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Principles of Sacred Consciousness
Tenth Principle of Planetary
Transformation
Principles of Sacred Consciousness as
a sacred community does not become embroiled in controversy
within or outside of purification support groups, and resolves
conflict within the community through attunement to higher
truth.
Within the Principles of Sacred
Consciousness Community, members are encouraged to speak in
accordance with the teachings of the Tenth Principle. Inherent
in this Principle is the opportunity to learn to bring more
consciousness to the quality of our discussion of all matters
including politics, religion, and other issues that have
historically divided people. It is also necessary that we learn
to disengage from all communication that carries qualities of
judgment, anger, or blame.
Our societies are riddled with examples
of conflict manifesting within and among groups of people. The
modern recognition of this phenomenon is reflected in the term
'dysfunctional system.' As we purify, we grow in our awareness
of what this means and increasingly see the parallels between
addictive process on an individual level and addictive process
on the group level. The fact that characteristics of addictive
process within systems are so universal relates to the
fundamentally spiritual nature of this process. What we
experience as a result of our perceived separation from God gets
transferred to our relationships with others. The multitude of
collective forms that result from this are the primary
contributing factors to an unconscious world–a world desperately
in need of healing.
The way through this unconsciousness is
simple but difficult. As the Fourth Principle of Planetary
Transformation emphasizes, it is a matter of each individual
bringing more consciousness and spiritual integrity to
interpersonal interactions, wherever they occur. This becomes
possible as more people apply the basic tenets of recovery and
purification to every aspect of their lives. This commitment
becomes more important as we develop the view that all of life
is sacred, that all of life belongs to one overriding spiritual
reality. Within this spiritual reality each part can begin to be
healed through its conscious connection with the greater whole.
The decision to refrain from conflict in
the form of argument, gossip, or unkind words and instead to
remain in the vibration of love and truth, is the optimum way to
respond to individuals who invite participation in unconscious
behavior. This approach creates the possibility for people
facing themselves, since there is one less person reinforcing
the illusion of an externally-caused reason for blame or upset.
The goal is to remain firm, clear, and centered in love while,
at the same time, not identifying with the negative energies we
may feel moving through us from the surrounding situation.
Nothing jeopardizes the integrity of a system more than
widespread participation with conflict. The energetic
consequence of this is like a cancer that spreads and becomes a
powerful anti-life, anti-growth force. This destructive energy
has affected almost all forms of group process throughout time.
As more and more individuals begin to
heal and to allow God's love to move through them to others, an
alternative to conflict becomes possible. The fluidity of God's
love within and around us becomes the life-blood of our
collaborative efforts, eliminating the need for armoring in
order to defend ourselves or our positions. When conflict does
surface we are increasingly able to return to the precepts of
purification. These precepts support a return to alignment with
our own Divine presence and the Divine presence within others,
so that differences can be harmonized in the presence of greater
love and joining. In this atmosphere collective attunement to
higher truth can reveal the partial truths that each one in a
conflict speaks for, and a place can be found for each partial
truth to obtain validity and value within the larger picture.
Time after time in the course of aligning
we discover that it is God's intention to work through us. This
becomes apparent as problems in our personal lives are
progressively resolved. God's intention can also work through us
with respect to the more complex problems of a social and global
nature that perplex us all. The process of attunement allows us
to retain spiritual perspective and to remain conscious as we
engage with each other in different ways–as individuals, groups,
and as a nation. It is a matter of holding the strong intention
to remember who we are as children of God and seeking to wear
this new identity with more and more integrity.
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