What does it mean to "attune to the lightness" in life?
There's no disguising the fact that we are moving into difficult times of great transition. What with global warming, the financial credit crunch and the "war on terror", there's no shortage of darkness around us. Here at Openhand we often speak of the importance of "attuning to the light". What exactly does that mean? Does it mean ignoring the darkness all together and focussing only on the light? Well not exactly...

Black and white choices
We believe that the entirety of the Universe is configured from two types of consciousness. "Separation Consciousness" is a flow of energy that created the notion of separation from the "One Life" through multiplicity of form which arose into being at the Big Bang. It is that flow of energy that takes us to ever increasing dis-order, dis-ease and separation from the source. Quantum science calls it an "increase in positive entropy".

On the other hand, since everything came from nothing, this outwards flow of Separation Consciousness must be balanced by the opposite inwards flow - what we might call "Unity Consciousness". It is that driving force which takes us to ever higher degrees of order, ease and harmony with all life. Quantum science calls it an increase in "negative" entropy, something we all know as "unconditional love".

In our model of consciousness, the human body (more accurately the 7 vehicles of bodily expression) are formed from this Separation Connsciousness and the soul is our unique expression of unity consciousness.

So our bodily vehicles of expression are intimately engaged with the whole notion of separation. Without this, we could have no experience at all for to know unity, we must also know separation. In other words there must be one thing relative to another for there to be an experience.

So to avoid the Separation Consciousness and all that arises from it is to be in a place of denial. We see this happening seemingly in some spiritual teachings - there is complete focus on what is regarded as the "light". In so doing, it is our view that we remove ourselves from authentic reality.

However our authentic expression is that of the soul which is an expression of unity - of the light. It is known by transcending the separation - the dark. So to us, every moment offers a choice. We see the darkness and acknowledge it, but find the path, through, around or over it in order to find the light and experience that.

If you are mountain biking down a hill and want to find the path around the obstacles, you don't ignore the obstacles! But neither do you focus on them - we instead focus on the path between them. At Openhand, this is what we mean by "attuning to the light".