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September 2009 
EvLog on Worldview, self-evaluation, and the 100th monkey
Alan
Monday, 8.55 AM.
I have not yet meditated.
This morning I’m thinking about worldview theory… to some extent it’s my own theory, cobbled together from some other ideologies as well as life experience and a certain degree of personal research. It started before I awoke, and probably helped to wake me. The central idea is there’s a very, very strong link between one’s identity, one’s beliefs, and one’s experience of life… indeed, these three things are nearly inseparable.
On part of worldview theory goes, “You are the experience of your life. In X second, you are the experience of X second.”
This theory works wonderfully with the Law of Attraction (the universal one, not “the secret” version). As our thoughts, belief and desires--fundamentally our worldviews-- burst about in our brains, it is they that are attracting what energies and actualities will comprise our future. Therefore, your “present” experience is in large part the manifestation of the sum total of your “past” worldviews (as worldview is the sum-total of thoughts, desires and beliefs).
To a degree then, it could be said I believe that most people are at the mercies of their pasts, but in a very different way than they themselves are likely to believe.
Interestingly, with the awakening, or kundalini experience, to a degree one is granted a fresh start… meaning, it is entirely possible to see the course one is set on via old worldviews, and, given the co-creative power of the mind and understanding of the nature of the oneness of all things, it is also possible to change course.
This is why I fundamentally believe that “the way” for this planet to heal must require the awakening of a major portion of earth’s human children, for if the future of earth is comprised in any real way of the sum-total of all human worldviews, than to change human worldviews is to change the future. The hundredth monkey scenario, in which the actions of a small group via resonance instantly and irrevocably impact the larger community, must indeed be activated for all of us, by those of us capable of activating a world awake.
I also believe that the higher our resonance is (in terms of our “light,” I mean) the more capacity we have to affect this necessary change.
This gives me and the world, I suppose, some context for my current journey. To very real degree it is a co-creation of my channeling (direct connection with universal superconsciousness) and my own very tended mental garden of thought.
Today is a day for evaluation I believe. Often there are moments when self-checking is necessary, this is one of them. Self-checking can be scary… for the possibility of change is there, or of letting go of some long-held or dear belief. Still, the state of non-attachment, right and necessary for the awake to cultivate, must really be applied with the most stringency to those memes which co-create the future… worldviews, given their attractive power, must be stringently tested, retested, checked and rechecked. With love, not doubt, with faith and hope, not fear or the possibility of a sense of failure or inadequacy.
It’s funny, it’s been a matter of months for me but this worldview checking has almost become automatic. I figure: why wait for a big event to happen before asking oneself if one, by virtue of misunderstanding or negative thinking, is attracting an undesirable future? I believe that whether we know it or not we are in constant dialogue with the universe itself, and in that dialogue, if we attract signals we can understand about the nature of our understanding and direction, we will get them. Myself, at every small or large moment which has the possibility of doubt, I check in with the universe quickly, and these days almost always receive a green light. With a green light, I go right ahead, firm as I can be in the knowledge that I go in the right direction.
Still, although my doubt is minimal compared to what it is in my past, I still have room for growth on the doubt vs. faith paradigm. May I continue to grow.
Overall, the universe tells me, I must have faith in my worldview, for every day, it becomes a worldview that is successively larger than “me.”
And so I go forward on my merry way, with my understanding that the universe must be what it is… and it is as it must be, beautifully, perfectly.
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It’s so good to know we are on the same path, the same team. It’s a heavy load sometimes trying to get people to see the possibilities of this world and hold that view prominently in their mind’s eye, then the beauty is what dominates your thinking and your living and yes, more and more opportunities to be there sneak up on you.
My particular nuttiness has been to be positive and hopeful despite everyone else being grim and bitter and hopeless about the world… but I take the ‘Be the change…’ thing seriously and I’ve stuck at it. It’s been working, I am thankful to say, and it does look like more and more people are coming around, thank Goodness! Perhaps more of us are ready to speak out now…
Whatever it is, it is time for the Shift, the Mental Shift to take hold. My example here… http://sherrilene.gaia.com/blog/2008/4/where_do_you_find_beauty
For anyone interested, I’d also like to recommend a great book entitled ‘Good News for a Change’ by Suzuki and Dressel, which I am poring through presently and which is all about great things that mankind is already engaged in and that presently we can build upon… like NOW!
My world view, it’s my source of working energy. I encourage a beautiful, exciting one, to keep us all going, for the cause.
Much love to all once again. sherri
i am with you both on heightening the resonance and awakening - it has to be the path, it just makes sense - unless we are awake in our lives and attuned and following our bliss, life just grinds us… love to you both
This is why I fundamentally believe that “the way” for this planet to heal must require the awakening of a major portion of earth’s human children, for if the future of earth is comprised in any real way of the sum-total of all human worldviews, than to change human worldviews is to change the future.
Bravo man…bring em to me… :)
And THANK GOD their are peeps like Sherri with the…be positive no matter what …coz some of us get a bit…..grumpy bout it all, sometimes :)
Thanks Janie, and in fact, you are one of the most positively energised energy workers I have met, so please pat yourself on the back now! I feel connection to the 'next generation' quite strongly as well… it is THEIR vision [of the world, that is] we're playing with. And so I keep thinking of the manner to communicate to adults who can't seem to get their 'things' straight… who's gonna teach the children when the parents are kinda mis-educated? A bit unnerving, but I remain hopeful. Common sense has got to kick in sometime… sooner than later I pray… please join me in this also. New world view… wise adults. : ) Here we go! Love sherri
Yeah, I do the same thing on world views. Always checking. never being afraid to let them go–or so I think. Slowly though. but…if we are doing this work constantly, it's better than ignoring it all together. So…I really think you are so wise there–and yes, in many other areas too.
On experience as a determinant of world view.
I've always seen that experience is one part of the equation. There's experience and what we do WITH that experience, and I just wanted to mention this cause it wasn't mentioned. What do we make OF it? our interpretation and analysis of it. In that way, the same lesson doesn't need to hit us over the head a thousand times before 'trial and error' finally causes our surrender. So, yes world views are a function of experience. But…I'm sure you'll agree that what we DO with our experiences ranges VERY broadly. And that taps into our rational mind, AND intuition–where I believe you focus more.
As you know, I've escaped a lot of that damn doubt too recently. Those questioning periods of just what it is that we know can be very tough, but they are so important to strengthening our faith. Like I've always felt about the Bible. i thought in reverse of what the concensus did. That my faith actually expanded as I questioned its world view it wanted to imprint on me.
Some musings on doubt as I wonder a lot about it. Hopefully I don't come off as pedantic. I think as a teacher that is almost impossible!!!! it is possible our doubt serves a very useful function. But…overwhelms us. If we regularly engage in questioning, we are fortifying our truth and dealing with our blind spots, weaknesses, issues, etc, we end up with a more solid understanding and ultimately more global confidence (decided to not so much use the word 'faith'. WAY too loaded). So ultimately, as I suspect, we continue to question, but the WORRY that eminates from the thing called 'doubt' ceases. and THAT is the issue. Doubt is fine. But when we end up with a very strong understanding, 'doubt' the worrying sort I thing tends to diminish. The worry may, or may NOT be there for something critical. A subconscious or even unconscious 'intuitive' signal. OR a part of our karmic BS. It's usually one or the other, if it is the fretting sort.
In my case, as many of the illusions get cast away, i realize there's a lot to learn. I have a lot of catching up to do because of the years of being asleep. So…awakened, to a small degree, I have become activited. That means that now I have to do painful work too, to pull of the ****ing roots of some nasty weeds, crabgrass, etc. maybe even rearange the sprinklers, etc. I'm planting fresh sod and going to, henceforth, take better care of it. To tend to the garden. With a greater and growing awareness, it should be more clean and pure and the 'defilements' removed–to SOME degree. The doubts should be shed to some degree and just simple living, the outcome. But…we've been asleep for some time. This radical change is bound to be a bit tricky, painful, and 'interesting'
peace, peace, peace
clyde
Clyde,
Yep, yep, yep… etc…
: D
You raise a good point, our choice, in a very very large way, is comprised of what we do with our experience. In an existance in which experience and worldview are in constant dialogue, as you bring up, they do indeed influence eachother, in a circle…
And this for a while has been a key component of my “experimentation…” in life and experience and consciousness itself! For to change one's worldview is to change one's experience, and with the new experience, we can adjust our worldview… bringing us closer (in theory, and I'm finding, practice) to that which we desire… therein lies the magic door lurking in the minds and existances of all of us… may we all walk through!!
And yes, if we look at life from this perspective, doubt really only teaches us not to change only… and change is the nature of our existances, so doubt rather mis-teaches us, doesn't it??
(on a side note, I'm hoping to tackle two rather important lengthy emails I've been letting simmer in my in-box… : )
And here's a smile for janie:
:-D
hi janie! ;-)
I think the doubt is just telling us we're incomplete. It's NOT just an affect of our weakness. in other words, it's serving a positive function. “Pay attention to me, pay attention to me!” It says. I think it may come from a tendency to focus on the positive without looking at all perspectives and all aspects of a problem. For example, the doubt that arises as we attach to things and the clinging that causes that irrational behavior. if we were to take the most mature approach, and I'll only speak for myself here, I fail on this, we'd realize the impermance of things and find a way to 'attach' in ways which were NOT over dependent or clingy. The doubt is just a signal there's something perhaps underdeveloped. NOT simply as a matter of human frailty. Anyhow, is it possible that doubt serves a positive function? I know in spiritual circles it is treated as a demon, weakness, and frailty. Perhaps it is merely a signal TO our frailty, and not the frailty itself.
I can see where doubt can cause us to cling to common world views and the conventional, no doubt. But…if listened to, it more than likely, I feel, leads us to just the things we should be working on. In that sense, AS grand as faith, until doubt self liberates from the overwhelming tipping point of the enlargment of 'faith'. doubt then takes on the form of a regular practice of seeing things in an open way from all perspectives without fear of the consequence of the outcome of our discoveries about self, other, or the world.
no sweat on the emails. Whenever. It seems to be a fine running dialogue.
As you can see, i feel this whole 'faith' issue is critical. And must be understood with doubt. ALSO….in conjunction with positive energy, depression, etc. That which lights our universe and allows us to keep touch with the most remote areas of our psyche OR the universe.
cheers to you Alan
clyde
Two smiles I adore, thx, backatcha :) :)
I was listening to the universe and it says, no doubt I get to go buy a hula hoop tomorrow, if they don't find a plane for me to go to China on. :)
Hey Clyde, I was invited to your neighborhood again early next month. Maybe I'll see ya then. But don't move your sprinklers around too much, I think ya do a nice job of takin care of your garden. Alan, universe is working on getting me to Barbados, and says to tell ya to sing a song to Sherri and all. GREAT now I have to do it toooooo AHHHHHH not again! ;-)
Clyde:
All our life is just a road we walk…
So lets say you come to a fork in the road, three directions. Call them A, B, and C.
And you can only make one decision.
In my new-ish way of thinking, I could stand at that point and think: “A seems risky…” All I like, but that really won't get me closer to making a decision. In the end, even if I negate A, what I'm really doing, is in positive saying: “B, or C.”
Therefore, it's quicker just to go “B, or C.”
Doubt is at best there a useless step. Especially because is doubt ever sure of itself? Not mine…
All mine ever did was waste my time and will while keeping me there wondering if what I knew was true– chances are, my instincts were saying “go on path A,” which is the whole reason I was saying: “A seems risky…”
And there I would be in self-conflict that would cause me to waste all my time and energy.
Just my 2 cents on the matter…
And Janie–
Here's hoping you can get over to china………. !!!!
Anyway I know you are there in spirit, which probably is saying alot. I have been too.
'The sage is full of anxiety and indecision in undertaking anything, and so he is always successful' Chuang Tzu
Otherwise put 'Self-doubt is a part of the human condition'
We all face it; ultimately it will be the matter of what is most important… ideally you don't place right or wrong, i.e. judgment, self recrimination, expectations, attachments, on your choice.
Whatever you choose will be just the way you are to. Just trust you…
Wishing everyone a great evening. sherri