On "2012 and Beyond"

On "2012 and Beyond"

Interview with Rhea Powers

 

We have had a lot of guidance that we should “be here now”, that in fact the present is all that exists. Of course we are concerned about 2012 – and what changes might be coming our way. However, I am sure that if you look into your life right now you will see that we are already experiencing changes.

About twenty years ago I channelled a book from Sanat Kumara called Earth Changes. As it turns out, much of what was prophesied in that book twenty years ago is already happening in the economies of countries around the globe. We are already seeing a number of natural catastrophes and the number of natural disasters seems to be increasing. That was also prophesied. It´s been prophesied by many people in many cultures, and it does seem to be happening now.

However, the thing that touches us in a more intimate, more close-in way, are the changes in consciousness that we are being pushed into. The difficulties in outer reality are challenging us to move deeper into our inner reality. And that is the place where the changes are actually happening.

Just as the world is shaking, there are also parts of our own consciousness that are on shaky ground as we are confronted with aspects of our own totality that we have not yet recognized. The shift that has been prophesied for 2012 has already started – in you, in me, and in those around us. We are challenged to stay centered. In the time ahead that challenge will grow as there are more and more changes on the planet, more and more changes in our governments, in our economy, and in reality as we thought we knew it. However – the only thing that we can do now is be here with ourselves, and attempt to stay as centered as we can in our daily life, and to bring as much awareness as we possibly can to who we really are right here, right now.

Perhaps you know someone, or perhaps you are someone, who has had a major event in your life recently. I know many people who are on a path of awakening, who are on a journey of coming to know the truth of who we are, who are having challenging events in their life right here, right now. Those events are challenging hidden or unconscious parts of themselves to be looked at, to be brought into awareness, to be examined. People who have been working on themselves and attempting to move beyond their personal patterns for years are dealing with the loss of a loved one, a disturbance in a relationship, the loss of a job, or some other event in their life that is triggering long buried unconscious material, and throwing them off center. Those of us on a journey of awakening are being confronted with hidden parts of our self.

It´s very difficult to see those that we love being challenged or facing grief, and yet that is part of us learning to stay centered in ourselves and remain present with what is. And that is the only thing that is going to prepare us for the future. We can look at the future with hope, as if there were a Santa Claus, and hope that something out there was going to make our life better, our experience better. Or we can look at the future with fear, as if there is something outside of us, something separate from us that we need to be worried about or concerned about. However, I would like to suggest that, if we are present with ourselves, if we make it our business to move closer to the truth of who we are, then we have to open to the reality, that – as all the masters have told us – there is only one. We are not separate from reality. We are not separate from the earth or from the changes that the earth is experiencing. We are, in fact, all one.

The more that we are aware of our own depth, of our own true nature, of our own unity with all that is, the less there is to fear as outer changes happen, as loss or benefit occur in the world around us. Knowing ourselves, knowing the truth of who we are, coming closer to our true nature – that’s really all we can do to prepare for whatever life brings us. That also helps us prepare for death, which will come to each of us regardless to what is happening on the planet, It also helps us to shift our perspective, so that we don´t take the illusion of outer reality quite so seriously. Outer reality impacts us – yes – and the changes around us have an influence on our experience of relative reality, at the level of our personality. Changes around us can trigger old fears. Our ego-structures might get a little rattled, might get challenged and our personality may attempt to re-enforce the old structures to maintain the status quo.

But in a way – if we are on a journey of awakening, that is useful, that is a benefit; – it is grist for the mill, as Ram Das would say. It is an opportunity to discover the places where we aren´t clear, or the places where old fears dominate our present experience. It gives us a chance to look at the structures from the past and update our personal computer, by bringing more of our unconscious beliefs into awareness.

Actually that´s something, I´d like to talk about for a moment.

We have a personality; we can call it our ego. That´s part of the package. We have a body, we have thoughts, attitudes, opinions, gender, and we have our history – in this life, and in many, many, other lifetimes. Each of those aspects of our experience has an impact on our present experience of reality. However – none of that is who we are. It exists, it´s real, we feel it, and we operate within that relative reality. However – if we are actually intending to wake up, to become aware, to know the truth of who we are, then we have to move beyond all of that. We have to move beyond our history, beyond our thoughts, our opinions, our attitudes, our points of view. We have to open to a deeper truth that lies within each of us, and which we have all touched at one point or another. 

You have touched the part of yourself that is beyond the illusion, beyond the separateness, beyond the idea that we are this bag of bones walking around with this particular story in this particular reality, or you would not be reading this.

It´s true that we have largely identified with our history, our body, and our thoughts and attitudes, but who we are is way, way beyond all of that. We could say that all of relative reality exists within the totality of who we really are. That’s a stretch, and getting there is not so easy, but it is definitely possible. Each of us has, at some point, stepped outside of the box of our personality, outside of the identity that is most familiar to us, and that we identify as ourselves. We have touched a deeper place within us, where we know ourselves as the Unity, as the reality that is beyond all illusions. When we touch that place we experience peace, we experience surrender, we experience knowing in a very direct way – the truth of our being as the unity of all that is. The more that we are in touch with that, the more aware we are, the less impact changes in outer reality have for us. That is because we are not identified with the part of us that is threatened by those changes.

If we shift our centre of gravity, if we shift the place within our totality where we locate our experience of who we are, then it doesn´t matter what happens in the outer world. We have emotions, we experience loss, but we are not identified with the one who has experienced the loss. It is an experience passing through our totality, moving through our awareness, but it´s not who we are.

In looking toward 2012, I have only one wish: that we wake up. That we move in our consciousness closer to the truth of who we are. That we come to know ourselves as Being manifested in form, moving from one form after another, each lifetime adding to our evolution, expanding our consciousness, so that we can all wake up. Whether that means that we continue in form or we dissolve back into the Absolute, remains to be seen.

If we wake up to who we are, we will naturally treat each other with loving kindness, because that is who we are. If we wake up to who we are, we will naturally have compassion, we will be wise with each other and with our planet, with the resources that are available to us here in this physical reality. If we wake up to the truth of who we are, most of the other problems will disappear. 

As we awaken, each of us can take the next step in our personal evolution. We can live our lives out of love and compassion. We can move closer to who we really are. As we know from the hundreth monkey stories – that will impact the collective. Each of us, in our own way, can make a difference. We can be the drop of water in the stream that changes the direction of the stream. Because the stream is changed, it changes the direction of the river. Because the stream has impacted it, the river flows into the ocean of consciousness in a new way, bringing a new reality into manifestation out of the Absolute.