"WE ARE LIVING IN WONDERFUL TIMES." Some of you will quickly protest against such an idea. Some of you will jump out of your seats, and I respect that. But I insist, "We are living in wonderful times." The dialectical-linear-rational mind is loaded with a series of arguments against my claim. To the mind, "We are living in wonderful times" seems like a preposterous idea. "Look at the wars!" The mind will scream, "This world is a mess! Don't you watch the news? Can't you see the homeless on our streets?" Terrorists, hunger, the housing crisis, diseases, the pain, the unfair distribution of the world's wealth, oppression, genocides, deadly viruses, corruption, illiteracy, religious fanaticism, racism, dehumanization, sweatshops, genetically modified foods, global warming, environmental pollution, and the list goes on. The drama never seems to end. Nevertheless, this is a great time for us to be around. We are living in wonderful times. And here is why the rational mind will not agree to this statement. The dialectical mind can only exist in drama. Without drama, the dialectical mind becomes an endangered species; it loses its grip on us. It loses its purpose for existing.

To the mind, to see (with the five senses) is to believe. The mind relies on the five senses to define Reality for us. Therefore, what we proud intellectual creatures label as "reality" turns out to be nothing but limited perceptions of Truth. The drama (dialectical struggles) unfolding around us is nothing but a fainted perception of Reality. Drama is a by-product of duality mentality defined here as separation mass delusion. Duality is created by the mind for the mind only. The rational mind indulges itself in the drama, which is unfolding nowhere else but inside of our heads. The mind finds significance for its existence in drama. Drama is a creation of the rational mind for its own amusement and diversion. Therefore, the purpose of drama is to keep consciousness trapped in an illusion. Individual drama gives purpose to the individual mind; collective drama gives purpose to the collective mind (the Matrix Grid). Drama assures the mind is kept occupied in plotting, judging, discriminating, categorizing, labeling, fearing, and so on. If there is no drama, the mind will certainly create some.

We are addicted to the dialectics limitations created by the mind. Many are the illusions of dialectics: gender identity, tall and short, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, outward and inward, outside in and inside out, male and female, past and future, etc. We are also addicted to linear time, another mind creation illusion. We are addicted to the limitations of the three-dimensional density. All elements found in drama. The mind dwells either in the past or in the future; it is never in the Here and Now. The mind wastes itself either preparing for its survival in a future that never arrives or living in past memories which it continually replays. The mind has separated itself from consciousness. And now its ultimate agenda is to survive, which is solely dependent upon drama, without consciousness. This is why human beings are infatuated with catastrophic prophecies, tragedies, celebrities, novels, movies, soap operas, and sad love songs. Mass entertainment-drama is an empty reality; it is a deception (drama) that leads to another deception (drama) in a vicious circle, which the mind loves to indulge itself in. As long as we remain in the mind, we are not awake. We will remain addicted to drama.

In the age of the mind (reason) much emphasis has been placed on the "power" of the mind - "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I exist). However, it is in the sacred heart center (behind the Thymus gland), the Heart of all things, where Personal Power dwells. It is in our hands to choose to engage in - or disengage from drama. Call it free will or personal responsibility. It is to each of us to choose to whether allow drama to feed off our energy or not. Whatever we choose to put our attention on becomes our "reality." Drama will only feel "real" if we choose to give our attention (our energy) to it. To react to and/or against a given event, an object, a place, an idea, or a person is to engage in drama. Our problem is that we have become so lost in (and addicted to) drama that we would swear it is "real." The more energy we put into drama, the more "real" it feels to us to the extent we can no longer remember who we are. Caught in the drama's web, our perceptions of Truth become our reality. Some of us are even willing to kill and die for our "truths." The dance of Maya (illusion) is acted whenever we choose to believe drama as something "real." Whenever we choose to believe what we see, hear, taste, smell, and feel as all that there is to Reality, we fall into Maya's trap.

The mind rationalizes everything. The mind dramatizes everything. The mind is the ultimate Drama Queen. The mind is the Great Trickster. This is shown in the unstoppable chatting going on inside of our heads. The mind, like a computer, draws conclusions and judges a situation based on data-emotional baggage (implanted limitation beliefs and fears, social conditioning, and past experiences) it has inherited and gathered (or dragged) along the way. It is important to note that the beliefs and memories held in the mind are in fact perceptions of Truth. The computing of a given situation generates a set of thoughts. Thoughts are perceptions of Reality. More importantly, thoughts are energy vibrations. Every perception we hold about Reality produces a thought vibration. A thought vibration triggers an emotion of the same kind. Our bodies (energy fields) then begin to emit vibrations according to the emotion. When we send out an emotion vibration, it eventually reflects back on us, for emotions are magnetic in nature. Our emotion vibrations create our "reality" (our dramas). The more we think about our dramas, the more drama we create around us. This is how the drama vicious circle remains endless generation after generation.

The New Paradigm: Heart Consciousness

The good news is that sunrays of a new consciousness begin to break the dialectics veil. Each one of us is at a fork in the road: We either choose to continue to go along with the separation consciousness program or we choose unity consciousness. We choose to stay in the mind (mind energy), or we choose Heart. Unity-Oneness-Neutrality consciousness (Heart energy), the option on the horizon is an individual choice. It is the road to freedom from dialectical, polarity reality perception. At the dawn of a new era, we are being asked the following questions: Are you willing to override the dialectical, linear, rational mind? Are you willing to give up the dialectics prison Matrix, which by the way only exists inside of your head? Are you willing to let go of your dramas? Are you willing to give up your drama addiction? Are you willing to dare to pierce the veil of three-dimension density delusion to see what lies beyond it? Are you willing to live in a reality with only one time zone: the Here and Now?

We are living wonderful times, for never before have we had such a window of opportunity to pierce the veil of Maya. Many of us at some point in our consciousness awakening tend to fall in hate with the dialectics Matrix. I advise you not to fight drama (the Matrix), however. Do not fight the mind. Do not fight Maya. To resist drama is to dance with Maya. Whenever we resist something, we give our power to it. Rather, accept Mind without judgment. Accept it as a part of All That Is. We are meant to be human beings rather than human thinkings or human fearings. To become a human "being", we must shift from the Mind Center to the Heart Center. As you are reading these words, focus on your breath. As you are doing that, you are moving beyond time and drama. We remove ourselves from drama by focusing on our breathing. Take another breath. Accept drama for what it is. Do not label it; do not judge it. Simply accept drama for what it is. All fear will then disappear. Choose joy instead.

As long as we insist on defining ourselves and the world according to what we see, smell, taste, feel, and hear, we will remain fragmented. We will continue to perpetuate the separation mentality. We will continue trapped in drama. We must let go of that we are not. We are not drama. We are not the limitation beliefs. We are not fear. Much of our truths (the thoughts we have), do not belong to us. They are implanted perceptions of Reality and ourselves. There is no past. There is no future. We will never be anywhere but Here and Now (the spacelessness and timelessness reality). The Here-Now is Stillness reality, where the rational mind will become silent, and Heart will speak. In the Heart space, the mind chatting vanishes. The schizophrenia finds healing. The need for labeling reality is no more. The mental, physical and emotional attachments vanish. It is in that spacelessness that we will know ourselves. We will then feel ourselves whole again.

We will know ourselves when we "see" beyond the dialectics matrix. In the stillness of Heart we become One. We become what we are: All. We are One. We are stillness. We are the Heart of All Things. Neutrality (the synthesis of all things) is found in Heart. With every breath, we are called to choose between drama and Oneness-neutrality. We are called to make Heart our home. If we make it our truth that we are living in wonderful times, so will it be. True joy comes from within (from Heart), not from Without (the mind perceptions of Reality). Heart is the source of true joy, abundance, freedom, love, peace, and beauty. Happiness born from an external source (outer-three dimension density) is an illusion (a perception) of happiness. True happiness is found Within. Heaven is in our heart space. In the Heart behind our hearts, we are already living in wonderful times.

© Dr. Claudia Correa, 2008

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Claudia Correa has taught children, young adults, and graduate students. She has also taught in teaching education programs. She is the founder of GreenLeaf Life Coaching & Self-Empowerment Education Programs, a project that synthesizes her passion for education for unity consciousness and personal responsibility, or as she likes to call it, "Education that heals the soul and mends our relationship with Self and the world by making the unconscious conscious." Claudia is also the creator of The Healing Education Project.

Mentoring healing, Dr. Correa agrees with Einstein that, "You cannot solve problems with the same level of thinking that existed when the problems were created." She believes that a paradigm shift from dialectical worldview to Unity consciousness can bring about lasting positive changes (healing). To her, the healing power of education lies in its empowering people to unconditionally love, honor, appreciate and accept themselves and others for who they are. Healing begins with the practice of self-acceptance. "I equate awakening (soul healing) with mind over matter and Heart over both (mind and matter) illusions."(Correa, the Path of the Heart Teachings & the Return to Innocence, 2008)

Claudia holds a Doctor of Education degree (Ed.D.) and is currently a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate.

Among many articles and essays, Dr. Claudia Correa is the author of Is there hope for unity consciousness in the age of collective dialectics delusion? A dialogue among Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy, the discourses of the undocumented individual and postmodern madness, to be released in 2009.