The New Millennium
and the state of our Awakening
We have been
taught and conditioned in our society and our world, to see ourselves
as being separate. The United
States, with its championship of the individual and our rights
as individuals to self determination and the pursuit of happiness,
leads the way in teaching us that we are separate beings with
the freedom to compete for a lifestyle filled with opportunities
for indulgence and gratification. We are taught that
we are free to pursue our dreams, yet we are shown in so many
ways that our dream should be to have things, to indulge in self
gratification through food, alcohol, drugs & entertainment.
We are taught that we must live beyond our means through
the use of credit to maintain and carry a load of debt that wears
us out eventually and traps us in a monthly and daily cycle of
making money to pay the bills, so we can go on taking on more
debt, all at the expense of our own future wealth and well being.
We have been tricked into thinking that it is normal
to sit in our automobiles with the engine running, in stop and
go traffic, talking on the cell phone, or that we must have the
latest home entertainment toys, computers, automobiles and clothing
styles. We
have been tricked into believing that we are separate beings who
must compete in a world not only filled with these opportunities
and technologies, but also filled with violence lurking in the
shadows of our society, in those that would steal our things,
abuse our children and terrorize our sense of safety and well
being. We are taught that
there are threats "out there" in the form of criminals,
terrorists, environmental toxins, viruses and terminal diseases,
and that we must "insure" ourselves against these with
the insurance industry, more police, "surgical" military
strikes, and reliance on the chemical/pharmaceutical industry.
We have been taught that we are, through our technology
and modern capabilities, better off than we ever were before in
history. Yet we sit in front of our TVs, eating dead
food, watching "reporting" of the sickness of our society,
allowing ourselves to be distracted from taking charge of our
lives. All of this results from the assumption that
we are separate, that the real world is "out there"
and that life is somehow an accident of materiality. An
evolution that eventually leads to death and oblivion within a
universe that eventually will run down and die due to the action
of a pervasive entropic process.
But we have started
to wake up. We are starting to realize that our awareness,
attitudes and beliefs lead directly to our experience of reality.
We are part of the ongoing creative process, where
our experience reflects our consciousness. The happenings
around us are directly linked to the state of our beings and the
clarity of our consciousness. We are living holograms
containing and manifesting our relationship with the whole. If
we see ourselves as separate, we become separate and ultimately
victims of the very dangerous real world. But as we
start to realize that we are not separate, then we begin to understand
that we are responsible for our part in creating this reality. We become empowered and enthused with the
opportunities to direct our lives and the manifestations around
us. As we practice, more and more, this creative involvement,
we become better at what we produce. We begin to see
how we have created the crazy society around us, by giving up
our power to dependency on a false vision of life. We
see how we have chosen to give up responsibility for our own health
and well being to people and processes that provide us with short
term comfort and empty satisfactions. But instead,
we are now awakening to our own power to choose a way of life
that integrates us together in a more healthy and whole way of
living. We choose foods with fewer added chemicals
and with greater life energy, so as to increase our own vitality.
We choose to breathe consciously, aware that we can
attract life energy, prana and chi into our bodies and spirits,
and in so doing become more able to flow with the life energy
in everything and more able to function with a greater consciousness.
We are discovering that we are creative beings, and
that we have a direct connection to the creative energies of the
Universe. We
are beginning to realize that we can activate this creative energy
by allowing ourselves to believe in it and believe in ourselves
and our intuitions. We are discovering our inherent
power of conscious intention. That we can head ourselves
in any direction we want, just by visualizing the results we want
and need, and allowing ourselves to believe in their manifestation
and act accordingly. We
can open ourselves to the creative energy of the universe and
the creator, and direct this energy toward positive manifestations
to uplift ourselves and others at the same time. We
are beginning to awaken to an understanding of the way out of
the trap we have built for ourselves. The price we pay for this living
solution is a responsibility to stay awake, to be alert to every
tendency to fall back into the old patterns of negative thinking
and indulgence and belief in negative emotions. When
we are tempted again to believe these negative images, we need
to replace them with images of health and the power of our inherent
vitality. We need to recharge ourselves with the life
energy that comes from inside everything, from the energy of unity
within all. With this energy we freshen our spirits,
our vitality and our consciousness and we are able to send out
this energy ahead of us to uplift others and uplift the forms
and structures in our lives. We
are responsible for this choice. The more we practice
it, the better we get at it. The more we uplift our
own energy, the more we are able to uplift the energy of others.
And in so doing, we head our lives toward an incredible
future for ourselves, our societies and our planetary civilization.
Blessings
to all as we awaken to our true nature
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