How Do We Learn to See the Spiritual Dimensions of Current Issues?

While the process is obviously an ongoing and complex one, here are some initial pointers.

You, along with every other person on this planet, are being called on to:

Enlarge and Deepen Perceptions
• Develop the biggest time-space picture that you possibly can
• Attempt to gain an accurate perspective around the relationship of individuals, individual events and issues to overall divine purpose and plan
• Don’t box yourself in or be black and white
• Be prepared to experience, see and acknowledge radical change (and things which were outside your experience and belief system)
• Work at and walk your own spiritual journey with commitment and practical heart expression

Become much more Conscious
• Read, listen, stay alert. Keep your inner eyes and ears, your heart and soul open. Use your intuition or inner listening, and knowing
• Ask big questions
• Dig beneath the surface
• Doubt, be sceptical
• Don’t simply take the news at face value or superficial level. Look for connections and underlying patterns, but don’t force connections to fit an agenda
• Remain as conscious as possible – at every level and at every moment
• Try not to be naïve or gullible
• Don’t get caught up in paranoia, ‘end-time’ scams, or one-sided, simplistic or exclusivistic views
• Learn discernment. Interpret the welter of incoming information with as much discrimination as possible
• Be willing to look at every event, seeing it as part of the divine plan, but being prepared to acknowledge that it in fact may be saying something quite different from what the fixed formulas would have you believe

Think, and Ponder
• Seek, knock, ask, try to see with clarity – explore in new places
• Think clearly, and in as unbiased a way as possible
• Look beyond pat answers, evasions and the ‘party line’. You have a responsibility to be intelligent
• Think big – keep the mind open to divine ‘new things’
• Constantly re-evaluate
• Reflect and ponder deeply on issues, seeking spiritual insight – then test that insight
• Look for congruence and what makes deep sense