A Massive Wake Up Call October 22, 2009
Posted by bodhidude in : Society, Transformation , trackback
It is my belief that with the challenges facing us today what ultimately must happen for any real change to occur is a shift in consciousness or an awakening out of a collectively unconscious state. The level that our human collective conscious is currently operating on continues to allow things like war, hunger, environmental collapse, economic problems and more destructive processes to play out. I would even say that it is our collective as well as personal unconsciousness that fuels these things. Yet we still go about futilely trying to resolve them on an external level. Most (not all) of these efforts however don’t quite make it because we still have the issue of the level of consciousness on a mass scale not being able to support real change.
Lets take climate change for example. While we’re not responsible for everything going on with the climate we have had a great impact on it with our blind use of fossil fuels and unchecked industrialization. The results of this are something that we created and are responsible for and we’re reaping the consequences. We also know what to do to correct it. Lets face it, our environmental problems are not beyond our means to resolve but to really resolve them we’d have to change the way we live, work and play considerably and on a mass scale we are not yet willing to do that. So the situation continues to get worse because we’re still creating the causes for it to, no mystery there. The petty efforts governments make to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and all their talk about climate changes doesn’t amount to a fraction of what is necessary to truly and effectively address the issue.
In my view this is due to the degree of unconsciousness on the collective scale. There isn’t yet enough conscious awareness to cause enough people to see what is happening and accept what needs to be done. People need to care and feel a personal connection to what is playing out. They need to want to change things and that requires conscious awareness. No amount of education or information can raise someones consciousness if they are not open to it, if they are not ready for that to happen and there are those that would rather die than wake up. So the question that I raise is what will it take? We seem to be creating more and more intense experiences in this world on a personal and global level. It feels like a higher power or energy is turning up the heat to produce a shift in consciousness, to catalyze a mass awakening. I’m seeing it happen to individuals all over the place. I’m seeing old organizations and power structures collapse under the weight of their own dysfunction. But what will it take to tip the scale on a collective level?
Its been my experience that human beings often need crisis to be prompted to make real changes and to wake up to their unconsciousness, I certainly have had my share of it. Is it going to take even more intense large scale events to jar people out of their delusional comfort zones? Events like an ice sheet melting and flooding coastal cities? Would that be significant enough and if not what would be? I’m asking these questions because I wonder how intense we have to dream things up to be to facilitate an evolutionary shift in consciousness and I believe that is inevitable unless we utterly destroy ourselves. I’m optimistic myself, I think we will awaken and evolve. I also see the struggles going on in the world today as the fuel for change and growth. Growth is usually painful but when the pain is worked with it produces transformation and so isn’t a negative thing. The amount of pain and suffering in this process seems to be directly related to the degree of resistance to change. Resistance prolongs and intensifies the process. When resistance is released change happens effortlessly because its a natural process. When that mass letting go happens we could see a time of unprecedented radical change and transformation. Its already begun, its just a question of how it plays out, what do you think?
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