Note: As a partner in an interfaith marriage I often have the opportunity to seek spiritual fulfillment in a Jewish context.  The Seder, a participatory ritual meal served during Passover, recounts the Exodus from Egypt, and the liberation of Jews from slavery.

In a bit of cosmic synchronicity George Noory, hosted Lynne McTaggart on the Coast-to-Coast show the first night of Passover to discuss her new book The Bond. Building upon her previous research McTaggart shows how Western thought and practices of individualism must now give way to understanding we are all one – connected at the subatomic level. According to McTaggart living as our authentic self “has been sabotaged by modern science”.

Befitting a night when we all gather together around the Seder table to tell a story of liberation of the Jewish people, McTaggart points out that we have been held hostage by false beliefs propagated by and from the scientific community. It’s time we free ourselves from this old paradigm. We are wired to work together, to be in the collective and to be fair to one another. When we go against this natural way of being, we go against the natural order of the Universe; one song singing the notes of a cooperative whole.

You have to be living in a cave to not notice we are at a turning point in our consciousness and evolution. To survive, individualism must give way to the collective cooperative. It is in this cultural unification we find the modern-day Exodus. The latest discoveries of the new sciences show that we can only succeed through cooperation.

We must leave old ways of being and thinking behind.

Table Set for a Seder

As I partake of a ritualistic sip of wine, I ponder the current state of the world. We remain enslaved by our own thoughts, our own mind, and our own practices. Even though the world as we know it is unraveling, is this undertaking, getting a world plagued by war, political conflict, and marginalized people together to change into a cooperative mass for the sake of survival, the modern day equivalent of parting the Red Sea?

I became a big fan of McTaggart after reading her first book, The Field, a collection of research findings substantiating the universal energy connecting all that is at the quantum level. In her book The Intention Experiment she gathered scientific evidence showing how our thought influences solid matter through the energy web of this field. We are of one mind whether we choose to accept this fact or not.

Passover is about story telling.  In The Bond McTaggart asks us to consider the ultimate question: what is the new story we need to live by? She asserts we can no longer afford to live in ignorance of our interconnectedness. To continue to live as competitors will leave destruction in our wake.

We can, instead, use this time of global crises in the economy… the unemployment lines… escalating incidents of natural disasters heaving devastation on our environment… of the skyrocketing price of gas and food to serve as a wake up call, a turning point in our cultural and conscious development. We have reached a point where we can no longer enslave ourselves by a false story of who we really are.

Passover encourages Jewish people to invite strangers to the home during this celebratory period so they can remember that they were once strangers in their own land. Participants are invited to open the door and include the strange and the unfamiliar in the Passover ceremony.  In The Bond, McTaggart warns that failure to embrace new ways of thinking and being in the world, and failure to bridge our differences, will keep us on a path of self destruction.  She offers detailed recommendations to foster more holistic thinking, more cooperative thinking, more unified social groups, and ways of uniting with others for the sake of progressing into this new consciousness.

Lynne posts on her blog:

“My aim in writing The Bond is to offer nothing less than a vision to live in harmony with our true nature, and a new way to heal our relationships, our neighborhoods, our world.”

As we conclude a Seder we are reminded that the story is incomplete.

“In every generation one must regard themselves as though they had gone out of Egypt” and in every generation we must continue the work of the Exodus and to create freedom and fairness in the world.

McTaggart’s work certainly provides a roadmap for what must be undertaken by this generation if we are to experience ultimate liberation.

     I am deeply disturbed and disappointed.

     My nephew, who is staying with me for the summer, keeps asking me questions about the world ending in 2012. Tired of repeating the same reassurances over and over, I asked him why he was afraid of the world ending? Where did he get that idea?

     Apparently, he watched a trailer to the movie “2012″ which graphically depicts the world ending horrifically during this time. I started to watch it, and my mind would not let me finish. He had watched the trailer in its entirety and now was feeling very confused. His 13-year old mind knows it is fiction, but there is another part of him who is very scared that this could be more truth than fiction.

      Why am disturbed? I am disturbed by the impact this film is going to have on the cultural consciousness as millions of people flock to see it. It will have a profoundly negative effect; such graphic depiction of negativity can not produce anything else any more than an acorn can produce a wheat stalk.

      The work of HeartMath Institute has demonstrated that collectively, the negative emotions registered in the heart and brain’s electromagnetic fields, generate a global stress and incoherence wave that goes out to those around us and around the globe. Thus, in one way or another, the negativity and catastrophic ending depicted in this film will become its own self-fulfilling prophecy, weakening the global coherence as the film makers laugh their way all the way to the bank. That is where the disappointment comes in. Fear sells. Media knows fear sells, but their greed outweighs their social consciousness. The moral implications of this will, no doubt, be the subject of a future post.  

     Unfortunately the mainstream populace is not awakened to the true impact that fear, collective fear, has on our collective unconscious and the zero point field. But we know that this negativity can be counter-balanced.  We can choose NOT to support the film or the message it sends by refusing to go to the theater to view it. We can ask others to do the same. A small act, but very powerful on many different levels. The less people who see the film the less impact on the collective conscious. We can, the day the film is released, hold mass meditations and send love and intention of healing to all the hearts that will be closed by the fear that is being stimulated through the mindless programming that will be taking place in theaters.

     Please join me. Together we can make a difference. Together we can create a different outcome.