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The Awakening of the World

Now bless thyself: thou met’st with things dying,
I with things new-born.
Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale

May we be those who shall renew this existence.
-Zarathustra

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

At this time of transition when one era is dying and another is being born, we have a choice: we can stay with the images of the past, the ghosts of materialism that have polluted and desecrated our planet. Or we can move into a future that is not yet defined, that is full of possibilities. There are already signs of this future, some visible and some as yet hidden. We can see the seeds of a global consciousness...(Full Article)

What Happens When the Ice Melts

The River of Life and the Need for a Symbolic Consciousness

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Published online at www.sevenpillarshouse.org/article/

A Frozen Surface

While in deep meditation I am drawn into awareness. Rather than dissolving deeper into the emptiness of inner silence I am asked to listen for a sound, the specific sound of ice cracking. But I can hear nothing, no sound of ice cracking. Then I am shown the image of a river which has been frozen so deeply that it is like solid ground, and it has been frozen for so long that it has been forgotten that it is a river of water. On the banks of the river there is a village or town and I am left with the thought of what would happen to this town if the ice melted. Would the river rise and flood the houses?...(Full Article)

Spiritual Ecology

How can we speak about sustainability without speaking about the Sustainer?

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Published online at www.sevenpillarshouse.org/article/spiritual_ecology

Finally we are waking up to our ecological imbalance, to the realities of global warming and its catastrophic consequences. It is also beginning to dawn upon us that these environmental changes are accelerating, that time is running out more quickly than we may realize...(Full Article)

Oneness: The Nature of Global Civilization

How can the divine Oneness be seen?
In beautiful forms, breathtaking wonders,
awe-inspiring miracles?
The Tao is not obliged to present itself
in this way.

If you are willing to be lived by it, you will
see it everywhere, even in the most
ordinary things.
-Lao Tsu

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Published in Kosmos Magazine 2005

Oneness is very simple; everything is included. Every leaf, every laugh, every tear, every child playing, every soldier weary of fighting, is part of the oneness of the world. Nothing can be excluded. Nothing is separate. Every thought, every dream, is connected to every other thought and dream. To exclude anything is to exclude everything... (Full Article: PDF download 1.89 MB)

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Women Working With Oneness: Turning Our Attention to Embrace All of Life

Anne Scott

Women Working with Oneness: A forum for women in service to life, was held in San Rafael, California, in Fall 2004. It drew together women from different spiritual, professional, cultural, and ethnic communities. The second gathering in early spring 2005, allowed for more intimacy because of its smaller venue. The third event brings together Blackfoot, Sufi and Buddhist women. In all events, it was demonstrated that when women come together from different communities for the sake of the world, the pure current of love and oneness is given. (Full Article)

We Live in a Living Universe

Duane Elgin

Humanity's Fourth Awakening

In the previous chapter, we considered powerful adversity trends that are pushing humanity toward an evolutionary crash.  In the next four chapters, we turn to consider equally powerful opportunity trends that are pulling us toward a positive future -- an evolutionary bounce.    
The first opportunity trend that could transform our impending crash into a spectacular bounce is a shift in our shared view of the universe -- from thinking of it as dead to experiencing it as alive.  In regarding the universe as alive and ourselves as continuously sustained within that aliveness, we see that we are intimately related to everything that exists. (Full Article)

Working with Oneness

The Contribution of the Feminine

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

This is an excerpt from the final chapter of the book, "Working with Oneness"

Life is an interconnected whole, and the energy of life flows through the web of connections that link part to part. Human beings can work with this energy, to help it flow freely on all levels and to reach every part of the whole. Now, at this time of transition as we move out of one stage in our evolution and into the next, we are being asked to do this-to work consciously with the energy that flows through the web of connections, so that the oneness of life can shape the consciousness of the next age. (Full Article)