Raising Consciousness

by Jena Griffiths

When it comes to raising consciousness, you may think you can’t help someone in trouble by also jumping overboard. Or can you? This is what we will explore here. Perhaps you can, if you know how to swim, and have conscious intention. Naturally, we are all angry and sad and fearful thanks to recent events. But you may not dwell here in this mournful space too long.

 
Why not? What Does Raising Consciousness Take?

Here’s a Map of Consciousness. The landscape of the inner journey that each of us, and all of us as a species, is here to make. Going from the lower levels of frequency to the higher on our journey home.

 
Hawkins on the mechanism of letting go:

“Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it. The first step is to allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or moralizing about it. It means to drop judgment and to see that it is just a feeling…It is resistance that keeps the feeling going. A feeling that is not resisted will disappear as the energy behind it dissipates.” (p. 20)

Hawkins originally believed it took many lifetimes to make this journey but in his last book, shortly before he passed, he changed his mind, saying it could be done rapidly. Each level of energy, or consciousness, measures a different frequency and has a different “attractor pattern.” “Like goes to like.” Yet, on some level, we are all one. One collective ocean of consciousness. Each of us weighs in, tipping the scales for the collective, one way or the other.