D.K.
On the State of the World
December 20, 2007
An Exploration by
Catherine Bean Weser and Skip Wolff
CBW: So we are asking simply to move into a deeper place - a place of comfort, safety and security. It is where we ask for information and energy to come from the highest realms of light. We are asking that everything in this session be of service to all who will come across it calling in the teacher, Dwahl Khul and taking just take a moment of silence as we bring that energy into the session and then begin.
DK: And good day, Dear Ones. We are here to serve and aid you. We look energetically into the topic of the evolution of humanity and how consciousness as a part of evolution - as the source of evolution - contributes to a feeling of hope, well-being and the deeper knowing that where life is going - how the One Life is unfolding - is into ever greater magnificence.
When we look at consciousness, we would say that one has to understand consciousness itself as a paradox. Whenever consciousness expands - whenever there is more that consciousness must contain or hold - it means that the usual sense of the duality present within one’s experience has to be paradoxically incorporated into a Oneness. If you are going to have an expansion in your consciousness, you are going to have to be able to contain within your consciousness oftentimes contradictory information - oftentimes things that seem illogical - oftentimes things that do not fit in the usual dualistic structure and rational way of understanding. This is true especially if you are trying to understand through the intelligence of your mental body the course of your life or the nature of your existence.
At the foundation of consciousness exists the paradox of life as being simultaneously the Creator and the Creation - that every human is constantly creating their life at the same time as experiencing themselves being the Creation of life - being somehow the result of seemingly external forces. To understand human evolution and to see consciousness as a part of it - perhaps even the source of evolution - one has to be able to see oneself as participating in evolution as a Creator - co-Creator - but also being simultaneously the result of evolutionary forces that are underway. It is important to recognize that a lot of imbalances in society - in an individual - in all of the systems of life one can look at - come from a difficulty in containing the seemingly contradictory information of being the Creator and the Creation simultaneously.
From our perspective people tend to get hung up on being the Creator - become oftentimes very self-centered - oftentimes become full of desire that is ultimately unsustainable - unfulfillable. People can get stuck on being the Creator of their life and in so doing blame themselves for everything that they create instead of rejoicing in their Creation. In the same way people can get hung up on being the Creation - being a victim to the big bad world out there - to everything that seems to have greater power and more ability than they have. These imbalances occur primarily as a result of fear - as a result feeling the contracting energy of fear.
Fear underlies the crisis existing in the process of human evolution which is natural - which is full, complete and underway. Fear is the energy which enables an individual to leap to a higher level of consciousness when it is used properly and appropriately, but it is also the energy which can promote imbalance. At this point in human evolution what has been understood as desire has been infused with fear - the fear of getting enough - the fear of not getting enough - the fear of not being fulfilled - an addictive desperate sense of want which is never really identified, but exists underneath the surface causing an individual to struggle and experience tremendous anger, difficulty with self and life.
It is this element of desire, present in both human individuals and systems of human individuals, governments, corporations and all sorts of associations which have been infected with the desire that is filled with fear. It fuels ultimately that which indicates the end of the system. If you look at any system - whether it is the living system of the human individual - whether it is the living system of a group of individuals - whether it is the Earth itself as a living system - at the end of its old structure and in the course of that structural breakdown into the new cycle of that which will be, there is an element of fear which which plays out as desire infused with anger. It is that which ultimately breaks things apart - takes people in different directions - creates a certain kind of chaos and ultimately brings about a crisis which will have to be addressed. The crisis will have to be looked at as the old structure which comes apart in order for it to be recreated - put together in a new way - and experienced as the opportunity for a new Creation. It is how the creative forces work to break apart the old in order to reincorporate and ultimately bring about the new. It is the Creation-Creator paradox in action.
Now, from our perspective change can occur seemingly from the outside due to the environment, conditions - all of those things which seem to be external - or change can occur from the inside due to internal dynamics. This once again illustrates the paradox which has to be integrated into an understanding of consciousness expanding - that consciousness expansion is a way to understand the nature of evolution - that evolution unfolds as a result of consciousness expansion which requires the paradox of seemingly contradictory information becoming integrated. So change occurs when the inside and the outside seem to be forces which are orchestrating or commanding that the change happen. People are going to change because something occurs inside of them which insists on change. They are also going to change because something seems to occur outside of them that forces them to change.
Real change as a part of consciousness expansion and therefore evolution only occurs when all of that is happening simultaneously in what might seem irrational and chaotic but ultimately is a profoundly structured, orchestrated and magnificent process. All metacellular organisms go through this process. They go through this experience of being the Creator and being the Creation - coming from a single cell - coming from a oneness - a unity - an experience of wholeness - and then moving into all of the elaborate variations which exist along the lines of whatever has been understood as evolution.
Hope is recognizing that all has come from One - that all is the One Life - and that the nature of human existence is simply one in which consciousness and a continued expansion of consciousness can be recognized as the same understanding which brings recognition of the Oneness. To describe that perhaps more clearly, we are talking about the realization that as things are getting infinitely more expanded, they are also getting infinitely more unified - infinitely more a single point of light - that initial spark of whatever life is. It is in that paradoxical appreciation for expansion and contraction that one rides this wave of evolution in a way which - through gratitude and appreciation for it all - remembers that there is really nothing other than hope.
We are talking about a deep recognition and realization that wherever humans are going - wherever the species is moving - it is done through the individual intention as well as the intention of all life - the intention of the One Life that is constant and absolutely engaged with the unknowable - with the mystery of all mysteries - with the wholeness which has sometimes been called God Presence. We are really talking about a recognition that all is well at the same time as feeling that there are things that could improve. We are really talking about accepting that fear exists and fear which infuses desire and thereby fuels action takes the desire into almost an addictive and greed-based place is all part of compelling a breakthrough in preparation for an even deeper and more profound creativity to emerge - the kind of creativity in which the individual has a sense of being absolutely autonomous and in charge of creating and recreating their life at the same time as recognizing themselves to be a part of the One Life creating and recreating itself.
When we look at this evolutionary leap which is underway in the human species, we would say it is significant. It is profound. It is the movement from a belief in oneself as separate and alone and identified more profoundly by its differences and sense of individuation to a much bigger broader re-identification of self as a part of a whole. It is the reclaiming of the human holon - a reclaiming of the holarchy - which is underway. It has to do with a certain kind of interaction which creates congruence among people, meaning it has to do with everyone becoming themselves - doing what they love to do - living their lives fully in gratitude in peace - in love - and starting to see the resonance which is gained when one person is doing that and the person next door is doing that also. It creates a kind of structural congruence which then has impact upon all of the larger structures. It has to do then with these larger structures being so full of congruence that they become sustainable.
Sustainability cannot occur without a certain degree of congruence - without a certain recognition that all which exists within it is at once unique and individual, but simultaneously has intersections of congruence which enable all of the systems present in the structure to reinforce and support each other. This is a part of the biological model whereby each individual cell retains its individual nature while becoming a part of a larger system willingly, peacefully and lovingly. There are many ways in which the whole process of one’s life can be recognized as a balancing act between the sense of being unique, individual and separate while at the same time being a part of something larger, more complex and oftentimes indescribable.
Being comfortable in that paradox is coming to a place of understanding that you can be comfortable with who you are. So many people believe that the outside is greater or believe that the inside is more profound - label and organize their existence with all kinds of adjectives describing from where and how one will be guided, and yet the deeper truth is that it is a constantly shifting experience whereby one moves from side to side - from extreme to extreme - from place to place - in order to expand the previous boundaries which once created a certain kind of comfort, but now have become too tight. As one becomes oneself, one starts to recognize that the boundaries are amorphous - that there is no real definition of self or feeling of who one is that is ever going to fit perfectly and all the time - that in the course of living life, the search for points of reference which happen to define oneself is in and of itself the nature of one’s consciousness expanding ever onward as a part and the source of evolution itself.
What is next in the world is to appreciate what is, anticipate what is next with an open-minded and open-hearted delight in the change which is underway. Whatever appears as crisis - as difficulty - as restriction - as constriction - as fear - as anger - as greed - as anything that is not in service to greater peace and love on the planet - is to be understood as a part of the natural evolution which is ever onward - ever increasing - ever bringing one to a state of cooperation and peace. The understanding that in times of crisis there is greater struggle - more battles going on - greater fear - greater anger - greater greed - is to simply see one side of the experience because directly underneath that - inside of it - around it - in co-existence with that - is the development of a new cooperation - of peace. An experience of what is next is constantly held within what is and it is that which is the movement. It is that movement which constitutes the knowing of evolution - the knowing of this isness factor which we call evolution.
We are simply here to encourage everyone to recognize that within every struggle they are in - whether it is a personal one - whether it feels to be their government struggling with another government - their business struggling with another business - whatever struggle they are in - it is a part of survival, and yet within that struggle to survive exists that seed of thrival which is the connectedness and wholeness, the holographic universal perspective that is real and true and alive. It can be useful to let go of the kinds of projections into the future which occur when one is afraid - when one is in the midst of one’s current struggle - and instead simply find that seed of consciousness which is the point from which the expansion occurs which holds potential for all thrival. Simply knowing it exists - remembering to touch in upon it from time to time - can be that which moves and allows consciousness to compel and be a part of evolution.
While this has been a very esoteric discussion of these issues, we can be very practical and clear with you. We would like to do that especially through questions which we will answer.
ESW: What came to mind was a musical analogy within which maybe we can talk about all the paradoxes and the whole Creator-Creation dynamic and the different levels of the holon. If we look at each of us as the player of an instrument - each of us is a member of an orchestra and we play one instrument - and here I am not really clear about this so maybe you can clarify - but there is something about being both the Creator and the Creation of the music and starting out with Johnny One Note and then moving into the congruence with one other, then more than one other, then yet another until we are getting to the music of the spheres. See if the analogy works in terms of us as individuals and all the seeming dissonance we are creating at the moment and then look at all the different levels of holons from individual to small cells or groups to countries or governments to the whole of humanity. Does that make sense to talk about it in that way?
DK: It is true that looking at an orchestra as an analogy, each individual note - each individual player - each individual instrument - as well as the groups of instruments - the groups of notes - the ways in which all of the complexity ultimately creates a kind of harmony containing within it moments and experiences of dissonance so there is not a singularity but a complexity that is far more interesting and therefore creative. More material for creativity exists in complexity and chaos than in singularity, and yet a singularity can hold the potential for all creativity - all Creation. Each individual is a conglomerate of systems of other individuals - being cells and matter and energy and particles and all of the things which can be identified and even those that cannot identified - and it is as if each individual is a universe unto themselves while at the same time being a part of a universe - a multiverse - an unknowable expansiveness of all that is. It is in the realm of consciousness that one can know all of that, but not necessarily within the realm of rational thought can one necessarily express that. Does that make sense to you?
ESW: Yes. In my own case metaphorically speaking I think I am often a flute player who is trying to play a bassoon or the drums. I am often not playing my own instrument. I am not doing what I love to do and that is not creating the kind of congruence and the whole creative experience I want. When you were first talking about congruence what came to mind was an artists’ community in which all of that creative energy comes together and creates a synergy so everyone is energized by it and creates at higher and higher levels. I was thinking that that also has to be part of this whole analogy or metaphor throughout every level of every system.
DK: Yes. We would agree. We would also comment on the understanding that if you are not doing what you want to be doing - if you are think you are playing a bassoon when you really are a flute player - all you have to change is your perception of all of that. It is not even that you have to get a flute tomorrow. It is that through a certain kind of appreciation of the bassoon - appreciation of yourself and your contribution and the glory of who you are as whatever kind of bassoon player you are - you can have the experience of sheer delight in life. Do you understand?
ESW: Yes. There is a part of all of us on every level, I think, that really longs to belong - to be part of something greater than ourselves - to know that we are truly contributing - that we are making a difference. I think often we have a lot of pictures of ideals of how that should be done or what it looks like and they don’t fit for who each of us is as an individual, so we do anything except be who we are really designed to be in this attempt to really be a part of something greater than us. One of the things I see emerging on the underbelly or in an undercurrent of all the seeming chaos is this huge movement toward giving and contributing that is happening. I think it is in the giving that people are experiencing meaning and contribution and this whole sense of making a difference. I think Clinton’s book - Giving - is a reflection of that. When we look at all the natural disasters and the focus seems to be on the disaster and what everybody has lost more than what it has brought out in so much of humanity which has been this huge move to give, whether it was individuals going to New Orleans or contributing to tsunami victims or whatever is happening that way, people are recognizing the deeper satisfaction in giving than the satisfaction that they were trying to achieve through getting and spending. It seems that each of us needs to find our own - we need to rediscover who we are in terms of being a giver - a contributor - how each of us can best be in service in a way that is natural but that we often discount because it is natural and seems too easy and in this culture we say no pain, no gain, so if it is easy it doesn’t count.
DK: What we would say to that is that people often want to make a contribution and have - as you state - these ideas and pictures of what their contribution should look like, and yet the contribution that is simple, natural, motivated by a pure sense of being a part of the One Life - being a human on the planet - that is usually the best contribution to make - that which comes from that place. To see natural disasters and difficulties which are occurring all over the planet is actually giving people permission to be simple and easy with their contribution rather than clinging to erroneous pictures and idealized versions of what they should be doing and how they should be contributing. It is a great gift. It is a wonderful recognition of the opportunity which comes out of crisis. Do you follow?
ESW: Yes. I think the piece of it which may not get followed up on as well as it could is that when any of us go into an experience like that and have that experience of pure giving and the joy it really brings, we come back out of that into a world of shoulds. In the biologic model what is no longer needed melts away. It transforms. It becomes something else just as the caterpillar melts into becoming a butterfly. I think we need some ability to know how, but also the intention to let go of anything that is keeping us from living in that pure place of giving which does bring such joy. It is all of that acculturation to shoulds which needs to be let go. It is not in service any more.
DK: We would have to agree that the culture of shoulds is really a culture in which the individual has given up their own inner authority - given up their sense of themselves as a unique and whole person whose basic motivation is to love and be loved - to thrive and enjoy the sheer ecstasy of life itself - in favor of some kind of external authoritative recipe for success. Those recipes simply don’t work any longer. They served a purpose, but they are no longer necessary or even appropriate for this particular stage of human evolution and consciousness. Do you follow?
ESW: It seems to me that the shoulds are aligned with the whole energy of force - not the natural expression of self, but forcing oneself to be something one isn’t. One of the examples that *Sahtouris gives in the biologic model is of the genetically modified food. The whole response of the genome to it is rejection. The basic conclusion that I took from that is that force does not work. If it didn’t work easily at first, they tried to use more force - stronger “glue” to make the organism accept it. The organism did not thrive.
DK: Exactly. And perhaps you have known many people who have - as we have - an idea or picture of themselves as something - who constantly try to be that - become that - act as if they are that - use every kind of technology available to them to force themselves to be something which they are holding as their ideal - their picture of themselves - only to face rejection over and over and over again from others - from society - from the world. It is clear recognition that there is a natural easy and we would say peaceful realization that one simply is as one is and does not have to become something else. Does that make sense to you?
ESW: Yes. You were talking before about the motivation to love and be loved. I think one’s idea of one’s own lovability is what underlies and drives this need to be different. Many many people did not feel loved as children and are constantly trying to remake themselves into somebody lovable without realizing that the natural expression of who they really are is the most lovable one. I think that is a huge issue for many many people and I would like for you to talk about how can we trust that we are lovable when we are being our most natural selves.
DK: Well, it comes back to what we were speaking about in terms of desire and fear entering into it. When desire is pure, it is a simple fuel for Creation. If you desire to be lovable and it is a pure desire, you have the fuel - the energy - to act in lovable ways. It is natural and it is easy. If you are afraid that you are not lovable - if you are angry because your parents never loved you - if you carry those other constrictive forces and infuse a natural pure desire to be lovable with those more difficult energies, you move out of the kind of natural experiential state of acting from pure desire - acting in ways that are loving and lovable - and you move into a focus and attention on results - on what you get - on all sorts of things which are outside of the natural experience - outside of the evolutionary construct which is easy. It will usually result in rejection because there is no longer a relaxation into the experience, but much more of a driven fear-based struggle to get something. It is important for people to understand this distinction because we see so many people who are so sure that their intention to achieve something spiritual is so necessary and important and yet it is loaded with way too much fear and anger to ever get anywhere. Do you follow what we are saying?
ESW: Partly. What came up for me when you started talking about that was the whole issue of whether we trust that we are basically good or whether we believe that we are evil or sinners. It changes everything - that belief. Right now we have a rampant belief in many parts of the world that we are not good.
DK: And we have a tremendous belief that we are good and everyone else is bad simultaneously.
ESW: Yes. Absolutely.
DK: A spiritual ambition or a desire to achieve or be something other than what is can oftentimes take one out of the natural expression. Then one’s experience becomes filled with rejection. What is needed is the realization that lovability is. It just is. Love is life. Life is love. Love is the core of consciousness. It is never something which is going to be attained - bound - held - contained. It is always something which is simply in existence. If one can get to that place by recognizing the mystery of those deep things like love - consciousness - evolution - if one can embrace the mysteriousness of it all – one will have greater comfort than by trying to make life a series of tangible results-oriented ambition. Does that make sense to you?
ESW: Yes. At the beginning you started talking about the paradoxes of containing the duality and love is the energy that allows us to do that.
DK: Yes. Very good.
ESW: So thinking of people like take the Jihadists - how do we move to a place of love and containment in a very real and practical kind of way when we are faced with people who would like to do us in?
DK: Well, the best way to understand that from our perspective is to realize in the absolute sense you are going to love that individual from a compassionate recognition of his humanity - from a realization that that individual is someone’s son - someone’s brother - someone’s father - from a realization that in the whole of the Earth’s living system - in all of the One Life - this individual is expressing something which contributes to the whole. While you may judge the contribution to be negative or difficult in any manner, it is still a particular contribution which is present in the infinity of all, meaning in the One Life everything exists. In the One Life - in all of existence - there are individuals whose actions are harmful - whose pain is great - and while you don’t have to condone those actions or in some way attempt to alleviate the pain - there are no requirements for you to view or interact in any particular manner - the opportunity exists for you to simply recognize that there is a human presence there and as part of the One Life, there is some kind of resonance between you and him. Do you understand?
ESW: Yes. I am also thinking - and I am just using that as an extreme example, because there are many examples of people who are in your face on a much lower scale - but if we talk about the Law of Attraction, then we have a choice about what we are focusing on. If we are focusing on the people who have road rage - the people who are on some sort of a religious mission which involves overpowering other people - any kind of mission which requires that - it seems that where we focus our energy and attention is really really important. Am I correct at if we pull attention away from what we would describe as those kinds of negative or harmful things, they will of their own accord - as in the biologic model - they will fall away. If we at the same time invest our attention and energy in the Creation of the new, then we are going to begin to attract more and more resonance to the Creation of the new to a point at which that becomes the dominant force in our world if you will.
DK: Yes. The opportunity which exists as a human individual is the opportunity to have dominion over your thoughts, your intentions, your perceptions. There is a greater you who can shift - who can move - who can seek what seems to be the most loving supportive understanding - perception - intention - thought - whatever you want to label it. It is in gaining a certain kind of dominion over your thoughts that one creates happiness. And yes - in the midst of sheer ecstatic joyfulness, everything other than that falls away.
ESW: Which brings us back to playing our own part in the orchestra and participating in playing whatever music is being played or creating new music.
DK: Absolutely. Correct.
ESW: Okay.
DK: Other questions?
ESW: Not at the moment.
DK: Then we will simply suggest that for this upcoming year of 2008 that holding the intention of seeing the new which is both being created by you and you are a part of its Creation is really the opportunity which is going to bring the greatest joyfulness to all. 2008 is an important turning point in human evolution. It is a year when all who have dominion over their thoughts - perceptions - actions - emotions - etc. will be a part of the Creation of the new. We see that being a part of the Creation of the new is full of tremendous love, peace and absolute delight. So, we suggest to explore that as a focus for one’s life in this year and to see how it really unfolds. Experiment with it all by loving it all. We bring our time together to a close. From the head, the hand and the heart, so be it. And so it is.
*Sahtouris, Elisabet, AFTER DARWIN. www.sahtouris.com
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