TBH - You are in a unique position after dedicating 40 years of intense work and focus to understanding and assisting human evolution. From your perspective, how are we doing?
Barbara - My basic metaphor of our crisis is birth. I saw that 40 years ago. What's happened in this metaphor is that the crisis has matured; the crisis has advanced in the sense that now it's more obvious what isn't working. With global warming, with the failure of war to win anything, with the failure of many forms of our civilization, it's more obvious what’s breaking down.
From the point of view of the crisis as a birth, we’re getting closer and closer to what that birth might be. The crisis is accelerating. The breakdowns are accelerating, and the emergent capacities and the emergent consciousness is accelerating very fast as well. Will there be sufficient global awakening before the collapse becomes totally chaotic? I believe that it is out of this chaos that something new can emerge. The new is emerging, and I think it needs only one more degree of connectivity and self-awareness as a whole for us to be able to experience a jump in consciousness collectively. So I actually think things are going very well and the timing is very close and very precise for the collective awakening.
TBH – If I hear you correctly, you’re saying that the worse it looks, the closer we are. That in some respects the same breakdowns and indicators that fundamentalist Christians might see as hallmarks of the literal Second Coming of Christ are the same hallmarks of global transformation – a different kind of second coming if you will.
Barbara – That’s avery interesting way to put it. It is the end of a world as we've known it because our society is not sustainable - a very different reason than fundamental Christians might use. But it's really true we cannot keep on populating, polluting and growing economically in this closed system. If you take the birth metaphor, it's deadly after a certain point for that baby to stay in the womb - it will kill the baby and the mother. Just so it will destroy us to stay in the womb of self-consciousness.
Awakening is on many, many levels. But for conscious evolution there are three specific levels. The first is spiritual and I think of that level as the awakening from within millions of us of a more direct experience with spirit; a more direct experience of life purpose; a more direct experience of expanded consciousness.
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