What is the New Consciousness?

This is a question that may elicit various answers or meanings. Generally, it means to be aware of things around you or within yourself.

When talking about consciousness, the possibility of a new consciousness may be difficult to grasp when we do not have a clear meaning of the old one.

A new way of looking at the word consciousness is to see it as the content as being conscious. That would be the totality of our way being, meaning everything that is in the scope of our lives.

The present way of being for approximately 6.8 billion people on the planet (all of us) is referred to here as the old consciousness. This is the consciousness that has been the guide, if you will, or the context of our world, for who knows how long. We could say three million years or three hundred million years. We don't know for sure how long human consciousness has been developing; however, we do know it is violence in action.

Is it possible for a new consciousness to arise within us? Not only is it possible, it has arrived on the planet. It is available to anyone willing to look and see truthfully their way of being. Will we embrace and nurture the new consciousness, or will we keep on destroying ourselves and the planet?

Which interpretation, if any, of the 2012 Mayan prediction will be proven correct? Will it be the end of the world, or will it be the end of the world as we know it? Will we destroy ourselves, or will a new consciousness arise?

There cannot be a transformation of consciousness until the old one is completed and dies. That which has brought forth all this violence cannot possibly bring forth the solution. Anything the old consciousness comes up with as a solution will only deepen the problem or make it greater. A solution cannot come from inside the problem. You must step outside of the problem in order to solve it. In this case, the problem is huge given that it is the problem of human consciousness, our total way of living.

The action of bringing forth a new consciousness is here now. Even though this action has been spoken of for thousands of years, it has not manifested, perhaps because the action seems too simple in this complex world.

The action needed is two-fold. First, each person needs to be 100 percent responsible for his or her individual action. Accepting responsibility one hundred percent includes every aspect of your life.

The second action needed is to speak the truth of your life into the world. These two actions, accepting responsibility and speaking truth, by themselves and on their own, will create the transformation of the individual. In turn, individual action will transform the collective, and a new consciousness will be born.

From the space of a new consciousness, new actions can be created, thereby solving the problem the old consciousness has left us with, mainly the problem of thought.

Thought, in the old consciousness, is the cause of violence. Thought, which is always dead, can only bring forth that which is of the past, and the past is ever repeating itself.

In a new consciousness, each thought would complete itself and die. This new consciousness would have no past; therefore, its action would be to create. Creation will bring forth intelligence and love which can then be delivered by the action of speaking truth.

With this ability to create, we can then use thought, rather "thought thinking us," meaning incessantly following thought blindly as we do now. This indeed would be a new way of living, new meaning not having been before. It would bring forth internal peace to the individual and then peace on earth from the individual. The time is Now.

Edward Jones is a Transformational Relationship Coach, Speaker, and Author. His book about the new consciousness is available at http://anewconsciousness.org. You can read more about Edward and watch videos at http://selftransformation.org