I heard these words this morning as sat in prayer for our planet: A Council of Nine. The words coincided with this question: What if we stopped fighting globalization and embraced it? What if we stopped trying to make one country or another great and made our planet great? Becoming one global community is the natural progression of an evolving species able to recognize their common ground. The constant battle for who is right and who is the mightiest must give way to a recognition of our common source, common needs, and common desires.
What if we stopped? Right now? What if we stopped this insane cycle of victim and victor consciousness and stepped into an elevated awareness? The goals, the desires, the deep needs of our hearts can never be met while this cycle continues. It is only in letting go of those childish ways that we mature as spiritual beings. As human beings, for that matter.
It is time to embrace one another. To honor one another’s history, to respect one another’s spiritual beliefs – or lack of them – and recognize we are one people. living on one planet, amid infinite universes. Together, we are strong, alive, and living our purpose. Divided, we step out of the rhythm and harmony of life, and we fall.
What is the Council of Nine? I’m still allowing those words to meander through my mind. Does it represent the seven chakras with an additional one for the earth and one for the sky? Perhaps. Do they represent nine aspects of human consciousness common to all sentient beings? Possibly. Does it represent nine highly evolved human beings, each representing a group of people here on earth – seven continents, one ocean, and one connecting the earth to the universe? A concept to ponder to be sure.
For today, I sit in an awareness that I am a spiritual being having a minimum of seven spiritual centers actively moving throughout my physical and energetic bodies, each connecting me through the ethers to all other beings. I focus too on the energy center below and the energy center above connecting me to earth and sky. I affirm my oneness with all that is and seek to find the subtly expanding light of individuals awakening everywhere. The threads of light connecting us create a great web of life, love, and universal harmony. This is the greatness upon which we must turn our attention. We are one, though some may not know it yet. We are one, and all is evolving and unfolding in perfect divine order.
© 2019. Eileen Patra.
Eileen Patra is an ordained Unity minister and the author of The Mystical Ark: A Vessel of Blessings available at www.themysticalark.com and other fine retailers.
It means taking care with every thought and word I express. Although an adverse thought is not necessarily a “complaint,” it does require carefully acknowledgement and often a shift of consciousness to expressing it in words or actions.
GRATITUDE is the miraculous awareness that one is surrounded and supported by Divine Love; that a need or desire has been anticipated and met. GRATITUDE is a universal feeling, a miraculous state of being with the power to open our entire being to a receptive state of consciousness. When we are in GRATITUDE we are in alignment with our higher self and with the Source of our being. GRATITUDE and miracles are synonymous, for it is GRATITUDE that opens the door to the experience of all that is miraculous. As I look for miracles in everyday life, I find that I look for those things I feel most grateful for. GRATITUDE is a feeling, an energy, a vibration and a portal to the miraculous. As I recognize and appreciate the many gifts of life my awareness expands, and my eyes are open to even more. GRATITUDE has the capacity to open the heart, relax tightened muscles and release feelings of fear, anger and separation. One cannot be grateful and angry simultaneously. One cannot be grateful and fearful at once. GRATITUDE is the recognition of God-ness in expression as miracles, large and small, dancing in the rhythm of Life.
MAGNETS are miraculous objects that attract various substances with a mysterious and often powerful force. MAGNETS are useful for lifting, holding, separating, retrieving, and sensing. They are found in everyday objects and tools such as speakers, doorbells, microwaves, televisions, compasses and, of course, on the door of many American refrigerators. Like a MAGNET, we draw to us a variety of experiences. Our thoughts, feelings and emotions create a field of energy which draws to us similar energies. Unlike a MAGNET, we can choose our thoughts, move through our feelings and emotions, consciously creating our energy field to attract that which we desire. When we fall asleep to this inner power of choice, or we give this power away to the challenges that appear before us, we attract whatever is showing up and we allow it to multiply in our consciousness. A MAGNET has no apparent choice in what it attracts, but we do. What will you choose to attract today? What thought or belief will you release in order to stop attracting something? What will you focus on with all your heart and mind that will attract a more powerful, harmonious experience in your life? What will you hold in mind and place your faith in that is a more powerful MAGNET for good? 
FEAR is not usually considered a miracle. Yet, FEAR has two very different sides or characteristics. There is the FEAR generated by the ego and fueled by outer conditions, past experiences and the collective stream of FEAR consciousness. This FEAR is destructive, immobilizing and is a very long way from what one might consider a miracle. But there is another side to FEAR. FEAR in its intended expression is the voice of inner guidance, intuition. It is a higher awareness calling out and keeping us from walking into the path of an approaching train or speeding vehicle. This FEAR moves us gently out of harm’s way and reminds us to seek inner guidance. It reminds us that we are never alone and that peace and harmony are just one thought, one dimension away. This FEAR reminds us to close our eyes to appearances, close our ears to resounding gongs and clanging symbols, and seek the shelter of Divine Love where wisdom speaks with clarity, harmony and oneness.
COINS, flat metal discs that symbolize a measure of abundance have two distinct sides, typically called heads and tails. The heads side alone is not the COIN. The tails side alone is not the COIN. The COIN is a multi-dimensional object representing at least two distinct sides to one idea. In our lives there are a variety of thoughts, ideas and feelings. Each have more than one side, more than one perspective. The idea of abundance for instance has two sides; giving and receiving. They are equally important. One cannot fully exist without the other. If there is no receiving, nothing has truly been given. If there is no giving, nothing is received. The space in which we live fully in the abundance of God lies in the balance between the two sides of the abundance COIN. What idea, feeling or emotion is tugging at your consciousness today? How many sides does it have? Is it like a COIN with two distinct sides; each having equal importance? And where is the point of balance between the two? How can you move yourself into that place of balance and experience what is whole? Could a simple flip of the COIN be the miracle in your life today?
RIVERS are the miraculous pathways the crisscross the earth moving life-giving water from one place to another. Like streams of energy, they move toward the lowest ground. Our spiritual body is an intricate system of energies connected by streams of thought, intention and vibration. Unlike RIVERS of water, we can easily direct the flow of energy in our being. We can choose to let it flow to the lowest space in our consciousness. Or, we can choose to direct our energies higher and bring the entire being into a state of balance or homeostasis. RIVERS are a manifestation of the miraculous process of flow infinitely occurring in our minds and in the universe. When we become aware of this process and our ability to direct the flow it becomes irresistible to step into it. And then, we become the RIVER crisscrossing the field of consciousness moving and directing life-giving energy from one thought to another. 
EMPATHY, the ability to share another’s feelings as if they are our own lifts us into a higher realm of consciousness that more fully manifests our oneness. Aligned with this higher realm of principle, EMPATHY has all the attributes of a miracle. Last night I witnessed an incredible display of this aspect of human consciousness as hundreds, if not thousands of people responded to a prayer request on Facebook. It was clear that everyone responding could feel the feelings of the person requesting prayer. Each person could imagine themselves in the same experience. The outpouring of love and prayer and affirmations for healing was incredible. EMPATHY drew together a massive number of people into a common prayer intention. In the words of Jesus “… where two or more of you are gathered in my name, there I AM…” This drawing together through the power of EMPATHY made visible a conscious communion with the Christ in each responder. The power of this collective prayer consciousness is right now manifesting in right and perfect ways, drawing the wholeness of those involved into visible form. EMPATHY is a miracle that draws together that which is already one, so that our oneness in Spirit is made more visible.
Eileen Patra 