IF WE are to flourish, and even to survive, on this planet the consciousness of the dominant segment of humanity must change. If it fails to do so, the next big bang will be our last. A global transformation is a risky process: if it is to culminate in a breakthrough rather than lead to a breakdown, it has to be guided.
A good way of guiding the fourth big bang on the horizon is to motivate people to listen to, and heed, the message of their spiritual experiences. This helps them to reconnect to The Source. When a critical mass reconnects, the rest may follow. This is more than a pious hope. Crisis catalyzes transformation, and in the crisis of a transformation, the intrinsic holotropism of our consciousness can rise to the fore.
We need to begin the guidance of our evolution by following Gandhi’s advice: Don’t tell others what to do; become yourself what you want them to become. Become the transformation we need in the world. The call is to become the transformation to our own true self: to regain our nature-encoded wisdom. We need to become an expression of mature and healthy life in the universe.
The hero myth of ancient Greece needs to be updated. We don’t want lone heroes projecting strident individualism; this role model has exhausted its utility. The time has come for the collective hero, as we find for example in the mythology of the Ubuntu. Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey” needs to motivate the evolution of humanity’s consciousness. Then our individual consciousness could transform into a species-consciousness.
If a critical mass regains its natural holotropism, the “fourth big bang” will not mark the end of human life, and perhaps of all life on the planet. It will still be a disruptive global transformation, but not a destructive one.
The lesson for Homo sapiens, a species with a highly but as yet not adequately evolved consciousness, is evident. We need to reconnect to The Source and regain our natural inclination to live in accordance with the “in-formation” that shapes and orients the universe. We need to become the empathetic, unconditionally loving beings that in our heart we already are. This is more than a felicitous option: it is a precondition of our continued existence on earth.
To put it in plain language: We need to change. We can change, and we can change in the right way because the change we need is to change into what we deep down already are.
The way forward is open. The task is clear. Wake up and become the change we need. The future of a remarkable species on a precious planet is in your hands.