I've been wondering lately where logic and reason went. It seems as if they've lost their grip in the world. We have politicians who say they want smaller and less intrusive government while trying to pass laws about what we can do in our bedrooms and doctors' offices. We have economists who are explaining to us that gas prices are going up because of Libya without accounting for the mind-bending billions of dollars in bonuses oil company executives receive annually. We have ministers who claim to be Christian while preaching the anti-gospel message of hating the poor and turning our backs on the sick. We have scientists who are willing to be paid to deny the existence of global climate change. It sometimes appears that there is no shred of the Blue Sphere of Reasoning and Abstract Thinking left in our public dialog.
Of course I realize that these illogical voices are most likely not representing the majority opinion. But I would be foolish to deny that they are the loudest voices, and that they seem to be "winning" the argument. That begs the question: why? Why are we allowing lies and corruption and misinformation to be the norm?
I think it's less nefarious than it appears on the surface.
The four principles that combine to create the Blue Sphere are Purity, Flowering, Focus and Peace. In the process of evolving, Purity and Focus are moving toward the Turquoise Sphere of Logos and Flowering and Peace are moving toward the Tanzanite Sphere of Trust and Initiation.
Contemplate these movements for a moment. While Purity and Focus release their insistent hold on "just the facts" in order to move toward a purified truth (the facts don't always tell the whole truth!), the flaw with the "just the facts" mentality shows itself. The fact that the revolution in Libya may in some way influence the transportation of oil to the US somehow justifies in the minds of oil companies that the gas prices must go up right now out of our fear of the future. None of that line of thinking begins to embrace the real fact - that oil companies are simply, in Mayor-elect Emanuel's words, "not letting a good crisis go to waste." And even more importantly, that fact doesn't even vaguely include the purified truth that we need to stop using oil in the first place. Do you see that as the Blue Sphere begins to deconstruct, the lies that have been woven into our system begin to reveal themselves?
On the other end of the Blue Sphere, Flowering and Peace move toward the Tanzanite Sphere of Trust and Initiation. At one point in our evolutionary growth, life changed according to the facts. To use a broad-strokes example, when the earth became overpopulated with plants, too much oxygen began to choke life. So, lungs evolved - oxygen-breathing animals created the balance. This kind of evolution is no longer the whole picture. We don't evolve just out of survival needs any longer. Now consciousness itself is evolving. Flowering becomes less scientific and more a case of trusting a divine plan and allowing the evoked initiation to occur.
I'm suggesting here that as we witness the depressing and frustrating events of our daily news, we might also want to keep in mind that we are participating in the deconstruction of the Blue Sphere so that the more expansive Turquoise and Tanzanite spheres might thrive.
Of course I realize that these illogical voices are most likely not representing the majority opinion. But I would be foolish to deny that they are the loudest voices, and that they seem to be "winning" the argument. That begs the question: why? Why are we allowing lies and corruption and misinformation to be the norm?
I think it's less nefarious than it appears on the surface.
The four principles that combine to create the Blue Sphere are Purity, Flowering, Focus and Peace. In the process of evolving, Purity and Focus are moving toward the Turquoise Sphere of Logos and Flowering and Peace are moving toward the Tanzanite Sphere of Trust and Initiation.
Contemplate these movements for a moment. While Purity and Focus release their insistent hold on "just the facts" in order to move toward a purified truth (the facts don't always tell the whole truth!), the flaw with the "just the facts" mentality shows itself. The fact that the revolution in Libya may in some way influence the transportation of oil to the US somehow justifies in the minds of oil companies that the gas prices must go up right now out of our fear of the future. None of that line of thinking begins to embrace the real fact - that oil companies are simply, in Mayor-elect Emanuel's words, "not letting a good crisis go to waste." And even more importantly, that fact doesn't even vaguely include the purified truth that we need to stop using oil in the first place. Do you see that as the Blue Sphere begins to deconstruct, the lies that have been woven into our system begin to reveal themselves?
On the other end of the Blue Sphere, Flowering and Peace move toward the Tanzanite Sphere of Trust and Initiation. At one point in our evolutionary growth, life changed according to the facts. To use a broad-strokes example, when the earth became overpopulated with plants, too much oxygen began to choke life. So, lungs evolved - oxygen-breathing animals created the balance. This kind of evolution is no longer the whole picture. We don't evolve just out of survival needs any longer. Now consciousness itself is evolving. Flowering becomes less scientific and more a case of trusting a divine plan and allowing the evoked initiation to occur.
I'm suggesting here that as we witness the depressing and frustrating events of our daily news, we might also want to keep in mind that we are participating in the deconstruction of the Blue Sphere so that the more expansive Turquoise and Tanzanite spheres might thrive.
I have been in deep contemplation for days after reading your words Connie. I must have read this at least ten times now. Perhaps we will need a few more days for response. I have been asking myself where in my life and in what ways do I "highjack" the truth. We must bring to consciousness how we as individuals are participating in this morphic field of blindness.
ReplyDeleteIn order for the Councils to have access or to be able to reflect through us, we must continue to clear our vessels. In order for the more expansive Turquoise sphere to work through us, "this sphere calls for an intellectual and emotional focus on the ecumenical truths one reaches through meditation and inner development." (A Colorful Life) It is my/our responsiblity to look deeply and honestly.
And again in order for initiation to occur, I'm reminded about the grounding nature and gifts of a faithful practice. Am I taking faithful action? The Tanzanite Council shows us "because their unbending loyalty to peace and their never-faltering visions for new beginnings will lift the veils of doubt and fear that have kept us blind to our potential in the past." (A Colorful Life). This is my prayer. May we send clear prayer to our sisters and brothers in Japan.
Thanks so much Connie for providing this invitation to deepen our contemplation and to own how we are participating and co-creating.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteI am wondering if the Blue sphere, as it evolves into Turquoise and Tanzanite, also changes itself in another way, becoming a "new Blue" as well. I ask because of this dream:
ReplyDeleteMarch 19, 2011
I am in a building on a campus, leaving one classroom in the basement to go upstairs to a class that is to be given by my boss. He is also walking to the class a little behind me. I suddenly remember I left my knapsack in the classroom so I turn around, pass him going back, and say "I'll be there soon." When I go to the classroom, it is absolutely empty except for my old olive-green knapsack sitting on a chair. There is no other furniture and only the custodian is there, cleaning up. I comment to him about how empty it is, take my knapsack and hurry back up the hallway to the elevator.
Then I am outside, my knapsack on my back, hurrying excitedly toward a neon-blue complex that includes a theater - that's where I'm headed - and a few small stores. All the buildings are glowing neon blue. As I approach, a tall dark beautiful woman with an Afro welcomes me with a big smile, gesturing toward the theater. I nod and smile back. I am very happy to be there and eager to see what is happening. EOD
The blue color that I called neon was not quite like any blue I have ever seen in waking.
This dream followed on a week when my school was deeply involved with a visit from an accreditation team. If any of you have ever dealt with accreditors, you know they, like auditors and attorneys, are one of the bluest occupations. Unending pages of regulations and standards, which you have to match with documentation. But this has been evolving, and the people who visited us this time were the most evolved I've seen. They understood that documentation was necessary to "prove our case," but that the essential thing was our relationship to our vision and purpose. It felt a little like Tanzanite - as though we were in stages of initiation, and we were building trust - and a little like Turquoise - the facts are only important in the context of a holistic perception. It was as though Blue had learned to reconstruct itself as a SERVANT to the new-color spheres. The dream seems to point to Blue being re-energized with a different purpose. Perhaps that energy appeared as the neon glow in the dream.
Facts being important only in the context of a holistic perception seems like a neon new-blue glow to me. The glow indicates the movement of light in and out of the color; it represents the openness the blue is evolving into. The old classroom with its four constraining walls is empty now, because the walls are no longer needed to provide focus. Focus is provided through the link to Service. That itself is a huge evolution of Blue.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting ideas, Tamar and Cammie. I do think Blue is becoming the New Blue. Of course none of the spheres will completely disappear. We mustn't confuse deconstruction with destruction.
ReplyDeleteTamar, your dream and Cammie's comment about it reminded me of an oracular dream I had earlier this week. I dismissed it as "just a personal dream" (when will I stop doing that?), but now I'm wondering whether it was speaking to this New Blue issue. In the dream a voice said, "Until you find a teacher who knits, the teachings will lack Focus."