In recent years, Darwin’s evolutionary theory has been moderated to a view of slow incremental modifications punctuated by rapid transformative changes. The former applies during stable epochs, as the entire ecosystem and environment gradually optimize their co-creative fitness. Revolutionary leaps, whether biological or psychological, occur however because there is no other option.
In times of great stress, when pre-existing environments, whether physical, social, or both become unsustainable gradual change is no longer able to maintain equilibrium and the forces of revolutionary evolution are energized.
Since the end of the last Ice Age, the relative stability of our global physical environment has supported our consequentially gradual evolution. Whilst we have come a long way in terms of technological adaptation, we’ve done so with comparatively minimal increases in the level of our awareness. That disparity has brought us to the current state of global unsustainability. And as famously pointed out by Einstein, we can’t solve the issues that such awareness has caused, without transcending its limited perspective.
We’re now at a point in our collective evolution when there is no other option. Only a revolutionary leap will suffice if we are to survive and evolve as a species. Now though it’s an evolutionary shift in consciousness rather than a biological leap of species that is underway.
As with all such revolutionary change, the impetus for such emergence arises, not from the dominant species of an ecosystem or the vested interests of the status quo; those with the perception of having the most to lose by change. Instead, in our collective psyche at this pivotal moment the emergent awareness is being embraced by those who are releasing the fears that have imprisoned them. With courage and hope, they are striving towards a better future, not just for themselves but for the greater good of people and planet.
The events of the Arab Spring arose from a fire of despair that became a flame of hope. Energized by a higher level of communal awareness and peaceful aspirations, with enormous courage its momentum is inspiring others to empower themselves. As our collective awareness undertakes a worldshift, it is doing so in a marvellously organic and co-creative way, led not by those invested in the past, but those yearning to co-create a new era.
Despite its attempts to hold on, the old paradigm of centralized leadership, control and hierarchical command is inevitably falling away, its outworn level of perception giving way to the emergent consciousness embodied in the Shift. In moving beyond the limited and often fear-based attitudes of politicians, financiers and corporate leaders, the transformational urge of our collective consciousness is finding its inspirational voice and its emergent empowerment through the peaceful activism of people; the hitherto silent and often subjugated majority.
This is revolutionary evolution at work. This is worldshift in action.
