Ruby Sphere - What IS Christ Consciousness?

The idea of Christ Consciousness has always frightened me a bit.  It seems too "love and light" to ever achieve.  To have Christ Consciousness, don't you have to compare yourself to Jesus?  Isn't that the height of arrogance?

This week I've been thinking about that as I've watched Brother Weather rip across our country, demolishing homes, killing some people, injuring others, and frightening others. How does Christ Consciousness view something that seems so NOT "love and light?"

It occurs to me that Christ Consciousness is actually more deconstruct and reconstruct than it is "love and light."

I spoke with a Native American man a few weeks ago who lives on a reservation just north of Santa Barbara, CA. Standing out in the hills one day, he felt the earth start to roll under his feet.  He described what he later learned was a 6.8 earthquake as the most energizing and exciting moment he'd ever experienced.  There were no homes there to be leveled, no buildings to fall on him, no lives in the balance. i.e. nothing to fear.  "Mother Earth rocked me like the rock of ages!" he sang, vaguely borrowing from Paul Simon's tune.

Periodically, Mother Nature shows us that it's important to deconstruct.  She shakes, she ignites and burns, she floods, her winds blow, her snows fall.  And if we humans ride along with her deconstruction, we get to witness the reconstruction.  The quakes bring new soil to the surface.  The floods deposit new soil on the surface.  The winds blow away what's no longer needed.  The snows melt as the spring flowers pop through.  If we humans don't amplify the deconstruction by building levees that don't hold, building nuclear plants too close to the shore, building our homes in the dry and fire-prone forests, building dams that create drought areas, we instead celebrate with the Earth as she demonstrates Christ Consciousness:  deep understanding of the power of cycles alongside wise decisions that partner us with that power.

Yes, it's horrible and sad and heartbreaking to witness the people of Japan, the people of Alabama and the other harshly affected Southern states, the people of Haiti, the flood victims of Australia - on and on our hearts can be broken again and again.  But I wonder if the true work of the Ruby Sphere is to teach us to hold both ends of this spectrum in equal balance:  celebration of Nature, alongside grief that humans suffer.

I'm reminded of a Hafiz poem - if I remember it correctly:

my house burned down last night.  
now I have a better view of the moon.

Indigo - Small and Stubborn

When you look a the rainbow, the teeny tiny sliver of indigo between blue and violet is almost indiscernible.  But there it is, tenaciously holding its position.

So it is with the Indigo Sphere.  I think the people of that sphere want to evolve, but something keeps them from just putting down their end of the rope, thus making tug-o-war impossible to play.

I spoke to an old friend this week.  He has the principle of Love in his chart twice (Sun and Mercury) and Creativity once (Ascendant.)  This guy has some Indigo goin' on!  How can Love and Creativity not want to evolve to Rose Quartz, I ask you?  We talked for over an hour, and a good portion of the time was spent with my listening the problems he's having with his church. It's a liberal/conservative conflict within the Presbyterian church.  The conservatives want to secede (my word, not his) and the liberals say "fine, give us your property deed and start your own church."  The conservatives say "from my cold dead hands" (my words not his) and the liberals say "we'll see you in court."  He's on the conservative side of this argument, and he constantly used terms demonizing the libs.  The only thing I could say to him was, "This is why I don't go to church."  That upset him, too, because he knows me as the preacher's kid who SHOULD be going to church because that was the way I was raised.

This is a classic Indigo argument.  It's almost laughable.  This is not Jews vs. Muslims.  This is not Shi'a vs Sunni.  This is Presbyterians suing each other!  Presbyterians!  Please.

I spoke to yet another childhood friend today who told me about a trip to his mother's hometown to visit his mother's and grandmother's graves.  It's a very very small town in Texas, but it has two cemeteries - one for the Baptists and one for the Methodists.  Surely the two can't spend an eternity buried next to each other.  He had to go to both cemeteries (on opposite sides of the town), as his grandmother was a Baptist, and his mother a Methodist.  (She converted when she married a Methodist, like ya do.)

The Indigo Sphere is the Sphere of Idealism and Devotion.  And indeed, both idealism and devotion are essential in a life with meaning.  One must have ideals in order to strive.  One must be disciplined and devoted in order to achieve.  Yet, when one becomes bull-doggish about his or her ideals and tunnel visioned about his or her devotion . . . well that's why wars are fought, walls are built, mistrust and hatred are fomented.

I wonder whether you have Indigo in your garment pattern?  And I wonder if you're seeing it evolve?  Love and Creativity are trying to evolve to Rose Quartz/ Mastery and Observation.  Innocence and Attraction are trying to evolve to Tanzanite/Trust and Initiation.  Seems to me that this one is having a hard time budging toward the other side of the rainbow.  Is that true in your life?

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

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