Mystical Transformation and Spiritual Creativity

Within the last several thousand years, the process of healing the wounded self and transforming to the true self in Divine unity has been a lifetime journey.  Very few persons would make it to the higher levels of a unity consciousness in a single lifetime on earth.  Many have opened to the transformative journey, and healed numerous layers of the conditioned fear-based consciousness, but the core of the duality consciousness often remained.

Transformation to the true self in Divine unity has taken decades of persistence and discipline in meditation, self-observation, and contemplation.  It was only through this long term wearing away of conditioned negative patterns of belief and emotion, as well as a change to a higher mind, that in turn changed the energy of the endocrine and nervous system of the physical body to be able to reflect and experience an infinite nonlocal consciousness.

In the history of human transformation, spontaneous or sudden awakenings do occur, but are usually accompanied by long time frames of integration and periods of plateau before consciousness is elevated to the next higher level.  Often individuals have lived lifetimes being at a new profound peace, yet not the fullness of the human in Divine Being.

We are now in a period at the end of the age where the acceleration of energy is altering the experience of the time frames of transformtion.  As we are completing a 26,000 year precessional cycle, the earth and solar system is aligning with our galactic center.  With this occuring, we are in a window of time where the awakening, healing, and transforming of consciousness is being accelerated by necessity. 

At this time, we no longer have decades of persistent meditation and psychological healing to become our true unified self.  We must awaken, heal, and remember our full multidimensional being in what would have otherwise been an impossibly short duration of time on earth.

We are in the midst of a major shift in humanity from a very constricted conflict-based 3-dimensional consciousness within good and evil, to a unified 4-dimensional consciousness of cooperation, peace, unity, and creativity.  The shift is described in the biblical tradition as the New Heaven and New Earth.  The evolution of consciousness on earth to an integrated 4D will enable humans to live in harmony and to further evolve up to the fullness of 5th, 6th, and 7th dimensions, etc.  While transforming to a unity consciousness will enable love and creativity on a new earth, the vibration of consciousness will still remain far below the dimensions of the higher heavens.

The gift of life in this dimension of the physical plane is to express Divine consciousness through the denser vibrations of physicality.  Instead of consciousness almost completely falling into the 3D aspect of the physical, awareness will remain transcendent while expressing within the physical.  We are being led to an opening to a major consciousness change by an accelerating energy that is altering the perception of time.  The nature of time will change at a fourth dimensional consciousness.

The human consciousness on earth is evolving to a heart-based consciousness beyond the duality of the intellectual mind.  Sri Aurobindo called this “the supramental consciousness.”  At this approaching level, humans will be unique expressions of a unified whole.  The nonlocal unity consciousness will be fully intersubjective, intentional, and telepathic.  In this window of accelerated change, we must be willing to let go and heal the totality of the multidimensional self.  The time is now.

As a greater percentage of humanity awakens to the consciousness of the true self in Divine unity, the fear-based conditioning of conflict and separation is being seen more clearly.  Culture, society, and institutions have operated from the lower vibrational energy of fear, conflict, and separation.

We are entering a time period where the opportunity for a shift to a transcendent consciousness beyond the duality that is the knowledge of good and evil is upon us.  This is a time where personal transformation is becoming more involved in our overall human transformation to our true multidimensional consciousness.  Here, individual and collective intention can open to the power of Divine energy to change human relationships and creative action on earth. 

This is the evolution to our heart-centered being of unity, cooperation, and participation.  Within a unity consciousness, our unique personal beings of free will spontaneously operate from the goodness of the whole. 

The time period of the early twenty-first century, is a time of major change in the vibration to higher subtle energies that awaken the healing and transformation to the true self of infinite love and creativity.  Many ancient wisdom traditions and the emerging sciences point to our time as an opening to higher energy vibrations and consciousness.  The ending of the cyclical Mayan Long Count calendar of 5,125 years in 2012, as well as the 26,000 year precessional cycle, provides insight to our recent understanding of an opportunity for the awakening in consciousness.   Other Native American traditions of the Toltec, Aztec, Hopi, and Inca all have correlations to these cycles of time.

We find similar knowledge in the Eastern spiritual traditions of the Vedas, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Taoist traditions.  We find it in the monotheistic religions and within the esoteric mystical traditions.  It is revealed as the end of the age by Jesus, and the new heaven and new earth in the Book of Revelation.  Twentieth century scientist and mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin describes the shift as the development of the noosphere, and mystic Sri Aurobindo indicates an evolution of humanity to a supramental consciousness. 

As the awakening accelerates, we see the fear-based culture putting more attention to keep levels of the population in a fear conditioning.  We see this especially in all forms of mainstream news media, and entertainment media in television and film.  Within this time of change, we must continue our evolution to the highest vibration of our nonlocal multidimensional consciousness within our three dimensional physical world.  We can express our infinite love and creativity in thought, feeling, and action, and place our attention on experience that attracts and resonates with Divine energy.

As we continue our awakening and learning of the process of creative intention, we better understand how the ego attaches to the narrow cause and effect of the physical band of consciousness.  The ego consciousness is conditioned in the belief that physical results emerge from only physical causes. 

In truth, the real causation emanates from consciousness through the heart and mind dimensions.  Consciousness causes physical manifestation.  Thus, consciousness originates and the physical is the result.

When we first awaken to the power of intention to create in the physical world, we often react with amazement.  The first results of our actions of creative intention usually take the forms of little signs of guidance.  For example, the spontaneous opening of a book to a seemingly random page which gives us the answer to a question that we had asked without attachment, or events and people showing up that assist our journey.

Our discovery of the intentional nature of the true self is inspiring.  As we persist in the strengthening and expanding of our consciousness, our intention will manifest in our overall journey of health, relationships, abundance, and purpose of life.  However, the fear-based ego consciousness of the false self does not relinquish all at once.

As we are practicing intention, the satisfaction of a given result can also coincide with the ego’s sense of unease or questioning.  This sense of questioning the spiritual cause of a result arises when the ego finds that it had no part in the outcome.  The outcome manifested from our attention and intention through the mind in the heart.  We detach from the outcome because it “already is beyond time and space,” and with ease we trust in the infinite organizing intelligence to manifest the intention into physical form.

Along our transformative journey to an intentional consciousness, we need to become aware of any ego beliefs, thoughts, and emotions.  Our self-observation will improve our focus on intention, and ultimately detach from the no longer necessary fears and doubts of the ego.  In this way, we will continue to transform to the fullness of our true self consciousness of love and creative intention.

The action of intention is very different from the action of our will through the physical senses and rational mind.  When we use our mind from solely the physical dimension, we try to force a future outcome by mental effort.  When we use our mind from the heart dimension in the Spirit, we use the disciplined attention to our creation in an easeful manner.  This subtle feeling of peace and joy will allow Divine energy to infinitely organize our intention into physical reality.

When we try to use will power to intend a result it is from our ego consciousness.  The false self ego consciousness develops from our conditioning to the narrow physical domain of consciousness.  This is a duality consciousness that always lives from the past.  By first identifying with the physical, the duality consciousness begins with the present problem and seeks to force a different outcome.  In this use of mind, only the current physical reality is real until another outcome is forced into physical existence.

In the unitary consciousness of the heart, the mind begins with the desired outcome already in existence.  With this way of thought and feeling, the mind is not restricted to only the past as the current reality.  The mind in the heart begins with the intention as the current reality and allows Divine energy and Spirit to infinitely organize information to bring the intention into physical existence.  The understanding that the Spirit manifests the intention into time and space enables us to relinquish the forceful will power.  In its place, we use the discipline and perseverence of intention from the heart and mind with an internal feeling of ease. 

The choice that is our human will is in the attention to the intention, not in any strenuous effort to make a result.  In creative intention, the mental action of the idea emanates from our soul in unity with Divine mind beyond time and space.  Here, we hold the idea or desire in consciousness without any effort to force an outcome through the ego’s will power.  Because our intention “already is” in the nonduality beyond time and space, there is only an ease of placing our attention on the intention within the heart and mind.

The truth exists as a multiplicity within a unitary consciousness.  If our conscious awareness is only placed on the appearance of separation through the most dense level of the physical dimension, we become separated from the true self of love, peace, and creativity.  Our journey of transformation evolves us and leads us to the awareness of our true unity. 

The vibration of consciousness at the level of physical form exists within an unseen unitary consciousness.  When we transform our consciousness to our true self in Divine unity, we are one with the Spirit and all of creation.  We express our nonlocal and nondual unity through form in the physical dimension. 

The omnipresence of God is immanent and transcendent.  Because God is infinite, eternal, and omnipresent, all of creation must consciously realize God from within.  Therefore, we need to know and experience God immanently in order to unite with the transcendence of God.  Thus, transcendence and immanence are two aspects of a single whole.

The conditioning of our consciousness has narrowly restricted us to the physical senses and rational intellect.  This narrow focus forces us to see only external separation in time and space.  Because of our attachment to the physical dimension, we often unknowingly perceive God as only outside.  The experience of outside or external creates separation.

In healing and transforming to our true self in Divine unity, we expand our consciousness to experience the diversity of forms within a unified whole.  The awareness of the infinite can only be experienced within.  To realize our humanity as image of God, we learn that God cannot be found outside.  The beyond time and space dimension of mind, heart, and Spirit are consciously connected to from the interior.

One way of understanding the human-Divine relationship is to look at the relationship of drops of water or waves to the ocean.  Each wave is a unique diversity of the one ocean.  There is no separation between the wave and the ocean.  The wave is the ocean and the ocean is the wave.  However, the entirety of the ocean transcends the wave. 

Our human–Divine relationship is known through the same principle.  We are like the waves of infinite Divine expression in diversified forms, and God is the ocean.  Thus, to know God, we need only look and feel within.  By looking and feeling within, we become aware of the whole without losing our personal participation within the unity.  We find the unitary life of peace, joy, love, and creativity within, and then express it outward in the physical world.

We are now discovering the true power of our consciousness to affect physical life and culture on earth.  As humans in Divine unity, we are meant to express truth, goodness, beauty, peace, love, and creativity.  It all emanates from our mind and heart dimensions in unity with Spirit.  The human consciousness in Divine unity and spiritual creativity has been understood by ancient wisdom, the mystics, and the modern New Thought.   

Recently, the sciences are understanding the creative power of human consciousness through subtle energy.  Studies are showing that consciousness significantly alters the earth’s magnetic field at the time of major world events when more humans respond with attention and emotion.  The work of the Global Consciousness Project at

In the process of creative intention, we must feel our thought.  Within all desires and ideas is an inherent feeling.  The feeling is the energy that enables the Spirit’s action of manifesting.  The embodied feeling within consciousness is necessary for the awareness of the desire “already in being.”

The thought and feeling of our intention as “already is” takes place in the heart center.  This dimension of our consciousness is beyond time and space.  Within the heart, we are beyond doubt.  Jesus says,…if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you (Mark 11:23).  Thus, the ability to generate the true feeling of our intention as an existing reality can only occur in the heart.

There is no limitation in our true heart-centered consciousness.  If the required feeling of our intention can only be felt within the heart, what is the essence of the heart that enables the feeling of intention beyond the time and space dimension?  The essence is the love, joy, and peace of God within.  In the heart, there is no fear, only love.  “Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankgiving, make your requests known to God (Philippians 4:6).

We can feel specific qualities of feeling of a particular intention, but the peace, joy, and love of the omnipresent Spirit is primary.  Through our awareness of our unity with the Divine within our heart, we know, feel, and experience the fullness of peace, joy, and freedom.  In calling for our participation in the Divine nature, Jesus says, “come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

Action and rest become one in the infinite heart.  The heart emanates the Divine energy of love.  It is through this energy that we feel our desires and intentions as already accomplished.  The nonlocal and nondual heart dimension of consciousness is the key to feelings in the creativity of intention.

If we do not intend from thoughts at the level of the rational mind or from the nondual stage of mystical consciousness that can be experienced as nonintentional, then what is the consciousness of intention?

The human consciousness of the true self in Divine unity is fully intentional in the Spirit.  The infinite and eternal Divine Being of God is love, which in essence is creative.  Love and creativity are one.  The Divine Being is both perfect rest and infinite action.  Love, truth, beauty, life, light, and creative action is the singular ground of being.  Thus, our heart-centered consciousness of the true self in Divine unity is ultimately perfectly intentional and creative.

The essence of intention proceeds from an originating desire or idea that is imaged as an action, feeling, or experience to be manifested into form.  The result that is initiated by an image in the formless dimension beyond time and space is translated by the Divine into the experience of form in the created universe.  How do we create thoughts or feel without the duality that is attachment and separation of the rational mind, emotion, and senses?

We can only perfectly intend from the highest dimension of the heart in the Spirit expressing through the mind and body.  Within the nonlocality and nonduality of this dimension, we can prototype an originating desire or image.  We can understand our ability to initiate intention as our participation in the Divine idea and nature.  The true consciousness of intention arises from our highest capabilities of imaging desire without thinking or creating images from the rational or intuitive mind.  Sri Aurobindo describes this level as the Supramental consciousness.

When we are detached from all outcomes and doubt within the eternal now beyond time and space, we approach the Divine human consciousness that is free to image and thus create in a whole new way.  In the dimension of awareness where there is no contingency, the Divine mind can freely flow through our being from the infinite into time, space, and matter of the physical dimension.  Creation emanates from the entirely new without any dependence on past results.  Thomas Troward describes this as “principle preceeds precedent.”

Creative intention proceeds from our unitary participation in God.  Troward relates this dynamic essence as the “Spirit’s self-contemplation.”  Sri Aurobindo understands this as the “exclusive concentration of the Absolute.”  Jesus reveals this truth in saying, “Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown in the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you.  So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” (Mark 11:23-24). 

This is our intentional Divine human consciousness.  At this level of consciousness, we are one with God without boundaries, and free to create in that love from the oneness of infinite being to the multiple experience in the physical dimension of the universe.  Jesus says, “See, I am making all things new” (Revelation 21:5).  Therefore, in the consciousness of the true self that is beyond images and concepts, we can image and feel in a new way through the Spirit.

Our ordinary reasoning mind is dualistic. This level of our intelligence separates subjects and objects within the physical dimension that is governed by principles of matter and energy that create space and distance.

Although the human mind can initiate vibration that is beyond time and space, it remains attached to the limitations of time and space when operating at its ordinary level of awareness. Thus, our intentional ability of creating through the mind and higher dimensions into the physical dimension only becomes activated when the mind shifts or is transformed to heart-centered spiritual consciousness.

The heart-centered consciousness is beyond images, thought, and concepts. This is our being of the nondual unity of the true self in God. In the Divine unity of the heart consciousness, the mind no longer operates from its attachments to the separate characteristics of the physical band of consciousness. At this level, the power of intention comes alive.

Creative intention flows through a Divine human consciousness. The true self organizes an eternal expression of love, desire, thought, and feeling, and allows the Divine action to create. We can understand the emerging new Divine human consciousness by synthesizing the transformative mystical traditions with the New Thought mystical tradition.

New thought creation does not operate from the ordinary level of the rational intellect. In this awareness, we do not “think” our thoughts as expressions from the reasoning mind. We now “have” our thoughts beyond any time or space conditions.

Our consciousness of Divine unity is often described as the experience of silence, emptiness, detachment from all things, and a nonintentional mind. Robert Forman in his book, Meister Eckhart: Mystic as Theologian puts forth Eckhart’s understanding and experience of mystical consciousness as our ground of being in God where we do not think, feel, or image anything. This is the unitary consciousness of the self in God.

Forman describes Eckhart’s experience as a dualistic state where we live from a perpetual awareness of the true self in God at the same time we are able to think, feel, and act in the world. Here, we are living from both nondual no-thing awareness and ordinary subject-object intentional rational mind and sensory awareness. At this level of consciousness, our action in the world does not disturb our interior peace. While this is an accurate description of our transformed self in Divine unity, what is the role of the human to use intention to co-create from Spirit into experience within the universe?

We have here put forth the understanding that the Divine human consciousness is intentional on a higher plane. This is a more advanced transformation of the Divine human with continual awareness beyond time and space while living within this dimension on earth. It is the discovery that the nonintentional experience of the ground of being is really perfectly intentional. I will explore the nature of the intentional Divine human consciousness in the next post.

In the last several posts, I discussed the development of our creative ability to intend from a heart-centered consciousness. I looked at the way that healing trauma and opening to the Divine light increases the strength of the action of intention. In this understanding, meditation is an awareness and experience of the infinite Divine presence that is beyond time and space.

The study and understanding of our human multidimensional consciousness in Divine unity is important, but these principles can only be truly understood through the experience of the practice of meditation. The regular practice of meditation elevates the vibration of the human heart, mind, and nervous system. In order for meditation to transform our consciousness, it must become a way of life.

Many spiritual, healing, creative, relational, and social practices assist our transformation. However, because our sensory system and rational mind operate on a narrow range of consciousness, only an attentive practice of meditation can provide a shift to our nonlocal and nondual consciousness. This is the heart-centered consciousness of the true self in Divine unity. We may at times open to a spontaneous experience of the infinite consciousness of the true self, but a transformative change to a higher vibration will only usually occur through a consistent meditation practice.

Many spiritual traditions have various meditation practices to open to the infinite and eternal light within the heart. Along my journey, I use heart-based meditation practices that include centering prayer which is based on the author of The Cloud of Unknowing and the writings of Thomas Keating. In this type of meditation, we open to the presence of God within by using our observing consciousness of the nonlocal and nondual heart.

I also practice the Prayer of the Heart which opens to the light of Christ within the heart.  In addition, I use a scientific approach to our heart dimension with the practices of HeartMath.  The practices focus the inner attention on the peace and joy of the heart which creates a vibrational resonance with the mind and body.

As the practice of meditation continually shifts our awareness to the heart center beyond time and space, we will be able to more effectively love, create, and intend. We will express the infinite love and creativity within the dualistic dimension of the physical.