From what to eat for dinner to oil spills, it’s all about consciousness...

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The single biggest spiritual lesson is always simply that that we each have choice to live a life that is more conscious, that we can participate in the world in healthy ways and help make that world a healthier place if we allow ourselves to be conscious of it. It doesn’t matter what the scale of our problems is--from a personal issue all the way up to issues that affect the health of our mother Earth--it’s all the same dynamic of effects from whatever our level of personal consciousness is. Whether we blame our parents, our spouses, the economy, the government or a company in charge of an oil rig for our misery, the act of blaming tends to obscure the rightful focus on our own complicity in the state of our affairs. And it is the consciousness of our involvement that will reveal our capacity to actually do something about it.

We have chosen to live lives of great excess that require identifying and tapping energy sources that pose massive risks to life on this planet in one way or another and in one scale of time or another (i.e. either today or in someone else’s generation). It is not always obvious to the average person how true this is. It is very easy to get lost in the television that tells us how we should live and trade the corporate machines our lifeblood of time for a few bucks that we then spend according to how we are told to. But the television is not the problem, corporations are not the problem, the government is not the problem, the media is not the problem and energy is not the problem.

We are the problem. We create the demand for products that require energy; we create the demand for energy itself; we control what corporations produce by our demands; we create governments, policies and regulatory bodies through our participation and lack of it; we decide what will and what will not happen by what we choose in every moment.

When we move to a state of consciousness that recognizes our connection to what is around us, recognizes that we are all part of the same manifestation of life and recognizes that we don’t need more than enough to live peacefully in cooperation with nature to make life fulfilling we will begin to make conscious decisions--trillions of them every day. Those conscious decisions will drive corporations, governments and economies to follow our lead. When we decide to walk more, fewer cars will be manufactured; when we decide to purchase local goods, less air pollution will be generated; when we decide to participate in government more, we will see a government that reflects our understanding; when we see those around us as the same as us, conflict will become unnecessary.

When we decide to take responsibility for our own individual actions by recognizing our integral place in the world and making appropriate decisions that use only what we need, we take back an enormous amount of control over the quality and health of our own lives. Let’s start making those decisions right now.

Peace,

Anton Elohan