One of the mantras of the new consciousness movement is “Oneness,” the idea that we are all inexorably linked as one being through the elemental energy at the basis of sub-atomic reality. It is a concept easier to meditate on than to actually embody and live. And being in Oneness with the guy next to you in yoga class is one level of living in Oneness, but it goes much farther than that.
As advanced souls we can go beyond just being aware of our Oneness with people who are like us. We are now at a point in our evolution where we are able to step into the awareness of being in Oneness with everyone whether they think like us or not. Whether they go to yoga class or ride motorcycles, whether they are vegetarian or eat red meat, or whether they believe we are One being or don’t believe we are One being. If you believe it, here is your chance to prove the influential power of living it by example.
When you are evolved enough as a soul that you can see your Oneness with Sarah Palin, then, by George, you’ve got it! An initial level of this awareness is when you can see that you may have influenced Sarah to be who she is today. This is the law of karma in play. Do you know any of your past lives? Do you know how you have shaped world history through the ages? In a past and lesser-evolved incarnation, who knows what you were up to and how this shaped the thought and belief patterns of the soul who is now Sarah Palin. Maybe you were one of the American Revolutionaries and you were at the Boston Tea Party. Sarah Palin’s soul saw what you did… angry, violent action against the British. Now she is throwing her own Tea Party. See the possibility here?
Have we ever considered that maybe we could have worked with the rising British Industrial Revolutionaries on mutually beneficial terms of commerce to create our own independent country? I was one of those British industrialists in that lifetime and we were friends with Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, it could have happened. Instead we went to war and influenced how many other souls who were around at the time and who are now in positions of cultural leadership. So before you throw stones at Sarah Palin, take a double take on who you might have been and what you might have been doing in previous lives that may have influenced her.
A subsequent and even higher level of awareness is next to take ownership of where you are now in your soul evolution and see how you are affecting Sarah Palin today by the energy you are sending her in your thoughts, words and actions. If you are doing the good/bad, right/wrong game with her, then you are living in duality. You can transcend the duality and go to Oneness by being humbled by the idea that you may have influenced her from a past life. Then once there, your heart can open to how you are acting now. If you are labeling, name calling, making jokes about Sarah Palin, that energy is released into the world and affects her and polarizes the situation even more. If you can take responsibility for living in Oneness, you can provide a new example for her to follow, a powerful new model of Oneness and connection with all of life. You don’t have to vote for her, you don’t have to accept her ideology, but see if you can love her as part of yourself and send good intentions for her own soul evolution.
When we can move past the duality and really live like we believe we are One we can then have conversations, exchanges and political discourses that are mutually beneficial for all. We don’t need to reinforce the dualistic Boston Tea Party, we need to initiate a new and improved Arthurian Round Table where all are equal and all serve our E Pluribus Unum.
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Lisa is the Bookings and Contracts Manager at the EarthRise at IONS retreat center at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) located in Northern California. IONS’ research arm conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness. EarthRise at IONS retreat center offers opportunities for personal transformative experiences. www.noetic.org
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Sarah Palin's polictial ideas are 180 degrees from my own. But I celebrate the fact that she has been able to become politically powerful.
As an older woman, I remember the time when she would never have been allowed to do more politically then stuff envelopes and lick stamps.
Women in the United States of America were only granted the right to vote 91 years ago.
When the first Tea Party took place in Boston Harbor, women were considered to be their husband's property.
Sarah Palin is doing well.
Great post Lisa seeing Oneness in all especially those you may most be inclined to criticize or judge. The use of examining past-lives through hypnotic regression is a very good way of accessing theses lives, but it is also to wary of not getting attached to these lives especially if some of them turn out to be known characters from a previous lifetime. Learn the lesson, examine the karmic impact, do whatever healing needed in front of witnesses, or with the assistance of your guides or higher soul beings and delete delete delete. Francois
the truth of the awareness of Oneness is exactly as you state in your last paragraph. it's in the realization that constructive being that contributes to common growth and prosperity is the result of the COOPERATION between varied interests in a mutually-beneficial process, and not the COMPETITION between them in a destructive pursuit of illusory conquest and control. your suggestion in the same paragraph would be taking the awareness of Oneness into the level of consciousness, where its application in our relationships and interactions would eventually lead to manifestation. this has to begin on the level of relationships between individuals first, and once that becomes systematic, only then will it evolve into the default mode of relationships between groups. in other words, if you think you're going to run fair trade and keep peaceful relations with a country that is of a different religious faith than yours, but never invite your neighbour over for a drink or a bbq and send your dog over to crap in your neighbour's yard just because your neighbour is a democrat and you're a republican . . . think again. and then act after you've thought. (i don't mean you personally, Lisa, i mean the rhetorical "you.")