We had class two in Evolutionary Enlightenment in Hamilton Montana yesterday. We were talking about the global context in which we all live. How societies have evolved from tribal, to national, and then global, and that the next change needs to be a change to a cosmo-centric orientation. As we were talking, the enormity of our cultural conditionings became obvious. Not only are we conditioned to our post-modern culture, but we still retain conditionings from all the previous stages - especially because there are still many cultures on the planet operating within the previous stages of conditioning.

I can remember taht I used to think of conditionings as something the society maliciously did to us. And, consequently, if we lived in a "good" society, or an "enlightened" society, that it wouldn't condition us. now I realize that it is the natural state of a human being to be conditioned. In fact it's an evolutionary wonder ath enabled our survival. This tendency and reality is totally integral to our human nature - and yet we have an ability to bring illumination to this part of our self. Amazing.

That's a lot of conditioning, and, consequently, a lot of ego. As we were talking, I thought that our particular conditionings for any given time are in-built structures. It's deep, like the structure of our pallet that is formed as a young child when we learn a language. It seems that the native language we learn actually forms our pallet physically, so that if we learn a language after the age of 12 or so, we can't ever speak the new language accent free. A person who learns a new language has to work to form the words with as little accent as possible. So it's safe to assume that a person born and raised in a particular tier of development would have to apply consciousness their whole life to go beyond the "ego' created by that  tier.

Good news is that we all are capable of tremendous amounts of will and intelligence. With practice and care we can bring large quantities of light and illumination to our inner reality and learn to respond to life from a totally different tier than we were born in. That is liberation.

Let's chat about how to change our global culture of carbon emmission at oxygenproject.com

Creating a new consciousness is very ticky business. I'm reminded of that more and more as I flail around in my attempts.

Back in the old days, when I believed that creating a new consciousness would only happen in my head, it was easy. Hours of meditation, dedication to the teacher, scouring myself for the ways I was holding myself back with my own ego, submitting to having that pointed out by fellow travelers, dark night of the soul. All that is really nothing - particularly for the active control freak in us all. As long as it's just in my own bodily sphere, at least I could have the feeling that I had accomplished something.

The problem with unity, though, is that it includes everything. And that includes everyone else! So a real development in consciousness can't happen without all conscious beings involved. The inner control freak has nothing to grasp on in that sphere, because the only tool I have to integrating my own realizations with that of others is communication. As we all know, the lines of communication are usually blocked, and without an open line, anything coming out of me is just, "Bla, Bla, Bla."

Only time will tell if my attempts in this new venue of consciousness will bear fruit. I'm planting and fertilizing every day and blowing on the flame to ignite it. Please join me if you want to grow and burn!

hee hee

Connie Zareen

What a great time to be alive! As I'm writing this blog post we are starting to bring in the new year, and that is very exciting. 2008. Wow! It's going to be 2008 and this year could be the most exciting year in the whole history of humanity. People around the planet have woken up to the global warming problem and are starting to embrace solutions. We are on the brink of some of the most exciting discoveries in how to live and develop as a species. And most exciting of all, whatever we may discover on any day of this year can instantly be swept around the world into the consciousness of billions of people through the amazing communication tools we have at hand.  

I feel like I have spent most of my life, and (really) we as human beings have spent most of our existence, struggling with how bad things are and waiting for doom to strike. But suddenly I feel the curtains are falling open and a clear, shining, positive path is before us.   I feel like we have been hypnotized by the negative: all the news, and wars, and the realities of environmental problems. Not that these things aren't true, and real, and dangerous, but that the fear it generates has stolen the better part of our brains and souls and left us immobilized and separate.

As the veils drop from my eyes, I see that we aren't the victims of society, but the creators of it. The way we talk with each other, the things we hold as valuable and true, the things we dream about: these are the things that create society. If we call ourselves to our true and noble natures we can start to see that we can use our greatest consciousness to start creating our society and culture on purpose, and with an amazing and uplifting positivity.  

I love to follow the news, read inspiring books and magazines, and watch creative movies. I've learned lately about electric cars, and even cars that run on compressed air. New technologies are being created at break-neck speed to make solar energy accessible. People are starting to look at the wind and see energy. Young, creative minds are bursting forth with incredible ideas by the day. Women are planting trees in Africa by the millions! Arabs and Jews are helping each other on the subways.  

The great advantage of a population of over 6 billion worldwide is that there are more geniuses alive today than any time in the history of humanity: more enlightened people, more poets, more dreamers and visionaries. And we can see each other online, talk to each other cross-country, chat late at night on our computers. The more awareness, love and light we bring to this process, the faster we can sweep positive change across the globe with a revolution in consciousness and culture.  

That's why it is so important for us to come together to dance as often as possible. When we dance we create a field of human consciousness. We create interconnections of the heart and mind. If we choose consciously to develop and evolve, and even make that development a value for creating a positive future, then we will start to generate an electric current of change that can transform the world.  

As dancers, we started feeling this early in December at Lava where the group generated a new term: Oxygen Positive! By this we mean coming together in a way that is not just carbon neutral, but to make our gatherings such a positive creation that we are giving back to the entire global situation more than we take. We can create oxygen, and positivity and the energetic force that is necessary to awaken our neighborhoods to the point where the individuals involved can will start moving in the right directions for change.  

The solutions for all the worlds problems are either at hand, or on the verge of creation. It's our job as mystical brethren to co-create a culture that will accept the solutions as they are brought forward. The Dances of Universal Peace are a part of Murshid Sam's global peace program. We are the creators of this program, and responsible for it's execution! We are marching in the light of God.  

I hope to see you all at our next Lava celebration and then at Wilderness Dance Camp in August. At Wilderness we will use our innate Divine Curiosity to inquire into the human ability for highest participation in the evolution of our world.   If you'd like to chat with each other, and us all about all this.

Please come to OxygenProject.com where we have put together a website with chats, and blogs and all sorts of stuff so we can begin participating right now. We are also putting together action groups for creative car-pooling and other oxygen positive activities at camp. Please email us, chat with us, and feel free to call us any time with ideas. We are on fire.