Today, I want to share a few thoughts on the current state of the world and how it’s connected to the awakening and evolution of consciousness.
The world is chaotic in many ways right now, and what we are seeing is the old world falling away.
We are in the midst of an evolution of human consciousness, and everything that’s not in alignment with the new must fall away.
The individual and collective awakening
When we awaken individually, we get to see our individual programming and the collective programming we have internalized and carried around inside. Gradually, we can dismantle that programming by letting it surface into our conscious minds, into the light, so that we can see, heal, and free ourselves from it.
But when enough people are awake, we also get to see and dismantle the collective structures.
When the collective awakening reaches that level, we can become aware of what has been hidden underneath the surface in our societies and in the world, and that involves the sometimes horrific actions that have been carried out behind closed doors.
That’s what’s happening now.
The awakening is not separate from the rest of our lives
The awakening is not separate from the rest of our lives or from the world. It may begin as something we do in private or in spiritual circles. But it’s also part of something much more significant: the evolution of our species.
That evolution affects everything: every part of our lives, our societies, and the earth itself.
And when it has started, there is no going back.
I know that the awakening is sometimes perceived as something that belongs to spirituality, something separate from the rest of our lives, collectively. Something that should have nothing to do with society or culture.
But it’s not enough to categorize the awakening as a single area (spirituality).
The spiritual teachings and practices must also lead to the embodiment of what they guide us toward (the awakened state of consciousness) in all areas of our lives. And if the awakening is limited to one area, it’s not complete.
It has to be reflected in our lives and in the world.
If the awakening is separate from the rest of our lives, we have not yet fully integrated our insights into direct experience. We may have had realizations and visions, but the human part of us does not yet fully embody them.
The collective awakening
The more we awaken, the more we can embody and bring forth the new consciousness into the world. The more we do, the more the old must also fall away, individually and collectively.
That’s what’s happening on a larger scale now.
The evolution of consciousness is occurring in many people now, and its effects are becoming increasingly visible in the collective. It’s impossible to ignore what’s happening in the world.
So much is surfacing into the light in the collective, and some things are so horrific that it’s almost unbearable to take in, if we really stop and try to.
There are no words for such actions, and nothing we can say to make it make sense or to make it feel better, because a human being who’s in touch with their humanness and empathy cannot make sense of those actions. You have to be cut off from your humanness to be able to carry out such horrific actions against another.
But we can remember that what’s coming up in the collective was already happening. It was going on beneath the surface, behind closed doors. And it’s being revealed now.
We can’t change what we don’t know. But when we see what we haven’t been able or willing to see before, we are no longer trapped and stuck in it. It’s out in the open. And then we can do something about it, to the best of our ability.
When we see what’s coming up, we can awaken to the reality of how it’s been. Then, we can let go of and break free from the old collective ways (and the ways we may have contributed to them, individually, unconsciously, of course).
And we can awaken to the new consciousness that wants to come forth in, through, and as us.
We can bring the light into the world.
A brighter future is possible
A much brighter future is possible, but humanity must go through this shift. We are leaving the old behind now.
It’s natural that all this is happening now on such a large scale.
We can’t be awake and live in systems where things like this happen. We have to be unaware and disconnected from ourselves, our intuition, and our integrity and authenticity to live in that way. And many of us are not anymore.
The more we dismantle our own programming, the more sensitive we are to the energies around us and to when something feels off or wrong, even if we don’t know what it is yet. We can’t turn off our inner knowing when it’s no longer blocked by old conditioning and cultural programming.
When enough people are awake, there is nothing more to cover over. So, it all comes up. It has to. And that’s what’s happening now.
The light is bringing up the darkness.
This, of course, means that the harm that may have been done within the spiritual field, such as bypassing, gaslighting, and abuse of power, must, as in all other parts of the collective, come up and be seen to be let go of.
We have to see that too.
It might be very painful if or when it begins to reveal itself. But it’s freeing. The truth sets us free.
It is, on the ultimate level, happening for a greater good. We are leaving the old prison of the egoic state and evolving into a higher state of being. One where we are free and equal. One where we are fully awake, where words like unity and oneness are not concepts, but our lived reality, our embodied state of being.
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