{"id":253,"date":"2017-04-03T12:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lochkelly\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:41:17","slug":"conscious-participation-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lochkelly\/conscious-participation-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious Participation in Your Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/597\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-03-at-12.35.11-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-254\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-254 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/597\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-03-at-12.35.11-PM-300x257.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-04-03 at 12.35.11 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pixabay.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Humanity has made rapid progress during recent years in areas such as technology, medicine, and communications. Yet parts of our brain and consciousness still operate as if we\u2019re living in primitive times. If we\u2019re going to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century, we must consciously participate in evolving and upgrading our own operating system. Effective tools of awareness are very much needed now, if we want to preserve our planet and create a sustainable quality of life for all people. The good news is we can learn how to intentionally shift our awareness in order to grow into the next stage of human development.<\/p>\n<p>We are very fortunate that many ancient, rare meditation manuals have recently been brought out of their native countries, translated, published, and made available to the public. However, these ancient manuals often use archaic or esoteric language. My work is an attempt to translate these practices into modern, simple, and experiential language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We can learn a new way of using the tools of awareness to examine the levels of consciousness within us. This is a new way of looking, but it is no more difficult than looking at our mental or psychological experience. There really are no words in English that accurately describe the subtle states of consciousness discovered in the process of awakening. The subtler levels of consciousness can be very difficult to articulate or understand without experiencing them for yourself. Although awakening may be beyond precise description, living from open-hearted awareness is a palpable experience\u2014and therefore learnable and teachable.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see Loch\u2019s book and audio of meditations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Loch-Kelly\/e\/B00MT376E4\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shift Into Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/597\/2015\/10\/ShiftIntoFreedomTraining.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/597\/2015\/10\/ShiftIntoFreedomTraining-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"ShiftIntoFreedomTraining\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity has made rapid progress during recent years in areas such as technology, medicine, and communications. Yet parts of our brain and consciousness still operate as if we\u2019re living in primitive times. If we\u2019re going to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century, we must consciously participate in evolving and upgrading our own operating system. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conscious Participation in Your Evolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Humanity has made rapid progress during recent years in areas such as technology, medicine, and communications. 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