The Twelfth Insight - James Redfield [81]
For the first time, I saw clearly the long story of creation in its totality. My energy level suddenly elevated, and I knew I was experiencing more of the Tenth Integration. It was the awareness that we had the potential, right now in our lifetimes, to pull this Plan fully into consciousness. It would be the culmination of billions of years of creation.
Yet at the same time, I sensed there was one last aspect of the Plan that I hadn’t yet grasped.
“Did you see anything,” Rachel asked, “that looked familiar in the Plan you just saw?”
Immediately, I knew her meaning. The steps in the Universe’s long development was very similar to the Steps of Creation prophesied by the Mayan Calendar.
“That’s right,” she said, reading my mind. “The early Maya had a breakthrough of their own during their time, when they remembered much of the Plan for creation. Yet their culture was still out of Alignment, and they knew they couldn’t hold on to the knowledge. So they built the timeline for this Plan into their stone architecture and inscriptions, hoping that future humans would discover it and transcribe their message. And that’s exactly what occurred.”
She paused and looked at me. I could again feel her energetic embrace.
“But the Maya showed that creation wasn’t complete, that another push was coming in to help us unify completely, if we came into Alignment and were able to tune in. Some scholars have called it a Universal Consciousness. Apparently, the Maya thought of it as the final phase of creation, which will lead the souls in both dimensions of life toward final completion and Unity. And it will, if enough of us seek to embrace it.”
She looked ready to drive her point home. “We can already foresee this force of creation coming, and soon it will be easier to feel. We all sensed it on Secret Mountain.”
Again she paused.
I was electrified now. “You’re talking about the point of Connection I’ve been trying to figure out all this time. You experienced it too?”
“Yes, the last step in Unity begins with understanding what this phenomenon is and how to connect with it more fully. We are now ready to fully discover our spiritual nature, and it will mark the beginning of the last expansion of human consciousness into unification.”
Rachel’s image was beginning to blur, as though she was fading.
“Remember what we talked about,” she continued. “Most of the Prophecies held by religious traditions have some concept of the Rapture—acquiring a spiritual body and moving into Heaven, avoiding Armageddon.
“Humans brought these images into earthly culture, because it’s also part of the Plan—just not exactly as the prophets have said. It has to be understood symbolically. All those prophecies and scriptural references have come into history from people trying to remember what they knew in the Afterlife, but they didn’t get it quite right. The truth came to them through the lenses of their own individual religions, which created all this competition. In reality, the Prophecies are all pointing toward something else, one event meant for everyone.”
I still didn’t quite get it.
“Don’t you see?” she responded. “There’s only one Rapture! The Rapture is a bodily transformation that happens through heightened perception and consciousness such as we have glimpsed. We shouldn’t be waiting on God to bring the Rapture. God is waiting on us! We have to open up to Divine Consciousness enough so that our perception and energy expand enough so that it can occur. And it may take a long time to achieve. The important part is that we know what we are working on, what our drive to Unity can achieve. And that more help is coming, if we learn how to tune in.”
I looked at her, getting it fully. “You’re again talking about this Universal Consciousness that the Maya saw.”
“Yes, but don’t get hung up on a name. It’s more personal … and it’s the last step in understanding what Heaven knows. We’re already sensing …”
Now she was fading almost completely, and I couldn’t hear her last comments. All that was coming through