Gaia Consciousness

Purpura Saga by Jean Herzel

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All people are both individuals as well as participating in a higher order of consciousness which has been named integral consciousness, Christ consciousness, unity consciousness, etc. I personally like to think of it as Gaia Consciousness because the physical location of this consciousness is Mother Earth.



It is important that our sense of collective consciousness be intertwined with the earth. It is like the benefit of holding a body/mind view over a mind only view. People are like neurons in the body/mind of the planetary organism, Gaia. As we connect with one another we form Her neural networks. This is where our collective wisdom and intelligence lies - in our positive relationships.

All the matter in your reality is comprised of earth. You are the living exhalation of Spirit embracing Nature. The reason manifestation works so well is that you are participating in the unfoldment of God. Or Goddess, or the universe, or the Great Spirit, or whatever you wish to call it. You are the Creator!

You have experienced success in manifesting things in your own life. Imagine the power of groups of people working together to manifest a shared vision. Gaia Rising seeks to be an intentional neural network in the body/mind of the planetary organism ~ Gaia. We are an interfaith coalition because people of any faith can choose to recognize this form of unity consciousness.

To engage in Gaia Consciousness, cultivate a healthy and whole local self. Local self is the name I've given to the individual consciousness which is tied to a human body. When the local self is happy, healthy, and whole the ego can be overshadowed by a deep heart opening. This deep heart perspective affords you a glimpse of unity. At first you will continue to experience the perspective of the local self for the majority of the time. If you choose to continue to engaging in Gaia Consciousness, you can consider yourself a part of Gaia Rising ~ a movement to raise Gaia Consciousness.

Namaste!
Mama Tree

Gaia and the Local Self

When you decide to embrace Gaia Consciousness, meaning that you consciously choose to participate in being the consciousness of the One Planetary Being, you do not surrender your local self. On the contrary, your local self is an important avatar for the Lady.

First, let me describe what I mean by the local self. When you are in your most ordinary state of waking consciousness, complete with a job, family, identification papers, etc; that is the domain of the local self. I call it the local self as opposed to a larger self, or a metaphysical non-local collective consciousness.

Since it is now possible to have the experience of being both yourself and something distinctly larger than yourself, it is now important to name these states of being and even consider mapping their locations.

Let me give you an example: my local self is sitting at her desk in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. It is 8:10 am, Central United States time. The local self exists in one place at one time. My higher self is contained within a much larger domain. It extends back in time thousands of years to all the places and times my higher self has ever lived or even only read about. Still, my higher self is not the highest singular expression of consciousness. Gaia, the planet herself, has an even broader domain. Yet Gaia is not the highest singular expression of consciousness, she participates in a solar system, galaxy, and universe full of other kinds of beings.

The local self is a crucial component in Gaia's health and well being. The collection of local selves who participate in Gaia Consciousness are comparable to the collection of all the neurons in your brain. The relationships between and among the local selves represent the neural network connections in your brain. Even though the actual awareness and experience of Gaia Consciousness transcends locality, it cannot exist without the local selves.

This is really important, so I'll restate it again: You will FEEL like you are GAIA. You must also strive to still FEEL like and BE Joe, Eddie, Susan, or whoever. It is not necessary that you surrender your individuality and participate only at the meta self level. On the contrary, it is much more important that each one of us maintain a robust and healthy local self.

When you choose to be healthy, happy, and whole, you create a resonant frequency of health and healing with which those around you may chose to atune. When individuals around you atune to the healthy frequency (aka coherent heart frequency) then Gaia's awareness of herself increases.

When you choose to fulfill your deepest sense of purpose, which is very gratifying to the ego, you are also improving the health and happiness of the entire planet. So do not surrender your local self. No matter how appealing and fun it is to participate in group consciousness, the local self is of the upmost importance. The ego, then, is a gift to be nurtured and protected as you explore your world.

In love and light,
Tree of Terrapin Hollow