New Heaven, New Earth

The Biblical book of Revelation tells us that a “new heaven and a new earth” will be created. This actually refers to your awakened mind and the transmuted energy of your body.

The very quality of your awareness will be clarity, light, and joy. Little thinking will be required, as most problems will be solved by your intuition, on the subtlest level of feeling. The alchemy of your perception will transform the earth around you into a new state of matter: the state of Glory.

You will have a glorified body, but you won't need to die and go to heaven to embody it. You create the Resurrection body now by raising the vibrations of your energy to a higher frequency. This is the purpose of art, music, chant, breath-work, service, and meditation.

But it is essential to stop paying so much attention to your trauma and your outrage. What we focus on only increases in our life. Investing energy in our trauma does not heal it. Focusing on anger only feeds its fire. To begin releasing ourselves from this focus on negative energy, we need to give up our addiction to the media. The media are a dark counter-weight to our evolution. They mean to drag us downward and backward into negativity, density, and rage. But they do have a purpose: they make the contrast between positive and negative energy so obvious it helps us to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Your work is to rise, expand, and embrace, as you weave a new earth out of your love. That love is the very substance that flows through the heart chakra once the ego-mind gets out of the way. The substance of Glory synthesizes both matter and spirit into a nectar that is the amalgam of energy and consciousness. Your new body of Glory will be organic, real, yet diaphanous, ceaselessly flowing, energized and innergized at once. This Resurrection body will not fight against sickness or impurity, but will embrace the fevers and wounds of earthly life, healing through a new perception of wholeness.

Every molecule will glow from within. Each act of perception will behold its Self irradiating the object of perception. You will love your neighbor as yourself because you clearly perceive that your neighbor is your Self. You and the other are the refulgence of the same energy, which is pure consciousness.

In the new creation, subject and object, mind and matter, are one continuum. The exile of the intellect from physical creation will end. Exiled ego-mind will re-weave its sensibility into the earth, and the earth will be restored as the Kingdom of Heaven within you. The lunar and solar energies, Ida and Pingala, male and female, will be wedded in your spine as one light. This is true Yoga, unity. Totally present, response-able in this moment now, you won't need to waste time on old stories that divide humanity into conflicting identity groups, such as men vs woman, and "people of color" vs. "white people." The divinity of humanity is what we have in common, not what divides us. One sap pervades the stem, the leaf, the petal, and the fruit.

You will taste and see that the Garden of Paradise is not above, or in the future, or lost in a mythic past. The Garden pours itself into the new earth from your Hridaya, your wide-open wounded heart. Here, "heart" means literally this beating muscle at the core of your body. Yet the physical heart is a matrix for many fields of subtle energy. Hridaya chakra is the self-luminous kaleidoscope whose cosmic center is not above, nor out among the galaxies, but right inside your chest. This is what it means to take back your sovereignty. For you are the kingdom.

Allow the fire of Christ and the breath of Mary Magdalene to be united in the Bridal Chamber of your heart. Then as one energy, one nectar of love, they will pour through your Hridaya chakra, and their sap will christolize into a new earth. 

Photo above: Our backyard, taken by my daughter Abby