by Robert Wilkinson
We have been living on the cutting edge of human evolution for about 3 years. While many have forgotten the event, in fact the December Solstice of 2012 and the end of that version of the Mayan Calendar marked a radical leap in our ability to know more than we used to, and we’ve all been learning how to navigate these new waters since then.
Though it takes a wider perspective to understand all that’s happening, we are in fact in the bridge zone between where the end of our current Age overlaps with the beginning of the New Age. The problem is how to understand the challenges and meaning for all that we’re going through at this time.
Late 2012 and early 2013 marked the mid-point of the “Winter of the 21st Century” that I’ve written about in many other articles in the archives. This is important, since we’ve been leaving the harshest period behind during the years snce then, and finding our way to the new “Spring of the 21st Century” that's coming these next 10 years.
December 2012 was extraordinarily important since all of humanity stepped through a perceptual door, and now have an enhanced way of “knowing.” For centuries we’ve relied mainly on our thinking and logic centers to “know” whatever we’ve been trying to understand. In late 2012, we all moved through a portal, and now have enhanced ways of knowing through our feelings as well as our minds. This is a huge evolutionary leap!
A few years ago, I introduced a lot of material in two articles which address our evolutionary crisis. Today we re-examine some of those core principles, with more added.
There's a great deal of glamor, illusion, and Maya surrounding our current transitional period, with lots of rumors and speculation. Regardless of our current belief systems, there is a greater evolutionary reality going on that's beyond our perceptual interpretations conditioned by our limitations.
So today we're going to re-examine the nature of time, perception, and how our minds work. By understanding how these work, we can keep some things in mind as we move through experience and adapt to what is, and what's coming.
Time is a funny thing. It is a one-way street, and is the means by which we measure movement in perceptual experience through the 3 denser dimensions. Time is also infinitely fluid, and as such has no beginning or end.
An odometer is a good metaphor for how we have come to measure space and time as functions of each other's movement. Rolling ever forward, every end is followed naturally by a new beginning showing the next phase of an unending process. If the dimension of time is never-ending, then though calendars end, consciousness is forever.
Humanity, barely understanding a few of the principles of the 3 dense dimensions of human reality, usually does make stuff up to explain time and how it relates to experience. Mostly these are attempts to find metaphors to classify what hasn't been confirmed within conventional means.
I believe that's why a lot of what is asserted these days does seem disconnected, or weaves together highly speculative assertions that require us to accept a lot on faith. The human imagination does wonderful things to cover up holes in its incomplete understanding.
While I'm big on faith when it is needed, it has no place in any serious study where thorough scholarship is needed. Devotion is good, but it's an entirely different field of energy than Knowledge. It's somewhat like trying to use cooked spaghetti to hammer a nail. Both are perfectly fine in their respective realms, but ultimately have different purposes, methods, and outcomes.
In an article I gave you 4 years ago, I offered that many sites were speculating about the current and coming transitions, and tried to tie them to the Mayan calendar, the Great Pyramid timeline, the prophesies of Nostradamus or the Book of Revelations. At the time I offered that most of these prophesies required us to assume quite a few things, some plausible, some wildly implausible. Much of it seemed like a game of "Telephone," where each successive retelling becomes more and more elaborate, usually for the purpose of convincing people to suspend reason and join, surrender, or repent something.
All interpretations of prophesies make assumptions. We all make assumptions. That includes you and me, as well as the Mayan, Nostradamus, and Pyramid timeline scholars.
I’ve noted over the years that all groups studying anything, including the fields of art, science, philosophy and religions, make assumptions. We can extend this to all societies and cultures, since humanity has been trying to classify reality and experience since its infancy 3 million years ago.
Even when certain assumptions are "proved true," they are usually within local conditions and may not be an absolute. For example, we assume gravity to affect everything that has mass and density. However, countless Eastern Yogis have demonstrated that sometimes gravity does not affect the human body when certain levels of consciousness are achieved.
In terms of the larger "paradigm shift," right now, due to a lack of true scholarship in the field of metaphysics and the Ageless Wisdom accumulated through many civilizations over millennia, collectively we are somewhat like the proverbial 7 blind men trying to describe the elephant. So many see the parts and assume them to be the whole, or that somehow the trunk is "more important" than the leg. Mostly people have fallen under the delusion that forms have permanence and that getting attached to those forms is sustainable.
We do have an accumulation of wisdom of the ages available if we research it. Then we can relate the many derived, more recent local forms of that knowledge to the source material. There's a lot of speculation about the New Era, but most newer "experts" on the subject never studied the older larger and smaller eras preceding this one to get context or a sense of the continuity of what each successive Age represented in terms of the spiritual evolution of humanity.
One must study to know, know to understand, and understand to judge. Critical thinking skills are essential if we are to transcend superstitions and half-truths based in limitations of perception. Replacing obsolete “belief versus doubt” views with critical thinking leading to synthesized overviews will be the hallmark of the emerging Age.
This all serves the evolution of the race across larger sweeps of time. Each successive sub-race within the larger Root Race contributes to a new understanding of "God," which serves the needs of that space-time continuum. This requires new metaphors, new approaches, new ways of regarding what IS, since we cannot put new wine in old wineskins lest they split. However, evolution is a continuity and usually builds upon itself, with occasional mutations.
I tend to doubt the veracity of new material when it tries to negate the established spiritual principles of accumulated human wisdom. Legitimate newer forms of understanding never negate the sum total of the accumulated Truth, Love, Wisdom, and Intelligence of the larger evolutionary trajectory.
All new forms of understanding appropriate to the new era will add to the total understanding of All-That-Is, and all legitimate approaches offer hope for the inherent freedom of the Soul to come forth. Evolution is inherently inclusive and liberating.
In part 2 we'll continue exploring the nature of the Soul, false dualities that lead us into confusion, the problem of fear-based thinking, New Age cheerleading, Root Races and sub-races, and what we've been told by oracles past about 2012 and the nature of the coming Aquarian Age.
© Copyright 2008, 2016 Robert Wilkinson
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