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by Kingsley L. Dennis 2014 from KingsleyDennis Website
Our propaganda and media systems have been exploiting the mythological images, collective stereotypes, and subconscious signifiers that play on our collective vulnerabilities.
Knowledge has more or less trickled down to the average person through heavily filtered channels, and most often has been doctored, amended, and/or edited.
The end result has been not knowledge but consensus information, or 'allowed' information. It has served the elite power structure well that people in general have not awoken to the understanding that humanity possesses incredible capacity and inherent resources for creative expansion and evolutionary development.
It is now necessary to see our future potentials, not
the daily news.
Inherent in this is a residual fear that if we open ourselves too much to others we may lose our 'competitive edge' and defined sense of individuality.
In a sense we have been partially programmed to play the role of victim or fighter, externalizing our troubles and our blame. Added to this is the fact that Western science, which has asserted itself as the dominant hegemony since the Renaissance, has been at pains to stress that matter is primary and that consciousness is a secondary by-product from our mental activity.
The modern worldview which denies the primacy of consciousness is fostering forms of human alienation, both psychological and social. It is a great paradox that modern science, itself a result of human consciousness, has produced a view of the cosmos which has no room for consciousness.
Yet human beings are in need of meaning and significance in their lives as much as they are in need of air to breathe and food to eat. This struggle over the conscious mind(s) of humanity, which has been going on in various forms for eons, is coming to a crux in our present generation. The result is that we have now collectively arrived at a critical moment in our evolution of human civilization.
Any society or civilization which makes the material world its sole pursuit and object of concern cannot but devolve in the long run.
As Professor Needleman so aptly remarked:
It is therefore imperative that people begin to break-away from non-developmental social conditioning and make efforts to make compassionate intent a part of our everyday experience.
This includes being conscious of the type of impacts we receive, and to avoid those impacts and influences that are negative in favor of those that are positive.
For example, true words encourage us and give us strength because we instinctively recognize truthfulness - our body consciousness reacts to this, even if indirectly as through the form of galvanic skin response, pupil response, or through our electrical nerve responses. In short, our body feels the essence of what impacts us, and negative or false information weakens us.
This concept was researched scientifically through testing muscle strength.
Dr. David Hawkins has written extensively on
how muscle testing shows that various impacts create either strong
or weak reactions from the body. In his work he relates how people
who listened to lies proved to exhibit a weakened muscle reaction,
whilst those who listened to positive words and statements showed a
strong muscle response.
According to Dr. Hawkins, over 99% of humans calibrate below the level of Joy; which is a saddening thought.
What this also tells us is that our whole body functions as our mind - an extended mind.
As such, our whole body can respond in empathy, and
be strengthened through empathy and compassion. We need to listen
more to our bodies, the information they give to us, and trust in
this part of our mind - and not just the thoughts coming from our
head upstairs. When the mind is receiving ambiguous impacts and
news, it is the body we can often rely on to give us more accurate
and truthful information.
At such dynamic periods there can be the realization
that no individual is isolated; that each person is interwoven into
a vibrant network and web of psychological, emotional, and spiritual
interrelations. Such realizations can be heightened during periods,
such as now, when it appears that human consciousness is moving
through a time of critical transition.
It is interesting to note that according to the research of Dr. David Hawkins human consciousness was dangling at below the 200 level (190) [2] for many centuries before it suddenly rose up to its present higher level some time in the mid 1980s.
The overall average level of human consciousness stands at 207 (as of late 1990s).
Hence, many past predictions and prophecies of doom may have been avoided because they relate to a time when human consciousness was below the 200 level.
For the world to stay at levels below 200 over a prolonged period of time would, says Dr. Hawkins, cause a great imbalance that would likely lead to humanity's demise. When one's consciousness falls below 200 at any given moment a person begins to lose power and thus grow weaker and more prone to be manipulated by one's surroundings, says Dawkins.
Now, however, human consciousness is on the rise; and as it rises it has the capacity to affect - or infect - other minds.
As Dawkin indicates:
What this tells us is that as human consciousness rises it has an exponential capacity to affect others around, like an expanding energy wave.
What this tells us is that individuals have the capacity to make change infectious by transmitting one's state of being amongst others. That is, energetic change will come through our social and cultural forms, and not by avoiding them.
Developmental change on a large scale can occur by creating conscious change from within our daily lives and within our social systems, and not outside of them. By just walking on this planet, holding the focus and intention, we create incredible energy - energy that is shared. We are creating change by just being alive.
That is why being without fear is so important. We
need not create a black and white film in our heads when in reality
we are creating color. We can make use of the tools that are already
available to us, and within us.
Recent de-stabilizing events in our financial and political spheres have drawn people's focus to the dysfunction of many of the systems that we once gave our trust to.
Even the focus on religious extremism in the media has drawn people's attention not only to the deficit of spiritual values in our major religions but also to how religion is being used as a tool for furthering social, political, and emotional control.
This trance-like grip on our collective consciousness is now being stripped away as people awaken to the knowing that there is so much more to our lives than that of a materialistic and consumer-based lifestyle.
Yet don't become frustrated if things don't happen tomorrow, but trust that changes and shifts are happening over time. The necessity of inner knowing, intuition, self-trust, and integrity, is now critical. And let us remember that humans are biased for compassion and empathy.
The awakening of our empathic mind is our natural
inheritance. References
The accelerating changes occurring across our planet right now will have no alternative but to force a mind-change on a global and individual level.
We are coming together as a global species like never before; despite what we have been shown and told by the mainstream media. We need to view this in both the immediate and the bigger picture.
Due to our relatively short human life span we rarely reflect beyond a generation or two in front of us. We have evolved as a species that reacts to immediate concerns. This served us well in the past when we had survival needs in a restricted world of limited horizons.
Yet now we need a perspective that is global at the
very least - and even possibly beyond!
A new perception of the dimensions of space and time began to birth a psychological consciousness - one that wanted to look beyond the borders and horizons of the physical frontier.
The 3rd Industrial Revolution, which is now emerging, will be a convergence of digital communications combined with a young generation that is more globally aware. This has the potential to catalyze upon this planet a rising empathic, integral consciousness. Also, our global communications will encourage new relations in our extended connectivity.
That is, increased multiple relations are likely to stimulate a connected, collaborative consciousness; rather than a consciousness of conflict and control.
A planetary citizenry is emerging that will exhibit
greater empathy, and which will create a different planetary society
within perhaps two generations. Humanity already contains the seeds
of these momentous potentials.
Externally we may seem like a vast, distant, and separate collection of individuals yet in truth the human family is an intimate, closely entwined species comprised of various cultures. Many of the younger generation now are waking up to this fact.
Youngsters the world over are growing up accustomed to having networks of hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of friends across the planet; sharing intimacy and empathizing easily with an international social group of like-minded souls.
This younger generation is manifesting, whether conscious of it or not, a non-local level of human relationships. This expanded connectivity is impacting and affecting a change in our psychology and consciousness.
We are now being impelled to live in ways that enable all other people to live as well. We are also being compelled to live in ways that respect the lives of others and that respect the right to the economic and cultural development of all people; and to pursue personal fulfillment in harmony with the integrity of nature.
These traits may constitute what I refer to as an integral-ecological consciousness: a person acting and behaving as both an individual and as a part of the greater connected whole. Such multiple relations form a more varied, rich and complex life; they also provide a more diverse range of impacts and opportunities to develop the self.
As well as providing challenges for developing new
skills and learning, our diverse networks can form new friendships
and add extra meaning to our lives.
Exposure to impacts outside of our own local and restrictive environments helps us to learn tolerance, and to live with experiences that are richer and more complex, full of ambiguities, and multiple perspectives. It is a mode of connecting that allows diverse people worldwide to construct a new form of planetary social capital. We have the resources to co-create a planetary human society where once again the focus is on social benefit rather than profit.
We can see many examples of this today, such as in online collaborative tools and both local and global projects. The online global community is a model for the new paradigm that illustrates how sharing can work above the individual motive for profit.
The values and ethics of communal sharing might seem
odd or out-of-place to the old capitalist-consumerist mindset, yet
these are the very values that will be on the rise within the coming
generations.
This new model is a distributed one; in other words, it connects people through networks rather than through hierarchical structures. It also represents a more feminine energy that seeks relationships, to nurture and to collaborate rather than compete and conquer. It is this emerging feminine energy that underlies the rise in global empathy.
Also, since people are connecting amongst themselves in multiple relations it impels them to have an active engagement.
For those individuals brought-up within the older
generation of communication technologies (radio, television, fixed
phones), the interaction was either two-way or, for the most part,
one way. In this era people were passive receivers, targeted by
information they could not engage with. This has now shifted so that
the receiver of the communication is both the user and the producer.
The younger generation is waking up quickly and learning how to set-up inexpensive, or free, radio sites (podcasts), home websites, newsletters, and are managing their own forms of self-expression. This new model is changing our thinking and behavior patterns.
We are now getting used to dealing with multiple connections rather than single ones; and to becoming immersed in diverse relations and not just one-on-one dialogues. We are also being exposed to a myriad of viewpoints, beliefs, identities, and experiences.
Within these new arrangements we are being asked to
respond and engage with the outside world not in fear or with
anxiety but with healthy, creative, and positive energies.
In this way, change will come through responding to new patterns and potentials.
With patience, tolerance, empathy, compassion, and
conscious communication we will see a different set of values
catalyzing change throughout our cultures of the world.
More and more young people are growing up experiencing social relations that transcend space and time, as well as cultures, national boundaries, and local ideologies. This may account for the increasing numbers of young people in developed nations becoming involved in community and social projects and NGOs; such as taking a year out to help in another culture abroad, to learn, experience, and to offer assistance.
Volunteering among the young, despite what appears to be the contrary, is on the increase.
Young people are even putting themselves into dangerous situations - in conflict zones - to stand up for values of peace, justice, equality, and human rights. Across the world young minds are demanding fair and equal access for all peoples to engage in open communication and free speech.
And it appears that many more creative minds will be
joining the global conversation as our current generation(s)
increasingly 'wake up'.
In other words, nearly 3 billion new minds will be tapping in to the information flows; and that's many millions of new creative problem solvers, innovators, and visionaries.
What is more, the majority of these new minds will be coming online from Asia, the Middle East, and what we refer to as the developing countries.
These will be mostly young minds; and minds with
necessities, with the urge for social betterment. Can we imagine the
collective potential of these creative new minds; many of them
thinking outside of the box, and outside of the old patterns?
However, when a society reaches the limits of its stability then social-cultural systems are sensitive and responsive to even the smallest fluctuations in the consciousness of its citizens. In such times, changes in values, belief sets, perceptions, etc, hold great sway over the future direction of the social situation.
Human consciousness becomes a significant stimulus and catalyst for change during these times of social instability. That is why it is imperative humanity be collectively focused upon positive development and betterment rather than to be coerced, or conditioned, into a fear-based security that resists change.
We should not underestimate the capacity for the
human mind to adapt and evolve according to social and environmental
impacts and influences.
We are also hard-wired to adapt physically in response to experience - new neural processes in our brains can come into being with intentional effort, awareness, and different patterns of concentration.
This capacity to create new neural connections, and thus new mental skill sets through experience, has been termed neuroplasticity.
The human brain of today has to respond to the
incredible amount of energy and information that is flowing through
our environments and embedded in our cultural experiences. By being
aware of our experiences and environmental impacts and influences we
can gain a better understanding of how our brain and thinking
becomes re-patterned.
Further, the ability to grow new neural connections is available throughout our lives and not only in our young formative years. This knowledge encourages us to nurture our mindfulness, our self-awareness, and our empathic relations with others. Neuroplasticity also encourages us to be more reflective over our human networks, and to develop those social skills that underlie empathy and compassion.
These new 'wired connections' are exactly what are
becoming activated as individuals increasingly 'wake up' to what is
happening within our communities, our societies, and upon the
planet. Such distributed connections breach cultural and national
borders and force us to self-reflect on our identity, values and
ethics.
This means that the responsibility is also here; and these two factors may never be present again at exactly the right moment when they are so badly needed. What the human species may now be witnessing during these years is the rise of intuition, empathy, greater connectivity to the world and to people, and a sense of 'knowing' what changes need to be made.
Furthermore, within each person is a growing sense of the greater cosmic whole: the realization that humanity exists and evolves within a universe of great intelligence and meaning.
This serves to impart within humanity a more profound
spiritual impulse. As a new global empathic mind emerges, people
worldwide will grow up with new expressions of mindfulness that are
more caring, relational, and compassionate. The 21st century is
likely to be the era that births and nurtures such an evolving
consciousness.
Younger people are reaching out across artificial borders to engage with the so-called 'enemy' and to start a new dialogue of peace and reconciliation.
Such minds realize that the conflict mentality has no future, and will be left behind if it cannot accept change. Whereas many of the old programmed minds thought that a future meant putting up borders, and viewing the 'others' with suspicious eyes; many of the young minds see differently. We can see this in youth movements worldwide as there is change emerging in the mindset of young people everywhere.
This is especially so in Middle Eastern territories where restrictive regimes are now encountering rising youthful demographics who are not accepting the old mentalities and old ways. All young people want what everybody wants - peace, justice, equality, freedom, etc.
There is a new spring in the step of young, tech-savvy, energetic minds that are by-passing the old models. In these years ahead - at least for the next two decades - we will increasingly see the signs of the changing of the old guard (the dinosaurs!). And this time they will not be replaced by those with the same consciousness.
With generational change we will see the gradual
transition to an era of individuals who think differently, feel
differently, connect differently, and who will want to work toward a
different world.
This new narrative is part of humanity's evolving empathic mind and which compels us to seek greater connectivity and meaning in our lives.
This most recent human story is one where we create
the story of the future.
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