A. Growth of consciousness comes, simply and purely, out of freedom. The given state of life is freedom. That is what Maitreya has come to teach.
Freedom is the natural state of humanity.
It is the divine as it demonstrates in our everyday life. That is what Self-realization is about. It has to be free of all attachment. Any attachment limits that freedom which begins to manifest, stage by stage, as we free ourselves from these attachments. The problem with psychotherapy, unless you are so disturbed you really need it, is that it focuses the attention on the lower self.