| We are learning how to create that which we desire, | | | | enlightened beings walking around. Today, many |
| such as abundance and love, by rising above the | | | | people are beginning to realize that they have the |
| ego-body-mind-intellect complex and surrendering to | | | | potential to become such beings. It is said that we are |
| the creative, loving energy of the universe (God, | | | | currently moving into a Golden Age where many |
| Creator, Presence, Spirit). This higher consciousness is | | | | people will become, or be born enlightened. |
| in alignment with All That Is, and this is a place where | | | | Coming into a higher consciousness calls for spiritual |
| everything we need already exists by virtue of using | | | | effort. We do this in many ways in order to take |
| the creative mind to manifest it. | | | | responsibility for our relationship with the Divine, |
| For example, many believe the outcome of the 2008 | | | | however that may be defined individually. We |
| presidential election in the U.S. was a miracle. Likewise, | | | | accomplish this with deep meditation, through |
| many people accept as true that the rising of | | | | conscious communion with the Divine Presence within |
| consciousness of everyday people in our society has | | | | ourselves, by offering devotion to higher beings such |
| been a major contributor to the election of Barack | | | | as Christ, Indian deities, like Shiva in the illustration, the |
| Obama. It is suggested is that we have created the | | | | Great White Brotherhood, Archangels, and others, and |
| space for this, or for any perceived miracle to occur, | | | | by placing ourselves in a position of active awareness |
| by first attaining the conscious intention and creative | | | | of the ego-body-mind-intellect complex with a knowing |
| mind for it to happen. | | | | that we are supreme souls that are separate from the |
| We have all seen, or been aware of miracles taking | | | | “body person” we reside in. |
| place in our world, both in the past and in the present. | | | | All of this personal spiritual effort has a beautiful side |
| defines a miracle as ‘an effect or extraordinary | | | | effect; as the consciousness becomes more aware, |
| event in the physical world that surpasses all known | | | | we become lighter… not only mentally, but on a |
| human or natural powers and is ascribed to a | | | | cellular level. And as we gently, gradually become |
| supernatural cause.’ For those of us who are on a | | | | accustomed to this lighter state, we are able to |
| path for awakening to our Higher Selves, we | | | | release old patterns and core beliefs that have |
| understand that we are the creators of what we | | | | created resistance. This new human condition is where |
| experience. We know that we are responsible for our | | | | we feel no heavy attachment or aversion to |
| growth as Beings, and that certain things will show up | | | | whatever is happening. We become more detached, |
| in our lives as we come to higher awareness, such as | | | | more the Knower and Seer, and this is where |
| prosperity. | | | | “allowing” takes place because the invisible |
| In order for us to be able to “have” something | | | | blockages are dissipating. This is new age spirituality. |
| wonderful, we must be in a state of | | | | New age spirituality is both a process and an end in |
| “havingness,” which is the ability to allow divine | | | | itself. It is finding personal, yet elevated fulfillment within |
| grace to flow through us, unrestricted. Each human | | | | by lightening up our mental load, as we have learned to |
| being is born with this higher quality, though our cultures, | | | | hold the separation between what is Real and what is |
| in their focus on survival, create a veil between us and | | | | relative. It is a vow to let go of whatever holds us, like |
| this latent gift we all have. However, we are living in a | | | | gravity, from truly knowing our Selves as divine. And |
| time unprecedented on this planet wherein human | | | | within this Knowledge, by holding ourselves in this |
| consciousness is awakening at a faster pace than it | | | | higher understanding, grace finds its foothold, its |
| has in many thousands of years. In ancient times, in | | | | freeflow, in our lives. |
| another age, or “yuga,” there were many | | | | |