We are in the midst of a new era of creation that is revolutionizing ways of life throughout the globe.  The potential of this new era is infinite, fed by imagination and will.

This is an incredible time; but, as with most epic transitions, the changes are both productive and painful.  Many will enter the new era metaphorically handicapped and disabled because they are unable or unwilling to make necessary adjustments.  Many will stick to old patterns of thought and behavior and stand with the sinking ships of old world power.

To embrace the vastness of this evolutionary age, growth in awareness and consciousness is necessary.  It is essential to move beyond racism, sexism, poverty, world disasters, and see the bigger picture.  We have been operating from and reacting to the external for too long.  We have drifted far from our origins, from our Essence, from who and what we truly are.

Societal maladies are symptoms.  They are manifestations of a power within us that is not being utilized constructively.  Many react to this power’s harmful use instead of channeling the power with conscious awareness and loving focus. If we desire true and lasting change, we must stop responding, reacting, and becoming entangled within cycles of discordant thought and behavior.  Our minds and souls distinguish us from animals.  We are higher on the ladder of evolution and, thus, more capable of ascending to the potential that is our gift and destiny.  We can choose to live beyond fighting and killing as a basis for survival.

Many battle the injustices of the world, but don’t struggle against injustice within themselves, which is a source of disharmony among family, friends, neighbors and, ultimately, the world.  What we create on a micro (individual) level effects the macro (global) environment.  If my goal is universal evolution, I need to change myself right now.  I have to stop harboring resentment, anger, and fear.  I must stop being reactive.  Unless we stop the suffering and pain within ourselves, disharmony in the world will endlessly remain.

Two thousand years ago, the social, economic, and political environments were similar to what we experience today: prejudice, power struggles, and inequality.  The teachings of the prophets and prophetesses of that era survived to propel us into our greater glory.

The current global instability is thrusting us toward self-empowerment and liberation.  Reliance upon external sources is being replaced by an awareness that we can be co-creators of our security, survival, prosperity, and destiny.  Efforts are being undertaken to decentralize power in every aspect of society.  Generating from within allows us to reassert the control that is our prerogative.  Such action is especially vital when the perceived control by others deprives us of essential rights.

When we stop being dependent upon others to dictate how we think and act, we change the course of our lives.  Most of us don’t realize the depth of our patterned behavior and perception; therefore, we cannot see how our power and potential are restricted.

We keep asking “Why are things so bad?  Why do people suffer?  Why does God not respond?

The answers are within us, closer than our own breaths.  For many reasons, we are blind and deaf to the guidance within. There is a permeating Energy available to all beings that is constantly creating, expanding, and changing.  It is always manifesting through and as us, even when we are unaware of Its flow.  That is Its nature.  With this power, we are all creating and destroying at the level of our consciousness.  Some use this Energy as a manipulative and destructive force to the detriment of others and cannot see how the consequences of their actions will, at some point, return to them in form and experience.

We must think outside of the box and, thus, evolve into independent thinkers, creators, and architects of new worlds.  We must become open to the unseen and the unrealized.  We must release our blindness and see what is before us by letting go of what we think is real and what we think we see.

What if war is mass hypnosis and only an expression of the discontent within each of us?  What if we all worked to achieve peace within ourselves such that we then saw only peace everywhere and at all times?  If we want something different, we have to do something differently.  We must be the change that we desire.