Buddha said we must observe things from a fresh mind – the mind of a child – to truly understand.
Jesus said you must become like a child to enter the kingdom of Heaven.
What they are saying is you have to suspend the ego – the intellect – to tap into Divine Mind.
This can be done by meditation, by initiations from those who have mastered the ego and intellect, making it the servant and not the master.
There are other plant medicines at times that can create the same effect yet, with no training and without a true master who can create and maintain sacred space there is the possibility of blasting into levels and encountering unseen negative influences for which one is unprepared. Worst case scenarios include possessions and attachements and the inability to raise oneself from the lower level frequency dimensions back into the heart. The yogis say the closer you get to nirvana, the more the demons rear their ugly heads. These entities are very clever – they know you better than you know yourself – and they will use every tactic possible to distract and derail you from enlightenment and your soul purpose.
Friends and family caught up in social consciousness will also do the same. Very few have the self-mastery or the courage to maintain their self-authority and keep these influences away. The unseen negative influences will use the ego and the intellect to create problems where none exist, and rationalize staying within the confines of the ego and the intellect or “social consciousness”.
Reason this, if you are only using less than 10% of your brain (which can also be called the ego and the intellect) – who is using the other 90%? If it is vacant, then it is like a beautiful house with no one home; a space to be occupied by consciousness that very well might not be your own.
There will always be a war going on between the soul and the ego. Very few win that war. The ego will do everything possible to stay in charge, remain in the driver seat. Regardless of the fact that it has taken you to multiple dead ends and car crashes. It will even try to use fear; to judge and demonize and sabotage your awakening as well as judge and demonize those who are part of your awakening. It will lull you into a false sense of security by maintaining the status quo, the comfort zones. It is very clever – yet as we said before – it is not wise. It will undermine your true self, the expanded version – and undermine your access to the love, joy, power and wisdom which is your birthright.