"Asking Aerodynamically Sound Spiritual Questions"-M. Beckwith

I've been reading Michael Bernard Beckwith's book, "Spiritual Liberation". I believe that he is channeling the Utmost energy and he doesn't mince words. (The Italics are his emphasis)

"Just as when an engineer builds an airplane and places its wings in a wind tunnel to assure that they are aerodynamically sound, so may we place aerodynamically sound questions in the wind tunnel of Universal Mind to assure that we will be lifted above the temporary experiences we pass through. For example, when a person falls into victim consciousness, they tend to ask, "Why me, God?" This is actually more of an accusation, a statement about our lack of self-responsibility wherein we blame conditions outside of ourselves. If we're an especially stubborn case, we don't investigate more deeply, so our experiences repeat themselves. This cycle will continue until we learn to ask more spiritually aerodynamic questions that will lift us out of the mist--the illusion--we've been living in. Examples of spiritually aerodynamic questions are: "What quality am I to cultivate to shift this circumstance in which I find myself? What skills am I being called to develop? What would Life have me do here?"

Negativity doesn't have a cause; it's merely a mist. If negativity had a cause, it would last forever; it could never be shifted. So-called negativity arises from the ego's sense of separation from the Whole. And not all pain is negative, even though we label all forms of pain as such and resist them. Positive-negativity is a circumstance that causes us to go deeper, to search ourselves, to stop placing blame on the causes of suffering outside of ourselves, and take self-responsibility.

Circumstances arise and hard times come so that we may grow through them, so that we may evolve, I like to say that a bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul. When we look back on some of our most challenging experiences, we admit that we wouldn't trade what we gained from them for remaining the same as we were. Something within acknowledges that during those times when we are pressed against the ropes of life, we learn to become more generous, to forgive, to never give up on ourselves or others. We learn to rejuvenate, to surrender.

SURRENDER: THE STANCE OF THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR
Surrender is a bold spiritual stance, the stance of a spiritual warrior, because what we are surrendering to is the next stage of our evolution. And as we surrender our all we create the inner spaciousness for Life to be seen as it is. As egoic obscurations--such as doubt, fear, worry, self-importance, greed, and envy--are cleared, we become more and more of our Authentic Self." Michael Bernard Beckwith

He will be at RISE