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Our New Human Consciousness
A Blueprint for the Flow of Life
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Who Am I and Why Am I Here?
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Written by Dr Terry Sands
Copyright © Dr Terry Sands 2008
Smashwords Edition, July 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4523-4579-6
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‘Who am I, and why am I here?’
This question is perhaps the only thought that occurs to every one of us asks at some time during our life. There is only one answer to this question, but that answer manifests in a unique way to each culture and to each of us individually.
For some, this question is merely a passing thought; for others, the question is answered by religious teachings; for still others, the question is so serious that it prompts a search of paramount importance and becomes the all-consuming purpose in their life.
As each of us asks this question, so does the voice of our culture rise above the day-to-day struggle and call for an answer of its own. We are calling for a way, a path, and a metaphor to help us understand the nature of our identity and the meaning of our life.
What happens when you ask this question?
If you have asked this question with more than a passing interest, you have probably explored various avenues that appeared to offer any semblance of an answer. You may have looked at various religions; you may have read the odd treatise or book about various spiritual paths now in existence; you may have journeyed to far-off lands and partaken of the answer of a foreign culture; and you may have been attracted to various forms of so-called ‘New Age’ philosophies. Most of us have read a book or an article or seen a programme about some of the modern gurus and cults that claim to give an answer to those who will follow their teachings. Some of us have even followed one or two of them.
Many of us have all but exhausted the various avenues and attractions that offer an answer and have found the answers wanting. Certainly, many of those paths contain some truth, and many of them are genuine. That is not the question which remains when they have been sampled or explored. The emptiness that hangs in the mind seems to ask for something to fill the void that makes that truth apply to ‘me’. It may say, ‘This path may be fine for you, but what about me? Where is the answer that makes my heart sing?’
We may have explored the history and nature of the paths of other cultures and the reasons why they may not work for those of our new culture who harbour a ‘neo-sophistication’. We are different. The philosophy of our culture was born with us. It lay dormant for many hundreds of years, but it was there. As with all cultures, the initial concerns were with a homeland and a home, food and sustenance, propagating our cultural family.
What is a ‘culture’?
In this context, a ‘culture’ is the evolutionary appearance of an old tribe of souls that manifests to occupy once again a time–space spectrum on this planet, or it is the evolutionary appearance of a new tribe that manifests for the first time on the planet in the initial stages of its collective search for development and truth.
The process is ongoing, and, indeed, eternal. A culture may occupy the earth for hundreds or thousands of years before it lifts away for a period of evolutionary development on another plane or level, making way for another tribe or culture to sweep down and spend some time on earth.
Likewise, there comes a time when the individuals of a culture begin to find a way to seek the truth that is timely for them, and hence the culture itself begins to manifest its own form of The Answer. At first, this Answer will be a path to spiritual truth and enlightenment. As the years go by, the Answer codifies and solidifies into religion – a reflection of the Answer that those early seekers worked so hard to find. Also, in the early days, a culture may borrow a religion or a path from another culture or tribe that occupies the earth at the same time. This is especially true when the new culture has not had time enough yet or is not mature enough yet to begin to develop its own path.
What is the new evolutionary path?
The time comes, though, when the new culture must develop and manifest its own evolutionary path.
The new path that is emerging for our culture differs from the old or borrowed paths. For a start, it begins evolutionarily ahead of where the path or religion of the old culture was when the new culture borrowed it. Let’s look at our scenario.
Those who are of this new culture know who they are, and they recognise one another. They may have been born to parents of a long line of physical ancestors, but the soul of the culture and the soul of each individual is different: both start with an expanded awareness and a rejection of the old ways.
A new culture is the next stage of the evolution of our human family. Most often, when it is time for a new culture to manifest, it first takes birth in an existing culture, and then breaks away with its own beliefs and values, and it then begins to develop its own spiritual path. Until it is time for the new ‘Who Am I And Why Am I Here?’ culture to break away, it follows the ways of its parent culture, and it accepts the ways of that parent culture including the religions of that older culture.
Our new culture has been growing for a few hundred years now – a relatively short time as cultures go. It has been following the religions it inherited from its parent culture. The new culture now comprises an aggregation of souls from many parent cultures and a confluence of many existing religions. The new culture has carried mainly the Judaeo–Christian religious heritage – in many various forms – forth to the present day. This religious heritage was based originally on a real spiritual path. Other cultures have developed their own path, often based on the revelations of a spiritual leader. Each of these religions has developed a higher or hidden (occult) side of the teachings.
Often, a person in a new culture who feels the longing for spiritual growth will find their way to the occult teachings of an older culture. Some such persons may have even migrated from the older culture and incarnated to help the new culture.
How will our culture manifest its own path?
The emerging spiritual path of our culture is distinguished from the early spiritual paths of old in one very important aspect: it will not be manifested by a single teacher. This new path will manifest from the Spiritual Self of each individual.
This means that the point of manifestation will be a bit higher than it has been for some cultures. When the truth manifests to a culture, the way that truth manifests will depend largely on the state of evolutionary development of the culture. A culture of less evolutionary development will need a more tangible manifestation of the truth: it may need a real person in the flesh who is much more evolutionarily advanced than the others to come among them and tell them how it is.
A culture that is more evolutionarily advanced can become eligible to raise its point of manifestation. This means that it may essentially say, ‘All enduring teachings tell us that the Truth is Within.’ So, can we find it within? Can we do it this time without a guru, a messiah, an avatar, or a master?
This is an important decision for a culture to make: it is a hard decision, and it is a hard path. It hasn’t been done in our culture for a long time, if ever.
How does this new path differ from other paths?
The first thing that is new about this new path is that the truth is going to come from within each one of us: we don’t have the luxury of someone coming down from the mountain with the truth in their hand and doling it out to us in scriptures, platitudes, or parables.
There is another characteristic of this new path that distinguishes it from the way previous cultures have manifested their search for truth and enlightenment. We know from the teachings of our religions that periodically there have been natural disasters that essentially wiped out life as it was then known: fire, flood, or other natural cataclysms. This has happened mostly when the situation here got so bad that it could not be corrected except with such a drastic house cleaning. These disasters happened, obviously, at the physical level; we were almost wiped out as a race, at least for a while. And when we woke up from the disaster and started again, we had virtually forgotten the problems of the past. In many ways, these disasters were a luxury for the human race, in that they cleaned out the house very quickly so we could make a fresh start. Some of the instances of this have been lost to our history: for instance, the fate that befell our early brethren in Atlantis and Sumeria.
Now we have to go through the cathartic process of cleaning up our own house. In some ways, this is related to our decision as a culture to manifest our own path towards truth from within ourselves. We have decided not to have a physical teacher, and we have decided not to have a physical disaster.
‘Great,’ someone says. ‘So that means that we’re not sentenced to death.’ ‘Right,’ comes the reply, ‘we are sentenced to life.’
The good news is that we each get to see the truth for ourselves; the bad news is that we have to be able to handle what we see in our truth. It would probably be easier to die and come back again after things are cleaned up than to go through the psychological and spiritual catharsis that we now face. The fact may be that the salvation from the ravages of the former is inherent in the development of the latter.
In other words, if we can develop a way – a path – to see the truth (and there is some urgency), and if we can work out a way to apply the truth to ourselves in each of our lives, we can avoid – or minimise – much of the pain that we will have to endure in the transition period while all of the aspects of our new culture emerge.
When will this path emerge, and who will manifest it?
This path is already emerging. There are many who are taking it upon themselves to manifest parts of this new path and our new consciousness that comes with it.
These pathfinders who are working with this new way of unfolding the truth within themselves – Our Path of Self-discovery – are ordinary people like you and me.
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of such people are accepting the responsibility to experience and document what they know and see so they can add their own unique contribution to this new path.
I have a contribution to make, and I will share it with you.
Part of my contribution has been to search out and document what has been available in some of the other established paths and to help decide what we can use in our new search. This I have done to the best of my ability. Another part of my work is to take what I know within and work out how it can be used to help us find truth. I do not claim to have all of the answers, but I have found some of the questions, and I have worked out some of the answers.
So, who am I, and why am I here?
This question, ‘Who am I and why am I here?’ is one that each of us must ask ourselves. The answer can come from within you for application in your own life. But the answer to this question alone does not really help us deal with the fearsome prospect of going through the next few years – or even the next few days, or the next few hours – if we cannot apply it in our life. We must develop a way to put this awesome knowledge into practice, else we will go through our own personal cataclysmic disaster, notwithstanding that we as a culture will probably survive physically intact the traumatic transitional time we are entering. The question is whether we will survive psychologically.
I have searched long and hard to discover my share of the aspects about this new path. I am opening some of these findings in this book. They may help you develop a way to find the truth within yourself, and they may help you apply that truth in your everyday life. What you do with this information is your business and your responsibility, for you will create your own consequences, just as I create mine.
To make sure you don’t burn yourself up in the process – and have to start all over again – it helps to understand that manifesting this process takes some time and that you will encounter some resistance from your life vehicles – your mind, emotions and body – as you go. If you will take some time to work through the Material in this book, you may find that it works for you.
How will this affect our culture?
Not only are we manifesting a new path of personal enlightenment and truth, we are manifesting a new step in human evolution. This is part of the deal: if we agree to help manifest a new way of life for our human family, we get a new way of life for ourselves: we get to see some truth, and, depending on our own resolve, dedication, discipline, and commitment, we can each move through many lifetimes of our own evolutionary development in a very short time.
Where do we find the strength and inspiration to do this?
To do this, we must first access a new source of Light: a Positive Presence. The access point of this new source is at the Point of Becoming just above the top of the head. By ‘Point of Becoming’ I refer to the point where your Spiritual Self focuses within the soul to manifest into a human being. The planes above the Point of Becoming are spiritual – the Positive realm, the aphenomenal realm, the planes of that which is yet to be manifested.
The physical world below that Point of Becoming is the world of phenomena: the phenomenal realm–the negative realm–the reactive world. This is the world we live in: the world in which we play out the inevitable consequences we have created by our actions, thoughts, words, deeds, wishes, fears, hopes, desires, and beliefs. As you tap the opening at the Point of Becoming and open it to an increased flow of Light of the Positive Presence, that light from your own Light Source will begin to transform the circuits of your life vehicles: mind, emotion, and body. If you open to it long and strong enough, it will subsume you, and you will become a complete expression of the Spiritual Self: the ‘I’.
When you know who that ‘I’ Is, you will know who you are; you will know more of the truth than you do now. But even if you know who you are, that is not enough: you are only part way there! It is not enough to know who you are; you must become who you are. When you are who you are, then I am that I am.
I’ll see you there!
About the Author.
Dr TERRY SANDS was born in the USA, studied there, served as an army officer, practised law in his own firm, qualified as a Yoga teacher, then moved to New Zealand. He has travelled widely, thoroughly researching existing spiritual paths and has undertaken spiritual training in India and elsewhere. He is a registered psychologist and psychotherapist, specialising in personal development and spiritual psychology. He has numerous educational qualifications and degrees. Dr Terry Sands currently lives with his family in Canberra, Australia.
If you enjoyed reading this free introduction, you’ll love the rest of ‘Our New Human Consciousness’ series by Dr Terry Sands:
Series 1 – Our Opening of Awareness
Series 2 – Our Path of Self-discovery
Series 3 – Our Awareness in Transition
Series 4 – Our Process of Self-determination
Series 5 – Work of the Pathfinder
Series 6 – Our New Cultural Consciousness
Series 7 – Our New Human Mind
Series 8 – Our New Mindskills
Series 9 – Our New Mental Technology
Series 10 – Our Promise of Soul Liberation
Series 11 – Our New Relationships
Series 12 – Going Within – How to Meditate
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