More about the Sunday Meditations
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More about the Meditations
There are many virtues to meditating together as a group, even when we're geographically far apart. The potency of group consciousness work increases a lot when the number of people involved in a group grows, and as it synergises into a group.
In geology, the erosive power of a river increases as the square of its volume. Put another way, if the volume increases three times, the erosive power increases nine times. It's rather like that with groups like this - as the energy-flow increases, the outcomes increase far more. When three or more people are gathered in my name, there shall I be, said God, once upon a time.
But this is not just a numbers game. It depends on the way a group melds together, even if it's spiritually diverse and spread around geographically. It's a melding process on an energy level. Teamwork - like a theatre company getting used to acting in the same play.
It's not just that it's good for us to do it. It's also about making ourselves inwardly available to 'higher powers' to assist them with their work in helping us here on Earth.
Some people will wish to join us regularly while others will simply enjoy meditating when they can. Both are relevant and both make a contribution.
The meditation slot, 19.00-19.30 GMT on Sundays, is also an open channel (more on the next page). This time-slot was agreed with the Council of Nine back in 1993, who set up and maintain this open channel. It was necessary to fix a consistent time because, since the Nine exist in a zone of timelessness, they must penetrate the realm of time in order to connect with us. This involves some tricky energy-engineering, and a fixed time helps them fix this up, set their dials and keep the signal clear and consistent.
It's an undemanding, doable commitment to keep. The channel is open regardless of how many people plug into it. There will always be people present, every week, whether or not anything is arranged or announced. This is not the only group connecting with this channel.
In UK, the time-slot changes from 19.00-19.30 in winter to 20.00-20.30 in summer, and similar happens in many other countries. In nature and the universe the real time actually stays the same – only our clocks have changed. So, wherever in the world you are, factor in summer daylight savings time if necessary. If in doubt, look at the timezone table on the preceding page.
Why?
One thing unites all thoughtful people, everywhere: a love and concern for the world, for our people and our natural environment. The underlying orientation of these meditations is to assist in progressing these.
Meditation is not a substitute for doing things in the world or making practical contributions, but it is a helping factor that is frequently forgotten. However, for some, their circumstances mean it is the main or the only thing they can do to make a contribution. For others, more active and with their hands already full, meditation can help in enabling and assisting this process.We know what the problem is on Planet Earth. We know roughly what needs to be done. Humanity needs to go further with it. This concerns human values, beliefs, public awareness and unconscious factors that either block or help progress.
In the last half-century humanity has become aware of its situation and its options like never before. But there is also resistance to change, deeply ingrained and historic, reinforced today by oligarchies that seek to capture and steer society. Fighting against such resistance can create polarisation - and humanity needs unity and consensus. To get through the 21st Century, we have to work together. We're all in the same boat, and we all sink or swim together.
We're in a longterm process of becoming one planetary people. Our problems and solutions cross borders and span the world. Being culturally and socially diverse, diversity is one of our strong points, here on Earth. But it also has its problems - we humans have a tendency to disagree! Nowadays we're discovering that it is in our best interests to cooperate, to act increasingly as one planetary people.
One key purpose of these meditations is to contribute toward uplifting and supporting humanity in seeing its position more clearly, and understanding what to do about it.Our aim is not to impose answers but to facilitate ways forward - ways by which people might act more wisely, learning from life and adapting more readily to changing global conditions.
The environmental crisis will be resolved through a change of awareness. We have enough clues to make progress in resolving it. The same applies to building a human society that is just, fair and decent to all its members - a happier society than today.
By helping raise humanity's perceptions and understanding, we can contribute something here. We cannot oblige people to be nicer to each other, but we can work to raise the overall tide so that people feel more easy being nicer and rising with that tide, within ourselves, between each other and in our communities and nations.
More from the Nine:
This is a time of awakening. It is a time to understand that within the self people hold the key for bringing planet Earth to its fulfilment, that free-will is never interfered with, and that the destruction of planet Earth is not necessary. Do not fall into the trap of believing that planet Earth will be destroyed.
What will come to be understood is the power of thought and the energy of love.
Behave only in a manner that you may love yourself for; behave only in a manner in which you would wish another to do toward you; do no action, thought or thing that you, in your soul and consciousness, cannot have self-respect for. When that begins for all of humanity, all will change.