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How You Can Awaken Your Spirit

and Your Connection to Others

The End
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  4 2012: A Time Odyssey
by Sharron Rose

Contents
8 Suns of God: The Orion Revelation
John Jay Harper

12 A Vision for Getting to 2012

John L. Petersen
As we approach the end of the 5,125-year Long Count Calendar of the Classic
Maya, there is increasing fascination with the brilliant culture of this lost 18 The Age of Uncertainty
civilization and the mysterious transition they predicted. Does the completion
Daniel Pinchbeck
of the 13th baktun presage a doomsday event as Hollywood chose to project? Will
we undergo a rapid transformation of global society in response to ecological
catastrophe? Could there be a shift into another "dimension" of psychic awareness?
The thinkers we have collected in the first of our occasional Transmissions offer
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varied perspectives on 2012, which is quickly becoming an iconic symbol for the from the virtual offices of Reality Sandwich www.realitysandwich.com by Michael Robinson
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A Time
Odyssey
By S harro n Ro se
 Jose Arguelles calls it “the climax of matter,” Jean Houston refers to it veil of delusion. Lost in the media haze of spin, bogus reporting, destiny or will we wither away like the dinosaurs? Faced with these
as “jump time,” and Ray Kurzweil names it “the approaching singularity.” and talking points, which reduce deep issues that affect our future to essential questions, what can we do?
Each person who studies this phenomenon calls it by a different name, or mere sound bites, it has become more and more difficult to discern the I believe that the answer is to free our minds; wake up from the
uses different terms to describe it, but they are all speaking of the same false from the true. The prevailing forces of the modern world have trance. And how can we do this? By shifting our focus inward, realigning
idea—that human experience is reaching some kind of ultimate point. brought us to a state where we are out of balance, out of tune. The ourselves with the highest spiritual values. If we look inward, truly align
Significantly, many prophecies from ancient traditions around the question is how did this come about? with spirit, perceive and strip away the conditioned actions and karmic
world have also pointed to this time period as a time of great upheaval Jose Arguelles speaks eloquently of this misalignment resulting from traces that have led to the fear-based nightmare of the current
and change, perhaps the most important in human history. The Mayans the shift from the Lunar calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The “manufactured reality” the veil that obscures our true vision will dissolve.
of Mexico marked this time with their famous calendar; the alchemists of previous calendar, based on Lunar cycles— as opposed to our It is time to become the heroes and heroines of our dreams, to move
Europe built the Cross of Hendaye to describe it; the Quero Indians of current calendar which is based on solar cycles—was attuned to beyond fear and transmute its fundamental energy into right action. With
Peru call it the PachaKuti; and the ancient Egyptians referred to it as the a different vibration, one of harmony with the rhythms and every thought we are effecting the shape of the future, with every action
Zep Tepi or The First Time. In the Indo-Tibetan tradition it is equated cycles of nature. The transition from Lunar time to Solar we are creating angels or demons.
with the final throes of the Kali Yuga, the Age of Iron. Each of these time was also a transition from cyclic time to linear time. It is said that as we move to the end point of the cycle, whether it be
traditions tells us that a great transformative moment is at hand, a mo- As the Lunar time period waned, our right-brain feminine- the end of the world or the end of a life, time speeds up until there is no
ment in which we have the opportunity to release old patterns and re-link based qualities of creativity, art and beauty were repressed time, only the moment. In this extraordinary moment of reintegration,
ourselves with the essential rhythms and harmonies of the universe. and the left-brain tendencies of order, efficiency and the psychic knots that bind us unwind, and the karmic veils are lifted. In
In all of these prophecies this shift is not just limited to historical tan- logic became the dominant force. With industrialization, that moment we can see with true clarity the pure essence of our being;
gibles— globalization, the internet, global warming and the destruction of the solar-based calendars took a firm grip on us and we we come face to face with our eternal nature. Time dissolves into space
the environment—but is deeply embedded in almost all of the great spiri- became bound by time, locked into mechanical rhythms, and all things appear in the perfect simultaneity of the state of pure im-
tual traditions of humanity. According to these traditions this approaching habitual patterns of thought and motion. We have become a mediate present. This is the moment of true awakening; it is the still point
singularity will be the most profound event in history; everything that we society of slaves to the clock and to the machines that appeared to offer between the thoughts, the pause between the in breath and the out breath.
know, everything that we are, is about to undergo a radical change. us freedom, but at what cost? Today we are isolated from nature and each It is time to dream a new dream for humanity, move beyond the
It might be said that right now there is a great slumber across the land, other, a society of consumers. In our greed, we have not only gobbled up confines of linear time. What is going on right now on planet earth is that
Alberto Villoldo refers to it as a cultural trance, Jose Arguelles, a dream- the resources of the past, but we are devouring the future as well. a new level of consciousness is emerging. The Quero of Peru say that
spell, Riane Eisler calls it “the dominator trance” or the last gasp of the Think about it. The twentieth century with all of its invention, wars, that there has been a tear in the fabric of time itself, a window into the
patriarchy. It is as if a “glamour” has been cast over our collective eyes, a and change was brought to us by the power of one single substance— future through which a new species will emerge. The Brahma Kumaris, a
oil. Over the course of the last one hundred years, during this Age of spiritual group from North India, tell us that we have already moved from
Oil, we have used up millions of years of compacted light created by the darkness of the Iron Age to a new age of consciousness called the
Everything that we the bones and residue of the plants and animals that once occupied Diamond Age. With this shift of consciousness, we are all becoming
know, everything th painfully aware of how much work there is left to do.
at we are,
this planet. On a metaphysical level that means our very environ-
is about to undergo ment is suffused with the ka or psychic residue of these living The great spiritual teachers tell us that the chaos of the modern
a radical change. beings from the past. Is the Age of Oil an outer manifestation of
the karmic traces, seeds of destruction left from the inhabitants of
age is merely part of the natural order, that out of this chaos, a new age
of harmony and grace will emerge. Many of us are moving beyond this
a former age? It certainly appears so. phase in the cycle, realigning ourselves with spirit and feeling the great call
Now that the Age of Oil is coming to an end we will to the light. We are planting the seeds for the world to come.
all face enormous difficulties, but instead of planning for these If we are willing to break free of the cultural trance, let go of the
eventualities, our corporations, leaders and politicians are ignoring materialist, ego-based mindset and live a more simple and harmonious life
their responsibilities and are using up the world at an even faster in balance with the Earth we will probably survive. If we don’t begin
rate than before. to change now we may not make it.
The world, our environment and our future appear to have I once heard Terence McKenna say, “We must act as if the
become a gigantic closeout sale—where everything must go. apocalypse has already occurred.” At the time I didn’t understand what
Just take a look around. It seems that everything is up for grabs. he meant, but I think I do now. What Terence was saying is that we must
Anything can happen. The real question that lies before us is this: will begin to live in the future—right now. We must act as if the corporate,
the human race survive this process? Will we continue to fall for the materialist-based culture has already withered away and we are living in
seduction of materialism, war and domination or open our eyes and a future of our own creation.
live consciously? Will we finally achieve our potential and manifest our
There is no more hopeful situation imaginable.

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Suns
John Jay Harper

of God
The
Orion Revelation
 y are an
“Man is the Measure “The wo rk in gs o f th e h u m an b o d

of all Things.” { Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 - 1519) } analogy for th e w o rk in gs o f th e u n iverse.”

{ Protagoras of Abdera
(c .480-410 B.C.) }
Ancients saw how species are seeded and mutated by starbursts, Perhaps, that is the greatest insights of so-called pagan cultures; they
Once upon a time in the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy, crea- One of these pioneers, Alice Bailey, reported: “In the secret of the supernova explosions, solar flares, and Coronal Mass Ejections, or saw space is alive, conscious, with the ebb and flow of subtle solar radia-
tures calling themselves homo sapiens, a Latin term meaning “wise or Sun Sirius are hidden the facts of our cosmic evolution, and inciden- CMEs, as well as advanced civilizations. They saw cross-breeding be- tion energy pulsations permeating everything forever. There isn’t anything
knowing man,” lived in one of its smaller solar systems on a very small tally, therefore, of our solar system. The Sirius System is always beam- tween gods and men potentially helped evolve new cosmic creatures in new under the Sun other than a cosmic recycling program of celestial
planet they nicknamed “dirt” or Earth. Ironically, they were not wise, ing helpful rays to the poor people of Earth who wallow in appalling an infinite loop of creation, destruction, and recreation: the life, death, beings through a mixing and matching of star systems within galaxies.
knowing -- or unique. They had simply forgotten their birth origins ignorance, violence, and oppression.” and rebirth cycle of Suns of God. Pyramids are The Word of God written in Stars and Stone
and destiny as celestial beings of the Orion Nebula, the birthplace of Suddenly the musings of mystics, shamans, and prophets of every This was hinted in the Holy Bible that such was the case as in Distinguished writer Adrian Gilbert, stated this much in his book
stars, the Suns of God on Earth. culture made more sense, fit a pattern mirrored by stone structures at Genesis 6:4: “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny: “By building a gigantic scale model of
So over the course of centuries, as they gazed into the night sky sacred sites worldwide; in particular Asia, Egypt, Mexico, England as well after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, Heaven on Earth, they were establishing a psychic link to the stars of
sitting around campfires yearning for clues, a sign from on high, they as the Hopi Nation in North America and Inca Empire in South America. and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which Orion/Osiris. Then, by carrying out certain funerary rituals, such as
told each other creation stories, myths, and performed acts, rituals, to Egyptologist Wallis Budge, and others, linked the stars in Sirius, were of old, men of renown.” the ‘Opening of the Mouth’ and ‘Weighing of the Heart,’ within the
explain why they were in this predicament. Orion, and Pleiades with emitting spiritual rays of light that “vivify Now scientists agree: we are Star Children: “In a very real sense,” confines of the pyramids, they could assist the pharaoh’s soul in its
Some religionists said they sinned against a god, in one form gods, men, cattle, and creeping things ... out of the seed of the soul.” says University of Illinois astrophysicist Larry Smarr, “we are the journey to the land of Osiris: the stars of Orion.”
or another, a being that had returned to the sky. That they were Budge even declared, “The mention of Orion and Sothis (Sirius) is grandchildren of supernovas.” Alan F. Alford of Walsall, England declares: “Ancient sages
now quarantined on Earth until a “savior,” in one form or another, interesting, for it shows that at one time the Egyptians believed that Harvard professor of astronomy, Robert Kirshner, says, “Gen- believed that the future destiny of mankind lay in a return to the
returned as promised at the end-of-time. these stars were the homes of departed souls.” erations of supernovas created the elements we take for granted-the Source, i.e. to God and Heaven. The death of the body, they said,
Others of these so-called “wise men” known as scientists taught This rediscovered truth is straight-forward: We humans were oxygen we breathe, the calcium in our bones, and the iron in your did not mark an end but rather a critical mid-point in the human
humans were accidents of a blind and dumb gene-generating universe; designed to operate on a cosmic larger-than-life scale, as a “super- blood are products of the stars.” existence. Those who had the secret knowledge could retrace the path
freaks of nature, that gods and saviors did not even exist. man” mystics called Adam Kadmon, and artist Leonardo Da Vinci Fascinatingly enough, these sacred site ruins that we have turned to the Heavenly Source and enter the gates to the lost paradise. The
But then these myths and rituals, especially the ancient symbols portrayed as perfection personified in The Vitruvian Man. That is, into tourist traps can now become star map repositories of invaluable knowing soul would then unite with its primeval body-double and
used in astrology began to make sense, add-up, with the modern obser- our human body was the mathematical mirror-image of the Phi ratio star seed information to reclaim our origins and destiny according to materialize in a remarkably Earth-like world.”
vations of astronomy. One of these homo sapiens named Carl Sagan Fibonacci series spiral, the golden mean of the Cosmos. many scholars of them today. Ultimately we have rediscovered the secrets to reincarnation that were
even mused:”Some 25 million years ago, a Galactic survey ship on a Overall, we see our self-image in a new light as that of a “super- And as we dug deeper into the forensic evidence of sacred sites, embedded in The Great Pyramid stones at Giza and the tombs in the
routine visit to the third planet of a relatively common G dwarf star, our star,” the Sun of God, in fact, what theologian Matthew Fox calls The examined the blood, bone, and stones, so to speak; we decoded the Valley of the Kings. They and other related sacred site structures all seek
Sun, may have noted an interesting and promising evolutionary Cosmic Christ. meaning of the 12 signs of the times: the houses, mansions, or to help us recapture our roots in the stars and point us back home to our
development: Proconsul, the ancestor of homo sapiens, or modern man.” Plato was very clear in his treatise, Timaeus, that God made constellations the Greeks named Zodiac, or Circle of Animals. Twin Earth in the “star nursery” of the Orion Nebula.
Archaeologist, historian, and mythologist also known as D. M. “souls in equal number with the stars and distributed them, each soul Again, it was Jesus who said: “In my Father’s house are many What we’ve learned is pyramids were not burial tombs, but time
Murdock, conclusively documents that major world religions are in to its several star, and he who should live well for his due span of time mansions, I go and prepare a place for you.” bombs! They speak to the end-time of the Earth’s Shift on its polar axis
fact founded upon an astro-theology: the story of stars as gods sent should journey back to the habitation of his consort star.” So Zodiac signs were used to assign specific energy signatures to realigning us with our home among the stars in the 21st Century now.
down from heaven to earth to save men from ignorance. “Consciousness is King,” proclaimed philosopher of Rome, Ploti- stars in the night sky with stones carefully crafted on-the- ground to Indeed, our “god fathers” or Higher Selves are alive in a twin
The larger realization based upon the overwhelming evidence nus, in the 3rd century A.D. create a mirror-image of their consciousness traits. This maps the 12 binary star earthlike system of planets defined by star clusters in the
suggests these humans represented the gods as action heroes on the This then is true hidden knowledge: Stars are conscious beings of light characteristics of constellations. Our own star’s lifecycle through time vicinity of the Orion, Sirius, and Pleiades constellations.
ground to the people, as she catalogues in her book Suns of God: and co-create planets for the development of infinite Christs-in-potential! and eternity in what we know now as a 26,000 year precession of the Robert Temple, the highly-acclaimed investigator of the Dogon
Krishna, Buddha, and Christ Unveiled. Of course, we have Jesus Gregory Sams, co-founder of the Harmony/Whole Earth Foods equinox of The Great Year. tribe cultural myths in Africa, and also a member of the Royal Astro-
himself saying: “I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children outlets in the United Kingdom, chaos theory expert, and now bestsell- Naturopathic health practitioner Amalia Camateros, proclaimed nomical Society in England stated forthrightly in his classic text The Sirius
of the most High.” ing author of Sun of God: Consciousness and the Self-Organizing in her book Spirit of the Stones: A Revival of Earth Wisdom, based Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago:
Nonetheless, once we saw the creation story focused Force that Underlies Everything has it spot on: “This is the greatest upon insights into the Anasazi of the American Southwest: “This wwww“Sirius was, astronomically, the foundation of the entire
through the lens of Galileo and later Hubble and Herschel cover-up in history!” knowledge was stored in the rocks as living libraries and kept safe Egyptian religious system. Its celestial movements determined the
telescopes, the lights came on to full-star power again across In other words, human beings are created to live eternally as within until a future time.” Egyptian Calendar, which is even known as the Sothic Calendar.”
the entire spectrum of science and religion theories of origins. physical beings made of sunlight. We are Children of the Sun, and the Stones are in effect sponges: they absorb and store consciousness Sirius, the Dog Star, is the prime candidate for our Sun’s binary,
And a whole new way of seeing ourselves not as freaks of Sun behind the Sun, the Mother Star Clusters in the Orion Nebula of that is carried by 12-rays of sunlight. Our human brain has 12 cranial double, or twin star system.
nature but as a planned family of genetically engineered, star our Milky Way Galaxy. nerves and earth 12 major tectonic plates to process light energy This insight is shared by archaeo-astronomer Walter Cruttenden,
seeded, celestial beings emerged. Clearly, the occult, or hid- The Orion Nebula is the birthplace of our Sun’s solar system and through them too. Needless to say, 12 is a key number to life, death, the Executive Director of the Binary Research Institute in Southern
den, records collected by esoteric societies were beginning to its lifecycle known as World Sun Ages. The Maya, for example, saw the and rebirth as it defines, partitions, or sectors space itself into 12 signs California in his book titled Lost Star of Myth and Time and DVD
pay rich dividends too with respect to our relationship to stars. rebirth of Earth as beginning the Fifth Sun Age on December 22, 2012. of the Zodiac. The Great Year.
This article is based on the author’s book Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century.
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John L. Petersen

A ision

For

2012
Getting
To
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first imagine
our future.
Vision
The trends and plausible big-change events discussed here appear to potentially peak
around 2012 and then settle down over the following years, maybe finding a new equilibrium

After that, by 2020. If that is what happens, then the new world we have to focus on building is one that
evolves between 2012 and 2020. The question is, what would we like that world to look like?

we live it.
What will we try to build? That will be our vision. In building a vision of this type, it is im-
portant to fully understand the conditions from which this new world might evolve.
Let’s guess that by 2012 we will have survived a global bout with bird flu (in late 2007,
Until now, this discussion has been largely descriptive. ness leaders know intuitively that if they haven’t hung a big exciting it appeared the virus was, for the first time, becoming transmissible to humans). A moder-
What is going on? What might be in our future? The much more vision in front of their employees, then the organization will wander
important issue is, what are we going to do about it? It may not be about rather aimlessly searching for some random objective to home ate pandemic has killed 500 million people worldwide over a six-month period of crisis that
clear yet where we are going, but what is clear is how to get where in on. If they are successful in crisply communicating exceptional negatively affected almost every aspect of modern life -- governments, economies, social
we decide we want to go. The future doesn’t just happen; we make it possibilities for the company and providing the resources to fuel them,
happen. It is the product of our desires, interests, perspectives, visions, they can literally change their world. The same can be said for an interaction, and others.
and actions. individual ... and for an administration. During the same period, the change in the planet’s climate has accelerated as the positive
We need to change the
What we think and what we do makes a difference.
It makes the only difference. feedback loops in the climatic system kicked in. Devastating storms have become the norm,
seasons don’t work the way they used to, nor does traditional agriculture, generating signifi-
This is not just a meaningless platitude of the kind that is offered
repeatedly at graduation ceremonies. The images that we have in our world around a new vision. cant food shortages and serious broad-based disruptions in regions like the United Kingdom
minds (or not) about what we’d like to be, where we’d like to go, and It’s important to keep in mind that we’re talking about a new
what kind of world we’d like to live in directly shape what we do. Our world. We’re not trying to build a better version of what we already and the rest of Europe. Or maybe by 2012 we’ve experienced a major series of global

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behavior is consistent with our worldview, and therefore contributes have. Here is the sequence:
to sustaining it. disruptions related to changes in the energy sector. Driven by a decreasing supply of oil,
Most people who have made their way through school, particu-
• Big extraordinary change happens. the biggest countries in the world have aggressively tried to capture what petroleum remains.
larly college, have watched their worldview change and in a short
period have seen the options available to them open up in ways they • Things fail. It has turned into a war (or at least a period of very serious threats) involving the United
never before anticipated. They see themselves and their possibilities
They don’t work the way they use to. States and China, or China and Russia. A companion breakthrough in energy sources has
in a different way ... and then they choose different directions in their
lives. For me it was the Navy. “Join the Navy, see the world,” they said. • Something new emerges. begun to fill in some of the major cracks in the system left from the rapidly decreasing supplies of
It was true. I saw and experienced all kinds of things in less than a
• It operates differently. fossil fuels, but even heroic efforts and amazing innovations are unable to take up the slack fast
handful of years that radically altered who I believed I was and where
I was going for the rest of my life. It runs on different principles and values. enough to offset the crises.
In the face of the rapidly converging trends approaching, not only We have gotten much smarter, much faster with the advent of amazing new Web-based
do we need to persevere, we need to be on the offense: to shape and In this new world, humanity has figured out how to do its business
help manifest the new world that will certainly evolve, whether we take in ways that do not produce the kinds of problems that caused the old,
knowledge discovery and sense-making tools (which make it easy to understand large
an active role in it or not. We need a vision -- something to aim for. smoldering decomposition in the first place. In this world, we certainly amounts of complex information) and have learned to manipulate life in ways never before
Both an explicit and an intuitive sense of where we’re going is critical learn something from the traumatic experience.
to this whole transition. If you don’t know where you’re going, as they say, The key to getting to this new future is a vision. We need a picture
possible. Finding solutions to big problems has gotten much easier, but implementing them
any destination will do. In this context, that approach is not a good idea. of a viable global future to guide us going forward. In practical terms, still takes too much time.
Visions are magical. They function in strange ways to guide you to this new world needs to be pretty idealistic. After all, we’re really
achieving them. When you see the world in terms of explicit objec- (really!) going to build a new one in a new context, which makes all
Our new world will have to take into consideration the underlying trends in science and
tives, opportunities, and options, serendipitous things seem to show up kinds of things possible that certainly wouldn’t work right now. That’s technology that are driving a great deal of change, address the biggest pressing problems that
to help you get to where you want to go. You don’t have to understand what we should aim for. That’s the contextual objective we should
how they work to appreciate that visions really do work. Effective busi- carry around in our minds.
confront us, reflect changes in our values and perspectives of how we see ourselves as humans,
and suggest a new social framework that describes how we will work and live together.

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 That new world might look like this: The global brain is rapidly evolving. Unprecedented knowledge generation,
discovery, and problem resolution are everyday occurrences, spurred by exponential
…Values and Perspectives … developments in computing and communication technologies. Intractable problems
are solved with capabilities that were impossible to imagine just ten years earlier.

An increased emphasis on connectedness and interdependence. The Internet, the global

New agricultural methods that do not rely on synthetic petroleum-based fertilizers have
economy, the environment, and many other aspects of life have made transparent that we are all directly
become dominant. Seawater-based agriculture is becoming commonplace, encouraging food production
and indirectly connected to each other and the larger context in which we live in ways that were previously
in vast areas that previous had no freshwater for irrigation.
not obvious. All transactions now take these linkages into consideration. Because of this interdependence,
it is logical that nonconstructive relationships are intrinsically destructive and that there has been ...
…Pressing Problems …
A shift toward cooperation and away from competition. The interdependencies that we live with
coupled with the highly destructive potential of advanced technologies have made it obvious that finding The challenge of environmental sustainability is resolved. Problem-solving knowledge
ways of working together is much better than fighting over differences. This has translated into a ... technology and a new perspective on our relationship with nature results in significantly new
ways of maintaining our environment.
Commitment to conflict resolution without resorting to violence. The potential destructive
capability of new technologies juxtaposed with the need to build a new world has mandated that violence, We have moved beyond the petroleum age. Clean, sustainable, independent sources of energy are
especially between developed nations, as in all-out world wars, is no longer feasible. Sophisticated methods the only approaches that are supported.
of negotiation and influence become the main tools of persuasion.
Energy production is decentralized and more distributed. Energy production is increasingly
A commitment to justice for all people. Since in an interconnected society injustice to some ultimately localized, whether in vehicles or individual buildings that translate solar energy and other sources
affects all others, a broad-based commitment to justice for all is imperative. into electricity. All sources contribute to the grid, fewer central power plants are required.

A world of abundance. The resolution of energy problems and the advent of advanced information-
technology applications presents the possibility of a world without intrinsic scarcity. Equitable access to and
…
Social Systems …

distribution of food, knowledge, shelter, and work could well become possible.
An equitable way to have a global yet local civilization is worked out. Tensions have been
balanced between the forces of globalization, universal connectivity, and interdependence, as well as the
Individual self-realization. The crucible of phenomenal global change would produce a new perspective
increasing marginalization of people and cultures that always seemed to attend those trends.
of oneself and the untapped potential in each of us. A dedication to self-realization would be reflected in all
aspects of human activity.
Decentralization along with an ecology of cultures is effected. Local, cultural character still
colors societies, but at the same time all groups have learned how to relate effectively to the larger world
Individuals choose for themselves rather than taking their cues externally.
Interdependency coupled with unsurpassed knowledge and a common allegiance to
Global issues become global interests. A communications process is in place that allows all cultures to share
justice weakens the requirement for centralized authority.
a current interest in pressing global issues. The world thinks and acts together for the common good.
Harmony with nature. The fact that everything that lives on this planet is
connected with everything else means that we live with nature, actively cocreating Global security is discovered, removing the legitimacy of war. The experience of having lived
the context within which we live. We herefore see ourselves as part of the larger, through or narrowly sidestepped a major world war with unheard-of new weapons convinces the world
global system. Maintaining harmony with nature is a priority that produces that modern combat is not an option. Sophisticated behavior-modification approaches and incentives are
personal, spiritual, physical, and economic benefits. developed that do not include violence.

The possibility of nuclear war is prevented with 100 percent reliability. War is not an option
A shift toward localization. The failure of global supply chains initiates a reliance and nuclear war must never happen. The world community bands together to assure that nuclear
on local suppliers rather than distant ones. This is especially true with food items, for weapons are eliminated or so closely constrained that the chance of their being used approaches zero.
which local farmers and ranchers become preferred.

A commitment to healthy food. Fresh, healthy food is a necessity for sustaining the This vision might not be as far-out as you would guess. The Earth There will need to be a constant orientation of openness; we will
physical and mental requirements of living in the new world. Charter closely resembles this vision. It was written with the input of need to have a wide aperture for seeing subtle indicators of approaching
five thousand people, has been endorsed by numerous governments, change and be receptive to newly emerging techniques of dealing with
organizations, and a multitude of individuals, and draws more than the rapidly changing world. Being close-minded to the suggestions and
These values and perspectives are reflected and reinforced in all other areas:
one hundred thousand people to its website each month. ideas of others will court failure, as no one individual or organization
Effectively transitioning to this new world will require envisioning will have the capability to deal with these changes by themselves.
…
Science and Technology …
it into reality. We will all need to use a model like the one above to New ideas and explanations about how reality works, at all levels, will
build a coherent idea of what the new world might look like-the begin to bubble up in many places; they must be openly considered
A clean, all-electric world is achieved. We have entered the post-petroleum principles, values, structures, behavior-and begin to carry that common and honestly evaluated.
age and the world is moving toward all-electric status. Electricity is produced by picture in our minds. We need to get together at regular times with There must also be an openness to
pollution-free sources that in most cases require no extracted fuel, like generators as many others as possible to project the new images, talk about them,
that run off tidal currents, turbines driven by deep-well-produced steam, and and debate them. We should do it as though our lives depend on it, as
adaptation – to rapidly change
advanced solar and wind devices. they probably do. when it is required.
This essay is excerpted from A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change published here with permission from Fulcrum Publishing.

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 Recently,
I have taken as my personal
mantra the not very transcendent phrase,
“I don’t know.” The list of things I feel unsure about seems to
be steadily increasing. For instance, I don’t know if our solipsistic species
will survive much longer, and sometimes I am not even sure how much I care.
I don’t know if Barack Obama is a warm-hearted leader who will unite people at a time
of adversity, or the most brilliant puppet ever put forth by the New World Order conspirators
(who, as radio journalist and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones suggests, may be plotting a program
I don
anyt 't know
of rapid depopulation). I don’t know if the increase in UFO sightings means we are approaching a
benevolent contact experience or a horrific predatory ambush. I don’t know if global warming is mainly
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caused by human action, or if it is part of a phase transition of the entire solar system, as the Russian

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I don’t know if men and women should be monogamous or if it is better to be bonobo-like in one’s erotic habits. I
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don’t know if we will develop some type of new energy technology that will rescue us from Peak Oil, or if we are destined to
see industrial civilization devolve and disintegrate as fossil fuel becomes scarce. I don’t know whether to learn to grow food and
harvest rainwater or to master some weird new esoteric discipline like Vortex Healing or Keylontic Science. I don’t know if free
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will exists, or if we are conditioned robots, performing an illusory spectacle scripted by Hindu deities or dreamtime ancestors.
I don’t know if we should get rid of religions or create a really cool new one.
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I don’t know whether to stockpile gold or create an intentional community. I don’t know whether to stay in Manhattan or head for
the hills. I don’t know whether we are approaching global enlightenment or regressing into barbarism. I don’t know whether
biotechnology and nanotechnology will fuse to give us immortal physical bodies or if we will all croak as our mistreated planet falls apart. ty.
I don’t know if anything special will happen on December 21, 2012. I don’t know if I should start a riot or throw a party. I
don’t know whether to panic or relax.
Something seems to be happening that is beyond my capacity to understand or articulate. I can only assume other people are feeling
this way as well. We are witnessing the collapse of the old, rigidified structures, while the new hasn’t come into realization yet -- that is, if
there is going to be a new anything. A change seems to be happening at the level of logic, which is becoming less dualistic, less “either-or,” and

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more binary, “both-and.” Former diametric opposites are moving toward confluence, as well as dissonance, in various areas: Like tweaked
out psychonauts, the physicists at CERN discuss opening portals into other dimensions. As the financial system evaporates, incredible new
gizmos like Pandora and Cool Iris spread freely on the Internet. Obama references Chicago 1968 in his acceptance speech at Grant Park,
then hires as his economic advisers the guys who, under Clinton, deregulated the banking system, causing the current disaster.

Uncertainty
Reality is becoming more improvisational and up-tempo. Although I don’t pretend to have certainty about it, the ideas that Jose
Arguelles, Terence McKenna and others have proposed about time speeding up and going through ever-faster fractal spirals of historical
pantomime -- including, alas, the mass suffering usually caused by historical convulsions - seem increasingly on the mark. If we are
shifting away from dualistic separation and linear logic to a binary thought marked by polarities, this also suggests a shift from the
modern historical perspective to a revived mythological consciousness. Like processes in the unconscious, myth resolves oppositions
through symbol and image, without need of rational explanation. A society that reintegrates mythic thought at a deeper level
of awareness will be able to handle seemingly contradictory perspectives without breaking down.
I don’t know if we will live to see the birth of such a new worldview as part of a regenerated civilization, or if we
only get to see the decline and fall of our current dinosaur. It does seem that ever-increasing numbers of people are
done with it and ready to move on, but move on to what?
Some theorists propose we have reached a point in evolution where we have the capacity to consciously
co-create reality, and choose our own script for the future. Sometimes, this feels fuzzily plausible to me.
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On the other hand, our past actions and intentions have created the reality we experience now. It
seems highly unlikely we can phase-shift to hyperspace, the fifth-dimension, or whatever it is
until we have learned how to take proper care of this material world and those who share it

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with us. Although maybe I am wrong and we will get a free pass. I just don’t know.

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