Fifty-One Percent

For most of us who are interested in the spiritual life, the authentic self is awakened to some degree, but what matters is, how much? If you take the totality of a human being to be 100%, the authentic self may be only 5%, and the other 95% is still the fears and desires of the individual and collective ego. With an individual like that, you could have very passionate, inspired conversations, but you would find that, over time, he or she would not really change. And the reason for that, very simply, would be that the majority of the self was still identified with the fears and desires of the ego. The greater the degree to which the individual is identified with the Authentic Self—10, 20, 30%—the more impassioned and inspiring the individual will be, but as long as the ego has the greater percentage of power over the self, no real change will occur.

In the teaching of evolutionary enlightenment, meaningful, demonstrable, and consistent transformation only occurs when the individual crosses the threshold from 50% to 51% authentic self. When that line is crossed, the ego becomes the weaker part of the self, and that is what changes everything. So the goal in my teaching is for you to do whatever on God’s earth you need to do in order to cross that threshold. Once you do, you will start feeling a tremendous thrust or backdraft behind you, because in that place you find access to the very source of the creative impulse itself. You are not just running on your own will and intention; there’s a deeper and higher energy and intelligence that is catapulting you forward.