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Gather Together in the Name of Spirit
In group dynamics it’s well-known that beliefs grow stronger when people gather. Dissent is discouraged and suppressed. Conformity becomes an increasing pressure. We tend to view this phenomenon as a threat, thanks to memories of extreme political and religious movements, but at a deeper level, what you and I accept as reality is always based upon an agreement we share.
Reality isn’t fixed; it isn’t a given. Shared beliefs and perceptions form the raw material from which reality is made.
Therefore, when people gather for spiritual growth, they make an agreement, silent or spoken, to become co-creators. To accomplish this, activity takes place at different levels: New beliefs are expressed and accepted; the mind accepts certain facts and rejects others; a feeling of shared responsibility arises; a new vocabulary is invented and adopted; bonding occurs at the emotional level; at the subtle level, spirits align.
This whole complex of activity isn’t confined to spiritual movements. At this moment, you have the same capacity to be a co-creator. All you need is a core belief: God-consciousness is attainable. When this belief is set in place, a group gathered together to achieve it can begin to build a new reality. The spiritual power needed to reach God-consciousness will be increased many times over.
Find others who share your aim to reach God-consciousness and gather together. Spiritual power increases as people gather. Truth grows stronger because it is shared. Any group that communes in the name of spirit is effective.
Adapted from The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2008).
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add your comment »Three cheers Uma! You are always on the pulse of things. :)
Mary, being a lone wolf myself I do hear you. But look how many of us come together to howl for a cause on Care2.
Come together, right now, over me. Sorry but the MJ cover of that song has been rolling through my head.
Speaking of which, a lot of people are coming together because of him. Making the world a better place and improving the man in the mirror.
Kitty purrs to you all.
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As Hindu Wisdom suggests-just learn to meditate and come into contact with the "source of thought" or the Lord of Love, the Self ! Now that is reality. Hindu is the most Universal religion !! Ghandi said I am a Hindu. also a Christian, a Muslim, a buddist, ect"
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i agree, the power of energy of a group of people together in perfect harmony and syncronicity is amazing....and can do a lot of healing..to others...
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LOOK! It's what is happening here simultaneously across the entire planetary field of consciousness.This is why the vibratory rate for this world consciousness is increasing so fast; our awarenesses feeding each other. I don't know the name for the rate of multiplication past the geometric rate, just that it must be dimensional as our awarenesses and the web link trans-dimensionally. I am assuming that each dimension is governed by a vibratory rate all fitting inside each other like Russian dolls up until the eleventh dimension or wherever resides ultimate consciousness, with our own consciousness extant throughout. All of creation is in contact with itself in this great NOW reality. The affirmation of that linked awareness of all parts of ALL THAT IS,irregardless of the placement of our attention in sequential focus.A nice creative three is sufficient for manifestation.Three is the number of creative energy and the strongest form . Experience and experiment have shown me that I can link with another's psyche and place them in the arms of their high self for healing and protection or simply tell them something myself by invoking the consciousness of the space between us creating that triad as in you, me, and what I just call Three. I might say "Three go there and do that" and it is accomplished because of that grouping phenomena.All parts of the ALL THAT IS are equidistant and in contact and mutually influential. Simply acknowledging the contact is sufficient.
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Sometimes we just need to work with what is available in the moment.
Regardless of what that moment consists of, its quality, not quantity, that can be just as effective. Intention goes alot farther than we sometimes imagine it to.
We are all connected, sometimes all the One really desires, is for one or (maybe 2) to see or act upon this wakefullness.
So others can see who they really are .
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It's a lovely idea however, I am not a groupie person and feel a word here or there or just a smile can relate a message to others. I believe, in a very supple way, people can make connections without having to be part of a group. Its not everybodys cup of tea. I do like being with other people without having to commit myself to being part of a particular group.
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Thank you, Deepak.
Care2.com is a wonderful place where many of us can gather together, but I think it is no substitute for sharing a physical space together.
Sitting together as the people in the illustration are doing allows us all to see the same environment, breathe the same air, smell the same fragrances, hear the same sounds, listen to each other's voices, and even to breathe together in unison as we chant or sing or do Pranayama together. These things are much more difficult to do as we gather together in cyberspace, sharing only these tiny symbols of our thoughts -- black letters on a display monitor's white background.
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