Are You Evolving?

You can help evolution by participating in it.

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You can get better by practicing evolution.

The two quotes above are from Michael A. Singer's podcast centered around this well heard line, Earth is  a place where souls are sent to evolve.

What is evolution and what is a soul? 

When we speak about evolution in this way, we are not speaking of the Darwinian survival of the  fittest and physical adaptation...we are talking about a deeper more lasting evolution that goes beyond body and mind.  We are talking about consciousness, the essence of who we are at the deepest level, which is the soul. Evolution is a pulling away from false identity and  remembering who and what we are.  It is all about being able to fall back from the distractions of the external and internal (thoughts and emotions) world and learning to stay in the seat of consciousness.  I see it as waking up from  a fog of amnesia or dementia  and saying, "Oh I am not that.  I am This. I never left the seat , my attention just wandered away for a moment." 

 The outside world and our mental ones have a great pull and sometimes they pull consciousness into them, so much so that consciousness gets lost and over identified with these things. It believes it is the body, mind, and all the drama the body and mind are creating and experiencing.  It forgets what and who it is and therefore,  the Seat it is sitting on. If we could stay in the Seat and simply observe what is happening 'out there' , (and in our minds and hearts) objectively, without judgement  or attachment...we would not have this false sense that we  left the Seat. 

So the goal of the soul's evolution then, is to bring its attention  back to Itself sitting on the Seat. It is about realizing it isn't what it thought it was as "little me". Next, it is about once again seeing Itself as that light of  consciousness that was shining on the "little me", not the little me.  It is about being aware that we are awareness.

If we could experience Life from a grounded and aware position on the Seat of Consciousness, we would be able to handle all of it.  There would be no more resisting, preferring, selecting, or avoiding. We would simply be able to watch and experience all that was gong down in front of and inside of "this human", enjoying it all. The soul is that which never leaves the  Seat of Consciousness. The full experience of being in that Seat is evolution.

We are here on Earth to participate fully in this evolutionary dance...to practice the steps, which will involve just as much goofing up as it will getting it right, until we remember who and where we are.

All is well. 

Michael A. Singer ( August 11, 2024) Evolution: The Ability to Handle Reality