Towards Shift in Consciousness
By Shiva
@Shiva49 (28366)
Singapore
July 16, 2016 11:16pm CST
The tension is palpable and on the boil.
However it was mostly so from time immemorial with peace proving more elusive than water in the desert.
Is it not clear enough that we are using the wrong tools all along?
Instead of cooperation we use confrontation, might, and one-upmanship.
But with more powerful weapons available for the right price, we are sowing seeds of war and lament that peace is proving a mirage.
When our leaders play to the gallery, flex their muscles, we cannot expect a miracle.
We are watched and we create our own future. If we don’t deserve one then we have to blame ourselves only; fair dinkum.
Our success depends on what drives our thoughts and actions – they should be honorable and trustworthy.
Then a shift in our consciousness will happen; otherwise, our dream of peace will remain wishful thinking!
Image from Wikimedia
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@sunilparthan (6302)
• India
17 Jul 16
yes i do agree with this. but no one have time to think of all. busy with their works and moving on. hmm what else to do that don't know.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
17 Jul 16
Each can do but little but if each does that little, all will be done.
Our leaders want to get elected and play their roles to get our votes.
If we take a stand to vote for one who is above petty politics, a unifying than divisive leader, then the one we want will rise from the ranks.
We get what we deserve and when we put our foot down and make it clear, then things will fall in place - siva
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@sunilparthan (6302)
• India
17 Jul 16
@Shiva49 i like the way you thinking. but not every one here is thinking this way. leaders giving money to get vote and just buy receiving that people are ready to give vote not much thinking about what is going to happen in future.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
17 Jul 16
@sunilparthan I am so impressed with the young in India and their drive.
But I am waiting for them to take over running the country as it is their future that is at stake.
Some of our leaders are very old and sick too, both physically and mentally, rehashing the same old issues to divide us - siva
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
18 Jun 17
@JaboUK such a world would be better than even heaven!
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
17 Jul 16
Actually myLot is a microcosm representing the majority in our world.
We have rules that are enforced to keep the troublemakers at bay who wait to fish in troubled waters.
But in the real world the troublemakers are at the helm calling the shots! siva
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@artemeis (4189)
• China
17 Jul 16
I really cannot say much except we must remember the fact that there will always be consequences for one's choice and decision. What goes round comes around and we will just have to sleep on our beds that we make.
I could not help wondering about a very common question - if peace is really so elusive, as we read about the wars in Syria, attacks in Israel, the rampant bombings and coup even in Turkey; and so on. Is there an end in any of these? Or, could they be prevented in the first place?
I know that there will be some quarters that will strongly disagree with me but I feel that governments should always moderate the freedom of choice and options as opposed to leaving it to the "majority" which we all know too well - that could unreliably swayed to make very very questionable adverse decisions. In short, there's no such thing as total freedom if one is to ensure the enforcement of law and order to keep the peace of a nation.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
18 Jun 17
@Shiva49 democracy without the rule of law is "The mockerecy " and sometimes as based as dictatorship.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
18 Jun 17
@Shiva49 lack of discipline can negatively impact individuals as well as society as a whole.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
17 Jul 16
I agree democracy and freedom do not work to benefit the vast majority.
They are a sham in many countries where whoever they elect the boss remains the same - the powerful interests.
The party in power will oppose the same policies they implement when outside it and blame each other for all issues with the result the welfare of the masses are hardly improved
I recall Deng Xiaoping's thoughts often:
"It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice."
"The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election; something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves."
Yes, there is no total freedom especially for the common citizen: I cannot swing my arms around in a crowded place in the name of freedom.
The words of Lee Kuan Yew is worth to remember:
"Democracy and freedom without rule of law is anarchy".
It is time to pause and ponder whether democracy benefits the vast majority or only a few - siva
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
17 Jul 16
In our individual lives, we set goals and strive to achieve them with the right tools.
But in world affairs our leaders think of themselves, their petty politics and priorities.
And that goes on forever - scoring points against each other than work for humanity as a whole - siva
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
18 Jul 16
Why do we need any shift in consciousness?
Do we really start off completely unconscious, and life is about finding consciousness, and then expanding it to higher levels?
Does every experience of our life help to bring us to this higher consciousness?
Are we just this life, a part of it evolving, or are we bigger than life?
What is consciousness and unconsciousness anyway?
"Life is for you. All is always well with Life."
The “Six steps to Higher Consciousness” have sometimes been listed like this:
1. Life happens unconsciously to you.
2. Life happens with you within it, now consciously.
3. Life happens as you, still within Life.
4. Life is thought to be controllable by you.
5. Life happens through you, now supposedly directing it to happen.
6. Life happens consciously for you, but really it's still unconsciously.
At step six, you are supposed to be at a higher consciousness level, as life happens totally all consciously for you, or so you think. The truth is that life always remains unconscious to everything within it. Consciousness is just a smokescreen!
In other words, you only think that you are conscious, and controlling life, or directing it, or even taking your part consciously in it, but this is all just an illusion really.
There is no unconsciousness, and no consciousness. Life is just Life. God is just God.
Is all of this gobbledegook thinking correct, how can we explain the state of our world, and even my own world, no job, just wasting my time, uselessly so?
Life is not just life. Life is a small spectroscopic peck of dust on the lens of God. You can remain on the lens or you can go past the lens and enter the eye of the maker. You are not his lens either, which is consciousness, merely a tool, you are more than this, you grow in God, as God grows in you.
But then again, nothing is really growing either. It is all just the state of love being itself, and love grows itself continually by expanding itself across itself creating more and more combinative links to itself, and the everlasting conditioning of the reciprocity of this process, allows conscious mirrors of light induced intelligence to follow love around, and when it catches up to love, it thinks it has obtained a new level of consciousness.
We do not need to raise our consciousness. We only need to see that instead of chasing after love, just be that love now.
Drop consciousness all together, and just love, and then whatever is needed, including consciousness, will be created as tools for you upon your way or journey into God's truths of his love loving, and of how this happens, and is happening.
@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
18 Jul 16
@Shiva49 Ha, Ha, with that last post of mine I nearly confused myself too ... LOL... I like to throw in a curve ball from left field sometimes to stir things up a bit, otherwise everyone just agrees with everyone else.
I think the quest for individual consciousness is a selfish one, which has undermined the collective consciousness, that we used to live from before, like in groups of natives all living together in a village life. It is the feeling of being connected to the Earth and everything in it that has been lost.
Nobody cares about anything, especially about their neighbour, who is this neighbour anyway?
If people could just start caring again, they would be loving again. I think it is not a shift to any higher consciousness, especially at an individual level, that will do anything else, but destroy us even more.
We need to love each other, and treat our neighbour as our self.
Grow a collective consciousness, instead of creating streams of different people thinking differently from warped consciousness's maybe that are a bit higher, but which are really lower in the grander scheme of things.
We need to become like children again as Jesus said, and not think that we are above these things by our living from any so-called higher consciousness. Consciousness is like the sun's rays, it can give us some light, some warmth, but we are better to just get closer to the sun itself, or to God, and his love.
@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
19 Jul 16
@Shiva49 That's a nice summing up, in your last line.
"The higher consciousness should be underpinned by the oneness of humanity while illuminated by the uniqueness in each of us; that every one counts."
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
18 Jul 16
That is some way to look at consciousness Steve, thanks!
In a way you may not have convinced me with your perspective but confused me more!
I thought you said - just grin and bear it or even bare it!
I recall one Prime Minister of India who was adept at replying to a question with a counter question!
I was just thinking aloud as the enemy seems to be everywhere now; we cannot even trust our own shadows!
Why so much hatred? And that the target is the innocent and all in the name of religion that is supposed to represent peace!
Wars were fought on wrong premise and many a can of worms have been let loose literally!
I felt people are losing the basic reason for living - they are possessed of blind fury - off with his head!
Our forefathers had nothing but they pressed on but now we have everything but we lose it - the will to carry on.
We have extremes - love on one side and hatred on the other.
The leaders that matter are producing and "distributing" more potent weapons - are they aware what we are going to reap?
My point was there should arise a higher consciousness to help us pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and that is fair dinkum so that the lessons are truly learned.
Yes, everything is present within ourselves and, as you had commented earlier, it is which we want to feed that matters - love that underpins creation itself or hatred that seems to reside only in our species! siva
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
Do humans actually have what it takes to be able to shift consciousness towards peace, love, brotherhood, etc? Might there be people, even a lot of people, that do not care to go in that direction?
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
@Shiva49 Just curious, which leaders are thinking of?
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
8 Aug 16
@1hopefulman I do not have one in mind but one who will touch our hearts - siva
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@cherigucchi (15934)
• Philippines
19 Jul 16
Of all the man's pursuit, its always in achieving lasting peace that he fails most of teh time.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
18 Jun 17
Most people want peace but it's just a few with inflated egos who derail peace and misguided others.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
19 Jul 16
We are one big family and like within a family there should be give and take and respect for one another.
Despite what faith we follow we hardly forgive or our leaders know they will not be forgiven if they make some concessions for peace.
As a layman, I don't get too peeved if my country compromises for peace so that we all live without rancor - siva
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@epiffanie (11325)
• Australia
16 Aug 16
I can relate to your line of thoughts ..
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