Spiritual Growth Book Excerpt
Enlightenment Through Service

Greetings from Orin!
There are many paths to enlightenment. There are paths that involve breathing and posture techniques and others that involve disciplining the will. There are paths that train the mind through meditation. There is a path of devotion and one of willful action. A major opportunity for spiritual growth exists in these times; it is the path of enlightenment through service.

Many of you have come to serve during this time of major transition. Much of your spiritual growth will come through serving and teaching others. You do not need to have a public platform, to be well known, or to do work that others consider important to make an enormous contribution. You can add light to the world through anything you do, through your job, family life, and other activities. Your increasing light will serve others on a telepathic and energy level, for as you grow you will become a transmitter of spiritual energies and make a higher vibration available to everyone around you.

All teaching is learning.
All empowerment of others is
self-empowerment.

There is no way you can teach and empower others without teaching and empowering yourself. As a teacher, you create the space that allows learning to take place. You empower and teach others every time you create an opportunity for them to grow. By learning to create that space for others to grow spiritually, you grow spiritually yourself. Empowering others will bring you spiritual rewards beyond anything you can imagine.

As you serve others you will gain a radiance and light around you that will create opportunities and good things everywhere you go. You will find increasing prosperity, deep inner satisfaction, and the respect and love of those around you. You will find much energy coming back to you, for every time you create a shift for others you also create a shift to a higher consciousness for yourself. While you do not want to serve for these reasons, these are some of the gains you may realize as you follow your higher path.

We will call you who are following the path of enlightenment through service "world-servers." Being a world-server means honoring yourself and others; it means thinking of how what you do serves other people. It means coming from your integrity and standing by your deepest values. It means bringing out the best in people, assisting them in discovering their potential and the higher plan of their lives.

Empowering people means
assisting them in making positive changes
in their lives.

Shifting consciousness is an important aspect of your world service. You shift consciousness by empowering people. People make changes when they have new insights and perceptions. They make changes when someone reaches them at the deepest part of their being and touches them with love.

True service comes in moments when there is openness, love, and a lack of boundaries between you and another. It comes when you feel your equality, recognize the other person's divinity, and act in a way that empowers him or her. It comes when you link with a higher power and, through your alignment, allow a greater good to come to both of you. You connect with the other person's Higher Self, and each of you comes away expanded. In those moments you have become the teacher as well as the student.

Empowerment is different from simply helping people. If people are hungry, you can give them food and help them temporarily. They are empowered when you teach them to get food for themselves and they can eat on an ongoing basis. If you are a healer, you can keep "fixing" people's problems, or you can teach them how to solve their own problems. Empowerment means teaching people skills they can use to take charge of their own lives rather than bailing them out of recurring problems. Ask yourself, "How does what I am doing serve this person to become more self-sufficient and independent?"

When you assist people, perhaps helping them find solutions to problems, they either remain the same or make positive changes in their lives. If they make changes, you have shifted their consciousness and made a true contribution to them. Then they will have more choices and higher visions of themselves, which they can use to create better lives.

Consciousness can be shifted in simple ways. When you are with children or friends, focus on what you can do that will create a shift for them. When you meet people, think of what you can contribute to them, not what you will get from them. If you are getting together with friends, ask what you could do together that will expand each of you. Ask yourself, "How can I serve them with my words or actions?"

Even when you meet with a business client, ask, "What is the higher purpose of this call or visit? How can I make a contribution to this person's life? How can my work, product, advice, or service empower this person?" As you do this regularly, you will lift your friendships to a higher level and evolve more rapidly yourself. You may find many wonderful surprises and much business success as you start focusing on serving other people.

You can shift consciousness in small children by contacting their Higher Selves, even for a moment. Imagine your Higher Self contacting theirs, telling them mentally, "I see the beauty and light in you, I recognize you for the great being you are." Children will usually respond in some way to your silent message, and you will have assisted in their spiritual awakening.

One person CAN make
an enormous difference.

Becoming a world-server means joining the higher community of beings working together to bring light and evolution to others. Your own growth will accelerate rapidly, and you will become magnetic to people and opportunities that allow you to make a difference. Your world service is in whatever area you are drawn to-peace, ecology, education, the arts, medicine, science, metaphysics, or others. You can be of service in any job you have. You are in exactly the right place now to start serving and empowering others.

It takes only a few people living at a higher vibration to create a doorway for many others. Becoming a world-server is one of the fastest paths to enlightenment and will bring you joy, abundance, and inner satisfaction. Make the most of every opportunity you have to serve and empower others. As you do, you will reach enlightenment through service.

Recommended Listening
Spiritual Growth Audio Book (SGE) Unabridged book, read by Sanaya Roman, includes 21 short guided meditations at the end of the each chapter available as a separate track. These are not the same as the meditations in Volume 1 and 2 below, as they are from 4-7 minutes each.


Spiritual Growth Volume 1—Raising Your Vibration (SG101) 8 guided deep-level meditations by Orin to go with the book. Experience many expanded states of consciousness to open your heart, to calm your emotions, to accelerate your spiritual growth, to work in probable realities to choose the reality you want, to expand and contract time, to lift the veils of illusion, to learn right use of will, and to become transparent.

Spiritual Growth Volume 2—Being Your Higher Self (SG102) 8 8 guided deep-level meditations by Orin to go with the book. Become your Higher Self, create miracles with light, send light to others, connect with the Universal Mind, flow with the Higher Will, work with the masters, see the bigger picture, and allow your higher good. Learn to let go of anything that does not serve your higher good and experience more inner peace.

Spiritual Growth Meditation/Affirmations  Program 1: Affirmations and Program 2: Journey by Orin to assist you in deepening your experience of, and putting into practice the information you read about in the Spiritual Growth book.

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Recommended Reading
Orin's Spiritual Growth - Being Your Higher Self book.  Available in printed and eBook formats!

Be your Higher Self in everyday life and move to a higher state of consciousness. Receive answers and guidance from your Higher Self. Work with light, connect with the Universal Mind and Higher Will. Learn non-attachment; right use of will; travel into probable realities; and experience more joy, harmony, peace, and love.

Note:  Revised eBook is updated, however the information is essentially the same as in the printed book.
Note:  If you have purchased the revised eBook edition since June, 2011, you have the latest edition.
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