What point am I trying to make? I’m simply showing the extremes as opposites of experience that we have created here. So who’s right and who’s wrong? Who’s good and who’s bad? Who is on the right path? Who is on the wrong path?

The answer is simple. No one.

No one’s wrong, no one’s right. No one’s good, no one’s bad. No one is on the right or wrong path. These are all just experiences and everyone is on their own journey of discovery of self which is absolute perfection!. We’ve created all these belief systems that allow us to experience all of these colourful experiences but at the end of the day each one is what it is. An experience.  Beyond perceptional beliefs and archaic concepts, life is just a game that we have created. No matter where we are, which culture and body package we have incarnated through, what we have experienced and continue to experience, everything is a choice in how we wish to experience it. What we believe we perceive. If we think something is horrible we will create that within the mind and body and will experience it based on collective and our own individual programming.

All in all, it is important to remember that we choose to experience everything in the way that we do by holding on to our belief systems. We may not always be aware of them but this is why we do what we do here at Collective Evolution. To help raise awareness of what is taking place by bringing clarity and understanding to the human experience. A lot of people are feeling that we have outgrown the collective experience that we’re having and we have. We don’t want to play with it anymore. Our souls don’t want to be limited any longer. We absolutely can shift the way society functions but we have to first shift ourselves within. Once we make the shifts within ourselves we can then create an entirely new world in a new, higher more grander and expanded state of consciousness.
Beyond our beliefs, lies an inherent neutrality and peace, which is our natural state. A state of balance and oneness that flows with the ever constant energetic flow of universal consciousness. A consciousness that has no borders. No boundaries. No separation. No limits. It this something we need to be afraid of? Absolutely not. Fear itself is simply an illusion of the mind. When we let go of our attachment to the ego and all power that is given to it through the beliefs that support the program, we will know inner peace. We will remember that who we are IS this peace. The more of us who do it, the more powerful it will be when united. The world will be peaceful when we decide to be that peace because the world is a part of us, a reflection of our conscious state.

So what is life? Life is life.

Much Love!

Sure, the shift in consciousness is unfolding, new energies are rising, change is happening… yet those of us aware of this and working to facilitate change often feel hopeless and impatient when feeling how ‘long’ this global process is taking. It sure is a challenge to co-exist in a reality where we can so blatantly see and feel that 99% of what we experience and play with has been overplayed for eons of time. We may feel at times that it is difficult to stay light, centered and at peace when so much of what we externally see makes our mind lose sight of the light at the end of the tunnel.

But this experience in itself, no matter how noble our desires and efforts to bring change are, offers a great lesson for all of us that feel drained by the current reality.

I was having a conversation the other day with a close friend of mine who was struggling with similar issues to those I am presenting in this article. What was being shared were frustrations about the current state of the planet and how none of it is fulfilling in the present moment. Whether it is talents you were born with, or a desire to work for change, a resentment was being felt towards the structures of this world that are still limiting the full extent of what could be shared and created by the individual.

I am not writing this to deny the fact that the few that are living for change are being affected by the majority who are still holding onto the old ways (and vice versa). This would be denying the fact that we all co-create our reality together.

I am writing this because as I was conversing with my friend about this situation, a message came to me pretty clearly.

As long as we live in the mind, we lose sight of the PROCESS.

Living in the moment does not mean what the moment looks like, what it feels like, or what level of freedom it allows. It does not mean how “shitty” or how “ideal” the moment could be described as. It has nothing to do with “focusing” on the present moment. The wisdom of the present moment is this: allowing oneself to rise above the definitions of one moment in time, and therefore have a peripheral view of the ongoing process that THIS MOMENT truly is.

“The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.” – Eckhart Tolle

Despairing about what this moment cannot give you now only makes you lose your peripheral vision of the beautiful FREEING process that we are all undergoing at this time on the planet, no matter how many chains remain. It is much like a child sitting in the car always whining about “when we will get there”. Mom, on the other hand, understands that the road trip is simply the process that will lead to the destination, but the child does not see this. In this analogy, the whining child represents the ego that can never see beyond what it cannot have right now, while the mom represents the peaceful soul that understands, accepts and observes the process of NOW. She always moves forward with this knowing, even when there is traffic.

When you choose to spend some time judging and feeling overwhelmed by the current limits of our world, notice how you forget that we are also in the process of freeing ourselves from those very limits, right now!

“As things are interpreted or labeled by the mind they slowly cease to be what they are and start to become what is thought about them.” – John Greven

Despairing about this moment simply reveals our remaining attachments to our desires and expectations, despite how noble and heartfelt they are. But what do attachments and expectations do? They are hooks that latch onto us along our journey, adding more resistance and discomfort to each step that we take.

For the good of yourself and of all, take some time to look at every concept, idea, belief, thought or judgment that adds blur to your own peripheral vision of the creative process that is taking place. This request does not ask for more faith, hope, or trust, but simply asks to let go of all doubt, judgment and fear that takes you away from the knowing/understanding of the bigger picture. Rest in this inquiry, and feel the difference between giving power to the whining child in the back seat, or being the one in the driver’s seat. The peace, wisdom and clarity of the soul has never changed and never moved, but it is up to each and everyone of us to embody it.

You have nothing to lose… except the whiny commentator in the backseat of your mind that is only there to pick a fight with the process.

“The moment – the now – is like a river, which carries you forward, ever-changing and ever moving. You either flow with this now or reject it and fight it, but that doesn’t stop the flow; it only determines your experience of it.” - Gina Lake

Remember, what is happening here is beautiful, the process is beautiful, every moment is beautiful. Choose to notice this in everything you do, and everything you do will shine much brighter.

Much Love,
Elina

It’s crazy how our concepts of truth, no matter how true they may be and how much they resonate with us, totally transform when we get to KNOW them exempt from concept. It’s like you never truly knew them before, and pretended you did, until their true, definitionless, non-conceptual essence slap you in the face. It’s nice.

I challenge you all to revisit all of the concepts you have adhered to, whether it is ‘Oneness’, ‘All is Love’, ‘Nothingness’, ‘Spirituality’, ‘You are not your thoughts’, ‘Life is an illusion’, or ‘The power of Now’, and feel inside just how much of it is mental blabber, and how much of it is actually known, felt, and lived. The mind likes to get concepts in the way of genuine growth. I can see it in myself and others . If you are truly ready to inquire about it, (or perhaps you already have) this should be the beginning of an internal garage sale of so many attachments that hid themselves in the corners of your mind. This should begin to make some room for true, rock solid KNOWING.

“A concept of truth sure can be a pointer to the truth, but never will be the Truth itself. Truth is the consciousness in which all concepts and ideas arise, yet remains unwavered by such concepts and ideas.” - Elina

Much Love

Who says that I am afraid to speak up and share my truth, or that I fear how the words will come out? Who says that I could make a mistake, or that I should not interfere?

Is it this sense of an “I” that is separate from “them”? This “I” to whom good or bad things can happen to? This “I” that is supposed to be careful with how it presents itself to the world? This “I” that must make sure it is understood?

“Wherever there is identity, there is an ‘I’ entity. Find out what this ‘I’ entity is. See if it is real.” – Mooji

This “I” you are referring to yourself as, does not exist. It sure offers the experience of a wide variety of sensations, of thoughts, of emotions… It can speak words, it can walk, it can move, it can create… But it is not, and never will be who YOU truly are. Because who you truly are is noTHING. You use things as vehicles for experience, you use your hands to create, your voice to express. But who experiences? Who creates? Who expresses? It is the very soul of life, playing, creating, and sharing though this imaginary “you”.

“There is no ‘you’… there is only Life disguised as everything.” 
- Michael Jeffreys

When you feel pulled to do something, to create, or to share the wisdom that speaks uniquely through you, do not get “you” in the way. Do not take “you” seriously… See “I” and “me” for what it is: A vehicle of expression that is only there to be used by who you truly are, and no longer to control you.

“Question this very “me,” this “I” you take yourself to be. With deep self-inquiry you will discover it is just a “story” too — the story-teller. The “I” telling the story is no more real than any other thought.”
- Jim Dreaver

Elina

To go along with this sI’d like to shed light on a beautiful quote from a dear brother soul, “The pain that we carry is the love that we withhold.”

If we carry emotional baggage that is attached to a belief system, we feel a sense of discomfort because the emotional energy is dense and heavy. It keeps us low and in a state of disconnection from our true essence of harmony and oneness with all. The next time you feel emotional about something, ask yourself “what belief am I holding on to that is making me feel the way I do? What story am I creating in my mind?”

Once we identify what the story is and why we’re creating it, which is most often linked to past experiences in which we created an attachment to the belief or story, it then loses its power and we have the choice to no longer empower the belief by letting it go. When I say beliefs can be linked to past experiences it can stem from beliefs that are handed down from our family members, friends, media structures and other things of influence like education systems, etcetera. What happens is that we buy into these beliefs as being solid truth and we don’t necessarily question them. It also becomes difficult to see and feel the knowing that we all have inside when we take on a lot of these beliefs. What is most important at this time is observation and inner guidance. Throughout the majority of history for the human experience, we have been playing in a realm where we have been creating our experiences in quite a disconnected state. The disconnection has come from agreeing to an experience of having a software program implemented into our subconscious minds.

This program is what we call the EGO and it was intended to give us an experience of survival. An experience that we have fully embraced so much to the point that it has become extremely limiting and repetitive. It’s important to understand that we have allowed this program to evolve. It has become a self-learning operating system that creates an illusory perception of reality within the confines of fear and separation. A program that has become so intricately designed that it stops at nothing to keep itself alive, thus creating a series of repetitive auto-response programs that control us. It’s built for protection and survival and is designed to reject love. Basically designed to keep us from becoming aware of our true self.  From birth, it stores information that is learned through absorbing its surroundings and from there projects outward a reality based on what it has learned. Within this creative projection it also has created defense mechanisms, basically protective belief systems and links them to our Reptilian complex (R-complex) brain that is designed for “fight and flight” so to speak. It creates retaliation methods for protecting its survival.

One might ask, how is it that this program has become enabled to do this? The answer is simple. We have empowered it for so long. Some may think I am reaching with this statement but it is very much so similar as to how the “machines” from the movie The Matrix operate. You could also compare it to the movies The Terminator where they created “Skynet” and it becomes self-learning and eventually destructive. This is exactly what we are experiencing here on Earth. The ego has brought us to a destructive reality, very much as to the likes of a “cancer”. Cancer destroys the organism that brings it life. It manifests within a physical body, multiplies, expands, consumes and destroys the very vessel that it was created upon. I would like to make note that I am sharing this information from a state of complete neutrality and that there is no need to judge this in any way. This is simply the reality that we have chosen to create and it has served us greatly and been a beautiful experience. Absolutely perfect! It’s simply now about understanding that it doesn’t have to be this way and we can move on.

Another question that might come up is “How have we empowered it?”. This one can be quite shocking for some. The answer is simply that we believe it is who we are. We believe that we are the ego. We identify with our emotions and the thoughts created by the ego. We believe this because we have been born into a society that was designed to make us think that we are the body and mind and nothing more. Designed to keep us from seeing and feeling that we are so much more than this. That we are souls made of an infinite power of light and love that cannot be measured or defined beyond the simple knowing that we are infinite potentiality and universal creators in essence.

The shift in consciousness that we are enduring is happening because we have chosen, at the soul level, to go beyond the limits of this ego consciousness that we have become stuck in. At this time many people feel that there is something happening. Maybe they feel there is more to this reality than what they currently understand. Maybe they feel they have become tired of what we are experiencing. Some even have a feeling but don’t really know why they’re feeling it or what it is, but it’s a deep feeling that something is going on. That change is happening or is on the horizon. And indeed it certainly is, and is rapidly expanding day by day. It’s an amazing time to be alive!

To bring back into focus of what is most important at this time is observation of self and setting the intention of wanting to change. When we put the intention out there, the universe will respond accordingly, and our higher-self will create in perfect unison, the exact experiences we need at the perfect moment, always for our highest good in moving forward onto a grander more expanded state. When we begin to observe ourselves, from a neutral standpoint without judgement, which is our natural state, we begin to unravel an awareness of why we do things. Why we feel the way we do, why we see what we see and why we function in the way that we do within the world. As we raise our internal awareness, our external world begins to shift as it is simply a reflection of our state of consciousness. When we reach a state of peace within, our world reflect that peace.

Each of us is a facet of a collective whole consciousness. As we each shift our own awareness and beliefs and move towards a life that becomes a much lighter dance and more peaceful, it allows us to embrace who we truly are as creator souls. The emotions of this reality were merely created so that we could experience a reality of disconnection from source, we have outgrown these experiences and are beginning to shift back to a state of balance and reconnection, bridging the gap between separation and fear, which in turn will result in bringing about oneness consciousness. A state of complete balance and harmony with all that is encompassed within the universe. From there, we can create a reality that is much less limiting. A reality WITHOUT limits. Earth and the universe is a playground, a playground that we have created. Being the creators that we are, we have the power to create whatever our hearts desire. I love you, as we are one in the same.

Much love!

This term, like all the many others, can be interpreted in as many ways as there are people. Simplicity of living is usually taken as anything else, something far too modest to people and not very interesting. Almost all people want to be special, unique and not simple. And understandably so, because they are not aware of their uniqueness, as well as the general self. The truth is that we are all unique and unrepeatable but we do not allow that uniqueness to express itself, we do not live it fully. We strive for it but yet run from it.

With this desire for uniqueness, singularity, there is a desire to make something big of yourself, to ‘succeed’, to change and modify the picture of yourself, to achieve hundreds of goals that society promotes as desirable, and with which we identify the mind very easily.

These desires and beliefs encourage fear of simplicity. Living in simplicity means to live in acceptance of self, others and everything around us, free from desires that are unreal, illusory. It means to accept things as they are. Because only then, may we begin our transformation. Being simple means be what we are,to have no desire to become anything except what we really are, without running into the imagination of the mind that is never quiet. We are identified with the mind, we are confused and “wandering around”.

Simplicity means clarity. It means that we have looked at self and through self and everything else, it means that we release the efforts for achieving and all the other conflicts that we have built for years. Simplicity stems from working on self and the process of living in the presence of ‘now’ because then we know our true nature, we understand our uniqueness and there is no need to want more because it’s already here, it’s inseparable from our essence.

Thus, releasing the desire to be unique, and the fear that this happens, we become simple, we become free and easily sail through life. Simplicity, although the logical mind does not want it, is the uniqueness that mind is not and can not be fully aware. Because, we all have experiences that make us unique here in this reality, in this world and at the same time we’re all the same, part of the same wholeness. So simplicity is an indication of wisdom, a result of work on self, a result of a state of acceptance, peace and understanding ourselves, others and the universe.

Much Love,

Sanja Mijatovic

Topic of discussion will include:

• What is taking place with the shift
• What we can all do to practically move forward
• Overview of CE2 and the intention of it
• Some info on projects moving forward
• And whatever else the wonderful hosts have to ask!

You can tune into the show using the following link and checking out the ways to tune in. http://btolive.com/bto_audio_launch.html

There will also be a replay of the show available in the archives afterwards.

What would you do if your partner left you, if a close one crossed over, if friends turned their back on you, or if any sudden change occurred in your life? Would you feel shaken, confused, or depressed? Would you blame someone, feel unloved, or hope for a fix? If all things didn’t go ‘your way’, would you all of a sudden lose your love for life?

“You cannot heal what you have not allowed yourself to feel.”

But could you see past the roles and observe the dance of souls? Could you feel that underneath the forever changing story of your life, the true essence and beauty of life has remained still? Would you know in your heart that the loss being experienced in the mind is no match for the inherent wholeness of the self?

… Would you remember that you are only dreaming?

Elina

Franco will touch in detail the following subjects:

• What is truly playing out in 2012 and what is the shift really all about

• What can people do to play a role in the shift and how they can participate in bringing change

• How we can overcome and transcend fear and survival mode.

• What can our future look like on this planet

• How we can work with the “resistance” that is currently in place with the structures and bring change while the structure is still here

• Understanding and embracing oneness consciousness

• Our true nature and natural design. How we can go back to our natural design and expand it even further

The seminar will take place on January 28th 2012 9:30AM – 5:30PM at The Days Hotel and Conference Center in Toronto.

Tickets can be purchased online or at the door. Please purchase your ticket in advance HERE or email us at contact@collective-evolution.com to confirm your attendance and reserve a seat. Seating is limited so please do one of the above if you plan to attend.