SL01-12 Imagining the Shift Back to Unity Consciousness

This week has been a week of epiphanies for me and in this episode, I hope to use a different style of podcasting, one that is more conversational and less scripted.  Particularly for the imaginal prayer exercise I will be guiding us through today.  Please offer any feedback you may have with this change in style.  I'd welcome and and all feedback you may want to e-mail me at [email protected]. Earlier this summer, my friend Annette shared on FaceBook a picture of a painting she had started.  She was inspired to paint this picture of a woman holding an orb between her hands.  When I saw it, it spoke volumes to me and I shared with her how it reminded me of the Anima Mundi — the World Soul that holds all together and keeps mankind from completely destroying the earth. This week, I had the pleasure of seeing her finished work and it spoke deeply to my soul.  After seeing it, I understood the fall from Eden story as depicted in Genesis 3:1-7 in a completely different way.  Later that day, I was listening to the Awakening Code Radio podcast and Erik Rankin made a comment in passing about "Eve's decision was not so much about the fall of humanity as it was about shifting from unity consciousness to private consciousness.  From knowing how everything is connected and acting based on that knowledge, to disregarding that connectedness and acting based upon preserving yourself." I blogged about this in the Pro Anima Blog I write.  Both the painting and Eric's comments spoke deeply as to how I understood the fall in a whole new way.  I never interpreted the fall of man in a literal sense, but now it had so much more meaning to me after seeing Annette's finished work and listening to Eric's comments about the shift from unity consciousness to private consciousness.