What Is Conscious Evolution?

by Gregory Ellison -

Mankind is on the verge of an evolutionary leap in consciousness, to a whole new way of thinking and being that will put us as far above our present concept of "man" as modern man is above our stone age ancestors.

Until roughly the present time, the forces of evolution have been external to mankind. Whether we think of these forces as essentially physical/biological, or essentially spiritual, in either case we have not consciously directed the course of our own evolution. This is simply where the journey has brought us.

But no more. From this point forward we will consciously participate in the direction of our own evolution. We will become what we choose to become.

Why now?

There are many things that point to this moment in history as a time of major transformation. Religious and spiritual prophecy from many different traditions point to this period as the "end times" where the old world falls away and the new millennium arises. 

Astrology recognizes this as the dawning of the "age of Aquarius," a transformation to spiritual awareness, peace and brotherhood.

But we need not rely on myth or revelation to know that we now chart our own destiny: science and technology too inform us that we will soon have the capacity to alter our own genetic code, extend our life expectancy, and expand our capabilities far beyond those nature has bestowed on us. 

Already we do not need wings to fly above the mountaintops, nor gills to swim the depths of the sea. We can throw our voices around the world at the speed of light, transmute matter to energy in nuclear reactors (and bombs), stroll on the surface of the moon.

We have superseded natural selection. Where once we were at the mercy of our environment, now our environment is at our mercy.

And therein lies the rub: we have become powerful enough to make ourselves extinct, and we stand shuddering at the doorway to this brave new world because we are scared silly that we might do just that!

What will we become?

We have grown in knowledge and power beyond the wildest dreams of our ancestors, but our wisdom has not kept pace. In fact, it might be argued that human wisdom has taken giant steps backward since the astrological, shamanistic and mystical traditions that flowered thousands of years ago!

Our politics today are still based on the model of domination-oriented city-states that characterized the ancient Sumerian empire, our economics are still based on the same model of amassing personal wealth, our interpersonal relationships are still based on possessiveness and ego gratification.

The day of reckoning has come: unparalleled power without the wisdom to balance it is a mortal danger to all life. 

Unless our collective wisdom makes a quantum leap to match our Godlike power, we can look forward only to global warfare, totalitarian domination, and predatory consumption and waste-production, culminating in ecological suicide. What will we become?

A New Way of Thinking

The good news is, we are now at a turning point. Mankind is now in the process of shifting our normal state of awareness from an individual/ego point of view to a global/spiritual point of view, and our basic choice is to cooperate with that process and help it along, or to resist it. 

We can usher in a world transformed by Love and spirit, or see our world mired in the dark extremes of the unbalanced direction we have been heading. We get to choose.

The system of thought that has structured our collective reality until now is hierarchical organization:

This is the familiar "top down" model of organization that we use to structure nearly everything we think about. As you can see, it looks like a corporate organization chart among other things, with the CEO at the top and the workers at the bottom.

This is how we think about everything. It is how we organize scientific knowledge, how we classify library books, and how we organize our sports tournaments! 

It is also how we structure society, with kings, dictators and presidents at the top, bureacrats and the wealthy "upper class" in the middle, and the "unwashed masses (peasants) at the bottom. It is a "pecking order" view of reality.

There is nothing wrong with hierarchy - it is a mental tool that has served us well in many ways, making scientific progress possible and enabling our rational mastery of many challenges of the material world. But, like the once-useful notions of a flat earth in the center of the universe, it has outlived its usefulness as a model of reality.

The Universe as we are coming to understand it now is not a competition for position in a pecking order, but a harmonious unfolding of creative potential as separate "parts" merge into greater "wholes." 

The new consciousness sees the world through holistic eyes, as a holarchy rather than a hierarchy. In a holarchy, every element is in direct communication with every other element, but none are "above" or "below" each other. 

The relationships are not among superiors and subordinates, but rather among essentially equal "parts" and the "whole" that emerges from them.

In a hierarchy, order is imposed from the top down. In a holarchy, order emerges from the bottom up. When a studio producer hires musicians, assigns them parts to play, and hands out musical scores, that's hierarchy. When several musicians get together to jam and they gradually develop a "groove" together, that's holarchy.

Parts and Wholes

Every part is a whole, and every whole is a part. Anything you can think of - a toaster, a galaxy, a supermarket, or your next door neighbor - is a "whole" made up of "parts." 

At the same time, it is also part of a larger whole, or perhaps many larger wholes. Your next door neighbor, for example, is a part of the human race (or so we hope!) What's more, every whole is similar to every other whole in some respects.

For example, atoms are composed of many sub-atomic particles such as protons and electrons. In turn, each "whole" atom is itself a "part" of a larger whole, such as a molecule. 

Going up the scale, the molecule is part of a cell, the cell is part of an animal, the animal is part of the living planet, and the planet is part of the solar system. And oddly enough, the electrons circling the nucleus of the atom bear a strange resemblance to the planets circling the Sun!

Every part is a whole and every whole is a part.

The Global Mind

Conscious Evolution is the evolution of consciousness to the next stage of awareness - the "awakening" of the parts to their awareness as a whole. Simply put, we are now living through the birth pains of the planetary mind!

Of course, this is not a new concept - the idea that "we are all ONE" is the fundamental notion of all mystical thought. But until now it has often been seen as a threatening idea, because it implies that we will lose our individual identities while being absorbed into a mystical one-ness with all life. 

We are afraid to take this leap for the same reason we are afraid to die, even though we "believe" in eternal life. The ego has been all-powerful for a long time, and it likes it that way!

But the new consciousness is showing us that this is an unfounded fear ... wholes emerge from their parts, they do not replace them! A single cell of my body is a living "creature" in itself, but when it joins with other cells to create a "higher" organism (me!) it doesn't lose anything of itself. 

It still has its own "identity" - its own boundaries, and its own limited consciousness - but to that is added the newly emergent properties of a human being, including my greater range of conscious awareness.

When the transcendant global mind emerges from our individual consciousnesses, we will not "lose" ourselves - instead, we will gain a perspective that puts an end to all war and hatred and the thousand-and-one faces of man's inhumanity to man. 

Can you imagine the cells of your right hand going to war against the cells of your left hand? Of course not! Nor will I harm my brother when I know in the very core of my being that to harm him is to harm myself.

Having taken the leap of Conscious Evolution, we still look out on the world through the same eyes in the same familiar body. 

But we know that the "I" who looks out through these eyes is the same "I" who looks out through all eyes. We identify ourselves as something much larger than our individual bodies and egos ... and that makes all the difference!

The mission of the Conscious Evolution website is to support this transition, both intellectually and through concrete activities and spiritual practices that aid the emergence of the new consciousness. The features, articles, and discussions you will find here support this mission in an eclectic way, through traditional approaches like astrology and other spiritual paths, as well as state-of-the art insights drawn from general systems theory, cybernetics and quantum physics. There are many paths up the mountain, but the view from the summit is all the same. Call it cosmic consciousness, enlightenment, union with God ... or call it Love.

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When Caregivers Need Healing

by Nell Lake -

Many of us find ourselves caring for loved ones braving old age, decline and dying. Caregiving is demanding—at times overwhelming.

Yet it can also cultivate intimacy, wisdom and insight.

For my book, The Caregivers: A Support Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love, I chronicled the experiences of the members of a caregivers support group for more than a year.

Five things I learned about mindful caregiving:

1. Be where you are

It’s a central principle of mindfulness: trying to do one thing at a time, and knowing that you’re doing it, and doing it with kindness toward yourself.

Caregiving often requires responding to seemingly countless needs, appointments, tasks. Studies show caregivers face higher rates of stress and illness than non-caregivers.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, lonely, frequently angry and irritable or guilty, and/or crying a lot, you’re likely at risk of burnout. 

Some suggestions for easing your stress:

• Speak with your doctor. He or she should be able to help you find resources that help. 

• Call your local senior center to ask about sources of support such as senior day care and/or respite programs and support groups. 

• Make a list of activities that nourish you, and try to build one or more of these into your days: journaling, say, or taking walks outside, calling a supportive friend, taking some time to do yoga, meditating—whatever helps you come back to yourself and the moment you’re in.

It’s so easy to adopt the habit of mind that another person’s needs matter more than yours, but one of the most important things you can do to prevent burnout over the long haul is to value your own well-being.

2. Be gently aware of loss and change

Much caregiving is for people with dementia or other long-term chronic illness. Your family member is changing, going through decline—very slowly.

Your mother might be losing her ability to communicate; your father’s personality might be changing. It can feel as if your family member is “gone but not gone.” 

Caregivers often experience long-term uncertainty—and this can be very stressful.

It helps to be aware of slow loss and its particular challenges—and to give yourself permission to feel grief and the other feelings that arise along the way.

Letting the feelings simply exist, seeing that they change, can help you gain more clarity, control, and a sense of space.

Mindful awareness doesn’t mean ruminating on loss in a negative way. Thoughts such as “this shouldn’t be this way; this isn’t my mother!” will mostly feed stress. 

Yet taking time to see the stressful thoughts and storylines that form in your mind can help you not get completely caught up or identify with them.

You may even find more acceptance of what’s happening—to see it as natural, a part of life, rather than an aberration.

3. Meet your family member where he or she is

Try to accept the effects of your family member’s aging and illness, the way their mind and body work at this point in their lives. With people with dementia in particular, it’s really helpful to try to create good feelings in as many moments as possible. 

Studies show that, even for someone who doesn't remember something you said five minutes before, good feelings last for quite a while.

A person with dementia might have a good laugh or hear a song they love or watch a wonderful scene from a movie—and hours later they'll still be feeling the effects of these. 

Arguing with their perceptions—saying, “it's Tuesday, not Thursday” or “you already said that six times today”—is not just futile; it creates stress for both of you.

“Meeting them where they are” is a good principle no matter your family member’s particular illness or impairment. 

Maybe he or she can't walk up the stairs anymore and feels cranky about losing mobility.

If you can let go of the story “this shouldn't be this way,” you’ll likely save yourself a lot of suffering. Instead of all this happening to you, it just is. It happens to everybody.

4. Seek out support. Ask for help. Share your story.

Caregiving is isolating; it usually happens in private homes, behind closed doors. Yet connection is vital to us as human beings. The support-group meetings I followed gave the caregivers a chance to connect with others who understood. 

The members felt trust with one another and usually said whatever they needed to—even shared thoughts and feelings that they didn’t share with others outside the group.

Mutual support helped them to be resilient in the midst of their challenges.

Meanwhile they gave one another very little advice. Probably no one likes unsolicited advice, but to caregivers, being told how to handle unique, personal, and challenging situations can be particularly frustrating. 

The group understood this and mostly just told stories and listened. They did, however, learn practical things through their listening:

They heard about ways others had solved problems and about available resources. A person caring for someone in the early stages of a disease often learned by listening to another person caring for someone in later stages.

I saw enormous value in the group that I followed and think a good group can be a profound source of support. But support groups are not for everyone, of course, nor do I think all groups are equal.

You may join one, decide it’s not helpful at all and go looking for a different one. You may find other ways to receive connection and support. 

This is the central point: to recognize when you need support and seek it out.

5. Be kind but don't try to be a saint

One of the caregivers I followed, Penny, was upset one evening. She’d brought home two cannoli to share with her mother—a rare treat in their household.

Before Penny had had a chance to offer them, her mother had found them and scarfed them both down. 

Penny discovered this and felt like yelling. Instead she went into another room and wrote "wrathful emails" to her sister. She vented, in other words, which helped. A few days later, she laughed about the incident in her support group.

Being kind doesn't always mean feeling kind. It does mean doing the right thing in a particular moment. Of course, trying to feel compassion, having that as an intention, is good—but of course one isn’t going to feel compassion in every moment.

Again, it’s important to direct kindness inward. 

There's a teaching: when you're being generous, know that you're being generous.

When you have good qualities of mind, being aware of them can help to further cultivate them. In your caregiving, acknowledge that you’re being caring. You’re helping someone. 

Even when caregiving feels hard, it can be sustaining to recognize your generosity. You’re helping someone to have a good end to her or his life.

About Author: Nell Lake is the author of The Caregivers: A Support Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love, published by Scribner and released in paperback this Spring. Names in both the book and in this blog are pseudonyms. This article also appeared in the February 2015 issue of Mindful magazine. Subscribe to Mindful's print edition or digital edition. Photograph by Corey Kohn

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The Pain of Absence and Presence

by Catherine Nagle - 

With 23 years between my two children, I entered a different world in 1995 when my second child was born. As an old-schooled mom, I wasn’t familiar and grew terribly confused by the aggressive parenting style I encountered the second time around.

I continued raising my second child in the same way as my first, having learned my mother’s devout teachings “to feel what another feels by walking in the other’s shoes.”

To this day, I’m pleased with the results whenever I put her words into action.

An example of my mother’s wisdom: 

When my first husband was critically ill and in the hospital, I spent endless days and nights by his side while my daughter stayed with my parents. Every night I’d come home after my daughter had just fallen asleep.

Already feeling guilty for leaving the hospital, I now had to face my mom’s complaints that I didn’t get home soon enough to tuck my daughter into bed yet again!

Heartbroken, I wondered why Mom didn’t realize that I had no choice. Yet she could only hear my daughter cries, “Mom-mom, when are mommy and daddy ever coming home?”

Mom went on to explain that my daughter at only age 5 didn’t understand my absence, whether due to being in the hospital with her ill father, working in another town, or even out shopping.

At the time, I felt my mother was insensitive to my situation but I’ve since realized that she was right, coming to understand that young children feel even more emotional emptiness from a parent’s absences, regardless of the reason.

In truth, my mother was seeing the larger picture, having put herself in all our shoes, especially her 5-year-old granddaughter’s vulnerability.

I’ve since seen the tears that follow when children’s needs are not fully considered, regardless of whether the separation results from parents over-working, tending to others or other demands preventing parents from being with their children.

I believe we are missing out when we ignore our most important guidance by busying ourselves with what society values instead of making our children our top priority.

Perhaps it was my experience of being left alone and the pressure to keep up that opened up my eyes.

Think about it: 

Have you ever felt disappointed or sad when your spouse or partner can’t make it home for one reason or another? Did you feel a sting from their absence?

I don’t know about you, but many a time throughout my life, I’ve felt that sinking feeling of disappointment. Now, can’t you imagine how this must feel to a child?

How are they supposed to deal with this feeling?

And yet, how many times do we disappoint our children who are eagerly waiting for us? This is powerful when we realize what our own absence might feel like for a child and her intense feeling of being let down.

Adults talk endlessly about their pain when their spouse is too busy for them and some go into counseling. There is an infrastructure supporting working mothers with day-care that may permit even further absence.

We support parents who seek higher education to earn their degrees, which is a blessing for those parents but not always fulfilling for their children.

This is a gray area in which we have to consider the entire picture and decide what’s best for everyone.

These days I sense a silent cry from the children greater than before. 

I sometimes wonder if we were to ask our children whether they’d prefer their parents be more of a go-getter attaining awards, degrees and achievements and fatter paycheck or if they’d just want us closer to them.

It’s not so different from wanting our spouses or partners to be with us as much as possible.

I’ve learned that a great many people feel discontent over their spouse’s absences and yet they still practice arms-length parenting of their children.

I wonder if those parents examined their own childhoods if they’d then recall who was there for them, and might still be there and then ask themselves: “Do my children have as much support as I did and still have?"

What more can we do for our children to keep them feeling loved and supported? My wise mother said;

“When we become a mother, we no longer think only for one. We have to think and feel for someone else first. We have to imagine being in their heart and to hear what they are saying.” 

Her words are as sound and true today as they were when she said them to me over 30 years ago. It’s the best advice and might prevent some disappointment for many of us. It might also serve as rule for all your relationships.

The simple method of stepping into another’s shoes might deliver the love and kindness we all need.

About Author: Catherine Nagle - Grew up in Philadelphia with 16 brothers and sisters, reared by loving, old school Italian parents. Catherine’s artist father’s works graced locations from churches to public buildings; her mother was a full-time homemaker. A professional hairdresser, Catherine worked in various salons while studying the Bible and pursuing spiritual growth through courses, seminars, lectures and inspirational books, including A Course in Miracles and the works of Marianne Williamson among many others. The mother of two children and a grandmother, Catherine lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and son. She is the Author of  Imprinted Wisdom.

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What REALLY Happens When Two or More Agree?

by Catherine Nagle -

Do we really know the tremendous power behind the words, "when two or more agree?" And are we willing to take responsibility for the part we might be playing?

In my opinion, when we're not taking our conversation to the 'heart on the matter', a simple response of casually agreeing has the power to separate a family, harm or neglect a child or even bring down an establishment. 

I've seen it happen right before my eyes! And I'm sure you have, too.

Sadly, this careless, half-conscious assent is excused as keeping peace and minding one's own business.

• Are we really minding our own business? 
• Are we close-minded to taking the time and listening with love to what someone might be sharing with us? 

If you think you might be missing the big picture:

Ask yourself the following questions that could possibly influence the outcome of someone's life, including your own:

• Are we sometimes uncomfortable about what people are telling us and rather than saying so, we listen without complaint rather than say what we're really feeling just not to make waves? 
• Might we be allowing a wrong to take place by not speaking up? 

An example might be when someone complains about their spouse's behavior and nearly everyone in the room says, "I wouldn't take that!" Or, "You are deserving of so much more!" Or, "You deserve to be happy!"

Meanwhile, everyone knows that this complaining person has already set their eyes on a new horizon.

They now have support and encouragement from the whole group or audience, which makes it so much easier to decide to separate from their spouse. 

I believe that this is exactly what happens when we fail to speak up in any conversations that we don't feel quite right about or disagree with the general consensus. 

We've all had that gut feeling that we might have brought about a positive result if only we had defended someone we know to be a kind-hearted soul who was unjustly criticized.

The good news is that moment of power when we can bring truth and love back to the conversation is NOW. 

This takes us being honest for the sake of everyone involved. 

This is what I believe brings us health and happiness. Because the same thing applies when we are in agreement over a conversation.

This is the powerful moment of joy we've all been waiting for; one that actually helps others to thrive. 

After all, love is contagious! 

When two or more agree becomes clearer to me these days in reflecting on both the blessings and the mistakes of the past and how we can start choosing only loving thoughts. 

We don't have to be professional therapists to make a difference. All we need is a fearless heart and a vision of what wonders a loving family or situation might bring.

My mother, who raised 17 children, was the kindest person that I know. She wasn't afraid to put any one of us in our place when we shared our ideas.

She made sure we 'carefully examined our hearts over any situation before speaking our minds'. I often heard her express puzzlement when overhearing something that just didn't sit right with her. 

In those instances, she was careful not to agree with any opinions expressed until she thought it through. She knew it was too important to simply go along with whatever was being said; this kind of careful consideration ruled her life. 

Through this practice, she maintained a happy home life with a houseful of happy children and a husband who adored her.

We were a family because she understood what it took to make a loving family, especially one where children were in the picture!

These days it seems as though everyone is sharing their ideas and thoughts in every way, including via social media; the world is eager to respond, regardless of who is affected and whether what's said is right or wrong. 

Sadly, we all have to suffer the consequences of such carelessness.

This is the reason I pray for a more understanding and fearless heart; that I might have my mother's wisdom and love and be able to continue her sacred rule of careful, thoughtful agreement. 

Once, a very long time ago, I spoke with a wonderful therapist who introduced me to the tremendous power of choice, something that also worked wonders for my life. 

This is a paragraph from Imprinted Wisdom: 

"The therapist explained that traumas like mine change people and that there were two ways to live through these kinds of devastating losses: I could choose love and become softer towards life and its challenges or I could choose anger and by doing so, become bitter and hardened. She said it was my choice."

Dr. Janet Windra's professional advice continues to guide my choice of words in my daily conversations by keeping an open heart, which for me means to agree only where love touches every direction. 

My past experiences have shown me how responding with love or fear affects my life. 

This means that for me, it is imperative to take the extra time and listen with your heart before agreeing on any opinion expressed and to express myself only with words of love for everyone and everything, since this will become our truth in the end.

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De-Conditioning the Ego

by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee -

On the spiritual path one of the first processes you go through is a de-conditioning. In order to be awakened to your divine nature, you have to become free of the conditioning of the ego.

Unless you become de-conditioned, you’re going to find it very difficult to embrace the bigger spectrum of the Self or how to live according to its very different quality of consciousness. 

Once you’ve had a glimpse of your divine nature the idea of being competitive doesn’t function anymore. Instead you want to be supportive of other people. You want to be cooperative. 

It’s not because you’re a better person. It’s because you realize that’s how things are, how they are all one and interconnected—how nothing is separate. 

You awaken to a different way of being.

On the spiritual path one of the first processes you go through is a de-conditioning. In order to be awakened to your divine nature, you have to become free of the conditioning of the ego. 

Unless you become de-conditioned, you’re going to find it very difficult to embrace the bigger spectrum of the Self or how to live according to its very different quality of consciousness.

We’re surrounded by collective values that say you should be thinking of yourself, that what matters is the ego, how much money you can make or how many possessions you can have. 

On the spiritual path you learn how to live with less not because it’s better but because it’s easier—just to have what you need. 

People do not realize how their attention is taken up by their possessions, how it gives them less energy for life because everything you have or you accumulate carries a bit of your energy.

If you have a lot of possessions, then parts of your energy are caught in it all.

MacEnulty: I know. I recently moved to a smaller place. It was quite freeing to get rid of so much accumulated stuff.

Vaughan-Lee: You realize when you’re free of it, you have more space, you can breathe. 

They’ve now discovered scientifically that giving makes you happier than getting. 

These values you discover on the inner spiritual journey also belong to the whole. 

There is an ancient teaching of microcosm and macrocosm. What happens to the individual happens to the whole. 

We need to shift our consciousness from this very conditioned ego-centered “me” consciousness to an all-embracing “we” consciousness that includes not just humanity but the whole ecosystem — all the myriad living beings on the planet.

From the Interview with LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN -LEE; Get the E-book: HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN: An Interview 

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Being an Intentional Conscious Evolutionary

by Paul Lenda -

For the Sake of Our Future:

Humanity is now experiencing the birth pangs of a global social transformation the likes of which have never been experienced in recorded history.

Never in the history of human life on this planet has there been such a grave and serious threat to the planet that we live on becoming uninhabitable because of the actions of one species that has asserted its dominance.

Nearly everyone feels that something big is happening, although the reasons being proclaimed for this are as numerous as the stars, thanks to peoples’ various belief systems, subjective perceptions and current levels of knowledge and information about what is going on.

We are now in a completely new phase of evolution, a fundamental evolution of consciousness, that will change everything.

This is an intentional evolution, based upon the shifting of our consciousness out of the ego’s domain and into the unity-oriented domain.

Oneness among all peoples, regardless of how similar or different they may be to our own selves, will be key to this transition.

By uniting together as one species, one family, we can not only ensure that we survive, but also that we thrive and transcend the lower realms of consciousness so that we can have a world that is finally filled with peace, love, and happiness (and not just filled with empty rhetoric).

Not doing so will seal our fate in experiencing the most soul-crushing of dystopias imaginable.

Sign of Immense Hope

There is, thankfully, an emerging worldview arising out of the ashes of the old order and it can be seen as a sign of immense hope for the immediate future.

In order for our long-term future to be a bright one we must become unified in seeing this emerging unity-oriented worldview as being the key to a future we can all be proud of.

Do we want possible future explorers of our solar system to come upon our planet, find our artifacts and discover how foolish we were in our planetary and species self-destruction, becoming a footnote in the history annals of sentient races that brought about their own demise because of a lack of understanding about the interconnectedness of everything?

Will we be looked upon as being an “intelligent” species that could have avoided imploding on itself if it only discarded its self-destructive positions of awareness?

Let’s not become a footnote in a book of failed evolutionary experiments and become something that we can be proud of.

Let’s not forget how many similarities we have. Think about all the social conditioning from the point of birth to the time of death.

Look at all the beliefs we amass that divide us as a species and notice how these are not necessarily representative of reality but were learned behaviors that further perpetuated the destructive cycles in human behavior that we see today.

There is a continuously increasing number of people who are realizing the importance of an intentional shift in the collective consciousness of humanity. 

They feel within themselves that they have a critical role to play in this shift if they wish to see it occur. These people see that the entire socio-economic system has to be changed.

When they look around and see the egoistic expression of greed manifest itself through the haves taking more and more from the have-nots. They see that 13.7 billion years of cosmic evolution did not intend to end here, with the current sad state of affairs.

The psychological addiction of consuming and acquiring, manifested through materialism seems to be increasingly infecting more minds in a shorter amount of time.

We are at a dangerous position in our evolution where the old ego-dominated mentality is fighting desperately to maintain its current level of power because they are far too invested in the current order to give it all up and make the evolutionary quantum leap into a new humanity.

A New Humanity

There is an increasing amount of individuals who are taking the human race by the hand towards the unity-oriented vision of humanity that is the answer to the current problems we face (since it is aligned with the nature of our environment).

These people dedicate their lives to this cause, because they believe so deeply in it and have such an immense love for our human family and naturally to the rest of life on our planet that is losing up to 100,000 species to extinction every year.

The individuals can be called intentional evolutionaries, since they are making it a life goal to help humanity make the shift and transition to the new unifying humanity that embodies the mind states of peace, love, and compassion above all else.

They will not allow these things to turn into cliches as has happened in the past, but will live them and become the literal expression of these higher levels of consciousness for the benefit of themselves and of everyone/everything else.

As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin had once said,

“There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe.”

How true this is since the feelings being expressed by these intentional evolutionaries are as genuine and good-natured as can be.

There is no ego formulating a hidden agenda or trying to create a subversive attempt in order to get something for themselves. No, they recognize that they have a critical role to play in the consciousness shift that is occurring.

They know that if this consciousness evolution is to continue to fulfill its potential, it now must be deliberate, and they feel with the whole of their hearts that it is their responsibility and destiny to ensure this happens.

Global Cooperation

Unity and diversity need not been separate. It’s possible to be united in the expression of higher mind states such as compassion, joy, love and peace while keeping the attributes which make each one of us special and unique.

Cooperation on a global level is possible and in fact, necessary if we are to make the transition to a new humanity.

It seems as if it’s something a child would understand but unfortunately the actions of some (particularly world leaders in government and industry) demonstrate that this elementary concept is not grasped by the aging remnants of the old world order.

War, famine and environmental destruction would be a thing of the past if only the peoples of the world cooperated with each other to bring about such a world.

Today, with various crises extending far beyond any one country’s borders, there is a very real possibility for global unity and cooperation to finally become a reality.

If the human response to crises such as the ones following Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti, and the revolutions against tyranny around the world tell us anything, it’s that we can put our differences aside and unify in cooperation with each other to create a positive change.

Do not become depressed about the state of affairs currently on our planet. There is a massive awakening occurring — with a realization that it is now or never.

We need to shape up or we’re shipping out of this world with no possibility of coming back anytime soon.

Become an intentional evolutionary and take advantage of every opportunity that may arise in order to promote the creation of a fundamental consciousness shift that is global in size and scope. 

Make it a part of your life’s purpose to help in creating a critical mass of consciously evolved individuals that will stop the destructive nature of the current socio-economic order. Our very future and survival depends on it.

Paul Lenda is a conscious evolution guide, author of 'The Creation of a Consciousness Shift' & co-founder of SHIFT, a social community of intentional evolutionaries focused on anchoring in the new paradigm and assisting the positive transformation of humanity. With the drive to be aware of and experience the wider horizon of reality, Paul has developed an extensive background in the spiritual and transformative elements of life; one that is both knowledge and experienced-based. Paul has spoken at various events including the United Nations and My Spirit Radio and has had his articles published in magazines and journals around the world. 

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Soul Friends Along the Journey

by Heather Rulton - 

There are no strangers to you here on earth, only friends in which you have not had the opportunity to meet yet, in this life.

We Are All One, No One is a Stranger!

We are all brothers and sisters, we are created from the same Divine creative source, we are all on this life journey together, struggling to find the reasons for the way things are, trying to evolve ourselves into happier healthier beings.

We need not to see our brothers and sisters as stranger because this is not the truth of who they are.

Any one we meet along our journey is important to who we are. 

Everything happens for a reason, so any stranger you meet, is no stranger. They are someone you agreed to have an experience with before you came into this life.

You knew them before coming here and had a loving agreement to meet and have an experience, no matter if it feels like a positive one or negative one.

When we treat others as strangers, we treat them less than they deserve. When we treat others as long lost friends we haven't seen in ages, we embrace them with the love and kindness everyone deserves.

Soul Friends

When we see others as friends we see the relevance of meeting them and cherish all experiences with them.

Sometimes we can feel this without understanding what we are feeling.

Have you ever met any one and instantly had a connection with them, like you have met before or know you are to connect with them, not knowing why? 

This is your unconscious recognizing a soul friend even before your personality has a chance to disregard the meeting as unimportant.

This is your soul knowing this is no stranger but is someone who you agreed to share an experience with while in this life.

Reverence is a true unconditional love of all things, people and experiences and when we see no strangers we are less likely to treat them as such, 

We are all one, lets treat each other as such. 

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