{"id":1499,"date":"2013-01-29T05:48:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/awakeintheworld\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2013-01-29T05:48:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T10:48:37","slug":"consciously-evolving-through-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/awakeintheworld\/2013\/01\/consciously-evolving-through-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"Consciously Evolving Through Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCrisis offers a possibility to awaken as a participant in conscious evolution.\u201d \u2013 Barbara Marx Hubbard<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrisis has been a part of evolution of the species since its conception,\u201d says Barbara Marx Hubbard. Hubbard is a futurist and evolutionary thought leader who is working with people to make it through the incredible shift that she sees coming. \u201cCrisis precedes transformation,\u201d she says. \u201cProblems are evolutionary drivers, on both the personal and societal level.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/~\/media\/64B555806E3A4F04821933DF250D028F.ashx?w=400&amp;h=300&amp;bg=00000000&amp;f=png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/~\/media\/64B555806E3A4F04821933DF250D028F.ashx?w=400&amp;h=300&amp;bg=00000000&amp;f=png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people have arrived at a place of spiritual growth and transformation after falling ill, losing jobs or experiencing relationship break-ups. As our social institutions breakdown \u2013 from the banking and financial sectors to the way food is cultivated, processed and distributed \u2013 Hubbard invites us to look for breakthroughs in the ways we connect with each other. Hubbard, who associated with Dr. Jonas Salk and Buckminster Fuller, is leading a movement to become aware of our human potential and use it to evolve into a society that values cooperation over competition and values the contribution of each and every individual.<\/p>\n<p>Her view of the world is a refreshing shift towards possibility and transformation of ourselves and of society. She encourages people to create hubs to exchange ideas and resources, and to look at grassroots level organizations that are doing well what society\u2019s biggest institutions are not. Micro-credit lending institutions, farms and food producers who work with nature and more, media that educates and feeds the soul. \u201cFor the first time the world has a shared problem that is awakening millions of us,\u201d she says. Her message is one of hope. The problems are bringing about unprecedented innovation and transformation. Her message is one of hope. \u201cHumanity is being born as a universal species,\u201d she says. The current crises that have brought us to the point where can have the capacity to extinguish ourselves as a species is also bringing us into a deeper understanding of our inherent connectedness. \u201cWe\u2019re one,\u201d Hubbard says. She had a vision of a planetary rebirth and at age 82 continues to work to connect people with each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Debra Moffitt is the award winning author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Awake-World-Practices-Divinely-Inspired\/dp\/0738727229\" target=\"_blank\">Awake in the World: 108 Practices to Live a Divinely Inspired Life<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.llewellyn.com\/product.php?ean=9780738733821\">Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery<\/a>\u201d (Llewellyn Worldwide, May 2013). A visionary, dreamer and teacher, she\u2019s devoted to nurturing the spiritual in everyday life. She leads workshops on spiritual practices, writing and creativity in the U.S. and Europe. More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awakeintheworld.com\">http:\/\/www.awakeintheworld.com<\/a> and on Facebook at: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DebraMoffittAwakeintheWorld\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DebraMoffittAwakeintheWorld<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCrisis offers a possibility to awaken as a participant in conscious evolution.\u201d \u2013 Barbara Marx Hubbard \u201cCrisis has been a part of evolution of the species since its conception,\u201d says Barbara Marx Hubbard. 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