Class 5 Living Evolutionary Enlightenment

The class this week started with a written test. As I handed the papers out there was an almost automatic response of tension and nervousness from most of the people.

The reason for this test was not to find out how much people understood, but to prove that people respond in conditioned ways according to specific circumstances.

By applying the five tenets one can start to see these conditioned impulses that arise in our awareness, this creates the potential for consciouss evolution.

As the Authentic self rises to the surface of consciousness one experiences 
instantaneously ecstatic freedom that liberates us from limiting conditioned responses that result from the past. But when this experience fades and the conditioning of the personal ego gets back in the driving seat, this is when the five tenets can be applied.

The first three tenets cultivates soul strength, which Andrew defines as an increasing capacity for integrity, transparancy and authenticity. As the soul can be strengthened it can also be weakened, the choices we make when our conditioning arises will determine which one will happen.

Its good to point out that each persons soul is at a different point of Evolution. I heard Andrew describe the soul as the sum total of the individuals actions and responses to those actions. Where as on an absolute level everyone is consciousness, at that level there is no difference whatsoever.

The Authentic self emerges in the model as the fourth and fifth tennet are practiced. This is where the change from a personal perspective to an impersonal universal view starts to come into awareness.

The final video described the amazing potential that will start to happen when two or more individuals come together who are living the five tenets. A higher collective consciousness will start to emerge between people that is completely thrilling and liberating.
This course is an introduction to the teaching and did not even scratch the surface of the collective potential. I am hoping we continue to meet up after the course. So people can get a sense of this and develop it further!

When I look back to the first class I can see how much development there has been in five weeks from the whole group, we definitlely finshed at a deeper place than when we started.

All my Love Ross

p.s I thought I would ad this quote I found.

For the Next Million Years

Christians have been reflecting upon Jesus' crucifixion for two thousand years. If you had happened to be around back then, for example, in Alexandria, it was a cosmopolitan world and they had news of what was going on, and you heard about some Jewish rabbi being killed - big deal. It wouldn't really have had an impact on you. But then, for two thousand years afterwards, Christian theologians are thinking about it. So my latest thought is, maybe for the next million years, humans will be reflecting on what it actually means for the earth to go through this extinction process. It may take us that long to fully take it in, with all of its ramifications. I don't understand it. It's vastly beyond my mind. I think that we're not prepared to really understand what it means. That's all I'm hoping for. If we just get a glimpse of it, we can begin to think at the level that's required to deal with it effectively.
Brian Swimme
Cosmologist and leading proponent of the 'Universe Story', a deep time developmental perspective on the evolutionary dynamics of the cosmos