A Living Spiritual Centre Transforming Crisis into Renewal

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How can we leverage our spiritual wisdom to meet today’s global crises, and how do we need to evolve our spiritual worldview and approaches in order to do that? How can we genuinely experience our interconnection and Oneness at the deepest level of consciousness, and bring it into expression in our healing approaches, personal and global, our ecological, economic, and socio-political systems? These are the questions we will explore at the Shakti Sacred Activist Centre, and put the new ways of being we discover into practice and action.

In a world that is now facing not only ecological collapses but an alarming rise of a global techno-totalitarian transhuman state robbing us of our essential human rights and freedoms, we need to take our power in our own hands and create the kind of society we want, asserting not only our non-compliance with the future being forced upon us, but igniting our creative potentials to create the one we do want. Supporting each other in love and compassion, and the faith that we can make a difference, we will leverage our own vision for a new Earth of caring, cooperation, regeneration, based on our essential connection with each other, all of nature and our own deepest potentials of consciousness, developing tools and practices to access that innate template of evolutionary spiritual wisdom within us, which, called forth by the extremity of the crises, is ripe now to unfold. 

That template itself is built upon the principle of interconnectedness, its realization and expression at wider and wider levels of our being, unfolding like a spiral through us from the very Source of Creation. As we open to wider and wider dimensions of our being, we are drawn to serve the Whole of which we are an essential part, and the flowering of our highest potentials, individually and collectively, is ignited. 

We, the People and Planet, Together: Unifying Polarized Camps 

At the Shakti Centre we celebrate unity-in-diversity though love and compassion-in-action. In a world beset by rifts and divisions, this begins by bridging divides, both inner divides in our consciousness and outer divides in society.

At the Shakti Centre we will cultivate the common ground between divides, first of all between spirituality and action, but also between gender, races, and religious and political divides. We need to connect the dots between the many facets of our current crises and recognize that, beyond the apparent polarizations, the vast majority of us share the same desire for a world of healing, caring and connection, social as well as ecological. We want to love and be loved, and care for the world around us, as it cares for us.

We need to unite the camps, then, that are falsely divided, by getting to the roots of the causes of the crises, and seeing how they are connected, no less than the potential solutions. Few people see the connections, for instance, between the ecological collapses, the obsolescence of our political systems, and the dystopian global techno-totalitarian takeover rapidly gaining ascendance (aka the Great Reset, New World Order, Agenda 2030, Fourth Industrial Revolution or transhumanism). Those concerned with the ecological collapses and destruction of nature, and those concerned with the rising technocratic despotism, driven by the same high-tech elites who have largely caused that destruction, are, strangely, often in different, even opposed, camps, but the connection is obvious. If both camps can connect the dots between the issues, and then connect in vision and action, creating a united front, their power will be unstoppable, both to heal ourselves and our planet, and create a far more just, regenerative, enlightened social system, that renews our true humanity and serves all life.

It is time to buck the dystopian, transhuman future being foisted upon us, crushing our spirits and crushing our Earth, and reclaim our true humanity, in the service of all life. And we are not alone in this. The light of higher consciousness is breaking through in our world now – let us align with its power, and bring forth the new way of life on Earth so many of us yearn for.

Aims and Activities of the Shakti Centre

The central aim of the Shakti Sacred Activist Centre is to bring spirituality into action to meet today’s global crises. This means exploring a new paradigm of evolutionary spirituality, bringing the deep, perennial principles of all authentic wisdom teachings – our interconnection and Oneness with each other, all of nature and our own spiritual Source – into realization, expression and action to re-create a new way of life on Earth. Our values are the recognition of the sacred in all beings, planetary regeneration, holistic healing, social justice, sovereignty, and the freedom to realize the highest potentials of consciousness with which we innately endowed, guided by our own internal connection with the Source of 
wisdom within us, rather than any outer authority, dogma or agenda. 

The activities at the centre – including organic gardens, a natural healing clinic, a research centre on bio-field, quantum and energy psychology, seminars and retreats on consciousness-change and systems-change, the integration of feminine wisdom in spirituality and society, new forms of awakened leadership and co-creative evolution -- would address the multiple dimensions of transformation needed to meet today’s global social and ecological crises. 

The Spheres of Co-Creation: Synergizing Transformation at the Multiple Dimensions of Our Being

The Shakti Centre is based on a model called the Spheres of Co-Creation, bringing together, in one integrated spectrum, the work of transformation in seven dimensions: consciousness, energetic, psycho-cultural, ecological, economic, socio-political and planetary/Cosmic. Our aim is to synergize the work at each of these levels within the centre itself, as well as in connection with networks of others working for transformation globally. (For more about this, see “Creating a Quantum Holomovement with the Spheres of Co-Creation”).

Many have recognized that we have to combine inner and outer transformation if we are to effect the radical changes needed in our world. As Gandhi famously said, we need to be the change we want to see – we need to bring about a revolution in both the deepest level of our consciousness and our outer global systems, and every dimension of our being in between. Given the scale of our crises, nothing less is called for today than an evolutionary leap, a whole-scale, whole-systems, holistic transformation, from the deepest source of our consciousness and of creation itself, aligning ourselves with the unity at our core and the unified field of the Cosmos.

As both an ontological model of the dimensions of our being, and an online platform for collaboration within and between those dimensions, the Spheres of Co-Creation is designed to facilitate this process.

 
The Spheres of Co-Creation is both a model of the interconnected relationship between the inner and outer levels of our being; and an online, interactive platform for the collaboration and co-creation of those working at all levels. Designed as nested spheres, enfolded within and unfolding out of each other like concentric ripples, a spiral or a torus, it illustrates the different levels of our being, inner and outer, individual and collective, and the dynamic connections between them.

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The Spheres of Co-Creation Model

Five Uses of the Spheres of Co-Creation

The Spheres of Co-Creation offers a big-picture vision of the multiple, dynamic dimensions of our being, as well as several other applications for personal and global transformation:

1) It represents an ontological spectrum of the multiple dimensions of our being, radiating from pure universal Consciousness at the innermost level to subtle, natural, social, planetary and Cosmic dimensions. This has both individual and collective implications, depicting the positive feedback loop between our consciousness, actions and planetary regeneration. It can also elevate us beyond our often short-sighted, single-issue aims and perspectives, into the exhilarating context of Cosmic evolution and our place in a participatory universe

2) It is also designed to function as an online database of organizations working for transformation at all these levels, and an interactive platform for their collaboration.  Organizations can map themselves into their spheres of action, to find and be found by each other, amplifying the work in each sphere and cross-pollinating across spheres

3) It serves as a basis for the Shakti Centre daily program, with activities spanning the spectrum of the different spheres, from an innermost focus on meditation in the morning, then sessions on subtle energy healing, psychological growth, ecological hands-on work; research, networking and action on the wider social, economic and political issues in the afternoon; and return to the inner consciousness focus with sound healing and meditations in the evening

4) It can also serve as a tool to help people identify where their own calling, passions and talents lie, where they feel most drawn to contribute. They can then focus their energies in those spheres, building greater skills, and link up with others in the database and network for synergistic collaboration. The SoC helps us see the power of our own unique role in the big picture of whole-systems transformation, complementing rather than competing, with the roles of others. We realize we are never alone, but part of a greater global evolutionary movement that supports us

5) The SoC can also be used as a tool for meditation and contemplation. We can explore, in vision and experientially, what interconnection and Oneness (unity-in-diversity) would look and feel like at each of the SoC levels, replacing the sense of separation, polarization and fragmentation we currently experience with new pathways to healing and unity. We can also use the model to develop the ability to “ride” the spectrum of consciousness, experiencing the progressive brainwave states that generate creativity and transformation, spanning from the stillness of pure unconditioned consciousness at our core to the respective frequencies of the different stages of creation: subtle inspiration, energy-information, vision and manifestation 

The Present Call

We feel the growing technocratic tyranny and escalating “war on life”, as Vandana Shiva so aptly calls it, necessitates, more than ever, spiritual communities that not only foster self-reliant, life-affirming alternatives to preserve our rights and freedoms, with natural healing and regenerative farming, but at the same time place spiritual practice at the centre, as the fulcrum that can guide and inspire this next phase of evolution in our consciousness and our systems. Such communities are essential as preserves of the perennial spiritual knowledge that has been passed down for centuries, as well as fertile testing grounds for new paths in our evolution, called forth by these particular times, whose unprecedented challenges also offer unprecedented new possibilities.  It is in this context that we wish to create this centre, harnessing all we need to survive, thrive and turn these times around, coming out the other side wiser, stronger and flourishing, alchemizing the crises into awakening.

In the Shakti Centre program, then, we will dive deep in exploring the roots of the crises, and how we can most powerfully leverage the deeper dimensions of our being to transform our consciousness, worldviews and systems. Coordinating with other groups, we will offer workshops exploring consciousness and energy healing in the personal, planetary and Cosmic contexts, including indigenous and Eastern spirituality, as well as modern quantum physics and cosmology. Nothing will be merely theoretical; all will be applied and adapted for both personal and planetary healing, for we believe that sacred activism naturally rises into practical action. We are very excited by this vision, which can help to leverage all dimensions of our being for much-needed consciousness- and systems-transformation.

Please contact me, Kavita Byrd, at kavitaji25@yahoo.com, if you are interested, or see https://shakticentre.blogspot.com to know more. All who would like to take a deep dive into consciousness and offer their gifts to help transform our world, are most welcome to join us!

 

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