Updating Planetary Consciousness: a pathway of hope

Ann Surya

Updating Planetary Conciousness

a pathway of hope

First published by Kumara Press 2023

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Evolution

The Intent of Evolution

Evolutionary Streams on Earth

Human Choice & Angels’ Flow

The Ocean of Love

Evolution, Love & Conscious Choice

Evolutionary Life on Earth

Cosmic Love & Earthly Evolution

Love’s Drive & Matter’s Pull

Building Form & Change

The Three Stimuli of Conscious Evolution

Your Note of Consciousness

The Living Evolution of Earth & Angels

Our Relationship with Earth

Loving Flow with Angels

Love’s Intent

Loving Intent in Your Heart

The Flow of Cosmic Intent

Living Light & Your Choice

Love’s Touch in Your Heart

Doubt & Certainty

Our Evolutionary Choice

The Three Forces Creating Heart

Consciousness

True Consciousness

Heart in Your Daily Journey

The Difference You Make

The Search for Meaning

Awakening Consciousness of Your Path

Heart Intuition & Discernment

Discerning Emotions

Certainty, Change & Choosing Light

Emotions & the Heart Path

Mind & Wisdom

Earth Consciousness

The Last Kumara

Meeting Global Crises with Heart

The Blood of Humanity & Earth

Love the Earth

The Trap of the Absolute

Discerning Higher Truth

Creating Change through Heart

Soul

Expressing Soul on Earth

Journey of Soul on Earth

Differentiating Darkness & Evil

Justice & Sticky Guilt

Incarnating as Soul

Involution to Evolution

Living a Soul Life

Soul’s Loving Embrace

Our Soul’s Flow to Nature & Earth

Nature’s Song & Your Purpose

Why Loving the Earth Matters

Conscience through Heart Consciousness

Love, Care & Peace

The Full Moon’s Grace

The Soul’s Journey

The Human Journey

Your Heart & Soul Consciousness

The Human Journey

The Conscious Journey

The Great Choice

The Worlds of Souls & Humans

Soul & Greater Hearts

Love & Will in Your Heart

Christ, Buddha, Greater Hearts & Your Path

Call of the Heart

Wake to the Call of Your Heart

The Call of Evolution

Your Evolutionary Role

The Resonance of Your Heart

Aligning Our Conscious Evolutionary Flow

Angelic Flow & Divine Mother

The Great Change: Form to Flow

Become Living Light

Responding to the Call of the Heart

Practices

Continue Your Journey

Glossary

About Ann Surya

About Updating Planetary Consciousness

Preface

I am deeply affected by the adversities we face on Earth today, from the global challenges of climate change, war, environmental destruction and economic inequity, to the social and physical repression, distortion of truth and disadvantage experienced by so many. At the same time, I believe there are reasons for these challenges that go deeper than the superficial splash of news headlines, political debates, social norms and corporate pronouncements. Reasons that give insight into how we can collectively create the positive change we so urgently need. But we can’t find and respond to those reasons if we don’t understand the system we live within.

We know our world is made up of complex systems ecologically, socially, economically and politically, but where is our understanding of our whole Earth as a living, evolving system in which we have a vital role? We need to update our consciousness and understanding of our purpose and relationship with this beautiful planet.

Most religions and spiritual pathways are human-centric, and certainly the economic world view is. We need a new perspective and a new moral framework to lift humanity out of Earth-ignorance and the destructive actions that come with that, into the consciousness where we understand our role within Earth as a living system. With that understanding, we can become conscious contributors to the great change unfolding around us. That’s what this book is about.

I have long sought a deeper perspective in my own life. As a young child I would sink into the embracing branches of a nearby jacaranda tree, seeking insight into my challenges from the vibrant life-force of nature I could see and feel around me. I have always loved and intuitively known the Earth as a beautiful, living being.

My search has continued throughout my life, and I have researched, taught and practiced the ageless wisdom for over 40 years. This wisdom is a non-doctrinal expression of truth that guides spiritual evolution, brought into focus through Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey over the last 150 years.

My journey was deeply nourished and inspired by my spiritual teacher Ananda, who taught a new heart-centred approach to this esoteric knowledge, and how to apply it in a life of practical service of Earth healing and personal transformation. She was my dearest friend and I was privileged to work closely with her for 20 years until her passing in 2002. She has remained my deep inner heart teacher, and continually inspires my work and my hopes. She gave me the spiritual name Surya, which brings her love around me.

I have been writing for over 20 years. The way I write has evolved over these years, but always involves my deep inner attunement to the great wealth of wisdom in the inner worlds, and with the great and wise hearts who guide and inspire conscious evolution from there. I tune in deeply through my heart and write what I can access through my consciousness. Sometimes it comes as an ethereal concept, sometimes as a direct dictation, usually somewhere in between. Much of it is new to me. I ask questions and strive to write it in everyday language, because it is so important that the spirituality of the heart can reach everyone. Our global transition will not be a product of the illuminated few, but of the heart-centred many that care and want a better world for all.

The information always comes to me as a spoken flow of words and, if you imagine receiving a stream of words just a few at a time, you will understand that including the right punctuation mid-stream is quite the challenge! I am forever grateful to my beloved husband Brenton, who tirelessly edits my work to make it as clear as possible as a written document, while holding true to the intent given in the energy flow of the words. Because of this, however, you will still find quirky expressions in the text. Sometimes you will read ‘I’ and ‘we’, which does not refer to me, but to the inner being or beings with whom I am in contact.

I continually check my attunement while writing, and do my best to accurately represent the loving truth I perceive. That said, every spiritual teaching comes through a human being and is necessarily a product of that person’s life experience and consciousness, and I am no different. Every spiritual teaching is also contextual, given to meet the needs of the time. Ultimately, you have to be the judge of what resonates in truth for you, and what nourishes your journey.

The teachings in this book are written as short pieces, because they are to stimulate your consciousness, not fill your mind; and also because I can only maintain the intense concentration required for the one to two hours they take to write. There is no intention from where I access this wisdom to write a long treatise, as there is already plenty of knowledge written in this world. It is what we do with the knowledge that matters now: how we let it stir our consciousness, and awaken us to purpose, soul and our living Earth.

Each teaching explores the possibilities and opportunities for conscious development around a particular concept, while not dictating a dogma of knowledge and absolutes. The wisdom of the heart is not a prescriptive doctrine, but a pathway of choices to help you deepen and enrich your consciousness, increase your radiance, and create positive change in our world.

This collection was written over eight months in 2022, and although presented in the order received, they can be read in whatever order your intuition guides. They offer a framework for understanding our conscious journey and responsibilities in this world, including Earth’s evolution as a living spiritual system, and new ways of understanding soul, heart and our human experience. Throughout, there are many touch points to help you hear and respond to the call of your own heart, and be nourished by Earth’s love.

My greatest hope is that this book will give you hope. Not the emotional hope of wishful thinking, but the undimmable light of hope born in the conscious understanding of life, purpose and community on this beautiful planet. The more we love Earth and this shared journey, the more our hearts shine and hasten our collective awakening and healing. This is how we create a world of love, respect and peace for all.

In love and kindness,

Ann

December 2023

Introduction

Many of us strive to understand how humanity’s current crisis has come about and how we must respond to get out of it. This revolutionary collection of inspired notes offers a deeper understanding of the energetic and evolutionary underpinnings of these changing times. It relates the root causes of humanity’s current challenges to our evolving personal consciousness, which is embedded within the Earth’s consciousness and the purposeful field of the Cosmos.

Based on our understanding gained from this higher and broader perspective, we can choose to respond to the Call of the Heart! Responding to the Call of the Heart requires us to understand consciousness beyond most of society’s mainstream thinking, and then to act upon our understanding to connect with our heart and soul, and through them to gain a higher consciousness.

Consciousness

There are no totally agreed theories about consciousness in current science or philosophy – which is where it is discussed, if at all. Nonetheless, in their far-reaching pursuits, some scientists and philosophers have proposed theories about a conscious and purposeful Cosmos that are consistent with the ageless wisdom of more esoteric sages and spiritual traditions.

Consciousness is mostly considered in neuroscience to be some kind of by-product of the functioning of our physical brain: a result of the evolving complexity and accumulation of neurons and their connections – this view is often called ‘emergentism’. As yet, there is no accepted explanation of how this happens: how the objective, material brain and subjective, experiential consciousness relate, or even what consciousness is exactly! That is, how do electrical and chemical processes in the physical brain produce our subjective, private and personal feelings, memories, dreams, thoughts, meaning, purpose, etc., which cannot be observed by others? That is not to mention near-death experiences, verified knowledge of past lives, and intuition of events remote in time and space – all of which seem to have no correlation with brain states! In philosophy, this gap of explanation is called ‘the hard problem’.

Consciousness has ever been the subject of speculation in philosophy, with ‘materialism’ or ‘identity theory’ remaining the frontrunner of possible explanations in a little over 50 percent of relevant academics. As this is the same theory as in neuroscience, philosophers of mind (as the subject is traditionally called) have also had to contend with ‘the hard problem’ of reconciling the gap between verifiable brain activity and the subjective experience of consciousness.

These material and mental approaches contrast with the less well-known ageless wisdom, as expressed in the more esoteric aspects of many religions (e.g., Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism, among many others). These tackle consciousness on its own terms, as a given experiential dimension of life, about which much is known and has been taught over millennia. Developing certain qualities of personal consciousness is often a central goal of their more contemplative, spiritual practices. Over the last 50 years, many of these spiritual practices have become popular in Western culture, along with their perspectives on the Cosmos.

Even more revolutionary to our consciousness have been the exponential developments in physics over the last 100 years, which have led to a profound characterisation of the universe as a single expanding entity to which some scientists attribute purposeful consciousness. The previously-assumed mechanistic randomness of the universe has been refuted in quantum theory, astrophysics and cosmology, which have encountered dark matter and black holes in the fabric of the universe that have led to ever more intentional explanations. These concepts challenge our minds because we have been taught to think and speak of reality as consisting of material things made up of solid atoms; whereas this non-visible realm is now known to be extremely powerful and causative in the unfoldment of the universe and of our lives.

Our knowledge and consciousness have been expanded further in the 21st century by the images of deep space by the James Web and Hubble telescopes, revealing literally billions of galaxies and trillions of stars and planets in an incomprehensively vast Cosmos. These images challenge many conventional creation stories and religious cosmologies, at the same time as requiring us to consider more deeply our understanding of humanity’s place on Earth and in the Cosmos.

Evolution

Rather than being a by-product of physical evolution by survival of the fittest – as proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century – consciousness is increasingly being acknowledged in science as inherent in the energy (or quantum) field in which matter emerges and vanishes as it forms expressions of the evolution of this one underlying, purposeful consciousness. In short, matter emerges as an expression of an evolving consciousness (rather than vice versa) and there is continuous development (or evolution) of this matter towards a particular inherent purpose. The rationale of this approach in quantum theory requires a deep dive into the mathematical basis of physics that is beyond my scope here.

The ageless wisdom has a similar approach, explaining how humanity has emerged from the physical manifestation of the one life out of cosmic night, where there was only un-manifested consciousness. Sparks of consciousness were manifested in order to develop greater consciousness through taking forms in denser levels of being as vehicles for this development. On a physical level, we can imagine atomic particles emerging from waves or higher vibration to amass into viable forms to achieve this development – in humans, animals, planets and stars!

From this perspective, the Earth is a manifested form of consciousness, held and fostered by the Planetary Logos, the being on a higher level of vibration (and consciousness) who holds and guides its development. Then there is the Solar Logos, a being of higher consciousness embodied in the physical Sun, who guides the development of the whole Solar system, receiving energetic and intentful impulses from the central sun of our Cosmos, Sirius. Beyond that, we can assume the manifestation continues in a similar fashion throughout the universe, which is beyond our immediate consideration and comprehension.

Earth

Coming down to Earth, humanity is a form of consciousness developed over millions of years – much longer than everyday history teaches us – that has gone through many phases of development. Originating, as it does, in the one consciousness, it is easy to understand that humanity has an interdependent role with all other forms of the one consciousness on Earth, and with the Earth itself, out of which it was specifically formed.

These revelations stimulate our everyday consciousness to encompass a moral and loving identification with life, nature, and all that exists; they require us to embrace our responsibilities towards all life and Earth itself. However, it has got to be asked: what has happened through this arc of evolutionary development that humanity currently faces an existential crisis greater than any in the past?

It is noteworthy that humanity is a relative late comer to this evolutionary process of Earth and the Cosmos. Even the ageless wisdom assigns only a few million years to humanity’s evolution on Earth, which we believe to be some four to six to ten billion years old (depending on who you ask!). A reasonable conclusion from this broader perspective is that Earth did not form and develop just for humanity’s sake, with us as some form of overlord, but that we are part of a grander scheme with many other participants of equal significance!

The narcissistic belief of humanity, that we are the crowning purpose of creation, is intertwined with our attachment, exploitation and wish to control the material world – in response to our fears of suffering, misery and death! That we are so self-centred and relatively un-evolved in consciousness in this way underlies our current planetary crisis.

Through our arrogant and self-centred attachments, we are directly responsible for the greatest change in the planet since the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago (after their living here for some 165 million years!). So it is not just a small change that we face, but a serious threat to our existence and the future of life on Earth as we know it.

Humanity is changing planet Earth at a macro level, depleting irreplaceable resources of minerals, timber, top soil, gas, oil and freshwater, while poisoning all life with its wastes. To make matters worse, unsustainable food production and consumption are significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing atmospheric temperatures to rise, wreaking havoc across the globe. The climate crisis is causing everything from severe droughts to more frequent and intense storms. It also exacerbates the challenges associated with food production that stress species, while creating conditions that make their habitats inhospitable.

The interdependent relationships between the food system, climate change, and loss of biodiversity are placing immense pressure on our planet. In short, human activity is driving a mass extinction of species that is estimated at between 1,000 and 10,000 times what would occur if humanity did not exist. While extinctions are a normal and expected part of the evolutionary process, the current rates of decline and extinction of species populations threaten many critical ecological functions that support human life on Earth.

The Human Journey

The irony is that this threat is a direct result of humanity’s development of our mental consciousness with its application of science and technology to all aspects of life, producing irreversible changes. This relatively recent phenomenon can be tracked back, perhaps, to the systemisation of science from the 16th century onwards, as humanity sought to improve its physical environment and mitigate the impacts of disease and famine. This material focus had a decided upturn through the industrial age and, more recently, since the Second World War, a mere 80 years ago. For a telling example, now there are well over 150,000 man-made chemicals being produced, increasing at 2,000 per year, with some 700 present in the human body, of which some 400 are known carcinogens.

I am not denying the value of the many scientific and technological inventions that have increased both human life span and its quality – for a small proportion of Earth’s population, at least. That was an original application of our evolutionary development of mind, and it has been very successful – to a point. Rather, I am pointing to humanity’s lack of balance in evaluating their usage against greater, more inclusive perspectives. Our political, governmental, legal, social, religious, corporate, commercial, economic and education systems do not value, reflect on or consider our presence on planet Earth; nor foster an appropriate moral, spiritual and responsible relationship with its myriad other-than-human aspects. We seek to control every aspect of life by skills and cunning, taking over everything else, and abusing the planet to support an extravagant, greedy and unbalanced human population.

Through this behaviour, we show how humanity is still in the adolescence of its evolution of consciousness, where self-fascination, absorption and gratification blind it to its own greater good and its responsibility to the Earth as a whole. Humanity acts as if we have an unquestionable right to exploit the non-human limitlessly – while blindly believing we will somehow find a way out of the enormous and potentially catastrophic changes we are facing on the total structure of life on Earth.

Our civilisation considers itself the possessor of great wisdom, the pinnacle of human achievement, and allows itself to be dazzled by its own achievements, believing they will continue endlessly into the future. This world view is in contrast to that of many indigenous cultures that have understood how all participants in this Earth’s life have rights and dignity, as well as having complex interdependent relationships. They know that humanity is only one form of being, and that we need all others to thrive and to complete the fullness of Earth’s life and development. They understand and acknowledge that the ultimate value is the order and purpose of the universe – the totality of creation; and that human exceptionalism is not the right reference point for evaluating our behaviour!

While humanity has a particular role in Earth’s evolution, it is clear that we have overplayed that role. As a species destined for self-awareness, we seem to have gotten side-tracked, and entered a developmental cul-de-sac: a crisis that will necessarily (and hopefully) bring us back into greater alignment with Earth’s evolutionary purpose. By any view of the current world, this correction is likely to be one of massive, uncontrollable change and suffering. Many peoples have already entered this phase, while many people in the world are stressed and anxious because they feel it coming in their lives, but do not know what to do about it.

The developmental crisis facing humanity requires us to take the next step in developing our consciousness within the evolution of Earth: to become more aware and to open our hearts to soul and to our relationship with the Earth and all life on it. Through the application of this consciousness, humanity might well be able to re-balance and heal itself, and save the planet. This is the Call of the Heart, the move to the higher, more inclusive consciousness that is our inevitable evolutionary goal.

Soul

What we know from the ageless wisdom is that the one consciousness has sent individual sparks of itself to lower, denser levels of being, there to be sheathed in the distilled knowledge of existence forming the soul. The soul gains the experience, knowledge and, ultimately, wisdom being sought in this evolutionary process by animating a series of incarnations in human form at even denser levels. When our series of incarnations has developed our human consciousness and its worldly skill sets sufficiently, we are prompted to seek higher and broader consciousness – that is, we seek direct connection with our soul. As a guiding light through our heart, our soul has a more inclusive awareness of our purpose and of our relationships with life on Earth both in each life and in our series of incarnations.

It is not possible to over-emphasise the significance of how humanity as a whole has reached this phase of its development of consciousness over the last few hundred years. In itself, that time period is insignificant compared with the last 5,000 years of urban, literate civilization, which in turn is insignificant compared with (at least) some hundreds of thousands of years of humanity’s physical incarnation on Earth. These timeframes all point to the criticality of where humanity is in its evolution within the larger picture. If we consider humanity’s daily life and its relationship to nature, animals, food and our living circumstances on Earth over these relatively short development periods, we can begin to gain a fuller perspective on the macro phases of planetary evolution and the nature of this great change that humanity has entered now.

Call of the Heart

It is not just our own heart calling, it is the heart of the Earth, the heart of the Solar system, the greater beings of consciousness within which we have our lives. We have entered a critical time for the development of heart consciousness, and we need to evolve within this larger process and with these greater hearts by responding to the call.

If humanity does not choose consciously to participate in this evolutionary step, to optimise our path forward and to mitigate the situation on Earth, then it is difficult to consider how this inevitable development will take place. At the very least, we will become out-of-step with the Cosmos, and somehow obsolete by our own doing – with potentially severe consequences for all life on Earth.

It is through our heart that we feel in tune with life, with our purpose, with a higher vision and knowledge – qualities humanity needs desperately. In our heart lies our accumulated experience, knowledge and wisdom that can guide our minds to better paths and better relationships, and that can feel and express the love that pervades our Earth and Solar system – and ultimately update our total planetary consciousness.

Brenton Phillis

Balaklava, South Australia

December 2023

Evolution

The Intent of Evolution

In the living Cosmos there is life force, the living breath, the pulse of Cosmic Heart, the embrace of loving intent. All have a reason for living, all have a purpose in their manifestation.

Cosmic Heart beats in the silent intention of will, love and purpose. Life cannot exist without these. Will brings life to a point of focus, whether inner or outer. Love is what attracts and builds substance around that focus, and reaches out to create relationships to other expressions of life. Love it is the drive to initiate and sustain connection and networks of loving flow and nourishment. Purpose enacts the focus of will and the building, connecting capacity of love. It is the inner driving force of any life form to understand itself, to find its home in the world in which it lives, to act in that world to achieve fulfilment of that inner drive.

If life’s intent is to incarnate into the depths of un-illumined matter, then the will provides the force to engage with those depths upon that journey. This is the path for all who incarnate upon Earth, for that is her choice, her dharma. She said ‘yes’ to being a home to physical consciousness: that interweaving of cosmic intent in life force, will, love and purpose; the anchor in our Solar embrace of Cosmic Will, to bring love to matter, and the deepest enactment of cosmic purpose to fulfil love’s embrace on all levels of existence.

You are a part of this great cascade! Every human can become a conscious beacon of loving light in this descending journey of expression. Every human has a choice to be so – for every human has a soul, and soul is the vehicle of apprehension of Cosmic Love, intention, will and purpose. Soul is that part of our being that bathes in the Ocean of Love, Earth’s emotional body infused with the intention of Cosmos.

You may be a young soul, and simply know that you are in and of that flow; or you may be an older soul, and start to align with knowledge and awareness, with the currents and movements of cosmic flow. No matter where you are in conscious development, your soul is of this loving, focussed, purposeful Ocean of Love, and your journey it is to seek that awareness in your human self. While soul may bathe in this ocean, in your human self you must take a conscious journey to bring that will, love and purpose into the substance of your being upon Earth.

This is the great duality of evolution upon Earth. Because of how long it can take to evolve consciousness in human form – so that it may apprehend and engage with cosmic embrace – soul was evolved as an intermediary. Soul takes its own journey of learning and evolving: increasing awareness and consciousness in the sphere of cosmic flows.

This is not the same as the soul’s learning to engage with, and flow into the depths of matter, through human incarnation. This is another journey of learning, and many souls do not take their journey that far. Rather, they stay on their path of learning within the ocean of cosmic love, will and purpose.

It is important to know this, so that we realise the preciousness of this most remarkable of places in our universe, in which we can come into such deep physical existence. It helps us to understand the depth and fullness of the resources available, as we come to know our soul, and find ways to allow that portion of love, will and purpose that is within our soul to flow to our physical, human self.

It is all enabled by heart. Heart is the source point of life within every conscious being. Heart is a vehicle of intense will, to beat and flow love into the world in which it is anchored, yet hold its own integrity, purposefully, intentfully and individuated.

It is a unique expression of life’s force, enabling the cascade of all the richness and fullness of that life force all the way from Cosmic Heart, down through all the embracing, holding hearts of Solar systems, planetary systems, to you, the human system.

Within our planetary system there are also many hearts that temper, soften, and make real that cosmic-solar flow into the deeper layers. Otherwise it would be too much for your soul, a tiny speck within the great ocean, to absorb into itself all the intention and love of that ocean. Like any and every path of evolution, it is developed into smaller journeys, so that the fullness and greatness of the whole does not overwhelm.

Great Angels hold the intent and meaning of the great ocean’s flows, and step that intensity down through the myriad of smaller angels who form that flow, so you can experience this flow in a gentle touch without being swept away.

Great, evolved hearts from the human family (or who have come to assist the human family), hold certain aspects of the ocean’s intent, so you may learn the qualities one by one, and perfect them in your being. This is the journey of your soul, and – as you are seeking – your journey of conscious growth.

As you become aware, then your soul may infuse more of these subtleties into your human self. Confusing at first, for these forces come from within, when the growing human has mostly focussed upon understanding and dealing with the stimuli and impacts of the outer world.

But such joy awaits you! For how can life not be filled with joy, when the ocean of living love touches your being? With all its loving intent, clarity of focussed will, and richness of fulfilling purpose regenerating you from within. This is life, in fullness.

Evolutionary Streams on Earth

Stand on the bridge of your soul, the bridge of love, light, hope and knowing. The bridge on which flows all that you know you are as a being of light, all that you are able to be as a being of love, all that you are able to do as a human agent, here, on loving, beautiful Earth.

The bridge of souls traverses time and space, time and meaning, to awaken the traveller to vistas beyond, while also sustaining the connection to Earth’s loving