I suppose the way I see it is that currently the collective ‘Tonal’ as you call it is currently largely at the mercy of extraneous forces which are very powerful energies that do not have mankind’s best interests at heart. Generally speaking they are perhaps what I would call the most extreme expression of ‘service to self’ ie the suffering we see on the planet is the very practical manifestation of the actions of individuals but also more importantly groups (which often operate covertly) who deem it legitimate to use, abuse and exploit other individuals and groups for self gain. At the heart of this exploitation we find that one of the central methods employed to execute the abuse is that of deception.

Now what is deception really? All it entails is convincing large swathes of humanity that reality, objective reality is something other than what it actually is. An example would be 911. That this was orchestrated by the CIA and Military Industrial Complex is the objective reality and yet millions have died in wars on the back of this event because the world (largely) has been convinced that the objective reality is something other than what it really is. My point is that in order for this collective ‘tonal’ to be raised and transmuted people need to take on the responsibility of refusing to align themselves with illusion. And so changing the tonal to reflect the heart must also necessitate reflecting the truth, meaning the real truth about the world ‘out there’ which requires actually looking hard at the darkness.

Had one hundred million people across the Globe dedicated their consciousness in the months after 911 to looking at the darkness and manipulation surrounding these events and thus aligning themselves with objective reality and not illusion, these wars could not have taken place and so many people would not have died because action follows thought and the shear force of that consciousness would have manifested in practical action against the perpetrators. On the macro level playing field on this planet it is illusion and the mis-alignmnent of consciousness with objective reality that causes suffering.

Without observing the Shadow and ‘making the darkness conscious’ as Jung would say, we shut out, deny and ignore one half of the truth. In order that the ‘truth set us free’ we are spiritually bound to journey towards objective reality which is that on a personal, global and cosmic level, the soul contains both light and dark. To manifest more light we must acknowledge that the darkness is very real and once that step is taken we can then go about transmuting it. I think many in the ‘New Age’ paradigm have the idea that ‘focusing on the negative’ is somehow spiritually wrong or foolish but this is naive. Really, the conceptual division between spiritual self work (moving towards heart mind as you put it) and political activism is a false division. I’d suggest that political activism, which involves exposing and combating darkness is truly spiritual work on a global level.