The Awakening Shift

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It’s the time of year that you have probably made New Year’s resolutions, so why not add a resolution that supports birthing a New Earth???

So, how to do that?  First, let’s look at the concept of the New Earth and what that means.  Eckhart Tolle made this term popular in his book,  A New Earth in which he writes about a New Earth that is emerging as a result of a transformation in the state of human consciousness.  As people raise their consciousness and vibrate at a higher and higher level, life on earth changes.  A sense of community will develop and we will realize that  we are all one causing us to promote a world of peace, abundance, and harmony. Because we are all connected through a huge field of energy called the Matrix or Zero Point Field, what each person does affects all of humanity.

If you make a resolution that invokes adding positive energy to the matrix, you’ll be helping to birth a New Earth.  Two possible ways to do this are to start a Gratitude Journal or participate in James Twyman’s Oneness Experiment.

To start a Gratitude Journal, simply purchase a small journal. Each day write five things for which you are grateful. At bedtime each night is an especially good time, as these happy thought will be planted in your subconscious as you drift off to sleep.  It is even more important to do this if you have had a bad day. During the five minutes you are being grateful you will be permeating your own energy field with uplifting and healing energy. You cannot be truly grateful and angry or upset at the same time.

My second suggestion is to participate in the Oneness Experiment sponsored by James Twyman.  It started January 1 and will run for 40 days. You’ll need his book The Proof which has a practice for each day. The focus of these practices are to bring peace into your life and connect with the oneness we all share. James supports the experiment with calls on Saturdays. If you want to sign up for the calls and receive emails related to the experiment, go to Oneness Experiment.

Thousands of people will be participating.  The power of doing something like this with a group is that it increases its effectiveness. I participated in the Oneness Experiment when a group of 5000 did it in November.  I found it to be very powerful in opening me up to spiritual possibilities that had been out of reach before. Even though it has already started, don’t be concerned.  You can easily read the first few lessons and join in.

So a good question to ask yourself is ”How am I going to contribute to the Zero Point Field this year?”  Am I going to add love, gratitude and caring or worry, stress and fear?  Your choice is important. Living a life of joy and happiness actually contributes on the quantum level to the happiness of all beings on the planet.

Photo credit: Small Treasures

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.

Photo Credit: William Dalton

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!