April 2009

Conscious evolution

by Stephen Lewis

Interesting topic. I would have no cause-to-pause if the topic was "the evolution of consciousness," so I'm going to make it that anyway. Here are my reasons.

Firstly, the meaning of "evolution" itself is in question. If you believe it is implicit in our evolution that we benefit as a species, then many of the monumental technological advances of the past century must be excluded from contributing to human evolution. But then, perhaps, that was not their intended purpose.

Think about it. At this time, our species is more threatened than ever before. Furthermore, that threat has been extended to our planet. My point is that there must be a distinction between evolutionary and technological process. Moreover, that distinction is defined by the inclusion or exclusion of spirituality.

Consider obvious technological advances such as biological warfare, nuclear weapons, etc. Evolution of our species? I think not. This is because technology must serve spirituality if it is to help us evolve. Technology devoid of spirituality is very simply a cannibal, without even the built-in particular ethic controls or morality of a fundamental cannibal. If you live with a cannibal aren't you concerned about his next meal? If you don't believe what I'm writing, pick up a newspaper or turn on the television news. It is a self-evident truth. Do you think it looks very evolved out there? Again, I think not.

That is because the only relevant evolution in human consciousness is measured by the degree to which one perceives his or her interaction, connection, and inclusion with everyone and everything in the universe.

Allow me to step aside for a moment and redefine the "evolution of consciousness." It seems to me that there are three distinct categories.

The first is that evolution which occurs gradually, but inexorably, until it becomes obvious to most people within that society that changes have indeed occurred. These changes, for most of us, result in an increase in consciousness that is both effortless and painless. We come to believe that particular consciousness has always existed. It is societal. We are appalled when that societal consciousness is ignored or violated, to the extent that we may impose drastic penalties upon the violators, such as jail.

The obvious examples of this are the current laws against child labor, bear-baiting, dog- fighting. A clear example of this is the case of the football player, Michael Vick, who is currently in a federal penitentiary as a consequence of his actions.

The second type of evolution of consciousness is neither painless nor effortless. It is the process of overcoming the personal separation each of us creates between himself or herself and the rest of the universe. That separation exists as insulation, a buffer between us and whatever it is we fear most. Indeed, it is not sufficient to simply hide that fear, guilt, and shame from others. We do not feel secure until we have managed to hide that venerability from ourselves.

That process of avoidance is often a full-time job, and the degree to which we succeed is an accurate measure of our unconsciousness, just as it is a measure of our separation from our creator. It is precisely why each leap of higher consciousness is an act of personal courage. We stand naked, revealing and confronting whatever it is we have spent God knows how many life times avoiding.

The rewards for that courage are monumental. We are freeing ourselves from a bondage that has created everything in our lives we perceive as negative. It is freedom from disease and depression, just as it is freedom from the isolation that exists between us and life… between us and God.

That is the apparent contradiction. The degree to which we allow ourselves to become vulnerable is the degree to which we become invulnerable. It is the degree to which we no longer require the hideous manifestations of our separation, such as disease and despair. Those manifestations are merely armor, they exist only to protect us from the fears we have so determinedly created.

When we reach the point in the evolution of our personal consciousness that we are able to allow the entire universe to flow through us, there is no longer a need for protection. Instead, we are finally free to choose to be protected by all of life. The courage to be vulnerable makes us invulnerable. We have become healed, not just in our bodies but in our souls.

Third and lastly, in the course of my energetic evaluations, I have noticed that as one begins to transition, but is still struggling to survive, his or her consciousness decreases, perhaps because his or her illness becomes all of life. That is why, in the opening lines of "Sanctuary: The Path to Consciousness," I wrote: "By June of 1996 the size of Jane's universe was precisely defined. It was exactly 4.5 centimeters and located in her uterus."

When one does transition, although the life force measurement becomes zero, the consciousness level increases dramatically. Each life, indeed, has a given span but consciousness is eternal.

Is this increase in consciousness at transition caused by the fact that there is finally nothing left to hide?

Perhaps there never was.

(Stephen Lewis is the founder of EMC² along with Roberta Hladek and Evan Slawson. Lewis is the developer of The AIM Program of Energetic Balancing, a spiritual technology that has nearly 50,000 people worldwide to heal themselves using their hologram. Lewis has earned degrees in homeopathy and acupuncture, both forms of energetic healing. Neither EMC² nor AIM diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. The AIM Program is a tool that participants can use to self heal. Energetic imbalances exist first in consciousness. It is the belief of EMC² that if energetic imbalances are removed from consciousness, they can neither manifest nor be sustained in the physical body. To learn more visit www.stephenlewis.org  or www.aimprogram.com  )