Hi there everyone!!
Why is it sometimes difficult to awaken
people to what is right in front of them?
I’ve distinguished four distinct places
someone may be in their awakening journey.
Similar to understanding personality styles, understanding these four
paradigms will help us relate with more people.
And, it may accelerate the awakening of our planet!
This is not the truth; just a way of
looking. As always, I write to offer
alternative perspectives, illustrating extremes for emphasis and
entertainment. No model is perfect, but
we can learn from aspects of various models in our own understanding of the
world.
In this Awakening Matrix, the left
column in the visual represents people who are primarily “conditioned” while
the right column represents people who make conscious choices much of the
time. The top row represents
individual thinking, while the bottom row represents those people who work
collectively. This creates the four
quadrant possibilities, with a detailed explanation and visual below:
1. Conditioned people who are
individualistic. (Asleep)
The majority of society currently fits
into this category. Most of their
perspectives and opinions are based on mainstream media or mass advertising. They are fashionable because they keep us
with superficial trends. Fitting in and
looking good are important attributes which usually supersede health and
financial priorities. These people
thrive on instant gratification, and are self-centered.
2. Conscious choosers who are
individualistic. (Conscious Love)
This group of people includes the
personal development junkies and new age spiritual gurus. While they understand their power to create
in the universe, they are elitist to their own teachings (like Landmark Forum),
and sometimes hypocritical. Many of the
“Secret” followers take philosophies to a radical extreme, and then criticize
religions that do the same. Religions do
understand community, and that’s why they are part of the third quadrant.
3. Conditioned people working
collectively. (Collective Action)
Those in this group have great hearts
and are passionate about their causes.
Whether their mission is charitable, humanitarian, or political, they
are determined to cause positive change.
Unfortunately, these activists (whether for God or for “the people”), do
more harm than good. When people
confront them with the corruption of their leaders or the hidden agendas of
their institutions, they turn a blind eye in denial. At the risk of offending some, but for the
sake of example, consider environmentalists (who won’t consider that climate
change is a fraud), raw food vegans (who become unhealthy themselves), and
company-exclusive network marketers (who perpetuate the negative stigma).
4. Conscious choosers working
collectively. (Love & Right Action =
The Awakening)
This is the next stage of humanity. It is integrating the power of our will with
the power of numbers. That is what
causes massive change. People like Tony
Robbins and Robert Kiyosaki understand this, while the masses (and quadrant 3)
make fun of them. People like Alex Jones
and David Icke understand this, while the masses (and quadrant 2) make fun of
them. We all need to become the
“activist” to change the world, and we all need to “be” the change we wish to
see first. Like Deepak Chopra says,
“Love without action is meaningless, and action without love is irrelevant.”
I deliberately picked some awakening
icons that the masses might be negatively triggered by. They would attack or ridicule these people
and question their character, instead of rationally dealing with the content
and quality of their work. As Gandhi
said, first they ignore you (zombies in quadrant 1), then they laugh at you
(the selfish lovers in the quadrant 2), then they fight you (the righteous and
arrogant in quadrant 3), and then you win (some people migrate to quadrant 4).
No quadrant is meant to be less than or
more significant than another. All four
exist (with infinite gradients) and so our challenge is to coexist with these
different ways of being.
Now, it is easier to wake up quadrant
two and three, than quadrant one. Where
do you spend most of your time?
...I just realized that this
understanding is consistent with my motto, “Let’s love the world together...”
Love,
[)anish /|hmed, blind visionary
