More on Barbara Marx Hubbard's vision of Humanity's Future
http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1996/August/10-0896.html
http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1996/September/11-0996.html
The whole story of our birth unfolded, like a speeded-up film of the growth of a plant from bulb to bloom. I witnessed the life of our planet, from the quantum instant of its conception to the quantum instant of our collective awakening, of our birth as one body.
I felt myself tumbling through an evolutionary spiral. Each great quantum transformation was a turn on the spiral -- a radical leap to a new order of being. "I," the macrocosmic, universal I, the "I" that is "we," the "I" in each of us that was, is, and ever will be, experienced the whole story of creation as our story.
I felt the spiral unfold: the creation of the universe, the formation of the Earth, the appearance of single-celled life, of animal life, and of human life. Then we began to approach our own turn on the spiral. I saw the early religions in India, Egypt, Greece, Israel -- from Buddha to Christ -- as harbingers of the next stage of evolution. They demonstrated to us that we are higher beings, founders of the future. I saw the emergence of science as the great tool for understanding how nature works, so that we can evolve consciously with her. I saw democracy as the great liberator of human potential. I saw the explosion of the atomic bomb as the beginning of our collective labor pains. It was the signal that the Cosmic Child, humanity, could either kill itself by remaining in self-centered consciousness in the womb of Earth, or instead emancipate itself for universal consciousness and action.
The next turn on the spiral began, revealing the "synergy" of which Bucky Fuller wrote. The separate parts of humanity and Earth are coming together to form a whole that is greater than and unpredictable from the sum of its parts. Synergy feels like love, loving one another as ourselves. We are, in fact, one body! Our capacities as a whole are infinitely greater than when we are separate tribes and nations. Once our consciousness shifts from feeling separated to knowing that we are all members of one body, our vast technological genius begins to serve the growth of ourselves as one planet. And that consciousness shift can happen in the twinkling of an eye! In fact it is now happening in millions of us throughout the world.
Once our consciousness shifts collectively, of course we can restore the Earth. We can feed all people. We can control population growth. We can shift our military from "weaponry to livingry," as Bucky said. We can emancipate unique potential. We can! We can! We have the capacities to do it already, we just don't know that we can. The Cosmic Child can live. Our birth is natural. Yet we must know that we are being born, not dying, else we will not fully activate our new capacities before it is too late.
I saw the rockets as nature's seed pods of Earth-life bursting into the universe. I saw our mass media -- our planetary nervous system -- link up and report our growth, awakening all of humankind's members to their parts in the process of growth.
I realized that in the very same decade when we were learning to preserve our Earth and limit growth here, we were also stepping off the planet to begin the establishment of new worlds in space. At the same time we were also beginning to learn the language of DNA, the genetic code that designs bodies for this Earth.
We are becoming universal humans! We will have to change our bodies to live beyond this Earth for which they were designed. Naturally! New bodies will be essential in a radically new environment. Nature always creates new bodies for new consciousness, in order to transcend new frontiers: the fish, the bird, the hominids, Homo sapiens . . . and next, Homo universalis. We, too, shall evolve new bodies for new worlds, only this time it will be through conscious rather than unconscious evolution.
Astronautics, genetics, cybernetics, and nanotechnology (the ability to construct at the atomic level) are natural capacities of a universal species that is moving from its terrestrial to its universal phase. Furthermore, those powers are far too great to be contained by a biosphere, or in self-centered consciousness. They are meant for cosmic consciousness and universal action. For us to stay in this stage would be like a baby trying to remain in the birth canal. It would kill us all.
"Oh, my God!" I thought. This whole process is really the birth of a universal species. It is not a metaphor, it is an actuality. What we call "evolution" is actually an organic process that creates beings capable of evolving consciously. We are becoming conscious evolutionaries!
I saw humanity, at the next turn of the spiral, gaining the powers of co-evolution and co-creation, just as all our religions told us we would. ("Co-creation" means conscious co-operation with the process, direction, and purpose of evolution -- the implicate order of the cosmos: God.)
I saw, perhaps most fundamentally of all, that the vast effort of humanity to "be fruitful and multiply" would have to be curtailed in our generation. One more doubling of the world population will destroy our life support system. Our Mother will not support us if we continue to grow in numbers! We must stop. Where is this powerful prime energy to go? In a flash I saw it!
The energy of procreation is to be emancipated for co-creation, for chosen work, for vocation. The sexual drive to reproduce the species is now being transformed into the suprasexual drive to evolve the species. We desire to join, not only our genes but our genius, to evolve ourselves and our world. Sexuality and suprasexuality are about to merge in one great orgasmic effort to evolve!
What had happened in my own life, the search for meaningful work, was a natural extension of sexual energy. Imagine when the whole world turns on to its creative drive!
The so-called "population crisis" is a crisis of our planetary birth. The limits to growth on Earth shift us from procreation to co-creation. Creativity will be emancipated en masse. The passionate love of chosen work which Maslow discovered in all self-actualizing people is the next stage of sexuality. That's why it's going to happen! And we are going to love it as much as we love sex!
All of these thoughts flashed through my mind in a single gestalt, an integration of everything I knew. It was a kinesthetic experience of a natural set of events that is happening right now.
Then the technicolor movie stopped. It had lasted a few minutes at most. I stood alone upon the hill. Tears of joy were frozen upon my face, my heart was bursting with joy. Ask and it shall be given. Knock and doors will open. There was no outward sign of what had happened. Yet I knew it was real. It's happening now. I had seen with universal eyes. I ran home, the cold air searing my lungs and my face, to tell my children and my husband that I had to "go forth and tell the story of our birth."
Barbara Marx Hubbard
http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1996/September/11-0996.html
The whole story of our birth unfolded, like a speeded-up film of the growth of a plant from bulb to bloom. I witnessed the life of our planet, from the quantum instant of its conception to the quantum instant of our collective awakening, of our birth as one body.
I felt myself tumbling through an evolutionary spiral. Each great quantum transformation was a turn on the spiral -- a radical leap to a new order of being. "I," the macrocosmic, universal I, the "I" that is "we," the "I" in each of us that was, is, and ever will be, experienced the whole story of creation as our story.
I felt the spiral unfold: the creation of the universe, the formation of the Earth, the appearance of single-celled life, of animal life, and of human life. Then we began to approach our own turn on the spiral. I saw the early religions in India, Egypt, Greece, Israel -- from Buddha to Christ -- as harbingers of the next stage of evolution. They demonstrated to us that we are higher beings, founders of the future. I saw the emergence of science as the great tool for understanding how nature works, so that we can evolve consciously with her. I saw democracy as the great liberator of human potential. I saw the explosion of the atomic bomb as the beginning of our collective labor pains. It was the signal that the Cosmic Child, humanity, could either kill itself by remaining in self-centered consciousness in the womb of Earth, or instead emancipate itself for universal consciousness and action.
The next turn on the spiral began, revealing the "synergy" of which Bucky Fuller wrote. The separate parts of humanity and Earth are coming together to form a whole that is greater than and unpredictable from the sum of its parts. Synergy feels like love, loving one another as ourselves. We are, in fact, one body! Our capacities as a whole are infinitely greater than when we are separate tribes and nations. Once our consciousness shifts from feeling separated to knowing that we are all members of one body, our vast technological genius begins to serve the growth of ourselves as one planet. And that consciousness shift can happen in the twinkling of an eye! In fact it is now happening in millions of us throughout the world.
Once our consciousness shifts collectively, of course we can restore the Earth. We can feed all people. We can control population growth. We can shift our military from "weaponry to livingry," as Bucky said. We can emancipate unique potential. We can! We can! We have the capacities to do it already, we just don't know that we can. The Cosmic Child can live. Our birth is natural. Yet we must know that we are being born, not dying, else we will not fully activate our new capacities before it is too late.
I saw the rockets as nature's seed pods of Earth-life bursting into the universe. I saw our mass media -- our planetary nervous system -- link up and report our growth, awakening all of humankind's members to their parts in the process of growth.
I realized that in the very same decade when we were learning to preserve our Earth and limit growth here, we were also stepping off the planet to begin the establishment of new worlds in space. At the same time we were also beginning to learn the language of DNA, the genetic code that designs bodies for this Earth.
We are becoming universal humans! We will have to change our bodies to live beyond this Earth for which they were designed. Naturally! New bodies will be essential in a radically new environment. Nature always creates new bodies for new consciousness, in order to transcend new frontiers: the fish, the bird, the hominids, Homo sapiens . . . and next, Homo universalis. We, too, shall evolve new bodies for new worlds, only this time it will be through conscious rather than unconscious evolution.
Astronautics, genetics, cybernetics, and nanotechnology (the ability to construct at the atomic level) are natural capacities of a universal species that is moving from its terrestrial to its universal phase. Furthermore, those powers are far too great to be contained by a biosphere, or in self-centered consciousness. They are meant for cosmic consciousness and universal action. For us to stay in this stage would be like a baby trying to remain in the birth canal. It would kill us all.
"Oh, my God!" I thought. This whole process is really the birth of a universal species. It is not a metaphor, it is an actuality. What we call "evolution" is actually an organic process that creates beings capable of evolving consciously. We are becoming conscious evolutionaries!
I saw humanity, at the next turn of the spiral, gaining the powers of co-evolution and co-creation, just as all our religions told us we would. ("Co-creation" means conscious co-operation with the process, direction, and purpose of evolution -- the implicate order of the cosmos: God.)
I saw, perhaps most fundamentally of all, that the vast effort of humanity to "be fruitful and multiply" would have to be curtailed in our generation. One more doubling of the world population will destroy our life support system. Our Mother will not support us if we continue to grow in numbers! We must stop. Where is this powerful prime energy to go? In a flash I saw it!
The energy of procreation is to be emancipated for co-creation, for chosen work, for vocation. The sexual drive to reproduce the species is now being transformed into the suprasexual drive to evolve the species. We desire to join, not only our genes but our genius, to evolve ourselves and our world. Sexuality and suprasexuality are about to merge in one great orgasmic effort to evolve!
What had happened in my own life, the search for meaningful work, was a natural extension of sexual energy. Imagine when the whole world turns on to its creative drive!
The so-called "population crisis" is a crisis of our planetary birth. The limits to growth on Earth shift us from procreation to co-creation. Creativity will be emancipated en masse. The passionate love of chosen work which Maslow discovered in all self-actualizing people is the next stage of sexuality. That's why it's going to happen! And we are going to love it as much as we love sex!
All of these thoughts flashed through my mind in a single gestalt, an integration of everything I knew. It was a kinesthetic experience of a natural set of events that is happening right now.
Then the technicolor movie stopped. It had lasted a few minutes at most. I stood alone upon the hill. Tears of joy were frozen upon my face, my heart was bursting with joy. Ask and it shall be given. Knock and doors will open. There was no outward sign of what had happened. Yet I knew it was real. It's happening now. I had seen with universal eyes. I ran home, the cold air searing my lungs and my face, to tell my children and my husband that I had to "go forth and tell the story of our birth."
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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