Oh brother, Oh brother
Imagine a world
Imagine a world
Where everybody is like you
Full of love
Spreading the light
With your kindness
Your goodness
You are so nice, so beautiful
This world would be paradise
Yesterday,
When,
Together again
We merged
I saw how beautiful you are
I saw that
I am you
That we are infinite consciousness
That One we are
With him
Poème de Kundun / Poem by Kundun
I found this whole series to be right on the mark for the times we iibahnt and the choices now immediately before us. If we lack the critical mass to step over to the next lily pad, then the human experiment, and quite possibly much of remaining life on Earth, will end and the Fifth World will begin without us. That appears to be the default option on our current line of progression.Alternatively, we still have a choice one involving consciousness, transcendence, and epiphany. What lies behind that door is truly wonderful.There are those among us already through the door, pulling others to join them, and there are those trying hard to slam the door shut and bar it. We have the burden of our own evolution from slime and fang, and yet we also have a biological platform presumedly up to the task. To quote Nate Hagens, Optimism leads to increased frontal cortical activity which itself is a strong predictor of idea generation, positive emotion and overall liveliness of thought. Similarly, sadness is marked by decreased activity in the frontal cortex, which has the negative side affect of reducing the number of overall thoughts and ideas produced. Optimists can be realists, even now.What lies just ahead is a severe dislocation. Its psychological foreshocks are now washing over us, creating anxiety, insecurity, self-doubt, and negative reactions. Overcoming that with affirming, positive, hopeful visions is more than merely spiritual, it is essential to our survival. It is easy to say (or deny) we have screwed the pooch, find some rock to sit on, and watch it all collapse. But we have to get up, make soil, de-consume, and save the planet. That takes a consciousness shift.