GAME TIME

Two great motions are simultaneously occurring. We, Planet Earth, are leaving and arriving. We are leaving the Piscean era, in which the dominant energies were Intelligence and one pointed focus, and entering the Aquarian era in which the dominant energies are Will, Love, and Manifestation. On a much larger “time” scale we are exiting the Kali Yuga Letters on Occult Meditation P. 353, and entering the Satya Yuga, Agni Yoga #511, Infinity 1, #16

Both of these motions have been going on simultaneously, in the case of the Piscean and Aquarian ages, probably for 4 or 5 centuries. In the larger case, well, a Yuga is an Age. The Kali Yuga or “black age” was 432,000 years. Who knows when its dominance began to give way to the Golden Age or the Satya Yuga?

In the Piscean and Aquarian case, the process is greatly accelerating. Almost daily now, we are being faced with worldwide politically driven upheavals and assorted atrocities. Although painful and horrible as they are, such events throughout history, even though what progress was achieved was shortly wiped out, have always been indicators of Evolution. They are indicators of and offer opportunities for significant change. (Think of the appearance of Jesus/Christ and the short time, 200 or so years, it took the Retrogressive forces to undo or cover up much of the message He brought. Or, for a more current example, look at what has been and is being done to various segments of our “Democracy” in the United States in just 2.5 years.)

The upcoming elections in the United States are the doorway to such meaningful and significant change. They offer, not another tired ride around the merry-go-round of half-way/no-way effect changes, but a serious opportunity to upgrade the consciousness of our Government. As long as the government is in the hands of “the self-crowned ignoramuses the frigidity of the Stone Age still prevails.” Infinity 1#16

I know that many, many of you are living in other parts of the One Earth, and of course, most of us realize that the boundaries which we use to designate various nations are quite meaningless in the reality of the fact that we all live in a synthesized energy field we call Earth. We know that what happens to our children, ourselves, the attacks on our liberty and justice anywhere in this unified system, happens to all of us. Also, any good we can cause to happen anywhere is ultimately good for all of us.

The One Force of Brotherhood, Reason, and Common Sense, that includes all of us, is highly engaged in preventing this from happening. And we are certain that we will prevail. However, as we have learned in centuries of struggle with these forces, the very best defense is a very good offense. Also, as we know from the painful experience, in the last 200 years, sitting around being holy and “spiritual” does not work.

The Cosmic Law of Tactica Adversa guarantees that offensive reaction. Its presence is signified by the free will of Humans to manifest it. The time for half-way efforts, or for asking, or praying, or paying for aid or help left with the Piscean Age.

Armageddon is Game Time.  What we have to work with is not our intelligence, although there is nothing wrong with a little intelligence, it is our hearts, our Love. It is our ability to Think.

Warriors of Light

The real struggle is on an entirely higher plane than the dense physical, which, as we well know, is only an effect of what happens on the lower mental and emotional planes of the infinite Cosmos. We are warriors. We possess certain skills that we have developed over many campaigns in undoubtedly many incarnations in this ancient struggle. We know Why, When and How to think. And, we understand that “the word is the pedal of thought—that each word is a thunder-bearing arrow.” New Era Community #47

We realize that there is One Planet. We get that we are the One Humanity, and that there is no “off the net”.

We understand to a good degree what kind of life is sustainable for everyone. We can tell the difference between what fosters the growth of the common good and what kills it. We understand that creation that sustains can come only through the Heart. “Only from the heart center can stream, in reality, those lines of energy which link and bind together.” Discipleship in the New Age I P.87

By the way, I suppose that everyone has already figured out that Thinking is Loving. It’s what we do. We used to call it meditation. Now it’s called Service. It is daily living consciously. It is being informed and consciously, deliberately (nothing wrong with a little 6^th ray either) thinking or (another way of looking at Love), Empowering ideas or Images of Truth through conscious, deliberate action on whatever plane that works for the mission.

“That a situation is without solution is only imagined by those who would rely on other people rather than upon the power of their own thought. Grief experienced by others flows like the ripples of a stream; but the images of Truth, which you call ideas, rule the karma of the world. It is astonishing to see how images of Truth participate in the spatial battle. While the multitudes disintegrate in a blind fury of ignorance and betrayal, the thoughts of Truth weave their heavenly nests, which for real evolution are far more vital than any worship by entire nations. Agni Yoga #122

It’s actually a 24/7 thing. I mean, what is going on when we are sleeping? Units of Consciousness do not sleep.

Tom Carney

July 12, 2019

TOO FAR LEFT?

This has been the sophistic cry of retrogression from the beginning. Evolution is an unavoidable driver of Life on this Planet. Just look around. The Planet has been evolving for many eons longer than our illusionary one dimensional vision which passes for science can even imagine.

Evolution cannot be stopped any more than the sun can be prevented from rising.  However, there are those whose ignorance, in spite of Plato’s best efforts, has kept them immersed in the cave of one dimension. And there are those leftovers from the first System, to whom we refer as the Retrogressors, who work tirelessly with great intelligence and cunning to foster the Great Lie of illusion.

These dark ones manipulate the ignorant ones. With illusions of gaining personal power and wealth, They keep the ignorant ones in slaved. They stoke the desires of greed, the worship of grandiosity and the illusions of ownership of Kingdoms.  All this in the effort to stop or at least slowdown the inevitable manifestation of Life, Liberty and freedom for All.

Our boundaries are not RIGHT and LEFT. They are Illusion and Reality, or Chaos and Beauty, or Evil and Good. There is no Too Far Left. We cannot get too Beautiful, or too Good, or too Real.

Every effort to reach for something better for Humanity and the Planet, needs to be all out. There is no half-way. There are no baby steps.

Caution is not fear. Caution is the bedrock of progress. It has nothing to do with halfway efforts. Halfway is the hand of the retrogressor in the glove of the coward.

Caution is the wisdom in the heart of the courageous. Caution has everything to do with the willingness to face and overcome obstacles of ignorance and chaos with every ounce of everything we have. Courage is that without which nothing else is possible!

Under the present dominant systems of capitalism, of the exclusive ownership and manipulation of just about everything for the exclusive benefits of the super wealthy few, the large percentage of humans are literally being murdered in wars, starved to death, and deprived of basic human rights such as a home in which to live, education and healthcare.

This system has been maintained by, greed, murder, theft, and lies for centuries. It’s like a rotten melon ready to burst.

All we have to do is go as far as we can go toward Equality and Liberty for All. The time is not tomorrow or maybe next year. It is Now.        

Conscious Government

Loss of the true significance of concepts has contributed much to contemporary savagery. People strew pearls about like sand. Verily, it is time to replace many definitions. New Era community #47

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

As we know, from the beginning of our long evolutional journey virtually all of the actual word language that we have to use for trying to move Principles and Ideas from the formless realms of Cosmos into intelligently comprehendible thoughtforms have been grossly distorted. This distortion is the result of our intelligent one dimensional separative identification with our brains and consequently the lower physical planes of our planet.

Vehicles of Truth

These words or thoughtforms which we so casually throw around are actually the dense vehicles of the majestic concepts of Truth or Cosmic Physics. This distortion is most obvious, of course, in the usage of words such as Life, Beauty, Love, Justice, Freedom, etcetera. These terms have been rendered practically meaningless by the superficial application or use for every passing emotion or thought regardless of how banal.

“Life” is probably the most trashed word in the language. A close second, frequently not even noted in this group, is the word “Consciousness”. Consciousness is commonly defined as the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings, or the awareness or perception of something by a person, and this includes the fact of awareness by the “mind” (which is another grossly distorted word) and has been reduced to a function of the dense physical brain.

All of these “definitions” are based in the delusion that consciousness is a condition of being alive, which means that a dense physical body is able to breathe and beat its heart. Consciousness is assumed to be something that can only exist within a “live” human being. Dead means not conscious. “Consciousness”, again largely because of Humanity’s delusional identification with its dense physical body, is a term that is not just “misunderstood”, Consciousness is not understood at all.

That the dense physical planes of Cosmos manifest, that they do so in an infinite diversity of forms, from radio waves to Galaxies is obvious. However the identification of one’s self as being a form, is perhaps the most basic blockage to Reality that individual humans must overcome. This situation is what is referred to as the Great Lie. It is the delusion that we are our bodies.

The Path of Evolution

The efforts and struggles to overcome the challenges this delusion generates are essentially the content of the Path of Evolution. Through—who knows how many— repeated incarnations and a scientific process which is called “Experiment, experience and expression” The Rays and the Initiations p. 337—we finally arrive at a point in some incarnation where we have launched an experiment, and had a resulting experience that opens a door, maybe just a crack, but it is enough for us to have an experience of realizing that we are more than our bodies. That “more” is Consciousness.

The Path of Probation

Eventually we actually accept that Reality and begin to try to live it. This period of our evolution from ignorance to Wisdom is aptly named the path of Probation. As we all know from experiment, experience and expression, this path is like spending lives riding Kingda Ka. However, what we finally get is conscious.

Consciousness is not “the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings”. We have been awake and aware of our surroundings for many, many incarnations. We have mostly always thought we were mortal objects. Every interface was, still is in most cases, instinctively and instantly evaluated for danger. Fight or flight was our number one response. We lived in fear of death, and totally separate from all other “things” of whatever kind.

A Point of Light

Consciousness is the realization that one is NOT one’s thing or any of the surrounding things but a quite detached, dispassionate, and discriminative individual unit of consciousness or, as it is known in the Ageless Wisdom, a Soul. In a word, we are consciousness. And as such we are “aware” of both our unique individual self and the unavoidable fact that we are simultaneously also “a point of light within a greater Light”. Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle p.197

When we realize that this process has been going forward for a very, very long time, certain kinds of phenomena become understandable, even expected. Evolution proceeds, and even a superficial look at the past 5000 years of recorded history will reveal that the speed at which evolution has progressed over the past 500 years is literally amazing. It is quite easy to see this acceleration in terms of dense physical areas such as transportation. We went from sailing ships which were used for untold thousands of years to deep space in 189 years. We went from the first telephone call in 1876 to an estimated 5.7 billion cell phones on the planet in 2016.

What is most striking but seldom considered is the speed of population growth. In 1500 there were an estimated 450,000,000 humans (units of consciousness) on the Planet. In 1974 there were approximately 4,000,000,000 people on the planet. By 2019 that number has almost doubled to 7,800,000,000.

It is reasonable to conclude that the evolution of “consciousness”, the realization that one is not any dense form, also expanded and accelerated. That means that a significant and steadily increasing number of those units of consciousness that were incarnating before and during these 400 or so years have achieved consciousness, at least on some level. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that a significant number of the units of consciousness that are in fact presently on the planet are Conscious, i.e. they “know” intuitively that they are not separated from others by the fact that they are in a body. They intuitively know that they are one with Humanity.

This does NOT necessarily mean that they think, “Hey, I am not my dense body. I am a soul or some sort of “spiritual” being”. In most cases, this is simply knowing. It is a previously achieved level of consciousness with which they incarnated. It is not something about which they have to process data. It simply makes sense. Any other conclusion seems ridiculous to them.

Conscious individuals are usually very much aware of others who see reality as they do. And they are well aware of the fact that many, if not most of the other humans see reality in a different way than they do. However this understanding does not generate disdain or a sense of separation. Such an attitude is simply not possible for a conscious person to harbor. Such attitudes are ignorance, unawareness, and a clear sign of an undeveloped consciousness.

Of course, there is growth and expansion on all levels of Consciousness, and for all of us the space between the steps was, time wise, lengthy. It takes a lot of experimenting, experiencing, and expressing to gradually get it Right.  Again, however, we need to understand that the path of evolution is a spiral. Nothing is lost, and every gain shortens the circumference and the length of time between the spirals. That’s what makes a spiral.

Conscious Government

So, we come to the point of this Thoughtline. Humanity has forever been evolving toward a Conscious Government. As the presence of conscious individuals increased on the planet, how we behaved or “governed” ourselves changed as well. For literally thousands of years, with an occasional exception here and there—during which exception we would  make significant progress which would be lost as the next aware, but non-conscious king gained power—Humanity was governed by non-conscious individuals who fostered the Great Illusion of separation.

Under the rule of these individuals most of our present governmental policies were developed. However, there were moments when a conscious individual would gain some measure of power or would be able to influence the direction of the unfolding and in this manner, consciousness by fits and bursts slowly but steadily evolved policies that were synchronous with Cosmic Physics.

Presently, the previously sophistically obfuscated fissure between the illusion of a separate, exclusive, and power driven reality and Reality has been forced once again into unavoidable visual manifestation by the frenetic and fanatic actions of the Retrogressive Forces. There was nothing like the Nazi invasion of Poland with 1.5 million troops in 1939 to get our attention. These present actions, by Retrogressive Forces are global and are being driven not just by occasional horrendous acts of brutal murder and dismemberment, but 24/7 by raving media of all kinds.

They are now, as then, designed to separate and depress people, and to engender fear and hatred between groups. The ancient goal has not changed. A self-designated super race wishes to own and control this planet.

“Verily, a great page! Verily, the Banner unfolds powerfully. Verily, when the world is in convulsion We intensify the forces of the higher means. But the front of opposition uses the lowest means. Therefore, the most powerful possibilities are being brought forth. Hence, Tactica Adversa is Our measure.” Infinity 2 #367

Literally billions of people all over the world have in the past 15 years been involved in protests of all kinds. These protests range from fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and movies, to musical lyrics and operas, photography and paintings of every kind from ten story murals to images on our cell phones along with a half dozen doing stand-ins, sit-ins, lie-ins, camp-ins, in the offices of reactionary politicians, to tens of millions marching in streets from small towns to the largest cities on the planet.

This is just the beginning of the Tactica Adversa response.

A much more powerful response is the sudden appearance of a group of 20 or so women and men candidates for the office of the President of the U.S. These twenty individuals have been physically campaigning all around the United States for the past several months. And, we have had many, many media opportunities to observe, and hear each of them in various settings speaking about their views on a number of policy issues, their vision for the Nation, and the planet, and the actions they would take if elected President of The United States.

Toward Synthesis

What is totally amazing about these 20 odd individuals is that while they all have individual styles, approaches, and opinions concerning priorities, there is a remarkable unity in the consciousness and basic values and visions for the Nation they each have. Together it does approach an expanding synthesis. Our Government is designed to be a government of, for, and by the People. While every human being has a free will, we are all just one. So the freewill of one cannot intrude on the free will of anyone else.

Some people are NOT more free than others. It is this simple fact that is utterly destroyed by the present retrogressive systems of the illusion of superiority, inferiority, separation. “All men are created Equal.”Declaration of Independence

We need a government of conscious individuals, not just the Federal government but government all through the system. This is the goal toward which we have been evolving, and the appearance of this group of individuals is a blazing tactica adversa indicator that we are evolving.

By The Way

It might be interesting to note that in 1776 a similar group of 56 Conscious and concerned for the Common Good and General Welfare individuals gathered in Philadelphia and created the Declaration of Independence. In May of 1787 another group, containing many of the same individuals, gathered and created a synthesis called The Constitution of the United States. “On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify that document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-constitution-signed

Tom Carney

July 4th 2019

THE RISING SPECTER OF HALF-WAYNESS

THE RISING SPECTER OF HALF-WAYNESS

“The destroyers always build upon halfway striving. There is nothing worse than a halfway servitor, for he screens himself by halfway-ness. Therefore, a direct enemy of Light is preferred by Us. We do not admit into the great battles the small worms that crawl in the mist. Thus, halfway-ness must be avoided.” Hierarchy #302

Once again we are being offered halfway measures by a number of the individuals who are responsible for dealing with the ongoing assault on Human Liberty which Retrogressive forces launched, mainly on the emotional and mental planes, soon after their defeat in 1945. It is considered by some of these responsible individuals and those who support them that we cannot proceed with new major programs and policies that will actually eliminate or correct the basic causes of the two recent world wars which are continuing to manifest today in seriously damaging ways through those who presently control the Government of the United States. The faces and names of these retrogressors have changed, but their agenda and methods are exactly the same as they were in 1914 and 1939…. namely to return Humanity to the days when the divine Kings or Supreme Beings, by whatever name they use, ran the world.

The kinds of goals and policies that are being proposed by most of the present candidates for President are said to be too much too soon by these halfway-officials. Cloaking themselves in a façade of caution and superiority, they use fear to drive their claims that such policy and programs are inflammatory and would cause us to lose elections. We are cautioned to go slowly and take baby steps so as not to alarm the less liberal of the voters.

Although statistical data always depends on who is presenting it, it is interesting that the group who support the halfway steps seems to be largely made up of individuals who are probably over 40, who are living in homes that they own, are comfortable, secure, whose children and grandchildren are attending decent schools, have good child-care, insurance, at least one good car, good decent paying jobs, vacations and sick leave, plenty to eat, even able to “eat out” occasionally, and provide their children with decent clothing and etcetera. Those who vote Democratic in this group are around 25% of the total democratic vote.

About 69% of those who vote democratic earn $50,000 or less in a year. 13% of those earn less than $5,000 in one year. http://digg.com/2018 The federal poverty level for a family of 4 is $25,000. These individuals need, and by and large want new major programs and policies that will actually eliminate or correct the basic causes of poverty, and poor or no housing, poor or no schools, inadequate pay for work or no work at all, poor or no insurance, etcetera  

As even a shallow look at the past 45 years or so will reveal, that halfway measures to our basic problems in education, health, housing, employment, and recently secure voting processes, provide cosmetic illusions of correction which often lead to even more egregious problems as we are now witnessing in regards to hacked voting systems.

Yesterday, June 6^th was the 75^th anniversary of D-Day. D-Day was not a halfway operation. 10,000 people died on D-Day. It was all in with everything we had, and anything less would have failed.

If we look at our back trail, it will become very clear, very fast that halfway measures have seldom if ever resulted in any kind of serious progress. Without going back too far, consider if: Jesus was into halfway measures, or if the Manhattan Project was a halfway measure.

Not to beat a dead horse, but the present situation requires an all-in. It’s serious.

Out of Sync With Evolution,

We, Humanity, have been literally out of “sync” with the frequencies of Evolution for…well who knows how long, but at least for as long as we have any historical data. The really stupid synchronicity issues, like the U.S. Civil War and WW’s 1 and 2 have been organized and implemented deliberately by individuals or groups who represent the Conscious forces of Retrogression, such as the current “president”, who under various sophistic titles such as “Make America Great Again” do everything in their considerable power to “con” us into going backwards, or into killing each other so that we can live.

We have, ultimately, triumphed, but at usually great cost. Wikipedia estimates U.S. Civil War dead at 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers along with an undetermined number of civilians. WW2, which we also “won”, cost 85 million military and 56 million civilians.

You get the idea.

Besides these totally deranged individuals, there is another level of “out of sync-ness” that also dogs us. It is half-wayness. This particular issue usually infests relatively short-sighted, but well-meaning individuals. We were able to triumph in WW2 because President Roosevelt was very much in sync with the frequencies of evolution, and rather than acquiescing to the half-way pacifists of the day he went totally into the challenge of the Hitler led Nazi Retrogressors.

We are presently facing a challenge which is just as serious as WW2. This war is being waged mainly in the emotional and lower mental theaters of life. It is the same old war that we have been fighting from the beginning. Who rules the world? Will it be the same old Privileged Few who in WW2 cast themselves as “Super Men” and therefore superior beings? (Does this sound like anyone you hear from these days?) Or, will it be the rest of Humanity?

Just because this battle is not being waged so much with bombs and bullets, losing would be equally devastating. One might wonder “Who needs 8 billion humans when we have robots?”

Humanity will, of course, ultimately, triumph. It would be good, however, to do it while we still can without blowing the whole place up. We need to cease with the half-way stuff, move to impeach this President, and do everything even remotely possible to get our sisters and brothers to vote.

Voting, by the way, can start now by becoming vocal and letting those who represent us hear us in what-ever way each of us is equipped to do that.

NEW SHOES

NEW SHOES

You know, what concerns me is the stuff like the looooong article of the opinions of individuals who are mired in the politics and visions of 1900 hundreds that was published in the NYT 4/24/19 by Tom Edsall. "Bernie Sanders Scares a Lot of People, and Quite a Few of Them Are Democrats"

Edsall, a regular oped writer for the NYT, is undoubtedly a good person; however, he is, as are many of the NYT's opinion writers, deeply out of sync with the evolution of awareness that is being manifested in the explosions of honest to god LIBERAL (in the un-trashed meaning of that concept) thought in the last 20 years.

The efforts of these well meaning, but truly, out of touch, people do not help. They engender fear and uncertainty in their comfortable with the status quo, sisters and brothers. The advice and halfway policy measures of the "careful, do not upset the comfortable ones" so called leaders of the party are an actually bigger problem than trump's base which we can easily vote away. These folks (all good people such a N. Pelosi) are not leaders. They are the followers of outworn concepts, and consequently, they have us going around in circles. We cannot afford to do that anymore.

There are almost 8 billion human beings on the planet. Time is running out on a lot of fronts of which the environment is only one. The system for the distribution of Life Energy or wealth which gives 1% of the wealth to about 85% of the people is generating great damage and suffering planet wide. It is totally unsustainable and will, sooner than we realize, lead to the complete breakdown of anything like Democracy and the control of the people by the super wealthy few that will make Hitler's program look insignificant.

A significant number of the individuals who are running for President such as Warren, Sanders, Harris, are real Leaders. They are simply putting out 21st century IDEAS. These ideas are not new, they are actually the inclusive principles and ideas that underpin Freedom and Liberty for All. If any one of these totally qualified thinkers "wins" the election for President of the United States of America, we and they, will all win.

Naturally, to those who are mired in the capitalistic presentation of policy which has generated the present unsustainable situation these ideas are terrifying. The "old" system of capitalism for the rich and poverty for everyone else does not, has not worked.

Time to get some new shoes for Humanity.

Metaphors

METAPHORS

The Thinker said to His disciples, “Think of yourselves as heroes, and sense what heroic deed you can perform today. Supermundane #513

Recently, Mary and I attended a ballet of the Prokofiev’s Cinderella Ballet. Ballet, like theater and music, is an excellent example of Group Consciousness. The individual consciousnesses of probably hundreds of individuals is synthesized into a Ballet. In this particular example, the music, the incredible grace of the dancers, the fusion of every movement, the costumes and props are all woven together to manifest the beautiful Principles of Life that Cinderella’s story breathes. Through the expression of music, human forms, and movements these Principles live and become a synthesis in the energy field, the consciousness of the performers and the observers.

It occurred to me as the ballet unfolded Cinderella’s story, that this whole thing we each call our life is a kind of ballet. What if a day in our life was a scene from the ballet of an incarnation? In the dance of every day interactions, the movements of the classical ballet, become the multidimensional millions of the nuanced movements of human language. This language involves not only our dense physical bodies, but the massively complex motions of the emotional and mental energy fields as well as our personalities and the incarnated units of consciousness, or souls we actually are.

In the ballets of our daily lives, we are speaking to our environments. We speak not only with the music of our voices and our words, but like ballerinas, with every feeling, every movement. So, each day becomes a scene in the evolving metaphor of our life.

 And all of this, the entire performance moment, by moment is being driven by our thoughts! This fact, that energy follows thought, is a little known or understood Law of Cosmic Physics. However, every feeling, every movement is driven by our thoughts, and our thoughts are ultimately generated by our Intentions. Intentions, depend on where in consciousness the “thinker”, the creator of the ballet is focused in any given moment.

Mostly, people who are centered in their separate selves, or self-centered are relatively unconscious of their own thought processes. They are driven primarily by the power of their selfish desires to gain what they assume is good for their separative selves. The Common Good does not enter into their decisions. They unconsciously, “automatically”, use what intelligence they have to fashion and drive forms, situations, or plans that will gain for themselves what they desire.

There are many self centered individuals of remarkable intelligence who are well aware of how they can use their power of thought to gain their aims. Their Intentions are motivated by ancient and outworn materialistic illusions concerning reality. (The Rays and the Initiations P. 351.) They value personal aggrandizement, and power gained through the personal ownership of physical wealth or property.

So, just who is actually creating and directing this dance—the group conscious or the self conscious individual—is of the utmost importance. As we have all experienced, the answer to this question is rather fluid; and for us humans, this is a very complicated situation. However, we can uncomplicate it.

 At this point, billions of us, have been through many, many incarnations. We have tons of experience in discriminating between a consciousness which has a separative, self-centered polarity and a group conscious centered polarity. We also know from tons of very painful firsthand experience where the delusion of separation inevitably leads. And also, from probably somewhat less experience, where the field of Joy exists.

So, for us it comes down to vigilance.

First, it is absolutely necessary to consciously accept personal responsibility for our individual actions. We have a Free Will. Denying personal responsibility for or personal actions, not only negates our free will, it is the path to delusion. (Current leaders of various National Governments are providing amazing examples of this particular type of insanity.) We make choices. We earn the karmic results from these choices.

A major challenge, and a big key in this effort of maintaining constant vigilance, i.e. knowing exactly and always just where our own conscious is focused, is to consciously shift our approach to Life from an automatic intellectual analysis and response to a heart approach. “What action is it that is founded upon cosmic cooperation? Each action of forward striving means a step in evolution. The evidence of forgetfulness of one’s own “I” indicates adherence to evolution. The closed circle of the heart produces an oppressive formation. The Silvery Lotus that is unfolded on all sides indicates the containment of all cosmic fires. Thus is an open heart affirmed in Cosmos.” Infinity II #109

 As it is endlessly pointed out in the Ageless Wisdom, registering and understanding the frequencies of any situation is something that the heart, intuition, buddhic awareness does instantly and mindlessly. Note, mindlessly. There is zero doubt in the heart or the intuition. It was anciently pointed out that the mind is “the slayer of the real”. “It is possible, surely, that the ancient truism, "the mind is the slayer of the real" may be fundamentally true where the mass of humanity is concerned, and that the purely intellectual approach (which rejects the vision and refuses to accept the unprovable) may be far more at fault than the anticipations of the Knowers of God and the expectant multitude.” Externalization of the HIerarchy p.611

We know that practice eventually improves performance. We call it reincarnation. So a consciously, constant vigilance will eventually lead to an instantaneous, automatic kind of heart felt response to any given situation, or one might say, a wise solution.

In the past 60 years, the number of incarnated units of consciousness, or souls, has exploded from 3,000,000,000 to almost 8,000,000,000. Units of consciousness have been incarnating on this planet since the Lemuria Age, some 18,000,000 years ago. We might think that a considerable number of them have gained some measure, some percentage of group consciousness.

As we have observed, group consciousness does not develop or evolve from a zero to 100 percent situation in a day or a life.  Also, group consciousness is not necessarily the name of something that someone knows she or he has. While many group conscious individuals know beyond any doubt that they see values and rights and individual dignity in a completely a different way than their self-centered sisters and brothers, they usually do not think of this as a difference in Consciousness.

Group Consciousness manifests in actions that are generated by an automatic learned awareness of ones unity with others. Call it wisdom, “because all wisdom is knowledge gained by experience and implemented by love. The Rays and the Initiations p.591  It is the normal function of a heart centered consciousness. It is a display of thinking first and data processing next. This is what evolution is about. And, obviously, this ability has slowly been manifesting in humans for, as years go, a very long time. 

To the degree that a person is group conscious she or he will naturally, i.e. “instinctively”, consider the Common Good and the General Welfare in all situations of choice. It is this “instinct” that has been slowly emerging in individual human units that differs Human beings form Animal beings.

For those who are “esoterically” somewhat aware, group conscious individuals are focused on and work from the top three sub planes of the 7^th, 6^th and 5^th planes of the Cosmic Physical Plane. This is basically balancing the pot on the head that Master D.K. is talking about.

“The sign for the Aquarian Age is that of a man, carrying on his shoulders a jar of water so full that it pours over to all and sundry, and yet it diminishes not.  The sign for this Law of Service is very similar, but the difference lies in this; that the man stands, perfectly balanced in the form of a cross, with arms stretched out and with the water pot upon his head.  In this difference there lies much of real significance.  The jar of water, posed upon the shoulders, is a sign of the burden of service.  It is not easy to serve.  Man is today only beginning to learn how to serve.  The jar of water upon the head of the man, who has been upon the cross of sacrifice for so long a time that the position has become to him perfectly natural, indicates that the cross, which has upheld him for so long, has now disappeared.  The man with the water jar upon his head indicates to us poise, equilibrium and balance.  For this balance, the understanding of the Law of Magnetic Impulse has prepared him.  That is the Law of Polar Union and its symbol is the originator of the zodiacal sign for the constellation Libra—balance and service.  These are the two expressions of Divinity which are, today, man's next great objective.” Esoteric Psychology II p. 120

One of the very important facts of evolution (yet seldom considered by us) is that it happens gradually over time. One does not proceed from having the pot precariously balanced on the shoulder to having it perfectly balanced on the head in one easy movement. Also, one gradually learns not to fall into despair and self-pity when the pot falls off either the shoulder or the head and seemingly breaks.

We come back, once again to “practice makes perfect” and vitally “Energy Follows Thought!”

We are approaching the end of a 100 year cycle of the Plan and the beginning of a new 100 year cycle of the Plan. As anyone who has looked even superficially at our long and painful struggle would expect, the Retrogressive forces are pulling out all of their STOPS. We, of course are manifesting all of our GO’s. We have been here many times before. We triumphed, or we would not be here now. It isn’t that we can do this. It is that we have already done it.

Joy is a special Wisdom. Why not be joyful? We are approaching our home after a very long journey!