{"id":1127,"date":"2013-01-04T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thequeenofmyself\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2013-01-02T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:12:55","slug":"a-vision-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/01\/a-vision-for-humanity.html","title":{"rendered":"A Vision for Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Vision for Humanity in 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Barbara Marx Hubbard<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanity is facing unprecedented, evolutionary changes. It is amazing\u2014out of the famous Mayan prophecy has come the indication that we are facing the end of this world as we know it and the beginning of the new world by 2012. This date corresponds to environmental and social predictions of breakdowns and breakthroughs now widely known. Let\u2019s assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?<\/p>\n

The Evolution of Consciousness<\/p>\n

We notice that crisis precede transformation. Problems are evolutionary drivers. Intensifying pressure leads either to devolution and extinction or evolution and transformation. This is one reason that 2012 might be earthshaking and shocking to some. Furthermore, we see that evolution creates radical newness. Life out of prelife, human life out of animal life. Is it possible that from our species, a new human and a new humanity are now emerging?<\/p>\n

We can see the sequence from Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo Neanderthal, Homo sapiens, to Homo sapiens sapiens. Why should it stop with us? Is it possible that a new species has been gestating in the womb of self-consciousness through the great avatars, mystics, and visionaries for thousands of years, and that now, due the crisis, this new human is being born in millions of us?<\/p>\n

It has been predicted as Homo progressivus (Teilhard de Chardin), Gnostic Human (Sri Aurobindo), Homo sapiens, sapiens, sapiens (Peter Russell), Homo noeticus (John White), Homo universalist (my own favorite name). It is possible that the basic shift point in this prophecy is the emergence of the \u201cuniversal human,\u201d by whatever name it is called, as a \u201cnew norm.\u201d Perhaps we will reach critical mass for this human by 2012.<\/p>\n

The fact is we see ourselves coming to the end of the viability and even survivability of ourselves in our current stage of self-centered self-consciousness. We are becoming \u201cego mutants,\u201d as Alan Lithman calls current leadership, gaining powers we used to attribute to gods while we remain in the same state of consciousness as our ancestors.<\/p>\n

If we imagine ourselves only a few years in the future, even by 2013, providing we do not destroy ourselves first, we see the outlines of a vastly enhanced humanity, applying the growing edge of human consciousness, capacities, and evolutionary technologies to life-affirming goals, resulting in a quantum transformation of the human species itself.<\/p>\n

How Do We Get Ready For 2013?<\/p>\n

Realize that the higher self, the inner voice, is you. Bring your projections home as your own developmental potential. Ask that deeper self to take dominion within your personality selves, and shift your identity from your ego to your essence. This is the key step to being born as a more universal human.<\/p>\n

Then, find life purpose. Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy. Seek out those who affirm the highest in you. Where two or more are gathered in the name of that highest dimension or your being there, \u201cI Am\u201d is in your midst.<\/p>\n

Everyone is needed. Everyone is called. The greatest blessing any one of us can have is to say \u201cyes\u201d to the dormant potential within us. Reach out to those who attract you, and connect with as many others doing the same as you possibly can.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Donna Henes is the author of The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife<\/em><\/a>. She offers counseling and upbeat, practical and ceremonial guidance for individual women and groups who want to enjoy the fruits of an enriching, influential, purposeful, passionate, and powerful maturity. Consult the MIDLIFE MIDWIFE\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n

The Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to thequeenofmyself@aol.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

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