Corruption and You
Two phrases frequently repeated on the spiritual path are “the ascension process†and “paradigm shift.†Often repeated… but not often understood.
The ascension process refers to a period when the consciousness of a Soul, or many Souls, is elevated to new and expanded realms of understanding and possibility.
A paradigm shift is movement out of, and beyond, one framework of reality into another.
We are currently in the middle of both the ascension process and a paradigm shift. Therefore, there are four qualities and characteristics that apply and that we can count on during such a transition.
Infusion of Light
Light is energy. Light illuminates. Light obliterates darkness. Light is intelligence. Where the Light goes, obscurity is revealed. “Darkness†in the context of spirituality is manifested as deceit, greed, arrogance, misuse of power, and oppression… among others.
With the infusion of spiritual Light during the ascension process all that does not support higher consciousness is revealed.
No more secrets
General McChrystal … BP … open microphones for Joe Biden and Carly Fiorina … Bernie Madoff … Obama appointee and jobs czar Van Jones having co-founded the militant and revolutionary organization STORM… brothers John and Tony Podesta : John, CEO of the Center for American Progress advising President Obama on off-shore drilling in the Gulf and brother Tony, lobbyist for B.P. (can anyone say “conflictâ€?)…and the list goes on and on.
So why are so many things surfacing that clearly were supposed to be kept secret?
It’s because during the ascension process there are no more secrets.
Personal responsibility
Being unconscious is a little like being a child. Someone else needs to take responsibility for your actions. Not so when we’re spiritually conscious and awake. Now is the time to own that our every thought and action determines, in a literal sense, the reality in which we live, the quality of our relationships, as well as the world we are bequeathing the next generation.
Duty to question
Being responsible means questioning the status quo. It’s no longer productive to be part of a “herd” mentality… to go along to get along. Courageous inquiry is the watchword of the new paradigm into which we are moving.
So why write about corruption and you?
Because it’s up to us now.
A good friend recently expressed being overwhelmed by it all and his feeling that, other than the ballot, we individuals are helpless in the face of so much obvious governmental and political corruption. I would tell him this.
Things are probably no more corrupt today than they have been for a very long time. What has changed is 1) access to the information; 2) the speed of dissemination of that information and, 3) the paradigm shift. For just as the new paradigm has no room for that which is not in the highest good, so too does it require that each of us, on a daily basis, demand the highest integrity from ourselves and never fail to speak truth…your truth… to power.
I’m optimistic. Change, while scary, is always for the good. It just takes us awhile to gain the distance, and corresponding perspective, needed to be certain of this fact.
In the meantime, while you’re waiting, be the Light.