Introduction
1. As was evidenced by the 2012 hype.
2. See New Revolutions for a Small Planet and New Consciousness for a New World.
3. See my previous books, Breaking the Spell and The Struggle For Your Mind.
Chapter 1
1. The growth of complex systems can lead to a fragile breaking point. In this context overshoot occurs when the long-term carrying capacity of the environment is exceeded, and a tipping-point (or die-off) is triggered.
Chapter 2
1. William Irwin Thompson, Passages About Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture. New York: Harper & Row, 1974, pp. 119–20.
2. Richard Tarnas, ‘Is the Modern Psyche Under going a Rite of Passage?’, 2001, www.cosmosandpsyche.com/Essays.php.
3. Richard Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age. Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1990, p. 116.
4. Idries Shah, Special Illumination. London: Octagon Press, 1977, p. 43.
Chapter 3
1. Tarnas, ‘Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?’, p. 19.
2. Integral consciousness refers to the consciousness structures described by Jean Gebser, and refers to a new relation ship to space and time and an awareness of the whole.
Chapter 4
1. P M H Atwater, Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World. Rochester, VT: Bear & Co., 2005.
2. Ibid.
3. Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: The Psychology of Social Development. Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Light Publications, 1999 [1950], p. 71.
4. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul. Point Reyes, CA: Golden Sufi Center, 2009, p. 25.
Chapter 5
1. See Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1907, in English 1911); Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution (1926); and Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (1929).
2. See www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html.
3. For more on these youth innovators, see http://mashable.com/2013/03/03/youth-innovators.
4. J Chilton Pearce, Evolution’s End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
5. D Siegel, Mindsight: Transform your Brain with the New Science of Kindness, Oneworld Publications, 2010, p. 42.
6. See www.generationwakingup.org.
7. For event schedules see http://genup.net.
8. Quote sourced from Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. New York: Prentice Hall, 1975.
Chapter 6
1. Ervin László and Kingsley Dennis, Dawn of the Akashic Age: New Consciousness, Quantum Resonance, and the Future of the World. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2013.
2. Man-Wan Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms. Singapore: World Scientific, 1998.
3. F-A Popp, K H Li, W P Mei, M Galle and R Neurohr, ‘Physical Aspects of Biophotons’, Experientia, 1988, 44, pp. 576–85.
4. R O Becker, The Body Electric, 1998, William Morrow.
5. Siegel, Mindsight.
6. Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters. London: Hay House, 2013.
7. Cited in T Pfeiffer and J Mack (eds), Mind Before Matter: Visions of a New Science of Consciousness. Winchester: O Books, 2007, pp. 78–9.
8. In personal conversation with colleague Frithjoff Bergmann.
9. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC) is a Colombian Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict since 1964 (Wikipedia).
10. See Paul Mason’s, Why It’s STILL Kicking Off Every where: The New Global Revolutions. London: Verso, 2013.
11. See www.energeticxchange.com.
12. See a video of this conversation between George Kaponay and Lugas, www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_ueiSci_nY&feature=player_embedded.
Chapter 7
1. Taken from James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. New York: Abacus, 2005.
2. Taken from Harrison Owen, Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2008.
3. R D Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth & Trust. Berkeley, CA: Evolver Editions, 2012.
4. From Robert Frost, ‘The Road Not Taken’.
5. R Willis, M Webb and J Wilsdon, The Disrupters: Lessons for Low-Carbon Innovation from the New Wave of Environmental Pioneers. London: Nesta, 2007.
6. Edward De Bono, New Thinking for the New Millennium. London: Penguin, 2000, p. 279.
7. See http://laptop.org/en.
8. J Rifkin, The Third Industrial Revolution. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 252.
9. Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
10. László and Dennis, Dawn of the Akashic Age.
11. Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: The Psychology of Social Development. Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Light Publications, 1999 [1950], p. 263.
Chapter 8
1. Darold A. Treffert, Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome.
2. P M H Atwater, The New Children and Near-Death Experiences. Rochester, VT: Bear & Co., 2003.
3. Atwater, p. 35.
4. The names of these individuals have been changed to protect their identities.
5. Atwater, p. 161.
6. Atwater, p. 95.
7. Kenneth Ring, The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
8. Margot Grey, Return From Death: An Exploration of the Near-Death Experience. London: Arkana, 1986.
9. Atwater, Beyond the Indigo Children.
10. Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, The Indigo Children 10 Years Later. London: Hay House, 2009.
11. Carroll & Tober, p. ix.
12. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5Sc3vWefE.
13. See my earlier book The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution & The Battle to Control How We Think.
Chapter 9
1. This limitation is due to the fact that humans, as bipedals, have a narrow birth canal.
2. Also see Rupert Sheldrake’s ‘Morphic resonance/fields’ hypothesis as outlined in A New Science of Life (new edition titled Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation).
3. Man-Wan Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms. Singapore: World Scientific, 1998.
4. ‘In electromagnetism and electronics, inductance is the property of a conductor by which a change in current in the conductor “induces” (creates) a voltage (electromotive force) in both the conductor itself (self-inductance) and in any nearby conductors (mutual inductance)’ – Wikipedia.
5. See my earlier book The Struggle for Your Mind.
6. Idries Shah, The Sufis. London: Octagon, 1982, p. 54.
7. Taken from Rumi’s Mathnawi.
8. R Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. London: Olympia Press, 1972 [1901].
9. Gopi Krishna, Higher Consciousness and Kundalini. Ontario, Canada: F.I.N.D. Research Trust, 1993, p. 166.
10. S E Gulbekian, In the Belly of the Beast: Holding Your Own in Mass Culture. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2004, p. 251.
11. New Consciousness for a New World. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011.
12. M Blank and R Goodman, ‘Do Electromagnetic Fields Interact Directly with DNA?’, Bioelectromagnetics, 18, 1997, pp. 111–15.
13. J Narby, Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. London: Phoenix, 1999.
14. The process whereby two oscillating systems come into synchronization and share a common frequency.
15. For example the work of Paramahansa Yogananda.
16. K Carey, The Starseed Transmissions. New York: HarperCollins, 1995 [1982], p. 47.
17. Carey, p. 41.
18. See http://noosphere.princeton.edu.
19. Jalal ad-Din Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks), ‘Two Kinds of Intelligence’, Mathnawi IV: 1960–1968.
Chapter 10
1. Satprem, Evolution II. Paris: Institut des Recherches Evolutives, 1995, p. 95.
2. See Wikipedia, ‘Punctuated equilibrium’.
3. Literally, as evidence shows there are correlations between solar activity and evolutionary processes: see Dieter Broers, Solar Revolution: Why Mankind Is on the Cusp of an Evolutionary Leap. Berkeley, CA: Evolver Editions, 2012.
4. Jose Arguelles, Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness. Berkeley, CA: Evolver Editions, 2011, cited on p. 27.
5. László and Dennis, Dawn of the Akashic Age.
6. From William Shakespeare’s As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII).
7. Jacky Law, Big Pharma: How the World’s Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness. London: Robinson Publishing, 2006; Ben Goldacre, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. London: Fourth Estate, 2012.
8. Larry Dossey, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
9. Dossey, p. 115.
10. Adam, Complete Dreamhealer. London: Piatkus, 2009, p. 174.
11. Adam, Complete Dreamhealer.
Chapter 11
1. This is known as cymatics – see Wikipedia, ‘Cymatics’.
2. Cited in Pfeiffer and Mack, Mind Before Matter, p. 96.
3. Estimates of the number of major mass extinctions in the last 540 million years range from as few as five to more than twenty (wikipedia.org ‘Extinction event’).
4. Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose To Live Inside. London: HarperCollins, 1987, p. 6.
5. See Wikipedia, ‘Panspermia’.
6. Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
7. Ervin László, The Self-Actualizing Cosmos: The Akasha Revolution in Science. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2014.
8. Ernest Scott, The People of the Secret. London: Octagon Press, 1985, p. 237.
9. R Strassman et al., Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2008, p. 80.
10. John E Mack, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation & Alien Encounters, New York, Crown Publishers, 1999, p. 218.
11. Mack, p. 136.
12. Mack, p. 61.
13. Interestingly, one of the experiencers was shown a vision of a phoenix which, for him, symbolized ‘the species of aliens from all parts of the galaxy and perhaps other dimensions’. This same experiencer further remarked that the phoenix symbol is ‘so deep, it is universal in nature’ – this information was unknown to me when I developed the concept of the Phoenix Generation and decided upon the title of this book.
14. Mack, p. 78.
15. Krishna, Higher Consciousness and Kundalini, p. 197.
16. A reference to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A Abbott about a two-dimensional world, referred to as ‘Flatland’, which is occupied by geometric figures.
17. Ken Carey, The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric World, New York, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 94.
18. Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes. New York: HarperCollins, 1988, p. 169.
Epilogue
1. Satprem, On the Way to Supermanhood. Mysore, India: Mira Aditi, 2002 [1974], pp. 83–4.