Moving Toward the Light
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- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:58:09 -0800 (PST)
Moving Toward the Light
Crisis ignites evolution. The challenges and crises the world faces
today are actually signs that change is imminent. We are facing our
evolution.
Our Imperative is Calling
Throughout the year we were honored by invitations to participate
with, and contribute to, the evolution of like-minded communities
around the world. Everywhere we visited, from New Zealand to Russia,
from Tampa to Toronto, from Esalen to Edinburgh, people everywhere
were responding to an intuitive awareness that civilization is on the
threshold of an imminent upheaval. Citizens from every corner of the
planet were grappling with the same fundamental biological phenomenon,
a characteristic trait of every living organism known as the
Biological Imperative.
Scientists have recognized that all organisms, from the lowest
bacteria through humans and beyond, are endowed with an innate
behavioral drive that forces them to react to any threat that
compromises survival. The Imperative states that when an organism's or
species' life is threatened, those life forms will unconsciously
engage behavioral responses needed to preserve their lives.
For example, if you try and kill a bacterium, it will not passively
"sit" there and accept that fate. This primitive organism will engage
a variety of cellular processes to sustain its life, from physically
moving away from the threat, to encapsulating itself inside a
protective shell known as a spore.
In every country visited, we met loving audiences who just "knew," in
the pit-of-their-gut, that the immediate future will present profound
challenges to survival. The gut knowing that drove them to that
realization is the manifestation of an "activated" Biological
Imperative. Interestingly, around the world, people's fears were
essentially focused on the same issues: job security, dwindling
finances, climate change and its principal consequence, imminent food
shortages.
The perceived threats are not just directed to individual humans, the
threats are a challenge to the survival of Humanity — the super-
organism comprised of 7+ billion human "cells."
The Light in the Darkness
As emphasized in The Biology of Belief, "There are only three
responses an organism can have to any stimulus: move to it, move away
from it, or ignore it." A "moving toward" response is a growth
response wherein one is open to engage, and perhaps assimilate, the
stimulus. A "moving away" response is a protection response, wherein
the individual is closed to the stimulus as it engages in escape
behaviors. The third response is no response at all, a situation
wherein an individual does not attribute any positive or negative
inference to the stimulus, and simply ignores it.
At the current moment, it "appears" that a mass of the public is
responding to impending threats of extinction by adopting a growth-
inhibiting protection response to their perceived fears. Perhaps an
equally large number of people are simply ignoring their Biological
Imperative's warnings with the idea that things will get better soon.
AND YET … I am so truly happy to report this. … Our travel experiences
suggest that a massive and ever growing world population is now
responding to the perceived darkness with a life-sustaining, growth-
promoting behavior — the creation of conscious communities. Around the
globe, increasing numbers of people, every day, are sharing a growing
realization that we are not at the mercy of forces outside of
ourselves. People seeking personal empowerment are drawn to these
conscious communities wherein they begin to learn and experience how
truly powerful they are in shaping the character of their lives.
The central theme of these evolving communities is obviously concerned
with survival, and in that regard, they have essentially all come to
the same conclusion: We must profoundly change the way we are living
on this planet! But bear in mind, new life-sustaining behaviors cannot
be built upon the existing cultural beliefs, for it is these beliefs
that are the cause of the problem.
Consequently, civilization must pass through a phase of chaos, a time
in which old cultural beliefs transform into new awareness. Our
Biological Imperative warning system is actually responding to the
impending period of chaos. Fortunately, the evolution of the Internet
represents a vital force in constraining the inevitable chaos period
because it provides for a virtually instantaneous expansion in global
awareness.
So, a period of chaos is likely, how will you weather the storm? If we
focus our attention on the scary state of civilization's erosion, our
energy is actually feeding the old paradigm. I don't mean that we
should "put our heads in the sand," for being aware of environmental
issues is obviously fundamental to our survival. My point is that we
should not "invest" our energy with concerns over the old paradigm,
but rather channel the energy into processes designed to create a more
harmonious planet. Survival is enhanced by working for something
positive rather than working against something negative.
But what can we do, as individuals, to alleviate the consequences of
the impending chaos? Perhaps we can take a lesson from firewalkers. By
changing the focus of our consciousness, we can safely traverse the
fiery path. A problem arises when we take into consideration that each
of us has created our own unique "fiery" path in life. Consequently,
there is no "one plan" for survival that fits all.
Do the Math
In place of formulating specific prescriptions, I would like to offer
for consideration the "Survival Equation" which Steve and I provided
inSpontaneous Evolution.
The factors in this equation apply to the survival of each human, as
well as to Humanity, the collective community of all humans. A
civilization's or an individual's survival is directly affected by
each element in the formula. Some of the factors we influence and some
are out of our control. The path to sustainability is based on
preparing for those factors that are out of our control, while
learning mastery over the factors that we can influence.
In the formula, Total Energy refers to the quantity of energy
available for the organism. From that total we must subtract the
energy used to fund the growth processes that sustain life. The same
energy source is also used to empower an individual's protection
behaviors, needed to ward off threats. In today's world, we are
finding that the total amount of available energy per person is
diminishing, meaning we must now learn to conserve on our energy
expenditures. The energy required to grow and maintain an organism is
basically a fixed budget. However, the energy expended for protection
is a variable based on real and perceived environmental threats. The
more fear we experience in our lives, the more energy we use to
protect ourselves. Too much fear can bankrupt the budget and
compromise the growth functions necessary to sustain life. Simply, we
can be "scared to death."
The United States is dying, in a large part, because of the massive
quantities of energy (money) we expend in support of the Department of
Defense, an ancient war machine designed to allay our fears. As The
Biology of Belief describes, the added expense of the fear is that it
represents the primary cause of disease and in itself, has created a
medical debt that is also bankrupting the nation.
Consequently, the fixed growth budget of an individual can be
subverted by an over-active need, or belief in a need, for protection.
One of the main factors in enhancing our survival is to redirect the
energy we currently use to feed and defend against fear. Especially
since most of the fear is generated by the mass media which is paid
for by the corporate beneficiaries of fear — the military industrial
complex and the healthcare industry.
As humans have ravaged the Earth and mined its resources we are now
realizing that a decline in Resource Availability is seriously
compromising our survival. We have gone beyond peak oil and it is
becoming a profound threat to global survival. Perhaps more seriously,
we are experiencing a rapid decline in food resources due to climate
change, environmental pollution, the die-off of bees and other
environmental disruptions.
We may not be able to reverse this trend, but being forewarned is
being forearmed. In the May 2010 newsletter, I expanded on the subject
of emergency preparedness. I wish to emphasize that now is a good time
to stock up on your needs and cushion yourself against the shock of
potential chaos. At the present moment, resources are available and
can be put away for the proverbial "rainy day." Consider resource
availability as a fundamental factor in securing a survival advantage
in a basically unstable world. When an individual is personally
secure, that person then becomes a positive contributor to the
evolution of the whole community.
Fortunately, the two most important factors governing survival are
concerned with Efficiency and Awareness. We are "fortunate" in regard
to the fact that we can personally influence our efficiency
andawareness, and in the process profoundly influence our survival. We
can reap the greatest personal rewards by investing our energy and
efforts into enhancing our levels of efficiency and awareness.
Every effort we exercise in creating more efficiency in our day-to-day
activities directly enhances and prolongs our survival. Efficiency is
directly translated into a conservation of energy and resources. Over
the years we have been programmed to believe there will always be
enough, and as a result our subconscious behaviors have not been
sensitized for the need to be efficient.. The consequence of
inefficiency is profoundly simple … extinction. Every time you
conserve energy and resources, the savings is added to the life of the
biosphere.
Awareness is the most powerful influence in acquiring a sustainable
world. As my work emphasizes, our limitations are primarily a
manifestation of our own limiting beliefs. The world is awakening to
the fact that each of us is a powerful co-creator of life, and if we
cooperate, like cells in a healthy human body, we can literally create
Heaven on Earth.
For thousands of years we have been programmed to perceive of
ourselves as helpless victims trying to survive in a world of unending
struggle. Throughout this time, first the Church and, more recently,
Medicine (healthcare industry) have convinced us that in our helpless
state, we are dependent upon their services to acquire spiritual
harmony and health. Considering the exorbitant fees for their
services, it is safe to say these "industries" were not strictly
dedicated to a humanitarian mission.
Today however, new awareness concerning the spirit-mind-body trilogy
provides the public with the truth that we are never disconnected from
spirit and that our bodies are innately self-healing. The merging of
frontier science with ancient wisdom provides an understanding that
allows us to shed our programmed image of perpetual "victim."
Knowledge is power and this particular new knowledge of "self" offers
the opportunity to regain personal empowerment and control over the
unfoldment of our lives.
Awareness is the most powerful factor in influencing survival. The
knowledge that shaped our lives as children has been fundamentally
revised, providing newer, more sustainable awareness that supports
both us and Mother Earth.. We must seek this new knowledge, for it is
key to our survival and evolution. Conscious communities are a primary
source for this new self-empowering wisdom.
The Light on the Horizon
Margaret and I are excited and encouraged by personally experiencing
the impact the new biology is having on communities around the world.
It is truly an awareness that is providing a steppingstone for
Humanity's evolution. The new knowledge of "self" frees humanity from
two millennia of disempowering cultural programming that has
constrained our conscious creativity.
However, the power to influence our lives does not come from the mere
possession of this awareness, it comes from the behaviors that are
shaped by this awareness. Simply, it's not the talk … it's the walk
that counts..
Now is not the time to get caught up in the fear of chaos or
disconnect by falling prey to "weapons of mass distraction." We must
gather ourAwareness and tweak our Efficiency so that we can actively
participate in the greatest adventure in human history — conscious
evolution!
With Love and Light,
Bruce
©2011 Bruce Lipton Ph.D. All Rights Reserved
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