Consciousness Report
Issue December 2011
The
Five Pivotal Predictions For The New World
As
published in the January 2012 Issue of Branches Magazine, It Can Change Your
Life
In 2000, right after G.W. Bush won the presidency, I
was sitting at my computer when I got the first of my five predictions. The rest came within a short period of
time. The initial one made the hair
stand up on the back of my neck. The
rest seemed confusing and unlikely to me.
I didn’t know what to do with them, so I did nothing. I let them lie fallow for eleven years, in
spite of the fact that one had already come true. As world events started reflecting another of
the predictions and the remaining ones seemed more plausible, I decided it was
time to share them. Now, I no longer
feel timid, nor do I find the remaining predictions improbable. Rather, they produce in me a sense of
reassurance that we are being guided in a larger purpose. So, here they are. I hope they inspire you to participate in
these exciting global changes. At the
very least, I hope they alleviate any anxiety you may feel being part of a
world in great transition.
1.
This
one [President G.W. Bush] will need a war to remain popular.
Eleven months after receiving this first prediction,
9-11 occurred. Shortly after, our
president gained the support of most of the country to go to war in Iraq. Feeling powerful and united in purpose after
being rocked to our core, we followed our leader into battle while his
popularity soared. It wasn’t 9-11 as
much as our willingness to relinquish our majority vote in November 2000 to
President Bush rather than Al Gore that sealed our course toward our current
even more extreme conditions.
2.
The
people will lead the leaders.
We can see evidence of humans bonding together in
grassroots movements. The election of
President Obama, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, local citizens forming
groups to attend to local needs are recent examples. Global upheavals are occurring where masses
of people, mostly youth and women, bring about new structures to replace those
which have stood in some cases for thousands of years. Whatever and whoever doesn’t serve the
greater good is being toppled.
3.
There
will be a new world economic system.
It’s been obvious the past few years that a significant
number of people are struggling economically.
There have been many on the planet without any assets for a long
time. Now more and more people are being
thrust into actual or precipitous want.
As a species, we have been revealing to ourselves the lack of awareness
we have of the dangers of extreme and sustained imbalance and disregard of
life. This imbalance is demanding
change. It’s showing us that we’re in
this together.
4.
There
will be a third political party in this country.
Our growing dissatisfaction with duality in polarizing
conflict rather than as a paradigm of collaborative harmony is causing us to
look for alternatives. As we venture
past our discomfort of leaving tradition behind, we are trying out whatever we
must to end our national conflict and poor choices seen reflected in our
political system. We are in the midst of
an opportunity to redefine who we think we are as a people and to understand
the relationship of freedom and responsibility.
5.
Business
and the arts, including media, will head the change of consciousness.
We are about the business of grasping the concept of
practical compassion. Already some large
corporations as well small entrepreneurial endeavors are coming to the
revelation that people are no longer willing to tolerate greed and the mindset
that the greater good is irrelevant. In
his new book, “How. Why How We Do
Anything Means Everything In Business…(And In Life)”, Dov Seidman observes that
many businesses are taking note of the current urge citizens of the world have
to be relevant again. These saavy organizations
are steering their enterprises toward service as good business. Additionally, the desire for beauty and the
more intangible benefits of life are being recognized as core needs of our
species. Art is mindful of the valuable
contributions of individuals and their power to inspire us to act from our
highest standards. The internet has become a powerful vehicle that has allowed
us to be able to communicate, organize, collect and create meaningful movement
toward being a global community with more balanced priorities and goals.
These amazing times are both exciting and terrifying,
depending on our willingness to join the larger Flow that seems to have a
cohesive movement afoot. Structure is at
last recognizing its true partner in purpose.
Means and meaning are at last entering the harness together as equals
and our world will never be the same.
Isn’t that what we said we wanted?
