Consciousness Is Like a Sieve Through Which All Things Flow
Things will change for the better — slowly, gradually, mysteriously — merely because human consciousness is slowly and gradually elevating.
Conversation after conversation. Countless articles I’ve read about how things can be better. Decades of wondering what it will take for humanity to wake up. Books read. Documentaries watched. Pundits. Analysis.
And then there is the quiet calm of morning meditation — thoughts slowing down, prayers felt, and the sweet serenity of feeling connected to the Oneness, the divinity of all life. It can be complicated, or it can be simple.
Complicated is how it feels when I’m reading all the articles about what’s going on in the world or conversing with people who feel we can change the world for the better by changing laws, behaviors, or introducing new technology. We can point to moments in history when things pivoted: the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, First Flight, the Armistice Agreement, D-Day, the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Civil Rights Amendments, and on and on. And there are not so well understood moments such as Manifest Destiny, Citizens United, the invention of Public Relations, and the creation of central banks.
We can point to these things and cite their positive or negative effects and say, “Yes, we just need more of this, or less of that.” But this thinking is missing the point.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The inventions of science, government, or modern jurisprudence, or did they merely follow the state of human consciousness? Did the inventions and modernizations come first, or did they come about as a result of the elevation in consciousness?
Nicola Tesla gave us a vision and technology to transform humanity in a very positive way, and he was ridiculed and pushed aside. Buckminster Fuller gave us both technology and a new way of thinking that would positively transform humanity, and while he was widely celebrated, his thinking was not embraced. Albert Einstein gave us a deeper understanding of the world that we could not embrace. The field of quantum physics demonstrates the interconnected nature of all life, and yet we never talk about it.
Consciousness is like a sieve that will only allow thoughts, ideas, and technologies to flow through according to its expansiveness or contraction.
Simple is how it feels when I calm my mind through contemplative prayer and meditation and let go of habitual thought forms and old beliefs. When I seek to expand my consciousness through connection to the Divine things begin to feel simple and attainable.
Trying to convince people of which political philosophy or economic theory is better feels incredibly complicated. “Being the change” as Gandhi said, feeling the rise of consciousness within, feels simple.
As I experience the consciousness rise within me the answers seem increasingly simple. This is because I am opening the sieve to accept more expansive thought forms. It’s the egg to the chicken. It begins with the rise of consciousness, then the thought forms are more expansive, which is when we can perceive solutions to problems with greater clarity and simplicity.
It can be for things that are very personal, like conflict in a relationship. We can try to convince or argue our way to a solution, or we can sit in stillness, meditate and pray, and allow the consciousness to rise. And as we do, we change, and as we change everything around us changes.
It can be in a community filled with discord. We can try and think our way to a solution, or we can sit in stillness and focus on elevating our consciousness so that the solutions come into focus.
We can be in conflict, or we can be in harmony. Whatever it is, our consciousness is the sieve that allows the solutions to flow, or otherwise constrain the flow to enable more disharmony.
Higher levels of consciousness will open the sieve to allow more expansiveness to flow. Lower levels of consciousness will constrain the sieve so that solutions seem far-off and unattainable.
Higher and lower are not judgements about betterness or rightness. They are mere reflections of where we are spiritually.
What if we started a new social movement called “Consciousness First?” We would look at all aspects of our culture from the perspective of how they affect consciousness.
What if we assessed all new technology from the perspective of its effects on consciousness? Or better still, what if we assessed the ability of our culture to embrace new technology from the perspective of humanity’s ability to grasp its significance in consciousness?
What if we were to invent a new economic system based solely on its effects on consciousness? What if we focused more on opening the sieve than expanding profit or creating jobs?
The rise if Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust are great examples of what a constricted sieve of consciousness can bring. All those young German men who became concentration camp guards were not born evil or bad. They were indoctrinated into a kind of thinking that enabled inhuman treatment of those deemed different. If we had a kind of culture that focused on consciousness, Hitler would have never been able to rise to power. There would be too many people asking questions and offering sobering reflections. There would have been too many people in high places that would have blocked his ascent because they would have seen through the veil of rhetoric.
We can reflect on the many things taking place in the world today. We can scratch our heads as to why certain things are happening, or we can look to the sieve of consciousness and quickly understand that it cannot be any different than the way it is, because of the current state of human consciousness.
Therefore, the answer is not to push more, not to rise up in arms, not to bash the other side, but to elevate our individual and collective consciousness. Judges will render more enlightened decisions, politicians will be more courageous, administrators will be more willing to buck the status quo, corporate leaders will be more able to see beyond the short term, teachers will teach with more compassion, therapists will stop relying on their credentials and be the change they seek to bring to their clients, and on and on. Things will change for the better — slowly, gradually, mysteriously — merely because human consciousness is slowly and gradually elevating.
It begins with us.
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