December 2, 2004
Perseverance
by Auntie Matter (aka Sondra Slade)
Our current lifetimes fall within the Transition from one huge cosmic Cycle of Energy and Consciousness into another, perhaps of an entirely different Order.
There is no Evil but the Illusion of Separation and the ignorance of Fundamentalism that it fosters.
Whether it is the Islamic Taliban or its mirror twin the Evangelical Right, Fundamentalism has been a core reason for untold suffering on this planet since the dawn of recorded history. Whenever one group labors under the delusion that they are separate from the collective web of life and "more right" than anything and everyone else, that they hold God granted Dominion over the Planet and all its Species and Resources, that everyone else who experiences the Divine in a different way from them is not only "wrong" but also doomed to hell or may righteously be harmed in the name of a vengeful God, then we have division, hate, war, injustice, pain and suffering on a global scale, that also radiates out from our planet into many dimensions beyond with it's palpable Vibration of Fear.
At this critical time, it is imperative that we understand the overwhelmingly seductive appeal and hypnotic effect that Fundamentalism holds for so many across our globe. On one hand, we must acknowledge that the core desire to experience a rapturous state of connection to something higher than ourselves, together in a like-minded community, is partly what drives the Fundamentalist movement. On the far less positive side, the simplistic yet strongly soothing delusion that you and you alone have a "corner" on God and The Divine, "Truth", faith, values, goodness of heart and Right Livelihood, that God is exclusively "on your side", and that furthermore you have been given an unquestionable "rule book for Living" that has directly come from no less than the mouth of God and removes the pesky, tiring chore of thinking for yourself and unburdens one from the stress and anxiety of considering issues in their true complexity, is for many people no different or less potent or resistible than the delicious, addictive warm muzzy feeling of safety and security that engulfs a child being rocked by a protective Mother crooning her baby to sleep with a lullaby. And the result is the same - huge numbers of people are "asleep".
As members of a Connected Community of Resonant Souls, we must never cease our efforts to awaken people from the addictive and mechanical thralls of delusion and hubris, to embody the liberating and joyful alternative to this sad state of delusion, and manifest the Core Reality of Higher Unified-Field Consciousness, Quantum Evolutionary Potential, Symbiotic Connection with each and every Species and Natural Element on this Planet, Universal Love, Cooperative Shared Destiny, and the Immanent, Self-Arising Divine Investiture of everything and everyone that IS, through the Focused Intention of Pure Hearts and our Active Wills during these hard times and beyond. If we truly believe in the prime universal principle of "Mind Over Matter", than we must overcome our natural reactions of depression and hopelessness and re-affirm our commitments to Create The World We Want.
No one said this would be easy. EVERYONE said it would be hard. Every major world sacred tradition has foreseen that this particular Moment In Time we are privileged and challenged to be alive in, will be filled with the chaotic and often violent Energy of Dissolution as a Cosmic Cycle comes to an End, and a New One is tumultuously Birthed Into Being. The Hindu Kali Yuga, the Mayan End of Time Transformation from the World of the Fourth Sun Into the Fifth, the Christian Apocalypse and Rapture, the Messianic Second Coming, the Hopi, Tibetan, Sumerian and Egyptian Prophesies, the end of the Piscean Age and the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.... no matter which particular frame of reference you look to, they all say the same thing. This is IT.
Our current lifetimes fall within the Transition from one huge cosmic Cycle of Energy and Consciousness into another, perhaps of an entirely different Order. Granted there is the possibility that we may snuff ourselves out like a candle flame in the process. That is an evolutionary option that was pre-installed at the factory, as it were. But also hardwired into our "options package" is the Capacity for Transformation. And never before have so many "capacitors" been overtly awakened, brought on line, and started coherently linking up with each other, thus creating the appropriate and crucial conduit for the Transformational Energy of Critical Mass -- also known as the Hundredth Monkey Effect -- and it's related Collective Consciousness Transmission and absorption of "memes" - which are strong collective "thought forms" that become deeply ingrained in entire cultures and populations and operate on an almost unconscious level to govern both individual and societal group behavior. If you wonder if and when we will ever attain the "statistically significant minority" threshold for Critical Mass to unfold, as Quantum physicist Fritjof Capra asserts we already have, then ponder the implications of this one simple fact - 65% of the people who have ever been alive on this planet, are alive NOW.
Our job, now more than ever, is to persevere in our vision and efforts to manifest, to become, and to geometrically multiply, these open channels for higher wisdom and unified consciousness to flow through.
Hoping you are all well ~ and don't forget to Breathe deeply through the stress.
Throw your arms up, Open Up...Take Deep Breaths, and let Life in.
Namaste` ~ Auntie Matter (aka Sondra Slade)
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