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"This universe is a dream that all six billion of us are collaboratively dreaming up into materialization together. When we realize this, we can put our lucidity together in a way where we can co-creatively dream up a much more grace-filled universe into incarnation. This is nothing other than an evolutionary quantum leap in human consciousness, unimaginable until now." - Paul Levy

Is 9/11 and Bush's "War on Terror" a Psychic Trigger for a Quantum Leap in Human Consciousness?

Musings by S. Brian Willson
January 6, 2003 http://brianwillson.com/musings.html

As strange as it may sound, it is possible that a long overdue psychic awakening may have been catalyzed by the tragedy of September 11, 2001. Clearly, it has provided a terrifying opportunity for the U.S. imperial plutocracy to complete its ultimate global control and resources theft project. Ironically, it may also have provoked a painful wake-up process for millions of people that may contribute politically to Western civilization's collapse and to the initiation of alternative, sustainable paradigms. Many now know that current consumption and pollution patterns are unsustainable, the result being that ecological collapse is inevitable in the very near future, despite stubborn denial by our political leaders.
Prior to any investigation whatsoever, U.S. officials glibly accused the perpetrators of 9/11 to be Islamic people, and ascribed their motivations to be hatred of our freedoms. The most natural, instinctive human response to the spectacular and cruel crime of 9/11 is to ask why it happened. Our governmental leaders essentially refused to seriously investigate motivation for the crimes, even though understanding such motivation would have offered the most promising clues for identifying, apprehending, and prosecuting the perpetrators. Even more important, understanding motivation would have created a basis for preventing reoccurrence. They ignored motivation because 9/11 conveniently created great fear in people's minds, allowing them to garner the necessary political support to finalize a plan for world hegemony and consequent control of dwindling resources. Fear is an old trick frequently utilized by powerful oligarchs to procure public support when that support is perceived as waning. A serious pursuit of radical alternatives is simply out of the question--not even considered an option by political leaders of the U.S.--since their personal profits and lifestyle values blind them to the extreme emergency threatening humanity's (and ironically their own) survival. ....

The mother of all structural problems is the West's forceful control over the vast majority of the lives, cultures, and resources of the world, resulting in grotesque disparities between a minority of Western Haves and a majority of the remainder Have-Nots. This is the primary issue begging for an honest and comprehensive political answer. Those who have addressed it honestly have been treated as heretics. As a consequence the Western Way Of Life continues to rationalize an extraordinarily unjust extraction, consumption, and pollution pattern. This structural problem puts Homo sapiens and thousands of other species on an advanced collision course with the habitability of Planet Earth. Survival of our species, and life as we know it, is in imminent risk of extinction! If we weren't in denial about such severe challenges, the U.S. could immediately join virtually the remainder of the world in a Manhattan Project-like effort to contract U.S. and Western materialist ambitions and consumption patterns. Psychological and political space and energy would then be freed up for addressing the perilous problems created by human population growth and the resultant ecological screams of global warming, species extinction, etc., while outlining a steady-state model for sustainable life. Though denial is typical for those who fear a change in the status quo, no matter how sick or destructive it might be, there is no excuse for allowing denial to continue in a manner that threatens to bring on Armageddon.
Thus, it is critical that the general U.S. population be able to perceive the extreme danger from continuation of existing political, economic, and military policies, and the assumptions of the American Way Of Life (AWOL) upon which those policies ultimately derive their authority. Usually people are motivated to act because of visceral discomfort or pain. Some say that major changes in paradigms and attitudes are more often than not initially motivated by emotion rather than reason. The chickenhawk leaders of the U.S. have never felt the pain of war in their viscera, where such pain usually becomes a kind of irreversible knowledge. They are not sufficiently fearful of war because they have never personally tasted or smelled it.
We know from archaeological, anthropological, and historic evidence that humans are able to choose sudden and radical changes when deemed necessary for survival. The origins of our species Homo sapiens dates to earlier versions some 7 to 8 million years ago. There have been countless threats to the continuation of our evolutionary journey with appropriate survival adaptations made.
I am suggesting that 9/11 may have set in motion a series of questions and probing, deep in our collective psyche beyond the range of normal cognitive thinking, that not only ask why the tragic and spectacular crimes of 9/11 occurred, but dare to question more deeply the assumptions and values upon which the American Way Of Life in particular, and the Western Way Of Life in general are based. This would suggest that we are in the midst of a pivotal human evolutionary moment, equal to that of earlier critical points such as the shift from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist some 8 or 9 thousand years ago. That the U.S. "war on terror" may in fact be seen as directly aimed at assuring access to the remainder of dwindling oil resources relating to our entire way of life may trigger an awakening about urgent need for a huge shift in thinking. One might conclude in a fairly short time span of intensive discernment that a radically changed life where less is seen as more may be the necessary survival response. The concocted "war on terror" may be recognized as one aimed at achieving world hegemony to extend our way of life for a little longer, with the realization, however, that, once those resources have run out, never again will we be able to live the way we have grown up believing in.
Thus, in a short period of time, massive numbers of people could conceivably choose to withdraw their support from a political and economic system, and its plutocratic structures, seen now as one destined to doom humans and other living things to unprecedented extreme danger, even possibly extinction. In the alternative, people could choose to actively participate in a worldwide effort to identify and begin experimenting with truly sustainable steady-state economies, manifesting in federations of bioregions where the carrying capacity of Mother Nature would determine and be inextricably intertwined with human values and lifestyles.

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A Quantum Leap in Human Consciousness: Our Choice
By Brian Willson

The fact is that you and I just happen to be living at a moment when a huge, quantum leap in human consciousness and a radical cultural adaptation are begging us. Our days of living in relative comfort without paying attention to consequences are over. Done! It took 9/11 to bring us to this point, even though the origins and advancement of the gathering storm have been visible for centuries. As frightening as it is, this moment represents an extraordinary evolutionary opportunity for intentional participation in a huge shift. This is as big as the Neolithic revolution, when Old Stone Age food-gatherers became New Stone Age agriculturalists some 8,000 years ago, and the subsequent urban revolution that saw agriculturalists develop into city dwellers in the ancient Near East some 5,000 years ago. Fortunately, humans are totally capable of rapidly adjusting to imminent danger, if it can be recognized, and of making sudden, radical shifts in behavior and choices.
Is a dignified future worth risking position, reputation, life or limb? Do we want to build a new world, with a new man and a new woman, committed in partnership to emotional as well as intellectual honesty? Do we want to learn to live in decentralized communities based on local self-reliance that wisely honors each bioregion's limits? Local availability of water, energy, food, fiber, and fabric is intimate information to be integrated into our mind-beings, so that our choices become synonymous with Earth wisdom. This wisdom now dictates walking a mindful path of local responsibility within a global context. The Seneca Indians around whom I grew up, prophetically suggested making choices based on how they would affect the seventh generation of offspring. We have wise teachers if only we would listen.
Famous Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe (1892-1957) named his classic book Man Makes Himself (1936). What human beings have created, we can uncreate, and recreate anew, based on history's lessons. There can be no more war, hate or violence! There can be no more systemic ethnocentrisms! There can be no more systemic greed! There can be no more oligarchies! There can be no more male (or female) domination! Out of necessity we must now support one another in healing from these disabling addictions so that our evolutionary process can continue.
Conclusion
Let us commit to a cooperative process of liberation from our quid pro quo, subservient relationship to violent nation-states, renouncing our allegiance to their insanity. We shall strive to recover our spiritual roots and the meaning of life as it connects us to the heavens and the earth--the sky, the cosmos and the carrying capacity of our seasonal Mother Earth in each of the bioregions where we live. We can choose to feel the Mother's rhythms if we walk slowly on the earth, learning from the changing seasons, awe-inspired by a mere glance at the 350 billion-plus stars in our galaxy alone. We can find our way merely by being quiet and listening to the breeze of wisdom that totally envelops us at all moments, including right here at this very second.

 

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