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An Introduction to Conscious Evolution

We all know what happens when you drop a pebble in a pond…there are ripples. Imagine what happens when a larger than life avalanche leaps into an ocean….seas rise and there are much bigger consequences.

What we see in the US right now is such an avalanche, for consciousness … and the ‘seas’ will rise, all over the world. This is a very exciting gear change and a dynamic evolutionary step for Humanity that I don’t believe we have even begun to see shake down yet although it is more and more evident in cyber space as people all over the world seek to connect with like minds and hearts. This rising of the collective consciousness will unleash enormous creativity, the emergence of new solutions to our problems and new and bold views of possible futures that are worthy of the becoming Humanity. No doubt as well, there will be the inevitable backlash of fear of letting go of what we know and have been used to (or ‘the devil we know’ as the saying goes). I am thrilled to see and experience this massive shift in my lifetime as are so many others who have been working to raise awareness in our own small ways for many years. Transformation is happening from the ground up and it feels like a highly significant moment indeed. I don’t believe we can even comprehend just how significant from where we sit right now.

Future generations will study these days and know they heralded a turning point for Humanity, not just in politics but in the sense of possibility such transformation can inspire, in any area of life. Individual stories of inspiration are beginning to emerge very fast now - watch for the books and movies! When change occurs there is always the potential for things to ‘change back’, like water can turn to ice and back to water again. With transformation there is no going back…it’s a long road for wine to turn back into grapes again, or for the butterfly to reappear as a caterpillar.

Anyone who watched the moment when Obama’s election was secure will have seen the rawness of feeling in the faces of people of all ages and races. There was something profoundly right about it. Something fell away and something new was fertilised. I believe it was the face of a new resonance and all over the world including right here in New Zealand we tuned in to that resonance. Humanity took a significant evolutionary step on November 5th, 2008 - a step I believe is towards a more universal species. If we ever had an opportunity to consciously evolve our identity out of ‘victim’ and into ‘co-creator’ that opportunity is here, now! And it’s not about one human ‘fixing’ everything, if we think that’s how it is we will be disappointed. The call is for us all to step up and take more responsibility for our own destiny - together. As Buckminster Fuller once said - “There are no passengers on spaceship earth – only crew”. Every one of us has a purpose.

Many many people are now at a point where they can more deeply embrace the idea we are all co-creators of our own realities. The challenge now is to choose to be conscious co-creators. In other words, to become the conscious creators of the future human history book - not from unconscious individual survival based motives, but from wisdom and an impulse to discover what really works for the whole planet - the conscious application of our intelligence and our compassion. Instead of fighting for our own separate interests and lives, we are now challenged to see a new world view of ourselves as a whole species living on a whole planet, and not at the expense of the individual either. The mindset of life being about either/or is being replaced rapidly as we seek to live with the mindset of both/and. The individual and the collective need to thrive in order for us to experience ourselves as whole.

When we are lifted by our own efforts and those of others to see new horizons of possibility and potential, we can also see a clearer view of what bought us to this point. For humans, our evolution is most often provoked by crisis. Crises drive evolution. To see crises this way is a new view for many and yet how many times have we all experienced the truth of this? It seems to be part of the human condition to stick with ‘what is’, to maintain the status quo until there really is no other option but to change, before we will change. And yet we are so good at it! Humans are incredibly resourceful and we can choose to do and be pretty much anything we decide, as long as it is sustainable and in alignment with our own potential (there’s not a lot of point using up the planet’s resources faster than she can replenish them or wanting to be an ‘Idol’ if you weren’t gifting with singing!)

To consciously engage in our own evolution we need to see ourselves as central to our own lives regarding our creative power. There is in every one of us, an intrinsic impulse towards the expression of our particular version of individuality. To learn to cooperate with this impulse consciously and contribute it to the whole is to become a conscious co-creator of our lives, or as Barbara Marx Hubbard says a ‘conscious evolutionary’. We all have incredible powers, gifts built into us that are our best resources…all free to use in abundance. We have free will, the choice to act or not in any circumstance. We have the extraordinary gift of intuition, a built in guidance system. Obvious too is our impulse to grow and unfold that we need only to tune into in order to cooperate and reap the benefits. We have imagination and an incredible capacity for learning…and, we have the ability to make meaning of our experiences, self reflective consciousness. This last gift is a real ripper – we can choose to make meaning that assists our evolution, or we can allow our minds to hold us back by rigidly holding onto unhelpful ideas of who and what we are - often based on early conditioning that is no longer useful going forward.

I choose to believe we are all local separate seeming (but not really) expressions of the divine creative impulse that powers the entire universe…we are this divinity, with a mind, with a heart and with a body – all of which we get to use to manifest the creation we are on this earthly plane. A pretty amazing creation are we not? Think of the path….billions of years of creation and here we are, homo sapiens sapiens, only 25,000 or so years old and the potential jewel in Creations crown. We are the ones with the ability to self reflect, to know our own powers and potential. What a difference we have made to each other and our world thus far and it's very obvious we have not seen the best of ourselves yet!

Where we go next is up to us. We have the power to shape our world, we have plenty of evidence of that! We are now getting very clear messages from our environment. We are being called from unconsciousness to consciousness, from autopilot to manual control, from “I don’t make a difference” to “Everyone makes a difference”. What difference we choose to make remains our choice and our responsibility. We have all the tools, we just need to keep learning to master them and use them in service to the whole rather than solely for our own individual gratification. I believe when we do that in numbers, we will reap the rewards in abundance and truly be conscious partners with Creation. As Alice Walker says “We are the ones we have been waiting for”.

We can all contribute starting at home base, our own individual life. By tuning in and examining our own personal evolution, how we have been shaped and molded, we can move beyond our conditioned limitations and become conscious co-creators of our future. Conscious evolution - a more exciting adventure I cannot imagine!

Amanda Fleming
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