Actualizing New Potentials in Consciousness right Now!

A somewhat fanciful heading?  Read down further - I mean it in all seriousness.

This morning Andrew goes on to the 2^nd and 3^rd Tenets of evolutionary enlightenment: The Law of Volitionality and Face everything and Avoid Nothing

Acknowledging we all are crazy and divided, we have to apply the Tenets to ourselves, in order to manifest unity and integration.

As soon as we start our discussion after lunch, there is seriousness and ease that follows naturally from the previous day's group on Clarity of Intention where everyone went through a very positive confrontation with the Absolute.

There is no resistance to investigating the transformative power of the 2^nd and 3^rd Tenets and everyone is taking part with unselfconscious interest.

At a certain point there is a major flip in the group when the subject changes to:

Ok, what about facing the unthinkably positive new potentials in consciousness we are touching on? Are we willing to boldly come out of the shadows and stand for what we have realized in our best moments? - those extraordinary experiences of the authentic self?

What about taking responsibility for all this?

Suddenly we're each spontaneously embracing responsibility for the success of these discussion groups. The success of the retreat depends on us pushing into new possibilities in consciousness; it's infinitely more than being responsible for my personal egoic tendencies.

 The evolution of the whole vast process of Life is on my shoulders.

            I tell the group that I am blogging about them each day ( they didn't know that until this moment!) and many people are reading about these discussions as they happen and we are responsible for giving people faith and conviction that it really is possible to evolve consciousness.

It does really really count what I do.

The intersubjective consciousness between us has been building throughout these groups ( or rather we've been building it by intention and authenticity and striving to be transparent and taking responsibility for our own ego) and it's crystal clear now that we are in the world of the authentic self.

            Now our perspective is that of consciousness itself and our allegiance is to the development of consciousness. From this view, the narcissistic separateness of ego looks insane and meaningless, as well as obviously not in the interests of the whole.

Each person is fully responsible for themselves and can speak freely and autonomously and at the same time, we each are one with the process itself.

We discuss this remarkable paradox between the One and the many - each completely responsible for the whole process and its evolution and yet simultaneously each of us more fully individuals.

What naturally emerges individually and collectively is a sense of moral obligation for the evolution of consciousness.

Andrew picks up on this when we report back to him and points out how we are actually creating something new which then demands something in turn from us. In other words, we are becoming obligated by our own creation. This is not an externally imposed moral code from an outside authority but is from the new emergence in consciousness of the authentic self.  

A new morality for us post-post moderns which is very much in line with Ken Wilber's philosophy of post metaphysical spirituality?!

But this is not theory! - it's experimental data straight from the field and we're the conscious evolutionary Guinea pigs!

            I wish you were there to experience and help create this. What Andrew has said on this retreat about us cynical PoMo's is borne out here. The extraordinary conviction and confidence in Life and ourselves that is discovered based on our actual deepest and ongoing experience in these discussions cannot be overstated. It's the ultimate remedy for the lost soul of us PoMo's.

 Meaning and purpose that is not a concept and belief but is discovered of our sincere striving beyond ourselves, empowers us like nothing else. The beginnings of laying down a new spiritual, philosophical and ethical context not based on ideas or beliefs for us jaded generations in 2007 could actually become a reality.

Oh my God! I really feel we're surfing on the edge of creation!