recently, i've met these amazing, cool, insightful, incredible folks: ann, tom + ursula. they are individuals coming together to create a workshop based on the teachings of david hawkins who created the 'map of consciousness' ...
hawkin's work is an interesting study and one on which i am just embarking... but to start -- as i understand it -- one of his ideas is to raise your 'vibrational' level by operating at a higher state of consciousness (as he notes, a state based on love or expansion -- as opposed to fear or restriction ... note: the shift occurs when you hit the concept of 'courage') ... it's this level of focus that, if the entire world engaged, we could truly shift the energy of the planet. [well, as tolstoy said: "everybody thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves" ... to begin, i've been just trying to start with myself!]
next, with all this, the trio also offered up an interesting perspective on the 'third way' (as it's been called), or a plane of ascended being ... it looks like this:
essentially, ann/tom/ursula tell me: folks usually land in one camp or the other, represented by the bottom line of the triangle. this is where ego lives. we either indulge in something or we avoid it; we either dive into a moment or we turn away from it. the ascended track to take, however, is not to judge a situation (again, that would be to either choose to indulge in it or to avoid it altogether) but to have the courage (the line between fear and love) to simply be present in the moment/discussion/possibility. this turns off the ego and the attachment to the judgement. or, in other words, the judgement disappears which allows a new possibility or solution to enter.
the interesting thing to me is this can help ground us in the most mundane of experiences to the most profound. from being stuck in traffic (indulging in anxiety, stress, annoyance to totally avoiding by zoning out, closing off from the world -- not many of us are often 'present' in the possibility of new discoveries while sitting in the midst of exhaust fumes!) to feeling a principle deep in one's bones (indulging in 'being right' or pushing one's agenda to completely avoiding another idea or group of people all together -- think the war in iraq: often people aren't coming together in 'being present' in the reality of the moment, or the different perspectives of the reality. instead, people are usually 'for' or 'against' it, based on their own stories and ego-based opinions as opposed to being present in the reality of a multitude of possibility.)
thoughts i'm thinking on a foggy, misty tuesday!
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(p.s.: for those of you who know me, this is naturally accompanied and followed by another idea in the shape of a recent store i just opened for my new "special friend" -- all to highlight his musings on the world [with more to come]... ahh, the life of a gemini .... check it here: schmidtstorm.com)
