The Awakening Shift

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The seasonal cycles of the Earth are one expression of her aliveness. In this post, we’ll examine how the Earth’s natural cycles and our calendar are out of sync creating a disconnect in our subconscious. One aspect of waking up, in preparation for 2012, is to become more sensitive to the aliveness of the Earth. This is known as the Gaia Theory and states that the Earth is an alive sentient being. So let’s look at how we can do that.

The calendar is a major part of our everyday life and working with it creates an alignment with the concepts it represents. A part of our calendar is contrived. Consequently this puts us out of sync with the organic cycles of the Earth. Since our calendar is based on the earth’s 365 day journey around the sun, this aspect is in alignment with the Earth’s natural cycles.

However, our year is divided into 12 months, which are meant to represent the moon’s journeys around the Earth.  This journey takes 28 days and the moon makes 13 of these each year  rather than 12. So here, our calendar is not in rhythm with the moon’s cycles. This results in a blue moon like the one coming up on December 31.  A blue moon occurs when we have two full moons in one month. It is the extra full moon related to the 13^th trip of the moon around the earth.  Some years we have an extra new moon rather than an extra full moon.

Another feature that is out of sync is our calendar’s start date on January 1^st. In nature, the real beginning of the year is the winter solstice, which just occurred on December 21.  On the winter solstice, in the northern Hemisphere, the Earth has turned her face as far from the sun as she can, and on that day, she starts her journey back to the light. As the light returns – a new cycle begins.

Pagans and some indigenous people base their holidays on this cycle.  However at an unconscious level, it seems that all of humanity is attuned to this new beginning in nature. This is demonstrated by the many festivals of light around our globe this time of year – Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, and many others.

We can relate this cycle metaphorically to the growth cycle of a plant.  So Earth’s calendar looks like this:

• Winter solstice – beginning of new cycle – seed is planted
• Spring  Equinox – cycle expands – seed sprouts
• Summer Solstice – cycle peaks – plants flower and blossom
• Autumn Equinox- cycle ends – fruit is harvested, plant dies and returns to the earth

This natural cycle of the Earth is one aspect of her aliveness.  We can see how our man-made measurement of time as expressed in the Gregorian calendar does not support connecting with this organic cycle.

So what can we do to remedy this?  One thing we can do is to honor these seasonal cycles with a ceremony.  Ceremony is a powerful way to form new neural nets in the brain, which will then automatically cause an alignment with these cycles.  The more we do them, the more attuned we become.

Another way to form an alignment is to notice how our own body expresses this Earth cycle.  In the winter, like the seed, we want to hibernate. Spring comes and we feel fresh and alive just like the little sprout.  In the summer, our energy is at peak.   We go on vacation, do outdoor activities and enjoy the uplifting, outward flowing energy. Fall comes and we begin to pull inward. We focus back on work and harvesting all that we have been striving for all year long, knowing that the cycle is ending and we’ll soon be starting a new year.

So as you celebrate the holidays in your tradition, know that Mother Earth is also beginning a new cycle.

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In this post, I want to focus on the very important concept that we have a choice in how the Awakening Shift unfolds.  Secondly I want to stress that your choice is important.  We often  think that as one person, we cannot make a difference.  But as we move toward 2012, one person’s choice will be the one that tips humanity in the direction that it ends up going.

So what makes me say that we have a choice?  In a nut shell, we humans actually create life as it is on earth by our thoughts.   We are all connected by an energy matrix which out-pictures the vibration of the collective thoughts in the matrix.  Let me explain exactly what I mean by that statement. We have a choice, because we as humans, create life as it unfolds on planet Earth. Every thought we have, every feeling we have, every belief we have sends out a vibration. Remember the principle that everything is energy vibration. As we experience these,  their vibration permeates the noosphere. This term describes what we might refer to as mass consciousness or the Earth’s mind.

Here is an explanation of the noosphere.  In an article written byAnodea Judith  about Teilhard de Charden, who coined the term noosphere, she says “He suggested that the Earth in its evolutionary unfolding, was growing a new organ of consciousness, called the noosphere. The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a “planetary thinking network” — an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication.  

This concept is supported by Greg Braden’s work about the matrix, which he calls the Zero Point Field.  At his workshop here in Tampa, he gave this example of how human thoughts and emotions can impact the energy field of the Earth. He said there are two satellites that measure the magnetic fields of the Earth. One day, scientists noticed a huge spike in the field and wondered what it meant.  After overlaying a calendar on the data, they discovered it was Sept 11,2001.  The disaster caused a heart opening in millions of people around the globe,  which in turn was reflected in Earth’s energy field.  So there seems to be proof that we humans impact what happens in the energy field of the earth. 

The next step in the process is to realize that when enough people embrace a certain belief, a critical mass is reached and the belief spreads through the matrix impacting everyone.  Using a wave in the ocean as a metaphor, we know that when enough drops have gather to form the wave, it  reaches its tipping point, and  there is no stopping it.  All the water rushes forward. Same with humanity. As we seed the noosphere with a pattern of  thought and a critical mass is reached, the change acclerates so that all of humanity is transformed by the new belief.

Another theory that expresses this same concept is known  as the Hundredth Monkey Principle, in which monkeys changed their behavior when a critical mass had learned the new behavior. Although considered an urban legend by some, the work of Rupert Sheldrake supports this theory with his concept of morphic fields.  The concept  is that a critical mass is reached when, for instance a hundred monkeys learn the behavior.

So now to connect this principle to how important your choice is.  Here is a personal story that demonstrates how that could work.  About 20 years ago, John Randolph Price, who understood this concept, started a World Peace Meditation to take place each year on December 31^st . Everyone adjusted the time for their time zone so we would all be mediating at the same time. I lived  in the Northwest at that time, so 4:00 a.m. was the time I was to  to meditate.  Although I am not at all a morning person, for years I would get up for the World Peace Meditation. Sometimes my husband, at that time, would join me. Other times, he’d say, “I am sleeping through it this year” to which I would  always jokingly reply, “But what if you are the hundredth monkey?”

So we are in that choice point now where a minority can make a tangible difference by spreading positive ideas to the majority.  Just as one drop of water tipped the wave, it only takes a single individual to tip the wave of critical mass. So the question I leave you with is “What if you are the hundredth monkey– the person who causes the tipping point?”

Each one of us has a vote. How are you voting?  Are you moving into fear and buying into concepts like those presented in the movie 2012 or are you  holding for a world of abundance, joy, peace and goodness for all??

Here is a wonderful song about the choice you have to make.  I heard Shawn Galloway sing it  here in Tampa at the I Can Do It! Conference and it was so uplifting. Enjoy!

That’s my invitation to you – awaken to the awakening shift!  And that’s why I have created this blog – to provide support, information, and tools to help you do just that.

With the 2012 movie having just been released, lots of folks are beginning to wonder what the real truth is about 2012. I say it is a deep and profound awakening in our consciousness that is causing a shift in how we experience our world.  I have coined the term “Awakening Shift” to describe this awakening movement in consciousness that is creating a shift in our lives.

So in this first post, I’ll give a couple of examples of how we are waking up. But first, I want to define what I mean when I say consciousness. I am referring to our level of awareness, how attuned we are to all that is unfolding in our world- externally and internally.  If we look at world history, we can see that we have been a pretty numbed out.  Certainly, aware beings would not do to each other and the Earth what we have done.

But now, our race is waking up. In fact, we are waking up so much that, I believe, we are evolving into a new species.  Several scholars subscribe to this theory and have suggested names for the new “us”.  Homo spiritus is the name given by David Hawkins, MD, Ph.D. to beings who are awake and vibrating at a high level according to a consciousness scale he has developed.  Alberto Villoldo, anthropologist and shaman has labeled it homo luminous to indicate that we are becoming beings whose energy fields are luminous. And Barbara Hand Clow, Cherokee elder and writer, calls the new human homo pacem, to indicate we are becoming a species focused on peace.

Another sign that we are coming out of our stupor is we are waking up to the needs of the planet as shown by the huge “green movement” now afoot. We are saying, “Ah, we are all in this together.  Either we all survive, or no one survives.”

I invite you to go one step farther…. beyond the Green Movement and begin to look at the Earth as a living, sentient being. This is known as the “Gaia Principle.”  Many indigenous people refer to the Earth as our Mother, indicating that she is an alive being who provides us with our physical needs to sustain life.  In South America she is referred to as Pachamama meaning Mother Earth.

What I am saying is that the earth is not just a big hunk of rock and dirt whirling around the Sun. It is alive and has an awareness and consciousness, one that our human minds may not be able to comprehend.  Opens another can of worms, though. If the Earth is alive, so is Mars, Venus, Jupiter and all the other planets…and the sun and the stars! We live in a universe of alive sentient beings that are expressing as stars and galaxies. How mind stretching is that!

So in this first post, I want to introduce these two concepts.  We are evolving into a new species and we live on an alive sentient being. I know this isn’t news to many of you, but for others these concepts may occur as way outside of your comfort zone.   However, the only way to wake up is to stretch ourselves out of our old way of thinking. So, I invite you to visit my blog often and leave comments so I can know what other questions have arisen out of my posts.

These are two of what I call my foundation principles that I suggest you will need to embrace to be able to align with the new energies and flourish on our New Earth. I have written an article entitled Five Foundation Principles of the Awakening Shift to explain these five principles. You can access it under articles.