all fit together, we need to take an integrative approach, and when we do so, one of
the first things we can see is that human
growth unfolds along two primary lines.
The first of these lines we could call radical
awakening. Radical awakening is awakening to Source – the Infinite Radiant Consciousness that is Reality. This is our True
Self, and as the mystics of all time have
attested, is always already the SourceMatrix of Reality. It is pure, pristine, Total
Presence, all penetrating, all enfolding,
and all creative. This is the awakening
that has been cultivated in Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, Zen, Sufism, Mystical
Christianity, Kabala, and Kashmir Shaivism,
for instance. Like a mirror reflecting an
infinite number of things whilst remaining
unchanged, Consciousness is arising in unconditional perfection as the entire cosmos,
as every nebula and star formation, ever
supernova and galaxy, every expression
of joy and pain, laughter and heartbreak,
whilst remaining totally unchanged. It is a
radiant, indivisible Awareness that is characterised by undivided freedom, love and
pure tenderness. Within the New Earth, we
recognise this as the basis of every being’s
true nature, of what it means to awaken to
true sovereignty, and as every human being’s birthright.
The second of these lines we could call
evolutionary awakening. Evolutionary
awakening is awakening to and as the
evolutionary Life-force of the cosmos on
deeper and deeper levels. In this connection, the Life expresses as the evolutionary
pulse that comes to know itself through
our relative, multid imensional selves, from
physical body to emotions to mind to soul
to indestructible essence. Pathways and
disciplines that have cultivated wisdom on
evolutionary awakening include Sri Aurobindo’s teaching, Theosophy, Western psychology, and some New Age and shamanic
paths, for instance (though each of these
in different ways). In evolutionary awakening, the different levels of our being are
brought into deeper and fuller integration
as conscious expressions of Reality’s cosmic evolutionary Life-force and its dynamic
expression of pure creative purpose.