Spiritual Activism

Meditating on Oneness to Save the World

[Updated June 21, 2022] Meditation not only changes us as individuals, but it can be a powerful tool to change the world — if the world is ready for that.

Most of this article is a channeled message from Joshua, who represents my Energy Group / Higher Self.

The basic message is that the world needs to adopt meditation as a common, taken-for-granted practice if humankind is ever going to address its environmental and social problems.

My guides feel that individuals and groups need to connect to the oneness that underlies all creation. We should do that as a foundation before discussing the challenges we face. A simple meditation like that helps to establish a common ground for otherwise polarized opinions.

“For as you are members of a physical species, you are also members of a psychic kind of counterpart reality; and this membership straddles races or countries, or states or politics.” — Seth/Jane Roberts, The Unknown Reality, volume 2, appendix 22 for Session 724

There are other ways that meditation has helped to resolve world issues. One is the so-called “Maharishi Effect”. Several studies appear to show reductions in crime and violence when many meditators (TM practitioners, in this case) meditated together in a single place.

Similarly, Lynne McTaggart has shown how small groups of 8 people can have big impacts when meditating with focused intention on a specific goal. (I have seen this happen with even smaller groups.)

We know a calm, centered, and nonviolent personality (which meditation can foster) is best able to manage difficult situations. That also applies at a collective group-level — a calmer group is a more effective group. For example, a historical review [1900–2006] of nonviolent protest movements found:

In each case, civil resistance by ordinary members of the public trumped the political elite to achieve radical change.

There are, of course, many ethical reasons to use nonviolent strategies. But compelling research by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, confirms that civil disobedience is not only the moral choice; it is also the most powerful way of shaping world politics — by a long way.

Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change.

— Source: BBC News, 2019

ME: I am grounded. I am open. I am protected. I am seeking a message from my Higher Self, from my Energy Group, from my guides (Joshua, Amy, and others), from my team. I have a question. How does one be spiritual and political? How does one change the world from a Higher Self perspective? Blessings to all who hear this message? [I had asked this question for another article that I was working on.]

EG/HS: Hello, Alan. This is Joshua. Long time no see — in this form, of course. Our forms are all interchangeable, you could say.

Collective Identity

Even though we are a collective of somewhat separate consciousnesses, we are also a single consciousness. You are the same in your reality, but you do not see that.

The reason for the division within your reality is that you do not recognize the unity that you share. A good source to describe this unity is the article you wrote on souls and soul families.

There is a hierarchy of collective consciousnesses that you and others are a part of. That hierarchy contributes to the division. It is part of the division, but it is also the solution to overcome the division.

Your egos in the 3rd Dimension attach themselves to certain families, groups, and identities, because that is how the ego works. That is how you maintain your sense of individuality. You attach and create an identity for yourself.

Connection/Unity & Separation/Division

But in creating that identity, you are also connecting with certain others. What you are doing is you are connecting and separating at the same time.

Connection and separation are really two sides of the same coin. You cannot talk about “unity” as being a solution because unity implies separation. And separation implies unity.

As soon as you say there is unity, there is someone who is going to say, “but I’m not part of that, I’m separate from that”. As soon as you say separation, there is someone who says, “but I feel something more, I feel I am a part of this”.

So you cannot approach it from that dualistic perspective of unity and diversity. But you can understand what’s going on. You can understand why there is division because of that motivation to create a separate identity. And, in that process, identifying with some larger groups.

So unity and separation are not only opposites, but they are the same thing. They are the same process. The issue is how to overcome the duality of individual separation and unity.

“Oneness” To Change the World

Individual separation is an aspect of the 3rd Dimension. We also have somewhat separate identities. So it also exists to some degree in higher dimensions. But it is strongest in the 3rd Dimension, in your physical, manifested, phenomenal, and experiential reality.

And that is why it is so difficult to overcome. That is why it is so easy for people to fall into the trap of not seeing the oneness. We are going to use “oneness” as being something different from “unity”. It is not seeing the oneness that exists behind the 3rd Dimension.

The oneness is a “single one”. Everything is part of that one. When you identify with that, then you can overcome the separation because you are not using unity. You are not using a group that you are part of to separate yourself from another group.

Everyone and everything is part of that one. And that is what spirituality needs. That is what one needs to be spiritual. It is to recognize, feel, and know that oneness — that singularity of all creation. And know that you are, each of you, an integral part of that singular oneness of all creation.

And from there, you can address the challenges that you have.

If you are that singular oneness, if everything you see around you is you, every person you encounter face-to-face, on zoom, on television, on the news — every one of them is you — how does that affect your actions to make the world a better place?

That is the question that each individual has to ask themselves — if everything is one, if everything I see, hear, and experience is all the same one, it is all me.

It is like you heard somebody say recently,

“Every time you take a picture, no matter what you are taking a picture of, a mountain, a tree, an animal, another person, you are taking a “selfie”. — paraphrased from Chuck Hillig

That is how you need to approach this challenge of overcoming the division between people.

Meditate to Connect To Oneness First

We’ve told you before that one way to do that is to meditate. Meditation takes you to that oneness. If you have a good meditation practice, it will take you to that experience of oneness. And then you bring that experience out into the “real” world — into your “physical” world, as we should say, as we are not sure how real it is.

Your reality is very real from the ego perspective. It is not so real from a higher dimensional and higher-self perspective. But from the ego perspective, yes, it is real.

We recommend promoting meditation. Make meditation something that everyone takes for granted and understands why they are doing it. They are doing it to connect to that universal oneness, to connect to the singularity. And to hold that consciousness as much as possible as you then return to your 3D ego-self.

We’ve told you this before. This is what you need to promote. If you have a purpose, this is your purpose.

[Note: I was previously told that the world needs to adopt a process in which people do a short “oneness” meditation before every meeting to solve a challenge. After the meditation, they discuss the challenge from their different perspectives. They also told me that my job was to help make this happen, which surprised me. For more on that, see:]

You recently wrote an article on meditation that includes 13 ways people can meditate. But there are so many more. Of course, these are just the 13 that you picked from your meditation experience.

Connect to Oneness Before Every Action

Connection to the singularity, to the oneness, that is how people will move forward. It is not easy because it is easy to forget that singularity.

What people on Facebook should do is, before they ever post any comment, they should close their eyes and connect. Look for the silence within themselves and outside of themselves — the deepest silence they can find. When they come back, they will carry some of that silence with them. And then they can compose their comments or whatever it is they want to post.

That is how you should take every action.

So this is our message for you, and for the article you are working on right now. Meditation, of course, can mean a lot of things. For us, it is about tapping into your personal connection to the universal, to the absolute oneness of everything, and then acting from that.

We love you. Thank you for this question. We love the experience you are having.

Until next time, Namaste.

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Meditation makes the power of intention even more powerful. Think of the possibilities….

Thoughts, dreams, purposes and intents, plans, and wishes are constantly speeding outward from the core of self unimpeded. They are not closeted within the skull, as you might think.

As many quite real phenomena cannot be seen by your eyes, so with your outer senses you cannot perceive these constant departures of quality-energy from the self into what seems to be not self. These energies, these thoughts and wishes, travel. They pass through physical matter.

Each self is therefore not only ejecting almost in missile fashion such energy from his own core, but he is also constantly impinged by such energy from others. He chooses to translate whatever portions of this energy he so chooses, back into forms that can be picked up and understood by his own mechanism. The choice involved is, of course, determined by his own personality.

— Seth/Jane Roberts, The Early Sessions, Book 2, session 57 on May 27, 1964

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