Nicolya Christi - Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World: A Handbook for Conscious Evolution

This book is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi,

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov,

and Thich Nhat Hanh.

CONTEMPORARY
SPIRITUALITY
FOR AN
EVOLVING WORLD

Nicolya Christi writes with the soul of a mystic, the mind of an evolutionary, and the heart of a lover of life itself. She brings forth the agenda for human conscious evolutionsocial and beyondto guide us toward the next era of our evolution.... This book is magnificent, a labor of love and a gift to us all.

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, AUTHOR OF BIRTH 2012 AND BEYONDAND PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

Every now and then a rare book comes along that synthesizes the key trends of an epoch and where we are headed. Such was Marlilyn Fergusonss The Aquarian Conspiracy in 1980. Nicolya Christi has achieved a similar tour de force by synthesizing the fields of spirituality, psychology, and personal development. One feels that her understanding of spirituality is something she has lived through, experienced, and felt in a manner we have rarely encountered in the contemporary literature.

PIERRE PRADERVAND, AUTHOR OF THE GENTLE ART OF BLESSINGAND MESSAGES OF LIFE FROM DEATH ROW

Nicolya Christis new book is a roadmap that speaks to the authentic self within each of us. This rich and compelling book is a psychological tour de force for finding our way back to the wisdom of the Self. Nicolya Christi speaks from the intelligence of the heart in offering a crystal-clear vision of psycho-spiritual integration, the new human, and the significance of Higher Love. This book is indispensable for anyone wishing to connect with a contemporary spirituality for an evolving world.

KINGSLEY L. DENNIS, AUTHOR OF NEW CONSCIOUSNESS FOR ANEW WORLD AND STRUGGLE FOR YOUR MIND AND COFOUNDER OF WORLDSHIFT INTERNATIONAL

This book is beautiful. The chapter Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World is revolutionary, thank God, and very, very timely. This book is about You. I highly recommend you read it.

REV. PETER OWEN-JONES, AUTHOR OF BED OF NAILS AND LETTERS FROM AN EXTREME PILGRIM

Nicolya Christi is a bridge between the old world and the New Earth that is arising, and so is thisher latest book. It connects the reader to deep psychological and spiritual truths explored in simple, accessible concepts and language. It connects the mind and the heart, the inner and the outer life, and shows how we have imprisoned ourselves and how we can liberate ourselves. It will prove a blessing to all who enter its pages and apply the wisdom through their own hearts knowing, thus blessing all life.

WENDY WEBBER, CORE PROCESS PSYCHOTHERAPIST, TRAUMA RESOURCE FACILITATOR, COACH/MENTOR FOR PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE VERMONT PEACE ACADEMY

Acknowledgments

I begin by offering a heartfelt thank you to Ervin Laszlo for writing the foreword of this book. I would also like to offer my deep appreciation and gratitude to my good friend Pierre Pradervand for his beautiful Gentle Art of Blessing, which I have chosen as the opening blessing for this book.

I would also like to thank Barbara Marx Hubbard, Pierre Pradervand, Rev. Peter Owen-Jones, Kingsley Dennis, and Wendy Webber for their endorsements of this book.

I would like to offer my gratitude to Cherry Williams for the editing of this book. I offer my deep appreciation to Kingsley Dennis for his written contribution in chapter 9. My deep heartfelt gratitude goes to Wendy Webber for her written contributions included in chapter 9 and the appendices. I extend my gratitude to Matteo Baronti for his rendering of the Psycho-Spiritual Pyramids of Humanity in chapter 2. I offer gratitude to Padma Aon for his permission to publish the discourses between us, which can be found in the appendices. I offer my deep gratitude to David Woolfson, whose unconditional support has made it possible for me to continue with this work.

I also wish to offer my gratitude and love to all those, too numerous to mention, who have been a part of my own journey of psychological, conscious, and spiritual awakening and evolution.

Finally, I would like to thank my publishers, Inner Traditions (Bear & Company), for choosing to publish this, my second mainstream book. I was blessed enough that they published my first, 2012: A Clarion Call. I am very comfortable in the Inner Traditions stable for they seek to be truly aligned with new paradigm consciousness and so serve as torch bearers for this in the world of publishing.

Love in Light Waves.

NICOLYA CHRISTI

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good, which your blessings will call forth: for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good that is embedded in the very texture of the universe and awaiting each and all.

On passing people in the street, on the bus, in places of work and play, bless them. The peace of your blessing will accompany them on their way and the aura of its gentle fragrance will be a light to their path.

On meeting and talking to people, bless them in their health, their work, their joy, their relationships to God, themselves, and others. Bless them in their abundance, their finances... bless them in every conceivable way, for such blessings not only sow seeds of healing but one day will spring forth as flowers of joy in the waste places of your own life.

As you walk, bless the city in which you live, its government and teachers, its nurses and street sweepers, its children and bankers, its priests and prostitutes. The minute anyone expresses the least aggression or unkindness to you, respond with a blessing: bless them totally, sincerely, joyfully, for such blessings are a shield that protects them from the ignorance of their misdeed and deflects the arrow that was aimed at you.

To bless means to wish, unconditionally, total, unrestricted good for others and events from the deepest wellspring in the innermost chamber of your heart: it means to hallow, to hold in reverence, to behold with utter awe that which is always a gift from the Creator. He who is hallowed by your blessing is set aside, consecrated, holy, whole. To bless is yet to invoke divine care upon, to think or speak gratefully for, to confer happiness uponalthough we ourselves are never the one who bestows, but simply the joyful witnesses of Lifes abundance.

To bless all without discrimination of any sort is the ultimate form of giving, because those you bless will never know from whence came the sudden ray of sun that burst through the clouds of their skies, and you will rarely be a witness to the sunlight in their lives.

When something goes completely askew in your day, some unexpected event knocks down your plans and you, too, also burst into blessing: for life is teaching you a lesson, and the very event you believe to be unwanted, you yourself called forth so as to learn the lesson you might balk against were you not to bless it. Trials are blessings in disguise and hosts of angels follow in their path.

To bless is to acknowledge the omnipresent, universal beauty hidden to material eyes; it is to activate that law of attraction, which, from the furthest reaches of the universe, will bring into your life exactly what you need to experience and enjoy.