It's Halloween. It's the end of the month, and soon to be the end of 2008. More people are becoming self-aware of their inner potential as the collective consciousness moves into a new era. There is a lot to be said about how uncertain the state of our planet has become, in fact. As things are beginning to change two distinct but separate attitudes can be found if one looks close enough — the attitude of fear and the attitude of trust. 

Trusting in positive change is hard enough without the added pressure of an uncertain future for the world. A financial crisis might after all be the collapse of an underlying structure of ideals that are just no longer suited to the growing state of consciousness. Consciousness is moving more and more towards the individual and far from the structured mode of ranks, social classes, and prejudiced notions about each other.

However for most it is difficult to trust in change because change often means that something dies, collapses, and fades, before something new is born. In the end, though, it is still a personal decision:

"Am I going to respond with fear or am I going to trust this process?"

Eckhart Tolle wrote once that we can approach all of life's problems from an ego perspective or a consciousness perspective. If there is something lacking or something negative to be perceived, then it often means that there is something to be gained or a positive change coming to consciousness. It is through trusting this conscious process that we are able to avoid getting locked in the shadows of the ego that doubt and fear it.

Best of Spiritual Blog this month

1. How You Can Use Your Emotions for Personal Transformation
2. Proof of Something Greater and Your Beliefs
3. Proof of Something Greater and The Eternal Search For Meaning
4. Proof of Something Greater and an Inner Purpose
5. Reader Feedback: Can You Feel the Presence of God?

Photo of the month

"The Last Mist" from "From 10 to 300mm"

Quotation of the month

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

- Spinoza

In the Spiritual Blogosphere

1. How to Mediate Difficult Communication Situations
2. How Strong is Your Sense of Entitlement?
3. 3 Reasons to Reject the Culture of Consumption
4. Personal Development for Smart People - Review
5. The Correct Way To Argue In A Relationship
6. Top 10 Most Inspiring Quotes of Lao Tzu
7. Clairvoyance and Spiritual Guides
8. Emotional Reaction vs. Spiritual Depth