Current Changes for Earth and Humanity

In the transformation of the planet at this time in human history, certain changes are coming that have been in process for some time. Many people are speculating regarding the differences and potential difficulties of the future. I am sure that you are aware of these and realize that there may be significant changes in the near future with impact upon many, many people. It is significant not only that these changes are occurring but also that we understand the context for this type of change, to know why it is occurring and to understand what is moving so we can bring it into perspective.

In the evolution of living beings, if one assumes that the base of all existence is consciousness, not matter, and that matter is condensation of consciousness into the particle universe, then the realization comes that consciousness is set in motion by the operative principles of the universe. They move and form consciousness into manifestation. There are principles that draw manifestation from the subtlety of pure consciousness to the density of consciousness, bound and condensed to the point of particle existence. Then consciousness appears to lack self-awareness but instead, it is merely bound.

In the binding of consciousness by the operative principles of the universe, there is naturally the force that wants to break free of binding and return to its original condition, its natural condition that is unbound, free, aware being.

In this process, life develops that entails individual existence. From individuality comes a movement towards the sublime. In the process of evolution, consciousness condenses into vibrant existence. There is the formation of different macrocosmic entities. From them comes the evolution from the crude to the subtle. That evolution includes the development of planetary existence. There is the movement from the seemingly inert planetary force through the evolutionary flow to different forms of life that become more and more intelligent, more and more self-aware, more and more conscious.

In that evolutionary flow from particle existence to the sublime undifferentiated self-aware being where consciousness is not bound by these operative principles, there is ever a loosening of this binding. In the life force, consciousness becomes less bound but it is still associated with matter.

Within this planet, the evolution that started with physical evolution has come to a stage of social and psychic evolution. Consciousness is moving from the material to the subtle and has reached a certain stage of existence where there is a need growing out of the natural pull, the introversial pull from the bound state to the unbound state of natural existence of consciousness. Introversial means the movement is toward reunion with the divine. Extroversial means the movement is toward differentiation and the forms of manifestation. The introversial pull brings consciousness to the state of continual struggle against these bindings, ever loosening the bindings.

In the evolution of the planet there has come a time when consciousness bound in individuality to matter is moving to a different stage, a different level, an integration in wholeness that requires a fundamental shift. No longer can humans attach to the smaller identities of clan and family, tribe and nation to the exclusion of other beings. No longer can the individual who is associated with the body or the consciousness that is associated with the bodymind be above the collective, the needs of the collective and collective welfare.

There is a movement in the human society, a joining in wholeness. There is in the development of technologies for travel and for information-sharing a movement of mind and consciousness to bring more and more unity, more and more proximity. No longer can people isolate themselves in one small part of the world and think that they have nothing to do with anyone else. There is more and more realization that everyone is a part of a whole, that all beings are a part of a whole.

This realization is not complete. In many cases, there is a lack of understanding that all beings are a part of this whole and that the whole includes the planet itself. It is from the planet that this evolution spins forward, ever evolving and moving. In evolution, change becomes essential and change is not always easy. Human beings are moving from the stage of absorption in the individual associated with bodymind structure to a primary association with the collective, the integration of the whole.

Today the technologies are relatively crude that bring information and movement of mind into what is forming a collective mind, a collective body of knowledge that moves and develops. As it moves and develops, it brings living beings forward into greater and greater awareness. Knowledge that took half a million years to come to fruition now takes only a little time. That time will grow less and less as the collective knowledge grows in magnitude.

Then what must happen? The collective knowledge cannot remain on a computer. Living beings, the minds of living beings grow closer, the unity of heart and mind, the unity of knowledge grows stronger. In that process, the minds of human beings weave together. Change occurs. Evolution continues and that which has become outdated must fall away. The living beings become more and more united in a great body of knowledge, a collective intellect, a collective awareness, a collective body of knowledge that grows in magnitude. It becomes the collectivity of human knowledge. Human mind becomes stronger. It becomes more and more a collective rather than individual development. Though for now this occurs through crude technologies, this will change. It will be move more to subtle ways, held in the expansion of collective mind. In this process is the shifting and changing of relationships.

Once feudalism absorbed the minds of people and was expansive. In today’s world, such a system could not work because it is too small a grouping. When nationalism developed that seemed to encompass human beings into very large groupings for a time. In today’s world of the sharing of travel and information, nationalism is outdated. It cannot contain the human society that is, in fact, global. Now the political systems are obsolete. Already human evolution has outgrown them but they have not yet changed. Still human beings go on evolving and the grouping now is global. It is global.

Who is there to bring this into any type of focus? There are political systems to focus but the deeper movement is not political but evolutionary. It is the evolution of the human spirit toward the collectivity of mind and the integration of collective knowledge. In this is an expansion, a freeing of boundaries.

These changes do not always come easily. The human race is in a delicate period of evolutionary shift in which it turns to crude technologies and technologies that are dangerous for the old mentality of polarization and individuality to handle. There is a shift going on. There are different paradigms at work when the power of creativity to develop and to manifest technologies appears to have outstripped evolution or individualities. Some movements appear destructive because the defense of “I” and “mine,” this type of limited mentality wields power that is unsuitable for it. In the short run this is destroying many things and creating impossible and unsustainable situations upon the planet, isn’t it? However, this is only temporary.

It is like teenage years, like puberty. Human evolution is in the puberty stage. What happens at that stage? Everything goes a little crazy because one part is very mature, the voice is very deep and another part is less mature; the voice is very high. Many things happen and there are contradictions without integration, because evolution is underway. Likewise, in this stage of human development, evolution is underway. It takes a type of back and forth motion with awkwardness in development. It is an awkward stage of development.

People comment that many species are being lost and that is true. However, to see the planet as a whole is to see that the consciousness that is in human beings, in the species being lost and in the earth itself are not separate. It is one evolution. Evolutionary forces are shifting and they are shifting dramatically. As they shift, forms change.

The consciousness of the earth itself is moving in the forms of its beings that have shifted. The forms that you take are from this earth. These material forms are from this earth. They are a part of this earth. The forms of all the living creatures are a part, animals and plants, are a part of this earth. They are a part, formed of it. They are its evolution. You are its evolution as physical beings.

As intelligence grows in magnitude, as conscious aware intelligence is freer from the bounds of form and matter and grows in magnitude, it moves to a different stratum. In the coming times, there is less attachment to individuality of form and more attachment to collectivity of being and knowledge. This is evolution from matter to consciousness.

Evolution is both individual and collective. Mind grows in magnitude. Evolution is not merely physical leading to a different type of body. Evolution is mental, psychic. As the psychic evolution needs changes in physical form, it will make those changes. As it needs to be bound to physical form, it will be. To the extent that it does not need binding, it will move beyond those bindings to create collective entities. So now human evolution in this place and time is at the awkward stage. There are some temporary problems.

Of course, the planet and those beings living on it are all a part of an integral whole. Naturally, there is balancing and shifts and changes occur in evolution. So, you see, mentality that is binding to some old ways will have to change. There is no choice. The planet is evolving. Mind grows in magnitude and the movement is towards collective knowledge, collective awareness and collective consciousness.

There will not be dramatic shifts that will put human beings back to living in what we call a primitive way, isolated from each other, losing technologies and interconnectedness. No, this is not where it goes. It goes rather to the formation of collective mind, collective awareness, collective knowledge, integrated wholeness. The planet grows smaller. The minds of living beings come together. This is what it is about. It will not stop. It will grow.

The technologies will become more subtle, more psychic. There will be a time when there will be no footprint upon the planet. Now the footprint is very great, very crude, but those problems will be resolved.

That is not to say change comes without struggle. If a baby is born in the world, there is struggle, is it not? It struggles to come in to the world. It struggles to take its breath. The history of evolution of our species and all beings is not devoid of struggle. So in this planetary shifting and changing there are bound to be some difficulties for individuals. Yet this is a very positive movement going forward and the results will be good.

To whatever extent that human beings can help this evolution, to the extent that this movement is encouraged, to that extent there will be less struggle, less difficulty. Naturally, the struggle can come in many forms from the doings of human beings to the responses of the physical environment. This evolution will go on successfully and will settle down, just as a teenager going through puberty. They may have a little rough time for awhile but then they settle down.

This is the natural evolution of the planet. It is a natural process. This evolution is going on naturally. Of course, there are those who are assisting. No evolution goes on without assistance particularly when there is difficulty that is severe, and the living beings need more assistance. Regarding physical and non-physical beings, in the evolutionary process, I can say this. As for example, an individual may evolve from their mind being completely absorbed in material desires and senses to more subtle development into more and more enhanced self-awareness, consciousness and awareness, likewise, if one takes a planet as an individual, the planet grows in magnitude and awareness and all beings of that planet. The evolution of that planet goes more to individuals and then finally the collective mind evolves as if the planet is an individual, evolving much as a unit being.

The planet evolves as an individual evolves. At first, it forms small rudimentary minds and then it forms collective mind. Mind attaches to the development from which it has evolved. If it grows in magnitude and knowledge, it may even move away from the collective planetary body and become a kind of subtle cosmic being, thus becoming a non-physical being of great knowledge, great capacity and great awareness. This means that the being has come to a point where the need to sustain through association with the material universe has been broken, is no longer needed.

There are beings of non-material existence. Some are groups. Some are individuals. As mind has grown in magnitude, evolution of conscious awareness has gone to this stage where physicality is not required. When knowledge dawns and grows in magnitude, mind becomes closer and closer to cosmic mind in the evolution of all. The yogis say that all of creation comes into being by the operative or creative principle within the consciousness, within being. They say that first it forms mind, cosmic mind, and that all creation exists within this mind.

Even the so-called material universe is simply condensed mind, mental material, all formed of mind. To the individual it appears to be material but to the cosmic mind, it is all mental. The universe is a mental universe. If one understands that it is a mental universe to begin with, then one understands that mind can operate in many different strata. The greater the evolution of mind towards consciousness, the more the qualities and characteristics of the cosmic entity dominate.

There is only one intention in that cosmic being and that is the intention to bring all beings unto itself, to bring all through evolution to merge back into the whole. In that is what appears to living beings as compassion. Therefore, when mind grows in magnitude, this compassion also grows in magnitude. The closer to the inner source mind becomes, the more it becomes dominated by certain principles of operation. Accordingly, it is only when mind grows cruder than it can move out of that cosmic harmony into a type of disharmony and destructiveness.

Those more subtle beings whose evolution is very significant will always be very, very beneficial. Those who are of a lesser evolutionary expression may have more ego-centered, race-centered, or species-centered intentions and motivations. When mind grows in magnitude that falls away.

So there becomes in that way, I would not say a hierarchy, but a difference in approach and a difference in how much that approach is an expression of the harmony of the principles of existence and is compassionate and beneficial to all life as opposed to destructive.

Q .Patriarchy and Puritanism have distorted our understanding of human sexuality and relationship. How can we re-evolve our sense of relationship and human sexuality to create a culture that would thrive in a more harmonious environment?

Human beings are a little uncomfortable. They know too much now. You cannot hide the way you could in your ignorance because culture is coming together. People are learning all different ways and very good things will occur as a result. In two-hundred years what will it be with culture coming together as it is? There need not be the suppression or the extinction of heritage but at the same time, the development of a collectivity of knowledge makes a change in everyone. It makes a change so that social systems, relationships change and shift.

It is a time also with the rise of the mother. It is a time for the rise of the feminine because the qualities of the archetype of the masculine bring territorialism, defense and protectionism. These are shifting and the nurturance of the Mother must come into this planet to care for and to nurture living beings.

There is now the beginning of the integration of these two archetypes to form a whole and that naturally changes the relationship of men and women. It changes the relationship of many things. It brings a balance to the society where nurturance, survival, and the things that the Mother wants for the children, the types of energies of nurture and love become more prominent in the society. As these shifts occur, the ways people live will change. They will have to change.

The lifestyle in the West today where each person has a large house with so many empty bedrooms and they sit all alone and lonely with their television while others in the world go hungry and have nothing for shelter, this is disproportionate, is it not? This will change, has to change. Does all of this excess economic wealth bring people happiness? Are the people happy alone and growing old? It does not bring happiness. Naturally, everyone wants to have their own quietness, but also opportunity for collectivity. The society today has lost its balance and the social orders are not in balance. Not only has the extended family broken down in the West, but the nuclear family is not in good condition either. Who will take care of the aged? Who will take care of the children? Who will take care of the sick? Who feels safe with no one to take care of them in case they happen to come into one of these categories? Sooner or later, most people are bound to get sick or old, especially old, and so what happens? Who will take care?

The social order is the collectivity of human care and it has broken down under the burden of materialism. I have spoken in the larger evolutionary flow, but in the social sphere, the society is out of order. It has lost its balance. Those norms that would hold and bind the human beings to each other and create the social fabric to support and sustain people have broken down causing very much personal suffering to many people. Order based on care will need to re-assert itself and it will do so. The binds of materialism have broken it. That is the source. If everyone needs to have a new television, a new washing machine and a new refrigerator and if each one lives in a big house all alone they need more such items. They become consumers. When many live together, they don’t need so many consumer objects. They aren’t all alone. Although people may have relative material comfort, they are starving in their hearts. They are lonely and unhappy from the oppression of materialism. In materialism, one’s position in the society and one’s material wealth become more important than the family, more important than the friends, more important than the building of this collective structure. It has become the value. That will change of necessity. It is already changing. Surely, the lifestyle configurations that people develop will reflect that change.

In today’s immediate situation, many people are beginning to look into local economic autonomy and local community, how to build community, how to sustain community, how to bring each other together collectively. These are very good movements and they will continue to grow. In fact, they will become prominent movements in the very near future. With this type of movement that is natural for the human spirit, there is a fundamental recognition that human needs aren’t now getting satisfied. In a balanced society, the society is there to meet the needs of the human heart and all the fundamental needs of human beings. People need security and safety. They need a society in which they can feel that they know their place. Right now, many things are in shift and change. All systems of individual acquisition and material wealth are breaking down under the burden of their own inability to meet human needs. The human heart will break free of those oppressive bindings. So there is social upheaval at this time as cultures collide and as the oppression of the era of the dominance of the merchant class, called vaeshyan era, and of material wealth breaks down and seems not to meet the human needs.

Q. Where will humans evolve in the next ten to fifty years? Is it possible that the human species could greatly diminish in numbers or actually become extinct while human consciousness continues to evolve into the different realms?

Yes. You make a good point. How many times can the population double and be sustained by this planet? The human population is in excess and will not go on being in excess. These things have a way of balancing themselves. But you have asked a deeper question, can the human beings go on evolving without the physical development or will a new life form evolve or will that life form develop in other strata?

Many souls will be lost but no soul is ever lost. The physical forms will diminish in number but those beings will find expression. Human mind grows in magnitude. This will not change. Though perhaps the numbers on this planet will greatly decrease, the essence of human evolution and development will not be lost. It will not be a crumbling to start over but will be a refining into evolution.

Are souls ready for this entire collectivity? Not yet. That is a stage to come. But evolution speeds up in geometric fashion. Therefore, it is not so distant but it is also not yet now. Now is a stage like puberty. Now is the stage entering adulthood. I am giving this analogy so it is understandable. The stage now is not near adulthood. It is a stage of puberty, a stage of turmoil, but coming into a more mature stage. So it is not a disassociation from physicality. That remains at this stage.

The evolution of the planet has to move into normalization. There is a bit of awkwardness in the situation. There is excess. If one thinks of the whole, all the thrust has gone to the front, to the development of the human species. Now the refinement is there. The human beings moved into the city-states. From there developed the collective, to the nations, to the planetary flow, and the recognition will come of psychic evolution and technology will become more psychic, less physical in form for what is physical will be sustained mentally. It will not be so crude. It will not have the same the footprint that it now has.

People will remain associated with form though their numbers will come into balance and the footprint on the planet will be very light.

People will learn a great lesson. The footprint will be lighter. A time will come when the people live among the great trees and their cities leave no traces. The people are as evolved and as technological as now. In fact, they are more technological, more evolved. But their footprint is very light. They are not living in cities that cut down the trees and build an environment for human beings. They live in a kind of movement, a sustainable life with the planet in harmony. People are now learning that harmony is now being learned by understanding disharmony and its results. That understanding brings the intention of harmony and that intention will create harmony.

Q. Could you talk a little bit about the role of the arts as a tool in the evolution of human consciousness?

Yogis say that each and every human being is like a pond in which the one moon reflects. The moon, the potentials of the cosmic mind, reflects in each and every pond until finally the ponds merge in a lake and form one whole reflection. But each pond is a reflection and so it reflects the cosmic mind and the nature of the cosmic mind is creative. This beautiful world is a painting, a lovely work of art in the cosmic mind. Each and every beautiful being is a work of art created in the cosmic mind. Every tree that grows, every scent, every flower that blooms, is a creative work of art. Human beings are as mirrors, like the moon that reflects in the pond, so that creativity reflects in human beings. What will you do with that capacity? Will you create beauty? Will you create love?