Are we running out of time ?
In May 2018, I wrote in my book (Source Code Meditation):
The perfect storm is brewing for global catastrophe…or for a beautiful new wave of human potential. Which path will we walk? That depends on what we do now.
I have brought to light some of the glaring issues facing us and the urgency with which dramatic change has to come about. We all know the challenges that are produced by the current unbalanced and competing Life Altitudes of pre-modern, modern and postmodern consciousness: climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, new infectious diseases, disappearing water supply, pollution, overpopulation, poverty, government gridlock, etc.
In framing the coronavirus situation, I can tell that many people are realizing that it is a wake-up call for humanity and that the world needs to change. If we don’t take bold action now, we may still survive. A small percentage of our species probably would live through any type of global catastrophe and start over.
Two years ago, I asked the question: Do we want to wait for catastrophe and hope for the best? But today, the global catastrophe seems to be happening and the question becomes: Are we going to frame the situation as a personal wake-up call or continue with our unsustainable way of living and assaulting our immune system?
We now can either await the arrival of the New Human (that I call Epoch6) and run the risk of being too late, or we can, for the first time in the 13.8 billion-year history of the earth and 4.5 billion-year history of life, through a high degree of consciousness and intuition, participate and promote the very evolutionary process that created us!
The attitude that somehow our global problems will just work out because they always have didn’t work for the Mayans, Babylonians, Romans or Khmer. These once-advanced thriving civilizations are all dust today. In fact, not only are most previous civilizations gone, 99.9% of all the species that have ever roamed the earth and sea are now extinct.
The Lower Brain And Your Immune System
According to research, up to 90% of all medical doctors’ visits are associated with stress. Stress and stress hormones (mediated through the old brain) have now been demonstrated to be associated with every major symptom, condition, or disease, including the major killers: heart disease and cancer. The blood flow and energy required to fuel the defensive systems in your body, which ‘protect you from a predator’, must come from somewhere. There is generally a finite amount of blood and energy in the human body if the lower brain is reacting to the environment defensively, which research demonstrates is happening nearly 24/7 in modern culture. Blood supply is diverted into our defensive systems so we can fight, freeze, or flee in the face of a tiger (even if this tiger is traffic on the freeway). If a tiger is coming, you need larger amounts of blood supply and energy directed to the areas of your body needed to protect you, but this comes at a price. This routing of blood and energy needed to protect you in the short term isn’t available to heal you in the long term if the lower brain response doesn’t dissipate.
In addition to blood and energy diverted away from the Higher Brain, it is also diverted away from the digestive system and immune system. Your immune system keeps you alive. It intervenes to keep a simple cold from taking over your body and killing you (as happens in immune-compromised cases such as AIDS).
Your immune system fights and stops cancerous cells that are growing in your body (we all have cancerous cells inside us — the reason they don’t usually turn into cancer is that a properly functioning immune system finds the early cancer cells and destroys them before they proliferate), and it needs adequate fuel to do so. Even low-grade stress (lower brain mediated) compromises immunity, so it is not difficult to see why health and healing are severely compromised by lower brain stress physiology, or why turning on the Higher Brain and releasing the stress response also results in increased healing and immunity.
The Seduction Of A Future That Does Not Exist
The lower brain wants to create sameness in your life… You have untapped potential that will go unrealized without a concerted effort now.
It is highly unlikely that there will ever be a better time than the present to truly change your life. We have all had options taken away from us, now we can focus. We are being called back inside, and you have the perfect tools for this moment.
I have tracked human behavior for almost 3 decades and in that time I have encountered tens of thousands of people who have told me they were going to do what it took to change their life ‘later’… When they had more money, when they had more time, when the circumstances of the moment were different. But my deep observations tell me most people simply never have more time or more money and the ideal conditions never arrive. It’s a ruse.
Know this: the lower brain co-opts our future visioning and uses it to project what we know we need to do ‘now’ into the future… And the one thing about the future, the one thing that never changes about the future, the only real constant of the future, is that it never arrives. Never, ever… Do you see the primitive game? The lower brain bait and switch? The future never actually arrives.
Therefore when we couple the realization of our full potential to the future, we have practically guaranteed that our potential stays un-manifested. We’ve created a story that allows our song to remain unsung.
You are here for a reason now, this is your exit strategy. You cannot go outside, so go inside and use this as the precious opportunity that it is. Create the change in you now that you know you are being called to.
Of course, this can help you get everything you want: money, love, confidence, health, and happiness. But you’re more than that — you’re an agent of change in a suffering world. There are no passive observers. We are either part of the problem or part of the solution. We were meant for this moment. Let’s show up and shine on. You are right here right now for a reason.
