Spiritual R/evolution—What an Adventure!

These are interesting times! On 9/11/2001, I watched the World Trade Towers explode and collapse, on live TV. Behind the horror, I actually felt some excitement; “Maybe something really revolutionary will happen now.” It was just 9 months after G. W. Bush claimed office with apparent ease, even though the specter of a corporate takeover of our democratic process loomed visibly behind well-reported election fraud.

What happened after 9/11, however, is that things got even more surprising. In general, a few very wealthy people and their multinational corporations asserted more obvious control and ownership of our country and the world’s resources—particularly oil, and many 1000s of people signed up to fight with their lives to help make this happen. When Bush claimed the oval office the 2nd time in 2004, there was even less resistance by the Democrats and populous than the first time!

And today, we have more surprises. I read that the Senate passed the absurd bailout of Wall Street and multinational corporations because some senators were threatened. They were told that if they didn’t pass the bailout bill, certain things would happen—resulting in the need for marital law to be declared on US soil, which could even suspend our November elections. This would be an interesting variant of what happened during the previous two presidential election takeovers.

So an absurd bailout gets passed and economic aftershocks are felt around the world. A news headline reads: “G7 nations [weren’t there 8?] pledge to fight crisis.” They have promised “a coordinated response to the crisis” and will “use all available tools.” While I believe these folks, and whomever they are beholden to, are directly behind the problem, I suspect that even they are surprised at the level of chaos. It just may be beyond their control.

As I looked for some meaning to it all, I realized, wait a minute—maybe this is the revolution many of us called forth in the 1960s! It occurred to me that everyone signed up to be in this life, to experience this time of tremendous change that is of very historic proportions. Maybe this is what the revolution looks like.

And it’s much bigger. These times of major change have been prophesied in religious texts such as the Bible and by the Mayans—that by the year 2012, “time” itself as we know it will change.

When I think of this all being part of a much bigger cycle, I feel calmed. I ask myself, “What much-bigger response can I offer?” What I come up with over and over is to go inside for higher guidance. I am to base my actions, including activism, on inspired, higher wisdom.

I asked a good friend and declared Intuitive (we all can develop these skills more), Bill Bowers, and among the very interesting things he said was, “We are on a collective 12-step program where we need to surrender to our inner higher power.”

This corroborates what I’ve been getting—to ask for higher guidance much, much, much, much more in life. I am urged to do this ongoingly—to shift the conversation within that is usually more like ruminating about past mundane things to having a conversation with my higher self about what’s possible.

For example, I do several open-ended comments or statements of intention, such as, “I wonder what wonderful blessings I will experience today?” “I welcome great joy today.” I also do statements of specific intentions, such as, “I intend to experience peace and gratitude during my walk and to feel in communion with Nature and the person I’m walking with.”

What’s really been exciting is that I’ve been asking questions of Spirit or High Self on paper. I sit down, get centered and focused on an area of my life where I’d like clarity. When ready, I’ll put a capital letter “G” for Gayatri on the paper and write down a question. Then I’ll write the letters “HS” for High Self (or you could write “F” for Friend, “S” for Source, etc.), and I pause. With pen poised and heart centered, I start writing whatever comes.

The more playful and unattached I am, the better the writing. Yes, it still needs editing, but much less so. I’m actually writing a book this way, and new ideas and elaborations are coming through that often have me be absolutely amazed.

Getting back to the challenges of these times, it’s important to stay centered. It’s fear that has people panic and end up suffering. A great way to calm fear is having confidence in oneself in being able to handle what ever comes—confidence that we’ll know what to do at any given moment. And all we have to do is ask.

So if you have practices that assist you in communicating with higher wisdom, my suggestion is to use them—much more than you have been previously. Do so in an ongoing manner and develop your skills even more. The more confident in your skill level, the more you’ll be able to act if/when some emergency or immediate need occurs, with a sense of knowing and trust. And the more life unfolds sweetly.

I believe that these are times of great choosing. Do we succumb to fear and act accordingly—which may be to freeze and do nothing—or do we enhance all that we’ve learned and practiced over recent years and keep returning to being heart-centered?

When we do the latter and ask for higher guidance, we can take decisive action even though what we’re inspired to do may surprise us. It should. Taking only inspired action, from a joyous heart and perspective beyond our logic. It is the stuff of a spiritual revolution. It’s making an evolutionary leap in consciousness. It’s high adventure, and it is time.

Enjoy!