Have you ever felt so isolated, so different from the rest of the world, that you find yourself beginning to believe it when others say: "You're crazy. The way you think just isn't right. Why can't you be like the rest of us?"

When we find ourselves on the spiritual pathway it's easy to feel out of kilter with the rest of the world. At times it's natural that you question if it's the right way to go, or if you really are a bit too different for your own good. You may even consider abandoning your path to try to be "Just like everyone else".

Sometimes it would seem easier to simply stop questioning and considering the spirtual aspects of life. We find ourselves becoming seduced by the need for approval from the rest of the world, or our family or partners. The theme is often: "I will just go back to how life used to be"

What disappointment awaits us in that process. We find not only can we not go back to "not knowing", but even the attempt to stop being true to our own spiritual path is a painful one. What a dilemma we find ourselves in. Is it better to continue the path of enlightenment and be considered different, weird or even crazy, or is it better to forget such things and try to live in the "channel three soapy" world?

Many times I've felt so alone, so different that I've been tempted to try to become something I am not, to rejoin the so-called "normal" world, to renounce my spiritual birthright. I've tried a few times and been hurt and greatly disillusioned each time.

I am now no longer interested in playing the games of the so-called real world. In fact I've noticed that frequently the rules of the real world seem a long way from the sane and consensual existence I had envisioned.

To enter that world i found i had to follow the rules of the "soapy" channels, which seemed to go along these lines: You work in a job you don't like. You stay in a relationship even though both parties are being harmed. You try to be someone you're not, just for the approval of others. You spend long periods of time away from those you love so that you can afford small amounts of time with them. Now that's total insanity. You must pretend to be multiple people each day - adult, child, critic, parent, helpless victim, or the one who knows it all.

What a gloomy picture; and this is what we call sanity!

Wjy live by rules you don't agree with, set by those you don't always admire, or seek to protect yourself from others before they harm you?

Why live in fear of not being good enough, or not loved enough, or left alone?

I've worked with thousands of people from all around the world for the past 20 years or so and I'm yet to find anyone different from me. I notice that in our natural state we are all calm, kind, spiritual beings: we love, we act with compassion, and we add value to all beings around us. The problem is attempting to match that lifestyle with the out-of-balance rules demanded of us by the "body meat, mundane world". It often seems an impossibility.

The inevitable outcome of such imbalance and pressure is entering a state of "temporary insanity" that is a period of time where we forget and no longer act in accordance with our true selves. This period of temporary insanity is when we forget the love that is us, and we act in hatred or anger; when we forget that harming others is harming ourselves, and try to hurt others before they hurt us.

Temporary insanity occurs when we act discordantly against our true spiritual nature.

When you find someone you love attacking you with anger, recognise that they are in a fit of "temporary insanity". It is not who they truly are; it's a result of the pressures and imbalances of trying to be someone they are not, or as a result of the fear of not being good enough that you are being confronted with. What you are seeing is their fear and anger of whatever frightens them most.

Sit calmly with the person in their anger and fear and lack. Help them to see you will not reject them or leave them or hate them or whatever the deeper fear is that they hold. Allow them the right to speak their fears and angers without feeling the need to take it on you. Through this act of spiritual love, you can assist those you love to vent their emotions, to clear, and to understand that they need not fear you.

By considering better ways of living together we can ride the storms and upheavals of change, and through learning our life lessons may well be able to assist others not to have to suffer in the way we may have in the past.

After all, happiness and fulfilment is a normal state of being! We can enter that space of calm and equanimity simply by acting in congruence with our spirit.

About the author:

Ron Urquhart is the founder of EM International and creator of Ki Force and Vision Quest training programmes and The Way of the New Millennium meditation programme.

Click here for an article by Ron Urquhart on energy medicine

Update Dec 2009 -

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