And right. I can change the world by changing myself. Okay, I've got that understanding. But I really wasn't changing myself, because my core views stayed the same. I was just thinking I was changing, and because of that I was thinking I needed to change the world. And the realization I've come to is that the world doesn't need changing. I need changing. I need opening up. I need expanding. And by creating opportunities where I can expand, I have created an opportunity where whomever I'm with in the experience can also expand. And by doing that I am changing the world. But I'm not focused on changing the world.
Cate - Right. So often the danger of absorbing so much esoteric information is that we think we actually know something, when often we just have more of a spiritual soapbox to stand on and more information to throw at people and argue with. And that's not change.
Betsy - That's just data - expanded data. There's a difference between expanded data and true expansion of mind. Data is simply an arsenal to use against people to prove your point. I think ultimately we have to come to a place where we can be in allowance about people's individual journeys and be tolerant of their journey.
Cate - We have to be in agreement that we won't necessarily be in agreement, and make a conscious effort to try to find the other, deeper threads that connect us and do make us coherent.
Betsy - We are coherent. Because if we create our own reality, nobody can jump off the train and say, “Well, I didn't elect President Bush. I didn't elect to President Clinton.” Or, “I didn't create this reality.” Because were all interconnected. We're all creating this reality together.
I mean, I love how people say, “Well, that's just social consciousness,” as if they weren't part of it. The other realization I've had is that, I'm just as much a part of social consciousness as the next person. None of us can get off pointing the finger at what social consciousness is doing today, or say, “Look at the media, and what they’re doing and rah rah, rah. ….” I mean, look at it. Look at yourself. Look at what you just said and the attitude behind it.
So I think the first step is that we have to admit that this entire creation is ours. It’s something we’ve gotten ourselves into that most everyone seems to think is a mess. But I actually don't think it's a mess. I think humanity is in for a really wonderful learning. I think humanity is in for one of the biggest learnings that it's ever going to have. Because I think we’re at this precipice. On the physical plane we have war, we have poverty and ignorance, we're running out of oil. We're at this place where it feels like the world is going to implode. But then you look at how so many people want something better.
I think we're finally at this place where humanity finally gets to choose, social consciousness gets to choose; the big “oneness unit” that we are has to choose: Are we going to conquer and convert? Or are we going to communicate from a different level, become coherent and become an expanded mind? Next > 1 2 3 4 5
