Awakening to Oneness

As of today the Mayan calendar is finished. Now what are we going to do? Can our world, that is this week bulging to a population of 7 billion people, survive without it? For as long as I can remember, I have heard about the calendar and how it abruptly ends. It has been equated by some people’s belief that the world was coming to an end. Obviously the correlation did not exist.

But what if something is shifting in our brains or DNA that we are unaware of? What if we wake up tomorrow morning with much more consciousness and don’t even know it. What would that experience be? Would I still make a pot of coffee and read the morning paper? Or would I find myself caught in the present, meditating in front of my bonsai tree?

I want to be more conscious. The fleeting experiences of it that I have had have spaciously augmented my “present” moments. My “present” is changed in those moments because more of me shows up, keenly aware, focused, relaxed. I am changed. That is precisely what my experience has been like of being present in the moment. Change. Expansion. Peace.

I am angry with myself for all the moments I have missed by being distracted by some figment of drama that has taken up my daily life. As I look back on it I have had all the tools to live in the moment from the time I was very little. Certainly, all the psychological and spiritual work I have done since has headed me up the path of consciousness over and over again.

Still, when each moment comes it is still a crap shoot whether or not I will show up. I wonder if the Mayans got distracted from all their mathematics and astronomy and just stopped making their calendar? That would make sense in the model I am building for myself. And yet, I’m comparing my personal experience with an entire civilization of very intellectually advanced people.

I wonder if this is the way the collective works? It is difficult for me to grasp that what I do or do not do could affect the entirety of civilization, and yet in the deepest part of my being I know this is the truth. Each one of us has the ability to tip the consciousness scale from the personal to the collective. But what if I forget or my neighbor gets too busy or the folks in Kansas don’t know anything about a spiritual journey. I guess then we have a hundred monkeys that stay unconscious. At this point in my life that seems like a foolish waste, knowing and believing what I do about how the Universe works.

I believe we are all part of the same Oneness. Each of us is a facet of the whole of creation. I believe we are becoming more aware of the fact we are all One. I feel the connection to everything growing in this time we are living. Many people are afraid of our world falling apart, but isn’t that necessary so that it can be put together with a completely different kind of awareness.

The old ways thinking and being--of dominance, duality, and cause and effect--is breaking down. Now, instead of separation, we see people coming together globally in large groups with a common mind. That is the new consciousness emerging. We can no longer operate without a spiritual sense of all being One. It is no longer possible to feel superior when the technology of the world brings us face to face with starvation, poverty and death everywhere in the world, including where we are.

Many people are afraid. Change is scary. When I was little there was still the false belief that things would remain the same. But, today everything is different. It is an exciting time to be alive. It feels like we are on the brink of an amazing awakening. In a spiritual sense, haven’t we all chosen to be here at this time? That would indicate to me we have everything we need to make the shift.

Is this what the Mayans faced at their turning point in history? Did they not have the spiritual tools, the perseverance, the fortitude and internal strength to deal with change? Did they get caught up in the old way of thinking and let themselves be obliterated by war and death? Did they all die out from a cataclysmic event? Or did they just sit up one day and decide they didn’t want to get conscious and keeping such an elaborate calendar was not worth the effort?

Gratitude for Consciousness

At the current time, many people are obsessing and feeling paranoid about how bad things in the world are. That makes it even more important to offer a powerful blessing by filling the ether with gratitude, both for the big events we have encountered in recent years and for all the little things we have a tendency to take for granted.

It is important to step back from what we perceive as problematic and scary and think in terms of the planet's spiritual growth as well as our own. There are many things for which to be thankful. How wondrous to be privileged to share in the illumination process of the planet Earth. How wondrous to be able to recognise and acknowledge the flow of divinity within the mundane and within each other. How exciting that we are the privileged who hold the vision for a new Earth. There is so much to celebrate, so much to appreciate and so much to marvel. We can celebrate the balance we are bringing into our own lives as well as that of the planet.

While the problems of the Earth may appear out of control at the present time, it is important for each one who is living and experiencing on the planet at the present time to accept responsibility for what is going on. While it might be tempting to blame others for our predicament, this is not the answer. As we view the apparent mess that is presenting itself for solutions at this time, it is tempting to try to find just who is to blame and then mentally try to convict those we deem guilty. Again, this is not the answer. In fact, it is more of the same old patriarchal energy the stimulated the arising of these problems in the first place.

Because so many of the models we observe and pattern our lives after continue to persist in the blame game it may, at times, be tempting for our egos to fall into the same pattern. After all, it may attempt to reason, if we can just find the guilty party, that person could be held accountable and life could go on in a better fashion. While it may be tempting to access blame to a person or group of people we deem guilty of social crimes against the planet, doing this misses a very important point: They are all parts of us.

The truth is, all the problems of Earth belong to all people of Earth. This means that each one of us must bear some of the responsibility for all of the problems we perceive. It cannot be otherwise. All those attempts (in our minds) to separate ourselves from all those we see as guilty only serves to exacerbate the problem. Additionally, it robs us of the internal space for thanksgiving and contributes to the relative lack of balance seen in the world today.

The absence of balance that fosters the non-clarity and distorting motivations that have brought about this current crisis has arisen from the collective mental conglomerate of the human race and simply cannot be pinned on a few select individuals. This is true no matter how harshly we judge the few.

It is tempting to slip into victimhood here. However, the truth lies in the fact that we are not victims. While this may be somewhat difficult to let in, facing and embodying this truth can help us cut through that non-clarity and distortional thinking and projecting. The ramifications of the predicaments may appear to be paralyzing in certain economic sectors and may seem difficult to deal with in conventional reality, but the old patriarchal habits will offer neither solution nor solace.

Facing our difficulties, if we are paying attention, will help us notice that the moment is ripe with possibility. This is something for which we can be quite grateful. If a solution is to be found, it will come about as a result of consciously viewing old patterns with fresh eyes and seeing the possibilities that have not previously been seen.