The World Today: Part One

Currently, we are moving out of one epoch and into another.  Epochs are huge stretches of time that encapsulate an ethos or an idea. The epoch we’re leaving was one of ‘power-over’ and hierarchies and ‘might makes right’. This is typified in a ‘dark ages’ kind of mentality, meaning that the darkness that is opposed to the Light reigned on this planet for around 1,000 years and culminated in heinous wars, patriarchy, the denigration of the sacred and the oppression of ‘other’. Spin-offs from this consciousness created capitalism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, the holocaust, the Female Pain Body (which includes the ubiquity of child sexual abuse) and slavery. We left that epoch in 2010.  The Mayans said it would be 2012 and they were right; our calendars changed in the interim. 

Epochs take time to enter and to leave. The epoch before the one we’re leaving now was the ‘indigenous epoch’ and arguably lasted from the dawn of human consciousness (some proponents of shamanism say one hundred thousand years ago, but the time arguments vary) until a thousand years ago. That epoch took hundreds of years to leave, the exit spanning the era of the witch-burning trials and the Romans coming across Europe with the coin, desecrating the Druidic communities, and the advent of the Catholic Church.

Time is relative. Historically, time has speeded up. And this is true at the levels of the micro and the macro; time when we were young is different from time as it’s perceived when we are adults, and a span of ten years a hundred years ago is a different thing from a span of ten years today. Time happens differently now than a thousand years ago. What this means for us today is that, a thousand years ago, while it took hundreds of years to move from an indigenous epoch into a patriarchal one, today that only takes decades of time.

We are already fourteen years into the new epoch. There have already been significant indications in the desire for shifts in power from hierarchical systems to grassroots-empowered campaigns seeking change. The Black Lives Matter movement, the global MeToo movement, Occupy Wall Street, LGBTQI, Arab Springs, Standing Rock. And the world has seen a deliberate and significant polarisation in consciousness. The rise of the Alt Right is ignominious but it is necessary. This Alt Right consciousness exists and before now has existed (sometimes hidden) in plain sight, with un-bigoted people believing that it was unfathomable, denying that it could possibly exist. But now it is no longer hidden from mainstream society. Instead, it is seen and known for what it is.  Believe it or not, this is progress.

What Do These Changes Mean?

These changes mean that as these huge shifts are happening, we are being asked at a personal level how we wish to show up in the world, in terms of our surrender of the ego. And we need to choose.  (Fun fact: the polarisation wasn’t the wish-game of the Alt Right.)

Seismic changes culturally mean that everyone is being asked, personally, ‘where do I stand with these polarising changes’?  This question impacts on a level of ‘self’ and ‘other’. In the microcosm (‘self’), everyone is being asked, “Who is more important: me, the self, or everyone else?”  In the macrocosm (‘all’) level, humanity is being asked, “Have the establishment-oriented systems of the patriarchal epoch failed us, and if so, what do we do about that?” We will examine what exactly we can do about these systems in the next blog in this series, The World Today, Part Two.

All of these pieces, the state of the world today and who we are as a species, are converging. What is happening in the world today and who we are as a species is all to do with the evolution of the consciousness of our species. Have no doubt.  Right now, we are all being invited to evolve. But what does it mean to evolve?

Evolution: Who We Truly Are

Who we truly are is the whole point of our spiritual discovery journey. Once we know who we truly are, we can discard our ‘this-lifetime’ identity consciousness. 

And there are three key steps that all humans take in the overall growth trajectory of human consciousness, in discovering who we truly are, and we will discuss these in the next blog; Evolution of the Soul, Part Three.