Become a Being of Light Slowly

Take your time. You have all eternity. What's the rush? Short cuts may lead to dead ends. In spiritual evolution, the natural, gradual, step-by-step progress on the initiatic path is the safest route to follow. Don't try to take heaven by force through drugs or other accelerated means.

If you're not ready to pass through the astral on the way to the etheric, you may get stuck there. This is the warning of the story of the sorcerer's apprentice. Insane asylums are filled with would-be initiates who faced their Guardian of the Threshold and lost their minds. They are living in a temporal hell on Earth. But mercifully, they will reembody with a sound mind, a little wiser, and more wary of psychic things.

So, be content with a slow and steady pace of spiritual evolution. Even a technique as gentle as transcendental meditation can be misused by practicing it for hours till the mind is stretched too far and snaps. I have personally known three women who became mentally imbalanced by doing so. Perhaps I had been like them in my last embodiment, and now I am more cautious and not so much in a hurry to evolve.

Nature is never in a hurry, but the human ego is. A caterpillar doesn't suddenly sprout wings but slowly metamorphoses over months in a cocoon until it eventually emerges as a beautiful, slim butterfly. The story is told, perhaps by Omraam but I'm not sure, of a young boy who sees a butterfly just beginning to emerge from its cocoon. Wanting to help, the boy enlarges the tiny opening so the caterpillar-butterfly wouldn't have to slowly and painfully struggle to squeeze through the narrow opening. But what emerged was a fat butterfly with small wings that couldn't fly because in the process of struggling through the small opening, the fat would have been converted into strong, wide wings.

So be patient and accept that it takes time and work to spiritually evolve. But eventually, you will emerge from your cocoon of physical matter and mental density as a spiritual being with beautiful multicolored wings of light.