{"id":1450,"date":"2016-03-07T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesonline.org\/triciablog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2016-03-07T03:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T03:55:21","slug":"mar-6-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2016\/03\/07\/mar-6-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 3-6-16 New World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cOnce you are blissful of your own nature your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness.\u00a0 That is the shift that needs to happen in every life.\u201d ~ Sadhguru<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/momblog.jank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/World-in-human-hands.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1454\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/momblog.jank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/World-in-human-hands-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"World in human hands\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciabatessmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/World-in-human-hands.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciabatessmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/World-in-human-hands.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciabatessmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/World-in-human-hands.jpg?w=693&amp;ssl=1 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHappy Sunday!<br \/>\nWednesday morning, soon after waking up, I read through my emails as I try to do each morning. I get spiritual messages for the day from some of my favorite teachers, I get heath advice from two top holistic doctors, and I get local and national headlines from Google and Yahoo.\u00a0 Yahoo gives me the national headlines. As I read through the top headlines for 3-2-16 I said to myself,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cI have woken up to a new world this morning!\u201d<br \/>\nHere is a sample of the headlines I read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vatican newspaper praises \u201cSpotlight\u201d the Oscar winning film about probe into crimes by priests.<\/li>\n<li>New Jersey newspapers call on Christie to resign.<\/li>\n<li>Alabama pastor locks congregation out of church for questioning his finances.<\/li>\n<li>Journalist embarrasses lawmaker who doesn\u2019t know how abortion works<\/li>\n<li>Super Tuesday bringing super meltdown to Republican party<\/li>\n<li>Catholic Church\u2019s disapproval boosts Girl Scout donations<\/li>\n<li>Religiously unaffiliated Americans are the new powerhouse political bloc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was so taken with the spontaneity of my reaction that I even went down to tell Peter my impression of the morning.<br \/>\nMy mind recalled a talk I went to a couple of years back when I saw Carolyn Myss speak at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen benefit. She called this time we live in \u2018the age of light\u2019, declaring it began with the splitting of the atom. Her perception was that everything now changes at light speed, that we need internet and email for communications to keep up with the pace of changes. She spoke about how in the last decade we have seen the destruction of every social structure we have relied upon in society. The economy revealed itself as broken when the banks failed to secure our finances; with this came the loss of job security.\u00a0 The old idea of family has changed with the high rates of divorce and the acceptance of same sex marriage. There are no firm boundaries to gender and sexuality anymore. Myths about proper means of health and nutrition are day by day being scrutinized and dismantled returning us to natural behavior over corporate manipulation.<br \/>\nOn this day the headlines showed to me that the two arenas that have caused the most pain to societies, political ideologies and religious affiliations have lost their hold on the masses.<br \/>\nSheep no more!<br \/>\nThis morning I watched a wonderful lesson \u201cCircus of the Mind\u201d by Sadhguru on Youtube (with the video heading \u201cwhat\u2019s happening in our mind\u201d). He was speaking about how what we identify with traps us. He spoke of the intellect as a great tool that evolution developed in humanity but we have made it a source of suffering. He related the intellect to a scalpel, when clean it cuts through the physical realm to bring us understanding. When we identify ourselves with aspects of our physical-ness it is like the scalpel is dirty and no longer gives us a clear cut of understanding \u2013 we lose clarity because our identifications alter our perception of the Truth of Life.<br \/>\nI think we are all learning to drop our identification with aspects of society as we see, and suffer through, the failing of promises made to secure us in comfort and stability.<br \/>\nWhy should we identify with a religion when it no longer provides answers and security for ourselves and our children?<br \/>\nWhy should we identify with our nation when the candidates chosen don\u2019t represent our views? Or, when after we have elected them they chose to bend to political or lobbyest pressure and forget about us?<br \/>\nIt would be nice to think that we are all on the road to spiritual enlightenment. No I don\u2019t think the political climate is due to the voting of enlightened beings \u2026 but I think a change is happening.<br \/>\nThere are cracks in all the pillars of society that we have been able to hide God from our awareness. I am thinking of the movie \u201cI am\u201d right now along with the book \u201cIshmael\u201d by Daniel Quinn. These stories were first steps for me toward my awakening. When you start to see through what you thought were the solid and secure things in your reality you have to ask \u201cis there more to this world?\u201d<br \/>\nI think we are going through a change in the psyche of humanity. I wrote on 12-27-15 about Michael Beckwith describing the four stages of spiritual development.\u00a0 The first stage in victim where we believe we are at the mercy of the physical world around us. The second stage is the manifestor where we realize there is more to life then the physical and that we are creators of our reality \u2013 we realize we reap what we sow.<br \/>\nFrom the dark ages through current times we believed what leaders told us, whether they were Popes, priests, Kings, dictators, presidents, or corporate moguls. They told us what we needed to do to survive; we believed and yet we still died under their direction. Today we do more than just survive (and die), we have the opportunity to seek out happiness. We\u2019ve had more than a century of living above the level of survival; long enough to realize the things our leaders tell us will make us happy do not do so.<br \/>\nWe seek more.<br \/>\nI see that society is changing. I think we are no longer sheep as we are starting to take on the responsibility of happiness for ourselves, which we fail at. Yes we have more broken relationships, more addictions, and more violence because of our seeking happiness our own way \u2013 no longer listening to some organizational leadership that we identify with.<br \/>\nIt is change. It is difficult, but it is a better way. The only way to God is the individual journey within. We could never get there following a group mentality as each individual needs to find that Love and Peace only exists within themselves.<br \/>\nWhen we look back to the dark ages, yes there were Saints but they were outside of the norms of the culture. They took a path that was different from the masses of people the Church oversaw. And, when they came to enlightenment, the Church isolated them from the masses of common people.<br \/>\nFor most people it takes suffering, failing, and a reckoning to break-through the false belief systems to start to ask the big questions: Who am I? Is there more to life?<br \/>\nWhen Michael Beckwith spoke of the transition from victim to manifestor he said the tool for transformation is forgiveness. We each have to learn to open our hearts.<br \/>\nMany hearts have to break to soften the world. I see that change happening in society. I have spoken many times about the change in the TV programs, and the change in our language. People now regularly speak of being whole-hearted, vulnerable, kind, and compassionate. We are braver to call out the bullies. TV shows and books that are compassionate and expressive of the heart are doing well. I see these as the signs that the heart of humanity has cracked open. It is not just the mind of society that has a say anymore but the heart is also beginning to speak.<br \/>\nWhen we stop identifying with a group because they have failed us, and we have sought happiness in the world around us and it too has let us down, we invariably turn to God.<br \/>\nWhen the false idols of this world have been revealed, our hearts are raw from heartbreak, our ego subdued by failure, and all physical solutions ineffective, then we can finally fathom that there may be another way to be. We can ask for help. We can go within to find peace. We can realize we get to choose how to be.<br \/>\nOne by one we will get there.<br \/>\nIndividually we transform our understanding of Self only to find that God has employed so many to help us along. \u2018<br \/>\nLove and well-being waits on the other side for each of us and for all of us together. All That Is contains all of us.<br \/>\nNamaste\u2019<br \/>\n<em>\u201cSalvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last.\u00a0 It cannot but be kept.\u201d ~ Lesson 231, ACIM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce you are blissful of your own nature your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness.\u00a0 That is the shift that needs to happen in every life.\u201d ~ Sadhguru Happy Sunday! 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