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Dick Richard’s of On Genius asked:

“[At] Lunch with a twenty-something friend. He raves about the film, What The Bleep Do We Know?! Calls it amazing and surprising. Says it has been a big undergound hit with college students. Add it to the NetFlix queue. Watch it lend scientific credibility to the paradigm that mystics, meditators, and people of high consciousness have embraced for ages. Bored. Think, “What’s the big deal? The confluence of science and ancient sacred wisdom is news? This is amazing and surprising? Why should this be amazing and surprising? Wonder why all those kids didn’t get it in high school or maybe from their parents.”

Emphasis mine. I responded:

We are reaching a tipping point with this idea that It (God, Consciousness, Spirit) is within us. It is us and we are It. All the while, It is yearning to express through us.

We are at a point, especially in the US, where we have gotten all the stuff and exhausted the search outside ourselves. We are delving deeper and deeper within.

In 2003, I was at a crossroads in my life. My professional career as an IT and business consultant shot through the roof. It was really intentional on my part. But one day in 2003, I came to the conclusion that I was completely out of alignment with who I am.

You see, from the age of 8, I understood that God lived in me and that I am here to express God in my life. From 8 to 28, I moved further and further away from that understanding. I remember the exact moment my house of cards began to fall apart.

I was in Germany on business, collaborating with the CEO and CTO of a company on how to bend their product to our client’s will. I heard the jets flying overhead, getting ready to land in Kaiserslautern on their way to invade Iraq. I retreated for about an hour and a half. My colleagues thought that it was the rigor of the trip, but in that moment my world began to collapse. The roar of those engines was the sound of my life crashing. It took a year after that to quit.

The week after I quit I went on a spiritual retreat. I spent hours in intense prayer asking what I was to do now that my plan was over. I spent even more time meditating, waiting in the silence for the answer. It came through loud and clear, “Speak Truth, write Truth, teach Truth so that everyone will understand.” I rushed home excited to go forward with this mission.

Before I even left for the retreat, I got this domain on September 14th, 2003. At the time, my husband was working on his e-commerce business. He introduced me to this new idea called blogging. It was perfect. I had the technical skills to implement the software and create the blogs, I had the domain, and I had a message. I had to speak.

I slowly talked myself out of my purpose with logic. In 2004, instead of devoting myself 100% to speaking, writing, and teaching Truth, I decided to split my time and energy. I
rationalized that I could use my experience in the business world to help my husband with the e-commerce business. I could learn a lot more about the web, and I can get his company to the point where it could support us. By March, I put my purpose on the back burner and threw all of my resources into the e-commerce business. I made his dream my own.

When my financial cushion ran out in October 2004, I returned to work. For the next year and a half, my focus continued to be on building the e-commerce business. I was caught up in its potential - really my husband’s potential. I wanted to see it come to fruition. What I didn’t realize was I deferred the realization of my own potential. In the long run, this strategy proved detrimental to both of us.

At the beginning of 2006, it seemed that 2004 was starting all over again. Only this time, it wasn’t by choice, not conscious anyway. The lesson was clear: if I am not in alignment with my Self, my life will reflect it.

Something IS calling me. Calling me to align myself with It, all while helping everyone do the same. Thing is, you feel it calling too.

We are at a time in history when we have the technology, the information, the overall capacity to make the journey within. While aligning ourselves with Spirit/Consciousness/God, we begin to express It in our daily lives. Health practitioners still heal, but they do so from a place of Being health and knowing that health is already available to everyone. Business men and women still continue to engage in commerce, but do so from a position of abundance and adding value. Artists and musicians speak from their experience, but now their experience is their journey to align with Spirit. Engineers and architects still build our infrastructure and bring innovation in our lives, but from a place of harmony with nature and Life.

Today, I am deeply grateful for my spiritual experiences, my awakenings, and the overall lifted consciousness of humanity. What are you grateful for?

Update: Incidently, I’m reading through my feeds today and see the Steve Pavlina has written about the Consciousness Revolution.

One day you’re tooling along, working your normal job, living your normal life, and everything seems OK. But something happens that triggers a sudden expansion of your awareness, and for that brief moment of perfect clarity, you know what it’s like to be fully awake. You’re struck by the terrifying realization that your life has gotten way off course, and that you’re really meant to be doing something entirely different.