Resonance: the activation of Unity Consciousness

The relationship between the individual and the collective is a fundamental building block of community. The success of this relationship depends on mutually empowering communication skills. All current tiers of government display the inadequacies of adversarial decision-making systems, and usually they involve pyramidal power structures. Furthermore the dominant party system is a hotbed for political corruption fuelled by factional and commercial interests through the influence of their lobby groups. These systemic problems create division and dysfunctional relationships between competing individuals and organizations that destroy community values. The relationship between the individual and the collective begins in family dynamics, and so the individual’s ability to communicate is imprinted by the nature of childhood conditioning. This then percolates through to the institutionalised roles and relationships in adult life. Therefore the resolution of the balance of power between individuals during organised activities is crucial to the success of all human endeavours. It can be represented as the function of unity within diversity, and is causal in all political relationships.

Human beings are social animals due to needs such as companionship and protection. The bond between parents and their children compose the basic ingredients of family life. But before we consider the function of relationships in any meaningful examination, we must understand something of the nature of individual consciousness. For simplification, the tools of cognitive awareness can be divided into thinking (masculine) and feeling (feminine) components; somewhat connected to respective left and right human brain functions. Cognitive dissonance is defined by The Macquarie Dictionary as an inconsistency between the different ideas and beliefs that a person holds, leading to a feeling of discomfort or anxiety. These self-limiting imprints affect not just the conscious mind, but also deeply impregnate a person’s unconscious perception epitomised by their up welling emotional relationship issues. So a process of self-enquiry must compliment any serious attempt at relating to others to the extent of consensus decision-making. Consciousness could be described as the energy of present awareness, and is also the medium behind all other interpersonal exchanges. Energy originates the multitudinous expression of the myriad forms of existence. Since energy cannot be created or destroyed, it is the ground of being and the currency of life itself.

Any political movement has at its inception the need for common agreements. Adversarial democracy and party politics demand a fundamental allegiance to causes that may be translated into laws of governance. The British Westminster system has served as the basis for evolving representative governments. Consensus represents a new paradigm of unity within diversity that recognises people’s human rights while enabling individuals to embrace their communities as the collective expression of unity. This evolution of the body politic requires that the sum of individual aspirations has risen from dissonance through to the frequency of resonance. This assumes that there is an underlying desire that proves the theory that like attracts like, and is the basis for evolving political movements. It is as if the ground of being is empowering humanity to co-create a consciousness wave in the same way that energy creates the fundamental building blocks of form. At this frequency, or dimension of consciousness, mankind is actually acting synchronistically with the power of creation itself.

Resonance is then the ground on which a new civilisation can evolve without the destructive influences of conditioned dysfunctional agreements that serve to enslave the individual through the power of the collective. It is the resolution of the competing archetypes of desire (the individual) and love (the collective). It also allows individuals to resolve their truth (personal perspective) with their power (united aspiration) as archetypes to build community.

The resonating archetypes of desire, love, truth, and power represent the four cornerstones of a healthy and whole human society where the personal inner landscape is reflected in the body politic. This suggests that there is indeed an innate order to the universe that weaves all the spontaneous strands of individuality into a common thread while enabling every person to enjoy a marriage of freedom and love. In this way consensus is not just an agreement to agree for the betterment of the collective, it is the manifestation of a new field of unity consciousness.

The question that now begs is how do humans co-create the most conducive environment for resonant consensus? One of the fundamental difficulties of the contemporary drive towards globalisation is loss of identity, and disenabling of autonomy in local government, where the people aspire to a sustainable environment for common healthy creative endeavours. So the same need for resonance applies all the way form the individual to the family, the local to national government, and all the way to a potential world government that respects the freedom of individual enterprise as long as it is not in conflict with the world’s natural environment.

It is said that in a natural environment indigenous peoples saw the external world, and everything in it, as aspects of themselves. This is a fundamental tenet of consciousness; that the whole always contrives to care for the sum of its parts. In fact its very existence constitutes the recognition that wholeness is the hub around which everything turns. It is the expression of a realm of infinite potential that exists at its core. It can be likened to the rainbow serpent in aboriginal lore and the oroborus in the Celtic tradition, both of which can be represented as snakes swallowing their own tales. These ancient symbols are a subliminal suggestion that a wholesome self-awareness is the key to an organism’s health. It also suggests that humans need to climb out of a linear understanding of time and space dimensions by embracing an unlimited resonance at their most intimate core. In other words humans are being asked to transcend all that binds them to form on the treadmill of time and encompass their immortal aspects of being by belonging to a greater whole. This does not mean abrogating personal responsibility to a belief system, but to taste the very fruit of resonance as the key to wholeness.

Part 1
Resonance: an energetic view

Resonant (Macquarie Dictionary) is defined as resounding or echoing, deep and full of resonance, having the property of increasing the intensity of sound by sympathetic vibration. The contemporary use of the word relates to people attracting each other in what can be described as alchemical atonement. This relates to the empathetic joining of opposites by a process of resolving the inherent separation of dualistic thinking and its propensity to make judgements. Here the nature of energy is crucial to our understanding of the dynamics of creative relationships. We encounter the as above, so below principle that dictates that the energies of the macrocosm reflect those of the microcosm through all frequencies and dimensions. In the macrocosm we can see this in the spiral shape of our Milky Way galaxy. It is as if there are two energies, one emanating and expanding from its centre via the arms, and a potentially equal and opposing force that pulls matter back towards its centre (where there may be a black hole). These resonant but competing energies are mirrored on planet Earth in the Coriolis effect. Relating to the wobble of the Earth’s axis, this force causes water to behave in different ways in each hemisphere. It relates visibly to the way water will disappear down the plug (here acting like a black hole) clockwise in the Northern and anti-clockwise in the Southern hemispheres. In the same way, it also dictates the way vines will climb trees. This belies the same resonant forces dancing between hemispheres. It is helpful to see the Northern clockwise rotation as holding a masculine energy, and the Southern anti-clockwise rotation as feminine. These apparent polarities explain why the Northern hemisphere has historically (since patriarchal systems became dominant) been the birthplace of the industrial and technological cultures whereas the Southern continents have tended to cradle tribal indigenous culture until the onslaught of colonialism from the North. Furthermore we can see that the existing paradigms of commerce and politics have originated in the North.

It is also crucial to an understanding of the play of energy to look at the way cyclonic storms behave on the surface of the oceans. When we see waves crashing on a beach we are seeing the latent effect of revolving weather systems, and their accompanying winds. A force is created that spreads out across the ocean’s surface, and this energy is physically visible as wave action. When we look at waves moving towards a beach we sometimes forget the overall perspective that waves do not actually travel all the way across oceans via storm surges, but merely represent the latent energy that spreads out; rather like when a stone is dropped into a still pond.

This is fundamental to the way we may misunderstand the nature of form, suffering from a kind of perspectivitis (sic) whereby we miss the underlying forces that dictate the way energy behaves when it interacts with matter. The question is how do these forces relate to resonance and human relationships, and how can we harness them in a harmonious way? Note that words like resonance and harmony refer to the underlying forces at play. Energy, which is perceived as light, travels in light and sound waves at different speeds or frequencies. It is these very waves that we must harness, much as a surfer rides the ocean waves, to achieve resonance. The only thing that separates us is when we are out of time or rhyme, and so subject to unbalanced and competing forces.

It is also important to notice the multiplication and division of spheres create the way matter evolves. Again, as above so below, stars, planets, cells, and atoms and all matter from the cosmic to the subatomic evolve form by that same principle. Spheres birth other spheres by a process of sacred geometry that multiply or divide in matrices that are formulated through patterns called platonic solids. These five fundamentally perfect shapes fit exactly into a sphere, and as such are pre-sexual platonic energies before a sphere starts to evolve matter. We don’t need to comprehend the dynamics of creation to consciously tap into its power, but we do need to learn how to surf the wave, so to speak. Remember that however long people have practiced to learn surfing skills, in the end surfing depends on the one ability to surrender to the latent power of a waveform.

Now for politics to evolve as an expression of unity consciousness, it is necessary to harness the internal laws of resonance. This internal law will bequeath the law or lores by which our societies will evolve harmoniously. Human beings are an expression of these universal forces, just like all the rest of matter. The hidden energies that power creation are given expression, and their highest potential of self-reflection in human consciousness. So here is the beginning of the relationship between the unseen energies (or waves) coalescing into waveforms as matter being mirrored by the relative functioning of both the unconscious and conscious mind. It is very easy to form opinions and judgements based on what can be easily perceived in the outside world, but when it comes to understanding how consciousness unfolds within the human psyche, people need to harness both the seen and unseen aspects of their potential awareness.

 

Part 2
Resonance: a Cosmological View

The conscious and unconscious aspects of mind act as the aforementioned tools of cognitive awareness, divided into thinking (masculine) and feeling (feminine) components; somewhat connected to respective left and right human brain functions. Humanity is literally divided against itself while these dimensions of conscious awareness are not reconciled. Any group process for reaching consensus needs to recognise all the functions of awareness. Since the group, however intimate in size, is a reflection of the combination of every individual participant’s awareness, groups must be coordinated in such a way that maximizes the potential of resonance.

Before we consider optimum group meeting arrangements, one more contextual overview of humanity’s psychic environment requires consideration. To do this an archetypal cosmological view is useful to simplify the seen and unseen forces at play, so that a sphere of influence can be co-created by meeting participants. (see diagram, Figure 1)

Imagine the universe was created when the original One split into a masculine and feminine consciousness so that it could experience itself through the reflective power of relationship. (The author wishes to give the highest acknowledgement to two books The Right Use of Will series by Ceanne de Rohan and especially The Pyramid of Life by Alistair Smith.) Imagine that the original One wanted to feel special by relating through the two halves of Itself as equals. Now, this is a long story that Alistair Smith has wonderfully chronicled, and it suffices to say here that things did not express as smoothly as one may have imagined. There was simply no precedent for such an inception of creation, and the first Him and Her separated due to the influence of the first emotional energies of terror and rage. You could say that basically He did not like the ramifications of leaving the original One to journey with Her through a portal into the first Creation. In addition, He loved Her dearly but the suggestion of separate identities filled Him with anxiety, even though She was excited about the future possibilities of assuming form! After much angst the first NO reverberated through the fledgling universe and this negative energy was blown through the portal into the creation realms. Surprisingly perhaps, the original One was delighted about this event because it showed the He’s deep love for the One and the She, and more importantly still showed that the He was beginning to empower Himself in the new dualistic creation.

Later, there was more confusion as their growing intimacy led the He and She to argue over the desire to reproduce. At one point He pushed their offspring back into Her womb because the new energies were affecting their intimacy. She then resorted to an explosion of rage that resounded through the portal and rent the new Universe. These emotional energies can be seen as powerful thought streams that reached out to the extremities of the evolving realms. The trauma of these experiences caused the next mutation where the He split into the Father and Son, and the She split into the Mother and Daughter. Eventually these four archetypes became the cornerstones of the new Creation and 12 children or Essences were born within this context.

Without duplicating any more here, a full explanation of the 12 Essences will be provided at a later time by reading Alistair’s Pyramid of Life book. For now, it is important that we understand that our universe is inhabited by similar Essences or thought streams. In a sense this is what is meant by the unseen, because the influence of these primal energies is affected to the degree that human beings deny the aspects of their inner landscapes. In the contemporary world of spiritual processes and self-improvement, the significance of the unseen is diminished by our individual denials. People often spend much time meditating or developing an awareness of conscious presence or alternatively spend years in therapy to try to fathom their emotional landscape, but either activity is likely to split the psyche and leave them inwardly (and outwardly) divided. In other words one side of the brain tends to fall out of communication with the other causing psychic imbalances. It is particularly common, in our fast tracked modern world of consumerism, to inadvertently suppress emotions for long periods, the degree affecting the severity of resulting disease. The extent of integration that is required to bring the brain into balance is often fundamentally misunderstood. Not only do relationships serve to be a reflection for unresolved emotional and cognitive problems; there are much wider ramifications for our unconsciousness. Not only do we live in a modern technological world with many mediums for communication, but each one of us individually is a medium for the mass consciousness of humanity (which plagues our everyday thinking) and even the denials and thought streams of other realms aforementioned which trickle down to the frequency of this physical planet! In some ways we carry the burden of everything that has occurred since the beginning of time. It must be assumed that most of us have a

Linear interpretation of time and space that is only now being challenged by Quantum
Physics. In fact we live in parallel dimensions or universes, and only through our potential psychic abilities have we yet just begun to integrate them.

 

Resonance: a meeting process for reaching Consensus

1. Seating Arrangement
It is highly desirable to have participants sitting in a circle. This circle is a representation of Diagram 1, the Circle of the Essences. But this drawing is only two-dimensional drawing and needs to be thought of as a Sphere. Because of the multi-dimensional nature of our consciousness with aspects existing in different dimensional frequencies, the most appropriate term for such a meeting is Atma-Sphere (see http://www.byronevents.net/atmasphere/). These spheres of potentially political influence are an evolution of the circles that our indigenous forefathers and mothers created for councils and counseling (Atma means Soul in Sanskrit, that part of us that is the meeting of different dimensions, or parallel lifetimes). They provide a safe space at the heart of true community where men and women can hold a compassionate space for each other to go deeply into original feelings that underlie all of creation. They offer a portal for healing where we can access the fragments of ourselves buried at our innermost core, our unconscious and unseen aspects that we need to uncover to reach our true potential.

The circular seating arrangement helps to preserve a level playing field where the participants move beyond hierarchical relationships. Because of the intimacy, and authentic personal disclosure, necessary to achieve resonant consensus it is necessary to limit the size of these groups to ideally 12 men and women. Bear in mind that consensus decisions will also be developed over the internet, so the networking of the work of an unlimited number of small groups can be realized in making consensus decisions (In the Byron Shire see http://www.1062.org/ and enter Cocreators as the organization after registering). In this way numbers of individuals come together intimately to form what could be called a consciousness wave. This structure of resonating spheres further enlarges the field of unity consciousness to encompass larger communities that need to make political decisions.

2. Roles within small groups
It is important that at this stage of the consensus process (small groups) participants live as much as possible in each moment without attachment to any role. Of course different individuals may play roles within the group, but the only necessary formal role is that of facilitator, and even that can be passed around in the process of processing issues and proposals.

3. Processes to deepen communication
These processes constitute the heart of resonant consensus. While there are specific methods (that the author recommends) to deepen the process of introspection, the facilitator must solicit the help of the rest of the group in deciding the agenda for each meeting. It is preferable that the inner processes and the outer guidelines for reaching consensus (available on request) are both included for each meeting, and it especially beneficial to encourage resonance by commencing with an inner process. Here are four essential cornerstones to provide a foundation for conscious resonance:
• Meditation
A process for co-creating present awareness by which individuals deepen their awareness by stilling their mind in their life force, and use their inner senses to create a witnessing presence.
• Focusing on feelings
A process that helps each individual to develop an inner relationship with aspects of their unconscious that arise as emotions or feeling states. People are encouraged to adopt an attitude of focused indifference so that feelings (eg anger or sadness) are not judged as positive or negative (light or dark energies), but are approached with an attitude of acceptance. This process is often better done in pairs with one person assisting another to form an open inner relationship that goes down through layers of images and feelings to discover innocence and wisdom at their core

The first two processes are very complimentary in that there is a relationship forming between peoples witnessing presence, and aspects of themselves that they need to integrate for make themselves whole (healed), thereby reaching a state of empowerment.
• The use of sound to co-create resonance
Resonance involves both the light of consciousness as well as energetic sounding to reach harmony. The use of toning including the use of harmonics is particular useful for moving emotions and energies stuck in the unconscious. There are distinct limitations in the use of any language that is by nature conceptual. We can only really communicate at depths of common understanding, otherwise individuals have no common reference point. Sound helps express feelings in a field of unification that transcends language.
• Compassionate Communication
Especially use in times of personal conflicts, the four components of empathic communication are clear expression by clear observations of what has occurred (not interpretations), using feeling words to own one’s feelings, identifying basic universal needs, and making doable requests of ourselves and each other.

4. Understanding how to integrate the Essences, and acknowledging which ones individuals carry.
The diagram of the Pyramid of Life suggests how we may begin to identify our personal gifts within the total scope of human consciousness. The more we experience the fruits of resonant consensus, the more we will individually integrate the Essences within us, regardless of our gender. By staying as closely as possible in each moment with awareness we begin to master an agenderless agenda (sic). As the group harmonizes by reaching resonant consensus, we can picture the essences spiraling upwards (remember this is the nature of energy through waveforms) to form the apex of an energetic pyramid (the diagram shows the base of the pyramid looking down). By uniting the seen with the unseen in ourselves we are effectively uniting the hemispheres of the Atma-Sphere, one half above ground level and the other inverted underneath the ground (base to base). In total this makes for a complete sphere with an octagon within it. This is one of the Platonic Solids that optimize the frequencies of this physical dimension, and when integrated helps open the doors of perception of other frequencies or dimensions. As each member of a group moves into resonance, they take their integrated place in the circle, and can be visualized as being connected to the hub of the Atma-Sphere by spokes as on a bicycle wheel. In this way each member becomes a spokesperson for the highest consciousness epitomized by the centre of a Sphere of Influence.
With Love
Elijah David (Charles Donaldson)

With a special love and acknowledgement to the works of Alistair Smith
Sacred Politics, The Pyramid of Life (on Earth)

I would also like to refer you to the conventional procedures and guidelines for reaching consensus collated by Ricardo Johannson (available on request). The website created by Ricardo (see http://www.1062.org/) is central to a new paradigm of democracy, and I sincerely hope that many organizations will be using it daily soon. It has always been my personal dream to work 24/7 for conscious evolution, and this is a fine vehicle for achieving it.

Thanking you for your interest

Elijah David (Charles Donaldson), Mullumbimby, Australia

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