Spiritual Nobility, You Tube, and New Consciousness Thought

by AlicePopkorn

Article by True Indigo

© 2011 True Indigo

A recent You Tube survey on the topics of human excellence and human excrement provides an interesting comparison for the social scientist interested in human excellence compared to another topic at the opposite pole of interest. The research data yields 714 first page hits on the subject of human excellence, and 281,821 first page hits on the subject of human excrement. The subject on human nobility yields 19,986 first page hits, but this raw data may be misleading as the majority of the searches are for a role-playing video game. Corrected for the actual subject, the total comes to a mere 198. A search of the word "party," in comparison, yields a total number of first page hits of 237,551,310. What might this tell us about our culture? What might it tell us about our actual societal interest in human excellence and human nobility as compared to human excrement and partying?When the word "nobility" comes into our awareness, more than likely the image brought to mind is of pampered aristocrats and elitists in crowns and tiaras, perhaps demurely waving their white gloved hands from gilded carriages surrounded by a retinue of uniformed riders upon horseback or some other such thing as this. And this is quite correct even as it is quite incomplete, as nobility is a dual-purpose word that carries two meanings, one a noun, and the other a verb. The noun version is exactly this first meaning and conveys the sense of an inherited status, while the second meaning surprises, as it means absolutely nothing of the sort. The verb version of the word nobility traditionally means "to attain to an exalted character," but as character is but one narrow aspect of the totality of the human experience, perhaps we might gild this word with the more holistic meaning "to attain to an exalted being." Then we have a more precise and encompassing definition entirely. To attain to an exalted being costs a mere nothing. It may be approached by any person, anywhere simply by deciding upon i! t as a l ife way. The noun version represents a material nobility, a nobility that depends entirely upon material possessions, inheritances, titles, and other such fancy window dressings upon what may in reality be quite ordinary or even quite dilapidated human real estate, while the second meaning, the verb, represents spiritual nobility, a nobility that depends entirely upon the spiritual stature an individual attains through force of character, and vibratory excellence, and radiance, and virtue, and compassion, and love, taken to their highest and most sublime state possible within the human vessel. It is entirely free. This form of nobility is the subject of this essay.The purveyors of this form of nobility are rare, and have nearly been made extinct as a race, but they are dedicated, and tend to give away more than they sell but profit nonetheless if the ledgers of the eternal truths are accurate. They believe we were made for more than merely buying and selling, but require participation in a more etheric marketplace where more precious commodities are traded, fine things, exquisite, invisible things upon which no market value can be placed. It is in this market where spiritual nobility is valued above all other things, and just as a gold coin is filliped to hear how it rings to know whether it is pure or merely gilded lead, so the truly noble are measured and estimated by history, and become as precious as diamonds and rubies, more so, as they are even more rare than even these glittering and valued treasures. This word, nobility, is the one word we have always been led to believe we may never, ever, reach out our unworthy hands and minds to touch, that it has been reserved for others holding heralds and majestic tax advantages and lives of excess. If this is what we have been led to believe, then we have believed a very, very, big lie. We may not only touch nobility, we may embrace it, surround it, and take ownership of it, a new nobility for a new age and a new civilization. Spiritual nobility is nothing! more th an the daily practice of human excellence on a journey without end, a journey as challenging, daunting, and rewarding as the path toward enlightenment, but which as a practice has been remarkably overlooked by the new consciousness as an adjunct to any spiritual practice. It is the Janus face of spirituality, the mirror of the spiritual journey. Spiritual nobility is the person who is no longer accepting of their own degradation, but who takes steps to live the only life they may ever have as glorious, exquisite, and precious things every day of their short and nonrefundable lives. The topic is a new one, and so is unfamiliar to most readers. What is this thing, spiritual nobility? How does one define it, and what is its purpose and relevance to daily living? These are all very good questions, as a thing should be valuable, and have practical applications to everyday life for it to be of any benefit to us. It should be a worthwhile journey at the very least.We enter into this world as mere lumps of soft clay, and the impress of many hands is upon this clay of our being, forming who we are generally speaking into the image of the owners of the hands themselves. Our parents form this clay into a facsimile of themselves, our friends, our teachers, our media, our society, all have their part in pressing into the clay of our lives, and in time the clay hardens into us. When this clay becomes hard and is no longer plastic, we become as human statues, and take the form of our makers, but when we retain our softness and plasticity, we may throw ourselves upon the potters wheel to recast ourselves into a more beautiful vessel with which to pour more love and beauty into the oceans of the human experience. The person who is most artful in this recursive process is the person who strives to become someone they could never have imagined until they imagine it, and strive to become it, a living phoenix arising from the ashes of their previous incarnation into another, more lovely form again and again and again in perp! etual re definition. It is this rare person who attains to spiritual nobility.Spiritual nobility is the congruent expression of both the etheric and the physical components of which we are all of us composed, the internal spiritual elements fused with and expressed by the external physical form as flawlessly as we are capable of expressing them. Spiritual nobility is a garden of fragrant flowers and nutritious, wholesome edibles weeded of hatred, negativity, greed, envy, pettiness, and selfishness, a carefully tended human garden whose sweet fruits come only through the greater embodiment of self, and not through the lesser embodiment of ego. The new consciousness is only partly aware of this idea but has not yet formed a critical mass of minds and expressions reflecting the attainment to this estate. The engine of this organism is being formed, in retreats, in workshops, in discussions sundry and various, but the transmission of new consciousness into the greater society may only be put to the test through the wholesale adoption of spiritual nobility as the defining characteristic of new consciousness thought in the widespread adoption of this vibration. Only then will the engine of all this valuable thought be translated into motion as action. Only then will this new consciousness dance upon the stage of the world to the thrall and applause of a human audience tired and weary of the same tired and threadbare performance of violence, and greed, and the domination of others through wearisome conflict and heartless economic competition. Perhaps the cost is too low for it to be widely adopted, as it currently languishes, forgotten, overlooked, and neglected as a life path. Why?A spark is but an incipient fire, and is liable to extinguish before it has any chance of alighting, but when it finds a good dry tinder is capable of a roaring inferno to burn out the old dead and decaying overburden, and bring in the fertilizing ashes of change a new verdure, and a new growth. The widespread practice of adopting spiritual n! obility as an emerging social gestalt, through new consciousness networks, is this tiny spark with which to burn out the old, desiccated and unhealthy older forms. One by one by one comes the change we wish to see in the world. It begins with our selves. No one else can do this work but us.Spiritual nobility requires first of all the establishment and maintenance of a quiet, but durable dignity, which in turn requires no longer participating in thoughts, deeds, or activities of self-degradation, those things that are corrosive to a higher, more sublime vibratory frequency. It requires a good weeding of negativity and ugliness. It requires a good fertilizer in the form of optimism and expansiveness. Most of all, it requires a competent and caring gardener who has decided that human excellence and human nobility are slightly more important to their fleeting and brief lives than video games and parties.

About the Author

True Indigo is a new consciousness author of A Personal Aristocracy: Cultivating the Power of Spiritual Nobility, the first book written in the English language on the subject of human spiritual nobility, self-ennoblement, and the spiritualization of form. His second book The Principle reverses the energetic orientation of law of attraction to a positive one based upon the abundance of gift and giving and not upon that of wants, scarcities, and unfulfillments. He is currently at work on The Architecture of Love to describe the underlying energetic structure of love, and The Perfection of Is, which locates absolute perfection in the universe. He can be found at trueblueindigo.com or the-principle.com.