The SHIFT, Conscious Evolution, and You...

[John Strohl]

When we talk about the Shift in our world, it's easy for it to feel abstract and not particularly connected to our daily lives. However, it's an intimate and personal process that begins with you and people like us around the world linking into a potent transformational community.

We build momentum first as thousands and then millions of people begin to act as their own activation point for the larger Shift. And we create a ripple effect that resonates around the world as we each embody a new level of consciousness.

We become our own broadcast station, sending out signals to our family, friends and communities that a new, peaceful, loving and creative humanity IS possible. We serve as divine emissaries -- building bridges, healing wounds, evolving organizations and harmonizing troubled situations. And we all activate the Shift in millions of ways -- small, large, quiet, outward and everything in between.

Many of you feel called to be one of these activation points, and the Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) Training has been created just for you, with the next cycle beginning August 9th.

It's a 12-week journey of powerful openings, insights and awakenings all designed for you to become an activation point for the Shift - first in your own being, then through creating synergistic relationships and community, and, finally, in serving the world's most pressing needs.

Among the 825 recent ACE graduates, there's a powerful and palpable sense that they have shifted the ground of their being, unleashing more joy, love, creativity and community than ever before. They have become nodes of light around the world - anchor points for a new pattern to come into being.

Are you also called to be an activation point for the Shift?

If so, you'll want to join this extraordinary global community of pioneers who have received the new evolutionary "codes" offered by Barbara Marx Hubbard, learned the skills of becoming a change agent, and joined our vibrant evolutionary community that is committed to being of soulful service in the years ahead.

[Ron Tocknell]

The SHIFT cannot be denied. It is occurring organically. Although it is always good to try to prepare oneself for any kind of change, the change itself will occur by default. I've read a lot about the things we must do in order to prepare but, as long as we are open to the idea that change is happening, we simply need to go with the flow.

 

A little while ago, it occurred to me that the whole concept of power is an illusion and that the only thing that gives potency to the concept of power (I am talking about political or authoritarian power... not real POWER) is the compliance of those who believe they are at the mercy of such power. Within a week, I'd read the same thoughts presented on a number of diverse sites. I am realistic enough not to kid myself that I had started this trend of thought but I also know that the thought had not come from anything I had read. What had happened to me is the same as what had happened to others who had also written about it. We had tapped into a global awareness and this is happening all the time and to more and more people.

 

I am gradually beginning to recognise the difference between thoughts that originate with me and thoughts that are already in the global awareness and have entered my own awareness. Many things seem to be occurring that appear to be random, unconnected events but, take a step back and you can see a pattern emerging. It is the splitting of a chrysalis.

 

The Internet has played a huge part in this, not only by revolutionising global communication but also by making us all feel more connected. We are becoming connected and our individual 'fields' are expanding and overlapping.

 

I think we need not feel anxiety about being ready. The caterpillar doesn't consciously deconstruct itself in the chrysalis... it doesn't have to KNOW how to build a butterfly. This occurs simply because it is part of the pattern that is so vast that few if any of us can see it.

 

The chrysalis is splitting and a New Humanity is emerging. It isn't something we have to do. It is happening.

[John Strohl]

Ron, I completely agree with your thoughts. I have had reason to write similar thoughts, specifically for the benefit of my fellow students in the ACE course, a number of whom manifest various anxieties about everything from "but what is the plan?" to "we have to DO something!" I have hastened to reassure them of the very same things you point out here, including the simple observation that by being there and doing what they are doing they ARE doing something.  That having been said, the course HAS been a gathering point for many levels of awareness and conscious evolution, and was both informationally useful, instructionally insightful, and beneficial as a point of fellowship and common discussion. Many of the people involved have been steeped in many of the concepts and activities of consciously changing the course of human interaction with each other and with the planet for quite a while (myself included) as well as a large number seeking insight and engagement as relatively new members of the community of interest.

While I agree that what is happening will happen regardless of any of our individual efforts or motivations, I believe that even if we CAN pick something up innately, that doesn't mean that taking a class in that same material cannot be beneficial, sometime in very substantial ways.  In this case, to the extent that any of us can be come more causal and operate in this time of shift and change with purpose and more developed skill and ability to engage others, ourselves, and our planet in new and meaningful ways, then I actively encourage it.

There are plenty who will be "going with the flow" because they can do nothing else. You make the statement "The Internet has played a huge part in this, not only by revolutionising global communication but also by making us all feel more connected." I would respectfully disagree. There are HUGE numbers of people who do NOT feel connected, even as users of the Internet, and some feel even more disconnected by our anti-social structures and progressive loss of pro-social structures (since the dawn of the industrial age), which the Internet has been a pale replacement for in many cases. That having been said, the point I made above is the relevant one "Are you... called to be an activation point for the Shift?"  I think it is reasonable to say that while we don't have to DO anything for the Shift to happen, being able to DO something, or many things, may be of great value for those so motivated. Having a developed facility rather than a dim awareness is probably for the better. I prefer to take the position that everyone deserves the opportunity to be a conscious participant rather than make the assumption that many will be an unwitting part of the flotsam during this sea change.

The ACE course has a web site similar to this one but with a more focused emphasis on conscious evolution and co-creative facilitation of the shift that also has a more dynamic and energetic level of participation than I have observed here, probably because of the deliberate focus on learning, growth, and development.  On that basis, I posted what you see above to make that known to any who may be interested. :-) You will notice that I am active here as well :-)

Blessings to you in this time of unknown unfolding

John

Ron Tocknell said:

The SHIFT cannot be denied. It is occurring organically. Although it is always good to try to prepare oneself for any kind of change, the change itself will occur by default. I've read a lot about the things we must do in order to prepare but, as long as we are open to the idea that change is happening, we simply need to go with the flow.

 

A little while ago, it occurred to me that the whole concept of power is an illusion and that the only thing that gives potency to the concept of power (I am talking about political or authoritarian power... not real POWER) is the compliance of those who believe they are at the mercy of such power. Within a week, I'd read the same thoughts presented on a number of diverse sites. I am realistic enough not to kid myself that I had started this trend of thought but I also know that the thought had not come from anything I had read. What had happened to me is the same as what had happened to others who had also written about it. We had tapped into a global awareness and this is happening all the time and to more and more people.

 

I am gradually beginning to recognise the difference between thoughts that originate with me and thoughts that are already in the global awareness and have entered my own awareness. Many things seem to be occurring that appear to be random, unconnected events but, take a step back and you can see a pattern emerging. It is the splitting of a chrysalis.

 

The Internet has played a huge part in this, not only by revolutionising global communication but also by making us all feel more connected. We are becoming connected and our individual 'fields' are expanding and overlapping.

 

I think we need not feel anxiety about being ready. The caterpillar doesn't consciously deconstruct itself in the chrysalis... it doesn't have to KNOW how to build a butterfly. This occurs simply because it is part of the pattern that is so vast that few if any of us can see it.

 

The chrysalis is splitting and a New Humanity is emerging. It isn't something we have to do. It is happening.