Humanity is facing unprecedented, evolutionary changes. It is amazing —out of the renowned Mayan prophecy has come the indication that we are facing the end of this world as we know it and the starting of the new world by 2012. This date correlates to environmental and social predictions of collapse and breakthroughs now widely accepted Let’s pre-suppose there is some truth in these prophecies. What vision of the time to come, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our tending upon this vision as a unusual attractor to carry us through this vital change ?
The Evolution of Consciousness
We discover that crisis precedes shift. Challenges are evolutionary drivers. Intensifying pressure leads either to devolution and extinction or evolution and transformation. This is one reason that 2012 might be earthshaking and shocking to some. Furthermore, we understand that evolution creates radical newness. Life out of prelife, human life out of animal life. Is it possible that from our species, a new human and a new humanity are now emerging ? We can see the sequence from Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo Neanderthal, Homo sapiens, to Homo sapiens sapiens. Why should it end with us? Is it possible that a new species has been gestating in the womb of self-consciousness through the great avatars, mystics, and visionaries for thousands of years, and that now, due to the crisis, this new human is being birthed in millions of us? It has been suggested as Homo progressivus (Teilhard de Chardin), Gnostic Human (Sri Aurobindo), Homo sapiens, sapiens, sapiens (Peter Russell), Homo noeticus (John White), Homo universalist (my own favourite name). It is possible that the basic shift point in this prophecy is the emergence of the “universal human,” by whatever name it is called, as a “new norm.” Perhaps we will reach critical mass for this human by 2012.
The truth is we see ourselves coming to the end of the viability and even sustainability of ourselves in our present stage of self-centered self-consciousness. We are becoming “ego mutants,” as Alan Lithman calls current leadership, reclaiming powers we used to attribute to gods while we remain in the like state of consciousness as our ancestors.
If we imagine ourselves only a few years in the future, even by 2012, assuming we do not destroy ourselves first, we see the outlines of a immensely enhanced humanity, applying the growing edge of human consciousness, capabilities , and evolutionary technologies to life-affirming dreams , resulting in a quantum transmutation of the human species itself.
Accept that the higher self, the inner voice, is you. Bring your projections home as your own developmental potential. Ask that deeper self to take authority within your personality selves, and shift your identity from your ego to your essence. This is the viatl step to being born as a more universal human. Then, find life purpose. Ask to understand what you are here to accomplish . Follow the compass of joy . Seek out those who affirm the highest in you. Where two or more are gathered in the name of that highest dimension or your being there, “I Am” is in your midst . Everyone is needed. Everyone is beckoned . The greatest blessing any one of us can have is to say “yes” to the inactive potential within us. Reach out to those who attract you, and connect with as many others doing the same as you potentially can.
