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Think you're not making a difference?

Don't be discouraged! 

Instead let's talk about toothbrushes. Yes. Really. Just hang in for a minute and you'll see ...

There is indeed a relationship between toothbrushes and consciousness. 


Several months ago there was a big media push – and a concomitant spreading awareness – on how horrible plastics are for the environment and, even, our bodies.


If you went to the toothbrush display at your local drug store during that period, you saw that virtually every toothbrush manufacturer had come out with an alternative to plastic toothbrushes. But if you go to that same display now, you see that the old toothbrushes are mostly back, with merely one or two alternatives hanging in there. This is discouraging! And you might ask yourself, as I did: What good has my buying an alternative toothbrush done? Zillions of people are clearly still buying plastic ones. Have I made any difference at all in the world? For the environment? For my own body?


But thinking like this, just puts you in a hole. It makes you depressed about the state of the world. It makes you think you can do nothing. To counteract that here is my ‘pot of soup’ theory of the universe:


Think of the world as we know it as a huge pot of soup. When you throw in a handful salt, the whole pot gets saltier. It tastes better. And that is what we are, each of us as an individual, in relation to consciousness as a whole. We are the salt – regardless of whether we have simply purchased a more sustainable toothbrush or made a major positive change in the way we live our lives. 


Decisions like this represent a change in consciousness – and even a seemingly small change affects the whole. You are the salt. Even your smallest decision to do what is good and right and true brings about a transformation in cosmic consciousness – the cosmic Oneness that connects us all. 



Evidence that Consciousness is Expanding Around the Globe!


 

In the United Kingdom 

a wonderful group called “The Kundalini Collective” has had three former Institue for Consciousness Research conference speakers – Lawrence Edwards, Mike Bradford, and Ann Mathie – all on to do seminars on various aspects of consciousness and transformation.

Click for the Kundalini Collective Click for Mike Bradford's seminar for the Kundalini Collective

In  Austria 

At the University of Vienna Dr. Marleen Thaler has recently completed a PhD dissertation, entitled The History of Modern Kundalini Research: Gopi Krishna and the Transformation of a South Asian Goddess in the Late Twentieth Century.


Click here for a Harvard Divinity School Interview with Marleen

In the USA 

Corinne Lebrun has launched her Wild Divine Bliss podcast that focuses on people having spiritual experiences of transformation in consciousness – often labeled kundalini experiences.  Here is her interview with Michael Molina of the Emerging Sciences Foundation.


Click here for the interview with Michael Molina