THE NEW EARTH IS NO UTOPIA
Is the notion of a new earth not just another utopia vision? Not at all. All utopia visions have this in common: the mental projection of a future time when all will be well, we will be saved, there will be peace and harmony and the end of our problems. There have been many such utopia visions. Some ended in disappointment, others in disaster.
At the core of all utopia visions lies one of the main structural dysfunctions of the old consciousness: looking to the future for salvation. The only existence the future actually has is as a thought form in your mind, so when you look to the future for salvation. You are trapped in form, and that is ego.
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth,” writes the biblical prophet. The foundation for a new earth is a new heaven—the awakened consciousness. The earth—external reality—is only its outer reflection. The arising of a new heaven and by implication a new earth are not future events that are going to make us free. Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening. Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. So the new heaven, the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all.
What did Jesus tell his disciples? “Heaven is right here in the midst of you.”
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes a prediction that to this day few people have understood. He says, “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” In modern versions of the Bible, “meek” is translated as humble. Who are the meek or the humble, and what does it mean that they shall inherit the earth?
The meek are the egoless. They are those who have awakened to their essential true nature as consciousness and recognize that essence in all “others.” all life-forms. They live in the surrendered state and so feel their oneness with the whole and the Source. They embody the awakened consciousness that is changing all aspects of life on our planet, including nature, because life on earth is inseparable from the human consciousness that perceives and interacts with it. That is the sense in which the meek will inherit the earth.
A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!


