Peridot Revolution

Recently I got stuck in an oh-so-last-century way of thinking.  It involved a doctor who told me that I HAD to take a certain medication or I might have a stroke or a heart attach and die.  Even though the 21^st Century, evolved part of me knows that I have bad reactions to chemical drugs, I took the doctor’s advice.  I had a bad reaction.  Really bad.  Really really really bad. So I’m calling for an all-out Peridot Revolution.

The over-riding goal of this color work is to learn to accurately (and generously) interpret reality.  The focus of the work is to remember that life is not all about “me,” (my fears, my concerns, my history.)  Rather, as we study these colors together we learn to live within and interpret the circumstances of our lives from a larger context that is holistic.

Too often spiritual practitioners are other-world based.  We’re either about transcending this world, or we’re about looking forward to a “better place.”  For it to be worthwhile, spiritual practice must become this-world based.  We’re looking for practices which help us simultaneously understand that we’re multi-dimensional, (not to be confused with “other worldly”), and that we’re profoundly present in every dimension right now!

Peridot merges the Yellow Sphere (pure light) and the Green Sphere (matter in its purest form.)  And as Peridot emerges it will have its greatest influence in the scientific fields:  medicine, ecology, economy, even philosophy and theology are going to shift into subtler, less black-and-white and more situational sciences. The answer to the question “what is the meaning of life?” is going to become clearer, because it is going to include a proper balance between spirit and matter, other dimensions and this concrete one.

So what is this Perdiot Revolution?  I’m asking us to push the river a bit.  Rather than wait for our consciousness to expand, let’s expand and simultaneously ground our awareness together right now.  Let’s learn how to interpret our lives with deeper appreciation for our multi-dimensionality.  For example, when doctors tell us we need to follow certain protocols, let’s remember how to take all the factors (seen and unseen) into our decision-making.

Let’s revolt.  Let’s come together, even though we are relatively small numbers, in a mutually supportive community.  Let’s tell each other about Peridot-influenced data we come across.  Let’s alert each other to Peridot purchases we can make.  Let’s let each other know about Peridot literature, research, products, organizations, and opportunities.  Let’s leap across the rainbow together, so that none of us find ourselves ensnared in old thinking any longer!

Ideas????

The Deconstruction of Blue

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.

Coral shows up big time

In our color work, Coral is the Sphere of Synthesis and Surrender.  It is the sphere in which communities form, not necessarily around proximity and geography, but rather around a consensus of ideas and collective wisdom.  These are groups that exist in a morphic field of resonance, and whose governing decisions include what is best for the whole planet, for all beings, for the sustaining systems that nourish Life itself.

I'm watching the Coral Council at work in the world right now in ways we may not have expected!  The Sphere or Synthesis and Surrender sounds like a relatively quiet, go to your knees kind of energy.  And yet, what else would you call the people in Wisconsin assembling to peacefully petition their government? This is a coral event?  What else can we call the overturning of despots in the Middle East, but a coral revolution?

The Red Sphere of Will and Power doesn't bow easily to surrender and synthesis.  The Red Sphere often doesn't negotiate or compromise.  Changing the structure on which the Red Sphere has rooted itself must become so necessary and so obvious that there is no other choice.  That's not to say that the Red Sphere is the root of evil.  In fact, it is the foundation of stability, and without it there could be no culture, no society, no civilization.  But, when it comes time to rearrange the way in which a culture (or if you're dealing with yourself - a personality) operates, the shift feels like an earthquake.

The Coral Sphere blends the Red Sphere of  Will and Power with the Orange Sphere of Wisdom and Compassion.  How can we help?  Well, of course, first we take inventory of whether and how we do that in our own lives.  But how can we help the Coral Revolution that's popping up world-wide?

Try this:  Imagine you're in Madison, or Tripoli, or wherever you feel called to witness the people doing the work of the sphere.  Pull your attention about 30 feet above the heads of the crowd.  Imagine a coral colored rain cloud, sprinkling synthesis and surrender on them.  Simultaneously, bring the governing bodies against whom these crowds are pushing into the mix and imagine them also being imbued with this coral-frequency rain.  Without judgment about what "should" happen, surrender your own energy to the coral council, assisting them in entering the situation.

Comments, please!

cck

To read Connie's book entitled A Colorful Life, visit http://www.turtledreamers.com