A person posted a comment on facebook that included this “ I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul “ when describing how he was progressing spiritually. This is my response:

…………Labels can be helpful, provided one does not get too trapped in them. Labels define things and allow for better communication. Precision is important when it comes to spiritual development. We live in a challenging physical world that can bring out the most in us spiritually. This physical world can not be handled well if we do not have good labels to help us understand the different things that exist in it. The labels: man or woman(male or female) work pretty well at representing an obvious biological distinction. But often the sexes are overly stereotyped which does not allow enough for all the overlapping characteristics and individual differences that exist between the sexes. Individual differences often are far more important than the confines of just one label. We can always develop further spiritually so certain labels tend to set up unreachable ideals, “Pure Souls” and “Angels” for example are labels that may not work that well in helping people keep working hard to develop further spiritually! In the spiritual the power of belief has a lot of impact, so we must be careful what we believe in and what label we become attached to.

…………We need to develop better spiritual theories and better labeling to help define them well, Labeling may often not be done that well, but we need the value of really good labeling to help us better define and understand our reality. Understanding labels clearly(that have been found to be useful) as to exactly what distinction(from other labels) are valid and what are not can be very challenging. The spiritual is very complicated, just as the physical world that it underlies is. It may feel good to see things more simplistically, but one needs to develop the spiritual strength to handle a lot of complexity and challenge if we are going be able to have a strong impact on the reality we now exist in with all of its huge challenges. Escaping reality and going into some drugged like state happens too often on this spiritually backward world.

…………My intense spiritual/emotional focus in life is all about advancing further spiritually so that we can do so much better spiritually in the challenging world we now exist in. Here is my link to links to a lot of my spiritual stuff I have on the internet: