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January Salon

Jan 29, 2003

This is a small sample of the January Caroline Myss Salon
IN TIMES OF CRISIS: CONSCIOUSNESS VS. CONSCIENCE

To all my readers:

Although this Salon might appear to be about America and the impending war with Iraq, it is not. This month’s Salon pursues ways to understand the activities of your higher consciousness and the earthly role of your conscience. I refer to the impending global conflict throughout, but keep in mind that although I mention the U.S. often, the conflict is global. This means that in some way it will touch the lives of each of us, and that the challenge of making choices that are approved of by both our Higher Self and our conscience is universal. It is one of the essential tests of the soul that emerges in full measure during times of social and personal crisis, such as we are now experiencing.
CONSCIOUSNESS VERSUS CONSCIENCE: FRIENDS OR FOES?

It's not often that I hear the word "conscience" used these days. My world is flooded with the use of "consciousness,” but rarely do people speak of their conscience or of having crises of conscience. Yet the role of this aspect of your consciousness needs to be understood now more than ever. Our conscience is a guard dog, a keeper of morals and ethics, a ground-level police force that monitors our relationship to our actions. Our consciousness, on the other hand, is that part of our awareness that takes to the heights, imagining perfection and seeking harmony. Our consciousness is expansive, able to embrace the possibility of the power of Light and all that that power can incarnate.
SOCIAL CRISIS: WHEN YOUR CONSCIENCE BANGS THE DRUM

Your conscience comes to the surface with greater authority in times of social crisis, for reasons that are quite understandable. Peaceful, tranquil times do not generate the need for dramatic, courageous decisions as much as times of upheaval in social and human rights. Our conscience is mainly concerned with personal maintenance during calm times. It is easy then to promote positions of harmony and collective well being, and to speak of and visualize the world as one united global village. But getting there, as we are about to experience again, completely loses its attraction once we recognize the hardcore reality of what would have to occur for unity and equality to become the laws of the land. I can vividly recall the reaction of some members of the audience to a lecture I gave a few years ago on "Why Nations Don't Heal.” It did not surprise me in the least to confirm through research what I had always suspected to be true: that all the nations of this planet have come into being as a result of wars or some form of bloodshed. Moreover, the threat of war and bloodshed, along with starvation and economic catastrophe, is what holds these nations in place. I presented the position that while we consciously declare the imbalances between nations to be spiritual crimes, and while we openly commit ourselves to actions promoting peace and global unity, achieving these goals is an economic impossibility. Our world economy is based and relies on conflict and war to thrive, not peace and forgiveness. The conscious approach would require, among other demands, that we completely re-educate the rational programming that we have trained our conscience to follow.
AND NOW YOU, AND NOW TODAY

The activities of our social and global arena will put your conscience in the lead position, if that has not already taken place. We are all of us part of a psychic, spiritual community. We have spent decades adapting, studying, embracing, and learning higher spiritual principles that, at least in theory, have the potential to create a united human community. Surely none of us is naive enough to believe that this world can become a fully harmonious human residence, at least not in our lifetime. But at least we can be a part of those committed to becoming templates for peace for those yet to be born. We have crossed over the line of theory and are now engaged in a world, and a global circumstance, in which action is demanded of each of us.
Let me say in closure that getting into the thick of your conscience is quite different from flying up to the comfort zone of your Higher Self. Consciousness speaks of potential and that which is yet to be manifested. Your conscience deals with what you have manifested and how you manage that. Different jobs, different energies. And with your conscience, you can't really get by with blaming someone else for your choices. Oh, you can try. We always try. But at the end of the day, your conscience has a relentless talent for reminding you that only you are in charge of your choices, not to mention putting into bold mental print the choices you've made or the behavior you have that comes under the heading of, "I know better, but I am consciously choosing to behave in a negative way." So there.
In creating peace (not to be trite or pedestrian about it), the power we generate by becoming spiritually congruent is immeasurable. We have to strive to create that congruency within ourselves because in doing what it takes to become congruent, we're living about as well as we can.
Pray for Peace. And God bless all of you.

Caroline

To register for the Salon

Developing Your Self-Esteem Through Archetypes
with bestselling author Caroline Myss, PhD
Thursday, February 13, 7-10pm
Join us with Caroline Myss for a workshop that is both visionary and practical. Based on her latest release, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential, Myss will discuss a completely unique process of self-discovery and spiritual archaeology. With her signature motivational style and stories, Myss will explain how we can identify our particular spiritual energies, or archetypes, and then decipher our higher purpose--what we're here on earth to learn and whom we are meant to meet. By living in accord with our Sacred Contract, a clarity of purpose results that leads to improved emotional health, better relationships and a rebirth of spirit.
Transitions Learning Center, 1750 N. Kingsbury, Chicago
1000 W. North Avenue, Chicago
312.951.READ(7323) or 800.979.READ(7323).
Transitions Bookplace

Caroline Myss Wayne Dyer seminar on CD!
BRAND NEW!!! Two of the most widely-known and respected pioneers in the human potential movement collaborate on stage for the first time ever. Both Caroline and Wayne were received with such high praise at this sold out event. This seminar covers discovering our human energy range and how to gauge its effects on our health.
Set of 4 CD's
Caroline Myss Wayne Dyer Seminar

BRAND NEW!!!!!!!! This 50-card deck and accompanying booklet by Caroline Myss, the bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit, and Peter Occhiogrosso, popular expert on world religions and author of The Joy of Sects, will help you create a daily practice that not only heals existing ailments, but also maintains spiritual balance in your life. Each card presents healing wisdom drawn from the world’s great spiritual traditions, and then offers an application of that knowledge for everyday living. Healing Cards offer both inspiration and a course of action, and . . . a card a day keeps the doctor away!
Caroline Myss Healing Cards

Live Video web stream ( Atlanta Ga.)
As always, Caroline Myss is brilliant in making you think outside the box of your comfort zone. Her information has become so rich with experience that you will find it easier than ever to consider how you may apply her information to your life. This video will give you a taste of Caroline’s humor and humanness as she teaches how powerful your life can become when you make conscious choices. Caroline has a way of teaching that we are not victims in our lives but rather are in the driver’s seat by virtue of the choices we make. Fasten your seat belt, she is a guide to the fast lane of consciousness.
This Video Stream runs 6 hours. It is divided into 4 chapters.
Caroline Myss Live video Stream