Human Completion

In the holistic vision of enlightenment, human completion is integral. Transcendence without completion, though possible, does not lead to the realization of wholeness. On the path that advocates disidentification as its primary approach, the human can be dissolved prior to becoming whole. Holistic enlightenment, however, offers a higher realization, because it incorporates human completion as a new dimension within its expansion into the state of transcendence. In order to be truly whole, the soul needs to be able to express herself as a whole human being. The completion of the human makes this possible.

Psychological Completion

Psychological completion is not just the work of one lifetime, but of countless incarnations. As most humans seem unable to assimilate their experiences in a constructive way, they must go through the same life-lessons over and over again in order to reach maturity and understanding. This unconscious repetition of our lessons is the very essence of the dimension of forgetfulness. Lower intelligence feeds on this evolutionary stagnation - our spiritual progress threatens its very nature.

Most humans' concept of happiness and joy is highly unintelligent. Having no connection to their higher nature, they seek satisfaction and fulfillment in the impermanent, robotically following collective impulses. On our journey towards completion, we must break free from unconscious living. We must bring true wisdom into our perception of life by becoming conscious of our human nature and of what areas of our personality are still fragmented and incomplete. We also must learn from our experiences, and recognize what we still need to experience. In this way we assist the noble movement towards the very reason for our creation - the realization of light, truth and love. To be truly whole, we must arrive at a full experience of our human existence that consists of mental and emotional maturity, the fulfillment of our major desires and our completion in the world.

Fulfillment of Major Desires

Because our unresolved desires cause us to enter the earth-dimension, their fulfillment is essential for our human completion. However, we cannot succeed in this mission if we remain the victim of our desires. We need to see that our relationship to the world is no more than a sophisticated web of countless desires that creates a hologram we mistakenly believe to be our life. Unless we gain a higher perspective, we will compulsively generate desires upon desires in an attempt to infuse meaning into our existence and become caught in a vicious cycle of existential unfulfillment.

Although desires are a natural force of life and their actualization often has a constructive purpose, they become destructive if we are ruled by them. We must be able to discern which desires steer us towards a more rich and meaningful life, and which burden us with a sense of disappointment, frustration and depression. Only those desires through which we can grow are real and relevant to our evolution. Because all others are created by the mind, they are intrinsically false and must be renounced.

We do not need to fulfill all desires, even if they are relevant and justified. We must primarily address the major, root desires that express the original cause of our birth in the body, for they bind us to the earth. Root-desires can be linked to many spheres of life, such as romantic fulfillment, family relationship, financial security, creativity, and spiritual and philosophical understanding. If we do not satisfy our root-desires, our karmic bonds will keep us chained to the plane of illusion.

Not all root-desires are necessarily based on the wisdom of the soul. Some are just obsessive fascinations that have crystallized in our subconscious mind. However, even these may need to be addressed in order to free our mind. For example, a person who is narcissistically fixated on public recognition will not be able to rest until he gains the admiration of others. Or a sexually repressed anchorite whose root-desire for physical communion is left unexpressed will be controlled by this desire and may stagnate on his path. Unless correctly diagnosed, desires become hooks of lower consciousness that keep us from advancing in our evolution.

Completion in the World

The spiritual path should not be perceived as a way to escape from the world. The human in us has to become fulfilled through a total experience of life in order to reach completion. Many seekers are actually driven by their fear of life, not a deep longing for awakening. To succeed on the path, however, we need to be well-grounded in the world and free of fear. Otherwise, unresolved issues and subconscious anxieties may arise and block our internal evolution. Sages and masters of the past who renounced the world were not motivated by fear; they simply had no further need to evolve through earthly experiences. To renounce the world from a positive place one must be confident and positively connected to the physical plane.

Our psychological completion is naturally tied to our participation in the world. Our interactions with the outer reality determine how we feel as a personality and naturally need to be integrated into our experience of self. In order to feel complete, we must embrace the world and move beyond any fear of facing the challenges of life. By developing a harmonious connection to the world we begin to experience it as a fundamentally positive place - a place where we can reach spiritual awakening and completion.

Ending of Karma

For many lifetimes we have given away our power to desires that we have been unable to satisfy. These desires have grown roots in our subconscious, influencing our thoughts, emotions and actions, and disabling us from reaching true rest. Apart from allowing us to discharge our desires for the sake of growth and freedom, evolution offers another strategy to emancipate us from attachments: it finally confronts us with our inability to satisfy our infinite cravings and wants, and forces us to give them up. Life teaches us a natural humility by not allowing us to have everything we want. Through our disillusionment, we learn that to reach freedom we have no choice but to renounce all our false desires.

Our karmic roots bind us so deeply to the time-dimension that grace is required for our deliverance. Emancipation from karma is indeed a function of grace; it is the intervention of the beyond that cuts our final karmic ties. Divine intervention is in fact an intrinsic part of our blueprint planned since the beginning of time without which the soul never would transcend her bondage. However, grace does not enter our life at random, but in accordance with our readiness to let go of our separate existence and transcend the plane of lower intelligence.

The Human at Rest

To reach completion is to arrive at a state of true existential repose. Upon completion, the human no longer creates a reality based on a personal agenda, but rests, free from the need to become something or someone other than self. When the human is at rest, the energy of desire, anxiety and boredom can no longer pull him away from his natural state of peace and harmony. He relaxes his existence into the presence of the soul, who reciprocates by enveloping him with the light of I am. The child is absorbed by his mother, and all separation between individual and universal dissolves into the immaculate. The one who began the journey of evolution at the beginning of time is not the one who ends it. The one who has been neither real nor unreal finally yields to his eternal essence.

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