Higher Knowledge is Real Knowledge

This is an interesting perspective and overview, I would like to add a few aspects from my own perspective. In the article it is stated “Higher knowledge will not replace common sense, experience, hard work, or economic imperative.” My sense with this is that higher knowledge is like growing taller, you cannot be smaller. You will see more (awareness) rather than remember more. Intellect can be viewed as filling up ones knowledge and winning through argument. Higher knowledge is about win/win and wisdom, it is about less knowledge and deeper knowing. For example you know if you are in love, it is not a maybe. So you are seeing ‘what is’ without judgement rather than projecting onto the world conditioned beliefs. It is expanded awareness rather than replacing existing knowledge. The existing knowledge falls away as you discard a toy. The world for you does indeed change as service is desired over being served. You no longer desire the drama, you simply go with the flow of life, understanding there is an intelligence there. It is no longer about ‘what you do’ it is about ‘who you are.’ That insight emerges from a feeling of love for others, a unity consciousness. In my view the higher knowledge doesn’t come from external teachings it comes from within. You know it is true as a deep happiness or sense of being ‘in love’ emerges in your daily life. It is a deep sense of happiness not caused by anything or anyone. That would be my experience of it.

http://www.spiritualityandcommunity.com/magazine/iss0307/highknow.pdf

Higher Knowledge: The Enriching & Enabling Factor

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Most people would agree, we all want to live in a kinder, more humane world. A world
where there is respect for human life, economic resources are shared, and the old and infirm are
treated with dignity. In each of these areas there is room for improvement. Economically, many
are still without the basic necessities of life and go hungry. Even in the richest country on earth,
often the sick go untreated.

Further most would agree, somehow, as a planet we need to work together to share our
natural resources and improve our collective circumstance. It is at this point, when we try to
identify and prioritize what areas need improving and how we are to accomplish this all, we start
to disagree and things break down.

Rationale or linear thought is able to tackle some of these problems, offering possible
solutions; however, this form of thought is not able to solve all problems. It has limitations and,
in some areas, is like the cart and horse that is without a driver and going around in circles.
Generally, for problems which involve the needs of many, there is no balancing factor and the
needs of one group bounce unsuccessfully against the needs of others. In situations like this,
self-interest repeatedly rears its head and there appears to be no corrective. Many are slow to
accept that the needs of the individual are bound to the needs of the many.

What is the corrective to this harmful self-interest? What factor reconciles the needs of
different nations while sharing the earth’s resources in an ecologically sound manner? The
balancing factor is higher knowledge or knowledge that is spiritual in nature and tied to our
collective higher destiny. It must be added to the mix and used with our other capacities to find
solutions. Higher knowledge will not replace common sense, experience, hard work, or
economic imperative. That is not its function. It is an added capacity which integrates and
works alongside others.

The mystic maintains humanity is evolving to a higher condition. This evolutionary
process is according to Design, and is purposeful and directed. The outcome of this process is
better individuals who are more complete and better able to serve others. This higher state of
being can only be reached when the integrating factor is added. This is holistic thought or
increased spiritual capacity. It is attained one person at a time and only by entering upon a path
to spiritual completion. Better people make a better world. More complete people make sounder
decisions and are equally concerned about their neighbor and themselves.

All paths are sacred and all people have the potential to reach higher. The higher
consciousness teaches we are connected and have within a Divine spark of energy. As we come
to understand this and be one with this energy, we experience our connectedness to others and
are better able to serve. Spiritually, this oneness links us, and we take positive, holistic, action.
Better people select honest, hardworking representatives. These representatives combine to form
a useful government that participates in a richer, more complete world.

If we are truly committed to making a better world, we start with ourselves. We seek to
make ourselves whole and use all our talents. This includes added spiritual capacity and higher
knowledge.

Yes, this planet can be a wonderful place to live. Yet, we must work together and solve
our mutual problems. This willingness to work together comes naturally to some and for others
only after a personal catastrophe or natural disaster of some kind. For many problems facing us,
this coming together of people is essential. We are one family and must remember our common
heritage, or in time our planet may be lost.

Added, individual spiritual capacity and higher knowledge is the missing ingredient and
enabling factor. Each of us must take personal steps to add this element to our lives and fully
embrace the higher potential taught in all the great religions. Then, the needs of the many will
more easily reconcile with the needs of the few.

* * *

Once there was a man who traveled the highway in search of Truth. He stopped at every
town and inquired. Sometimes, the answers he received appeared to be useful and at other times,
they did not. Always the advice he received was targeted at his worldly life: get a job, marry and
have children. Or don’t work, live in a monastery and become a recluse.

Somehow, these pieces of advice did not satisfy him, so, he kept searching. One day as
luck would have it, he encountered a wise man who said, “The answer lies within.” So for many
years, this traveler with the help of the wise one examined the inner world and came to see these
experiences as part of the answer.

Slowly, he realized, what good is spiritual knowledge it is not incorporated into the
world? So he settled down, found a job, married and raised a family. As he worked, celebrated
and worried, he came to see a truly spiritual life is a life that serves others and is guided by the
unseen forces. And according to Design, he found real knowledge, used this knowledge in the
way it was intended and the world about him benefited.
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