Tenth Meditation: August 15 - August 22


We examine America's unredeemed karma.

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Personally, I found the solitary nature of the last meditation to be a little disturbing. I’ve grown so used to feeling everyone’s presence in the temple that it was pretty strange to be working alone.

This weeks’ meditation is rather more involved than most of our work to date. Like last week, this meditation is also to be done alone.
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Our country’s accumulated karma is having a huge influence on the events unfolding today – both here and abroad. We have created our nemesis from our own unredeemed shadow – our untransmuted karma.

And let’s be honest – we have a lot of it.
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"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."
Thomas Jefferson to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, January 24, 1786
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But karma is not an armature of retribution. It is a mechanism of evolution.

So, we can countervail our karmic debt in the time honored way, by trudging through alternating cycles of sacrifice and tyranny. Or we can jump straight to the endgame and transcend the need for further lessons. This is the truth behind the perverted Christian doctrine of the absolution of sin. It’s not that Christ absolves anyone of anything – it’s that the true, living experience of unity consciousness - the Christic perception – forestalls the need for further learning. Because that is the end state where the mechanisms of evolution are inexorably leading us. And it is a state that is never more than a single breath away – even though it might take a million years to achieve it.

This is the backdrop against which this meditation will unfold.
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Wash your hands and drink a glass of water.

Take whatever position you normally use for meditation. Relax, breathe.

Mentally dedicate this activity to the evolution and advancement of humanity.

Realize yourself as a part of the Group Soul of America – you are an expression of it, and it is the ground in which you grow.

Allow your consciousness to rise up to the astral temple. Go to the center and look up through the opening. Gaze up at the planet. Gaze at your home. Gaze up at America.

Now, like Superman (which surely you are) stop the spinning Earth and reverse it in its tracks. As you do, time is reversed – running backwards as you retrogress the Earth through space. Indeed, the whole vast machinery of existence spins back in response to your thought.

Step backward to what you would consider to be the beginning of the American nation, then release the heavens and let time move forward.

Watch as the history of the country plays out in your imagination. You can quite easily control time – the speed, the direction – so adjust the flow of time as you wish, and watch the global history of America unfold – across the continent, and out across the entire planet - right up to the present moment.

Now move forward beyond the present. This moment is the birthing ground of the future. What do we choose to give rise to? Project your consciousness forward into the future history of America. What will it be? How can we redeem the past and transcend the mechanisms of karma? What does that future feel like?


When you are ready, close the meditation and return to consciousness.
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As always, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, observations, etc. Please feel free to contact me.

Light Life Love
-g

Posted: Sat - August 14, 2004 at 11:13 PM        

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