ns, emerging parts of the fabric. But the new mythos has not yet emerged.
We will abide for a time in the space between stories. Those of you who have been through it
on a personal level know that it is a very precious – some might say sacred – time. Then we are
in touch with the real. Each disaster lays bare the real underneath our stories. The terror of a
child, the grief of a mother, the honesty of not knowing why. In such moments we discover our
humanity. We come to each other’s aid, human to human. We take care of each other.
That’s what keeps happening every time there is a calamity, before the beliefs, the ideologies,
the politics take over again. Events like Sandy Hook, for at least a moment, cut through all that
down to the basic human being. In such times, we learn who we really are.
How can we prepare? - We cannot prepare - But we are being prepared.
- See more at: http://charleseisenstein.net/2013-the-space-between-stories/#sthash...
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ation, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as evolution has become a defining framework in which we are beginning to understand virtually everything - from biology and technology to the interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural world-views, and even spirituality.
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ciousness, and the mapmakers of the terrain". And as Scandinavia is one of the regions centred on the tipping point to second tier, it's within our potential take on this challenge, "to provide for the rest of the world the kinds of models that the world needs."Don Beck quoting EinsteinThe urgency and level of caring necessary must now be no less than planetary in its scope. It's taken some fourteen billion years for life and consciousness to gain the capacity for self- consciousness, while at the same time the biosphere, which makes life possible, is now threatened. But to generate the quality of solutions and level of moral caring that will be necessary to save the biosphere, society, our education system, and ourselves, we must change the level of our own thinking. It's time to focus our energy and exploration on the inward dimension of what it means to be an evolving human being.…
ublication, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as evolution has become a defining framework in which we are beginning to understand virtually everything - from biology and technology to the interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural world-views, and even spirituality.
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evolution when you begin to care more about the process as a whole than you care about your ego's fears, desires, or concerns. And it represents the essential shift of identity that this teaching rests on: the SHIFT from the ego to the Authentic Self. When this occurs, your very motive for pursuing enlightenment evolves from one that is fundamentally self-centered to one that is focused upon the evolution of consciousness itself.
~ Andrew Cohen…
ocess that gave rise to the vast matter and energy that created galaxies, planets, and stars. That process created the conditions that made it possible for biological life to emerge around four billion years ago. And then, from biological life, 200,000 years ago mind burst forth as the dramatic beginning of human consciousness and culture. Now, the energy and intelligence that initiated that process and has been driving it all along is dependent upon you and me. For the human being who begins to realize this, the implications on a personal level are profound and overwhelming. Indeed, our responsibility for where evolution is going, at the level of our shared culture, is much bigger than most of us are aware of.
—Andrew Cohen…
ocess that gave rise to the vast matter and energy that created galaxies, planets, and stars. That process created the conditions that made it possible for biological life to emerge around four billion years ago. And then, from biological life, 200,000 years ago mind burst forth as the dramatic beginning of human consciousness and culture. Now, the energy and intelligence that initiated that process and has been driving it all along is dependent upon you and me. For the human being who begins to realize this, the implications on a personal level are profound and overwhelming. Indeed, our responsibility for where evolution is going, at the level of our shared culture, is much bigger than most of us are aware of.
—Andrew Cohen…
led by the evolutionary impulse must be willing to embrace the dramatic scale at which the life-process is operating. When we awaken to the fact that we are part of a fourteen-billion-year process that is going somewhere, we begin to see our own day-to-day, moment-to-moment choices in a literally cosmic context. We see our own presence here on earth in relationship to the evolution of the cosmos itself.
THIS cosmic orientation is essential - if we are to succeed in taking the next evolutionary step.
If our orientation is not that big, we are always going to fall short. Our habitual ways of thinking are just too small-minded, petty, and personal. In order for authentic, profound, and meaningful transformation to occur, we have to make the effort to see all of our choices in this cosmic context. And that, in itself, is evolution. That's what our next step is: awakening to a cosmic orientation to being a human being, here on earth, right now.
—Andrew Cohen…
"evolution becoming conscious of [IT]self."
The Net, that great collectivizer of minds, is the
primary tool for our emergence into the third
phase and as John Perry Barlow says...
"With cyberspace, we are, in effect, [NOW]
hard-wiring the collective consciousness,"
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evolution when you begin to care more about the process as a whole than you care about your ego's fears, desires, or concerns. And it represents the essential shift of identity that this teaching rests on: The SHIFT from the ego to the Authentic Self. When this occurs, your very motive for pursuing enlightenment evolves from one that is fundamentally self-centered to one that is focused upon the evolution of consciousness itself.
~ Andrew Cohen
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