I’m just back from Vancouver’s first Connecting Consciousness potluck. (1)
Wonderful being around people who knew what I was talking about. I’d forgotten what it was like to have a social conversation that had depth.
And of course it got all my impatience surging again. Where is the Reval? Why can’t we get to work?
But of course we can get to work. We can master ourselves and own processes in preparation for heading up large humanitarian concerns. (2)
THE most significant process we can master, in my humble opinion, while waiting for the Reval, is the process of changing our mind.
That’s ridiculous, you say. It takes nothing to change my mind.
If you’re talking about the everyday choices we make, maybe. But that’s not what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about a process that is much deeper than that. I don’t even know who changes whose mind but only at that level do changes in commitment happen that are totally, absolutely basic and decisive.
For instance, I’ve changed my political support. I idolized the father of one of our politicians and so I supported him. But I was red-pilled by an investigator who linked him to the worst possible crimes. I still feel depressed remembering.
It took hitting me with a sledgehammer, to reach that basic, basic level where I changed my mind and my vote on what had been a fundamental loyalty. The father was right up there with JFK in my eyes. I had heard whispers but no evidence.
It took change at a very deep level for me to walk away. We call this kind of change a red pill. “Red pill” implies that we had a very deep and lasting reversal of opinion – and choice.
Yes, we’re going to be swallowing a lot of red pills, plenty of deep changes of mind. But will we work the process consciously or be swept up in a tide?
In my opinion, a change of mind that’s simply superficial is usually not enough to have a person alter their conduct. And the depth of a change, in my view, is measured by its capacity to alter behavior.
Did they stop doing this? Did they start doing that? They’ve had a change of mind.
Another way of saying this is that a change of mind happens after a change of heart and the latter happens at a deep place in us.
This much, much deeper change of mind – this change of vote – that I’m referring to definitely alters behavior.
How many times have I said, oh, yah, I stopped doing that. And I haven’t. Because the resolution to stop was too weak and superficial.
The kicker is that there’s no faking it. Our intention shows up in our tone, pitch, emphases, word choice, everything. We telegraph where we’re at. Some of us can’t resist one barb or hook or note of disdain, showing where we stand. And we think we’re not observed.
Not me of course. What do we say? Present company excepted? As I do another nosedive into superficiality.
I can now say from experience that coming from stillpoint makes it easier to reach deep levels to rechoose from. Growth work, meditation, dangerous (team) work all have the ability to assist us to reach deep levels of focus and intention – and willingness to rechoose.
My intuition tells me that, if we want to make deep and reliable decisions in the times ahead, we need to begin the practice of going deeper and deeper into our choices until we reach that place – we call it the observer – that really makes the decisions and forms the intention. That’s the one, “the man behind the curtain,” (3) whose choice, whose vote needs to change if anything else is going to change along with it.
Change that mind and you’ll alter the ship’s course. But I mean really change the mind. (4)
Footnotes
(1) No, I’m not joining with anyone, as worthy as they may be. My instructions from Michael are to remain independent in every respect.
(2) I was triggered by something that happened a couple of days ago and I got to see that I don’t have a firm grip on myself. I haven’t cleansed my vasanas to the degree where I could, today, make solid, reliable, enlightened decisions for a large corporation – and I’m a trained decision maker (as a Member of the IRB). Still not there yet, but working on it.
(3) The Wizard of Oz.
(4) Yes, and who is doing the changing, if not the observer, the Self/No Self, the One?