Empowerment & Responsibility

Sharing power can and should be a win-win situation of mutual benefit.  However, there are influences that harvest and aggregate power, primarily for their own benefit.  A common approach is to establish superiority – inferiority relationships. For example, influences can persuade us that we are unworthy to handle power and that we need to surrender it to those, who claim they are more capable of handling it.   This ends up dis-empowering us.  With efficient modern communications disempowering influences are pervasive.  These include such factors as dis-information, manipulative propaganda, network influencers and so on. 

Power derives from life and ultimately consciousness.  It is a valuable commodity.  We have for example the power of our talents and vitality.  We also have the power of choice, of attention and so on.  Power that we give away is still our power and we are still responsible for what other people do with it.  It is in our interest to manage our power wisely.  We can do so by becoming more aware of influences that may be dis-empowering us.  Also, by cultivating our inner resources, to expand our capacities and empower ourselves.

As we integrate inner connection and expand conscious capacity, we access our inherent creativity.  This empowers us.  We can become less dependent on and vulnerable to outside influences.  There is also greater responsibility to protect these resources from abuse.  This is the path of mastery.  We effectively empower ourselves.   

Taking responsibility in life leads to greater opportunity, empowerment and expansion.  We don’t have to take responsibility for everything.  The most useful focus is on what is within our sphere of influence.  There isn’t much point in putting resources into areas where we have little influence. 

There is a saying – energy flows where attention goes.  We tend to energise what we focus on.  The muscles we use grow stronger, whereas those we neglect atrophy.  Talents, capabilities and sensitivities we cultivate, develop.  If we are missing certain  capabilities, part of the issue may be lack of development.  In managing problems, it’s better to energise solutions rather than emphasise the difficulties.

There is a lot of wisdom in the precept of treating others as we would wish to be treated ourselves.  If we abuse or exploit others, there is ample time within the cycles of life for that to be visited back on us.  We have the example of football matches.  Here sides switch at half time, so that the advantages or disadvantages of one side are experienced by the other.  Roles are switched over time.  We get to experience both the giving and receiving of what we are projecting.

When we victimise others, we set up victim-victimiser cycles.  We alternate between victimiser and victim roles, to experience both sides.  Such cycles continue until responsibility is taken to heal the situation.

There is life at all levels in creation.  The more ideal and perfect forms of life tend to arise more at the higher levels.  We needn’t be too concerned that things ‘down here’ aren’t as perfect as we might wish.  Physical life here on earth is very much a school, a learning and training opportunity.  It’s a work in progress.  We try things out in a less powerful environment.  We make mistakes.  We are confronted by their consequences and learn from sorting them out.

Life here is also very much a melting pot.  There are people from many different backgrounds, with varying life histories and aims for what they wish to accomplish here.  Also, there are people at many different stages of development.  It’s not a case of one size fits all.

This calls for a measure of allowance, within reason.  It’s not good to push or force views or beliefs on others.  Make them available, yes.  But respect people’s right to choose and take responsibility for their own lives.  It’s also good to respect other people’s respect for what is dear to them, even if we don’t agree with it.  Unwarranted interfering in other people’s lives incurs responsibility for associated effects and consequences.

The world’s human population has grown very rapidly in recent times.  In less than 100 years it quadrupled, from 2 billion in 1928 to 8 billion in 2023.   Between 1974 and 2023 it doubled from 4 to 8 billion.  It is expected to peak at around 10.4 billion later in this century.  This has brought a historically large amount of human consciousness onto the planet. 

This concentration has a compounding effect.  The large number of people, communicating, interacting and generating diverse perspectives and contributions stimulates each other.  This provides a rich environment for growth.  This development feeds into the aggregate or collective consciousness.  So, the collective consciousness is growing even more rapidly than the population. 

There is a great expansion and enriching of consciousness on the planet.  This provides wonderful opportunity both for experience and development.  But obviously, there are challenges and stresses also.  Collectively, we have a responsibility not only to our home here on the planet but also for our impact on other levels in creation, to which we are connected.  Handling this responsibility in a mature and balanced way is key to the ongoing survival of our civilisation here.  Understanding the larger context of our existence here is of major importance.

We can be a bit overwhelmed with so much happening in the world and with so much intensity in these tumultuous times.  What can we do?  We can connect consciousness with the natural living reality fields that empower us.  This process begins with the most important person in our lives, with our greatest responsibility – ourselves.  We can work on ourselves to progressively heal fragmentation, divisions, warring between our sub personalities and so on.  This helps build inner connection and integrity with life, with our world and the larger creation it lives in and, in whatever way is most meaningful for us, ultimately with Source, the All that Is.   

As each of us accomplishes this personal mission such integrity, connection and stability as we hold comes available to the planet and collective consciousness.  This is of immense service in helping to stabilise the planet and its life fields, in the face of major change.  In this way we can contribute to positive outcomes for events.  We can increasingly become masters taking responsibility rather than victims of events. 

In a free will universe we need to do our bit, but there is only so much we can accomplish alone.  We can also obviously cooperate with and support initiatives and projects to progress the evolution of life on our planet.  We are also part of larger life streams in creation.  We can receive support from family at higher levels in creation.  But we need to request this, as life forms in integrity are reluctant to intervene without permission. 

The scale and intensity of events can provoke an element of fear.  Fear has more to do with a lack of confidence in our own capacities, connections, protection, energy fields and ability to cope.  It can be a useful signal to us to strengthen our connections and the integrity we hold.  We can progressively raise our game, by reaching for higher level connections, drawing strength, protection and support from who and what we are in higher dimensions, from our soul and spirit family, taking responsibility and facing our issues.  As we build strength and mastery there is less to fear from the challenges we face. 

Humanity is like a sleeping giant.  There is enormous potential.  There are many people throughout the world quietly and humbly holding integrity and presence, often in very trying circumstances.   There is much good in many people in a lot of places.  The connection and presence people hold often transcends the limitations of the systems they are part of.  They help humanise systems and can offset the rough edges and harshness in life.  A measure of stability has been preserved despite all the challenges and potential for turmoil in recent times.  We still have to face challenges realistically and effectively, with as much mastery as we can muster. 

Times of great change provide immense opportunity.  New horizons and wider vistas are opening before us.  We have been waiting millennia for the opportunities that are presenting now.