Our New Mind

As I have many times before, I invite you to sit on the moon with me, and as you settle in, there before you is your beautiful home, planet Earth. Now, see her in her infancy – molten lava, gas, and dust. But just like you, she is an evolving being, and look at what 4 ½ billion years of creativity have brought us to… turquoise seas, carpets of mountain wildflowers, sleek Jaguars, exquisite clouds, pristine peaks, and 7 ½ billion people.

Something very amazing happened around 2 million years ago. Life began to think about itself and as this skill developed, rudimentary humans could talk about life, describe life, explore life, make tools, and eventually write exquisite poetry, and create heart-opening music.

But most of the time humans have been caught in a mind that sees through the lens of good and bad, right and wrong. This has caused so many wars, so much domestic violence, and so much heartache on our planet.

You can easily see the qualities of this struggling mind when you watch the evening news:

• At this moment, over 110 armed conflicts are happening in our world, mostly created by men who are trying to gain power.
• Hamas, fueled by revenge, brutally massacred babies, women, and men.
• Israel is acting out of the belief that through armed conflict they will destroy Hamas, while in truth, they are creating more terrorists as they are killing tens of thousands of women and children.
• Kim Jong Un and Putin are run by the urge for dominance.
• The rise of antisemitism comes from the very immature idea that I am better than you because of religion, skin color, sexual identity, gender, or political beliefs.
• So much of the political discourse now comes from ‘I am right, and you are wrong and there’s no place that we can meet in the middle.’
• The fear of immigrants comes from the judgment ‘they are the other’ when in reality they are the lifeblood of change for any country.
• There has been a 29% increase in anxiety in our children from 2016 to 2020.

All these qualities come from what I call the old kind of mind, the kind of mind that does not see that we are all in this together, living on a tiny jewel of a planet. It creates the belief it is me against the world, fueling a sharp increase in the feeling of being all alone. This kind of mind is incapable of seeing our fellow human beings through the wisdom of our hearts.

But the Earth is an evolving process and there is a new kind of mind beginning to show up in human beings. It is the kind of mind that sees war as an archaic way to handle our challenges. It also sees that there is no ’them and us’. We are all brothers and sisters with so much more in common than our differences and communication rather than conflict is the way to live together.

Because you are reading this blog you are a part of this awakening of the wise human heart. You can make a difference by how you meet yourself and others on your journey through life. Every moment you catch yourself relating to your experience through the fear, the judgment, and the non-trust that is the old kind of mind and instead relate to it with your heart, you become part of the healing of our planet.

In Nora O’Donnell’s Interview with Pope Francis, he was a most amazing spokesperson for the wise, human heart. In many of the topics they explored, his heart was so wise and so open. At the end, he said, “Progress is fundamental. We have to keep moving. But it must be in harmony with humankind’s ability to manage it.”

That harmony comes from you. One person at a time, one experience at a time, humanity will be moved out of the dark ages of the kind of mind that causes so much heartache, into the kind of mind that unites us all. And you are a part of that evolutionary shift.

If this blog interests you and want to explore more of my work, I invite you to listen to my upcoming radio show on Dreamvisions 7 Radio: Are you ready to Move Beyond Struggle? It will air on Thursday, August 22nd and 29th at 5am and 5pm HERE. After the 29th, it will be available on demand, along with every other radio show I’ve ever done HERE. Please feel free to explore my catalog and listen to topics that call to you.

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