What We Can Do

What we can do.

This section of the website is about the work we can do in the World today and in the future. It is about looking inwardly and learning from the work of Sir George Trevelyan and others' in an internal quest for truth, and in an outward quest for 'goodness'. 

Within each one of us is the potential to create global change. Humanity has the capacity for tremendous love and goodness. Let this shine through all that you do, and through this you will be a guiding light for all.

Consider Exploring & Incorporating...

Meditation     

Holding Space     

Spontaneous Acts of Kindness

Creating Positive Thought Forms

...Into your Life.

As we know, humanity and the world today are in a state of turmoil: disasters and political stalemate everywhere, as are personal problems and personal crises, with seemingly no way out of it. What can we do? How do we deal with our growing fears and our moral confusion? Somehow we know that we each have a responsibility in all of this – we ourselves have to help turn the situation round, on a personal as well as on a global level. We have to initiate this process of transformation.

One of Sir George’s repeated themes was the importance of listening to our intuition, to our ‘Inner Teacher’. Sometimes our intuition spurs us on with hope and with initiative. We might for example ask a specific question and listen for an answer, but as the answer comes through us, through our own thoughts and feelings, we have to distinguish between what comes from our heart and what comes from our head, or our ‘ lower mind’ (which limits us and our ability), and what comes from our spiritual guides.  A touchstone could be that if the answer gives joy, if it doesn’t harm anybody and if it enthuses us, it is likely to come from the heart or a spiritual helper, whilst if the answer instils fear, harms others or lacks trust, then it is more likely to come from our logical brain, or our ‘lower mind’. Our ‘Higher Mind’, however, which is in touch with our ‘Higher Self’ will be helpful to us and might actually show us ways and means to accomplish our plan.

Sometimes we may spontaneously perform an act of kindness and we feel better for it. Kindness and helpfulness are stepping stones for a personal transformation and at the same time they lighten up our fellow human beings and our immediate environment. As the Dalai Lama says: My religion is very simple;my religion is kindness. For me joy, too, is a religion. When we are joyous it is easier to be kind and we are more pleasant to live with. Playing tennis with my friends or being out on a sunny country walk makes my heart sing.  A friend of mine joined a karate club in order to learn something new and benefit from both the physical exercise and the exercise-induced endorphins. She made many kind friends who helped her and now every class is full of fun bringing her joy and fellowship. It is vitally important that we give ourselves time for similar nourishing and happy activities.

We can try and be in a state of kindness, of joyful kindness, so that when we do any mundane job or deal with a relationship this vibration may influence our efforts. This state of consciousness does not go together with criticising and gossiping, nor with feeling jealous or angry. Yet focusing on seeing the good in others, on seeing beauty, on music, especially singing, and on being out in nature may help to open our heart and our negative emotions will fall by the wayside. Kindness can be expressed in many ways, e.g. through public service in our work, through sport or through fun and laughter at gatherings. All this can lead to transformation on a personal as well as on a global level. 

Most importantly we have to understand that old systems and old ways of thinking need to change: individual separateness needs to develop into a feeling of oneness with all and a global consciousness. Remember Sir David Attenborough in his Planet Earth documentaries, how he looks at some ugly creature with such kindness and empathy. We, too, could open our heart and feel at one with the ugly and the stupid, with the disabled, the depressed and the lonely ones, and with the natural world as a whole …… then - together with ‘The Rising Tide of Love’,an inflow of love from a higher level which Sir George foresaw - a new humanity will be born.

In a good family life the heads of the family are partners and issues are decided upon through consensus, often after silently asking for guidance. This could become a basis or a model for politics where at the moment the concept of Them and Us rules. Party politics and society are paralysed through this separateness based on greed for power and money. Instead decisions should be arrived at through consensus grown out of group consciousness, through a blending of minds. There cannot be a just world and a betterment of humanity until we recognise that we are all in the same boat and are part of a great oneness, with nature and the universe included. As the poet Alexander Pope said many centuries ago: 

All are but part of one stupendous Whole, whose body Nature is and God the Soul

By Geseke Clark

Sir George often used to refer to the myth of “Sleeping Beauty” and, for those with the eyes to see, the way this fairy tale symbolises how humanity has been veiled by the ‘cobwebs’ of materialism and ignorance and hence asleep for a long period of time until the ‘prince’ , who symbolises our higher self manages to touch or ‘kiss’ our everyday self into an awakening to a whole deeper meaning to life. The world then starts to live in us in a ‘new’ way which is closer to our idea of heaven on earth and in touch with many other dimensions of being. Love now rules the day.

In essence this is the vision we are holding today as many more are awakening to the reality of the interconnectedness of all life and so begin to collaborate rather than compete, to share rather than keep for self and work towards solutions that work for all. A new blueprint is emerging for humanity

Sir George Trevelyan’s work in the nineteen seventies, eighties and nineties was to act as a herald. He showed how all life is sacred and revealed some of the deeper aspects of life that we are currently awakening to. He also began to establish some of the ways that we might restore the kingdom from what has become a destructive wasteland. Just to listen to Sir George was inspiring and kindled in my generation the co-creative spark that was beginning to glimmer. This gave us the courage to ground this spirit in creative action.

For me personally, I began to appreciate that nature wasn’t just something out there to exploit but was integrally part of the same web of life as we ourselves. So a small group of those awakening to this clubbed together to buy an organic farm and begin a small community and an educational centre. In the early 1970s these were pretty revolutionary ideas. Already Sir George was well connected with the pioneering Findhorn Foundation which was listening to the voice of God within, attuning to nature and connecting with the subtle dimensions as they worked hard to ‘bring in the new’. Today the Findhorn Foundation is a thriving spiritual community, an eco-village and educational centre. Friends at the time thought I had ‘lost the plot’ as consensus reality did not encompass such seemingly weird ideas but, as a society, we seem to forget that so often today’s heresies are tomorrows orthodoxies and fail to see that the tide is turning towards establishing a new narrative for our time. What Sir George used to teach in his day. such as “The great oneness calls all errant parts to blend and harmonise again with the pattern of the whole”, is now the core understanding of the ‘whole world view’ or the holistic world view- as Sir George used to call it.

This is also the core of the ‘New Story’ which is the emerging narrative that underpins the current jump in the evolution of human consciousness that is sweeping the understanding of oneness across the world and manifesting in a myriad of different ways in every field. The New Story Summit at Findhorn in 2014 brought together 330 people, including 50 indigenous leaders from every continent and 50 young people to explore what this meant for us today. Sir George who was a key presenter at the first conference held there in 1976 would have been a prime mover had he still been with us today, Doubtless he is still inspiring from a higher level of being and remarking “Splendid” to all around him. Sir George foresaw the need to live fully in the present moment and trust the principle of emergence “We must therefore wake up and look up. We can increasingly live in the present moment confident that we shall be shown the next step and that we shall be led safely through unprecedented and difficult circumstances”

This has led many of us to work co-creatively with other dimensions of existence. As Sir George said “It is clear that as we approach a great spiritual turning point the veil between the two worlds will grow thin and spiritual energies will be released” . He was quite a prophet, for today there does seem to be a growing awareness among many that we are at a critical turning point in humanity’s long journey of awakening and that this is a time of ‘breakdown and extinction or breakthrough and thrive’. Just as biological evolution seems to progress though the threat of a species extinction to a breakthrough, via increased co-operation, to an evolutionary step forward so we are beginning to understand that “The heart, lighted by love, can lift people into joy and creative action”. 

As each of us is touched by the ‘kiss’ of awakening so we may find ourselves called to change direction and no longer work for products and ideas that benefit a few at the expense of the many and instead contribute our endeavours to an initiative that works for the good of a greater whole. Each of us seems to have a soul calling and as we awaken to this so we find that our part in the whole is one that only we can fill and that, as Sir George wrote: ”A new society is being formed by those souls who do wake up and open their hearts to the reality of Spirit and its power” and the promise that “Where the human will is wholly given to the realisation on earth of the divine and where the self is attuned to the unity of life, then intuitional guidance begins to work.”

All the quotations cited come from one of Sir George’s books “Vision of an Aquarian Age”, an age which he foresaw and which is, indeed, unfolding now through the endeavours and intentions of  us all as we awaken to the realities he described in his books and lectures. A key thing that I learned from him was the vital importance of times of silence in reflection, meditation or contemplation for it is in the quiet of the soul that the inner voice can’ whisper within our own thinking’. This will lead us to undertake whatever our calling might be, however insignificant it might seem. and trust that if we ask so we will receive. We also need to find others who seem to be on the same page as ourselves with whom we can share and support us in whatever is our undertaking and help us to trust that the Tao, the flow of Life, will draw us in and help us to awaken to the oneness at the heart of all things.

By Janice Dolley