Lola Wright continues our March series, “Consciousness Creates,” with the message, “Celebrating The Tension of Change.”
Notes:
Loyola Ramblers – 1963 National Champions (55 years ago); Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt; Porter Moser since 2011 celebrating the tension of change
We are approaching Passover in the Jewish tradition and today begins Holy Week in the Christian tradition.
- Passover celebrates the liberation of Israelites from Egyptian slavery
- Holy week acknowledges Jesus’ capturing, sufferings and death at the hands of the Roman Empire – Jesus was a troublemaker
The role of spiritual institutions and leaders
is to explore injustices of today’s society.
If spiritual leaders are not questioning our
social political landscape then
what are they doing?
“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both.
But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”
― Karl Barth
What is happening in this country? What is happening in the collective consciousness of humanity?
Celebrating the tension of change – who will you be in this time?!
We are living in a time of great awakening. Consciousness creates through you and me and we are reaching a tipping point of waking up to our personal power. And you are part of that shift – you are part of that creation. You are creation.
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- Unless all of us win, none of us win – Alex King of North Lawndale College Prep
- SLIDE: Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 NRSV
Objectives:
- Scrutinize our mental food
- Acknowledge spiritual bypass
- See soberly
- Take responsibility for the facts
- Assume innocence
- Celebrate the tension of change – Life is GOOD
Keywords/Stories/Points:
- We are still living in a paradigm of pain. The pain body still moves us. And our young people know that. They’re pushing pain strategically to call forward a new paradigm – brilliant!
- SLIDE: Tension causes change so we’re going to cause tension to cause change. – Quintez Brown
- SLIDE: Pain pushes until vision pulls. – Michael Beckwith
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- Mental Awareness/Consciousness – the ability to witness one’s thoughts
- Unconscious – being run by one’s thoughts
- The Creative Process in action – Belief in Lack – Poverty – Violence – Criminalization – Collective Narrative – Collective Agreement
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SLIDE: Thinkers change the world, and you are a thinker. –The Power of Decision by Raymond Charles Barker
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- Cover of Time Magazine/Stephon Clark/Austin Bombings
- Lift yourself UP! Rise above the law of averages – you are here for GREATNESS! How can we NOT talk about what is happening today through the lens of collective consciousness. It is the way the Law works.
- SLIDE: The soul, being the seat of memory, already contains a record of everything that has ever happened to us. These memories as a whole, constitute the subjective tendency of the individual life; this tendency can be changed through constant effort and a determined persistency of purpose. The collective unconscious contains a record of all human events that have every transpired… The sum total of all erroneous human belief, binds until the individual mentally lifts himself above the law of averages into the higher law of Spiritual Individualism. – The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes
- SLIDE: Individualism – a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
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Spiritual Individualism rises out of the collective unconscious – interrupting the status quo and getting in back of the thing…not working at the level of the problem.
Summary:
SLIDE:
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- Develop the capacity to understand spiritually what is happening at the level of the collective consciousness
- Discern what is needed and who you are to be in the awakening of consciousness
- Feel the tension of change and celebrate the growth you see
- Breathe through the tension of change
- Keep affirming a win for all
Closing:
Prayer & Meditation
