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A New Spiritual Renaissance Has Begun

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Aluna Joy Yaxk’in with the Star Elders

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In the three decades leading up to the prophetic dates of 2012, and at the end of a 5,125 year Mayan cycle of time, we have entered a very unique time on Earth that is filled with great potential. We are about at the end of a long, exciting but exhausting 33 year journey that has taken us through the dark rift in the Milky Way. 33 is a powerful master number and also the center frequency of the Maya Tzolk’in. The Maya know this rift to be a place of great transformation, and we will be completely through this dark rift by 2016. (from 1983-2016) When we look back, we can see that we are no longer the same person that we were when we began this adventure together.

The beginning of this sacred 33 year passage was triggered by the Harmonic Convergence in 1986 that also triggered a global Spiritual Renaissance in which we re-birthed, re-modeled, re-hashed, re-claimed, re-mapped, re-booted and re-membered. We just about re-did everything and, in doing so, we looked deep into our hearts with the precision of an electron microscope. But that period is over. It is fading into a dim memory. Our work is done there, and what we have done cannot be repeated. We have made the leap.

Now, 30 years later, we are beginning to exit the dark rift in the Milky Way. This is triggering yet another Spiritual Renaissance. We will feel the first hints of this renaissance on Equinox (March 19-22) by feeling a profound lifting of spirit and an transformed inner light that has returned after a long 3 month cocoon stge. The Star Elders share that by Solstice (June 21-23, 2013) it will be obvious that we have entered a new frequency, dimension, bandwidth, reality and perspective. It will be time to put into action your new and divine creative skills to work.

The intense uncertainty and anticipation that was building for the prophetic dates of December 21, 2012 has passed, and we have entered into a new beginning that is a merging of our physical body with our spirit with the divine plan. The world did not end in horrific cataclysms; nor was there an ecstatic rapture into paradise. A fleet of UFOs didn’t come to save us either. But we knew it would turn out this way. The sensitive ones of this world are now breathing a deep sigh of relief as the energy bubble, overflowing with crushing ambiguity and expectation has burst, and a more balanced, peaceful and harmonious energy is emerging into the new Earth.

 

Up until now, for most of the conscious community, the universe felt like it had hit the pause button. We felt like a ships without rudders. Even what we held true was flip flopping on a daily basis, and we felt an enormous apathy to all things in our material lives. We felt like we were in an odd place of suspended animation floating in a void of immaculate space. We have entered the creative womb of divine potential. We have entered an incubation phase of a new and exciting cycle. We are dreaming a new world while maintaining a body in the physical world. We are living and dreaming all at the same time. It is an oddly fascinating place to witness . . . like watching the birth of a star.

All new cycles, like the one we just entered, begin slowly with lots of surreal, dreamlike space in which to make very creative imaginings and visualizations that will soon become the foundation stones for this entire new cycle. At first our world might feel it lacks luster. Many people are sharing with me that they are missing the buzz of 2012, and the world now feels a bit mundane. We are literally being asked to go “cold turkey” on breaking our addiction to really high pitched energies from the past cycle that we had become accustomed to. This is an adjustment as we let go of the drama and ego and frantic pace that we were accustomed to. Others are making huge adjustments in their lives to self-correct and come into alignment with this new cycle and field of possibility. This takes raw and instinctual courage as we enter a multi-dimensional world.

While in this suspended animation, we are becoming comfortable with the void and the unknown. Even though there is some oddly unproductive searching going on (this is a temporary state by the way), we also feel safe and secure regarding the eminent outcome of our incubation. We are collecting new tools for the future. This is a safe place for us while the Earth, our physical form and our DNA recalibrates to the new frequencies. We are gathering information that we will need for the new birth . . . And we can feel it coming.

 

So now what? It is time to get really friendly with the unknown that is out in front of us now. The world is going to change, and so are we. There are going to be some surprising changes in the directions in our physical and spiritual lives. We will be mystified and sometimes overwhelmed by all the myriad of choices. We are struggling to get clear about what is next for our lives, but our usual guidance is now coming from multiple directions at once. I like to call this “the octopus effect” as we begin to learn to manifest spherically while being in a neutral and detached ego. This is a confusing time as all of our guidance feels to be true. We are learning to be multi-dimensional beings and think and live in multiple realties. This wrestling for clear guidance is going to stretch us and help us discover new frontiers of reality.

We have entered a new beginning that has blasted us into a higher frequency. It is an explosion of spirit and evolution. Any negative, ego driven program must and will go extinct. The past is quickly becoming a dinosaur. With patience, we will learn to understand and integrate the new higher frequencies that we are now learning to navigate. We may flip flop between the many choices out in front of us until we can hold and maintain a multi-dimensional perspective. We have the task of unpacking all that transpired during the powerful time in 2012.

We have now graduated into multi-dimensional grownups. We have grown past expecting to be saved or rescued. We are re-claiming our God given, divine potential, physically and spiritually. We are fearlessly facing the work ahead of us. We embrace being responsible human beings and accept the uncertainty and change in the enviable matrix of possibility ahead. We will use this matrix as a vehicle for our growth and awakening. We are letting go of our rigid belief systems, because we have learned that adversity and challenge comes only when we go against the flow.

We are blessed to be in a period of a great Spiritual Renaissance . . . a phase of orientation and discovery. The orientation point that was anchored in each of us in 2012 is now being slowly switched on. Remember, we just came from a fever pitched ending of a huge cycle, into calm immaculate space. Be patient with yourself now, as new cycles always begin slowly. There is no need to rush. There is lots of time to fulfill your destiny and divine purpose. We have time to act deliberately. We can take our time about everything in our lives. We can slow down and breathe the unqualified air in this new reality. We can make each decision and choice from great intent and deep contemplation. We are going to create a new and harmonic world. So no worries for now, if you feel a bit stuck. The mission was not aborted, and we didn’t miss the boat; we are on board and sailing with the spirit of a new born earth star. But as you see . . . it is going to take some getting used to. Let us breathe and see where it takes us.

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Aluna Joy Yaxk’in . . . A Star Messenger – Earth Oracle – Soul Reader – Sacred Site Junkie was literally born awake and in the company of her guides, the Star Elders. Today she has evolved into an author, spiritual life coach, sacred site guide, alternative historian, ordained minister and modern mystic. In the Inca world, Aluna is considered a Qawaq (cow-wak), a clairvoyant or seer of living energy. Aluna acts as a spiritual archaeologist using her clairvoyant / clairsentient gifts to excavate current messages from the masters of ancient, enlightened cultures to uncover what affect this has on humanity and the collective consciousness. She is well known for her down to earth, accepting attitude that makes each one feel like they have come home. She inspires and encourages others to recognize and accept their own authentic divinity and connection to the Creator. “Our groups are family, and each one is a teacher and also a student. We work together as a team to unravel the sacred mysteries of life.” Aluna coined the term “sacred site junkie” because she is one herself. After her first trip to Tulum, Mexico, her life changed dramatically, and she was sent on an entirely different path in life. Since this time, her work has been influenced by uncountable shamanic experiences in sacred sites of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Greece, England, Australia and New Zealand. Aluna has been leading groups in the Maya world since 1986, the Inca world since 1996, and the Egyptian world since 2008, and the mystical world of Avalon (England and Scotland) since 2007. Aluna offers Star Elder Sessions, formulates Sacred Site Essences and a free newsletter. She is the author of “Mayan Astrology” and her articles have been published worldwide.  Visit her website www.AlunaJoy.com    Find her on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alunajoyyaxkin YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/feelthelove2012

 Aluna can be reached at 928-282-6292 or aluna@alunajoy.com

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Manifesting in a New World

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by Aluna Joy Yaxk’in

For decades, we have been waking up in stages . . . installments or waves of energy that jar us from our sleep. We remember when we reached “ah-ha” pivotal moments where life changed, never to return to its prior form. We grow through many of these moments. We have also noticed that these installments, or waves, are coming quicker in an increasing rate of speed.

From the time we were born, we have worked to wake up. It was an era of self-realization, and an accumulation of an entire age filled with many past lives. We became aware of universal truths and mass global illusions in the collective. We began to understand who we really are; not only as human beings, but as a divine soul and spirit.

By the mid-1980’s, we were slam dunked into accelerated energy, making it possible to learn at a hyper rate of speed. People who were born in the 80’s or later have a shortage of life’s emotional lessons and historical time lines. This has created a challenge to find home in this rapidly shifting world. Thus the awareness of Indigo Children came into our awareness. Many “indigos” that were born much earlier, in the 40’s – 70’s, had a longer time line in which to prepare and learn, but they were not recognized as “indigos” as the world was not awake enough to recognize them.

From 2008 to the present time, we have been discovering that we are experiencing an increasing loss of interest in the material world and an increased desire for like-minded community. We began to feel a building pressure to create something new, but we do not know what that is. The world is beginning to feel like a “been there and done that” realm. At times, we feel our lives are like the movie “Ground Hog Day”. The core that has remained important to us is our community of like-minded family. Deep connections with soul family is the only thing that holds our interest anymore. We are questioning everything that we have been taught and experienced. Reality is changing right before our eyes.

We are also feeling a great need for freedom. We want to be set free . . . unfettered by physical, mental, or emotional restrictions of any kind. This has created a great migration to un-known destinations . . . physically, emotionally and spiritually. We have had the courage to cut the cords from what we have known without knowing where we are landing next. This is a mass re-calibration. We have learned to trust our heart over our noisy controlling mind. We are choosing love over fear. Step by step, with each choice we make from love, we transform the mis-qualified energy of the collective un-consciousness. It begins to starve until it is gone.

By equinox of March 2011, things really began to heat up as we began to moving into divine neutrality and into a profound state of witnessing. We choose to stay in this world in service, but we not of the world anymore. This is leaving us a bit confused. We don’t know what to do next, since we are nearly completely detached from all things that have anchored us here. Because of this disentanglement, we embark on a divine search. We want to find a place to anchor ourselves as it is in our core nature to do so. We can feel something is looming out in the near future for us, but we can’t see it, understand it or figure it out. But it is clear . . . deep inside our core, we are beginning to feel a new world birthing. As we passed through the June Solstice and eclipse gauntlet of 2011, things took yet another HUGE leap into the energy of this new world. There is no turning back now. The new destination will arrive.

At this point in time, this divine neutrality acts as a way to keep us floating above a shifting world for a short transitional time. We are like jet liners without a landing strip. We are in a holding pattern. Once the world has arrived safety beyond the shifting point, we will be able to implement the options that we have envisioned. The new world will begin to manifest quickly, and it will BE what we make of it.

In the meantime, fueled with our impatience, we continue to dig into our hearts and ask “What do we want?”, because we are used to manifesting in a particular way. Ground Hog Day is becoming a tired old re-run, and we are getting weary of the holding pattern. So we try to push to break through the blocks we feel. Could this frustrating Ground Hog Day feeling mean we are beginning to live within the first stages of a new world? Could this mean that the laws of nature that regulate manifesting have shifted into a new dimension?

P.S. A reminder . . . The Star Elder have said for years that all the rules of nature that binds our dimension together would change at the shift of the ages. They also have shared over and over that it will not be what we think it will be, and the new world will come with great surprises.

The way we have discerned truth is by feeling our centers. But this center has already shifted to the new future. Because of this, we are finding it hard to be as clear as we used to be . . . at least for now. It is making us feel a bit commitment phobic and unsure in nearly all areas of our lives. We find it hard to commit to even the little decisions in life without that nagging feeling that something isn’t right. The old, familiar, heart clarity that we search for is not there anymore. It appears that our center has moved elsewhere. Just as the world is shifting underneath our feet, our hearts have shifted as well. Our hearts, our core, our home base, our orientation point, etc… has moved to a deeper and more pure, evolved level. This level is not about the individual self, but one based in the entire collective . . . the ONE. A new heart is being upgraded for every living thing. We feel this is one aspect of the new laws of nature for the new world.

We are in a profound and hefty preparation mode. We are moving from manifesting in linear time to manifesting in spherical time. This affects the way we live and the way we create. We are learning to create spherically, from multiple directions, within a new heart center. It is a lot to learn.

Learning to manifest in spherical time is creating a temporary issue. There are many varied possibilities open to us for manifesting right now. We have a lot of irons in the fire so to speak. Every option appears to holds equal weight. So we try to figure out what to choose by looking at each idea or option as an individual option. Each individual option that we consider does not necessary feel wrong, but it does not feel right either, and we don’t know why. So we go to the next option, do the same process and discover the same result. It is only when we step back and look at the bigger picture, and see ALL the options together as a unified unit, that our heart says “YES! That is it! Let’s do it!” Quickly after this revelation, we are faced with the issue that all these opportunities are quite different and seem physically impossible to create as a unit, as they appear to go in many different directions. This is the beginning stage of us manifesting spherically and multi-dimensionally. This takes multitasking to an entirely new and higher frequency. This is a cue for us that creating / manifesting multi-dimensionally will be possible very soon. Now we just have to learn to discover our new heart center in the new world.

We are being synchronized with a new, divine timing these days. We are already beginning to feel what manifesting in this new world might be like. Manifesting is going to be much quicker than we can think. We will create solely with intuition . . . a.k.a. our hearts. The rapid pace will feel like a quantum leap in conscious creation. There are clues to this divine timing synchronization. We are already feeling ourselves flip-flop between things we consider manifesting in our lives. We have a moment of clarity about what we what to do, and in the next moment, that desire is gone. It is not that the clarity was wrong in the first place. It is that we just took too long to act on it, and the universe simply moved on to the next option. This new creation mode is moving faster than we can create at this time; thus the need for the divine timing synchronization. When we link up to our new heart center, we will find that manifesting will take off in original and multi-dimensional ways, and we will keep pace with the universe.

We will not know what is ahead of us. Nor will we know the day or hour of the completion of this transformation and the shift of ages. No prophet, channel, mystic or intellectual knows the answer to this one. As Jeshua shares “Keep your lamps lit.” In other words, stay open to all possibilities. Stay ready to leap when all the possibilities converge into your new heart center, and the door opens for you to finally land that jet liner. We are in the same boat now . . . just as we should be . . . as we to leap unified as ONE.

ALUNA JOY YAXK’IN is a Earth Oracle and Star Messenger. She is an internationally known author, spiritual life coach, sacred site guide, alternative historian, ordained minister and modern mystic. She inspires and encourages others to recognize and accept their own authentic divinity and connection to God.

 

Copyright © 2011 – Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this article on the condition that the content remains complete, full credit is given to the author(s). Aluna Joy Yaxk’in, PO Box 1988 Sedona, AZ 86339 USA www.AlunaJoy.com

The Creation Matrix – Aluna Joy and the Star Elders

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Aluna Joy and the Star Elders
Many years ago, the Star Elders say that this special time on Earth was an “E” ticket ride.  They are referring to the old ticketing process at Disney Land.  But what they mean is . . . This time is the most supreme and unparalleled roller-coaster ride in the universe. We are indisputability riding the peaks and valleys of this enormous wave of quantum evolution.  The yo-yo energy makes us feel like we are coming and going all at the same time.  It feels like the energy flat lines and then bursts forth into the extreme.  We are feeling drained and then so charged up that we can’t sleep.  There seems to be no in-between moments anymore.  Inner pressure and emotions are running high as we grapple with the increasing speed of the transformation, and with it, our evolution.  This evolution revolution is so tangible and thick in the atmosphere that we could slice it with a knife. We hold our breath for the next big wave… and it is coming…   It is exciting and a bit scary too!
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The Star Elders also say that this is a rare and uniquely, powerful time for the evolution of the SOUL!  This is why the planet is so crowded.  Everyone wants tickets to this workshop!  We are learning to create with limitless, omni-directional, creative energy.  We are becoming aware of this because we are on the brink of leaving linear 3D time and moving into spiral cosmic time . . . which means we will learn to create spherically!   The Star Elders joke with me and say “Our learning curve just got bigger.”

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The creative force of the universe, that the Star Elders said decades ago was coming, is almost fully unleashed now.  It had been held back for our protection as we navigated the dark cycles that we are coming out of now.  It is time for us to step into the new energy and a new way to manifest reality.  Multiple routes for creating are in front of us now.  We feel like octopuses with our arms stretched out in a radial matrix of directions.  Because of the confusing array of options in front of us, it has become harder to listen and act on a proper direction.  There are so many equally feasible options in front of us. It is extraordinary creative time for humanity.

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Our mechanical minds and our 3D comfort zones are struggling hard to hang on to us, and try to get in the way of our evolution.   But we are seeing natural occurring closures to things that are not serving us anymore.  It almost feels like we are completely out of control of our life. This unhinged feeling is triggering a deeper surrender and peace that is so deep that the only thing left is a KNOWING that it is all going to be OK. We are floating in a new sea of possibility.
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In spite of feeling out of control, the Star Elders keep saying, over and over, for us to KEEP MOVING.  Don’t stall out because there are too many options to choose from.  Just keep moving.  This is not a time to curl up and hunker down and think you can wait out this wave.  It does not work this way anymore.  You need to learn to surf this wave of energy, and you can’t do this by sitting still.  Movement will help you integrate this concentrated  and multiplying energy.  Ultimately, it will become more comfortable to be unhinged from the 3D thus allowing us to be more in alignment with spherical time.
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The Star Elders say to keep our minds open to the matrix of options ahead of us and to take action.  Remember, your mind will want to do what it already understands.  So watch out for the “head trap” we all have.  Remember that the right option for you might be something brand new and maybe not be very practical within our old mind set.  The mind loves practicality.  It is safe.  But we do not evolve without taking risks.  We will not progress if we don’t take a leap into unknown lands.  What goes around will come around again.  So it doesn’t really matter what you choose, because the universe is self-justifying.  You will arrive just where you need to be.  The matrix always goes back to center.  So don’t get too caught up in the details . . . keep your eyes of the big picture and leap.
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The energy of sacred sites have been preparing us for decades for this time, and that is why we see so many people are called to travel.  The sacred sites of the Maya lands are designed predominantly for us learning about spherical time and multi-dimensionality.  They were the experts in time / space shifting.  Uxmal, in the Yucatan, is one of the best sites to learn about spherical time and be unhinged from 3D.  It has a mystical quality about it that does not seem real even while standing right in front of it.  Labna and Kabah, also in the Yucatan, both have powerful dimensional doorways that offer a homeopathic inoculation with a frequency that teaches us to shift from one reality to another.  The sacred sites in the Yucatan have been waking up and reopening their energies during the last three to four years.  We have witnessed this personally.  This area of the world is blasting transformational energies now for the benefit of humanity’s evolution.  We expect these energies in these Maya sites to escalate quickly now as we near the end of this cycle, as we prepare to leap into a new world.
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We (all those reading this) are so lucky that we have had time to prepare for this time.  Many in the world have been keeping this 3D dimension going and are starting to buy into the fear.  We can see this when we turn on the news this last week.  It is our job to hold the space of this KNOWING that it will be OK . . . and transmit this KNOWING across the Earth daily, minute by minute, by our thoughts and actions.  Remember, we are all a part of each other.  How we serve ourselves is how we serve everyone.  How we serve everyone is how we serve ourselves.   This is spherical service.  The Maya call this action . . . “In Lak’ech  Ala K’in.” This message is my loving service to you!
Aluna Joy Yaxkin coined the term “sacred site junkie” because she is one herself. After her first trip to Tulum Mexico, her life changed dramatically and she was hooked.  Since that first fateful trip, she has been traveling and leading groups in the Maya world since 1986; the Inca world since 1996; and the Egyptian world since 2008.  She guides her groups loosely creating sacred space for each one to find their own inner voice. She is well known for her down to earth, accepting attitude that makes each feel like they have come home. “Our groups are family, and each one is a teacher and also a student. We work together as a team to unravel the mysteries of the sacred sites” Aluna says.  She inspires and encourages others to recognize and accept their own divinity and connection to the creator. She shares messages / activations through the masters of ancient enlightened cultures of the Maya, Inca, and Egyptian/Atlantis worlds.
Aluna was literally born awake and was in the company of her guides, the Star Elders, from birth.  In the Inca world, Aluna is considered a Qawaq (cow-wak), a clairvoyant, or seer of living energy. Aluna simply considers herself a Spiritual Archaeologist using her Clairvoyant/Clairsentient gifts to read ancient history of sacred sites. Her work has been influenced through a series of shamanic experiences in sacred sites of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Greece, England, Australia and New Zealand. Aluna is an author, life coach, guide, alternative historian, minister and modern mystic.
Copyright © 2011 – Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this article on the condition that the content remains complete, full credit is given to the author(s), and that it is distributed freely. Aluna Joy Yaxk’in website http://www.AlunaJoy.com

Living on the Edge: The Deep Truth of Our Destiny and Our Fate

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by Gregg Braden

[D] uring the last years of the Cold War, I had a front row seat as a senior systems designer in the defense industry to one of the most frightening times in the history of the world, and the thinking that led to it. During the 44 years of the most potentially lethal, yet undeclared, war in human history, the super powers of the United States and the former Soviet Union did something that seems unthinkable to any rationally minded person today. They spent the time, energy, and human resources to develop and stockpile somewhere in the neighborhood of 65,000 nuclear weapons—a combined arsenal with the power to microwave the Earth, and everything on it, many times over.

[T] here is a common thread that links the rationale that led to the cold war and many of the crises that face us today. They all stem from a way of thinking that has dominated much of the modern world since the beginning of the scientific era about 300 years ago. They’re based in the false scientific assumptions that suggest we’re somehow separate from the Earth, separate from one another, and that the nature that gives us life is based upon violent competition and survival of the strongest.

Fortunately, new discoveries have revealed that each of these assumptions is absolutely false.

Unfortunately, however, there is a reluctance to reflect such new discoveries in mainstream science, mainstream media, traditional classrooms and conventional textbooks. In other words, we’re still teaching our young people the false assumptions of an obsolete way of thinking based in struggle, competition, and war.

[S] o while we no longer face the nuclear threat that we did in the 1980s, the thinking that made the wars and suffering of the 20th Century and the crises of the 21st Century possible is still in place. This fact is vital to us all right now for one simple reason: The best minds of today tell us clearly that we’re facing the greatest number and magnitude of crises in recorded history, and that if left unresolved, each crisis threatens our very existence!

Our Clear and Present Danger

The journal Scientific American released a special edition (vol. 293, no. 3, September 2005) to inform the world of the critical situation we find ourselves in today. The title, Crossroads for Planet Earth, says it all. The way we solve the simultaneous crises that include:

  • our response to climate change
  • the unsustainable and growing levels of extreme poverty
  • the emergence of new diseases
  • the growing shortages of food and fresh drinking water
  • the growing chasm between extreme wealth and extreme poverty
  • the unsustainable demand for energy

will chart the greatest destiny, or seal the darkest fate, of our global family that is estimated to reach a staggering 8 billion people by 2025.

[F] or the first time in human history the future of our entire species rests upon the choices of a single generation—us—and the choices are being made within a small window of time—now.

The key is that the way we address the crises of our time is based in the way we think of ourselves and the world. Maybe it’s no coincidence that today, after three centuries of using the scientific method to answer the most basic questions about ourselves, the world has found itself facing the greatest crises of war, suffering, and disease in recorded history! Our old ways of thinking—which include believing in the need for competition, our separation from nature, and the Darwinian tenet “let the strongest live and the weakest die” have brought us to the brink of disaster. Clearly, the thinking that led to the war and suffering of the 20th century, including the Cold War, is not the thinking that we want the delicate choices of our survival based upon!

The Question…

How can we possibly know what to choose—what policies to create, what laws to pass, or how to build sustainable economies and bridge the issues that are tearing at the fabric of our relationships and society—until we’ve answered the single question that lies at the very core of our existence. The question is simply this:

Who are we?

As individuals, as families, as nations, and as a combined human civilization, our answer to this deceptively simple question creates the lens through which we see ourselves, our world, and make the choices of our lives, our future, and our survival. When we embrace the discoveries of modern science—the truths of our past on Earth, our planet’s cycles of change, and the role these play in our lives—then we’ll understand what we’re really up against, what our options are, and what choices are available.

The Hope

In recent years, an explosion of new discoveries throughout the sciences has left little doubt that many long-standing views about life, our world, and our bodies have to change. The reason is simple: The ideas are wrong. In light of the new evidence regarding near–ice age civilizations, the false assumptions of human evolution, the origin and role of war in our past, and the undue emphasis on competition in our lives today, we must rethink the most basic scientific beliefs that lie at the core of the decisions we make and the way we live. This is where the new deep truths of science come in.

Deep Truths

During a conversation with Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr once shared his insight into our deep and mysterious relationship regarding what we think of as “truth.” In clear and eloquent terms he stated “It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.”18 In other words it’s what Bohr called the “negation” of old scientific assumptions (meaning discoveries that it no longer make sense in the presence of new evidence) that makes the opposite of those assumptions a deep truth. And this is where the news of recent scientific discoveries becomes a proverbial double-edged sword.

The good news is that the new information gives us an updated and presumably more correct way of thinking about things. The downside is that entire paradigms have already been built upon the false assumptions. Everything from the curricula approved by school boards and taught in our classrooms; to the careers of teachers, authors, and academics whose lives have been devoted to teaching the paradigm—along with the political decisions and policies that have been made into law in the highest courts of the land—is based upon what is accepted as “true” in our culture. We may well discover that our beliefs about global warming, the role of competition in global economies, when we choose to save a life, when we choose to take a life and the reasons for war, for example, fall precisely into this category of deep truth.

As we face the greatest number and magnitude of crises in recorded history, the facts revealed by six areas of discovery radically change the way we’ve been led to think about our world and ourselves in the past. They include:

— Deep Truth 1: Our ability to defuse the crises threatening our lives and our world hinges upon our willingness to accept what science is revealing about our origins and history.

— Deep Truth 2: The reluctance of mainstream educational systems to reflect new discoveries, and explore new theories, keeps us stuck in obsolete beliefs that fail to address the greatest crises of human history.

— Deep Truth 3: New discoveries of advanced civilizations dating to near the end of the last ice age provide insights into solving the crises in our time, that our ancestors also faced in theirs.

— Deep Truth 4: A growing body of scientific data from multiple disciplines, gathered using new technology, provides evidence beyond any reasonable doubt that humankind reflects a design put into place at once, rather than a life-form emerging randomly through an evolutionary process over a long period of time.

—     Deep Truth 5: More than 400 peer-reviewed studies have concluded that violent competition and war directly contradict our deepest instincts of cooperation and nurturing. In other words, at the core of our truest nature we simply are not “wired” for war!

—     Deep Truth 6: The key to addressing the crises threatening our survival lies in building partnerships based upon mutual aid and cooperation to adapt to the changes, rather than in pointing fingers and assigning blame, which makes such vital alliances difficult.

[T] he best science of our time, when it is married to the wisdom of our past, confirms that we still have the ways and means to shift our time of crises into a time of emergence. We can create a new world based upon actionable and sustainable principles based in the core understanding of our deepest truths. The key is simply this: the better we know ourselves, the clearer the choices in our lives become.

[N] o one knows for certain what the future holds. But no matter which challenges await us or which choices we’ll be faced with, one thing is absolutely certain: Knowing who we are and understanding our relationship to one another, as well as to the world beyond, gives us the evolutionary edge to tip the scales of life and balance in our favor. And it all begins with our awareness of the deepest truths of our existence, and how we rely on those truths each day for every choice in our lives

 

Gregg Braden is a New York Times best-selling author, a former Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Aerospace, former Computer Geologist for Phillips Petroleum, and the first Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems. His new book, Deep Truth (Hay House), releases October 2011 and is available in bookstores or online.