An ancient insight about higher human development states very simply: psychic development is not the same as spiritual growth. In the course of one's spiritual growth--i.e., actualizing your potential for higher human development--there are dangers, dead-ends, byways and traps of which to beware.

A principal source of such difficulties is the failure to distinguish between the psychic and the spiritual. This lesson--the psychic is not the spiritual--has been given major emphasis in the teaching of all the world's major spiritual and religious traditions.

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