consciousness

Most people are simply unaware of how fast and how far we have come as a collective consciousness, let alone how fast things are set to exponentially explode in the years ahead. Like the “Frog In The Kettle“, we’re seemingly immune to the increased heat as the water heads to the boiling point. In the last 50-75 years, there have been so many advances is the understanding of human consciousness and a renaissance in the whole Jungian concept of a collective unconsciousness. Just look as all the various areas of study and disciplines.

We are truly on our way to major and revolutionary jumps in consciousness.

It all began in earnest with the outlawed pyschedelics of the 50’s and 60’s. The illegal drug generation of the hippie days gave way to more legal and important non-drug approaches to psyche exprimentation. When you consider the advance that have been made in the following areas in the last few decades, you’ll get a sense that the rubber band of consciousnes is about to snap forward violently.

>Hypnosis
>Psychotherapy
>Rebirthing
>Eastern mysticism
>Spiritual shamanism
>Primal therapy
>Biofeedback
>Sensory deprivation
>Dreaming and dream state
>NDE and OBE
>Amy many more

We have no idea as to what major advances we are about to see in human consciousness. But the NDE (near death experiences) and thanatology advances are opening worlds of possibilities. The cumulative effect of where we’ve been and are headed will definitely reedefine life as we know it in a few short years.

Maybe by 2012?

Why not!

Consciousness isn't something that resides within our brain. Like the Spirit, Consciousness is everywhere. In fact, I use consciousness very loosely as another word for Spirit, while I also undersand the differences of course. The cosmic consciousness is also different than Carl Jung's collective unconscious, but a close relative. And a blood relative would be our collective consciousness. Got those all ordered in your conscious mind now?

The Cosmic consciousness is God, the universal Creator from which we have all come.

I have become increasingly fascinated with the concept of zero point field in the last few years, but I'm still not able to articulate exactly what it means- but I know what it means. In physics, the zero-point energy is the lowest possible energy that a quantum mechanical physical system may possess and is the energy of the ground state of the system. The concept was first proposed by Albert Einstein and Otto Stern in 1913 and it's a cosmic music with no end.

My basic concept of the zero-point field is that all of that empty space out there is not empty at all!

In fact, as Bernard Hasich has proposed, there more than enough fuel-energy in the void, the nothingness, the zero-point field to supply the energy for our rocket space travel to anywhere in the universe. David Bohm writes of a world of "unbroken wholeness". We have been separated from the Cosmic consciouness by virtue of our incarnational entrance into humanhood.

The journey of life for all of us is to remember how it was, who we are, and have the courage to do what it takes to BE all that our Creator planned for us and not what our stinking thinking (read ego) has been selling us. I believe with Greg Braden that we're coming upon and facing a cosmic choice point between now and 2012.

What will we do with it?

It's possible to have both competition and community. But I admit that it is difficult in America. Anyone who follows baseball just a little has heard of George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees who proclaimed, "I want this team to win. I am obsessed with winning, with discipline, with achieving. That's what this country is all about." That the good news and the bad news.

What sociologists know is that the religion of a country mirrors the government and culture.

In America that translates into building the bigger and better church so that the people down the street will leave their church to come and join yours. Bigger is better and if both are "bigger" then the programs must be "better". Worse yet though is the inner mentality that says not only are we bigger and better, we're RIGHT!

That one will leave a mark!

Being RIGHT or thinking that one was right, while everyone else was WRONG, has killed hundreds of millions of people throughout various religious wars- in the name of God of course. History has also shown that wherever GRACE reigns, competition always gives way to COMMUNITY!

The purpose of religion should be to return us to our roots, to God, and therein be evidenced by the love that a group of people (community) have for one another. In a true community, each person is looking out for each other. Love if the freedom we all seek. While there is competition it's not in a WIN-LOSE format but a WIN-WIN one.

Harvey Cox put it this way, "The precious local church is where the Word becomes flesh. I do not believe any modern Christian can survive without some such grounding in a local congregation". There's a reason that the average church in America, of which there are more than 450,000, has 75 members. And there's a reason why there are mega churches in America with 2,000-50,000 members.

Do you know those reasons?

The latter has an "institutional consciousness" built around a "name brand" and an well known "advertised leader" while the former have a community consciousness built around the people that make up the group. Each has it's good points and its not so good points. Life may take you from one to another back again, depending upon where you are in life and your own consciousness level. But in both one must learn to live life graciously to truly find God.

Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology originally coined by Carl Jung. While Freud did not distinguish between an "individual psychology" and a "collective psychology", Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal unconscious particular to each human being. But, what about the collective consciousness?

While I embrace the Jungian concept of a collective unconsciousnes (God, Spirit, Being), I feel that much of what the 2012 concept is about is a rising and comprehension of the all important collective consciousness that is truly needed to tip the scales from self-destruction and self absorption to a unification of the beings on this planet to save our very existence.

Sound too mysterious or climatic? It's what's needed to save the planet!

We must begin asking more and more questions and quit buying into whatever pablum is being fed to us. Milk will no longer serve us as it has in the past. And as the writer of the book of Hebrews said, we need to start being able to chew and digest some meat. Questions are meat! Eugene Ionesco put it this way, "It is not the ANSWER that enlightens, but the QUESTION." Unfortunately we've been taught to not question.

One of the fascianting traits of all mammals is their curiosity- the exact thing that our societal leaders (especially religious ones) try to keep us from. An age of enlightenment is on the way. A far greater one than we've ever experienced.

Mankind only advances through compassionate and loving antithesis. Synthesis is incest!

From the questions will come new realities which will demand action, which will force us into some modes of courage wew'll not readily embrace. Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, "Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what is the use of seeing."

There is coming a new species: homo sapien sapien sapiens. And the whole universe groans our coming into being as the writer (Paul) of the book of Romans has reminded us. A collective consciousness is on the way and it's coming at such a fast pace, many are not seeing, let alone acting.

Recently I wrote a little about something called clouds of consciousnesses. It s been ruminating for a while and I am trying to find a way to describe it or play with it. At the moment it really is a case of suck it and see what happens and play around with different ideas.

I am rapidly coming to a place whereby there is a definite idea about this formulating. It is probably nothing new but I have not read about it or seen anything on the internet. Of course the books I have read, the radio interviews I have heard with physicists and other scientists and spiritual people all go a long way to me formulating this idea.

When I was nearing the end of this article it got me researching along a path of: consciousness, reality and spirituality and led me to two scientists; David Bohm, a great physicist who only died in 1994 and Dr David R Hawkins a scientist whose work is fascinating me at the moment. I thought you might like to read about them yourself.

The theory just now goes something like this.

Clouds of consciousness are something we all have. There are various levels of these clouds that surround us and, should we wish, and open up our minds enough, we can tap into a lot of them. There are various levels between each of the four levels mentioned below, but for now I will write briefly about the main four clouds.

Self consciousness These are the clouds which immediately make up who we are, what we think about ourselves and the world around us. Imagine a band of clouds tightly surrounding your head. This is where the self consciousness cloud lies. These clouds contain everything that encompasses your current reality, everything you think about, everything you believe, everything you believe about the world and other people. It almost blinds you as you are only seeing, thinking and feeling what is immediately in front of you. You have not formulated any original ideas about the world and decided to question your life.

The first 4 of Maslow s hierarchy of needs would reside here. Most of us would stay in this state of consciousness until the day we die. However I truly believe there is a global shift happening and that pretty soon most of us will die whilst in the awakening consciousness stage.

Your ego resides here also; everything you do is for the benefit of yourself.

Awakening consciousness This is the second level in this theory. In this stage you have started to question some of your beliefs about the world, yourself and the people around you. You are not operating from a self point of view you are starting to think about the bigger picture and to help others and to find ways to be able to do this. You can access a higher aspect of yourself, but may not necessarily understand it completely. I believe this is what is happening in the world at the moment, there are more and more people at this level of consciousness and it is culminating in a mass awakening. More and more of us are starting to believe there is something more to life and something more to our minds than was previously imagined.

I am not talking about organised religion, that was a way of stifling the awakening, the real religion is when you ve found GOD within yourself, GOD is not an entity with laws, GOD is a belief within yourself and a connection to other states of consciousness. The awakening consciousness is the beginning.

In this state of consciousness you are starting to believe that you create your own world, you create and manifest the things and people around you. It is the beginning of what Maslow would call Self actualization

Here comes the tricky bit. I can t write about the other levels of consciousness as I have never experienced them. I believe I have experienced glimpses of them through lucid dreaming, astral projection and inspirational thinking, so from this point on it is mostly hypothesising.

Awakened consciousness - After awakening consciousness there would be a permanent state of awakened consciousness whereby you live in a world dominated by your thoughts to serve others. Your ego is a residual memory however you will still be self aware but from a spiritual point of view. I believe Buddha, Christ, Allah, Mother Theresa, Krishna Marti, and other spiritual beings all lived here. This type of consciousness begins to transcend the reality as we know it. It has one foot in the real world and one foot in the pure world .

Universal consciousness - The pure world , this could be where your mind goes when you die, it s the library of the world. The mind could be uploaded into a melting pot of mind, consciousness and spirit for the good of the future world.

We, as living beings, can maybe tap into this universal consciousness when we have that a-ha experience, or astral project, meditate, through kundalini, basically if we momentarily transcend our Awakened consciousness , and to transcend the Awakened consciousness we have to have transcended the other levels. So we have to break through various clouds of consciousness to get to the universal consciousness. If we were to live in this cloud we wouldn t be of this world, we wouldn t need our bodies.

Practical value

Having a theory like this brings up a lot more questions than it answers. However, for me, it s stimulates my goal to be awakened , I wouldn t be overly concerned about what people think of me, about earning money, about getting clicks on my Google adsense ads, about getting visitors to this blog all the things ego is concerned with.

Okay, it s good having theories but theories should have some practical value. How can this theory have any practical value? For me it reminds me that I am still living in a state of self consciousness and it reminds me to try and have more awakening consciousness moments.

Recently I got back into the habit of checking my stats for this blog, purely an ego thing to do as I had started to think about the money it was earning rather than the content it was providing. I was writing articles that I thought readers would want rather than what I really wanted to put up. I have spent three days on this article as I have a passion for its content, other articles, due to inspiration can be written and uploaded in 1-2 hours. So having theories like this reminds me every day that I am still living in my self conscious world and reminds me to at least try and have more experiences in the Awakening consciousness cloud.

Since writing this it has led to me change my view on reality and what it really is. I have been struggling for a while with the concept of reality and how one s person s world can be so different from my world. This will probably be the subject of my next article.

There is a particular mantra (word or phrase used during meditation) of which I am very fond: Baba Nam Kevalam. It is written in the sanskrit language and I have heard it translated into English many ways over the years. "God's name only" is a very simple, direct and useful one, but I tend to translate it differently for my yoga students. "Everything is an expression of God" or "Everything is an expression of the supreme consciousness." Whether that is the best translation or not, I can not say, but it works for me, and I believe the statement to be the truth and furthermore that the realization of that truth by a person will result in a dramatic transformation in him/her. A transformation from the "normal" to the sublime, from the tortured to the blissful, from the ignorant to the wise, from the harmful to the benevolent, from the unconscious to the conscious.

Sometimes when I simply reflect on the word "conscious," I become euphoric. It is so simple, yet so liberating to be truly conscious of something, anything. No big mystery. To be "aware" of something is another way of saying it. If I notify my kids that it is snowing outside, they will immediately run to the window to verify the story, and assuming I have told the truth, they will soon become "conscious" of the snow. They run to the window, not because they don't trust me, but because they are hungry for that experience of awareness of the snow. Snow is something they have seen before but only rarely in the rainy area we live in. Yet, it is something they love for many reasons. Snow gives them great joy and they drink in the "vision" from the window. What a blessing it is that holds their attention (another word for consciousness I believe) so firmly. The snow is so white and pure, and it floats so gracefully to the Earth seemingly from Heaven. Ten minutes ago they might have been bickering over a toy they don't even want to play with, but now they are sharing a window as they both witness snow. Their minds are focused, joyful, one with the snow. For my kids, snow is fulfilling the purpose of art, lifting their minds up from their normal existence to a more lofty state.

But what is consciousness? It is something we all have to some extent, some people seem to have more of it than others, and if we get hit on the head too hard, we lose if for a while. But is it something we can cultivate and grow? Can we expand or somehow strengthen our consciousness? I am not talking about the intellect. That is something completely different. That is the computer, the information manipulator, the little puzzle solver. I am talking about consciousness. The consciousness that tells us "I am breathing", "I am cold", "The sun just came up", "I am hungry", "I exist" "You exist" "I have a blissful feeling in my heart."

I propose that we consider consciousness a valuable commodity that can be expanded/developed, and something that can be used to an extent we would never have dreamed possible. Furthermore, I am going to go very far out on a limb now and tell you I believe we can use this "super-consciousness" to revolutionize our personal existence and give us undreamed of powers. Next, I would like to introduce the concept of "intuition". Here is a word we are all familiar with, but not generally in terms of religion. Sadly intuition is thought of as not much more than a lucky hunch here and there, but I think it is a natural albeit undeveloped personal ability, which is both reliable and nothing more than an extension of that day to day "consciousness" that I mentioned above.

So what's the problem? Why aren't we all brimming over with the power of intuition? Because:
A. We are drowning in a sea of mental noise
B. There is no "B"

OK, hold on to your hat; this is the way I see it.... Our primary existence is consciousness. Essentially, we are nothing more or less than a pinpoint of pure consciousness. That pinpoint is surrounded by the rest of the cosmos, which I will call "reality." We are the subject, "reality" is the object (signal) we are trying to be "conscious" of, but (for better or worse) in between we have a layer of noise, which I will call the "ego", a fictitious sense of self, a misunderstanding of who we are, and that persistent belief that we are this absurd dream identity is the only thing preventing us from experiencing heaven right here on Earth.

So, how do we get rid of the noise and attain this super consciousness? For want of a better word, let's call it "yoga." Yoga directly translated means "union," similar to the translation of the word "religion" by the way. Yoga promises to unite us with our true nature known in yoga circles as "the Self." The full nature of yoga practice goes way beyond the scope of this short essay, but for the benefit of the novice who may hold the misunderstanding that yoga is merely a set of stretching exercises, I will briefly run over the 8 "limbs" of yoga as originally presented by the great yogi Pantanjali:

1. Yama (a group of 5 morel rules of the road)
2. Niyama; some additional guidelines for day to day behavior (study, helping others etc)
3. Asanas; the physical exercises that have become popular in the West
4. Pranayama; best known as breathing exercises
5. Pratyahara; withdrawal from the senses (preliminary to mediation)
6. Dharana; concentration exercises (meditation)
7. Dhyana; Attention to spiritual phenomena (contemplation)
8. Samadhii; Complete absorption in spiritual experience

I highly encourage anyone interested to seek instruction from a qualified instructor. For more information on yoga and the Baba Nam Kevalam mantra, please visit www.babanam.com.

Baba Nam Kevalam

For all my life I have been pushing towards a moving target. Every time I thought I would touch it, it would disappear like a water mirage on the sun baked highways of Arizona. Like the flowers and tress that lean towards the sun, I was reaching out for something as well- leaning towards the S-n. There was a desire for “something“. I thought it was God. At age seventeen I was sure that I had found Him- or so I thought. Then I discovered that “intentionality directly shapes reality“. But, my intentions were misdirected.

Over the years, I’ve discovered that the God which religion has presented to me wasn’t satisfying those hunger pangs I felt within. Yes, God is real, but the picture that had been painted for me, of Him, sure wasn’t. The idea of reformation gave way to transformation; but, transformation of what?

I cleaned myself up, transformed my language, social behavior, ethical dealings with myself and the world, and tried to be obedient to all the laws of man (and God?). And then I came to the conclusion that what needed transformation was my consciousness! It took a long time to arrive at that destination because of my religious training which taught me to be afraid of the word “consciousness” as though it was the tools of demons or worse yet a New Age concept!

We need some new age thinking!

Even trying to discuss this “spiritual awakening” that I was sensing got bad press, but the time is NOW. The divine is being born anew every day in increasing ways. You and I are becoming the midwives to a new consciousness which is required to heal our wounds. The Shift of the Ages is not just a scientific 26,000 year galactic crossing, but a time of exponential enlightenment for all of mankind.

A 2012 final fantasy maybe?

We are already beginning to leave behind old patterns, but many more must be shelved as we approach the edges of this spiritual black hole that pulls us to safety- not destruction. The perceived duality of matter and spirit will come together as the feminine and masculine work more harmoniously in ways we’ve yet to see.

Our souls are being pulled back to the Source.

Transformation of consciousness is underway. Step into it.

No other concept defines your spiritual growth more vividly than consciousness. This is spirituality information that lets you know where you lie on the ascending scale of consciousness.

Who you really are is consciousness and consciousness is only aware of itself when it is conscious of itself. There are four levels of consciousness and they range from subconscious to conscious to superconscious to supraconscious. You operate within these four levels of consciousness at all times but you are not aware of all these levels of consciousness until you move up the hierarchy of consciousness through understanding and awareness.

Each level of consciousness taps into the part of our three-part being that we call our mind. Our individual mind is totally connected to the universal mind and allows us to bring forth anything that we desire from the unmanifest to the manifest. So it would seem to serve us to have a rudimentary understanding of where we stand on the scale of consciousness.

The subconscious mind is that part of our existence that handles those tasks of the body that are automatic, such as breathing and creating new cells and beating the heart. It also serves as a memory station for all the people, events and experiences that the physical body has been privy to.

The conscious mind is the workhorse that collects every piece of data from each and every moment of the now of your existence. This conscious mind also analyses your past, projects your future, comprehends, with limited awareness, your present moment decision making and provides you with your physical sensory feedback.

Through this process the conscious mind is how you interpret your present moment experiences. The analysis you are going through right now, while reading these words, is filtered through your conscious mind. You are seeing whatever you are seeing from your current perspective of your conscious mind and you can actually change that perspective at any given moment by merely moving your perspective to a higher level of consciousness. One of the reasons you are reading this article is so that you can move to a higher level of consciousness. Did you know that? Does that serve you?

One of those higher levels of consciousness is the superconscious mind. This is where you truly understand the concept of the mind-body- spirit connectivity. By understanding and acknowledging this definition of who you really are you take on aspects of being totally aware of your true nature.

Total awareness and understanding of the true nature of how things work allows you to create in a spontaneous manner in alignment with the manifesting impulse of the spirit side of your being. You are able to live with greater visionary insight and intuition.

The other level of higher consciousness is the supraconscious mind. This level of consciousness encompasses all of the above tasks combined while taking you to the most critical aspect of your being, and that is to know that the individual self that you know of as yourself is, in fact, one with all that is. It is total Life consciousness or, in other words, total God consciousness. At this level of consciousness you are able to identify yourself as a manifestation of God while still understanding that you are an individual life form.

Isn't this fun? It is not necessary for you to fully understand all of the implications of what state of consciousness you are now choosing to experience. As the life process evolves you will keep asking yourself this question, Does this serve me? Does it serve you to live your life at the lower levels of consciousness that essentially keep you entrenched in a mentality that says you are a separate individual who has no idea of their relationship to life and God and all that exists? Or does it serve you to explore the concept that by moving to a higher level of consciousness you can be more in the flow of universal forces that will bring into your life your every intention and desire effortlessly?

Which of these concepts serves you? Only you can answer that question.

“Out beyond ideas of wrong doling and right doing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.” Rumi

Did you know that the collective consciousness of the human race can be calibrated, both for current events and for past eras? And that it can be determined scientifically just how low or high a consciousness any individual is now, or has been in the past? Humanity lives in and is part of a vast field of intelligent energy that some call Divine Love. As with all things in existence, evolution first occurs as a movement of energy, around which a physical form is usually condensed. Gradually consciousness (awareness) emerges and continues to evolve. On an arbitrary scale of 1-1000, the level of consciousness can be calibrated for various species, animals, plants and rocks included—just about anything.

Thanks to the enormous work of Dr. David R. Hawkins and thousands of tests, we know without doubt that the body can verify truth, something that is quite impossible for the mind, or ego, since matter must respond to its local energy field. Thanks also goes to John Diamond’s work with muscle testing (Touch for Health), and others who are continually validating this spiritual science. Through clinical testing we know without doubt that bodies never lie.

The truth is a clear path to peace and integrity. If experienced without judgment, warring conflicts within the individual as well as between nations can be resolved. This is a science of truth. We can use the Map of Consciousness devised by Dr. David R. Hawkins and his multitude of researchers as a tool for self-discovery through the levels of consciousness.

Since ego controls our lives when we are not actually present in the moment of now, our thinking mind cannot tell truth from falsehood. However, our bodies can, with 100% accuracy when tested using Hawkins’ prescribed method of kinesiology, or “Touch for Health” (muscle testing.) (See Hawkins, Power vs. Force, or his other books.) This is because the physical realm must reproduce the amount of energy in the energy field in which it resides, bypassing ego’s perceptions, wants and logical interpretations. It’s that simple.

With the current world economy, companies dependence on globalization to stay competitive, the shifting of talent from one base in the world to another, Diversity is only set to rise and to take on new significance on impacting the bottom line of today's organizations.

Indeed I believe the argument for Diversity has been made years ago and that argument has been answered and won time and time again. Diversity affects the bottom line of organization and its effects are seen to find its way into the marketing organization, the this in turn has an impact on the company's products and services and in turn the marketing channels and marketing categories which these products are classified in. The results? More business more sales more targeted and satisfied customers which is the impact on the company's bottom line.

With this in mind, it is imperative to Infuse Diversity into the Business Consciousness. So, what do I mean by that? In summary, Diversity should be an integral part of the company's business practices as a matter of course. Diversity needs to be part of the company's Strategy, Structures and Process, Performance Metrics And Awards and its Culture and Behavior.

Strategy
Diversity needs to be a part of the company's vision and infused into the day to day consciousness of how we run our business. The outcome for this is for Diversity to be a key driver of business success. This will lead to establishing the organization's presence in diverse markets, build an winning workforce and also develop the company's image and reputation in diverse communities.

Structure And Processes
The objective here is to establish (if necessary) and strengthen partnerships and teams within the Human Resources community. Strategic partnership networks should also be formed to ensure diverse perspectives are at work to enhance the company's ability to reach different marketplaces and communities.

Performance Metrics And Rewards
Their must be support and recognition from the management team for the Diversity champions. Global organization metrics need to be implemented and the individuals within the organization who are accountable for the Diversity program need to be identified and this needs to be communicated throughout the organization.

Culture And Behavior
The awareness of Diversity needs to be increased within all teams throughout the organization by setting up and communicating the relevant connection between Diversity, Inclusion, Innovation and the effect on the companies bottom line.

This framework while not complete is a good foundation to structure any company's Diversity initiative around.

Some key points to emphasize are that Human Resources, the management team, Diversity Champions and those from the specific Dimensions Of Diversity must work together in order to be successful at 'infusing Diversity into the business consciousness. In particular it is essential for the higher management team to be readily seen participating in Diversity initiatives and articulating the benefits of Diversity within the organization whilst making the link between the company's Diversity program and the effect on the company's bottom line.

Human Resources may well officially own the Diversity program and managers may well own their particular departments, whether that be Accounting, Manufacturing, Logistics or Marketing but but managers are inherently responsible for the success of the Diversity program and its Infusion into the business consciousness of the organization.

At times it seems as though our lives are a bit challenging, perhaps frustrating, and, even in our darkest times, fearful. You may ask yourself, how do I live a more balanced life? When we have set our goals for truth, and living the life of unconditional love, we must remember that, it will always take us to the next steps of our spiritual journey.

This must be done without fear of change or resistance to growth. Others who watch you gradually shift and change need to understand that you embrace unconditional love as your choice in your life, and whatever lessons this brings to you; you need for your growth.

It is important for you to understand that, in your life, you have what you truly need to take the next steps into alignment. You are being guided by your intuition to go exactly where you need to go.

There is no need to fear the unknown and when you release the fear and develop trust you will take your next step in spiritual growth. Your inner soul searching is powerful and takes you where you need to be in your life. It doesn’t support you to skip over your lessons, or go around them. It's the next rung on the ladder on your spiritual path. Support each other through these times; hold each other's hands and embrace each other's hearts emotionally because this isn't an easy exercise for any of us. The joy comes in knowing that you are clearly provided for, taken care of and never alone. This is how you will make the next shift in your consciousness and in making some shifts you'll feel more joyful and light than in others.

This particular shift into alignment has a different quality of a deeper, inward, soul search--deeper than you've gone ever before. But that's the beauty in the depth of which you are searching. It takes you into a new place, in your life. You are not ever without support and you must hold tightly to your truth. In essence, you must understand that very few people on this earth live in this particular way and walk in two worlds. What you are doing here is walking with a foot in two different worlds, gathering the strength from both dimensions. It's a very supportive place, and you will feel the self-empowerment in walking in both worlds. As you learn how to do this, you'll teach others how to do this because, as the consciousness shifts, others will ask you, "How do you live in this in this fearful world without falling apart? Your world is shifting very quickly, and what is not aligned with you, cannot remain.

The alignment of consciousness is the most important thing for us to focus on at this time. It is not what you do; it is how you feel when you do it. It's not whom you connect with; it's how do you feel when you connect with them. The alignment in the very core of your soul needs to be shifted and tuned until you can feel the balance of alignment. This next piece is to feel aligned on all levels that you share, whether it is how you work, how you relate to others, or how you live. This is how you help yourself and others shift into this new time.

You will notice the earth also shifting and changing. What is not aligned is being released. Let go. Those of you that walk the earth that are not aligned with the consciousness at this time are also being released with these changes. But the beauty is, When you do release and let go and open, the newness will be brought to you in a new level of comfort. Hold tight to both worlds. There are no gaps between the two. They overlap. Choose joy and alignment in your life. Joy is your choice!

You are endeavoring to discover what those right kinds of thoughts are in The NEW Think and Grow Rich, the right kinds of seeds to sow, and how to nourish them, so that you can think and grow rich.

A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word impossible and neatly razor it out of the book. It was a symbolic gesture, and though it did not change the world at large, it registered an important fact to my subconscious. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.

Success comes to those who become success conscious.Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

The object of this book is to help all who seek it, to learn the art of changing their minds from failure consciousness to success consciousness.

Another weakness found in too many people, is the habit of measuring everything and everyone by their own impressions and beliefs. Some will read this, and believe that no one can think and grow rich. They cannot think in terms of riches, because their thought habits have been steeped in poverty, want, misery, failure, and defeat.

For some time I struggled whether to leave this upcoming story in The NEW Think And Grow Rich or not, because it also could touch a nerve of prejudice. It talks of a time before we understood and accepted one another but after reflection and advice, here she stays, because that is exactly what it illustrates, an irrational disability to see the truth due to parochial vision. Only through the hard work of raising your consciousness, such as you are doing in the study and application of this work, can you rise above it.

These unfortunate people who can only think in terms of poverty remind me of a prominent Chinese person, who came to America. He attended the University of Chicago. One day President Harper met this young man on campus, stopped to chat with him for a few minutes, and asked what had impressed him as being the most noticeable characteristic of the American people.

Why, the Chinaman exclaimed, the queer slant of your eyes. Your eyes are off slant. What did Americans of that epoch say about the Chinese?

We refuse to believe that which we do not understand. We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations. Sure, the other persons eyes are off slant because they are not the same as our own.

Take care in all things that you live by expansive vision.

Everything You Touch Turns Into An Asset

Observe very closely. As soon as you master the principles of this philosophy and begin to follow the instructions for applying the principles, your financial status will begin to improve and everything you touch will transmute itself into an asset for your benefit. Impossible? Not at all.

It is called flow, when things begin to work for you, with you, in you in an automatic, mystical way. When athletes reach this state, they refer to it as being in the zone. It is a timeless place of power. It is one of the greatest rewards you encounter when you live with the license of a higher order of being.

You may have heard a derivative statement, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

One of the main weaknesses of humankind is the average persons familiarity with the word impossible. He or she knows all the rules that will not work. All the things that cannot be done.

These people feel smug and self-justified, certain in their belief they must totter under the heavy yoke of poverty, just barely getting by in a world of obvious abundance.

Little do they suspect that they are actually proving that the principles do work. Only they are using them in reverse, to step-down the prosperity in their life, which any fool can do. What merit is there in that?

Truly, by definition, anyone seeking riches must be different than the mass of humanity. Normal people will do anything to avoid thinking, and even thinking about being proactive is something they cannot be moved to do.

The NEW Think and Grow Rich was written for those daring enough to jump on proving these principles do work. Those who seek the rules that have made others successful and those willing to stake everything on those rules.

When you do that, according to Natural Law, as reliably expressed as the circling seasons bring forth crop every year, you prosper, and everything you touch turns into an asset to your benefit.

The fullness of life cannot be measured by things that happen only on the physical plane or to the body, we must also consider the more abundant vitality gained from spiritual living on a level that defies measurement and observation. When one feels pure consciousness flowing through the mind and body like a stream, one can reach the material bank or the spiritual bank because both banks are reached with pure consciousness. Life is not merely health and vigor, which means breathing, eating, sleeping and working out with no purpose or ideas because that is only the physical realm. Staying on the physical plane and not becoming aware of the spiritual bank is vegetating or not living because man must carry out activities proper for his own unique consciousness, which is physical, mental and spiritual. To row against a stream of consciousness is impossible and leads to exhaustion and disease. Disease is a signpost guiding a person to his own consciousness in the middle of the stream. We must think and direct our actions, intellect, moral and spiritual growth to know what is expected from our own particular talents. This expansion or awareness of one s consciousness is the resurrection of the Christ consciousness within where the dead rise again to enjoy eternal life in an expanded consciousness in a totally new creation. To live in the middle of one s stream of consciousness according to one s laws for perfection is spiritually balanced and healthy. It is an affirmation of our total human nature and a great way to respect the wonderful nature of our soul. Life is not just getting a degree, a good job, settling down or raising a family; it is self-actualization and the finding out who we really are in the resurrection of our every potential.

We are created in God or pure consciousness and are sustained at every moment by God through pure consciousness. In pure consciousness God is always present in the depths of our souls so our created life depends entirely upon the uncreated life of God or the consciousness present within our minds. By immersing our minds in Christ consciousness we begin to live and see pure consciousness within our souls as the uncreated image of God.

The knowledge that God is able and willing to direct, to order and lead our affairs into the stream of peace and happiness releases every sense of animosity. This new set of circumstances has no limit as pure consciousness flows through our minds into action. It brings a calm, inward belief of our union with good as we are being guided by the same consciousness that controls the forces of nature.