Changing Consciousness

Issue No. 8, Aug. 15, 2008

Beloved Children of the Light,

Changing Consciousness

To hold a thought of love cleanly and purely is to transform one's

own heart and the heart of the world.

The world is open to change as are we, but all depends upon how clear and pure our intention may be to become what we hope to be or what we hope the world will be.

Thoughts combined with feelings that are pure love, sparkle in the spiritual skies that embrace all souls. They create sunlight for each soul and bring to it hope, comfort, love, and a sense of upliftment. These are the thoughts of our higher Self – our Christ-self - that feels no intrusion from other competing motives and that needs no one else to confirm it in its own capacity or willingness to love.

There are also the thoughts and feelings of our lower self – the self whose love is mixed with need and fear, where the wounds of the ego play a part in creating resentment, rejection, withdrawal, and a general unwillingness to love purely and without conditions.

To change consciousness, we must become that which we wish to create. If we wish to create peace, we must become peaceful. If we wish to create love, whether within a partnership or on a global level, we must eliminate all that stands in the way of being loving. What emanates from our own hearts and minds can be powerful and transformative, but it must be unimpeded by the needs and qualifications of the lesser self.

We bring these thoughts to others with whom we are in relationship, and in a global sense we bring them to the planet as a whole. If we have done the inner work of purification, then our thoughts have the possibility of uplifting the planet – even in far away places where it would appear, outwardly, that we have little, if any, influence. If we have done the work of cleaning our own house, we may hope to see a change in the relationships that exist all around us.

Our thoughts create light and harmony around us like the sound of a clear bell in mountain air when they are pure and loving. When they are weighed down by fear or qualitification, they are perceived as such, energetically, by others, even if this perception is not fully conscious but exists beneath the threshold of awareness. This is why children understand the true feelings of their parents so well, including their limitations of love. For in the subtle cues that energy brings, they recognize the restrictions and hesitancies that exist in those closest to them, even if these restrictions are not acknowledged by other family members.

How do we think a pure thought, an ideal thought, a thought that has creative power to change our world or the world as a whole?

We can begin with a prayer. "Make of me a pure vessel for Thy love and light, O God" is one such prayer. "Teach me to love purely" is another." With simple prayers such as these, the heart begins to clarify and the mind begins to focus so that all that stands in the way of greater love and lovingness becomes revealed to consciousness. Repeating such prayers in the morning, night, and throughout the day, will make of purification a central focus for the entire psyche, and so will begin the transformation of the self.

If we wish to change the consciousness of the world, we must begin at home, for there is no substitute for transmuting the inner obstacles that we carry. They cannot be gotten around. They must be penetrated by the clear light of awareness so that we see them fully and completely for what they are. Having begun this process with sincerity and commitment, an opening of the heart begins to take place that helps us to manifest the quality of love, light, and hope that we desire.

All that is needed for this to happen is within us, waiting for the moment of truth to dawn so that we not only see what is limiting, but also see the infinite vastness of what is possible.

-- Julie Redstone