New Age Consciousness

New Age Consciousness?

We are often told that human consciousness is entering a new phase, and there are many reasons for believing this.

It is no accident that the population of this earth consciousness has risen at a fantastic rate since around 1800. This is not just about health or physical breeding. It must be designed to push us forward, along with the strides in our ability to communicate through mobile phones and the like.

However, there is probably not a single great event that will raise us up in a magical lift. Evolution is slow painstaking work. It is accomplished by great effort and patience.

One of the things that would aid our progress would be the realization that the religious and scientific myths that formed our outlook up until now are to be discarded in favour of more sensible views, such as:

Death is part of Life.

 It is only a doorway to a new dimension. It is not our enemy. Yes, it is extremely sad to lose a loved one, even though it is a temporary separation. But that loved one is not deprived in any way. That loved one is very much alive and a great deal freer than we are here in this version of reality. There are no dead people! We need to wake up to this fact!

Time is a local illusion.

All our lives, past, present and future, are actually taking place simultaneously in the great Now. We are on stage, as Shakespeare said, acting out dramas for our own development. The stage is real enough, but it is not as real as the Basic Reality of all things, and like any stage it gets rearranged for each scene.

We are not sinners.

Even a casual look at statistics would show that the vast majority of people never go to prison or create any trouble. The so-called news programs distort this reality by concentrating on sensational bad events, so that we sometimes feel the world is a Bad Place.  It is not. Most people don't even experience war. Most people are consistently very kind.
We are not sinners, as various religions would have it. Neither are we screwed up inside as Freud and similar  people would have it. We are working out challenges in the evolution of consciousness, and this never ends. If we come to perfection we would wither and die, and that cannot happen.

It is time to drop these negative views of who we are. That way we will raise our consciousness to a new level.