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2011: A
Year of Action
2011 is
a year for divine action. It is time to put action to your
desires and create a lifestyle that is in alignment to the
new truths that are emerging. The next couple of years have
great potential for individuals. A changed humanity is being
birthed, and your active participation is needed. The desire
for a new world and a love-based society is at the tipping
point.
Since the essential nature of human beings is to be notoriously
resistant to change, the "shadow" part of our person
will surface during these transitional times. The shadow exposes
us to our resistances, wounds, and faulty beliefs --- all
of the obstacles to our advancement. The difficulty of shadow
work is that it can often be insidious and before you know
it you can be in full participation with it.
Strive to act as a witness to yourself. Watch and observe
yourself like a scientist might observe an experiment. Notice
what thoughts or beliefs create which emotions. Ask how often
you stay rigid with an attitude or opinion and why? Remember
that beliefs are created by thoughts and beliefs will determine
your reality. Thus everyone can PROVE that his or her belief
system is true because our attraction of like vibrations affirms
the truth for us. One will have experience after experience
that supports the individual's belief system. In that it is
their reality, it is true. However, just because the belief
system proves itself to be true, does not necessarily make
it either right or helpful for the individual. Remember that
what we attract to us might promote positive conditions or
might draw in negative energy and prove damaging.
Whatever the nature of this reality, the continuing reinforcement
of the reality of the belief will over time produce a thought-form.
Thought-forms become overarching paradigms that take on the
nature of perceived "universal truths" in the collective
eyes of a culture and can define an era and last for centuries.
Their "truth" exists in the acquiescence of a civilization
to accept and not question the validity of the thought. The
passing of an era and the emergence of a new world occurs
with the shifting of a paradigm, and "truth" becomes
redefined.
Early human civilization was characterized by a belief in
the oneness of humans with their environment and as hunters
and gatherers these so-called primitives lived as part of
their surroundings and not apart from its wildness and naturalness.
Indigenous cultures continued to hold these thought-forms
even as so-called advanced civilizations became detached from
the world and sought to subdue and control it.
The Early Agricultural Age was characterized as a struggle
to control the forces of nature, to subdue the natural elements
and to bend the forces of the universe's energies to satisfy
the power lust of civilized man. After the passage of centuries,
civilization took another giant step into the future with
the emergence of the Industrial Age and the conversion of
work into a process of a larger corporate entity and humankind
into mechanisms to feed this machine. What had been crafts
and satisfying individual achievements became work on an assembly
line or toil at desks where the individual had little knowledge
of the larger complexity of the system, much less any influence.
Thought-forms created a reality that seemed to be the natural
condition of advancing civilization and the acceptance of
this belief made it real.
This example is of a thought-form in the largest possible
context, but a thought-form may also exist as the product
of an individual belief system. In fact, the larger thought-form
emerges as the individual thought-forms of the members of
a civilization begin to converge and a common belief system
materializes and assumes the role of "truth." The
ending of an era also is the result of individual alterations
of individual thought-forms.
The dawning of
the Age of Aquarius is the product of emerging new understandings
of the necessity to align oneself in harmony with the world
and to see the oneness of ourselves in the universe. As these
common beliefs coalesce around a new universal awareness,
we become collectively conscious of our new "truth"
and the old thought-forms begin to fall away as a new era
comes into being.
For us as individuals,
the significant takeaway from this knowledge of the constructs
of civilization is that our individual thoughts, beliefs,
and actions are the source of the fundamental change that
shifts an entire culture to a new consciousness. All great
change begins with individual transformation and the universe
depends on each of us for our contribution to the shift.
A new era is at hand and you and I are faced with the choice
to resist and live in the fading thought-forms of a passing
age or to engage actively in the creation of a new world.
Heart to Heart,
Jan
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