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In this episode I speak about the evolution of consciousness as a process that happens gradually as we move in and out of states of heightened awareness.
In this back and forth experience, refraining from judging ourselves when we slip back into egoic consciousness is one way we can help hasten the process.
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Hello, beautiful souls, and welcome to this week’s podcast episode. Before I launch into the topic today, I would like to just say a word of thanks to those people who have chosen to become supporters of this podcast in its production. And I just really appreciate your support. If you are interested in helping support this effort, you can go to patreon.com/PatriciaPearce, and find out how you can become a Patreon supporter.
So what I wanted to talk with you about today is this process of the evolution of consciousness. We’ve talked about this many times, and the idea of evolution and what we know about evolution in other ways, like in the physical and biological way of evolution, as far as we know, life on this planet began in the oceans. And at some point, some ocean creature or creatures began to venture out of the ocean onto the dry land.
And you can just imagine that this was not something that happened overnight. You know, some ocean creature, some aquatic creature, doesn’t just climb up out of the water and instantly adapt to life on land and breathing air. That these evolutionary processes are, well, they are that: they are a process, and it’s not something that happens typically instantaneously.
And I want to highlight that because I think that oftentimes when we are looking at our own evolution of consciousness and we want to participate in this awakening unitive consciousness, we want to experience our oneness with the All—and we might have moments where we actually do, where that knowing of the reality of oneness, the reality of love, really does open up in us. And we, in a sense, we are that creature that has been in the water of unconsciousness suddenly finding ourselves on the land, and we see the world that we had never seen from that more unconscious state.
But what typically happens is we don’t stay there, just as the aquatic creature coming up out of the ocean doesn’t stay on the land the first time it wanders out. There’s this back and forth movement between this, you know, climbing out of the water onto the land and being exposed to air for the first time, and then you go back in the water, and you adapt.
So there’s this time of back and forth, and I want to really highlight this because I think that oftentimes, we can bring a sense of judgment towards ourselves in our own evolutionary process, our own awakening process. That we might have these moments of insight, of knowing, of recognition of the reality of oneness. And we discover that it’s fleeting, that we drop back asleep, we slipped back into that water of unconsciousness.
And sometimes we can be hard on ourselves, and I speak from experience, that we can be hard on ourselves if we’re not able to maintain that level of consciousness. And yet, this is a back and forth. We we are becoming adapted, and we are being in a sense upgraded, you might say, by the universe to be able to sustain that level of consciousness. And it’s not something that typically happens overnight.
Actually, interestingly enough, the way that we really cultivate our ability to, if you will, stay on the land to use that metaphor, to stay in that more awake state, is to begin to let go of judgment. Because judgment is the thing that lands us back in the state of unconsciousness, because judgment, of course, is the unawareness of love. It’s the unawareness of the essence the divine essence of our being.
And so judgment really coincides with that state of unconsciousness. It coincides with the experience of living unconscious, swimming in the water of unconsciousness. And so if we can begin to release judgment, even as we see ourselves slipping back into unconsciousness, if we can abstain from judging ourselves for that, paradoxically, we are increasing our capacity to stay awake, to stay in that reality of love, to stay on the land and really begin to adapt to the air and what it is like to be in that more heightened state of consciousness, where we are able to accept and experience in our being our oneness with all it is and all life on the planet.
And I want to really emphasize that this is not an idea that we’re working with, the idea of interconnectedness. That remains an abstract idea in the mind and it doesn’t really land in us deeply. This awakening of consciousness is something that we really experience in the body. The body, in essence becomes a vessel for this consciousness. Just like the creature coming up out of the water and adapting to air, its body develops the capacity to be a land dweller. And we are developing the capacity—in our minds, in our hearts, in our bodies—we are developing the capacity to embody this consciousness of oneness, this consciousness of interconnectedness, this consciousness of love.
So I wanted to share all of this with you today, just to just to put your mind and your heart at ease, that this is a process and to not expect yourself to suddenly be able to jump out of the water and just make make a life for yourself on the land. It typically doesn’t work that way. I mean, there are a few exceptions, but typically, it’s a process.
And so to let yourself be in that process, to give yourself to that process, to open yourself up to that process, and to not judge yourself for the pace at which it’s happening. It’s happening at its own rate, in its own wisdom, and so to allow that, to go with that, to be compassionate with yourself and to abstain again, to abstain from judgment when you find yourself slipping back into unconsciousness back into old patterns and ways of being and thinking. It’s just part of the story. It’s part of the process.
So we are on this evolutionary journey together. And I really am so grateful for your companionship, and your interest and your willingness to be part of this truly epic planetary moment when we are climbing out of the water of our unconsciousness and we are coming out into the light of love and into the world that will arise from that awareness and that knowing.
So I leave that with you this week to ponder and to practice abstaining from judgment, and I look forward to being with you next week. Until then, I bid you peace.