To those of you who come here for the updates, this
one is long, but I feel it is worth the time it will take
to read. Thank you all for your continued interest in this
work.
ON CATERPILLARS
AND CONSCIOUSNESS
June
2009 Update
This
is an insight that was 20 years in the unfoldment. I am
guided
to share it with you because it is relevant to what is happening
to
the planet right now.
(And if it is happening to the planet, it is affecting you
as well.)
When I do readings, one of the most asked questions
is:
'What can I do to make a difference?' I hope this entry
will
answer that question for those who read it.
Almost 20 years ago when I was first awakened, some non-physical
beings began showing up in my living room each evening.
They gave me a set of basic principles, and told me that
if I
lived my life with these principles as the focus, I could
achieve
my own enlightenment. The principles that apply to this
particular discussion are:
~You are a microcosm of the macrocosm. If you come to understand
the workings of your physical body, you will
understand as well the workings of all of creation.
~Truth Is. That which is true will always be True at all
levels and layers of your understanding. As your understanding
grows, a principle that is True will not then become something
that is NOT true. If it does, then it was not really Truth
in the first place.
For the next year and a half, I was given an intense, accelerated
course in Spirituality and what I later discovered were
ancient Wisdom Teachings. How the process would work is
I would be given a seed thought. I knew a thought was a
seed thought when it would repeat in my head until I recognized
it as such. Then I would spend the next span of time pondering
the seed thought in light of the principles I'd been given.
Sometimes I would be asked to read on certain topics, and
then I would run that topic through the principles. This
would often ultimately lead to an insight, an awareness,
an expansion of my consciousness.
During a time when I was learning about the levels of consciousness,
I was asked to read about the life cycle of the caterpillar.
I argued that it had no bearing on my current course
of study on consciousness. Again I clearly heard: 'Read
on the life cycle of the caterpillar.' So I did, and applied
that information to what I understood about consciousness.
I had already formulated a working model of consciousness
that looked something like this:
There are three levels of consciousness on the planet at
this time. A being is either Asleep, Awake, or Aware.
Level I (Asleep) are those who have
their attention firmly focused on the material plane. Their
work, their worldly possessions, making their mark on the
world. The pursuit of fortune and prestige occupy their
lives. They are not aware that there is anything more to
this life than that.
Level II (Awake) are those who have come to a place where
they acknowledge that something is missing, or that there
has
to be something more to this world and this life than just
acquiring things.
Level III (Aware) are those who are focused on the development
of their spiritual understanding, and who are determined
to express the fullest potential of their Soul into this
dimension
despite the distractions of the material plane.
When I finished the reading assignment, I discovered that
the information about the caterpillar was indeed relevant,
that I could draw parallels to our existence, and that there
were other aspects of the information that could be applied
to the process of what many call Ascension.
The caterpillar stage correlates with the Asleep level of
consciousness on the planet.
All a caterpillar wants to do is eat and look for more to
eat. We live in a consumption-oriented society, kind of
like caterpillars.
The chrysalis stage is very much a parallel to the Awake
state of consciousness. Things in the life of the caterpillar
undergo serious change.
The butterfly stage is equivalent to the Aware state of
consciousness. The butterfly is so unlike its caterpillar
counterpart the two are virtually strangers.
A couple of things to note here:
1. The caterpillar, though not conscious of its own butterfly
potential, contains within its body the pattern for its
perfected Self (the butterfly). I find the name given to
this group of cells quite interesting. It's called the IMAGINAL
DISC. (Imaginal-Imagination...)
2. During the chrysalis stage of development, the caterpillar's
body liquefies and is reconstituted into the butterfly form.
The 'Awake' stage of the human transformational process
is also difficult sometimes. It's not necessarily your body
that disintegrates, but often your life will. Friends drop
away, jobs change, moves often take place. Sometimes even
family relationships change.
Now, it is through the activation of the cells of the caterpillar's
imaginal disc that the process of butterfly Becoming begins.
I came to understand that we also each contain a similar
set of encodements for our OWN perfected Selves, and that
when it is in alignment with our individual timing, these
encodements are activated and the process of our butterfly
Becoming begins.
We are all unique individuals, so the particulars of the
process vary from person to person. When the activation
occurs, how long the process takes, even whether there is
an activation at all are different for each one of us. And
the wild card of free will is definitely in play as well.
I'd thought I had grasped the full extent of what Spirit
was trying to teach me about this concept of how consciousness
develops, and based upon where I was in my journey, I had.
Remember I told you earlier that there were two of the principles
that applied here? (See above) Well, here's the REST of
the story:
About seven years ago, I began to give a talk entitled The
Planet is Ascending, and so are You. It synthesized a lot
of the information I'd gathered and many of the insights
I'd come to into a comprehensive picture of what my understanding
is of this process we are experiencing. I would always tell
the story of the caterpillar and would do a guided activation
meditation. The message was always the same: do not worry,
you do have a mission, a purpose, a contribution to make.
Work on becoming YOUR butterfly self, and you will accelerate
your personal spiritual growth.
I made this presentation quite often in the early part of
this decade. Haven't given it for a few years, and recently
had the opportunity to speak before a group of people in
Kansas City. I had been away from the material for awhile,
so I took time to review the material to refamiliarize myself
with it. I was able to look at it with fresh eyes, and it
came to me to apply the original insight (that we each contain
within our bodies the pattern of our own perfected selves)
to the planetary level: the mass consciousness. I had not
yet begun to work with the mass consciousness when this
was first brought to me, my focus was the expansion and
development of my individual consciousness; therefore, the
microcosm/macrocosm principle was only taken to the level
of individual self-development.
At the presentation, I shared my newly realized theory that
each of us that is awake actually constitutes a cell in
the planetary imaginal disc. We are working towards the
activation of the butterfly self of the planetary mass consciousness
as we strive to achieve our own butterfly-ness. This awareness
added a whole new dimension to the message about the importance
of doing the spiritual work necessary to achieve that level
of consciousness: Awareness.
I was excited to have come to understand this level of Truth
about the original concept I'd been shown so many years
ago.
Well, after the talk, I couldn't seem to get the information
off my mind. Then one day a couple of weeks later, I had
the flash of a vision I'd been shown in those early days.
It's not important to share the vision itself, but what
that prompted me to do is to think even bigger about the
concept. So I did.
Applying the principles, I came to an awareness that what
is happening with Earth at this time is actually the activation
of a Cosmos-level imaginal disc, and the Earth is the disc.
So it is not just the mass consciousness that we are working
to ignite, it is the imaginal disc of an even greater awakening.
When I spoke about this to another group a few weeks later,
I got the gooseflesh that usually indicates I am on the
right path with a concept.
Can I prove this? Not from where I am sitting right now.
Can I feel the Truth of what I am telling you? Yes. Because
Truth Is.
