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path of their forefathers and others might think definitely not.
There will be conflict within the youth, a conflict between the
head and the heart, between the ego and the Spirit. Should the
Spirit be unrecognised what hope has the youth of truly
realising what its needs are. This unawareness will give the
ego the upper hand in this struggle and any decision will be
ego based. The choice of career will be to satisfy the ego
without any recourse to the spiritual needs. If one is to take
then another example, should the youth have some inkling of
its spiritual requirements, a pull coming from deeply within
its being and seek to service that ‘pull’, their only recourse
within the offerings of your present society is enter into
training to become a member of the clergy of some religion.
As we have outlined previously, there is nothing about any
religion that is spiritual though all religions are based on
spiritual values, but that is as close as it gets. On the firm
foundation of truth is often where lies are born, this then is
where religion was ‘born’, on the firm foundation of
spirituality. The unfortunate youth who gets drawn towards a
predominantly spiritual vocation does not have the clarity
available to it to make rational choices regarding its future.
This is not a new situation or a situation confined to the
present times. This has occurred many times before, even
before the invention of any religion. We have referred to the
constant conflict between ego and Spirit whilst embodied.
This conflict has always been there and been there since its
creation, a necessary part of being in that state, and so that the
appropriate lessons can be attained through the experiences
this ‘conflict’ leads to. There are many who have the vocation
to be a ‘tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man,
beggar man, thief’, and then there are some who have the