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112 gramming or forced imposition by external authority, but of common basic understanding and shared love of truth, freedom, and balance. Nor should this be confused with sectarian religious aspirations, which in mixing dogma with personal bias lead to infighting and religious wars. True spirituality springs from a common source and leads to harmony and unity, whereas subjec- tne . werd . tive belief systems accomplish the opposite. Another point of consideration is that societal evolution and individual spiritual evolution are separate processes. Humanity may have progressed politically, technologically, and economi- cally over the past several thousand years, but this does not mean the average human individual has correspondingly evolved. Vices like greed, ignorance, selfishness, hubris, jealousy, and wrath are as prevalent today as they were in ancient times. What seems like an advanced society may therefore be composed of unethical and spiritually unsophisticated individuals, kept in line only through sophisticated control systems, which would make it far from posi- tive. So the outward appearance of peace, order, and scientific advancement of an alien group is not necessarily proof of under- lying positivity because these could just as well mask underlying individual spiritual atrophy. Spiritual evolution is not just about studying and following religious morals or philosophical ethics, which amounts to pro- gramming by external sources, but rather maturing in soul so that the intrinsic wisdom, discernment, and conscience developed in one life continue into the next. Only if the distillation of higher spiritual intelligence is already present at birth, operates actively throughout life by guiding personal decisions and perspectives, and is built upon in successive incarnations, can that be called spiritual evolution. And only if a society consists of spiritually evolved individuals can it be called genuinely positive. Individual evolution knows no bounds and may progress quicker than societal evolution. A single dedicated individual given proper esoteric training could accomplish in a few lifetimes what would take humanity, as a whole, thousands of years to DISCERNING ALIEN DISINFORMATION