by Juliette Jones
To resolve our human and environmental problems, we must adopt a holistic awareness that all of life is interconnected and interdependent.
It’s becoming obvious that we live in unprecedented times, and a palpable undercurrent of anxiety is evident within the human population. On one level, we have reached a tipping point where many people are collectively realizing a wide range of disturbing symptoms brought about by the radical destruction of our environment. And these symptoms are not just confined to climate change; they also reflect widespread human ethical and cultural disintegration.
Overall, the complex nature in which we are embedded in our environment is impossible to fully understand at a conscious level. We must expand to a holistic awareness that all of life is interconnected and interdependent—and we must acknowledge that humankind is a part of nature’s circle of life.
Dr. Stephan A. Schwartz, a respected scientist, archaeological researcher, remote viewer and Edgar Cayce scholar, advocates a “strategy of being-ness” as effective in supporting one’s own individual life force and in becoming a change agent for the movement of human society in a life-giving direction.
Driven by concern over climate change—which I believe holds the potential to destroy civilization—I have been focused on how nonlocal consciousness plays a role in social systems, and how individuals and small groups can change the arc of history and bring our world into a full circle of well-being.
The Marriage of Consciousness and Science
Truly incorporating consciousness into science is the only way we are going to develop the strategies and technologies to meet challenges such as climate change and save our planet. In his book 8 Laws of Change: How to be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation, Dr. Schwartz reveals how individual choices based on integrity and intention—a strategy so subtle it’s not apt not to be taken seriously—can result in lasting transformation. This happens when we evolve to realize the non-physiological component of change, namely that the essence of our being lies in the nonlocal, which is both spiritual and divine, which links us to the matrix of earthly life.
It might be that climate change is an evolutionary driver behind consciousness evolution, forcing a breakout from inadequate material explanations for our relationship both to and within physical reality.
Dr. Stanislav Grof, eminent psychiatrist and author of When the Impossible Happens, points out there are currently drastic and far-reaching new insights taking place regarding the nature of nonlocal consciousness and its relationship to matter. As science moves forward and evolves beyond the three-dimensional doctrine of physicalism, a revolutionary transformation can take place in the way humans see themselves, how we live our lives, and how we conduct our businesses.
“Physicalism is the doctrine that the real world consists simply of the physical world. Its close cousin is materialism, the creed that nothing exists except matter and its movement and modifications, as well as the doctrine that consciousness and will are wholly due to material agency,” according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.
Dr. Grof asserts that researchers have proven consciousness can and does exist outside of the body and after death, and points to the fact that most people, including scientists, fail to realize there is absolutely no proof that consciousness is produced in the brain or by the brain. “Such a deduction would be tantamount to the conclusion that the TV program is generated in the TV set because there is a close connection between the functioning and malfunctioning of its components and quality of picture,” he postulates.
“Consciousness precedes being, not the other way around,” asserts Vaclav Havel, first President of the Czech Republic. The evidence favoring Havel’s nonlocal view of consciousness as transcending physicalism is enormous, and it signals that the spell of physicalism is waning. Consciousness is just as real as material phenomena, and, in my own view, the agency of our material experience.
According to Dr. Carl Jung, “The decisive question for man is, ‘Are we related to something infinite, or not?’” But in our present day, this question is more urgent and brought about by evolutionary necessity. Jung added, “As a doctor, I make every effort to strengthen the belief in immortality.”
No doubt, Jung realized the power of this truth in supporting the health of the individual, and—when applied to the collective—human society.
Understanding “Nonlocality”
The nonlocal domain deals with universal intelligence, consciousness, and pure potentiality. Nonlocality is a concept that physicists apply to a class of events whose nature relates to the speed of light. Physicist Nick Herbert explains nonlocality as follows: “A nonlocal connection links up one location with another without crossing space, without decay, and without delay.” In other words, nonlocality is immediate, unmitigated with respect to distance and instantaneous, having characteristics attributed to certain transpersonal states of consciousness.
So can anyone access nonlocal consciousness? It would appear that anyone can since we are all part of it. Genius has always given recognition to this capacity. As we open the door to realize the transcendent within ourselves as foundational, we move into a heretofore-unknown sense of wholeness and connectivity, ability to self-heal, powerful confidence in problem solving, and other gifts bestowed by profound creativity, clarity, and inner guidance.
As Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D., points out: “The most urgent issue we humans face is how we conceive ourselves, whether as complex lumps of matter guided by the so-called blind, meaningless laws of nature, or as creatures who, although physical, are also imbued with something more—consciousness, mind, will, choice, purpose, direction, meaning, and spirituality, that difficult-to-define quality that says we are connected with something that transcends our individual self and ego.
“Every decision we make is influenced by how we answer this great question: Who are we?”
Juliette Gay Jones grew up in Michigan where she knew every tree, rock, animal and flower in the universe of the family backyard. As a writer, public speaker, New Thought Minister and clinically certified spiritual counselor serving hospice for over 20 years, she exercises her passion for research and progressive self-realization. A strong interest in the magic of theatrical arts eventually led to a Master of Fine Arts degree from Michigan State University. “The stage is a place where the invisible can appear.” She also holds a Ph.D. in Pastoral Counseling. Contact her at bodymindspiritconnection@gmail.com.