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We are in a world of crisis. From economic collapse to environmental decay to climate change to war, hunger and poverty, our species seems to be headed fool speed ahead on a fast track to a train wreck. But what if these crises presented the greatest opportunity in recorded history--conscious evolution?
Our book, Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here, offers both the hope and challenge that we can safely navigate this dark passage to a healthier future. The good news is that biology and evolution are on our side. Contrary to what conventional science and religion have been telling us, evolution is neither random nor predetermined, but rather an intelligent dance between organism and environment. When conditions are ripe--through either crisis or opportunity--something unpredictable happens to bring the biosphere into a new balance, at a higher level of coherence.
While we often perceive of examples of spontaneous remission as miraculous healings that happen by the grace of God, looking a little deeper we see something else at work. Quite often these fortunate individuals actively participate in their own healing by consciously or unconsciously making a key, significant change in their beliefs and behaviors.
So here is the bad news and the good news. The story of human life on Earth is yet to be determined. Spontaneous evolution will depend on whether or not we humans are willing to make changes in our individual and collective beliefs and behaviors, and whether or not we are able to make these changes in time. For millennia, our spiritual teachers have been pointing us in the direction of relatedness and love. Now, science is confirming that ancient wisdom. We are, each and all, cells in the body of an evolving giant super-organism we call humanity. Because humans have free will, we can choose to either rise to that new level of emergence or, in the manner of dinosaurs, fall by the wayside. Like it or not, our future depends on the choices we make as a species.
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE—REALLY!
From Jesus to The Beatles, the message of love is all around us. And we humans have spent the past two thousand years both hearing and resisting it. Perhaps now that science is echoing ancient wisdom in this regard, we might actually heed the message. Thanks to the current paradigm of scientific materialism, most of us believe (if not consciously, than unconsciously) that life is a dog-eat-dog rat race, a dire competition where only the fittest survive. However, science now tells us that this Darwinian view is distorted. In actuality, environments survive and evolve as systems. Whatever helps to balance a system thrives, while that which doesn’t fit doesn’t survive. Thus, the real evolutionary principle is survival of the “fittingest.”
Our planet is facing what scientists are calling the “Sixth Great Mass Extinction.” The previous five were apparently caused by objects from outer space, such as comets or asteroids, hitting the Earth. This time, the cause comes from “inner space”--our own invisible beliefs that have spun us outside the web of life. Beginning with monotheistic religion telling us that we humans are superior and apart from other creatures on the planet, exacerbated by scientific materialism insisting human technology has the power to “conquer” nature, we have focused so heavily on our fitness as individuals, we have failed to recognize that our fitness as a species is up for examination.
However, the most transformational tool in our human toolkit--and the one we’ve largely ignored for the past two millennia--is love. This love we are talking about is not some mushy-gushy sentiment, but the glue that holds our world together. According to Dr. Leonard Laskow, a surgeon who discovered his own innate ability to heal with love and wrote about it in Healing With Love: A Breakthrough Mind/Body Medical Program for Healing Yourself and Others, “Love is a universal pattern of resonant energy.” In this sense, two or more tuning forks vibrating together are in love with each other, just as two or more humans can resonate in a palpable field of connectedness, joy, even ecstasy. Love, he said, “is the universal harmonic.”
LOVE AND EVOLUTION
If indeed love is a resonant harmonic, then a case can be made for evolution being the evolution of love itself. From the first spark of life, ignited by waves of light impregnating particles of matter on Earth, every stage of evolution has involved two things: greater connection and greater awareness. While we should beware of anthropomorphizing cells--they hate it when we do that--in a very important sense, when single cells joined to become multi-cell organisms, they “surrendered” to a higher level of organization, and “agreed” to live in harmony. In other words, love.
The same has been true of individuals affiliating in tribes, and tribes affiliating as nations. At each stage, individuals (or groups of individuals) have become aware of how connecting in community would enhance their wellbeing. Taking a cue from the Iroquois Nation, America’s founders designed a system in which individual states gave up their right to arm themselves against one another. Think for a moment what it would have meant if states had had armed borders, and the inevitability of border skirmishes. America’s prosperity has been due, in part, to not having to spend resources defending against other Americans.
On a worldwide scale, imagine what we could do with the trillions of dollars we spend on weaponry. Certainly, an argument can be made that while the vast majority of us may be peace-loving, we would still have to defend ourselves against those who aren’t. This is true. However, we are all too commonly mobilized by our “leaders” against a perceived enemy, when in actuality the true “enemy” is the field of beliefs that reinforce an absence of love--and the misleaders who manipulate that field.
A WORLD IN CRISIS = A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES
Meanwhile, in the collective consciousness there has been a growing awareness that, to quote Dorothy, “We’re not in Kansas anymore.” Whether it’s the evangelicals speaking about the Rapture, scientists warning of the Sixth Great Extinction, or those who see “2012” as some transformational watershed date, there is an understanding that we are on the threshold of profound change. Meanwhile, old structures and ways of being seem to be crumbling all around us. Our institutions--from hospitals to schools to banks to our own government--are failing, and seem to be unfixable. What’s going on?
To better understand the opportunity hidden in the crisis, consider the tale of another world in transition. Imagine you are a single cell among millions that comprise a growing caterpillar. The structure around you has been operating like a well-oiled machine, and the larva world has been creeping along predictably. Then one day, the machine begins to shudder and shake. The system begins to fail. Cells begin to commit suicide. There is a sense of darkness and impending doom.
From within the dying population, a new breed of cells begins to emerge, called imaginal cells.
Clustering in community, they devise a plan to create something entirely new from the wreckage. Out of the decay arises a great flying machine--a butterfly--that enables the survivor cells to escape from the ashes and experience a beautiful world, far beyond imagination. Here is the amazing thing: the caterpillar and the butterfly have the exact same DNA. They are the same organism, but are receiving and responding to different organizing signals.
That is where we are today. When we read the newspaper and watch the evening news, we see the media reporting a decaying caterpillar world. And yet, everywhere, human imaginal cells are awakening to a new possibility. They are clustering, communicating, and tuning into a new, coherent signal of love. We are now between “two worlds”--the caterpillar world where our future is limited by our creepy-crawly past, and the butterfly world where humanity can soar to reach its highest potential. Unlike the shift from caterpillar to butterfly, however, transformation of humanity is not inevitable. It requires our participation. We have the choice to live in and reinforce the limitations imposed by fear and past programming. Or, we can attune ourselves to the new signal of love, and live that instead.
Consequently, what we collectively imagine to be true about 2012 is what is most likely to manifest. It all depends on the pictures we put into our heads. On one hand, we have the 2012 movie, that offers up a heaping helping of mass destruction as inevitable and even links to a fictional Institute for Human Continuity, where filmgoers can enter a lottery to be part of a chosen few to be rescued from global holocaust. Meanwhile, another film, Shift of the Ages, offers the wisdom of Mayan elders. They tell us that indeed we are on the cusp of transformational change--but only if our species changes our mission from survival of the fittest to thrival of the fittingest.
In other words, spontaneous remission depends on “spontaneous remissioning.”
2012 AND THE “END OF TIME”
One of the more fearsome notions about the 2012 prophecies is that it will be the “end of time.” If we remain stuck in the idea of time as an absolute, this prospect would indicate that the end of time is the end of life. However, as quantum physics is coming to understand, everything that has ever been or will be exists in an eternal Now, and through our perceptions--including time--we sort events into past, present and future. In our book, we even cite experiments that show that we are not only able to influence future events, we can influence past events as well!
For the purposes of this writing, however, there is a simpler and more encouraging interpretation of “the end of time” that suggests a pathway to our fullest potential: the end of living in our old stories, those that keep us repeating the same patterns over and over again. Perhaps these “end times” indicate that we as a species heal and resolve our old stories… so we are free to write and live into a new one. When we recognize that so much of who we imagine we are is based on programmed, “invisible” beliefs, we can begin to see that this programming is the one thing we have in common. The entire notion of “blame” at that point seems absurd. As the Biblical injunction says, “Forgive them because they know not what they do.”
In this forgiveness and liberation from blame, we can accept responsibility. That is, we can choose to respond differently. In healing these stories of separation, we can embrace the new story that we are each and all cells in a new organism. A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden rather than fight over the turf. When a critical mass of people truly own this belief in their hearts and minds and actually begin living from this truth, our world will emerge from the darkness in what will amount to a spontaneous evolution.
Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Early in his career as a cellular biologist, Dr. Lipton’s discoveries presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. His scientific approach deepened his understanding of cell biology, highlighting the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions, and implied the existence of an immortal spirit. Dr. Lipton has since taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public, lecturing about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles. A sought-after keynote speaker, he has been featured on hundreds of television and radio shows. Dr. Lipton is the author of The Biology of Belief (2008) and co-author of Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (2009). To learn more about Dr. Lipton, visit www.BruceLipton.com
Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist and workshop leader. For the past twenty-two years he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality and politics. As the Swami, Steve is the author of Driving Your Own Karma (1989), When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth (1993), Duck Soup for the Soul (1999) and Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction (2004). He is the co-author of Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (2009). To learn more about Steve and Swami, visit www.WakeUpLaughing.com
Excerpted from Transforming Through 2012: Leading Perspectives on the New Global Paradigm (Yinspire Media). Used with permission. To check out the book or to download free chapters, please visit: http://www.transformingthrough2012.com/
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