What can kick us over the edge of this reality into the next one? That’s the worldview where greed is supplanted by compassion as the m. o. We’d all feel for the world and strongly identify with being part of the large whole. Think indigenous tribes – something like that. In fact, we’ve made saints out of those rare characters who embody that perspective. What different dialogues would be taking place if that were the track we were on. Our 24/7 news would be bubbling with how we were making the world work.
Occupy Wall Street is adding a huge burst of energy to what has been building up in the widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo. (Look at this heartwarming aspect of it: We are the 1 percent. We stand with the 99 percent.) The 60s were the beginning, where the Ozzie and Harriet world sprung holes. The human potential movement and our quest for self-awareness came next, as we began to get the idea of how we needed to develop ourselves in the new model that we touched via psychedelics. Psychological awareness of what makes us tick led to spiritual explorations with some of those sainted figures who were the gurus we followed en masse. Spiritual awareness sans figures to worship was in the mix, and carried us beyond homage to outer divinities into recognizing our own. So, here we are, stoked for dealing with the steady march of capitalism where rugged individualism has led to dog eat dog exploitation and we’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
The forces of fundamental change are mysterious and elusive, although progressing cyclically along the lines of the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis and synthesis: a worldview becomes unworkable as things that don’t fit in it emerge, until there is a reordering where the unfitting parts get integrated into a new worldview – and the cycle starts again. Antithesis is well along now, and shoving it over to synthesis is the head scratcher. It could spontaneously occur, like the Berlin wall coming down or the Soviet Union collapsing – somehow it “just happens” when the contradictions to the status quo get too great for the center to hold. Are we at that point? Who knows? But anything we can do to evoke the new crystallization is worthy pursuit.
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First of all I have to thank you Suzanne for inviting me to add my “two cents”. We are sensing that somehow there is an ongoing social trend of change in the world. What represents the material aspect of the western culture is in crisis. This is making us look for answers and also demand solutions. At the same time we are leaving the spiritual fatigue that consumption brings to our spirits. I think, as you well have said, that we’re experiencing the first stage of a global political awakening that will be followed by a global spiritual awakening. Can we deny the major problems that humanity is facing now? I don’t think so. Whatever changes our culture will affect our perception of reality, our worldview. This is also a time for the opportunity to become who we really are — but together, to have big dreams and to make them real.
This is an excellent synopsis. Totally agree that we are at the synthesis stage and, like you present, it could “just happen”; for example, all people in government and power discovering to their initial astonishment, embarrasment and bemusement, that in the Grand Scheme of Things they’ve been emperors without clothes. From such a standpoint, I believe we can start to work together as one human family co-creating with Mother Earth in a divine interplay with Beings from other dimensions and worlds. Allelujah!
Hi gang, my tuppence worth is that it’s been brought to my attention that even if we put aside the 2012 zeitgeist, the astrological prognosis for the next few years is extremely positive. It seems that the stars bring positive youthful energy, amazing social change and an end to tyranny, and that is just the beginning. We can all see what’s happening — hold on to your hats. It seems that we really are the people we’ve been waiting for.
If we’re not at that point of synthesis yet (in an overt, obvious way), we’re surely in the midst of it: the iceberg’s base well formed before the tip is noticeable. This change, the Great Shift in Consciousness, is far broader, deeper, and more fundamental than the drop of the Berlin Wall, arguably one of many culminating events in the Shift. Something of this magnitude probably doesn’t have a moment or event you can point to and say, “Aha! This is when it happened!” The only matter is that it does.
As each of us grows into the ever deepening awareness of our true identity as spiritual beings having a human experience and living our lives in pragmatic expression of this, we each contribute to kicking “us over the edge of this reality into the next one.” That’s where the change happens, outwardly expressed by some who take to the streets, by many others more quietly in the privacy of their individual lives, changing mass consciousness as they change their own. I like the notion that we all contribute, regardless of what we do (or don’t do) on the streets or anywhere else.
Maybe the most important thing that happened in the 60’s was questioning authority, the status quo, the way things are “supposed” to be. In more recent times, the crop circles call upon us to question reality itself. It doesn’t matter who or how many think they’re “real.” Their impact, the change they foment, is well established: inducing those who are so inclined to THINK … outside convention. Their mystery need never be revealed because that very mystery serves to further and further stretch our thinking.
You are so right about this Shift being on a whole other level from the things I pointed to. Not comparable to anything that has come before. And must keep tuning ourselves in — mass movement couldn’t happen otherwise. Love your last paragraph. Everything you say is profound.
“It is about being in flow with All That Is,” as you say on your site. Will delve further to get the scope of what you are up to.
Honestly, I’m not sure just what I read, but it sounds a bit contradictory. Individualism actually is good when mutual respect is maintained, and this is most indigenous peoples belief. I cannot place enough emphasis on the word “most”, as even the USA was once many nations. Without that, legacy cannot be obtained. Capitalism is a two sided coin, one good and the other bad. It is bad when Globalization under a one world order takes place. It is bad when Global Corporatism forms and the decisions of many are made by the few. It is bad when people become nothing more than assets and liabilities that it is bad. It is good when capitalism promotes ideas from people by investing in people.
What you have written seems to be a diluted way of calling for a New World Order. You see my friend, we are part of the whole but the whole is sliced. There is nothing new under the sun from studying history that I see taking place right now. No new inventions, no new ideas, no new ways, no new beliefs. It is nothing new, just things not remembered. Then again, history is written by the victors. We are not the creators of anything ourselves, but that has been played in various ways for time and times.
I apologize if this review is not what you expected, but it is what I see. Lots of glitter, but all that glitters is not gold.
I’d see this as a conversation rather than a conflict. Trying to “make sense of these times,” after what this blog is called.
I don’t see what’s contradictory. We are one and we are many. The emphasis now is on one, and needs to rebalance. I don’t relate to New World Order. I think of a new worldview. Personal good without regard for the good of the whole is what must give way. It’s a change of mind for all people. And indeed it may be to remember something we have forgotten in moving beyond our indigenous roots.
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What can and might kick us over the edge? Love – for ourselves and each other, going out of our individual ways to help everyone else. At about 6:30PM on April 27th, we emerged from the basement of our home and through the front door to a fifteen-foot-wide path to the street and devastation all around. It was the only path out that we were left as all of the magnificent trees which had occupied the five acres of our yard were now laid on the ground – about half of them around the house in a clockwise fashion. All the cars and the entire driveway about fifty yards to the street, all was buried under pines. All the rest of what had been usable yard was also now entirely covered by pine, oak, hickory, and poplar. Out of about 200 trees, maybe 8 were left and those were trees that could bend. The old ones could not. Our home, with the exception of the living room, was left unlivable. Over the next days and weeks, I was amazed at what happened. People happened. Total strangers came with chainsaws and muscles and risked bodily injury to help. Many brought food, so much we had excess to give to others. A lawyer showed up with a chainsaw he’d just bought down the road. He had never used one before and came to help. By the end of the day, he was a pro. People came to our home (and others) from as far as Pennsylvania and Ohio and some brought grills to cook. The next weeks were no different, as someone would drive down the now uncovered driveway, bringing lunch or dinner. Several times I had to turn them away to send them elsewhere. While some old things that won’t bend will break and fall, the new and tolerant things will bend; and no matter what is going on with the people in these times with their cares of the day, those people will gather and help others because the immediate concerns eclipse all else. The things that really matter will outshine the fleeting, albeit old structures that will surely fall. The next time there is catastrophe, we will be there to pay it forward with agape love.
Thanks for sharing such a heartwarming story. When that basic instinct, that is so good, gets tapped in disasters, it shows us what is possible. I see the crop circles being able to move us, as more humble people, into one peaceful conversation, where we could be experiencing the sense of oneness that we so need. As we change our understanding, to where we sense we are people, we are in more fertile ground for love to flourish than when we are struggling to survive in opposition to one another.