By Jason | Expanded Consciousness 

One of my personal favorite awareness-raising exercises is that of consciously (intentionally) shifting my focus away from my ego-level experience (Jason), and into a more expansive and cosmic one.

Let me explain this a little more clearly:

One of the most common things about the human experience is our ability to blow completely trivial things out of proportion, and this is almost always due to our social conditioning.

A conditioned expectation will yield a conditioned response, which yields to conditioned actions, and thus conditioned results.

All the things we’re conditioned to believe to be important – our job, social status, relationship status, your environmentally-healthy diet, etc. – are absolutely insignificant from the larger perspective.

We are flying through deep space, at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour, orbiting a nuclear reactor (with several other planets orbiting it), all moving through space like a chaotic cosmic kaleidoscope.

We live in a world today where the idea of group power is being rekindled and where it’s momentum is gathering. Humanity as a whole is remembering that it is thoughts and actions of kindness, honesty and equality for all that create positive change.

One initiative that is expanding throughout religious and spiritual groups, as well as on blogs and other social media sites is globally synchronized meditation/prayer gatherings.

To some, believing that thoughts or prayers can influence the physical world around them can be dubious. To a quantum physicist on the other hand, thoughts influencing the world around them are something believed in and something that has repeatedly been shown to be true in scientific studies.

A GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) is defined as “the manipulation of an organism’s genetic make-up in order to create or enhance desirable characteristics from the same or another species” (Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2001).

While it’s true that natural genetic manipulation of crops can be traced throughout history, it wasn’t until 1980 that scientists discovered how to isolate specific DNA that could then be transferred into another organism. This differs from natural plant breeding as “GM (Genetically Modified) uses laboratory techniques to insert artificial gene units to re-programme the DNA blueprint of the plant with completely new properties.

This process would never happen in nature. The artificial gene units are created in the laboratory by joining fragments of DNA, usually derived from multiple organisms, including viruses, bacteria, plants and animals.