Energy Spirituality® Ethics. Not to put too fine a point on them, but let’s consider our most important ethical standards.
Energy Spirituality® Ethics. What connection have they with you? Whether as a student or client, a reader, a commenter at this blog???
Also, what are Energy Spirituality Ethics for me, Rose Rosetree, the founder of this field? Of course I’ll share that here as well.
Together let’s explore state-of-the-art ethics for all the specialties in this field.
Finally, don’t miss the last section of this article. It could matter considerably for your success, your personal growth, your karma.
First of All, VICTORIA Set this Conversation in Motion
Today Energy Spirituality® Ethics came up in a brilliant series of blog comments. VICTORIA contributed some important words of wisdom. Here, at “FAME KARMA Aura Readings to Celebrate 118,000 Comments“! (Especially see her Comments #46-48.)
Recently we’ve had some well-meaning comments from curious readers. Only it turned out to be speculation about WHY. And the generalizations requested were none of our business. Altogether, an educational sequence of ideas for us here. For example:
From VICTORIA
For those actors with acting skills and talents, I wonder what kind of impact the constant change all the way through to the level of one’s chakra databanks, would have on the actors over time?
I imagine the characters’ and actors’ sense of self is drastically different from one another.
My Response
It’s so evident from your comments here, VICTORIA, that you’re looking at actors with more discernment now. Wonderful shares from you!
Regarding with your Comment #23, “I wonder what kind of impact etc.”
Don’t wonder, please. Don’t conjecture. Each person’s story is individual.
From JANICE HOOPER
Your observation that people with Fame Karma tend to marry people with a similar degree of fame is interesting.
My thought is that that would be related to finding Fame so very important, a be-all end-all… so if someone isn’t famous, they’re sort of a nobody and not worth marrying.
Do you think that’s right, Rose?
My Response
Please don’t conjecture about WHY what is… is. Let’s leave that to the pop psychologists and the philosophers.
Enlivened by this discussion, I got to thinking…
What Are My Current Ideas about Energy Spirituality Ethics?
Exactly that, no more and no less, will follow in this article. Together we can consider one context for ethics at a time.
Taking that into consideration for your own ethical standards? Good idea. Of course, that would be up to you.
For sure, feel free to COMMENT below with any questions. Or but-but-buts.
What Is Energy Spirituality?
Specifically, Energy Spirituality™ helps people like you with emotional growth and spiritual awakening.
Using skills that are effective NOW, in the Age of Awakening.
For more details, click on that link just provided. Or simply keep reading, until you put together your own working definition.
In general, there’s a lot to this fast-growing field. Ethics help us to maintain a High Truth Value. Given that I aim to bring more truth into my life and the lives of all who are interested, hello! Both ethics and truth matter enormously.
Easy and Simple — Ethical Use of What You Learn from Chakra Databanks
When you read aura readings at this blog, you can learn a ton of info about a public figure’s chakra databanks.
- An ethically FAIR takeaway is to comment on the info at that chakra databank.
- You might also place that info into the context of what that chakra databank’s about: Easy to find, since every chakra databank has a name about something related to human life.
- An ethically UNFAIR takeaway is to conjecture WHY Shia had what he had.
- Or what it means for other people, WHAT was found in that chakra databank.
- Or how Shia “needs to improve himself.”
For example, suppose you were browsing here, at “Fame Karma of Claire Danes.” At Comment #1467, researching actor Shia LaBoeuf’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Self-Awareness. Using a screenshot taken while he is acting, playing a movie role as Padre Pio, hello! The quality of this chakra databank, for him, goes like this:
Shia instructing himself: His feelings as Padre Pio are raw and passionate. Great faith! Great tenderness!
Ethically Speaking, Our First Pair of Possible Takeaways
ETHICALLY FAIR TAKEAWAY #1.
In this chakra databank, Shia is instructing himself how to act. This is different from what skilled actors do, which is to act.
ETHICALLY UNFAIR TAKEAWAY #1.
Shia is a fraud as an actor and he should apologize to the public.
- Telling people what they “should” do because of their auras? Wrong!
- Let’s remember that the info in anybody’s chakra databanks is not conscious. Rather, it’s energetic info, subconsciously stored within that person’s aura.
- Learning about somebody’s subconscious info does not give you the right to tell that person what to do.
Ethically Speaking, Our Second Pair of Possible Takeaways
Also, ETHICALLY FAIR TAKEAWAY #2.
Wait a minute, this chakra databank is his Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Self-Awareness. Usually the info there would involve guess what? What’s going on emotionally, in this moment. Namely, how does that person spontaneously feel?
Yet, according to this aura reading, he doesn’t spontaneously feel anything.
ETHICALLY UNFAIR TAKEAWAY #2.
Shia should work on himself and do mindfulness, so that he can feel emotions at this chakra databank. He’s got to do something. Because his Emotional Self-Awareness is obviously broken.
- Chakra databanks give us information about a particular person. Info at a particular time.
- Altogether different from deciding that we have the right to play God with that person.
- We can consider that info any way we like. But please, let’s stop short at trying to analyze why the person has that inner pattern. Also, please. Avoid giving advice to people, based on reading their auras.
- In my experience, expert energy healing can help people to do better. Both in their chakra databanks and in life. However, energy healing is appropriate only when? After a client has officially agreed to a personal session for Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING, or the equivalent.
Making sense? Then let’s keep going.
And if you do have questions, COMMENT below. Yay, learning!
Regarding Energy Spirituality™ Ethics for Rose Rosetree
You Know, Ethics for the Founder of this Field
Definitely, I have ethical responsibilities when bringing forth this body of knowledge. Plus, hey! During sessions, I’ve got ethical requirements too. Exactly like every Energy Spirituality Practitioner.
In order to learn about that part? Don’t consult your Magic 8 Ball. Simply check out the Code of Ethics here at this blog.
Short and sweet. However…
Due to being a website page, rather than a blogpost, you won’t find any place there to COMMENT.
However, you can definitely COMMENT below.
Only, for the Ethically Scrupulous, There’s More. Much More
Energy Spirituality Ethics shape all of our trademarked systems!
Indeed, ethical standards apply to every single one of the major ways that I serve you. Not to put too fine a point on each of these responsibilities… At least I can take out my ethical pencil sharpener and make some colorful points. ;)
- Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING Requires Ethical Standards
- Energy Spirituality ENERGY READING Requires Ethical Standards
- Ethics that underlie the system of Face Reading Secrets®
- Empath Empowerment® and Empath Coaching — Ethics, Ethics, Ethics
- Coaching Highly Sensitive Persons. (And Using the Energy Spirituality Sensitivity Scale)
- Enlightenment Teaching Demands a High Truth Value… and More
- Writing and Publishing Energy Spirituality Books. Any Ethics There?
- Offering Online Workshops, What Ethics There?
Expect to read about all of these topics in COMMENTS below, bit by bit. After I’ve given you Blog-Buddies the chance to add your own thoughts and questions.
Finally, How about You and Your Ethics?
Maybe you don’t think about them much. Perhaps you figure: “I’m a good person, so my ethics have to be fine.”
Quite the opposite. Might I suggest?
- Unless you purposely develop some ethical standards
- and live by them
- then, with all due respect,
- you might not be such a “good person” as you assume that you are.
- Yet there’s always hope. Each day every one of us can make a new start.
Let this Interactive Blog Help You Explore What Matters to You, What Matters Ethically
The more you Blog-Buddies share, the greater clarity can develop for each of us.
Besides, ethical questions are fascinating.
- For instance, do you tell the truth to others? How about to yourself?
- Once you commit to truthfulness as an easy way of life, this need not be complicated.
- Besides, how can you claim to be an ethical person without telling the truth?
Your thoughts?
As for yoga asanas, you can do them as stretches. Keep your eyes open, except when you’re blinking.
Unless you wish to pay deep attention after each asana, in which case you could do that as part of your official Technique Time.
Should you have questions about any of this, you could also dedicate a personal session to mentoring with me on all of this. Happy to help you one-on-one.
On to responding to your Comment #87. At this point, I’m going to repost one of your remaining comments in this series at a time, since they’re hard to see some 20 comments later on…
Many of the people at the UU church I joined are doing these things…. and mentioning that it’s not helpful would be going against what the organization understands to be a significant help or at least solace to people.
Glad you asked, HELEN. You and I, and some of the readers here, are familiar with the Unitarian Universalist religion.
The link just provided can serve as an introduction.
Since “spreading the word” is a big topic at this blog today, please allow me to suggest that none of us will spread the word effectively about anything if:
* We mumble.
* Or we convey through expression or voice or body language that we expect to be slapped for daring to talk. (Or possibly burned at the stake?)
* Or we use an insider acronym that most people have never heard of, such as “UU.”
Say the name in public, okay? It’s good practice.
HELEN, we have such a sweet relationship after all your years of Energy Spirituality sessions (and all the growth that has gone with them) that, when commenting, you may feel as though you’re asking me a question.
Well, you are. And you’re also commenting at a public blog. Where I aim to avoid excluding other people whenever possible.
You’re exactly right when you suspect that criticizing activities authorized by your church would mean that you would be “going against what the organization understands to be a significant help or at least solace to people.”
Also bad manners!
HELEN, it seems to me that you have two routes to follow if you’d like to recommend something like 20 Daily Minutes of Technique Time Tops. Or encourage fellow church members to read “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”
Route 1 is Informal
You are already making friends with other members of your church. You’re cultivating relationships and getting to know more people. Always one of the great benefits of joining a church, for sure!
IF you are hanging out, one-on-one, with a buddy from your Unitarian Universalists church, in the course of conversation you might recommend “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”
Mention it once. That’s it!
Route 2 is Formal
Assuming that the Energy Spirituality Outreach Volunteer Project — launched just today — develops into a resource for learning cool ways to introduce this field to book groups (such as most churches have) or other activities, then you’ll be given guidelines for offering something that could be interesting as an optional activity.
Your questions this morning inspired me, obviously, HELEN. You inspired me to request help from volunteers, since PR and selling are not my personal strengths.
We’ll see what develops for better outreach resources for spreading the word about Energy Spirituality™!
Meanwhile, isn’t it a relief to know that your job is not to judge or micromanage what other people do for inspiration or solace?
I quite enjoy being with people who are thoughtful and kind but worry that I could be speaking up more.
HELEN, making friends with people you like is a good thing. Good for you and good for them. All of us need more friends.
As for that worry part? Please, knock it off.
Rose, when is it ethically my responsibility to speak up about Energy Spirituality and when it is not?
Please see Comments #111-116.
And your short answer is NOT.
Also, I like the idea of writing down my current ethics but do you have a resource for how to know I have covered all my bases so to speak?
Please, consult your own heart and mind.
And not in a punitive way, expecting “perfection.” Just write down a something and then feel proud of yourself. Later you can change that up, okay?
I quite like your communication around ethics regarding what to do with information gleaned from aura readings.
It seems a very important point to clarify, since info from an aura reading is gleaned from someone’s subconscious mind.
Learning that info can be very useful for navigating a relationship with that person, but, trying to wrap some psychological explanation around it is likely unhelpful.
Further, trying to confront someone with this info, not that I have or would, would be even more unhelpful and inappropriate I think.
Yet, if we develop good skills of Energetic Literacy, we can gain useful insight into how the people around us position their consciousness.
Knowing that a co-worker does not routinely make contact with objective reality, as informed by reading his or her Root Chakra Databank for Connecting to Objective Reality, can help us develop discernment and not take strange behavior personally.
Though, it would be more than unproductive to try to confront the person with this information.
Important observations all. Thank you, STEVE.
I really like the idea of writing down ethical standards for myself. I do my best to live ethically. For instance:
1. Being punctual. That, I believe, demonstrates regard for everyone’s time.
2. Loyalty in relationships.
3. Maintaining confidentiality. As in, don’t spread rumours about others.
4. Being mindful of my surroundings. That is, instead of leaving trash in public spaces, I collect and dispose of it properly.
5. Covering my mouth when I cough or sneeze, particularly in public.
There are plenty such examples. However, I recognise that there may be places where I am not conscious that I could DO better.
So I appreciate the concept of actually writing them down.
Rose, thank you for this blog post!
BARBARA, thank you. You’re the first person to have come forth with your current personal list of ethical standards.
I’m going to thank you extra by offering some ideas that you may — or may not — choose to adopt as expressing these ideas in comfortable Human Talk. (If you know what I mean. If not, click on that link just provided.)
1. Instead of “being punctual” you might wish to swap in “Punctuality.”
Punctuality is a social value with beautiful ethical meaning and, BARBARA, I agree wholeheartedly with what you wrote about demonstrating regard for other people’s time. However…
More when I return, BARBARA the Punctual!
Update many hours later: Now I’m aiming to respond tomorrow, when I’m fresh. For now, I have just enough oomphies in me to chunk up and publish a somewhat long comment in the Blog Monitor’s queue. Tomorrow, then, dear BARBARA.
My own beliefs and standards around ethics have changed over the past years, particularly after moving into Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
In said Consciousness Lifestyle, God’s presence becomes stronger in a person’s aura and consciousness. Yet my understanding, and experience, is that we’re still strongly human.
So we have incentive to care about ethics and then use our free will.
Correct me if I’m wrong, Rose, but this new kind of Spiritual Enlightenment is very different from Traditional Enlightenment. Until the Shift on Dec. 21, 2012, only Traditional Enlightenment was available.
Sense of self is really different in Traditional Enlightenment. Mostly a person is God, with just humanity left to witness activity.
Personal growth isn’t even a factor. It’s just a blissful kind of life. Whereas in Age of Awakening Enlightenment we can evolve. “We have skin in the game of life” is how I’ve heard you summarize the difference.
Living in Traditional Enlightenment, I suppose there’s much less room for a personal life and individual sense of self. Thus, ethics aren’t such a big deal.
While in Age of Awakening Enlightenment, our human lives matter and we’re still in charge of them. Ethics!
Where am I going with this? Over to the meaning of ethics for us in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
So there’s lots of room for all the highs and lows that go into living this way. What an amazing privilege to be among the first human beings on the planet to be living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment
I’ve heard Rose say that Traditional Enlightenment is really beautiful but very different. Ethics don’t matter so much because there is a unique and blissful kind of detachment. Besides that, there are traditional teachings on Traditional Enlightenment. These promise people that they can do no wrong. Mostly God is doing everything.
I’m not trying to play Enlightenment Coach, but speaking from my experience, my day to day is totally different.
I’m aware of suffering in myself and others. Decisions are made by me, not made by God running me. Instead God is helping me strongly, but in the background. That said, what will serve as my basis for making the choices that come up every single day?
Under these circumstances living ethically becomes of the utmost importance, in my view.
As we discuss ethics here, I’m thinking, ethics have to matter more than ever.
I mean, really, how can someone maintain Age of Awakening Enlightenment if continually making bad choices?
How can God keep showing up consistently as part of a person like me if that person turns sloppy ethically? Like the person insists on turning away from the truth. Or else choose to avoid doing what’s right.
Because in Age of Awakening Enlightenment, we don’t opt out of having to make choices. Those choices aren’t necessarily easier than before Enlightenment, either.
Ethically I know full well who’s responsible for my doing my human best. That applies to doing a good day’s work at my job. It applies to dating.
Even if it doesn’t come automatically, Rose has encouraged me during personal sessions regarding following through on what I believe is right. Living with high standards and integrity can seem more challenging when so many of my acquaintances, and even friends, don’t seem to care one way or the other.
Of course many of the people I’m thinking about here are not living in a self-actualizing consciousness lifestyle, period.
Even if I’d like to fit in with the crowd, sometimes I beg to differ. It helps that Age of Awakening Enlightenment is making me stronger as a person, but you can probably see what I mean. Living with high ethical standards isn’t necessarily the same thing as going along with the crowd.
Developing strong ethics becomes mandatory for maintaining Age of Awakening Enlightenment?
I’m beginning to think so, at least if I plan to stay in Enlightenment. Which I definitely do.
Part of my journey in developing more robust ethics has been an increased insistence on not lying to myself.
That includes no longer making the old excuses for myself.
And just like before I crossed the threshold into Age of Awakening Enlightenment, there are times when I have to face the inner truth about growing or not.
These days I find myself, on occasion, actively deciding to move past certain old habits.
They seemed comfortable or “normal” or fun. But, when I really thought about it…
Those old habits were keeping me stuck, preventing me from growing further.
Growing and changing aren’t necessarily comfortable, you know? But my sense of ethics is now speaking to me inwardly in no uncertain terms.
Since this year began, my life has improved in many ways and, deep down, I know that making reasonably good choices about my life have been essential for this.
Good ethics, to me, don’t only involve how I treat others. At least equally important is how I treat myself.
For instance, how honestly do I regard my own path?
Living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment, I’ve found that when I do my part, God does God’s part… and then some.
Beautifully put, STEVE. Thank you.
2. Loyalty in relationships.
Of course that’s a lovely standard for ethics. Only for you, BARBARA, because I know you pretty well from many Energy Spirituality™ sessions…
Might I suggest refining this ethical value?
As you and I know, you’re one of those idealistic people who is growing out of living as a hidden renunciate.
Namely, what is discussed at our blogpost on “Hidden Renunciates , Half and Half Householders.”
Like anyone in that number, you just might have a tendency to choose ethical values that skew toward putting other people first and putting big ideals second and putting yourself last!!!
For that reason, I worry about Loyalty in Relationships as an ethical value for you.
Might I suggest a different version?
I’m loyal to others for as long as that loyalty enhances my life.
What would that mean?
As a loyal person who’s continuing to grow emotionally, socially, and spiritually, I’m allowed to question any affiliation or relationship.
See the point? For most people, loyalty is a stretch.
While for recovering renunciates like you, BARBARA, loyalty is a given. Automatic loyalty, verging on self-sacrifice.
But in your life now as a householder, a 100% Householder, that modified ethical standard could be quite necessary. Otherwise you might be tempted to treat existing commitments as though you had taken a VOW!
And, continuing… I wonder if nothing but the most extreme selfishness and cruelty could cause you to question an old loyalty.
Yet an ethical householder, living today, does not have to live like a sap, a person easily taken advantage of, the one who can be counted upon to do more than her or his share.
With this modified ethical value, BARBARA and others like you with a habit of putting yourself last — or not in the ethical picture at all — hello!
You’re allowed to live as a person who is good to yourself, as well as to others.
Therefore, you have a moral obligation to periodically question, “Do I choose to stay in this relationship as it is now?”
Answering that question for yourself, you may discover this:
Now resuming where we left the comment conversation with you, BARBARA, back at Comment #134…
3. Maintaining confidentiality.
As in, don’t spread rumours about others.
Oboy, big problems here, BARBARA. In my view, anyway.
More details when I return to this thread. Meanwhile, can any of you share thoughts that you have about a couple of things here that are unnecessarily harsh? Theoretically, they’re ethical. But in practice? For a recovering renunciate? Trouble!
I like this discussion. I have not had a problem about whetheror not I am a householder.
I have only had problems as a householder. For me that has included a lot of problems that I have overcome.
Being too hard on myself is one of those problems.
In plain English isn’t that what you’re talking about here?
In plain English, yes.
Thanks, MELISSA.
But let’s keep in mind (in more complicated English) that there are a zillion ways to be hard on ourselves.
Also, there are a zillion reasons to be hard on ourselves.
That’s why I think it’s helpful here, at this particular comment conversation, for us to confine the context to personal ethics. And yes, BARBARA’S sequence of five ideas has given us (by my count) 3 examples of ethical expectations that could count as “being too hard on yourself.” That’s 3 out of 5.
So let’s continue to share ideas about having personal standards for ethics, balancing that with not being mean to ourselves, aka unnecessarily giving ourselves a hard time.
Rose, I’m beginning to see why you recommended that all of us could help ourselves by writing down our ethical code.
When you carry it around in your head, it seems perfect.
If you’re a person of faith like me, ethics can seems “of God”.
But when you take those ethical standards out of your head and write them down? Wow!
You can look at what you’ve been living with.
Maybe it’s time for me to do some decluttering and upgrading. Like spend a little time updating my ethics. Who would have thought I would ever see the need?
At first I was a skeptic but now I’m sold.
Do you think it could be a good idea to bring our personal list of ethical standards to an Energy Spirituality session with you?
Great to hear from you, WILL, as always.
Of course, most of you will probably want to do this ethical fine-tuning on your own. Yet you could also bring your currrent list of ethical standards to an Energy Spirituality session with me.
In this context, it could be helpful for me to remind you of something I wrote about in “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening” — how Energy Spirituality™ is not a path. Rather, it is a means to make your current path more effective.
It matters that I don’t carry a one-size-fits all belief, or a religious agenda, etc. I’m simply available to you as your Enlightenment Teacher. Serving as an Enlightenment Teacher for now, in the Age of Awakening!
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If you’re being too hard on yourself there is one solution that could work for almost everyone. You need a good f***.
I mean it.
Unless you have had some good loving you can’t think straight. Why bother to think about ethics or anything else.
Guaranteed you will be way too harsh on yourself. We’re animals before anything else, that simple.
LOLA, clearly that point of view is true for you. This “have sex” perspective could also be very relevant to the lives of some of you other lurkers and commenters at this blog.
However, like any perspective concerning ethics, there is no one true answer for every single person. What matters, then?
Find answers, for now, that resonate for you.
And remember that we pay the price for all the choices we make.
For instance, how much time is involved in making sure you have a steady parade of lovers?
Is it in your best interest to continue with a lover you’re not crazy about, but you’re using each other for sex?
LOLA, your idea about an active sex life as the basis for ethics? It doesn’t float my boat, as they say. But I’ll grant you this. And thank you, too.
Your recent comments have moved this Energy Spirituality™ across a new threshold. As of now we’ve just passed 119,000 comments.
I’m so glad that Barbara commented with her personal ethics and that we’re getting your commentary on them, Rose.
After reading this blog post, I wrote down some of my own ideas for myself, and yes, I was pretty hard on myself. Whoops.
I am very, very curious to read your next comments about the idea of maintaining confidentiality and Barbara’s other ideas.
Thanks to you both.
Lola, that’s an interesting idea. Not one that works for me, though.
JANICE HOOPER, you’re such a quick learner. You’re welcome.
Important Comment #197 from you as well, JANICE HOOPER.
On matters of ethics, as with so much else in life that is deeply personal, we have the right to honor what’s true for us. Important!
Regarding Comments #66-80, yes, Rose, you’ve got it right, thank you.
I think the ideas you presented about compartmentalization are especially interesting and useful. That concept could really help one see into some blind spots!