Harnessing Consciousness
Once we begin to ground ourselves in a coherent state of consciousness for brief periods of time during the Planetization inner work, we'll be able to generate and harness these two powerful forces in order to finally bring peace.to our world, and to all the rest of Earth creation. But this evolutionary turning point only begins with our learning to harness and direct these energies in the service of our own greater good, the good of our Earth, and all the rest of Earth creation. In time, we'll extend these powerful forces outward - beyond our home world. And doing so will mark our entry into the fraternity of Cosmic bio/spiritual beings.
The Practice
The Planetization inner work involves three steps. Step One, grounds us in the more expanded spatial orientation of our Planetary Presence. Step Two, Planetary Togetherness; creates the necessary emotional connectivity and coherence amongst us in our Collective Consciousness Field. These two first steps 'phase-entrain' or create a state of resonance among all our individual points of consciousness together in their wave-aspect. This in no way means we'll permanently and irrevocably 'mind-meld' together. It merely creates a temporary Oneness which is different only in range and intensity from the Oneness you experience singing a hymn with the rest of your church congregation, or the unspoken Oneness you feel with all your teammates out on the soccer field. Like being in meditation or prayer; you'll still be able to hear the phone if it rings, and even go answer it if you wish to.
Both these first two steps of the inner work are equally important for different reasons. Planetary Presence is a higher order spatial grounding which transcends that which our senses can validate on the local level. It's a conscious recognition of our collective presence on our home planet. So too, Planetary Togetherness is a recognition of our non-local, higher order togetherness with all other humans on our home world, creating a carrier wave of emotional energy that unites us together planetarily on a subtle energy/emotional level. It embraces everyone in its all-inclusiveness. As a subtle energy phenomenon, it's everywhere at once... Of course, we already know we're all here together on Earth. These two terms refer to higher states of awareness that we don't presently experience. What we experience now is planetary location rather than presence... and planetary proximity rather than togetherness.
The Difference between Presence and Location
Presence is different from location. A book, table or coffeepot all have a physical location - but we never say, for instance, “The book is present on the desk.” or “The coffeepot is present on the stove.” Only consciously aware beings can be present because ‘presence’ is an attribute of consciousness. A consciously aware being is not, however, necessarily ‘present’ wherever he or she is physically located. One can be someplace physically - but not ‘present’ there at all. Imagine a 10-year-old boy sitting in a classroom on a warm spring day. Sunlight is pouring in through the open classroom window. The boy turns to the window and is soon daydreaming about batting the winning home run in a World Series play-off... Would you say this boy was ‘present’ in the classroom? He's still physically sitting at his desk, but as the saying goes, “His mind is a million miles away.” Even the terms we use, saying someone is ‘spaced out’ refers to this type of disconnect between consciousness and physical location. Sometimes people are just too pre-occupied to be fully present to where they are. Our value systems also sometimes prevent us from being fully present spatially. If a place is considered to have little meaning, we often dismiss it from our consciousness so quickly and automatically that we're often not even aware of having made a value judgment to ‘tune out of' our location. We do this in places we move through on the way to somewhere else, our transient presence too fleeting to merit our full attention. We do this as we hurry through train stations and building lobbies to get to the places we consider of greater value and meaning.
A Larger Distraction
The examples above only relate to how we occasionally 'tune out of' our local spatial surroundings. Our culture’s predominant non-local ‘sense of the world’ also creates an implicit value judgment concerning which non-local places have meaning - and which don’t - within its particular frame of reference. For example, people in the Dark Ages attached no great importance to what lay beyond their shores. Their shorelines marked for them the literal edge of the world. Only people with mental problems or criminals were forced onto ships to be carried away on the waves into the limbo-like watery abyss of the ocean, never to be heard from again.
Our modern conception of ‘The World’ - the Nation State model - is equally as value-laden. It's also a major impediment to our evolving greater awareness of our planetary presence. We can’t achieve real coherence in consciousness as a species while this cognitive model stays unchallenged and soft-wired into our brain. This Nation/State model of ‘The World’ spaces us out of our planetary presence every bit as much as the daydreaming boy in the example above is 'spaced out' of the classroom. It creates the same sort of psychological disconnect; only it does so collectively to us all.