This is the third part of a lengthy news letter that seems pertinent to the plethora of information out there. What is old paradigm and what is really new?
Since the article is eleven pages I have posted a pdf ( to download ) file link also.
http://newearthsummit.org/forum/index.php?topic=656.0
pdf file.... http://www.pfcn.net/Bulletins/GA%20NEWS%20-%20Spring%202008%20-%20PART%20THREE.pdf
Tricia
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Firstly, I posted this here wanting others take on Alex's worldview. A few friends have become quite involved with him doing some community building and I have been getting a sense of a pervasive view of "us vs them" emerging in their conversations about the land and their spiritual practice. I have been getting his newsletter as a result of his association with Raphiem, a fellow that channeled "Blue" from Australia (New South Wales in particular).
My personal opinion of this latest issue doesn't include what I'm still trying to decipher is his mention of "dark forces" since I haven't put the effort into reading more of his worldview. With that said, I feel dissonance with his references to "reconnection to Original Source/Creation" when I interpret him saying that there is a state/soul/higher self that is independently existing and has its own self-nature. This is not supportive of my direct experience of a co-emerging reality of experiences in the present that are flavored by what my "I" brings to it. It is a fluid and pliable experience of the Nowness (that is not- a- thing ) and always and already emergent with constant unbroken movement of wholeness. This is my inner, phenomenological experience. This is but one area of my experience of humaness. I am also social and scientific and reluctantly, political and I don't perceive a division between intellect and heart.
He seems to paint a picture of these bifurcations of "vibrational differentiations" in this framework of a Universe that is, in his worldview, already differentiated with his lack of questioning this self-nature of Source/Creation as an independant existence and thus a separated from him and humanity.
It all reads as an interesting story with this goal: "Once a conscious relationship with Source and higher self is established, then humanity will find it possible to create a new reality." There is even conflict with the "hidden hand" connecting the dots and the dark force's influence. He alludes to money/industrial worldview of Modernism as another separate bad guy. All good novels have the intrigue of a good plot, us vs them conflict, and the greed of money, I just haven't found the sex yet. I think that is why I keep reading this guy...anticipating. All the while, I sense that I am reading his personal conflict with Modernism from a Post-Modern Worldview. This is an ordinary part of evolution, but it is more sane to include what is true and good of both worldviews and transcend them both, a view that is more inclusive at a higher altitude.
There are some areas where I do find agreement however. He says; "Those who react to the problems perceived by opposing the old paradigm, no matter how righteous their cause, will find themselves enmeshed with the control matrix energetically and practically.....This is an enormous challenge to many today....such unconscious attachments necessarily hold them back from their evolution as spiritual beings.."
If he could just meditate with his words and feel the choice of spiritual over not-spiritual, the good guys and the bad guys. I think his unconscious attachments have created his worldview of divisions. And I do agree with his statement about opposition to the old paradigm creates the energy of the threatened brain and division which I might add, he has demonstrated very well.
His choice of "spiritual evolution" I like, although I resonate with an evolving consciousness that also takes into account the cultural milieu and global events and our personal expansion as an evolving spirit. I wonder how in our most beautiful altruistic moments and in our ugliest that we are NOT spiritual.
I plan to read and ask more questions especially about the "dark forces" and maybe I'll understand it differently, but this is my take on it today...7-13.
Thank you for asking, FFG. Maybe another installment is in order?
Tricia
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I hear your BS warning, but would you explain "STS" and "STO"? I'm not sure how that orients with detachment.
Thanks for your comments and I hope others will step up to the podium. There are some friends that might be on the same page as him and I've stood back listening and watching...
Tricia
First, my view of the 'elephant' from here. The bifurcation refers to humanity's choice of whether to ascend or stay in duality, this is not so much a judgement about which is right but rather a Souls decision to 'stay in school' (duality) or graduate and move in the direction of Source. I feel that 2012 is the cut-off date for this choice or decision, that is why we are experiencing a speeding up of time, though it may be more accurate to see it as an expansion of Consciousness. In the expanded consciousness it is easier to see the larger picture, for instance we are all one, we are perfect and divine and its only our perceptions/beliefs that block the full flowering of that innate expression. The bigger picture also includes the role of the dark side in keeping us locked into duality (the old, us against them trick), as our consciousness expands the picture becomes clearer. A picture that paints us as small and weak minions of a powerful elite bent on Service To Self at all costs. But we 'emerge' from our life experiences senseing our greatness and the potential of a better world, a world where people embrace the concept of Service To Others.
Even though its possible to wake up one morning and see a world fundamentally changed for the better, in practice this is a process, a process that involves recognition of the process but even more importantly the Promise - Ascension. I would define Ascension as literally moving out of 3d duality into whatever level your Soul is ready to 'graduate' to - 5th, 6th, 7th ect dimension.
Whats becoming clear to me is that we are here to learn our own lessons AND help others to learn and move to ever higher expressions of themselves, STO for sure, for sure. That was one point that Alex made, that some are 'holding the door open' for other to cross. Cross into the higher dimensions, to chose Ascension over duality. How that plays out is a process, a process that begins with awakening to something better in the world, that leads to research and study, that tends to lead to OMGWFd (ok lets call it despair). Then there is a second Awakening - I'm being helped there are larger forces at work here and in my life... As we experience this process and see others going through it, I can only assume that we reach a state of recognition and mastery, now we're ready to help other step into the Light of Ascension.
Alex is looking out there a ways in time and in the interpretation there are some holes, yet it feels right to me. My awakening started in the late '80s and I've seen a gradual quickening ever sense. But something has shifted greatly over the last year and by sometime this year (I hope and pray) there will be a signifcant event that will mark the shifting of the collective unconscious into a more 'conscious that something is going on' state. Its my opinion that once that first domino falls the rest will come fast and furious - leading us right into the 12-21-12 gateway or portal. That is to say 2012 is a choice point, a sorting out of which way are you going, back into duality or back towards Source. We here as Lightworkers are well versed in the ways in which we can be of service to others, our sisters and brothers.
All aboard...
~Zack
PS My partner says that we are learning everything we need to know in our dream sleep, just know that as Jesus/Sananda said " when the time comes, the words will be given to you"
with full on resonating comment Zack!!!!
Thank you for sharing what really resonates well for this particular time period (I always feel like saying "illusion noted" now whenever I used terms like time and period). Someone (maybe it was David Wilcock) once referred to 2012 as a "zero point" in linear time, like another one of those "in the fullness of time" moments. In any case, I couldn't agree with you more about this upcoming moment of mass conscious awakening. It already feels like we have been wiping the sleep from our collective eyes for several years now, so the apex of the event horizon should be quite phenomenal.
My personal experience was this kind of accellerated learning curve concerning the horrors going on in the world. It was my OMGWFd period that preceeded a very confident hope that came as a result of all I began to learn with my entry into wanttoknow.com and the TT portal. With wonderful affirmations like you happening periodically, my hope remains confident and I have the excitement of a child looking for funnel clouds during a tornado watch.
Tricia, you said,
"There are some areas where I do find agreement however. He says; "Those
who react to the problems perceived by opposing the old paradigm, no
matter how righteous their cause, will find themselves enmeshed with
the control matrix energetically and practically.....This is an
enormous challenge to many today....such unconscious attachments
necessarily hold them back from their evolution as spiritual beings"
Ever since I got the gist of this from someone you turned me on to a while back, Adyashanti, I at least can be completely conscious of those moments when I am personally entertaining my own "righteous cause" to the detriment of my spiritual evolution. Although I am almost completely convinced that we are not really learning anything new because we come to this contest already complete. I believe the contest remains a self-inflicted game of "gotcha" where our free will intention and illusory ego's do this dance that ultimately gives us another experiencial level of understanding which in and of itself is not a required course, but can create new levels of experiencial liberty that takes us home from camp with some new merit badges so to speak, LOL
Think how profitable our behavior will be concerning benefit to the whole, the One, when we are so conscious of the game being played and so in control of our egoic inclinations. There is definitely a level of liberty there that in a way exceeds the somewhat naive and innocent state of our perfect being prior to the experience. I know one thing, I no longer am afraid of the concept of hell, and there was a time that manipulative concept had me by the balls while doing me no earthly good at all.....
Love, Chris
Thank you Zackoree and Chris for your comments. This helps me see how Alex's language is interpreted by others and how it can differ and converge with my own.
In his writing I see he still is conceptualizing the non-dual as most of us do unless we are able to carry that experience from meditation into our daily living. He is coming from the "Myth of the Given" which much of the contemporary spiritual writing still does. The Myth of the Given still assumes that there is something substantial that exists independently and has a self nature. Call this a soul, god, heaven, nirvana, hell or whatever, but it is still out there or in here somewhere that we are NOT.
Personally this just doesn't jive with my experience in meditation and mindfulness in daily living. It is an emerging flow of experience in the now, and the now and the now. And I do bring my own flavor to it depending how involved with my idea of a self that is seeking evidence of itself. Nonduality is choiceless awareness and this is where I have problems imagining making a choice as to remain in dual or nondual. My experience in meditation is that nonduality happens with extinguishing of a self. There is no experiencer having an experience.
All my conceptual mind can imagine is maybe we will have some energetic shift where we simultaneously transcend a self nature and some will fear anihilation and cling to their identity. This is what so many of us do in meditation every day for the history of humanity...cling to a self and this is suffering. Sometimes we make the self something more spiritual and grand and call it our higher self or our soul, but still clinging to that stubborn identity.
I am not suggesting nihilism here, nor am I a disciple of the Great Chain of Being. I do have the experience of an I-Thou relationship everytime I gaze up at the night sky and wonder about all that space so alive with energy like cosmic soup, and my association with animals so uncanny as compared to others and the fact that each of us expresses ourselves so differently from the day we are born hinting at karmic habits and a continuum of consciousness. Our experience of life is total, its whole. You cannot choose one aspect over another, or you can think you are because it is all in thought, a concept, a story...but not real. There is no choices to make accept in our relative life to aid our remembrance that we are always palpating... all that is and will ever be. How could we conceptualize that we are in duality unless we are aware of the backdrop of nonduality. What we see in our relative lives is the fragments that our conceptual minds sort so we can navigate our world, but the whole is always and already. We are getting there while being there as Lama Surya Das says.
All of these comments and the voices in this portal are teaching me how to relate and communicate my expnasive meditation experiences that have become a part of normal living now. Its the ineffable as a moment to moment connection and I want to communicate this to others. Now I am learning the tools and how to hear the One Voice in the many.
Namaste,
Tricia
that pretty much sums it up for me!!!!
Tricia, whenever I hear anyone trying to describe the indescribable I am amused (because I do it all the time too) and I am always reminded of this standing vision in my mind, a very still pond without a sound that represents the sacred geometry medium, a "place" for our "Being" to have a way for walking the experiencial high wire in a realm where the fall will never kill you. The pond can be disturbed, but will always return to a calm and still state. One can skip rocks in the pond, or angrily throw big mad rocks at the pond - doesn't much matter to the pond - it graciously morphs cooperatively with the action and returns to still in due "time".
Here's to silly and amusing concepts in a world of illusions, Chris
Our minds are so incredible and amazing, but when we think that the thoughts are who we are, we've missed the point of all points. The brain is a receiver and how infinite is that!
Your pond image reminds me of that Buddhist image of the moon reflected in 100 bowls of water.
Always... my brother,
Tricia
the reflection of the moon in 100 bowls of water made me think again on why it is so impossible to judge and be correct. I can either talk about all the jagged edges I see on all of the broken pieces of the mirror or I can affirm and praise and reflect the reflection I see in each piece.....
Always, Always, Chris