The Great Transition

THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY

WESTERN SOCIETY

At the present moment, Western society has entered a state of decline. This may seem to be wholly negative, but is in-fact part of a much larger process. Many religions see this stage as the terminal stage of contemporary society and site the social decline. This may be so, but it is a necessary step in human evolution. The human evolution I speak of here is the human species evolution, although the individual person is a reflection of this. It can be seen from many different levels; as a great evil that bequeaths mankind; as a psycho-spiritual disease of the species; as a step in the evolution of the species or as part of a dynamic whole which is itself perfection. The level depends upon your perspective, all are valid observations, but the whole may be understood better by placing each of these perspectives into a higher framework. In this way you will get the complete picture in much the same way as many views of a building allow a complete perspective of its architecture. I will describe these four perspectives in turn so that a complete picture may be built up.

The best known of these views is that of Armageddon(2), that is the final destruction of the human species. In many religions this idea is also adopted, but there is usually an escape clause for the followers. If you take a good look at contemporary society you can see this to be true. There is increasing crime, homelessness, drug abuse etc. There is much apathy and many people lead shallow and meaningless lives. There is dis-satisfaction with the current world order but with no alternative direction. It looks very much like Armageddon and nobody wishes to take on the task of renewal. The Christian view in Revelations(2) may be a very accurate description of the situation with ‘The Beast’ closing in for world domination.

The next view is that of a psycho-spiritual disease of the human species. This takes the view that humanity is sick and is in the terminal stages of the illness. From this stage there are three possible outcomes;

Death of the species; continuation of the current situation without any change and recovery. Illness can be looked upon as a necessary lesson which needs to be learned. In many individuals, a serious disease has lead to life changing experiences. These can be major spiritual understandings, such as in many Near Death Experiences (NDE’s)(5), or just a change in lifestyle. Perhaps humanity as a whole has a lot to learn from this disease. Perhaps humanity will re-emerge after recovery as a highly spiritual community.

The third view is that this situation is a step in the evolution of the human species. Just as a child must learn about the world around him, sometimes with painful results, so must the species. The story of learning about the nature of fire by being burnt is apt here. If this is a step in the evolution of mankind, what is the lesson? Is it a lesson at all? It could be the analogy of immunisation, a sort of necessary step. It could also build up on previous lessons in the way a curriculum does. Like in science, things are explained in simplistic terms and then apparently contradicted at a deeper level. In any case, this perspective sees humanity’s current situation as a stage in the evolutionary process of a species.

The final level is that of the integrated whole. Here there is no time, so the species exists at all levels which come together to form a synergy. This is the spiritual identity of humanity and contains everything, all the hopes and dreams, all the acquired experience of the species. Of course the species is a reflection of every member and every member reflects the species. So it is what it is to be human, or put another way, the perfection of the evolution of the consciousness in human form.

This brings us to the next stage. Having briefly outlined the four perspectives, with a deliberate non-comparisatory tone, we can move on to the meaning behind it. I will start off by comparing the views to form a dynamic structure, one in which we can build upon. As in the rest of Life-force Harmonics, the individual part reflects the whole. It is necessary to simplify everything to distinct steps, then the process can be seen flowing with clarity.

If we examine the Armageddon view, we can see it is like the tail end of a disease, the ‘healing crisis’. It is not the last step in the evolutionary process, but a vital part of it. The ‘beast’ referred to in Christianity(2) could be the disease of modern society. This disease is no more than the lesson in the evolutionary process and from the ultimate standpoint, is part of perfection. In other words man must own his shadow as he has to learn from it, it is not ‘Evil’, it is just part of the process. In this way the species must also own its shadow. At the first level human society is as it is as a result of its ‘evil acts’; at the second level humanity is diseased, the cause of the disease is not ‘evil’ but no-the-less unpleasant.; at the third level humanity is undergoing a learning process, there is no evil or diseases, just lessons; at the final level there are no lessons, just perfection.

Having an understanding of the different views, we can now examine the current human predicament in more detail. It will be best to examine this in terms of a disease and evolution, the other two views will not yield a productive analysis. This is because they are extremes. The first view will only show the suffering involved and not the causes or lessons. The final view is perfection and fully integrated, there are no lessons or suffering here.

If we view societies predicament as a disease we need to know three things; The cause, the effects, and the cure (or outcome). We already know what the effects are, suffering, apathy, disintegration etc. The cause of humanity’s current predicament could be age old greed. In the story of The Garden of Eden, Adam ate the apple from the tree out of greed. This is the premise we will work from for this viewpoint. You can see how lust for power, material wealth and technology has led to man’s current situation. If we assume that before this greed arose, there was harmony, the species acted as a whole and there was no fighting or suffering. Then the greed arose bringing splits as individuals developed ego’s. They started fighting one and other and exploiting their resources.

This has lead to modern society. There is no cohesion left, it is a situation of ‘every man for himself’. Our society is built on the rules of conflict, we, as individuals are conditioned to be greedy and competitive. We are judged on material wealth and power. The ego rules the roost. The world does indeed seem to have gone mad, injustice, artificial, decaying. This is the endpoint of ego consciousness, which was built out of greed. So many of mans endeavours seem to be attempts to placate the suffering he has got himself into. Think of it, all major advances are a result of an attempt to stop this suffering. Things are invented to ‘make our lives easier’, or to ‘give us something to do in our spare time’. There you have it, an attempt to stop the suffering and an attempt to hide from it. We suffer because we are separate, our ego’s, which were just interfaces between the inner and outer worlds now demand placation. We sense we are incomplete but do not know what to do about it. The species is fragmented and we fear for our lives. This is what has caused our current situation.

The cure for our predicament is to let go of our greed and come together as a species. The suffering is getting so great that we cannot placate it any longer. As the society fragments, a new movement emerges.

That movement is that of regret and contrition. We are sorry for what we have done and wish to change, we wish to be whole again. This wish is what will drive the formation of our new society. Every major religion tells of the ‘Time of reckoning’, when all will be judged and the good will be allowed entry into heaven. This heaven is on earth and is accessible to all whom wish to be there. It is the cure for society’s greed, but those whom are still greedy will not be able to enter. This is not due to divine intervention, but rather that this heaven is a state of mind, the collective species consciousness recovering from its 10,000 year ‘greed related illness’. Those whom are still greedy bar themselves due to wishing to be in charge, they cannot submit there state of mind. So from the perspective of a disease it is quite simple. First everything was OK, then there was greed, this lead to the psychosis which can be cured by giving up the greed that caused it. It is a bit like poisoning, this too is reflected in the story of the Garden of Eden. Here Adam ate the poisoned apple (arising of greed), this lead him to be cast out of heaven and to become mortal (arising of ego consciousness), after he realised his nature was that of God (self awareness). He will eventually become cured by giving up the greed. This is the disease perspective. You may ask, Why? What was the point of it all? Many people think in this way about diseases. Diseases can be viewed as lessons in an evolutionary process. In the confines of ego consciousness it is impossible to see, but from a higher perspective it makes perfect sense. It is to the evolutionary perspective we now turn to for a slightly different account of the situation.

The third viewpoint is that of humanities current situation as one step, or lesson, in its psycho-spiritual evolution. I use the word lesson because it is psycho-spiritual, where the main aspect is consciousness. There are other evolutionary pathways currently underway for the human species. The best known of these is biological evolution. All these evolutionary paths are inter-related, and will be discussed later. The main task at the moment is to describe the psycho-spiritual evolution process and how this explains man’s current situation.

If we go back to our ‘garden of Eden’ analogy, Adam was not evil, but merely evolving. The serpent was the manifestation of self awareness, or the idea of becoming self aware. The tool for providing self awareness was called greed in the previous section, this is a negative attribute. In this section we will see that greed is not the same as we were previously told. Greed is the shift of un-differentiated consciousness into the individual’s consciousness. It is the movement of the ego, the interface between inner and outer worlds, into the centre of consciousness. In other words it is the process of becoming self aware. With self awareness comes a price, insecurity. This insecurity manifests as a wish to become one with the collective consciousness and is in opposition to the evolution of the ego. One feels vulnerable and compensates by accruing material possessions and power. This vulnerability is the suffering much talked off in religious circles, this gives rise to greed, which attempt to salve the suffering. So there is the process of the arising of greed, or to put it another way, the shifting of consciousness into the ego.

Having described the process, we must now turn to the question, why? To conventional understanding the whole process was a big mistake resulting in suffering, greed, anger (due not to being able to salve the suffering) and delusion (due to loosing the ability to see things from another perspective). The eventual outcome of this process seems to be social decline and eventual Armageddon. From the standpoint of the evolutionary perspective, however, this is not so. This evolutionary perspective mirrors a human life. In the beginning there was un-differentiated consciousness, or the mind of a young child. This may be in harmony with the universe, but needs to learn in order to evolve. For a child, education is applied until he can stand on his own feet. Then the ego arises, this motivates the child. Without this ego there would be no motivation, there would be no need to evolve. This is the same for the species. The differentiation of consciousness had two major effects. One, an evolutionary pressure was established allowing the species to go forward. Two, the consciousness was fragmented, allowing billions of learning opportunities. The evolutionary pressure is suffering and the learning opportunities are individual lives. Without this the species would stagnate and still be like a child. The H. G. Wells book ‘The Time Machine’(6) is relevant here. In this book the hero travels into the future, only to find, at first glance, a Utopian society. On further analysis, however, things are very different. The society has no books and no direction, when one of its members drowns, no one helps. This is what society would be like without the ego stage, seemingly perfect, but actually very primitive and directionless. Society is actually enriched by the ego consciousness of its individual members, this is absolutely necessary for human evolution.

The methods and reasons have been described for the current state of society, now we must turn to the next phase, the integration of ego consciousness with the social consciousness. Society and the human species consciousness have been much enriched by the arising of the ego consciousness and the billions of individual experiences. This goes far beyond just all the culture, art, music, science, technology and philosophy that has been created as a result of this phase. The enrichment is the synergy of all human experience. This of course contains its shadow aspect, the Nazis are a good example. The shadow should not be destroyed, as it contains valuable lessons. The shadow is one of the driving forces to the next phase. The current world situation shows this to be so, as it is the wish to change that catalyses the next phase. We have reached a terminal point of apathy and disintegration, we are turning our back on the old order. In evolutionary terms, the old order has done its job and is no longer needed, it is time to move on. There is of course resistance to this change, as a result of fearing the future. This resistance does in-fact serve a purpose. It is there to ensure a complete change-over to the new consciousness. It does this by bringing out all the doubts and fears and allowing them to be quenched. A total switch can then be made to the new system. It provides the process extra momentum so that evolution can move on un-hindered. Only once the life of the old system is totally exhausted can this be achieved, sleeping best after a hard days work is a good analogy. The driving force has now been described, now we need to know the process involved in the change-over. First of all we need to know the nature of the next phase, then link it with the old order, this will allow us to see the change-over process more clearly. So it is the next phase we must now examine.

THE NEXT PHASE

The next phase for humanity has been much written and talked about. Most major religions see a ‘heaven on earth’, with the good prospering. It is not possible to predict the exact nature of the next phase, but by looking at what will actually happen, we will have a clearer picture. The next phase is characterised by the integration of individual ego consciousness with the species consciousness. The perspectives of individuals will change as they will be able to perceive as both individuals and as humanity. Attitudes will change and the old order of greed will no longer exist. Political correctness, which characterises the old order will no longer exist. This is because people will live in harmony and not disharmony, political correctness is motivated through greed and conditioning. To put it another way, people will function at a deeper level and will not need any contrived constructs. Society will be simple in this way, there will be growing environmental consideration, major changes in the way we treat others and a return to nature. This society will not be a Garden of Eden, as much exploration and progress shall be made. It will build on the fruits of the old order and integrate them into a new framework. This framework, of which Life-force Harmonics is part, includes everything and sees everything as different perspectives of the whole. The entire concept’s of right and wrong, judgementalism, prejudice and sectarianism will be replaced with tolerance and mutual interest. People will all have the ability to offer something and will not lead mundane and meaningless lives. They will be encouraged to develop their own talents and creative abilities. The old order of rationality and capitalism with its authoritarian inflexibility will be gone and replaced with real concern and help. Politicians will not be needed, nor will soldiers or police. In other words people will live happy and fulfilling lives. The spiritual aspects of existence will be of the uppermost importance. There will be many varied spiritual traditions which will arise, and replace, the old order dogmatic religions. People will be secure in their own lives and wish to help the species of which they are an inexorable part. A new age of tolerance and individual freedom will be created. It is obvious that it is impossible to list all the changes here. Instead, I will discuss a number of ‘marker’ situations, which will show the health of a society. These are; equality; law and order; education; HealthCare and political process.

Equality is a word which is much used in the current situation. It is usually closely aquatinted with the concept of rights. In the old order, people fight for, and aberrantly defend their ‘rights’. Once granted, they will take them literally and use them as a fulcrum to get their own way. There are no real ‘rights’ as such, as no one is in anyway superior to others. Rights are another device born of insecurity. In the new order, rights will not be needed. People will naturally, as they reintegrate with the species consciousness, behave benevolently to their fellow man. Rights will not be needed, as others will not wish to oppress. In other words, true spiritual freedom and equality will be gained. People will again show gratitude for help they once demanded as rights. Society will flow along in its own direction, which will be the sum of all the individuals within it.

Law and Order is a subject which flows on naturally from what was said above. The emphasis will not be on crime and punishment, but on rehabilitation and help. People whom do wrong will be thought of as spiritually insecure. They will be treated as such and great attempts will be made to reintegrate them into society. The current situation of ‘Paying of ones debts to society’ will be obsolete, for one thing, society is as ‘guilty’ as the individual. This has two major connotations; one, people will not be treated as criminals and only held as long as they need to be to effect a recovery. Two, very dangerous individuals will not be released into society to re-offend, just because they have ‘done their time’. Treating criminals as patients will greatly improve their esteem and at the same time cut down on crime. It is not that the new order will be soft on crime, in fact it will be freed from all the red tape and stupidity currently experienced. There will be no need to apportion blame and therefore no need for courts. Rather, the individuals spiritual maturity will be assessed. As this is not oppression or punishment, there will be no injustice as such.

Education flows naturally on from this. The process of education will have the main task of helping people to become spiritually secure. Of course there will be conventional subjects as well. A basic understanding of ‘the three R’s’, science and the arts will be taught. The teaching methods will be a lot different. At the moment, teaching methods are wholly intellectual and authoritarian. The new order teaching process will be holistic in nature. That is to say the wonder of the subject will be shown so that people can let this inspire them to learn more. For example, physics may be taught by first taking the students on a ’star party’. The emphasis will be on the romantic wonder of the universe and will help to start an interest in the intellectual subject. The major thrust will be to help people develop their creativity and find their lives work. Everybody has different talents, and although an attempt will be made to teach the basic ’survival pack’ necessary for living in the new order, most of the emphasis will be on personal development. For example, a young dancer may forgo the forced education and allowed to follow this path. Education will be a joyful experience and one that will be treasured. Our young will be able to look forward to much wonder, wisdom and happiness.

HealthCare and medicine is the fourth marker I have chosen. At the moment, current Western medicine views the situation as a battle. There are diseases and cures, and many people talk of illness as a battle. This is characteristic of the old order, as it views everything in this way. In the new order, medicine will be much more holistic. In fact, it is the area of HealthCare which is most developed with all the so called ‘alternative treatments’. In the new order, there will be a different attitude towards HealthCare. There will be a thrust to keep people at optimal well-being using a number of techniques. I will not talk about this too much, as a great deal has already been written. The old invasive techniques will only be used as a last resort and will no longer be the main stream. Western medicine will be thought of as ‘fringe’ medicine. Energy medicine will be the main type of medicine practised. This will include acupuncture, homeopathy, reiki, healing martial arts, aromatherapy, etc., etc., etc. There will be far more healers and less institutionalisation, there will however be a good framework for all these therapies to work within. There will be an understanding of the mechanisms of energy medicine and a much more balanced view. This will be due in part to the new ’science’, of which Life-force Harmonics is an example. People will enjoy much better health and many of the current, stress related diseases, such as heart conditions, will be very rare. The new lifestyle will be a form of medicine in itself.

Political process is a description that will not be entirely accurate for the new order. Politics is mainly about greed, ambition and power. In essence it is an expression of the insecurity of the ego consciousness. It is mainly an charade, devoid of any real depth or meaning. As can be seen in the present order, politicians are false and only expound the ‘politically correct’ view. This causes much dis-harmony and is a good example of the current order. In the new order, there will be no politicians. There will be elders, those whom have true wisdom, and keepers who’s job is to keep the society flowing and maintain the framework. These people will not be politically motivated and will view their job as a great responsibility. In a way they will be more like librarians or nurses than politicians. They will be charged with the care of the social framework and will serve society with humility. Their job will be viewed as no different from anyone else’s. The society will be organised into small units of similar beliefs, creed and family connections. These will form villages rather than towns and will have equal standing within society. The days of mass scale control will be over and a country which is currently homogeneous under one rule and system, will be a rich tapestry of systems which flow together to form the country. The countries will then flow together to form one united planet. There will of course be elements of framework all the way to the planetary level, but these will not be for control, rather they will help knit all the different groups together. Here there will be keepers whom gather information from all the groups and filter it through to all of society. The world will stand with a united purpose, due to everybody being in harmony with the human species consciousness. This will not mean that it will not evolve, rather it will act with unity and not expend energy in meaningless squabbles over power and possessions. The world will in-fact be a much more varied and interesting place, as people will not have to conform to central control. To use a computing analogy, it will be more like a neural network rather than a central processor.

So this final indicator, politics, shows that the world will be a much better place. Before we talk about the changeover we must first turn our attention to the rest of the world. So far we have been talking about the ‘old order’, which is western society. This is the dominant force on the planet, but there are many more societies, many which are more advanced spiritually than the western system. Many of these are already functioning within the new order, but some need to evolve. I will first describe some of these new order societies and then turn to the problems of other old-order societies.

OTHER SOCIETIES

Western society may be the dominant society on this planet, but there are many others. It does not necessarily follow that the western society is the most advanced. Imagine the world if the Nazis won the second world war, they would almost certainly be the biggest and most powerful society, but they would have been one of the most primitive. Fascism is in-fact the endpoint of the old order, it was defeated in the second world war, this catalysed the need for change. Other societies may not be as advanced technically, but may be more spiritually advanced. For example, the Native American Indian Society, was a highly spiritual tradition with a far more enlightened and natural approach to that of western society. Today, it hardly exists, and what does is in decline and has been westernised. This westernisation has taken place for centuries in many societies. It is very easy to look at African Tribes, Aborigines, American Indians and similar societies and think of them as primitive. This is almost totally due to westernisation. For example, the Aborigines were a very spiritual and natural society until they had western ideas thrust upon them. They now have a name as being drunken layabouts. The same is also true for the American Indians. In both cases the culture has been dismissed as heathen and the ways thought of as primitive. The truth is that westernisation, with its spiritual insecurities, has destroyed these societies and left artificial, empty charades. As western society works at a shallow level, the real loss to these societies is not apparent. The reason these societies have declined, is that they have had their ’soul’ removed. The people lack direction and do not wish to participate in the western charade. In the case of African Tribes, these seemed to be doing fine until western style greed took hold. Whether this greed was due to western intervention, or happened in a similar way it arose in the west, is uncertain. The result is similar, with the exception that the consequences are much deeper. Famine, disease and death are a common occurrence in these countries. This has one main cause, greed. In the case of Africa, there are countless civil wars and mob rule. A once fertile land is no more capable of providing nourishment. Natural disasters are often blamed, but these are only the catalysts. The spiral is similar to the western situation, except the land is not as forgiving and these countries lack money in a western style global economy. In other words, the society has been stripped bare and all the pointers of social maturity are lacking (law and order, education, HealthCare). In the new world order, wealth will be evenly distributed and Africa can return to its former glory. Each society is different and has different things to offer. In the western society, the intellect and technology are much prized. In other societies, creativity and mythology are more prized. In the new world order these will be of equal importance, as Life-force Harmonics shows, there are many ways of looking at a situation. The Eastern societies, such as China, India, Japan, etc., have a different philosophy. These societies have their own obstacles to overcome.

The Transition into Enlightenment

There are two stages to the ego stage. One tends towards order and is the Creative Aspect and the other tends towards disorder and is the Destructive Aspect. The creative aspect is a property of the Existence force. The Existence force is at maximum disorder and naturally tends towards maximum order. Imagine rain falling into a puddle, or matter condensing to form stars. The destructive aspect is a property of the Reality force. The Reality force is at maximum order and naturally tends towards maximum disorder. Imagine the expanding universe, or a tower made from playing cards. When developing the ego aspect, both forces are brought into play. The fourth chakra, the stage of enlightenment is different. Here only the creative side is to be developed. We have gone through the stage of enrichment characterised by the ego, now we must build on this and become one with the Universal Mind. This is a very distinct phase from the background consciousness stage. We are still individual, enriched by experience, but at one with the Universe.

The integrative practice now changes its role a little. It now become the practice for expansion and of increasing the vibrational rate of our Lifeforce. It may be that we have to re-asses our primary practice for this new situation. It is also important that all traces of negativity are let go of, as these can form a very powerful obstacle to spiritual practice. It is important to understand that your essence is bright and pure, always was and always will be.

As already outlined, we as a species are moving from the age of the ego to the age of enlightenment. We are on a great transition, some people are still developing the ego stage, some are well into the enlightenment stage. I included the discussion of the ego stage so that you can see to what extent you have gone through these steps, and how this is reflected on humanity as a whole.