Colleagues,
Echoes from the past.
This quote from
Evolutionary Enlightenment--A New Path to Spiritual Awakening by Andrew
Cohen (Select Books New York 2011, p. 205):
The future is not a given. What's going to happen is not already
known and is not predetermined. The
higher stages of consciousness and culture that lie in front of us do not
yet exist. This sounds like a simple point, but it is
profound. Many of us who are
spiritually inspired tend to subscribe to metaphysical worldviews that tell us
that the higher levels and stages of development are already laid out. But they're not. The newly emerging potentials in
consciousness and culture have not yet appeared with enough consistency to
become self-existing levels, or new "habits" in the interior fabric of the
cosmos. They only come into being
to the degree that you and I consciously participate together to develop those
higher capacities in ourselves . . .
This is why the awakening human at
the leading edge today bears such a profound responsibility to be an
evolutionary pioneer--to be the one who is literally living in that place
between the present and the future.
Darrell Walker –
Phoenix