A spirit contained and concentrated on positive input and output has a greater chance of affecting energy far beyond itself than a spirit that is caught in worry and inner turmoil. Find within you your own calm and contained spirit, the flame of light and love within you, and turn up its light and its love so that you personally positively affect the very environment around you. This is an inner job, and it takes focus and concentration, but it will soon have great impact outside of you. Begin within, project outwardly, and see what happens.
Stay focused and contained, keeping mind and body balanced, heart and spirit aligned. These are trying times and the best you can do in trying times is to try your best. You will not fail if you put your attention strongly upon the practice of prayer, meditation, manifestation and heart centered love for all in need. Keep a daily practice going so that the world may one day soon return to balance and peace.
Begin the day with gratitude, with love in your heart and with thanks for the opportunity to do something special for yourself today, and to help another person as well. Keep in mind that the greatest gift is to be available for someone else in need. You are never really alone in life, no matter your current situation. There is always a means to connect with others, often the best way being to show up and give of yourself in some way. Whatever your abilities and expertise, you can surely show up and help someone in need, in some way.
I was struck by an allusion to the current state of the world as Gaia’s late-stage pregnancy, in a podcast with defrocked priest and spiritual master Father Sean O’Laoire. Ten years ago, I co-wrote a blog, with Jan, about the state of the world, suggesting then that Gaia was in the early stages of Her pregnancy and that we, as a human race, were best served by the utter stillness of patient waiting.
Father Sean, fully acknowledging Gaia as the feminine face of God, speaks to Her matured state of pregnancy now. The guidance continues to be one of continued patience, but also one of attunement to Her real contractions.
Gaia’s contractions are Divine actions that will bring forth new life. Gaia can be likened to the High Self, the Divine spark in the human personality. When the call for action issues from the dimension of the High Self, it represents the truth of the heart and signals that it is indeed time for the ego to join with the High Self in a mighty push to bring forth new life.
The challenge for the ego is to distinguish the true High Self from the false gods that preach their wares. These can take the form of powerful emotions that demand retribution. If action is motivated by less than love it is simply not right action. Act only from love. Even powerful reactions of self-defense should issue from love alone—love for all thy neighbors.
Actions that issue from the mental plane are equally suspect if they are not in alignment with Gaia’s contractions. If we push without nature’s affirmation we act from our own free will, but we may not be aware that we are under the sway of our own shadow, or the manipulative suggestions of others.
How often when in the grip of desire or inspiration do we get calm and ask the heart, “Is this the right thing to do?” If the heart answers, “Yes,” and Gaia’s Nature responds with synchronistic affirmation, then it truly is time to push, to take action. Nonetheless, the ego must assume sole responsibility for its decision.
Free will should only acquiesce if it knows it is right to do so. It is not right to act if we are truly uncertain. Sometimes we have to go it completely alone. Such is the trial of human existence.
The quickening of events in outer reality now are hastening the breakdown of the world as we knew it. What I labelled a miscarriage, in our blog ten years ago, has proven to be an enduring, disintegrative phenomenon that America and the world were destined to experience.
The karma of America’s shadow has come home to roost. World leadership has fallen from high ideal and devolved into ugly meanness. In full transparency, and with heated passion, America is now living out its shadow of entitlement and primitive instinct.
Tragic as the consequences of this breakdown are, they are truly necessary. Unless we openly encounter the full breadth of our shadow we won’t find our way to responsibly act from the light of truth. As Socrates stated, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Nonetheless, there are many entities in this world, and beyond, that luxuriate in the suffering of others. I encourage that we use these petty tyrants as opportunities to lose our self-importance so that we may be fully energetically available to parent the coming New Age of spiritual advancement.
The wars and battles of now are materialist last stands of souls competing for world dominance. They are powerful and destructive, but they serve the completing of karma from human history. The human race must reconcile with its shadow before it can truly be born as an awake spiritual being.
I have written many times that responsible use of the subconscious mind is the spiritual awakening that is heralding the birth of the New Age. This awakening is intimately associated with Gaia, as it is only She who can create that which we intend to manifest.
The true warriorhood of now is to fully reclaim and refine the masculine side of God, that which plants the seeds of suggestion into the subconscious mind.
When those suggestions are for the greater good of all, you can be certain that Gaia will fully contract and bring forth a world powered by love. That’s the contraction to truly push for.
We are in a time of short-lived truce. Threat of violence has favored conformity over the challenge of liberty. The I Ching, in hexagram 37, depicts our time as one of the Darkening of the Light or Wounding of the Bright. Energetically, the dark forces predominate and movement is ill-advised.
In such times, we are counseled to maintain the brightness of our candle in the hidden sanctuary of our hearts, with the resolute conviction that the sun will indeed rise again, and that sanity and morality will prevail. Though outwardly yielding, inwardly we act through love with wisdom.
More powerful than an armory of weaponry is the substance of our thoughts and feelings. When we consistently state to ourselves an intention, with the gusto of true desire, our subconscious mind will be drawn to this charged suggestion and ultimately bring it to fruition. Our confidence increases as we experience the truth of this divine conscious/subconscious relationship and as we receive the gifts of all that we have requested.
This is not about wishing, pining, envying or empty imagining for that which we desire, but truly living, in the mind, the knowing and tempered excitement that our seed of desire has been planted, and whose growth is well-attended. Love with wisdom grants to all, without discrimination, the full materialization of their own desires, with the stated caveat that it be for the greater good of all.
Love with wisdom also recognizes the need to prune last year’s deadened remains to allow for new growth. If we hoard old habits that no longer serve us, there is insufficient space for new life. Detachment is pruning that frees the energy for latent and desired new growth to come to life.
Love with wisdom knows that good and evil are equal members of all that is. Love with wisdom knows that the interplay of these forces in the times we are in is essential to the higher refinement of love, the greatest opportunity for life in human form. I quote, in depth, from a book entitled Your Forces And How To Use Them, written by Prentice Mulford in 1887:
“Force by the same law may now be acting on you, but force bringing mainly unhappy results; for being so surrounded by evil or immature thought, we unconsciously open our minds to it, and send back more or less of gloomy, despondent, peevish, or other unhealthy thought. It is almost impossible to avoid this, since we live in a cloud of such thought-element, and our minds may be trained by life-long habit to give way to it. We are unconsciously daily co-operating with this order of thought. We now seek to turn this thought into a higher, better channel; and it is turned into such channel when we, if but for a moment, desire the welfare of all people, and exclude not from such blessing the person to us most repulsive, hateful, and disgusting; for every thought of ours, as sent out, is a force in nature; and the more freighted it is with good to all, the greater is that force; and the more of good it sends to others, the more good through its re-actionary effort comes back to us. A thought is not an “idle breath,” here one moment, gone into oblivion the next: and if but once a day we say in all sincerity, “May the Infinite Spirit of Good bless all men and women!” we shall find, when the grand sum-total of all our life is footed up, that the moment so occupied was of all the most profitable; for the force we sent out in thinking this may have been the only one which penetrated the murky thought atmosphere so prevalent all about us, and, reaching upward, brought down to us its corresponding ray of higher, purer, life-giving and constructive force; for every thought of real good brings to us its like in return.”
Love, expressed with the wisdom here so eloquently described, is how we advance ourselves to higher love rather than be consumed by the flames of hatred, revenge and blame. Thoughts of ruin are indeed all about us, but we have the power to exercise love with wisdom as we train our thoughts upon the greater good for all.
May the efforts of all who feel such in their hearts collectively restore the light to our world.
