The Only Consciousness You Can Change Is Your Own

Part of the You Are It video series on consciousness and remembering.

The Only Consciousness You Can Change Is Your Own. And That Changes Everything

On why tending your inner state is not a retreat from the world but possibly the most honest way to be fully in it. Drawing on Hawkins' distinction between force and power, Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance, the Yoga Vasishtha, and the Bhagavad Gita's teaching on action without attachment to outcome.

All videos in this series stand alone and can be watched in any order.

Background Music Credit: Wisps of Whorls by Kevin McLeod. Free Music Archive. License type (CC BY).

Transcript

The only consciousness you can change is your own. And that's changes everything. That is something. That can feel almost discouraging when you first encounter it. The idea. That the only consciousness you can truly change is your own. Not your partners. Not the institutions. Not the people in power. Not the systems that have been causing harm for generations. Only Jaws. If you are someone who cares deeply about the world. I will just. . . About the community. That have been carrying what they should have never have had to carry. Can sound like an invitation to look away. To go inward. While it works. Burns. Let us stay. For a moment with that tension. Because maybe. . . It deserves more than being passed by quickly. Of being spiritually bypassed. Davy Hawk. In power versus force. Miss a distinction that could be genuinely useful here. He distinguishes between force and power. False. He says. Is word contact. It pushes against. It demands. It exhausts itself in the push. Power by contrast. Is what arises from alignment with what is true. It does not push. It's simply easy. And its presence. Changes what is possible. In the field around it. He suggests. That a single consciousness. Genuinely sterilized in love. In clarity. In what he calls integrity. Contribute something real to the larger field we all share. Not as a metaphor. As a description of how consciousness works. Actually. Operates as a field. Rupert Sheldon a biologist who has explored what he termed morphic resonance. Proposal that patterns of behavior and unwellness propagate across species. Once established in enough individuals. Pointing to us. Similar understanding. For more scientific knowledge. When enough beings within a system Shift that pattern. He said yes. The field itself. Becomes easier for others to access. The shift of one. Genuinely. Mix the next sheet slightly more available to another. The Yoga Vasistha. One of the most expensive. Of the Vedantic writings. Estate. This as its central teaching. Their world. Is not modified by action alone. It is modified by the quality of consciousness. From which action arises. Two people. Can do the identical external actions. Speak the same words. File the same report. Sit with the same community. Offer the same testimony. If 1 That's from fear and urgency. And the other from clarity and love. The field created around that axis. Is entirely different. And the field. Is what shapes you. What becomes possible. Here is something. From ordinary life. That might make this land differently. Think of a room. Where one person. Is genuinely a beast. Not performing. Not suppressing. What they feel. Actually. Settle in themselves. You have been in homes like this. You know the quality of it. Something changes. In how people around that person speak. In our conflicts. In what becomes possible in the conversation. That person. Did not force anything. They did not instruct anyone. Stay Simply. Brought a different quality of presence. Into the shared space. And this shared space. Risponde. That is not magic. That is field dynamics. Let's consider about what this does not mean. It does not mean. That eNetwork. Replaces alteration. It does not mean that communities. Carrying the weight of historical injustice. You simply need to raise the vibration. And the injustice we deserve. That frame. Is not only unhelpful. It is inaccurate. To what the sources actually say. Hokies! Clear. That oppressive systems Calibrate low. That's false However, Amplified by institutional structures is not powerful. And the work of Bearing Witness. Of documents. Of testifying. Of refusing to let harm be made invisible. When it arises from dignity. Rather than from despair. Is itself. An act of high consciousness. Eat this. Simultaneously. Action on the screen. And healing of the projector. That too. And not competing. They are the same movement. In different places. Life change. When you turn to your own consciousness. Is know that the world's problems disappear. What changes? Is the quality of presence. You bring to engaging with them. Less driven by accumulated charge. Let's react. More precise. More available. To what the moment actually requires. And add quality. That field you carry into every room. Every conversation. Every act of advocacy. Or witness. Or care. Is not a small thing. Maybe. In the end. The most consequential thing. Because. You cannot give. What you have not accessed in yourself. And you cannot sustainably serve. From a place of depletion and unprocessed grief. Debacavad Gita. Boys, Show us these. Teaching on what it calls Nishkama Karma. Action without attachment to outcome. Not detachment from caring. Not indifference to what happens. Pate frito. That comes from acting. From your deepest nature rather than from the ego's need for a particular outcome. Krishna. Does not tell Arjuna to leave the battlefield. He dares him. Fully. Uncompletely. On a place of inner alignment rather than from fear and desire. The action. And the inner state. And no separate. They arise together. They do not arise. Cleanly at all. So. The invitation today. Is not to turn away from what matters to you. To tend to the quality of consciousness. You bring to what matters. It is to notice. When you are acting from grief. That has had no space. From hunger. That has found no resolution. From the quiet exhaustion of caring deeply. In the world. That moves slowly. And before acting. From that way, To pause. To acknowledge what is there. The way you would sit with anyone who needed to be heard. Before they could move forward. Cleared. That wait is real. And it deserves honest attention. Before. It quietly shapes. Everything that flows through you. Because. The world. Changes person by person field by field. Presence by Presence and yours. With honesty and care. Is already contributing to something larger. That you may currently be able to see. You are not separate from the field. You are the field. Expressing itself. For one particular life. At one particular moment. With one particular set of gifts. I'm good. Capacity. Tend to that. With the same devotion. You bring to everything else you love. It's not a retreat from the world. May be the most honest. And complete intention. To be fully in it. Welcome home.