No 3 - March 1998

FORTY FOUR MILLION OF US

A major new cultural group, 44 million persons strong has emerged from the American melting pot. It represents a comprehensive shift in values, world views, and ways of life and appeals to 24 percent of American adults. This group has been labeled Cultural Creatives by American LIVES of San Francisco. People who follow this new path are on the leading edge of several kinds of cultural change. They are interested in new kinds of products and services, and they often respond to advertising and marketing in unexpected ways.
The group's genesis began with esoteric spiritual movements, caught fire in the 1960s, as millions of young people joined "movements" for human potential, civil rights, peace, jobs, social justice, ecology, and equal rights for women. Some conservative commentators believe that this social movement exists in isolation and is important only to a few. But from women's issues to environmentalism, the emblematic values of the 1960s are being embraced by more and more Americans. Few in the media recognize it, but these ideas are coalescing into a new and coherent world view.
Cultural Creatives are slightly more likely than average to live on the West Coast, but they are found in all regions of the country. They are altruistic and often less concerned with success or making a lot of money, although most live comfortably with middle to upper-middle incomes.

They are far more likely to have graduated from college. The median age (42 years) is close to the national average for adults. They tend to cluster around their mid-age point with relatively few elderly and young adults. Six in ten are women. In Cultural Creative circles, it's common to meet women asking, "Where are all the good men?" Despite their numbers, Cultural Creatives tend to believe that few people share their values. This is partly because their views are rarely represented in the mainstream media, which is mostly owned and operated according to the Modern world view. Yet little of what they read gives them any evidence of their huge numbers.

The distinctive values of Cultural Creatives separate them from the rest of American society. They tend to reject hedonism, materialism, and cynicism. For this reason, many are disdainful of modern media, consumer, and business culture. They also reject world views based on scarcity or fear, as well as the non-ecological orientation of ultra-conservatives and intolerance of the Religious Right. On the deepest level, they are powerfully attuned to global issues and whole systems.

Creatives are leading the way in ecology and sustainability, and believe in limits to growth. They see nature as sacred, want to stop corporate polluters, are suspicious of big business, are interested in voluntary simplicity, and are willing to pay to clean up the environment and stop global warming.They love foreigners and the exotic.
Women's Issues. The fact that six in ten Creatives are women is a major focus for understanding this subculture. They have concerns about violence and abuse of women and children, the desire to rebuild neighborhoods and community, the desire to improve caring relationships, and are concerned about family.

Altruism, Self-Actualization, and Spirituality. This is a complex of highly interrelated beliefs and values centered on the inner life. Creatives are forging a new sense of the sacred that incorporates personal growth psychology, the spiritual realm, and service to others. It also includes a stronger orientation to holistic health and alternative health care. They believe that rebuilding and healing society is related to healing the self, physically and spiritually.

Three-fourths of Creatives are involved in volunteer activities, compared with a national average of about six in ten adults. Creatives also spend a median of four hours a month volunteering, compared with a national average of one hour a month.

Creatives buy more books and magazines than average. They also listen to more radio, especially classical music and public radio, and watch less television than the other groups. They are literate and discriminating, and they dislike most of what is on TV.

They want to know where a product came from, how it was made, who made it, and what will happen to it when they are done with it. They actively resent advertising on children's TV programs.
They want safety and fuel economy in a mid-priced car. They are also looking for an ecologically sound, high-mileage, recyclable car. In fact, American LIVES estimates that automakers pass up about 1 million new-car sales a year because they ignore those concerns. They lead the rebellion against things that are fake, imitation, or poorly made. They eschew high fashion in favor of high integrity.

They buy existing houses and fix them up the way they want. They prefer their homes with a lot of privacy inside and out. They go for walking and biking paths, ecological preserves.
Creatives buy psychotherapy, weekend workshops, spiritual gatherings, and personal growth experiences in all forms. Providers of these services have to be Cultural Creatives, too, or they fail the "authenticity" test.

For their vacation, they are looking for trips that are adventuresome (but not too dangerous), educational, genuine, altruistic, and spiritual : India, tours where tourists don't go, eco-tourism, photo-safaris, vacations that involve rebuilding a Mayan village, and a Zen-Vipassana-Sufi-Yoga retreat instead of a vacation.

Holistic everything. Creatives are the core market for psychotherapy, alternative health care, and natural foods. What ties these together is the belief that body, mind, and spirit should be unified. They spend more on all forms of health care, even though most are fairly healthy. This is a stark contrast to the Modernist pattern of treating the body like a machine that you feed, exercise, and otherwise ignore until it breaks down. The emergence of Cultural Creatives is the larger change that lies behind recent articles on the "Me Generation," the "New Age," the "Culture of Narcissism," "Inner Directeds," or even the views of baby boomers. All of these describe aspects of a cultural shift in shared values and beliefs. The appearance of the Cultural Creatives in America is a very hopeful thing for our society, for it offers a chance to create a more positive new culture.

The Blue Group works as a group consciousness made of multiple souls whose purpose is to disseminate information, channelled through Rev. David Gardner (DG).

DG: The control of mind is at issue here. Each soul has a representation between God, nature and creation. The dominance of that creative mind's focus determines the outcome of what you see before you in your own root consciousness of effect. The effect of the group consciousness is based on the willingness to conceive of, or allow oneself to expand his/her perception to perceive that which he/she desires. Because you must understand that they are in a co-creative process with God. Actualizing in life as you know it is not something that is outside of your control. The illumination of this realization is how God will manifest into your planetary existence.
Understanding that one's connectedness to God energy source is immediate and constant, IS the realization of God into humanity.

To expand our trust of what is coming, begin with the idea that individuals must start with creating change within themselves, to ignore change in the outer world which is out of their control. So the fear is that things are outside of our control. And the fear is based on the idea that if this occurs "what will happen to me?" This is humorous as you must understand that nothing outside of yourself is in your control and yet people are asking the question based on their willing to be in control.

You see, the paradox is "how does one ever control the outer world?" So, the question is moot in a sense that it is irrelevant to ask the question when you are trying to define what will happen. Rather, we would say the focus should become: what do you DESIRE the outcome to be. Because as one thinks, the more one focuses on the negative questions, the more one helps create the negative outcome.

So, it does not matter where you are if or when the SHIFT occurs. It does not matter what you are doing when or if the SHIFT occurs. Though some might think it is better to be in a meditative pose, remember the unconscious is fully aware of what is going on in multiple dimensions; it is aware of your place at every moment and it does not require any particular focus of attention by you to justify where you are. It only accepts that you are what you choose to be. That means you have taken conscious control of your mind by allowing yourself to be. BEING is a state of being in control of self and not expecting that desire to be in control in things that you have no control over. It is that unified awareness.

DG: (Laugh) "What is scientific proof". What happens if the SHIFT were to happen in the blink of an eye? And it was just a hush?
You see, how it will happen is undeterminable by our expressions, because the way it will happen is a co-creative process. It can happen through devastation if that is what is expected to SHIFT the millenium mind consciousness into the awareness of something larger. Hopefully, the consciousness of the planet has shifted enough and expanded enough to trust that this is not necessary.

You have proven this to humanity and in the community several times in the past decade by eliminating the catastrophies and the extremes of catastrophies. I am speaking about some of the physiological changes the Earth must go through: your el Nino, your earthquakes and fires, your hurricanes in rapid succession of one another. Collectively you are testing your ability to stay in control, and continue having faith. These are the examples that you tested yourselves with. In other words you helped allow the creation of these. Also the universal influence is helping to create and to remind you of what is coming in terms of change. So again, things out of your control can make you aware of how you have the potential of creating any outcome you desire, if you can trust your consciousness and your faith of the belief, when it is manifested. These become the truth of your examples.

Devastation is a negative perception of what will happen if the coming shift occurs. It is not necessary about physiological shifting which is a result of magnetic shifts and the poles which are often spoken of, are not physiological poles like North and South Poles in terms of the physical nature of the planet. It is more relative to the nature of magnetic shifting, energy shifts as it has been the discussion for many years so far.

What you see shifting is what will continue to shift. It is as simple as it has been.

It is the idea of looking for the obvious, when it is not in your plain sight. Because it is obvious to your consciousness and your soul awareness that there is an energy shift occuring at all times, because it is a continuous evolution of energy shifting, but your eyesight cannot see it on a consistent basis, your hearing cannot hear it on a consistent basis. You see gradual changes or fluctuations in your perception of awareness and in doing so, you question what it is, when actually it is your vibratory rate consistently raising its intensity.

So the SHIFT has always been occuring and was not something about to happen. The crux of the question is "when will we reach the point of transition into permanency of this vibration?" That would be more appropriate in terms of what you desire to know and what humanity wishes to know.

The completion of this cycle will occur in a range of about four years. So around 2002, the completion of the main purpose or the pinpoint of the transition will occur. But again, it will continue into 2015 and until about 2030. Remember that it is a gradual process. The difficulty is sustaining vibrationally when the crux point occurs. The crux point is the crossing of vibrational frequency over the elimination of the need of magnetic equilibrium, so that in terms of electromagnetic current and what is the life force of every human being, the bioelectric and biomagnetic force of the polarity system exists in everything in its own way. If you look at the electronic capability of atomic structure, you see that there is a polarity of magnetism that occurs within electricity and within movement. All of this creates energy balance. And this is when a current of energy stops in the earth which has been described as the rotation field of polarity and magnetism and the gravity center shifts its dynamic of movement.
As you made the statement "science has proven that this has occured", we would ask you what proof is. Proof is just another expansion of your awareness of what already has been. So what appears to be proven as you would look at your perceptive observations of things is not always what it seems. Because there are other elements and other laws involved in everything that exists. This is the aspect of changing to your dimension of what you represent.

Trusting the process of changing to this new dimension is merely trusting the process of the laws that exist but you are not aware of. It is expanding the consiousness and almost like feeling around in the dark for the light switch, you know it is there you just don't know what direction you are facing or how to find it. So you grope and feel around until you touch the switch and you recognize it by its feeling just like most in their conscious and unconscious awareness on the spiritual path have a sense of feel about the shift but they cannot fully identify it.

If you want to emphasize to your readers something that they could do in anticipating what the SHIFT will be is to ask them to help create it and give them a model. The transition will be something that is consistently easy and smooth, it is gentle. It does not need to be concerned or considered to be a hardship of humanity.

DG: Laugh, again we would ask you to avoid conscious choices of anticipating those types of things. Remember that what you cannot control will be out of your control and yet the choice to anticipate it co creates it. We would say that by your general consensus you are much beyond alot of what you would fear to be the truth of your future. Because you have overcome a number of times, by trusting and eliminating your fears,you haved eliminated the possibility of devastatation.

In the political culture, people are at a struggle with their own identity and their own sense of responsibility. This is a very difficult period for them, and this is where the question is for the world. Will the world continue evolving and trust the process of its evolution forward that it has created. OR will it start breaking down and loosing its focus of trust? Remember visualization and manifestation are occurring simultaneously. As soon as you start visualizing the truth of your beliefs it becomes reality. There is no limit to what you manifest. So if you sit in fear and even just question what is going to come, you start the manifestation that is occurring because you are wondering when you are putting it somewhere in the present future to be dealt with and manipulated into reality.

Rev. David Gardner has channelled KALUMET for a few years and can be reached at cyber_goob@vabch.com or in Virginia Beach by phone at: (757) 486-8880. His readings are remarkable.

Many people seem to face a lack of money lately and the difference between lack of and abundance is very subtle. It is all in the asking. If you send out positive vibrations and see that money make you happy, it is there for you, but if you are concerned or worried, it emphasizes your lack. I liked what God had to say in "Conversations with God", so here are a few excerpts (Book I, chapter 11)

According to "Conversations With God", the problem is lack of understanding of the principles of abundance together, usually, with a massive misjudgment about what is "good" and what is "evil". Example: you carry a thought around that money is bad. Then it makes it difficult for you to take money for any good thing... The wrong thought is your idea about money. You love it, and yet you say it is the root of all evil. You adore it, and yet you call it "filthy lucre." You say that a person is "filthy rich.".. Most people do what they hate for a living, so they don't mind taking money for it... as if somehow the service loses its purity if you take money for it.
So here we have this real ambivalence about money. Part of you rejects it, and part of you resents not having it. Now, the universe doesn't know what to do about that, because the universe has received two diffrent thoughts from you.

You don't have a clear focus; And the universe is just a big xerox machine. It simply produces multiple copies of your thoughts. So you have to change your thought about it.
If humans do not change their thoughts, humankind could doom itself to extinction. The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Your world has manipulated your mind to think as you do. Wouldn't it be better for you to manipulate your mind than for the world to? Are you not better armed with creative thoughts than with reactive thoughts? Very few of your thoughts spring from self-produced data, much less self-produced preferences. Your own root thought about money is a prime example... You are so rooted in this thought, it never occurs to you that your idea about money may be inaccurate.
Another root thought about money, that there is not enough. In fact, you have this root thought just about everything. There is not enough money, not enough time, not enough love, not enough food, water, compassion in the world... CHANGE IT

So the trick is to change Sponsoring Thought. And you have to act before you think (example of giving to a bag lady: instead of the joy of knowing your abundance and sharing, you now feel as poor as the woman). So act quickly when the opportunity arises. And change your mind about some things. The universe has no choice but to bring you the direct manifestation of your thought about it. To change your reality, simply stop thinking like that. Instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success".
Affirmations do not work if they are merely statements of what you want to be true. Affirmations work only when they are statements of something you already know to be true. "Thank you God for bringing me success in my life" produces wonderful results WHEN IT COMES FROM TRUE KNOWING; not from an attempt to produce results, but from an awareness that results have already been produced. So do not "want" but "CHOOSE" it really; fully, not half- heartedly.

For more information, go to Putnam

Conversations With God