Eliminating Truth Decay

Through a simple shift in perspective we can focus our attention away from what is dying to what is being born, from the world of separation, violence, and greed, to the world of interdependence, love and sharing. To make this shift requires that we become as acutely conscious of our emotional and mental diet as we are of our food diets. Westerners are not only overstuffed with processed, poor quality physical food, but we are suffering from pre-processed, glamorous and violent emotional diets, and nutritionless mental food that gives us superficial and useless descriptions of what is happening in the world.

We need to become more spiritually awake to what we consume on every level of our being each day if we are to free ourselves from the noxious fumes of our decaying society. And the biggest decay of all in our world is “truth decay”— a disregard for telling the truth in all levels of our society, but more significantly, a closing off to higher spiritual truths.

The Shift From the Sixth to the Seventh Ray

What is the deeper cause of the upheaval and chaos in our world today? Insights from the Ageless Wisdom (the golden thread which connects the inner, hidden teachings of the world’s spiritual traditions) can shed light on the deeper causes of our current crisis. This Wisdom teaches that all life is an expression of different frequencies of cosmic energies, called “ray” energies. There are seven basic ray energies, like the seven colors of the spectrum. In their totality they embody all of the divine aspects of God, or the one basic energy of the Universe. Various rays cycle in and out of influence on the planet over specific periods of time, providing different energetic impulses for the unfoldment of consciousness.

These seven rays are: The First Ray of Will and Power, the Second Ray of Love/Wisdom, the Third Ray of Active Intelligence, the Fourth Ray of Harmony Through Conflict, the Fifth Ray of Concrete Science, the Sixth Ray of Devotion and Idealism, the Seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order and Rhythm. These ray energies  condition each individual’s personality and Soul.

Long cycles of activity and whole civilizations are governed by incoming and outgoing rays, which condition all aspects of human life. As a ray cycles into expression on earth, new ideas, impulses and life force affect changes in human life and society. As a ray leaves expression, the underlying energy that has supported the forms of a social order is withdrawn, and the structures begin their inevitable decline. Such is the situation today.

The Sixth Ray of Devotion and Idealism has been a primary influence in human affairs for the past 2,000 years of the Piscean era. The Sixth Ray energy has helped humanity develop the capacity to imagine higher ideals in religion, politics and education, which is evident in the devotion to current scientific ideologies and religious belief systems. This Ray emphasizes aspiration towards God transcendent, but often does not apply the ideals in daily life. The Sixth Ray also has tendencies towards fanaticism, personality worship and the desire to impose beliefs on others – a tendency that manifests strongly when a ray reaches the end of its cycle of expression.

This is the deeper cause of the fanatical fundamentalism we see in very part of the world today. The Sixth Ray of Devotion and Idealism is most clearly expressed by religious fundamentalism in all religions and nations, some of whom may be reactionaries or fanatics. Some, in desperation from being unheard or unloved, and lacking all hope for a better life, lash out in violence and anger. There are terrible tragedies going on, but this is only the shattering of crystallized and fanatical religious fundamentalism—Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Hindu --or economic and scientific fundamentalism.

The Sixth Ray rules emotionalism in religion and ideologies, and can be seen in chauvinistic patriotism or scientific dogmatism that refuses to admit new data or hypotheses outside the current paradigm. The Sixth Ray of Devotion and Idealism is waning in influence, and the Seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order and Rhythm is entering with the incoming Aquarian era.  During this shift, the clashing of these two energies is producing chaos and turmoil in the world.

The gradual but increasing Seventh Ray energy works to create new forms and rhythms of daily living based on group consciousness and awareness of the whole, rather than individualistic approaches. The 7th Ray brings Divine Purpose into new forms that more fully respond to the incoming spiritual energy. It helps human beings contact and recognize God within themselves and all humanity – God Immanent – bringing together Spirit and matter. The Seventh Ray provides the impetus for manifesting spiritual principles here on earth, in our daily lives, in contrast to the earlier Sixth Ray emphasis on an other-worldly spirituality trying to reach a transcendent God beyond a sinful world.

The Seventh Ray sees all life – the planet and all peoples and species-- as sacred. The inflow of Seventh Ray energy is the inner, hidden cause of the environmental movement and the health and fitness movement --caring for the earth and our bodies as temples of the indwelling Spirit. Those under influence of the Seventh Ray are innovators who work with steady practicality to create new cultural, economic and political forms, such as consensus-based decision-making, multi-stakeholder dialogues, socially responsible businesses, community supported agriculture, and the use of new participatory rituals to affirm the oneness of all life.

Conflicts today both within and between nations are usually based on clashes between those who think things are fine the way they are and those who feel things are “out of order” and need to be put right. Many are working to “put things right” by working for justice and equity in allocating global resources or protecting and restoring the natural environment. The way forward is to combine the best of traditional values with the energy and impetus of the new, incoming life energies. This will create a higher synthesis that will open and expand consciousness, while maintaining enough stability to allow us to adjust to the increasingly rapid changes.

Throughout history, we have seen many civilizations come and go.  Our modern civilization is now facing a great spiritual crisis, since the Sixth Ray patterns and paradigms we have used to organize ourselves are no longer working. Once people see that the old systems are really decaying and corrupted and cannot meet their needs, they will withdraw legitimacy from them (as Willis Harman predicted) and create new systems more accountable to the good of all, which thousands of people are already doing.

The New Wisdom Civilization

In the midst of this fading, dysfunctional civilization, a New Wisdom Civilization (as sociologist Paul Ray calls it) is being born from the spiritual radiance of thousands of lighted human beings. Their creative projects around the world are steadily growing in power and influence, because they carry the energy of new life.

These subtle networks of woven, lighted thought, visionary planning and activity that encircle the globe are the fabric of this emerging new Seventh Ray civilization. The most creative, practical visionaries of today stand steady in this light, preserving the best values from the past, building new forms for the new life to flow through.

Our times could be compared to the end of the Roman Empire, when the Christians were  a tiny sect hiding in the catacombs keeping their vision alive. But eventually they used the Roman roads to travel the remains of empire and spread their message, sowing the seeds for the new civilization. So today we use the internet and all the technology and tools created by the old empire to share spiritual solutions to social problems and practical ways to live together on this planet in unity, peace and plenty.     

New Life Emerging from the Compost Pile

Led by the example of leaders such as The Dalai Lama, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Gro Brundtland and Mary Robinson, thousands of world servers in every country, race, and religion, are radiating their soul light into new projects in every field such as:

	Interfaith Dialogues
	Conflict Transformation Training
	Socially Responsible Business
	Social Investment
	Spirit in Business
	Spiritual Politics
	Transpersonal Psychology
	Wholistic Health
	Organic Food and Community Supported Agriculture
	Vibrational Energy Medicine
	Sustainable Development
	Environmental Restoration

These projects, like sprouts of new life emerging from the compost of the old order, are showing up everywhere, and will continue to grow despite efforts to choke them out. They cannot be stopped because they carry the power of the incoming, 7th Ray Aquarian life energies. There currently exists a spiritually based solution to every social problem that has already been pioneered by some individual or group innovator. We need only support them with our fuller attention and resources.

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