It feels appropriate to pen this article before the total solar eclipse at 3pm Central Time on 8th April.
It is easy to see events such as farmer protests, excess deaths or even your own health issues as a continuous lurching from one crisis to the next.
But when a woman goes into labour anyone with sense does not see this as a medical emergency.
We understand there is a shift taking place.
It’s a change of state, a time of transformation where one phase has ended and another one begins.
It is this change of state that marks a transformative journey.
A flower withers and dies.
The seed falls to the ground.
In spring they germinate with new growth.
From a fear perspective we call the withering of the flower a crisis. But this view misses the transformative process taking place.
Clearly it’s not a crisis. It is a metamorphosis.
Can the same be said of current global events?
Where is the big picture that helps understand what is taking place?
As an alternative to the crisis view of reality what does the world look like if we consider the possibility we are currently experiencing a change of state in what it means to be man or woman?
To begin with this is not the first time that a change of state has occurred.
According to Yale and Princeton university researcher Julian Jaynes before around 1,500 B.C. men and women had a very different experience of life on earth.
In his seminal work The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Jaynes outlines evidence that before around 1,500 B.C. men and women were not conscious as we are today.
Instead they were directly connected to their gods who spoke to them through the right hemisphere of the brain.
According to Jaynes it was the gods that gave meaning and purpose to life and told us what to do.
All we needed for a good life was to act on their commands.
Having no sense of self there was in fact little else we could do.
Cultures around the world support Jaynes’ hypothesis.
They speak of a time of innocence, a Golden Age before separation from the gods and a fall into darkness.
Jaynes himself points out that it is only after this break with the gods that men and women first got down on their knees to pray.
Before 1,500 B.C. what need was there for prayer when your god spoke directly to you?
Jaynes contends it was only after 1,500 B.C. that the major themes of religion appear as men and women seek to make sense of their separation.
So if men and women experienced a change of state around 1,500 B.C. and this change was universal, could we be experiencing a collective change of state again?
A caterpillar changes state when it enters a chrysalis.
It changes state again as it emerges out of the chrysalis as a butterfly.
3,500 years after our initial change of state is it all change once more?
Along with a change of state a second mark of a transformative journey is a period of dissolution.
In the chrysalis a caterpillar dissolves.
From this perspective the descent of men and women into a world of separation and troubles described by cultures around the world is an integral step of the transformative process.
Are the last 3,500 years we call human history the experience of this descent?
Is this what the Buddhists mean by Samsara – the world as illusion and suffering?
What if this illusion is now dissolving?
Is this why the causes of excess deaths and food shortages are beginning to see the light of day?
More examples of this ending of the illusion may include:
- The growing interest in the history of virology as the means of living a good life;
- Education programs such as The Sovereign’s Way that highlight the fictional nature of the legal system where it’s codes acts and statues are considered voluntary rather than binding;
- The increasing number of men and women healing themselves of practically any disease without the expense and dependency on the medical system. (For examples see phase 2 of the Troubles Away program.)
The transformative journey can be illustrated in a diagram.
The journey begins with dissolution of the previous state.
A flower withers and the seed falls to the ground.
A caterpillar enters the chrysalis.
There is separation from the gods and descent into illusion.
In 1971 acclaimed British novelist Doris Lessing wrote a psychological thriller called Briefing for a Descent into Hell.
The crux of the novel is that there is no briefing. When in hell all is chaos with no seeming way out.
With an appreciation of the structure of the transformative journey we can now see Lessing was mistaken.
Despite the apparent chaos there is order to the transformative process. The turmoil of descent is only the first phase of a stepped structure.
The illusion ends when the darkness can no longer sustain itself.
Sunlight stirs a seed on the cold ground.
A butterfly feels the urge to leave the cocoon.
A baby is immersed in the contractions of, until now, the only world it has ever known.
The benefit of the structure of the transformative process is that it enables us to see what remains hidden in the otherwise nightmare of apparently random events.
The final stage of the transformative journey entails the second change of state bringing the experience of a higher level of being than when the transformative process began.
A baby leaves the womb into the vastness of the outside world.
A seed sprouts and grows into a plant.
A butterfly takes flight.
I suggest many are already experiencing this second change of state as a reconnection with the creative Source of all there is.
We are shedding the illusion of separation that characterised our descent into the wars, toil and suffering since 1,500 B.C.
In contrast to the fear based rules of the descent, the third phase of our journey appears to be characterised by love.
This new state has been variously called unity consciousness and the 5th Dimension.
It is a world where the rules of separation increasingly no longer apply.
How is this unity or 5th Dimensional state different from what has gone before?
If Jaynes and the testimony of cultures around the world are right, 3,500 years ago we were inseparable from the gods that gave order meaning and purpose to life.
But we were not conscious.
We were like children still unaware of ourselves separate in the world.
The third phase of the transformative journey is not a return to this innocence.
Instead, it seems to me, we are beginning to practise being conscious co-creators of the universe at the frequency of unconditional love.
In other words I suggest an appreciation of the structure of a transformational journey and the change of state it entails can provide an important context to make sense of the changes now taking place.
What is your experience?
Are there many troubles
Or just one trouble?
Are there many diseases
Or just one disease?
Are there many journeys
Or just one journey?
