[greybeard]

Writing for myself and any one who get confused by the paradoxes of spirituality.
Ultimate truth is that God is infinite beyond human imagination and that only God is.
"He" is not male or female and is everything that has ever been or ever will be, the totality and yet none of it.

However that is not helpful.
It is not helpful either to be told that the ego is nonexistent though that is true.

Best way I can put is that we are in a school.
The pre school baby is equal to university Don but the knowledge and needs are different.
So it is no use expecting a five year old to learn algebra when they are having trouble with letters,
So the map of consciousness is to help people move up to the next grade which is not superior to any grade just a different course.

A person less spiritually evolved would be a, "me first" person and quite happily get up to mischief and blame some one else.
The greatest service one can give is to dedicate ones life to the spiritual goal of enlightenment, for enlightenment is of no benefit to a personal self, there isn't one left, though awareness remains.
At that point you are dying to God for the sake of all. Enlightenment is a cosmic event, for every soul that walks through that door raises the conscious of the cosmos and brings more peace and harmony into the life of all sentient beings.

Every one that walks through the door makes it easier and faster for the next and so on.
Every enlightened being is in service to the whole human race and at no time considers themselves to be special, how could they? They are in a desire-less state (how can you want anything when you are everything?) timeless, no-mind - nonlocality state, omnipresent.

It is pointless trying to explain that, when a person is in deep trouble believing that everyone is an enemy, with victim mentality, talk to them of unconditional love and they would laugh in your face as they take your money.
So to each level the experience is very real, because it is supposed to be, otherwise the lessons that you signed up, for before you came to this earth, would be pointless.

Eckhart teaches to a level Hawkins teaches at another level, the classes are different.
One should pick an integreteous teacher that you can relate to and thats the level to transcend. When that is done another teacher will appear who will help you move up a grade and so on.

Hope that is helpful.

Chris