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Happy Spring!
Join an unprecedented effort
by the Evolutionary Leaders Counsel
to bring about a global shift in consciousness.
Sign a visionary letter of intent
solicited by President Obama.
Dear Friend: Never in my lifetime has the Spring Equinox brought more exciting news! Over the next few days, we have a magnificent opportunity to tell President Barack Obama about our hopes and dreams for this nation and our world. To my utter joy, I just learned from the Global Coherence Initiative (HeartMath) that the Obama administration has contacted the Evolutionary Leaders Counsel to solicit a visionary statement on how to transform our planet. Their brilliant response is below. If these luminous principles resonate with you, please follow the link below the list of signatories to sign on as a supporter of their letter of intent. You are invited to add comments of your own. President Obama asked that any statement made by the Counsel be supported by at least 10,000 signatures. I was the 12,635th person to sign the petition; the goal is 100,000. I believe we can gather at least a million signatures, since we Cultural Creatives now comprise one-fourth of the U.S. adult population! So please spread the news by sending on this e-newsletter or by copying its content to your friends, loved ones and e-groups. What an amazing opportunity this is! President Obama is living up to his recognition, as the Hopi Elders predicted, that "We are the ones we've been waiting for." Now it's time for us to stand up and be counted. My heart leaps up as our united voices of love, hope and compassion ring out to the Office of the U.S. President and to like-minded people around the world. Whatever the outcome, this collective vision is a beacon of light - even a lighthouse - for people who will gravitate to it. I behold the Light in each and every one of us. It will only grow stronger in the days ahead, as our prayers for healing build a more peaceful, humane and enlightened world.
Namaste, in Spirit,
Judith Pennington
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By the Evolutionary Leaders
The human family is in the midst of the most significant transformation of consciousness since its emergence in Africa over one hundred thousand years ago. Consciousness has been evolving for billions of years from the first cell to us. We are becoming aware that through our own consciousness the universe can know itself. This awareness reveals incredible new potential for our individual and collective humanity.
Simultaneously, we are the first species on this Earth aware that we can destroy ourselves by our own action. This may be the greatest wake-up call to the evolution of consciousness since the origin of Homo sapiens.
We now realize that we are affecting our own evolution by everything we do. This knowledge awakens in us the aspiration to become more conscious through subjective practices including meditation, reflection, prayer, intuition, creativity, and conscious choice making that accelerate our evolution in the direction of unity consciousness and inspire us to deeply align our collective vision.
THE CHALLENGE
At this juncture in human history, urgent global crises challenge us to learn to live sustainably, in harmony and gratitude with one another and with the living universe. The changes required of humanity are broad, deep, and far reaching. Only by acting swiftly and creatively can we birth a planetary culture that will bring well-being to every form of life in the Earth community.
The good news is that a compelling new story of our potential as a whole human species is emerging - a story of collaboration, citizen action, dialogue and new understandings propelled by unprecedented levels of democratic freedom, multicultural exchange, and access to communication technologies. It is nothing less than the story of our collective evolution.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION
We recognize that the inner and outer aspects of life evolve together. A dramatic awakening in consciousness will involve an equally dramatic shift in outward aspects of our lives. In particular, we see the following as vital opportunities for our conscious evolution, both personally and collectively:
Cultivating a Paradigm of Aliveness: We regard the universe as deeply alive and conscious by nature. In a living universe, our sense of subtle connection and participation with life around us is the basis for a compassionate and cooperative approach to living.
Educating for an Evolving Consciousness: Awakening consciousness is the foundation for all the change we seek to see in the world. We can work to elevate our capacity for conscious reflection and creative action in our personal lives as well as our collective lives as communities. We must support research and educational strategies that optimize human capacities and explore the nature of consciousness.
Restoring Ecological Balance: The balance of planetary ecosystems is fundamental to our survival. We must reverse the pollution of our global commons - the water, air and soil that nourish all life. We must encourage the proliferation of clean, renewable energy sources and expend all necessary resources toward mitigating the effects of climate change.
Encouraging Conscious Media: We must find innovative ways to use the new electronic media as the mirror of our positive evolutionary story, investing in their capacity to reach across differences of generation, culture, religion, wealth, and gender to build a working consensus about our collective future.
Engaging in Social and Political Transformation: More sustainable ways of living will require the support of a more conscious democracy and vibrant civil society from which more enlightened leaders will emerge. All individuals should be encouraged to use their gifts to create participatory, responsible and compassionate models of governance.
Working for Integrity in Commerce: Conscious businesses that are aware of the scope, depth, and long-range impacts of their actions are key to achieving sustainability. Business must become an ethical steward of the Earth's ecology and consciously establish an economic basis for a future of equitably shared abundance.
Promoting Health and Healing: The science of mind-body-spirit health has demonstrated the profound connection between the health of a whole person and the health of the system in which he or she lives. Whole systems healing, respecting both traditional knowledge and modern sciences, must be supported in physical, social, and spiritual domains.
Building Global Community: The new story is about all of us who share this planet. Together, we can create a culture of peace that eliminates the need for armed conflict, respecting and appreciating the glorious diversity of our human family.
YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VITAL
Our group has done its best to articulate possibilities for the evolution of consciousness at this crucial moment in time. Please reflect on this document, feel what resonates in your being and calls forth a response on your part. We invite you to discuss it with others, continuing this global conversation by adding to it the wisdom that is uniquely your own.
Together, let us co-create a new narrative of conscious evolution that is a call to individual and collective action, birthing the most significant transformation of consciousness in history. Join in the Call to Conscious Evolution by signing the pledge now.
FOUNDING SIGNATORIES
Chopra Center , Carlsbad , California , July 26, 2008
Michael Beckwith, Joan Borysenko, Gregg Braden, Rinaldo Brutoco,
Thomas Callanan, Deepak Chopra, Mallika Chopra, Dale Colton,
Gordon Dveirin, Duane Elgin , Leslie Elkus, Barbara Fields, Debbie Ford,
Ashok Gangadean, Kathleen Gardarian, Tom Gegax, Charles Gibbs,
Kathy Hearn, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton,
Judy Martin, Rod McGrew, Steve McIntosh, Lynne McTaggart,
Deborah Moldow, James O'Dea, Carter Phipps, Wendy Craig-Purcell,
Carolyn Rangel, Rustum Roy, Peter Russell, Gerard Senehi, Emily Squires,
Brian Swimme, Diane Williams, Marianne Williamson, Tom Zender.
See what others are saying, sign the petition and/or write your own comments:
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Surfing the Waves of Change
Everyone is aware of the massive shifts taking place on our planet today. Economic upheaval, political turmoil and social change are challenging us to use every available coping skill to stay calm, balanced and connected to Spirit. This is especially true for people who are jobless, homeless and hungry.
Whether you are soaring or floundering in the winds and waves of change, you may find insight and hope - as I did - in the meditative writing offered below. Late last year, after a lengthy spell of being weirdly out of synch with almost everything I tried to do, I sat down with pen and paper to ask my soul if the cause was cosmic, earthly or simply personal. Was it fear, physiological imbalance...or what...that was causing so many things to go wrong?
The answers in this inspired writing comforted me, and I hope will be interesting and useful to you too.
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"In each life come moments of reckoning, when events in the present and previous experiences come to the fore and present themselves for review and resolution. Such a time is upon thee now, as the change in the earth and the affairs of men shake thy foundations and tumble thy precepts and habits into a lower vibration that is far from comfortable. What must happen for thee - and for every soul - is an upraising of the vibration of the body-mind to that of the soul, for only the soul can find a way out of what is occurring now on the earth...
See in self how transcendence may be attained for soul consciousness.
Connecting with the soul-self and seeking its insights and wisdom will lift thee into its vision. Through the eyes of the soul, one sees into eternity and gains perspectives on the present as a transitory moment in time. One sees a sea of tranquility undisturbed by earth events, and the soul sails above this sea with calm understanding and acceptance. This is conveyed to the body-mind during soul communication, which strengthens all aspects of the soul. The sense of aloneness and uncertainty dissipates in the light of understanding.
Consistently seeking the insights of the soul provides the body-mind with ideas and directions leading to peace, harmony and right outcomes. Disharmony resolves into ease and upliftment, which comes naturally as the soul's energies permeate the inner being and smoothe every way. The sensibility of peace and calm finds itself climbing higher and higher into greater levels of peace and self-awareness, until self is realized as Self. The matrix receives the Light Being and each breathe the other, sending forth greater light in a time of darkness.
What comes upon thee now is the presentment of this darkness, a roiling cloud of hatred and pollution that threatens humankind and its existence on earth. Only the power of unconditional love can extinguish the darkness with Light.
Seek it for self, give it to the world. Retreat into meditation each day until light fills thy body and harmonizes it. Then all will be well, for self and self's life, for life everlasting.
Is this time of trial personal or collective?
It is both, for each soul faces the same collision course with self's past and present. What is unresolved must be resolved for the self to ascend to Soul.
This sounds religious and superstitious to me, like a prophecy being fulfilled. How can this be? And what about these rumors of the Earth moving into the static of a photon field in space? Is there any truth to this?
See in deep space what occurs at this point in time.
Planet Earth, stressed by activities of mind and the shaking up of her crust from explosions and pollution, suffers the same turmoil as human beings and shivers in response. The electromagnetic vibration of this shiver emanates outward, disturbing the balance of all else. What can go wrong in outer space does so, from the electrical disturbance in other planets and stars to the orderly precession of the equinoxes. Inner turmoil disrupts each field, in turn, affecting each body in the field and creating a magnification effect.
Stabilizing these fields is the work of people who are uncomfortable in self and wish to bring balance to the universe of light and sound. Meditate daily to connect with higher harmonics that will do the work in each body, for the sake of each soul.
Why are some people unaffected?
Energy permeates each body and soul according to its openness, receptivity and desire to embrace All That Is. If a full experience is desired, this comes."
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My soul apparently wants a full experience of life and I am certainly getting it! Yet I have found that meditating for an hour at least every other day, if not every day, and staying in constant contact with Source through dreams, writing and doing what I love to do has enormously calmed my waters. I am not completely back in synch with the peaceful, creative flow state that I enjoyed before 9/11, the Southeast Asia Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and now the global economic recession. But I am getting closer to it, with the realization that if I want to surf the soul's sea of tranquility, I will have to do what it takes to maintain transcendence. So I am learning wonderful new skills - from a body-friendly diet to harmonic overtoning and ch'i kung - that are keeping me open, receptive and happy for my own sake and for all the beautiful beings on this precious planet. In these challenging times, I wish you peace and inner wisdom. In this we have everything. |
Endquotes
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore."
"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our silence."
~ William Butler Yeats
"In quiet and confidence shall be your strength."
~ Isaiah 30:15
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Aligning with
the Divine
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Recently a friend asked me to do a meditative writing to determine whether the Divine wants us to pursue a higher vision according to what we think is highest for us, or whether we are to surrender to divine will. See if these insights resonate with you.
"Enlightenment may always be given, dear one, for this is our task and our joy to bring to thee what is good and beautiful, what gives pleasure and perfection. And so it is with all pursuits: we need only ask these questions to determine whether our pursuits are in accordance with the will of the divine.
For these too need only find their oneness, and there is no question of separation and difference in one and the other.
Seek what makes the heart leap with joy and laughter, what brings the soul's gifts to bear, what increases these and reaches out from self to others seeking wisdom, knowledge and worth in self and all things. When these conditions are met, we are in surrender to our own desires and the wish of God for us to be our highest and best.
If not met, then ask what is the heart's desire and how can this be brought into manifestation. Meditate on this and allow the heart and soul to search for what gives joy, that the mind may take this impulse and bring it into form.
Here is how God's will is served: by aligning the gifts and joys of self with Divine Will. When this is done, one knows from the leap of joy in the heart that accord is reached. The heart thrills. The mind knows without doubt. All aligns itself with the course in mind. Each step, each turn, leads to a brighter horizon.
Seek, then, to know what gives the greatest joy. This will be found in the use of one's greatest gifts and talents. It will be evident when the course is found. Pray for this to come about, recognizing that time must be in accord with the readiness of soul for its greatest unfoldment. All moves toward this, no matter what appearances say. Be ready. Grow joy in the refinement of one's gifts. Love God.
Here is the greatest and the only work to be done by any soul."
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Beat the
Laws of
Distraction
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Distractibility is not just a nuisance, it hinders productivity and drives people crazy. Ever walked across a room and wondered why? It's not that we are losing our minds, it's that we are too "absent minded" to stay in touch with ourselves!
Here are the Laws of Distraction, according to an article by Karen Leland, published in the November-December issue of "Spirituality & Health" magazine.
Law 1 / Workers spend, on average, about 10 minutes on a task before being interrupted by either an external source (56 percent of the time) or self-interruption (44 percent of the time). Sadly, it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds for people to return to the original task. Making progress even more chaotic is the fact that 40 percent of the time, we do not return to the original task at all.
Law 2 / According to researchers at the University of London, when workers are juggling multiple tasks, their IQ falls 10 points.
Law 3 / We are much less aware of our visual world than we think. Daniel Simons at the Visual Cognition Laboratory, University of Illinois, reviewed videos showing that we might be talking to a stranger, get distracted, and continue the conversation with another stranger - and never notice that it's a different person!
If you find yourself looking for yourself entirely too often, you can cultivate focus and presence with the meditation and mind-calming tips and tools in almost every issue of The Still, Small Voice. If we are not present to ourselves, then who is...? |
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