The First of the Three Evolution Milestones

This series of blogs on ‘Evolution and the Human Soul’ have outlined what evolution is and why we need it, what the soul is and how it can help us to evolve and how the benefits that accrue from doing this work cannot be overstated. Choosing the path of evolving our consciousness opens us up to being more present in the now and more connected with each other, in a way that makes us feel more alive. 

In Part One of this blog, we looked at the immortal soul as a compass that is aware (whereas mortal consciousness usually begins as not aware). We saw how the soul guides us by constantly inviting the Core Four (mind, body, spirit, emotions; the mortal self) to wake up, to increase in awareness, and if the Core Four follow the guidance of the soul, our mortal consciousness will eventually have the same awareness as the soul, and act accordingly in any given situation.  We saw that ‘wisdom and compassion’ are the measures for our evolution at a soul level and that a wise soul can create a wise conscious person by inviting their unconscious mortal self to ‘wake up’ and be aware in a wise and compassionate way.  In so doing, the higher awareness (our divine self) becomes imbued into the physical mortal self, and this creates ‘heaven on earth’ for that individual.

In Part Two of this blog, we looked at how having the soul as navigator leads us to release our ‘This-Lifetime Identity Consciousness’ (one lifetime) as our ‘main story’ of who we are, and instead see ourselves from our ‘Multi-Lifetime Identity Consciousness’ (many lifetimes). Seeing ourselves from the perspective of many lives, instead of just this one, helps us to see who we really are but also the commonality among all of us. This makes community possible.

But evolution isn’t random. It follows a set path of three distinct milestones, or stages. In Part Three of this blog, we will look at the first of these three milestones of evolutionary growth that all humans are invited to undertake over lifetimes. Moving through those milestones is not only good for us individually and our relationships, but it is good for us as a global community and for the planet itself.

While the indicators of evolutionary growth are wisdom and compassion, all evolution is about identity; waking up to who we really are. These milestones, or steps, are there for everyone in order for them to choose how they wish to identify in any given moment, so that over time they might come to understand the truth of who they really are. Because these milestones in our evolutionary trajectory apply to everyone, this growth trajectory will also help us to understand who we are as a species. Once we have all come through all three milestones, we will have created ‘heaven on earth’ for us and the planet.

In order to look at the first of these milestones, we must first look at “duality”.

Duality

Earth is a planet of duality; there is day and night, up and down, good and bad, left and right. Space and time are measurable because of this duality and everything here is relative. Duality creates third-dimensional reality, which is where we physically live.

Because of this duality, there is not just one level of consciousness here and, so, not just one way to identify. There are nuances, so identification here is on a spectrum, as is true for all of duality, but the two extremes on this spectrum of identification are ‘Light’ and ‘Dark’. ‘Light’ is evolved and ‘Dark’ is under-evolved; evolution (or the lack thereof) is everything here on this planet. These terms of ‘Light’ and ‘Dark’ in this context have NOTHING to do with race, but instead to do with levels of consciousness.

Curiously, the duality environment (this world) was constructed to facilitate the process of evolution (meaning, the three milestones). In other words, we originally only came here to evolve. Also, third-dimensional reality ultimately delivers something that we benefit from here, yes, but ultimately it is so that we can evolve out of this realm entirely and continue evolving in other realms (fifth-dimensional reality and above).

What Are the Light and the Dark?

We talked before about our Light Quotient (LQ) being the amount of Light (divine consciousness) that we bring into our consciousness (and our energy bodies).

When we choose for our LQ to be very, very high, we have chosen a ‘Light’ identity, meaning, that we have chosen to be aligned with energies that are in alignment with Source. Source is the ultimate in evolution, so is the ultimate in compassion, inclusion, truth and wisdom. These Source energies are ‘highly-evolved’, meaning that the people (and spirits) who choose to align with a Light identity are at an advanced stage of their evolutionary journey. There are many spirits who identify with Source Light, some of whom include the angelic realms, Goddess deities and many highly-evolved spirit guides and teachers.

When we choose for our LQ to be very, very low, we have chosen a ‘Dark’ identity, meaning, that we have chosen to be aligned with energies that are the opposite of Source, so, the opposite of compassion, inclusion, truth and wisdom. These energies are ‘under- evolved’, meaning that the people (and spirits) who choose to align with a Dark identity are at the beginning of their evolutionary journey. I call the spirits who identity with Darkness ‘Dark Side beings’ and the realms that they run, I have called ‘Dark Side’.

The First Milestone: “Am I on the side of the Light or the Dark?”

The first of the three main milestones, or questions, in the macro and micro of human consciousness is this: ‘Am I on the side of the Light or the Dark?’ But what does that mean?

My mother once said she understood this in these words: ‘Am I on the side of the angels or not?’ I thought that that was a beautiful way to describe this first of three micro milestones. Remembering that these quests are all about identity, this one asks where does my understanding of “who” I am really lie? ‘Am I on the side of ‘Light’ or the ‘Dark’?’ means where does my identity align?

First we need to ask, what does it mean to be identified with either of these terms ‘Light’ and ‘Dark’?

If we identify with Light, we feel aligned with Source and evolved consciousness, which means that moving forward and ‘developing myself’ in such a way as to increase compassion and the flow of love in my life and with others matters to me a great deal. It means “I care about the preciousness of life and of life-force”.

If we align, purposefully, with Dark, it means that we are indifferent about another’s boundaries or their free will, that compassion for others is not on our radar and that we are dedicated to controlling others and to ‘self-absorption’.

So, this milestone asks of us, ‘On the Light to Dark spectrum, where do you feel most at home?’.

How Childhood and Trauma Impact this Milestone

Trauma in childhood can stunt us developmentally. If we are unhealed from childhood trauma, we can get ‘stuck’ in childhood in certain ways, even though we continue to grow into adults. Therefore, sometimes, unhealed trauma in an adult can look like a person whose soul hasn’t evolved very much. Why is that?

Not particularly having compassion for others and being dedicated to ‘self-absorption’ is normal when we are developmentally young, as children. Children are often called, in psychology, ‘healthy narcissists’. This is because, as children, we need to (selfishly) develop a ‘Sense of Self’ before we can reach out to the world and be a part of it. If we were traumatised in childhood, and don’t develop a healthy ‘Sense of Self’ before becoming adults, it means we have been subject to boundary violations somewhere. Unhealed survivors of childhood abuse can develop into adulthood without a sense of self, with devastating consequences.

Similarly, if we are traumatised in adulthood (an accident, or a bad break-up, say) and haven’t yet healed, our ‘Sense of Self’ can become impacted and we can become more ‘self-absorbed’ while we heal.

Therefore, trauma can cause us to appear and behave in ways that look evolutionarily thwarted, when we aren’t. This is why judging others is usually a bad idea; we don’t always know what’s in a person’s soul, just by assessing their actions.

The Question to Ask Ourselves

If we are not childhood victims of abuse (or we were and we heal) and we develop healthily out of childhood and teen-hood, we leave behind the obsession with self, and developmentally move into a healthy understanding of ‘connection with other’, what then? You have a better sense of who you truly are and you can then ask yourself the question: “Am I on the side of the Light or the Dark?”

If you have evolved enough to answer this question, “On the side of the Light”, it means that your perspective includes consideration of more than ‘just me’; it includes ‘everyone else too’.

This also means that we have passed this milestone and can look at the second of the three milestones in evolutionary consciousness, which we will address in the fourth blog in this series about Evolution and the Soul.