If our difficulties are caused by our lack of understanding of who we are and how we work and if we live in an intelligent, loving and sustaining universe that wishes only our greatest good, then our only recourse regarding the issues that confront us is to expand our field of awareness until we have the understanding we need to address those issues effectively. The personal and global problems that exist today cannot be met by the systems of thought and modes of behavior that were created in the past, even the recent past, for those forms were for the most part either created out of or distorted by the individual and mass consciousness in which the limited awareness exists that caused the problems in the first place. There have been profoundly illumined teachers in the past who have spoken from a field of awareness in which they experienced and understood a much greater portion of the whole than others. But their teachings were tragically, but understandably, distorted by the limited awareness of those who followed. It is not the Masters teachings, however enlightened, that we must follow, but their example.
Truth is only truth if it is seen on the level of consciousness where it exists.
Once it is interpreted to or by a less expanded awareness it ceases to be truth and becomes instead something artificial and false created by a mind deluded by limited awareness. At best this can confuse and mislead, at worst it will poison the mind with superstition and fanaticism. Wisdom is only wise if it leads us to stand in the place of consciousness of the illumined teacher and see for ourselves. What is called for is not a more practical form of spirituality which only seeks to take what has not worked in the past and dress it in language more suited for the present culture, but what I call Radical Spirituality. Radical Spirituality breaks down the barriers of perception that limit and wound us and expands the awareness beyond the boundaries of past experience and current belief.