Multidimensional food for thought...
~There are two central elements to my thesis. First, I believe our social and technological development is an extension of biological evolution, following the same paradigm we see in the natural world, in many respects. Second, I see the ecological crisis as an initiation - a collective rite of passage - for humanity, forcing us to reach another level of consciousness , individually and as a species.
In traditional cultures, the function of initiation is to impel the young member of the tribe or community to overcome their ego-based identity. They undergo a dangerous, frightening ordeal which forces them to realize a visionary or transpersonal state. Once they have survived this passage, they have the capacity to take responsibility for the community as a whole, overcoming self-interest when necessary.
Similarly, I believe we have subconsciously self-willed the ecological mega-catastrophe in order to force ourselves to break free from limiting constructs and egotism. By undergoing a universal calamity, humanity can overcome hyper-individualism and alienation, becoming self-aware agents of a regenerative biosphere, constructing a new social design based on shared responsibility, mutual aid, and universal empathy. I also believe we require this crisis as it will force us to access dormant capacities of the Psyche - our psychic abilities, which include intuition, telepathy, and more.
We can understand the process we are undergoing as purposeful, teleological, and even, implicitly, designed - in the same way that nature designs, or orchestrates, conception, fetal development, and birth on the level of an individual organism. We find ourselves in an evolutionary trajectory that will ultimately lead to our extinction or to the collective realization that humanity, as a whole, constitutes a planetary super-organism: one unified being. We are in an ongoing, symbiotic relationship with the ecology of the Earth, as a whole system. The more we can prepare and awaken to our situation now, individually - choosing to pass through the portal of initiation, before disaster strikes - the less collective suffering may be experienced by humanity, as a whole.
In Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright proposes, “the entire 3-billion-year evolution of plants and animals is a process of epigenesis, the unfolding of a single organism. And that single organism isn’t really the human species, but rather the whole biosphere, encompassing all species.” Wright noted that humans keep developing increasingly larger and more complex forms of social organization over time - from the small tribe to the city-state, to national governments today, to extra-national bodies like the United Nations and the European Union. For Wright, this suggests an eventual transition to global government. I look at it slightly differently, and propose we will eventually transcend national governments by establishing a harmonic planetary orchestration, where local communities function like the cells and organs in an efficient, self-regulating body.
Wright gives credit to the earlier work of the Catholic mystic and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, who introduced the idea of the Noosphere (from the Greek word, Nous, meaning mind), which he described as a layer or envelope of thought that encompasses the Earth. Writing in the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Chardin proposed that, just as the Earth has an atmosphere, a lithosphere, and a hydrosphere, it also has a surrounding layer made up of thought. For Chardin, the Noosphere already exists, in nascent form. Humanity would eventually reach a point where we would activate it by attaining a collective realization.
Chardin anticipated humanity’s realization of the Noosphere as a mystical process through which we will discover, and celebrate, our inherent communion with the cosmos: “Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire,” he wrote. If we were to consider love - what Sigmund Freud called Eros - as a biological drive, we might define it as the instinct that binds separate entities into greater aggregates. The switching-on of the Noosphere represents the inception of a harmonized planetary collective, where our social and political reality would be shaped by wisdom, encompassing a long-term vision for human beings to live in healthy communion with our shared sister Earth.
For Chardin - also for Wright and a wide range of other thinkers - humanity's social and technical development, seen as an extension of the Earth's biological processes, suggested that our evolution has an underlying teleology, a purpose and direction. Just as a plant flowers or a caterpillar morphs into a butterfly, we are inexorably, whether we like it or not, undergoing a metamorphosis into a harmonized collective - a super-organism. As we attain that state, we may find that our interests and capacities change profoundly, just as a butterfly, no longer crawling or devouring leaves, gains an added dimension of flight, and starts to pollinate.
What I and a number of other thinkers have proposed could be seen, in a sense, as a new story or framing of our journey as a species - a new mythology - which supersedes the current cultural belief in a reductive scientific materialism, which Rupert Sheldrake has called “the Science Delusion.” Mainstream ideology combines scientific materialism with an equally reductive social Darwinism, based on ceaseless competition and the “Survival of the Fittest.” We are now overcoming this old way of understanding and thinking about our world, as a new worldview crystallizes.
As we reflect on the biological and historical past, as we step away from the subconscious darkness of primitive impulses and needs, we can choose, collectively, to engage in a consciously directed evolution. As a species, we can work together to give birth to our own higher mind. To reach that stage requires passing through this epoch of chaos, confusion, and destruction. As with all initiations, there is a very real danger that we will not emerge out of it, that our species will fall by the wayside, as the vast majority of species have.
The study of biological evolution - the history of life on Earth - reveals an inveterate tendency, in nature, toward greater levels of cooperation, coordination, and symbiosis. This idea may seem surprising at first. As part of the paradigm we inherited - the one we are now leaving behind - many thinkers and scientists placed their focus, instead, on the competitive, aggressive, and destructive aspects of nature. This view of biology as a constant struggle for life meshed perfectly with the predatory economic mode of Capitalism. This idea has now been superseded by a new view of life as an intricately networked phenomenon, where organisms support each other far more than they compete.
According to biologist Lynn Margulis, who developed the Gaia Hypothesis with James Lovelock, “The trip from greedy gluttony, from instant satisfaction to long-term mutualism, has been made many times in the microcosm,” she wrote, in Microcosm. “While destructive species may come and go, cooperation itself increases through time.” Life is marked, inherently, by web-like, fractal, patterns of organization, on all scales.
*from Daniel Pincheck’s upcoming book, 'How Soon Is Now', to be released in 2017 http://www.pinchbeck.io/blog/
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~What is the use of nondual philosophizing or spiritual practice, when there is a world of injustice and ecocide out there? Charles explores how the nondual outlook gives birth to a different "theory of change" that disarms cynicism, lifts despair, and opens the road to vastly expanded effectiveness for the activist. Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, including 'The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible'. His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and stints as a college instructor, a yoga teacher, and a construction worker. He currently writes and speaks. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and four children. http://www.charleseisenstein.net
3 States of Mind to Embrace the Coming Energy
by Michael Forrester
There is a barrier of wisdom that is being shattered by those who are choosing light over darkness and love over hatred. Right now there exists a potential for this planet that has never been felt or witnessed at any time in history, and it is mostly due to those who are surfing the new wave of consciousness and showing others how to do the same. The most difficult thing for people to embrace will be the new energy of change. So how do we adapt to a new consciousness when nothing works the way it used to?
You may have found yourself struggling the past few years with both gradual and abrupt changes in your life. Perhaps a shift in employment, financial hardship, relocation, the end of relationships, or even death of loved ones. Look at these things with love–not disappointment, anger or resentment. They have all happened for a reason and they will continue happening, both to you and those around you. You will notice it and it will soon be very obvious that things will never be the same. It is a time of great change. Get used to it because it is a thing of beauty.
There has never been a time of greater consciousness on planet Earth as there is today. NEVER. No cycle, even 30 or 60 thousand years ago comes close to the level of consciousness we have on the Earth today. But it came with a few bumps on the road.
Those bumps are not confined to those still sleeping, awakening, or awakened. It’s everybody. It is the young, the old, the rich, the poor, the human, the animal, Gaia, the secular and the non-secular. It is everything.
There is not one human being on Earth today that truly understands what is coming because they continue to interpret concepts from a linear third density reality–a reality that is (virtually) long gone and no longer making all the rules within the new consciousness. It’s now about multi-dimensionality. How can we exist within a new energy thinking through old patterns? We can’t. We won’t. Not without thinking and feeling through new states of awareness. An understanding that everything is happening at once. That we are selecting the potentials that best align with our current state of being, picking those we think will work and then manifesting those experiences.
Until we grasp that the new consciousness revolves around a quantum reality sifting through multiple dimensions, we will keep repeating the same old patterns until it hits home. I repeat, all the things that are happening to you right now will keep happening over and over until you can transform the new reality within you. It’s a reality that works for you, instead of against you. A reality that flows freely instead of resisting what could be.
3 states of mind that will help with the shift:
1. Don’t Allow Fear to Create Doubt
What does darkness do when it realizes it is losing? It fights back like you wouldn’t believe. It is cowardly and has tantrums like a child. It wants to make you doubt your self-worth in an awakening world.
The dark energy knows when you fear anything and it understands exactly how to make you doubt your own awakening. There have been many people who have been workers for the light who have now claimed the light is working for the dark. Watch for this. It is happening more often. It is a misinterpretation of what light work is and a fear of what it can do. There can be no judgement for these people. Only love. For the path they choose is correct for them.
As soon as the darkness senses your vulnerability it will take you to a high level of discomfort and you won’t like it. It will expose you because you fear, and when you fear it has you exactly where it wants you…
You don’t have to let darkness cause any emotion within you that causes discomfort. The dark energy is not intelligent. It is stupid. Really stupid. When it senses its own demise it keeps doing the things that lead to its demise. Its not going to work this time and you will see it. You will see the attempts to cause division and they won’t affect you the same way. When you stand in the light, these things can’t touch you. It only takes one candle to illuminate a large area and darkness wants to blow it out. How is it going to blow it out when there are thousands of other candles all over the world?…
Duality knows when any imbalance exists and the relationship of dark and light is recalibrating. It will even happen in your dreams. It will try whenever it can to make you doubt the new energy. It can’t win because it has already lost. It just doesn’t know it yet. But it will try…really hard, to make you think it has a chance.
Always remember that darkness has no resident energy. It is only the absence of light. It has no energy of its own. It cannot exist when light is present. It can only exist when the light fades. How does the light fade? Anger, hostility, hatred, fear, etc. The dark loves lower level consciousness. It thrives there. So show your power. Stand in your power and light and show the dark it can no longer exist within you. When you stand in your mastery, darkness goes away.
2. Be Compassionate to All Beings
Did you know that a compassionate energy is the strongest of all energies? Yes, even stronger than love. Love is second and once it matures, it becomes compassion. Can you be compassionate instead of critical? Can you be compassionate about things you need to endure? Can you have compassion for that person that cut you off on the highway? Or that person that cheated their way through a line you waited patiently for? Can you have compassion for your politicians? ALL of them. Not just your favorites. How strong is your compassion filter?
Can you be with those who make you angry, anxious, fearful and see the God in them? The masters that walked the Earth had the highest level of compassion of all beings. They had the ability to realign the energy of others solely based on their level of compassion that they could emit to others. That is why they were masters and why everybody wanted to be with them. You were once them and you will be again. It starts with compassion right here, right now.
Do you feel that God, our prime creator is compassionate in all circumstances? Do you still feel the need to believe that God must be humanized and judge, punish or condone violence to those who are immoral in your perception? Does an all loving God selectively choose who to be compassionate to? When you can begin to harmonize answers to these questions that mesh with the energy among us, you will begin to see things (all things) through alternate perspectives. You will begin to see compassion in everything and a system of love that is far beyond what can be explained in words.
3. Look Within to Find the Truth
You will never find the truth of who you are or where you came from based on another person’s perspective, regardless of their gift. Work with only your own divinity. Your gifts will align and provide you with information you cannot obtain from others.
Stop pursuing validation from those around you. Stop waiting for others to provide you with healing. There really is no such thing as one person healing another. A healer only provides a seed of consciousness or a frequency of change that helps another person heal themselves. You are always healing yourself and always making yourself sick. When the balance shifts to higher vibratory states, disease will never enter your body again.
Speak to your cellular structure and watch it respond. A smart body system exists within you that controls your ENTIRE health as a unit. Not just one aspect. The smart body system consists of trillions of pieces of DNA which hear every single one of your intentions and responds accordingly. Do you think spontaneous remissions are a coincidence? That’s DNA working at near 100 percent efficiency for a split second and it happens all the time.
Your DNA is waiting for you to become quantum, just as it is quantum. Your DNA does not understand what others say to you. It understands what you say to yourself. You are your best healer. You are your best teacher. You are your best everything. You are part of everything and everything is a part of you… Take the time to meditate or reflect on who you are and where you are going. Take a walk in nature and communicate with your breath and Mother Nature herself. Their is great wisdom there and its waiting to hear from you…
*http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/04/08/3-states-mind-embrace-coming-...
~Any way 'one' chooses to analyze it... Humanity is being forced to dive into the deepest corridor of the Rabbit H@le, a primal, initiatory rite of passage to real'eyes' & remember why we're really here... & as importantly, who we really are. While the final birthing pains of the new paradigm can feel overwhelming, to say the least... the torsion & fear of the unknown is an essential part of reclaiming our true Birthrights... a natural, cyclic byproduct of emerging new Life & Light. We stand on the cusp of a return to our Belonging... It's always darkest before the dawn & make no mistake about it, half measures will avail us nothing. Time to let go... ~TemetNosce247
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.” ~Terence McKenna
Nope, it is not survival of the fittest. Animals that work together survive better...
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