REVOLUTION OF/OR EVOLUTION November 11, 2009
Posted by cosmicsandbox in Cosmic Consciousness, Energy Awareness, Quantum Shifts, Spiritual Transformation.Tags: End Times, 2012, Evolution, revolution, quantum shift, genetics, victim conscioiusness, Epigenetics, science, prophesy, new Earth, New Age
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“We don’t need a revolution in the United States. We already had one, thank you. What we need now is an American Evolution, where We the People evolve into the citizens the country’s founders dreamed of.” Swami Beyondananda
Science, through the Human Genome Project, has recently discovered that our genes don’t control our physical and behavioral traits. This new discovery is akin to the discovery of fire! Up until now the old theory of genetic determinism imprisoned us into believing we were weak, frail victims of our heredity. “If mom died at 50, I probably will too.” Or, “My whole family is fat so I guess I just inherited those “fat genes”.
The new science called Epigenetics means “above” (epi) genetics. And “above” they went. They learned we don’t have very many more genes than lowly animals. What then accounts for the increased complexity of humans if not the genes? What influences whether or not you die at 50 like your mom or are fat like uncle George? The answer will shock you because it shocked the scientists.
First of all they discovered the nucleus wasn’t the brain of the cell that determined the health and nature of that cell. Rather, the cell’s brain was in its membrane. This is akin to the discovery of the wheel! Healthy cells in a Petri dish placed next to a dish of sick, toxic cells became toxic. They weren’t physically intermingled. It was strictly environmental influence. In cloning research, they discovered by placing neutral cells next to a dish of liver cells, the neutral cells became liver cells! The stimulus from the surrounding environment determined cell identity and not the genes.
In humans the emotions are the stimuli for our cells. Our thoughts via the brain create the emotions in our bodies. Emotions of love joy and peace build healthy cells and strengthen our immune system. Conversely the opposite emotions over time tear down the cells and weaken the immune system.
At this major crossroads as a civilization we are being gifted with this wisdom to enable us to abort a destructive mission of humanity and our planet. Our ancient ancestors knew all this viscerally of course. In our pride and arrogance we dismissed their knowledge as either too primitive, pagan or New Age woo-woo. But now we can accept it because science has proven it in the laboratory. Whee! However, on the flip side, we also have learned how some ancient civilizations destroyed themselves because they chose selfish power over selfless cooperation. They became like cancer cells that greedily take over the whole organism until they kill it. (Sounds like large corporation cells).
All of Nature including humans grow and increase on this principle of creation through cooperation. It is not survival of the fittest as Darwin proposed. It appeared that way on the surface, but upon closer examination, and with advanced technology, we now know that isn’t how life works. We must abandon all beliefs based on this violent non-cooperative model.
We must avoid horrific apocalyptic movies and books that scare the life out of us because they transform our healthy cells to toxic cells. Besides, apocalypse simply means “change”, not annihilation. The Mayan prophesy about 12/21/2012 does not say the world as a planet will cease to be. It says “business as usual” will cease because a change is happening to consciousness in all of creation. We are even seeing U-Tube videos of animals who are normally enemies playing together. Could this be a fulfillment of Isaiah 11:6 which says “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child shall lead them.” This passage is thought to be a prophesy of the coming of a millenium of peace aka the New Heaven and the New Earth?
The implications of these new discoveries as to how life works are staggering, and put us in the driver’s seat instead of the trunk. Each of us is a mini-world. We are each a self-contained universe with 50 trillion cells in one body! Can you imagine? If each cell was a whole body they would fill 7,000 Earths. In addition to that, most every cell has its own nervous, digestive, respiratory, musculoskeletal, reproductive, and immune system!
Imagine each of us creating an environment of peace and cooperation; joining with other like-minded souls to create a tsunami to cleanse all toxic cells from the Earth. Can we do it in time? I believe we can. If it was impossible we wouldn’t be flooded with all this wild, wonderful and enlightening information. I say, let’s believe we can. We can start by acting “as if” it is possible to make a quantum shift in consciousness on a universal scale. Let’s start today!
NOTE: Information for this article is from a new book Spontaneous Evolution, Our Positive Future (and a way to get there from here) by Bruce H. Lipton and Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda
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FROM GRATITUDE TO GRACE November 21, 2009
Posted by cosmicsandbox in Religious commentary, Spiritual Transformation.Tags: Devil, God, Grace, Gratitude, Scripture, Thanksgiving
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There is an immense and profound connection between having an attitude of gratitude and being a recipient of grace. November is the season during which we are encouraged to focus on being thankful for all our blessings. However, at this time in history, as well as the period of the first thanksgiving in America, there was very little for which to be thankful. In the first thanksgiving many had died and living conditions were extremely harsh. Today, many have also died from war, disease, destitution and despair, and living conditions for millions are extremely grim.
Yet, we are encouraged or even admonished in Scripture to be thankful in the midst of trials and tribulations. “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I Thessalonians 5:18.The key word in this scripture is IN everything, not FOR everything. There is a big difference between feeling gratitude in painful situations and being thankful for the situation itself. It isn’t impossible, but it takes a little longer to be able to get a larger perspective.
Confusion about gratitude stems from of Judeo-Christian traditions that taught we should be grateful for everything in our lives because it all comes through a loving God. However, in reality, we don’t believe it. Most wrestle with the huge contradiction of a loving God allowing tragedy in our lives, and then expecting our gratitude for it. So then in addition to feeling confused, we feel guilty because we can’t or won’t comply with the commandment.
The conflict in understanding the true purpose of the commandment to be grateful in all things stems from the mistaken belief that light and dark, good and bad are mutually exclusive and separate realities; and therefore, only light and good things come from God who is also light and goodness. The dark and bad things come from the Devil, who is dark and bad. It follows naturally for our minds to conclude that if we are grateful in or for bad things, we are aligning with and empowering the Devil.
However, many scriptures in the Old and New Testament of the Bible refute this line of thinking. They refer to God as being One, including the light and the dark, the good and the bad. God told Moses, “…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore, choose life; that both you and your seed may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19 Choosing life would be a no-brainer one would think. However, humanity has been stumbling over it for 4,000 years because most people can’t wrap their heads around God allowing the dark and sad aspects of life.
Here is where it becomes crucial that we understand the bigger picture of the underlying purpose of the principle. Because if we don’t; we stay locked in a destructive belief system that keeps us cut off from grace; and therefore, victimized by every difficult situation. God’s plan out of this dilemma is that we go through tribulation via gratitude IN all things, which activates divine grace to transform our understanding of the trial. Only through the experience of grace can we understand that “all things work together for good to them that love God and are the called according to his purposes.” Romans 8:28
Without grace bestowed through gratitude, the world does indeed become a living hell. We writhe in a state of chaos and confusion, continually asking “Why?” Our reasoning mind believes we can find a reason for everything. But reality is too complex for simplistic answers. We must trust there is an unseen purpose for each seemingly random act. Ultimately the reason for everything is our understanding that through gratitude, which activates the experience of grace, we can know whatever happens is for our instruction and edification to bring us into an intimate relationship with the All One/God.
We take the first step in faith by being grateful in our trial, and the Spirit of Grace infuses the situation transforming it from darkness and death into light and life. Immediately we have turned the corner and we aren’t fueling the curse anymore. Gratitude opens the spout where the grace comes out. It is the experience of the grace that fills and lifts us, transforming the dark matter in our hearts to light.