By Rev. Glenn Neil Stocking
In her book “The Soul of Money,” Lynne Twist talks about seeing the world through the eyes of her children (237). She is pointing out that the world they are inheriting is vastly different than the one their parents have known. The technological advances our generation has witnessed and assumed are not new to our children, they simply are normal elements of life. She asks on page 238, “What might it mean to grow up in a world where sufficiency was assumed, where generosity and collaboration were the prevailing human conditions?”
Twist is suggesting the possibility that tomorrow can be different. We can move into the future unburdened by the beliefs that have carried us here. We can evolve our thinking beyond the mindset that created the misperceptions we have been accepting as true. Like our children we can just assume new solutions without having to explain away false beliefs.
Our minds renew with each passing moment. There is nothing in our past that we are required to carry forward. There is much that we desire to carry forward, pleasant memories, loving relationships and acquired knowledge and skills make us who we are; but false beliefs and ideas are free to drop away like autumn leaves.
The tree grows new leaves in the spring and we replace our mistaken beliefs with new ideas that fall into alignment with our Spiritual truth. Ideas of sufficiency, prosperity, creativity, love and harmony. The Truth that has always been there, but concealed in our belief of separation from our source.
Like past generations who believed there was scarcity and lack, them or us, good and evil; our belief in a God separate from us has been blocking our access to the Truth. Our children are free of our false beliefs and our only responsibility is to stay out of their way.
Moses could not enter the Promised Land nor any of those who walked out of Egypt with him. The Biblical journey of forty years represented the purging of a generation of doubters making way for the unsullied to start anew. Alas it seems those who did not know Egypt grew up on stories about Egypt and the fix was in.
Our children and our newly freed minds are pure and fresh. Aware of our Truth we can maintain our purity through our choices, our children need only be allowed to blossom into the powerful Spiritual beings they are without stories of Egypt to infect their journey.
Industries are devoted to the inflation of the falsehoods of the common consciousness, but generations of seekers have been chipping away at the lies. We stand at the threshold of a new consciousness. The progress of generations past has been incremental and unperceivable and now we are here. Our next step takes us into a future of our own making. Pry off the lid and step into a world where joy, love and harmony inform every decision and energize every experience.
Learn more about the metaphysical interpretation of “Egypt,” Spiritual Truth and how to realign the common consciousness at a Center for Spiritual Living in your community or on line starting at CSL.org and CSLFTL.org.