Human evolution
From Elfi
What is the Shift, and where is it taking us?
QandAngel for HLF group, by Angel (September 12, 2009)
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What is causing the Shift?
There are many pieces involved in the cause. It’s immensely complicated or very simple, like most amazing experiences. It is a bit like puberty for the human species and thus for the world they are part of.
Humans have several minds according to science. The lowest is the physical; it sits at the base of the spine. It controls very simple things like your knee jerking when someone taps it. The next sits at the base of the skull and is often called the lizard brain. It controls breathing and autonomous functions. The next is wrapped around the snake brain and it's often called the monkey brain. It controls emotions, tribal behaviour, parenting and child-rearing, and other instinctual behaviours and attitudes. Finally, there is the fore-brain. It is here that logic, morality, and other "higher level" functions occur.
There is a story taught in brain science courses of a man in the 1800s, a deacon and church goer, very moral type. He was working on building a railroad and something blew up, sending an iron spike through his head. He lived. The spike went through the fore brain only. When he recovered, he was basically the same, but he began to gamble, fight, womanise, cheat at everything.... Those are what the fore-brain manages.
Humans as a species have evolved through many levels. There was a time when they only had the most primitive brain. And then, as each higher level brain began to develop, it offered them a lot more skills, and a lot of confusion. Imagine a big reptile beginning to handle emotions for the first time! Imagine a monkey wondering, for the first time, "Why am I here?" or "Is this all there is?"
The observant will notice that we are still in the last stage. The fore-brain came online recently from a phylogenetic perspective and humans are still adapting. Herein is the answer to the first: "What is causing the shift?" Humanity is moving to the next level of brain functioning.
The cause of the shift is the inevitable evolution of the species, and thus of the world. It is important to note, since you have probably rarely heard it, that Humans are VERY important to the Earth herself. A lot of angry, insecure, well-meaning folks declare humans to be a plague on the planet, like fleas on a dog. They are not. Earth is inert rock when you strip away the life from her. An inert rock thinks slowly and experiences little. Through the winds and waters she experiences more. Through the animals and their senses and passion, even more. But only through humans does she begin to be able to think. There is a world-mind (the mind of Gaia) awakening. That mind requires flesh to play the game. And much of that flesh is human. That is, as enough Humans begin to think clearly, to link to one another with their minds, and to link again with the earth and all her creations, their minds become accessible by her. She begins to be able to think through them.
In the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, humans moved from the monkey mind to the fore-brain. In the process, they lost their sense of the flow of life, the inner energies of the earth, the wisdom of the waters, the plants, trees and animals. In moving from the fore brain processing to the next level, they are regaining those lost pieces.
Where do these new energies come from?
Is that about energetic source? Or design? Is that physics or theology? All energies come from one source, though they are channeled down many paths. Suffice to say that they are here now.
Is there a reason it is happening now specifically?
Yes. Oh. You mean you want to know that reason? Ok.
There are a lot of pieces involved. Humanity had to reach a certain population density. They had to evolve to a certain point biologically. They had to reach a certain level of information processing capability. There had to be a certain level of awareness... All of these things are happening now. As well, there are cycles. Every 2200 and some years, a new peak hits and things change. Every 26000, a new "galactic year" begins. We are at the end of both of those cycles. Some sources say we are at the end of a 100,000 plus year age. And at least one source I've read claims we are at the end of a 3 million year cycle. All of those pieces are lining up right now, and so it had to be now. If humanity had missed the other conditions, The Shift would probably still have happened, but Humans may not have survived it. Or at least it may have been much more catastrophic.
Have y'all seen the huge number of disaster movies and books lately? The seeming infatuation with global self-destruction? The meta- among us sense (at a deep level) how close we came to global cataclysm. Now that all of these pieces are coming together, and thanks to the great works and often great sufferings of the fore-runners among us, the Shift is happening on schedule and it is able to happen smoothly, easily, gently, and beautifully.
Where is the Shift taking us?
In 2250 years, more or less, the next great age will begin. At that point, everyone will be born empathic, telepathic, able to sense the future, and so on. The ones who cannot do those things will be as rare as those who are born blind today. When that age comes around, humanity will have left behind its greed, its hatred and fear, its bigotry, ... all of the pieces that have so defined the last 10k years of world history and which so dominate it today. It will be the beginning of, not just a golden age, but of a whole new level of human. They will look similar to current humans, but be as different within as current humans are from rabbits. From that point, where is the shift taking us? That remains to be seen. Having changed that much, humans may choose many paths onward. Getting to that point 2000+ years from here is also uncertain. The outcome is pretty fixed, but there is much that we can do to change the path to that outcome.
Long and short humans are evolving. They have been in a transition state for a quarter million years or more, cut off from the Earth and her awareness. They are returning to it, and thus to a stable state. It will take some time to grow into these new abilities and even longer to move forward from there, but they will manage. Humans are waking up. They are becoming whatever is next. And like all great moments in evolution it does not happen slowly or gently. It is a beautiful example of a punctuated equilibrium, of sudden and dramatic (explosive) growth. It's an interesting time to be alive.
See also: Becoming_Human
