Q: I have a question that is with me pretty much every day. It’s very practical. What’s happening on the planet now, at least what I can see from my limited perspective, of degrading the ecosystems that is going to have consequences that it’s impossible to see, but is probably going to be very difficult and challenging, and I see for me it’s very much an individual responsibility to try to participate in a solution whether it’s possible or not. I know what I can do and it’s very easy to tell others too what they should do, but it’s probably not a good way to go about it! Anyway, I would like to listen to what you have to say.

John: The answer really has nothing to do with solutions. Everything that’s taking place on the surface that has anything to do with issues and concern is all symptomatic.

The real answer is for awareness, first just within – just you – dropping down into the deepest level that you’ve awakened to, and that you unconditionally be that, come from that, within every other level of yours. Then you are being a resonance that really works. That won’t be about saving the planet or saving this world. It won’t be about saving anything. You’ll be a resonance, embodied, that invites everything around you deeper. It’s the up-movement of what is received of that that brings about change that matters. Every other kind of change doesn’t matter much.

The kind of pressures that are coming about will form an invitation to what’s deeper. If the pressures are used exclusively to save the planet and we all come around, reversing the direction of what might be coming, that doesn’t go well for the deeper levels of the planet. That just reduces what is symptomatic of what we haven’t yet shifted into. It’s like having a really poor diet and avoiding the flu by taking vitamins.

If things go really badly on the planet, that will work. It doesn’t have to, but it would work. It’s only from how we view our selves that we have such a perspective that enables us to believe and think and feel that it would be so bad if things didn’t go well on the planet. It isn’t that it will no longer go well; it’s that it would be different. When we are all stuck on a level of awareness that’s characteristic in this world, such a difference helps.

Q: I understand that there needs to be a change in how we function and from what level we function, but I also understand that that necessity of a change doesn’t relieve each one of us from taking action, purposeful action, in a direction that may practically help finding solutions. I listen to you and I understand that, and I can also see that there is every possibility to find solutions in small ways, gradually.

John: It isn’t that there’s no value in that direction, but the level of awareness that we’re accustomed to functioning on, moving in that direction is also a distraction.

Q: Is it necessarily a choice or can whatever practicalities I do be permeated with an awareness that is gradually raising together?

John: Both. But the one on the surface without the deeper is blinding.

Q: Well that I can understand very well, yeah. But what I see is like this aspect of paying respect to nature that is the foundation for all of us is kind of missing.

John: But that isn’t really paying respect to nature.

Q: Which do you mean?

John: To facilitate what would look like its help. Forests don’t want to be saved.

Q: It’s not that that I mean, but bringing it into the context of what’s happening whether it’s here or anywhere else.

John: It will come up naturally. When you come from what’s deeper, you see differently and you do care. When you come from what’s deeper you’ll help others. If you’re not coming from what’s deeper, you helping others blinds you. When you move deeper you will naturally help. It doesn’t even need to be said.

When you see a small child with a candy meeting another child, there’s an impetus there to just give. In that way, we don’t need to use what we’re accustomed to. We don’t need to be told. We don’t need the familiar kind of thinking. When we’re being that which is deeper, that naturally moves right into the surface and bears fruit.

Q: I understand that coming from worry and tension is not going to help much, whereas coming from compassion and generosity and joyful power is a different story.

John: And way deeper. What works is you coming from the deepest you’ve awakened to. Anything short of that is short of being real for you.