What is this "shift" happening on our planet right now?

Allow me to clear up some of the confusion that set a tone for a few of my blog entries from the first semester. So, with my humblest apologies, I offer you, my thousands of followers across the globe my view of the world and the current paradigm shift that we are all participating in, whether you are aware of it or not. It’s a party and everyone is invited. Welcome to chapter one of many where I will be releasing an accumulation of observations I have made in my 27 years on this planet.  

 This is some deep shit, but someone’s gotta say it. It’s virtually impossible to put it in a nutshell as it takes into account a massive range of variables ranging from our evolution as a species, the media, government, advertising, ethics, law, pop culture, religion, fashion, technology and climate change - to name a few. My aim is to find the links in all these systems and discover the underlying patterns that run our world. There has never been a more exciting time to be alive.

 Change really is the only constant and there are clear periods in our more immediate history that stick out to me such as: Our entry into the industrial age in the 1700’s, the 1929 stock market crash, the start of the computer age in 1949, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of apartheid in 1994 which all affected the development of our economically driven society. I’ll go into depth at a later stage.

 It only gets deeper from here. Both the Hopis and the Mayans recognise that we are approaching the end of a world age. Every 26 000 our planet enters into a different era - in both cases, however, the Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesise that everything will come to an end (as apposed to our Christian fanatics who keep scaring people into believing apocalyptic bullshit and causing mass hysteria). Rather, this is a time of transition from one World Age to another in which the due date is 21 December 2012. The word apocalypse does not mean the world is going to blow up. The definition is derived from Greek meaning “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”.

 Global Warming is another term that has been around the block lately and the debate of whether or not we are the cause of all the heat has finally been tied up, it’s official: The seasons are changing, the ice is melting and we’re entering into the opposite of the ice age: A global drought – this means no more water, which means no more you and I unless we create better ways of living.  If we don’t evolve and learn from nature we will dissolve as a species. The key word is: sustainability. As individuals we have the power to support companies which are supporting the planet.

We’re reaping the rewards of hard work by conservationists, lobbyists, documentary film makers, scientists and everyone involved in activism that have all helped raise our consciousness and this has been catapulted by a generation who are questioning the system they were born into.

 We declare war on anything we don’t like: We have a war on terror, a war on aids, a war on poverty, a war on cancer, a war on drugs, and if you’ll allow me to quote George Carlin, the all time comedian for one second: “We don’t have a war on homelessness because there’s no money in that.” You see, where there is war there is money to be made. One day we will all learn that what we focus our attention on is what we become conscious of and my god have we been made conscious of war through the media. I believe the Internet is going to be our saviour because finally WE can choose what we want to watch without it being shoved down our throats by corrupt media corporations.

I have some good news for you: We have left the “Power” era of our consciousness, there is still plenty of residue left over from this time, I mean America is still chasing “terrorists” and tainting our minds with all sorts of perceived enemies but the truth is that all the bad stuff we hear on the news accounts for about 0.00001% of everything that’s happening, we don’t hear about all the good stuff going on behind the scenes.

 We are currently in the “Ethics” era of our consciousness, this has never been clearer, we are finally looking at our society and asking questions: Is drilling for oil in the Amazon Jungle really a good idea? What happens when all the forests are cut down? Is our government honest? How can we reduce the gap between the rich and the poor? What will happen if Wal-Mart actually takes over the world? We are starting to realise that no matter how insignificant we may think we are, what we do as individuals makes a difference, barriers are being broken down and the global village is opening up.

We’ve been witnessing a slow collapse of the money system which has been designed to run people further and further into debt. This meltdown has forced us all to look closely at our values and people are waking up to the fact that our happiness depends more on an internal spiritual connection than the illusion of power gained from external wealth. Like a wise man once said: “If you can’t go within, you go without.”

To be continued…