The goal of spiritual development is the purification of love. Love is our innermost essence, our nature, and our fulfillment. But the love that is the very life energy of our Being is occluded by the false consciousness that developed in childhood and which has been petrified by unconscious conflicts, adaptation to social norms, and entrancement by ideologically determined limitations of our horizons. To free our minds from such constraints and open our intellects and hearts to our vast untapped potential, as individuals and as a united community of God-realized beings, is the focus of aspiration of the great work of self-transformation.

We have the potential to create a harmonious world, to apply our intelligence to the solution of all the current problems the world is facing. The obstacle is the human ego. The ego in its current dominant form represents a failure of humanity to grow to our ultimate stage of psycho-spiritual maturity. That failure must now be rectified. This is our transformational imperative. (more…)