Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Michael Beckwith On The 4 Stages Of Spiritual Growth

5 Aug 2015 · 1 min

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Michael Beckwith breaks down four stages of spiritual growth: victim, where life happens to you; manifestor, where you create through effort; channel, where you serve as an instrument; and unity, where separation dissolves. Each stage requires letting go of blame, control, and the illusion of being separate from the universe.

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What you just Described are my four stages of spiritual growth, development and unfoldment. Back in 1985, 84, I came up with these four stages to describe. And now this pretty much commonplace in our language. But the first stage is victim stage and you think life is doing something to you. Second stage is the manifestor you're doing. The first stage is to us. The second stage is by us. We use our mind and our mind power and our visualization to do something. The third stage is through us, where we're an instrument, we're a channel, life is operating through us. And the fourth stage is as us, where the sense of separation dissolves and we realize, oh my God, I'm it. The universe has been playing tag with me all along. Tag, you're it. You see, there's no separation. So as you move into those through us and as us, that's when you are allowing, yielding, letting go. First stage, you're giving up blame in order to take responsibility for your life. The second stage, you're giving up control in order to be a channel. The third stage, you're giving up a personal sense of separation to be his place of being. So you described it very fluidly and very powerfully. Those are four stages that we incrementally move through in our spiritual practice.