The accelerating changes occurring across our planet right now will have no alternative but to force a mind-change on a global and individual level. We are coming together as a global species like never before; despite what we have been shown and told by the mainstream media. We need to view this in both the [...]
The tragedy of humankind is that many of us have little recognition of the powerful conscious energies inherent in our collective psyche. Our propaganda and media systems have been exploiting the mythological images, collective stereotypes, and subconscious signifiers that play on our collective vulnerabilities. Knowledge has more or less trickled down to the average person [...]
In my previous ‘Reflections’ article (Toward Synthesis), I noted how the humanistic philosopher Erich Fromm viewed the modern world as suffering from the contradictory struggle between having and being. The human need to find meaning, well-being, and personal growth was in conflict with a different type of world external to us. For Fromm, the resolution [...]
Happy New Year to you all….as the new year of the natural world celebrates at what we call the spring equinox. Whichever way you look at it, many of us have now entered either the new year, or Spring. The spring equinox is the time of year, in the earth’s annual cycle around the sun, [...]
The past few years have left many of us waiting around for the ‘Next Big Thing’ - or some grand televised miracle to happen. The world has recently been filled to overflowing with doomsayers and images of breakdown, violence, and corruption. Many of us have been distracted, or sidelined, into indifference. We were told we [...]
For many of us the idea of the ‘bigger picture’ is just a luxury we cannot afford to think about. This is often because we have enough things going on in our daily lives to occupy us – we don’t have the luxury of time to sit back and wonder about the larger significance of [...]
As a civilization we are in the throes of living out an “endgame.” This is not the endgame of our species or any similar dire situation - but the endgame of an era. For many of us living in the developed nations, we are witnessing the endgame of the Second Industrial Revolution. Yet overall, this [...]
It’s coming around again, as such cycles always do. For a number of years I have been talking (amongst other people) about the new consciousness emerging – or rather unfolding – over these years. However, the focus so far has been largely upon the consequences of this new ‘energy consciousness’ rather than on the qualities [...]
We are no longer in the ‘waiting room’ period, wondering when things are going to start changing. Every part of our lives is already in flux, and always has been. It is erroneous to think of human life as being static – it never has been. Life often appears more static at times when there [...]
As humanity enters a time of social and cultural change, of altered perceptions and challenges to our worldview, we are almost certainly going to be coerced into altered modes of consciousness. In other words, in order to re-adapt and to survive the breakdowns of the old mind/old energy our collective worldview will need to shift [...]
Recent decades have seen a great rise in ecological awareness and the perspective of living systems. Many of us are now relating on a personal and conscious level to the interconnectedness and interaction between humans, nature, and environment. However, this new paradigm of thought should not be restricted only to a material level of connectivity [...]
Ritual is important, yet often it is least beneficial to those people who are ritualistically-minded and inclined to habit. The word ‘tradition’ is now applied to many socially embedded religious and ‘spiritual’ practices that have become engrained within our cultures. Yet in many instances it is possible to replace the notion of ‘tradition’ with ‘repetition’. [...]
