OldPhone -- Who are you going to call?

Looking back at some of my writing notes from a year ago...yes, exactly one year ago (8/7/08), today...I had noticed a pattern in what I'd been calling, up until that point, "Kailley's Sayings". To backtrack for a second, Kailley is a character from a novel about 2012 that I've been writing over the past few years. The previous November (11/23/2006), I set the intention to receive some phrase that would constitute quotes from her channeling of messages from a group-entity by the name of Lorkesh. I was at work and every once in awhile, I'd stop and jot down (in long-hand) these snippets. Without getting into too much detail about the story itself, I began grouping these ‘sayings' together until unifying titles...usually 5-7 paragraphs, which I added later. 

At the time I was ‘receiving' these messages, I was usually in boring team meetings which I was required to attend but had very little input or even personal involvement.  What had started out (so I thought) as a cute, little writing exercise to quell my boredom and add to my story, turned out to be far more; the snippets became full-fledged messages. Invariably, I would sit down with some kind of question or observation floating around in my head prior to these meeting and, with a pen and paper handing...and no one the wiser as to what I was actually writing...away I'd go, putting down words without much in the way of thought involved on a personal level. Since I've been working at home, without the artiface of these ‘boring' meetings, my messages have not been coming to me as often. But, I am still writing...never fear...

I was already placing my messages and thoughts online to my own group, One with Spirit Meta-Journal Forum...which was started when I'd moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2002.  Later, I joined and contributed some of my writing to another online "social media" or networking site which was designed to be spiritual in nature called, "Zaadz.com". Don't go looking for it...you won't find it, it was bought up and supplanted at Gaia.com earlier this year...but that's a different story.  Although the readership of these two lists are relatively small, I received plenty of positive feedback, mostly on a personal basis; it's hard to tell exactly how many people may have read my work up until this point.

So, a year ago, my writing shifted directions. Is it any real wonder that it is shifting again? It was surprising, even to me that I decided, quite by ‘accident', to sit down today after working at home all day, to pull these individual snippets together into their own concise message. It wasn't until I got to the end of the ‘list' of 84 ‘quotes' that I had pasted the message texts which I'd sent out to my group...beginning 8/7/07....exactly one year ago. There are no coincidences, so why does this seem so coincidental? Add to that, it was only 12 days ago that I had written what I consider to be my own pivotal piece, which I entitled, "Journey to Stillpoint".

The reason I had sat down to write that piece was a highly-personal one, which I will no go into at this time. But, suffice it to say, I had been in a state of emotional and psychological upheaval most of the previous week...and, finally, began to understand the purpose ‘behind the madness'. It was very clarifying for me; I write to get concepts out of my head and into the light of my own understanding. This could be a daunting process without the exercise of letting words and ideas come through me to be shared, first with myself, then (generally) with my groups. It's my own form of psycho-analysis. I've come to identify this process as co-creative with my spirit guides, who I often refer to as my ‘people'. Too often, I get caught up in the emotion of the moment, over-think what may...or may not...be going on at that time, and let it all get me into a non-productive mood. The writing process is cathartic for me...and seems to help others as well...as I was recently told by spirit, as well as some of those in the flesh.

For those of you who know what a Twin Flame (TF) is, mine is a perfect mirror to help me understand who I really am and who I am becoming...if I give the process a chance! Of course, when we're in the middle of emotional turmoil , it's difficult to see this for what it is, the Universe delivering to us exactly what we've been asking for all this time. My TF may or may not realize that this is what he's doing at that time either. Nor the reverse, although he says that he enjoys my writing and messages, I would not pretend to be able to read minds, even his. We are each of us in relationships that are continually helping us to grow and change, if we let them. Like my writing, the TW relationship is just one, very specialized version of other kinds of relationships. The hard part is that we're still very much separate in the physical; but, I believe, this is what is best for the current situation to manifest as it was designed (by us) to do all the while.

So, as I pull these ‘older' snippets together, using larger message ‘buckets' which I'm ‘pouring' them into, I will also share them with my groups...you...even if you may have seen them before, it will look very different. Eventually, these will be go into my book, which is tentatively entitled, "Stillpoint and the New 5D Reality." There is much more that could be shared here...there almost always is...but, I feel this is a good place to stop, for now, and tantalize my readers with the knowledge that more is to come!

Special Note: The last ‘snippet'...number 84, as I had put them into a numbered list...was this, "Finally you've reached the "tipping point" where the beings who are the basis of your governance are (at least) aware that these changes are necessary."  Very intriguing, yes? Although I don't know the exact date I wrote that one, chances are good, it was a little over a year ago...

NOTE: This was written last week and I wasn't sure it was to be shared...but here it is!

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For the purpose of this article, I will distinguish between the two by calling the ‘old' human, 3DHb, and the new one, 5DhB...perhaps an inelegant label, and, I'm sure that we'll need to figure out a new term eventually. In this ‘code' you may notice that 3D/5D represents third and fifth dimensional; the ‘h/H' stands for human, the "b/B' stands for being. The reason I choose to use small letters and capitals is to represent the primary focus; third dimensional humans focus on the human/physical aspects, fifth dimensional humans focus on the beingness/metaphysical aspects.

Never before in recorded history has such a thing happened...though I'm certain that it has, to some degree. It's possible that small, relatively isolated groups of 5DhBs have emerged...it's very likely that these beings were not able to survive due to the dimensionally-hostile environment they would have been in. through no fault of their own, they just couldn't exist to perpetuate more 5DhBs. In many cases, I suspect, 3DHbs came along and because of their differences, they felt that these other humans were a threat...and therefore, had to be eliminated.

Now we are co-existing together, though it continues to be an uneasy alliance. Certainly, there is enough of the 3D world which remains physically here in the 5D one to maintain both in familiar ways; however, this is quickly changing. Although these physical structures will not vanish or become unusable, even the vibratory rate of these structures are being modified by the influx of 5D energy. So, while the world around us does not appear to be substantially changed, the underlying structural matrix is being rewritten. There will come a time that these structure will become hostile to those 3DHbs who still cling to the fantasy that they can continue to survive these changes. And, it is a fantasy...we all know how good humans are at maintaining their personal reality through fantasy; this is no different.

When considering how you personally fit into this new 5D reality, you should examine your personal comfort level and emotional state. Those still clinging to the fantasy of the old 3D world are confused, angry, resentful, or just plain scared. From the 5D perspective, this is to be expected and sympathized, but the difficulty arises mostly out of the intersection between the two. Simply put, there are still far more 3DHbs than 5DhBs on this planet and the majority has a lot of collective weight to throw around. The majority ‘rules' are changing faster than the majority can deal with; in fact, in the new dimensional reality, there are no rules, per se, to follow. This is the most disorienting of all...what do we do, how do we behave, how do we expect others to ‘obey', when there are no rules to follow...that is, to provide guidance?

There is no easy answer. Those in the fifth dimension are self-directed with their own moral compass. We answer to a higher purpose, a higher calling, our divine Self. The ‘little me' that Eckhart Tolle spoke of is about ego; the ‘I am', which is our divine Self, is not. Justice in the 5D world will not look anything like that in the 3D world, and that makes many people on both ‘sides' feeling somewhat uncomfortable. Which is fully understandable for many reasons. Traditional ‘criminals' will not disappear overnight, those in jail will eventually get out; what do we do with these individuals who are clearly still part of the 3D world?

Many of these...and other societal...questions will continue to come up for examination in the coming years. The important thing to remember is that we have no precedents for this shift, and therefore, historical experience and remedies will not be substantive or, in some cases, relevant.  It's like entering our infancy again; only this time, with a whole set of adult expectations and preconceived notions about how things ‘should' look and function. But, these are erroneous, or at least lack the power to affect the results we have come to expect.

In the new 5D world, personal responsibility for one's own thoughts and actions is the hallmark of the new society which will be forming. Once individuals start seeing that there is a much closer relationship between their behavior and the resulting feedback, they will no longer feel that they can ‘get away' with this as they had in the past. This will not be overnight and much distress will be apparent from forays into this new territory over the coming years. Filling the already overcrowded jails with criminals is no longer a viable option for keeping us safe and secure. Programs may need to be instituted in their place to help to retrain these ‘criminals' in how they can better understand the direct affects of their thoughts and behaviors...to themselves and to that of the society as a whole.

However, we need not focus on these negatives...what issues can and probably will arise due to these changes. It's more productive, and therefore serves us better, to focus our energies on self-improvement and adjustments to our personal environments. We must let go of the need of wanting to make these for anyone other than ourselves. This is the impossible task that many of us have been attempting...and, of course, getting us more frustrated in the process.

Every journey begins with one step in the chosen direction; it doesn't matter if it is the "right" one or the "wrong" one. It only matters that you begin, and, begin it in earnest. There should be no trepidation, no second thought as to its validity, purpose or meaning in terms of the rest of your life, after all, there are no wrong decisions, no wrong roads; they just are signposts along your journey to the next place. And, when you arrive at that place, you will look back over that journey and understand why you made the trip.

Everything, every thought, every feeling, every love lost or found, every person you meet along the way, has its purpose. You may not realize it at that time; perhaps you may not realize it in the short-term. Events and people may seem cruel and unkind. When you're licking your wounds and wallowing in self-pity, it's difficult to comprehend that there was any purpose to your pain. But there is. There is always purpose; life is not cruel, it's our interpretation of life's events that seem to be so.

So, the next step is to be still. When you are still, there is no past, no future, only the neverending now. It is in this now that we heal...and grow. This is the stillpoint; it is where all possibilities are present and there is no reason that you cannot fulfill any one of them. No reason. Simply, the truth of your beingness and the universe's abundant willingness to give to you anything, everything that you could ever wish for. It is our ‘job', should we choose to accept it, to be willing to accept this gift, pick it up and run with it. We often find that the burden of choosing to take up the task...this gift...is too great.

At stillpoint, the journey is ‘behind' you, or in front of you, but there is no connection to the path; you are simply resting, still, catching your breath, preparing yourself for what may lie ahead, but it is also a crossroad. Anything is possible and there will be more choices to be made before starting out on a new path.

Even when we think that we're not in control of our destiny, we are. We all have choices; some appear harder than others to make, that's all. Pain is a choice too. If you think otherwise, read about the yogis; they use their mind to ‘turn off' pain. So, if pain is controllable, that means that it is a matter of personal choice whether...or not...we experience it. At the stillpoint, we have the perfect opportunity to make that choice again, or for the first time, because it is always possible to start again and choose differently.

Once you return to the now, that stillpoint at the intersection of your journey through life in the physical, you have the opportunity, if not the obligation, to forgive. Begin by forgiving yourself. From that point, all can be forgiven, knowing that all was important on the journey. Then, be grateful; to yourself, to all the others, all the things that at the time seemed to be pulling you or pushing you, in a direction you thought was not your choice. This is the illusion; that we have no choice. We always have choices; it just may not appear that we do...or that we do not like the ones that are being offered to us.

Do not be concerned about the past journey; just learn what you can about how it made you feel. This feeling is the essence of what's important. If it made you feel regret, ask yourself why, what was the purpose of this regret, how does it serve you? The same for pain, confusion, guilt, anger, hostility or any other ‘negative' emotion or feeling. The purpose of these ‘negative' emotions are to ‘tell' us...a signpost...that this is something we may not wish to re-experience on the next ‘leg' of our journey. If you fail to recognize these insights...as the saying goes...you're ‘doomed' (or destined), to repeat them. Again and again and again....this lifetime or the next...or the next. This is what is meant by karma; it's not that it's bad...for there is not bad experience, just simply AN experience.

The purpose is in the recognition...the message...if you have but eyes to see it, ears to hear it. It is that simple, unless you fail to recognize the message. Then, dutifully, the Universe will provide you with yet another opportunity to see and hear it...again and again and again. How many times have we chosen to take the same, or similar, journeys? How many lifetimes will it take before you stop running from the lesson which you have been trying to experience for yourself? It doesn't really matter, this is not a blame-game. The Universe is not out to punish you for not recognizing these lessons; it just wants to make sure that you have the opportunity before going on to the next one...you might say, the next level. This is the ascension process. You cannot ascend to the next level without recognizing the purpose of these experiences. It simply is not possible. The Universe is here to support us in this journey...with love and understanding. Always.

Watch this video...it is truly amazing! The "king of the jungle" greeting the woman who rescued him and nursed him back to health...

The Ten Indian Commandments

1. Remain close to the Great Spirit.
2. Show great respect for your fellow beings.
3. Give assistance and kindness wherever needed.
4. Be truthful and honest at all times.
5. Do what you know to be right.
6. Look after the well being of mind and body.
7. Treat the earth and all that dwell there on with respect.
8. Take full responsibility for your actions.
9. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good.
10. Work together for the benefit of all man kind.
    

All words of wisdom hold truth...no truth is greater, or lesser, than another. The important thing here is to have a path for yourself, follow it as closely and undividedly as is possible, but forgive yourself when you occasionally fall. Pick yourself up and start again. As the saying goes, acition carries great power, use, but don't abuse that power!
 
See: http://www.birdclan.org/tenc.htm

Co-creative Channel: Perfection of Beingness and Creating Reality

By Rev Debi Brady (4/18/08)

Ft. Myers Beach from above (live view 4/11/08)

We are here for exactly the time and reason that we designed for ourselves prior to coming into the physical. No more and no less. All is perfection of beingness and this fact is difficult for you to accept. Be with this thought for a moment, try to understand that what we think we want and what we desire may be at-odds with each other, in concept and in practice.

Now, go deep into your inner being and ask for guidance. Why am I here? Why do I think that there should be more to this life that what it appears to be in my experience of myself? Why must there be so much suffering in the world...in my life? Is suffering necessary to my existence? These questions are difficult to delve into at first, but if you let that inner knowingness that you have within you percolate up into your outward knowingness of who you are in this physical lifetime, you will begin to understand the greater purpose that we have come forth to experience and the answer to the ‘meaning of life' will become much clearer for you.

Keep asking difficult questions and continue to be open to the answers that emerge from deep within...and most importantly, trust those answers as being valid. To the extent that you can accept the perplexing answers to these time-honored questions, you will have a better understanding of all that you ‘remember' about past lives and how that fits into your overall purpose in this, the most important lifetime. Not because you are more important now, more than those ‘other' existences, but because it is in this now...this moment...that you are, you live and breathe here and now. This is the only really important point. The past, whether it was a minute ago, or a hundred years ago, or a hundred lifetimes ago, in this life, in this moment, you are simply, ineffably, indescribably, you and none other.

Once you understand this, once you fully comprehend the magnitude of that statement, I am that I am, you will ‘get'it. And, that ‘it' will be different for each of you as much as it is the same. For each of you is a distinct and radiant part of the whole, the oneness, the Divinity, which exists simultaneously in each of us, just as it is the sum-total of all of us...of the Universe in a single point of light! How wonderfully delicious is that? You are that. You are perfect, just as you are in this moment!

To believe otherwise is to experience disappointment, worry, fear, and with these things, suffering. You cannot suffer unless you choose to experience these concepts as the figments of imagination that they are...and you are wonderfully imaginative. You have imagined all types of things. You have made it all up and gobbled it up in heaping helpings full. And it was delicious...until it was not. But you couldn't stop yourself from dishing out...and eating...all of it. The table is brimming to overflowing with stories you've made up about yourselves and the world you inhabit. And it's all correct...from the point of view of your imagination. The imagery you've created is so pervasive, so fascinating...even as you find horror, as well as joy, in its discovery that you have come to imbue it as reality. And it is, from this point of view.

Of course, there have many wayshowers along the way...mystics and teachers who have been sent by the higher realms to impart to you glimpses of what reality really is. But, until you have a framework of understanding...and a clue about how you create the personal reality which you call THE reality...you could not accept this truth. You did everything you could...killing, burning, destroying...anything and anyone who would try to tell you otherwise. So, unwilling you were, in this so-called past, to wake up to the imaginary world you created and existed in, that you could not stand to hear from these teachers. So, being intolerant of truth, as you were, you crucified them. Not just their physical bodies, but the bodies of work they were bringing to you. But truth, like light, cannot be contained...or ignored...or destroyed. It simply is, just as you are simply you.

Some things are easily explained. Other things will never be explainable. To accept this is to begin to accept that you can try to explain imagination, concepts which do not have easy answers, or not. It is your choice, as it has always been your choice. The original sin is to believe that choice can be taken away from us...by anyone or anything.

In terms of the Bible, Eve was given a choice by the Serpent; Adam was given a choice by Eve; and, ultimately, God had given them the freedom to make choices which would lead to their understanding that everything we think, do and say, has consequences. Some consequences may seem to be harsh, like the expulsion of mankind from the Garden of Eden...paradise...or death at the hands of a jealous brother. But once you get that you are the cause of it all...you are the creator of your reality...you will understand that all of creation is relative to you.

This is why relationships are so important. Relationships bind the universe together as a unified whole; without them, we are destined to spin out of control...into chaos. The most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. To thine own self be true! Do not expect that anyone else will understand you, your purpose or your reality. This is the grand mistake...error...sin! Take that into consideration the next time you render judgment on another soul. We cannot but guess what their purpose or calling is on this world. It is their reality that they are inhabiting, not our own. To be true to yourself, you cannot place your values upon another...any other, not even your beloved. Perfection is in this knowledge and with it the peace that truly does surpass human understanding...until humans understand, and you will. At long last, you are returning home. Returning to the truth of your being and how perfect is that!

Being in love can be the most delicious...delirious...delightful...of experiences we can have as human beings. Yet, the human experience is one of separation and aloneness. Not loneliness, but unity is always the ideal, with the experience of physical apartness being pervasive. We can have transitory experiences of bonding with another...a group...a family...a tribe, but these are discrete moments in this time-bound awareness that we have of ourselves while in the physical.

When the love-interest is next to us, either physically or astrally, we feel connected, bonded in a way that words cannot express adequately. When that same love-interest is elsewhere, occupied in his or her own existences, as is usually the case, and we long for that connection to be reciprocated, this is the experience we call longing. When we long for another's presence, we call to ourselves the awareness of our separation, which is illusionary at best, heart-wrenching at worse. This, too, is the experience that we have manifested on the earthplane. We know what it is like to be in unity, this is the state that our hearts yearn for in each moment of our lives. We fill our lives, then, with pre-occupations, filling our minds with the minutia of physical existence so that our heart's cry for unity will be drowned out.

When this disharmony is left in place too long, we become sad, or worse, depressed. We innately know when we are out-of-balance, but our body is the physical sounding board that takes the brunt of this imbalanced heart-mind connection within us. We feel, literally, out of place in the world when our heart is not being tended to properly. We think, again, this a reflection of the mind's actions overpowering our feeling nature, that we can push through this imbalance with logic and reason. As John Lennon put it best, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making for other plans." We're caught up in this busy-ness of life, forever making plans to be more balanced, forever planning on making ‘free time' to do those things in life that makes life worth living.

How did we get this so backwards? Our society doesn't place a high value on our happiness, our ability to be balanced, let alone joyous living. The French have an expression, joie de vivre, together with bon vivant...literally, good ‘liver', or one who knows how to live well. However, in practice, even the French do not always know how to live in this joyous, heart-open, way. We live in a world obsessed with the material...wealth in particular, we say, money is power...and that's not far from the fact of this matter. What we value we give power, if we value money, then we emphasize those things which brings us more of it...even to the exclusion of why we came here to experience.

In the focusing on the "secret" of manifesting that which we want...that is, lack...we do not focus on that which we ‘need'...more than food, shelter and security, we need love. We are love and if we think otherwise, that is our experience. In our pursuit for monetary gain and physical comforts that it brings, we live in the denial of this most basic of necessities. We all know that going without oxygen is bad for the health...in the extreme. Some of us do just that on a regular basis, hypoxia is more common than you would imagine. A friend of mine who underwent a sleep study, after decades of not getting adequate sleep, found out that he was so oxygen-deprived during sleep (what little he was getting) that coma patients get more than he did! Not only that, the coping mechanisms that he developed over the years prevented him from using either of the two most common devices to correct this deprivation.  We learn to cope without many of the things that we need; this includes love.

In the movie, "Down with Love," a woman writes a book about why love should not be the cornerstone of a successful (as in monetary) relationship, specifically redirecting women from ‘finding a man to marry' to being independently successful. The irony of this ‘sex-comedy' is that the two main characters ultimately find that they are both right, but for the wrong reasons. As this is Hollywood and not ‘real life', they find out that love is really important, get married and write a book together designed to end the battle of the sexes...how quaint and naïve. This ‘battle' is not fought FOR love, it is fought OVER love...or rather our strange and slanted version of what we think we want FROM love in relationship with another person.

If we are really interested in ending this particular battle, the rules of engagement need to be rewritten and agreed to mutually. While this is a laudable goal, certainly, very few of us seem to be willing come to the negotiation table and hash out the fine print! The first order of business, then, is to decide what is most important to each party. Then comes the definition of terms.

Many of us have been laboring under the delusion of what love is...or what we've come to think of love. We think that love is about what we want FROM another person; rarely do we understand that we cannot have that which we do not already possess. If we cannot first love ourselves with all our hearts and all our minds, how is it that we can begin another person to fill in our blanks? This needs-based relationship frenzy that we create, over and over, for ourselves is not only futile, but literally disheartening. Is it surprising that so much heartache exists in the world? This is the imbalance that we are seeking to rectify. But yet, we don't have the first clue where to look...since few of us look into our own hearts and minds for the answer.

It's been said in many ways throughout history, but the Bible puts it this way, Love your neighbor as yourself. What happens to this directive when we don't love ourselves? When we are at the heart of the very problem that we are trying to solve, there appears to be no solution. There are not many among us who go within to find solutions; we are used to seeking the answers from external sources...not internal ones. If love is the answer, as well as the question, how do we convince ourselves that self-love is the highest forms of all loves. We understand that if we do not have money, we cannot give it; the corollary here is implicit. We cannot give what we do not already possess.

The highest and greatest form of love is also selfless...not selfish. When we love ourselves, that love fills us so completely that our cup does truly runneth over. We have more than enough love to share...to give...without need for reciprocity, without need for another's approval or understanding. Children seem to innately get this; we are the ones who drum it out them at an increasingly early age. We may justify this in providing them with the protection from hostile forces who will abuse their naïveté...their exuberance for life...for love...for themselves and ultimately for everyone they are near.

Love cannot be contained; it is the fear that love can be taken away involuntarily which leads us to hoard it...and to encourage our children to hide it from the world. The new children are here to change this; they do not accept our opinions as valid for themselves. They are making a new paradigm: Love is what we are made of and there is always more love when love is allowed to flow freely. It is the trapping, the measuring, the negotiating and the monetizing of love which prevents us from realizing love's true nature.

Love is our oxygen; we've learned all too well to survive without enough of it too long already. For some of us in the physical, we will never learn this, the most important of life's lessons. For the rest of us, we must simply and emphatically open ourselves up to the possibility...remote as that may seem to us when love seems unattainable...that it is available to us in limitless quantities, if we but let it in. We are the point of resistance. We are the part of the equation which prevents love from flowing freely into our awareness. We have a choice in this matter; this is the ‘downside' of freewill.

When was the last time you filled your lungs with pure oxygen? Perhaps never. Perhaps, if we had the opportunity...there are ‘oxygen bars' as spas now that have this...to take in that purity, we would not be able to tolerate it. We've learned all-to-well to cope with the lack of oxygen, and, we learned equally well how to cope with the lack of pure love.

It is our choice, now, that we are clear about what it is that we are asking for, to choose to accept that we are the love we have always wanted...that we've always needed. And, that there is an abundant source for that love which is not externally-based. We are love. In some religions, we say "God is Love." But, who...or what is this "God" that we've been speaking of? It is not external; we are the divinity that we've been seeking.

"Seek and ye shall find, knock, and the door shall be opened." There is no ifs, ands, or buts, in that directive. The door to our happiness is waiting for us to open it. It's our choice to acknowledge that the door exists and that behind it lies everything we've ever dreamed of having in our physical existence. We are each the only one who can reach out and open the door to our hearts, to find the love that we've been seeking, to know, for maybe the first time since we were little, innocent children, that we are that love.

At long last, the journey home will be complete. It was never far away and unobtainable; it just seemed that way. When we feel depressed, fearful or angry for what we appear to be lacking, check the door. Is it open? Or, have you forgotten that you were the one who closed the door on your own happiness, peace and joy? When you are able to tear the door from its hinges and leave the doorway to love open, then you were have arrived at the place you've always sought to find; the heart of love.  Go forth and spread the joy of you...of your love...and with that flood of love, no obstacle can stand in your way. This is the power of love, and with it the ups-and-downs will become an open field in which you will welcome all to come to play. Welcome to my playground!

Namaste, my dear ones, and love from my heart to yours,

Rev Debi Brady

The New Earth and Easter

By Rev Debi Brady, Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008

Several years ago, a friend of mine who was way into the Unity mindset, taught a class based on Eckhart Tolle's first best-seller, "The Power of Now." Now, no blarney here...;)...he has another book which is taking the country by storm, thanks to none other than Ms. O herself, Oprah. It's not a particularly ‘new' book...nor concept...really; much like "The Secret"...it's no secret either. What Eckhart has done is provide a kind of instruction manual, in layman's (or laywoman's) term, of self-ascension.

On his website, http://eckharttolle.com/a_new_earth, he provides the following insight:

"The One Thing"

by Eckhart Tolle

In the Gospel story of Mary and Martha, Jesus says to Martha, "You are anxious and troubled about many things, but only one thing is needful." (Luke 10:41)

As I was writing A New Earth, people would sometimes ask me, "What is the new book about?"  And invariably, my answer would be, "I only ever write or speak about one thing."  What is that one thing?  Spiritual awakening.  Can a person be awakened spiritually by a book?  Yes, if three conditions are met:

Firstly, there must be a readiness on the part of the reader, an openness, a receptivity to spiritual truth, which is to say, a readiness to awaken.  For the first time in history of humanity, large numbers of people have reached that point of readiness, which explains why millions have responded so deeply to The Power of Now.

Secondly, the text must have transformative power.  This means the words must have come out of the awakened consciousness rather than the accumulated knowledge of a person's mind.  Only then will a text be charged with that power, a power that goes far beyond the informational value of the words.  That is why such a book can be read again and again and lose none of its aliveness.

Thirdly, the terminology used needs to be as neutral as possible so that it transcends the confines of any one culture, religion, or spiritual tradition.  Only then will it be accessible to a broad range of readers world-wide, regardless of cultural background.

All these conditions were met in The Power of Now, which is why the book has had such an impact on the collective consciousness.

Why write another book?

Since the publication of The Power of Now, I have given hundreds of talks and teaching sessions all over the world, and in the course of those seven years, the teaching evolved.  While the essence remained the same (The Truth is timeless.), new perspectives arose, new signposts, alternative approaches to the Truth, as well as an added sense of urgency.  A New Earth reflects this evolution and this urgency.

If The Power of Now worked for you and changed your life - as it did for countless people all over the world - there is no need for you to read A New Earth (although you may enjoy reading it and may find some of it helpful in recognizing the ego and thus sustaining the state of Presence).

My feeling is that A New Earth will make the teaching (the one thing) accessible to an even wider audience, including people who perhaps would not have dreamt of reading a "spiritual" book but have within them a hitherto unrecognized longing for spiritual awakening.

A New Earth will also be extremely helpful for those who read The Power of Now, found it interesting, but somehow missed the essence of it.  It presents them with new perspectives on the same truth, new signposts, pointers towards Presence.  Different pointers work for different people.

Millions are now ready to awaken because spiritual awakening is not an option anymore, but a necessity if humanity and the planet are to survive.  Everything is speeding up - the madness, the collective egoic dysfunction, as well as the arising of the new consciousness, the awakening.

We are running out of time.  From the perspective of the ego, that's bad news and will give rise to fear.  From a higher perspective, the running out of time is exactly what is needed for the new consciousness to come into this world.
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His "one thing" is to help the multitudes to awaken in order to prevent fear from running rampant. This book was published in 2005, three full years ago; I ‘found' the recording on CD at my local library and found it very interesting. I also thought, well, if the general population is ready to listen...here it is in a nutshell. Even so, it took Oprah's mammoth marketing machine...and the name recognition that comes with her backing...to launch him into the public eye. It's quickly shaping up to be another "The Secret". However, this is no get-rich-scheme that make people drool with the idea that they're going to ‘attract' all kind of great and wonderful things into their lives...and coffers...so, I'm not sure if it'll have the same level of impact.

From the webpage for the book itself (click on the cover), he asks a couple poignant questions:

Is humanity more ready now than at the time of those early teachers? Why should this be so? What can you do, if anything, to bring about or accelerate this inner shift? What is it that characterizes the old egoic state of consciousness, and by what signs is the new emerging consciousness recognized? It has become imperative that these and other essential questions are answered, because today, humanity is faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. A still relatively small but rapidly growing percentage of humanity is already experiencing within themselves the breakup of the old egoic mind patterns and the emergence of a new dimension of consciousness.

What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion, spiritual ideology, or mythology. We are coming to the end not only of mythologies but also of ideologies and belief systems. The change goes deeper than the content of your mind, deeper than your thoughts. In fact, at the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, a newfound ability of rising above thought, of realising a dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought. You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you take to be yourself. What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought - or the emotion or sense perception - happens.

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No surprises, here, for the average metaphysician, but Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra (among others) were saying the same...or at least, very similar things...at least a decade ago! He tells the reader in the final paragraph about where he got the name for this book:

The inspiration for the title: A New Earth came from a Bible prophecy that seems more applicable now than at any other time in human history. It occurs in both the Old and the New Testament and speaks of the collapse of the existing world order and the arising of 'a new heaven and a new earth'. We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning of the word, and this is also its meaning in the teachings of Jesus. Earth, on the other hand, is the outer manifestation in form, which is always a reflection of the inner. Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. 'A new heaven' is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and 'a new earth' is its reflection in the physical realm.

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So, here is the connection to this particular time, that of Easter. The metaphysical meaning of the risen Christ is NOT about whether or not there was/is a historical Jesus or even if the story is true or just a retelling of a resurrection myth (of countless religions). The point here is transfiguration...transformation of self from what is dualistic/physical to oneness/awareness. We are at this crossroad in human growth where ascension is eminent...it's palpable and pervasive. Is there fear surrounding what this all means? Sure, of course, we're biologically programmed to be change-adverse. But, have we reached the tipping point in collective human awareness to push us to the next level as a species? I'm not sure...but, I suspect it's much like putting a frog in a pot of cold water and slowly turning up the heat. The frog has time to get use to the change in temperature...right up to the point it's being cooked!

I'd like to think that human beings are at least slightly more evolved than the average frog...though, watching people at bars drinking themselves into a stupor kind of makes me wonder at times... I realize that I'm ‘preaching to the choir' on this list...most of us have felt the need to change and grow, and, for the most part, we are doing that. Is it fast enough? Hmmm, that begs another question...will it matter whether we're ready when the pot starts to boil and it's either do-or-die. Some people...dare I say, more than just some...are already leaving this wheel of life. They are choosing to not change in the most dramatic way possible; they're dying. This is not a judgment from ‘up high', but rather, a decision made at their soul's level to not continue to be subjected to the onslaught of current events...and the pressing need to evolve.

Some may say that we are already in the end-times, perhaps we are...in the way of ‘business as usual' is no longer usual...predictable. Those who think they can just continue functioning in the mundane existence of daily life are finding that the fire is slowly being turned up...the question is, will they notice in time to make the quantum shift necessary to not have their proverbial goose cooked? The answer may be no...this may be exactly the mass adjustment to population and all things related to human existence...as we've come to know it...comes to a dramatic close. To me, it feels as though my life has been such a blessing, leading me to ‘find' these concepts and be able to articulate them to even a few within my relatively small circle of influence. Many of you are also being lead to spread this information out to those in your circles...as a widening circle of knowledge spreads across the world and into the hands of those who are waiting to hear it.

Perhaps we're in time...I'm an optimist by nature, and learning to release the attachments that I've held on to from the ‘past' which no longer serve me. I have found the people I planned to find in this lifetime...blessings upon blessings...and they continue to be instruments of this greater plan...the plan to evolve ourselves while assisting, by example, others who cross our paths. Thank you, my dear circle of friends, for making this an exciting journey...and this is just one more step down the road...a road we are making up as we go...