It's What We Do

I used to joke, "Everyone's waiting for Jesus or the aliens to save us." 

It's not much of a joke, these days. I'm observing expanding and deepening efforts to prepare humanity for its integration into the galactic family. These days, anyone with an eye out for them finds it all obvious. At least through US media, anyway. I expect other cultures are less in denial about the situation to begin with. "The situation" being the ET's have been around for longer than humanity. We're the new kids to the neighborhood, if you're into the time thing.

If it isn't Jesus or aliens, what shared experience will bring humanity to its next plateau of consciousness? And how shall we receive it?  

​If you've never seen an elephant, a thousand people could talk for hours about an elephant and you still won't really believe it as deeply as you do spending one minute in the presence of an elephant. You'll probably forget most of what everyone said, and never forget the first time you were with an elephant. And so it goes.

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Layers

So maybe something yet unseen will free our minds - we won't believe it until we see it. Yet the collective still seems to wait for someone special to make us see it. Instead of learning how to open our minds so we can see.

It's easy to imagine reality's layers as a kind of "hierarchy of greatness." Big people = Better people. That's a very American thing, but forms of hero-worship have been around from the moment the first person idealized another. And we want to be like our heroes, so we want to be Big. Important. Consequential. As if these concepts correlate. 

This highly individualistic perspective lacks appreciation for the genius of ecosystems. The good news is, once you challenge someone to see ecosystems, they quickly adapt to that entirely different appreciation for reality. Layers and layers of nested ecosystems.

Moving from one model to the other first feels like moving from Potential Greatness to Inescapable Smallness. You - the individual of any scale - will never be absolutely important. Particularly important? Undeniably. But not absolutely, with a profundity establishing your hierarchical value to all. The biggest shark in the ocean is nigh irrelevant to anyone on land. The most powerful land organism is a speck to those  traveling outer space. The most powerful space travelers are like fish in a tank to those  traversing dimensions. On and on. 

It will be challenging for the egos.

Which is why ignorance doesn't evolve, it's replaced. New eras of thought are often preceded by calamity, such as plague, war, natural catastrophe. Bad ideas fade in the rapids. New ideas ferry new experiences over new circumstances, elevating consciousness. The soil turns over for a new crop. The next, previously unimagined, collective vision. And so it goes.

New Eras

I remember hearing from a woman who'd survived a Nazi concentration camp. Everyone's feeling like dogs in a kill-shelter waiting for death. A number of the prisoners began to drop all the fear and hate, and just started appreciating the sunrises and sunsets. The wildflowers. A gentle touch of a breeze, the call of a bird, the warmth of a smile.

Oh, I'm not foreshadowing - there's enough of that going on. No, the point is that our perspective can be shifted no matter how dire the situation appears. If we're willing. Even when our reality is dying.

Prior turns of the soil brought relatively basic, small-scale versions of reality. The changes of a nation conquered, for example, do not compare with the changes in consciousness required to grasp Infinite Mind. Okay, now I'm foreshadowing.

This isn't a simple change in language or religious symbolism. We're on the cusp of completely rewriting existence itself. From linear I-consciousness to nonlinear We-consciousness. By analogy, we're about to move straight from a human's first marks in clay to artificial intelligence. Overnight. From the catapult to a moon base. The end of all imagined economic systems. All at once. I wonder if revolutions always feel this way. 

These days, "The ET's are coming!" is hardly the heralding shout humanity needs to prepare and survive. "Open Your Heart and Mind to the universe's diverse ecosystem!" isn't as catchy, I suppose. And it's merely the first tiny step. 

So in these darkening hours, I'm gonna enjoy the way sunsets bathe our garden in beautiful golden light. I'll savor every moment with my partner and friends. I can choose peace, joy, play, and connection. Carry light forward into the new era.

This what I do when this is what we do.

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