with coffee enemas, are most helpful for this purpose.

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