According to Barbara Marx Hubbard, we are upon “the greatest wake up call we have ever had for the human species to grow up.”
As we have entered a stage of “conscious evolution” that could lead to a societal tipping point, we are being prompted to thoroughly examine our choices and the social epidemics that surround us.
The choice of what we do, what we eat, how we physically take care of ourselves, and the planet as an extension of ourselves, how we treat one another, how we will educate and initiate a tide of collective innovation leads us to ask ourselves one question:
“What do we need to do right now?”
“When major changes occur in society that affect everyone, such as the outbreak of the Civil War or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the collective consciousness has shifted.” It is at this point at which the build up of minor changes or incidents reaches a level that triggers a more significant change or makes someone do something they had formerly resisted…the tipping point.
“But before the shift can occur, the weight of collective consciousness must decisively tip one way or another.”
Dr. Hubbard, an author, public speaker, social innovator, and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, believes, “…it is time to rapidly connect what is working in every field and function and communicate through all media as fast as we can our creativity, innovations and capacities to make it through together. We should be calling upon each other, everyone on earth, to know that they have a part in this "birth." Each of us is given an impulse of evolution within, a heart's desire to realize our greater potential. Wherever we are, whatever our situation, we are capable of "giving a gift to the shift," from one phase of evolution to the next.”
As we have “lost our collective story of progress” Dr. Hubbard now believes that we, as a society, are at the tipping point of finally discovering a proper response.
“We do have a new story. It is the universe story. When we place ourselves in this 13.7 billion-universe story we discover the pattern and an evolutionary process of action we can do. We see that our crises are comparable to past evolutionary shift points. The only difference is now we are conscious that we are causing our own extinction. This is what I call "conscious evolution" -- the greatest wake up call we have ever had for the human species to grow up!
With crises being the harbingers of evolution, Albert Einstein suggested, "We cannot solve the problems with the same thinking that created them."
Here are lessons Dr. Hubbard believes we can learn from and apply to our current situation:
- Problems are evolutionary drivers.
- Crises precede transformation.
- Evolution takes jumps through greater synergy: Separate parts coming together to form a new whole greater than and different from the sum of its parts.
- Evolution creates radical newness. Once there was no earth, then earth appeared. Once there was no life, and life appeared.
- Evolution raises consciousness and freedom through more complex order. According to Teilhard de Chardin, the great philosopher, the "noosphere," the mind sphere or the thinking layer of earth, with all our Internet and global intelligence, is about "to get its collective eyes." We are about to connect center with center and heart with heart.
- Empathy is rising. Spirituality is growing. Healings are happening. The Internet is connecting us everywhere. A "wheel of co-creation" is forming in every field and function -- innovations in health, education, energy, conscious business and environmental awareness are accelerating and beginning to connect -- a whole system breakthrough out of the whole system breakdown.
- We need one more conscious effort to connect the positive to make the shift in time -- to midwife our own birth toward the next stage of our evolution. We may be one fraction of an evolutionary second from either connecting what is creative and loving and innovative, or devolution and extinction. This situation is dangerous, yet natural.
“The story of human life on Earth is yet to be determined. Our evolution depends on whether we are willing to make changes in our individual and collective beliefs and behaviors, and whether we are able to make these changes in time.”
We are living in exciting times, and the time has come for each one of us to embrace our role in moving away from unconscious mishaps, to conscious creation.
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