Simply start working at the small-scale first, with you and your view of the world. And the changes made at this level will influence and inspire transformation in the world around you.
Living in the container
Whether we realise it or not, our lives on Earth are overlaid with a vast programme of laws, rules, beliefs, values and instructions. A network of accepted facts, accepted systems and accepted ways of thinking and acting. This is called our consensus reality. When the majority of people hold these things as true, they form a kind of container in which we all live together. This is our commonly agreed reality. Confined to living in the container we unconsciously agree to adhere to the container’s rules for operation and survival. These rules taint and mould our view of what is possible in our lives and in this world. But the container is only real by agreement.
Within our current container we live in a world that does not foster oneness. It is a world where we do not truly take care of one another. A world that sacrifices many to save a few and so on. Many of us find this world unsatisfactory and incompatible with the vision and deep desire we hold for a more harmonious way of living together on Earth.
Shifting consensus reality
If we want to sustainably and authentically live in a more loving and unified world, then ultimately the whole programme needs to shift. The container / the consensus reality needs to shift. So where could we possibly start with a project like that? If it’s overwhelming to think of creating change on such an enormous scale, then think small first. If everything truly is connected then everything that happens on a large-scale must also be happening on a small-scale, and vice versa. This means that you can start working at the small-scale first by learning how to transcend the consensus reality for yourself. And, in time, such small-scale personal changes can grow and be reflected at the larger global scale.
If we are all one connected group on this planet (and from my perspective we are), then any transformational shift that occurs in one small part of the whole also shifts the entire whole.
Self-perpetuating system
The consensus reality on Earth is a self-perpetuating system. The commonly accepted ways of living in the system also act as effective tools for keeping people locked into supporting the continuation of the system. The conditioning to want, desire and believe certain things. The expectations and pressures to be, do or have in a particular way. All of these things limit our ability to see the range of available options and to make independent choices. Instead we choose over and over again to live within the confines of the consensus reality. But why do we continue to allow limitation when liberty is an option?
Breaking out of the container and staying out
The way to liberate yourself is to widen your view of life and change who you are and how you live your own life. If you want to effect change upon the system it begins with withdrawing your personal compliance with the ways of the system. It involves revoking your agreement to the system’s complex set of terms and conditions. When you dismantle consensus reality for yourself and begin to live outside of the container, then you are modelling a new way of living for others.
Seen enough separation and detachment? Tired of the mantra “every person for themselves”? Don’t want to witness shallow and inauthentic anymore? If you wish for a unified, inclusive and loving world then you need to start demonstrating it in your life and in your community. Challenge all of your beliefs, rules, thinking, actions and reactions that are not unified, inclusive and loving. Set about changing and transforming them. Change them in who you are, in what you are doing. Change them in every one of your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, actions and reactions. Be different in your interactions with others, and in all aspects of your life.
If one person can successfully transcend Consensus Reality then everyone can. If one person can move beyond limitation then everyone can. When you personally transcend consensus reality then you become a model for others to do the same. It is literally changing reality in action. It is finally breaking out of the container and staying out.