The Responsibility to Create: On Conscious Action and the Power of Non-Local Influence

How Ideas Rooted in Pure Consciousness Become Echoes Across Time

Sitting quietly during meditation the other day, it surfaced within my awareness—one of those soft impressions that appears less like a thought and more like a knowing:

“The greater the degree of connection with Pure Consciousness either in one’s actions or becoming, the same degree will be reflected in that which is produced.”

At first, it felt like affirmation—an echo of teachings I have long carried within. But as I sat with the phrase, I began to understand it not only as fundamentally true, but as instructive. It was not simply describing how things unfold. It was offering me a lens through which to reconsider every act of creation, every gesture of offering, every idea given shape in the world.

This insight came to me shortly after embracing a subtle evolution in my Seven Layers of Manifestation framework. The final layer, once labeled simply “Outcomes,” had begun to feel insufficient. Through deep contemplation and discussion, the term Non-Local Influence emerged—an acknowledgment that the consequences of aligned action are not confined to the local field of the actor alone. Rather, they reverberate—softly, insistently—into the collective space, shaping what can be imagined, enacted, and refined by others across time e.g., morphogenetic fields

But what truly deepened the meaning for me was not the intellectual clarity—it was the quiet, humbling recognition that not everyone wants this. Not everyone labours in the direction of transformation. There are those, for reasons both conscious and unconscious, who prefer the stability of the status quo. Some may actively resist change; others may ignore it, ridicule it, or dismiss it without even the slightest investigation. This resistance is not new. Anyone who has ever tried to grow beyond imposed limits—be they societal, intellectual, or spiritual—knows this terrain all too well. The friction of forward movement often reveals who benefits from stasis.

And yet—perhaps even because of this—our responsibility becomes clearer.

To create anyway.
To speak anyway.
To teach, to write, to build, to illuminate—anyway.

For in so doing, we are not only speaking to the present. We are depositing packets of knowledge into the stream of time. I borrow that phrase—packets of knowledge—from my doctoral advisor, Dr. Fred Travis. During the final stretch ahead of defending my dissertation in 2023, he shared the idea with me. His insight was simple, but meaningful on many levels: that the work we do now, when rooted in clarity and consciousness, becomes accessible across generations. It may not reach its intended recipient today or tomorrow. But it is there, waiting—for someone in some future who is ready, willing, and able to engage.

This reframes creation entirely. No longer is it merely about outcomes in the immediate sense—followers, applause, awards, or metrics. Those may come, or they may not. The real outcome—the true non-local influence—is that your effort becomes an offering that transcends its moment. A lesson. A lantern. A tool.

And so, I have come to see every article, every short video, every framework, book, or speaking engagement as part of a constellation of these packets. They are individual expressions, yes—but they are also interconnected gestures of trust: trust in the human spirit, trust in the relevance of Pure Consciousness, trust in the forward arc of evolution.

This means that creation must be conscious not only in intention, but in structure. It must be infused with coherence—with integrity between what one knows, what one feels, and what one does. Again: Knows. Feels. Does. Otherwise, it dissipates before it can reverberate. Incoherent expressions—however loud—cannot endure. But a subtle, precisely crafted idea born from inner stillness? Now, that can ripple for centuries. Possibly even millennia.

This also means that the presence of opposition is not a deterrent, but a signal. If what we are offering is truly born of deeper wisdom, it will necessarily challenge something and/or someone. It will call forth an alternative to what is assumed. And resistance, though uncomfortable, is simply a byproduct of the mind encountering its own edges. Here, I am reminded of the quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “A man’s mind stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”

In moments of discouragement, I return to a question I once asked myself: What if this work is not for now, but for the future?

And the answer always rises: Then do it well.
Make it legible. Make it beautiful. Make it coherent. Make it sacred.

For what we are crafting, ultimately, are doorways.

Doorways into possibility. Doorways into systems of thought that better reflect the whole human being—spirit, mind, and body—in harmony. We craft these doorways not for their immediate popularity, but because someone, someday, will need them. And when they arrive—seeking orientation, seeking clarity—they will find the work. They will recognize it as something alive, even if written long before their time. As you may surmise, such has been the case for many ideas that have come to both inform and buttress my own way of being, thinking, and doing within the world.

This is what it means to labor with love for the unknown. To shape what may not be immediately understood. To trust that Pure Consciousness, once seeded with care, will find its flowering.

So I create. Not out of ambition. Not to convince those who are unwilling. But to leave what must be left.
For someone.
Somewhere.
In a time not yet born—as was done for me.

This, I now believe, is the true responsibility of those who have glimpsed deeper truth: to encode that truth into form, and to place it gently into the stream of human experience.

The future will find us.

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Dr. Baruti KMT-Sisouvong, along with his wife, Mina, serves as Director of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Cambridge and the larger area of Metropolitan Boston. They are parents to four beautiful children. To learn more about him, visit his website: https://www.barutikmtsisouvong.com/.