7 Water (Moon)

A powerful day for evocative feeling, a visceral divine memory; something you tangibly feel without actually being physically in the experience. 

A very soulful young LjL

Today, 7 Water or Moon, your whole state of mind will be in deep resonance with your emotional body and the various frequencies and issues that are being held within it. Today will provide you with the full gamut of your feelings, from discomfort to joy.

Allow your feelings to flow and you will move through any difficulties to a place more enriching and soul-connected.

Water is analogous to soul, feelings and emotions. We cleanse and clear our emotions by letting them flow. We pour out our pains in order to go deeper and to find gratitude for our life, which then leads us to reconnect with the Source. 

Souls Flying, image from Google
Used as a book cover for Out-Of-Body-Experiences: A Handbook,
by Janet Lee Mitchell

The emptying of our feelings to the best of our abilities today creates the clear water of the soul, which then allows the light to shine through us with less distortion.

The lower emotions are the past, recycling themselves.

The outflow of feelings, if undertaken consciously, clears our stories. We can also choose to erase at least some of our personal history today, so that we are more awake and alert in the present.
 

Outflow of Feelings
Created by Carey

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 7 Water:]
Time and the Mayan Sacred Calendar
This calendar is a tool for accessing the qualitative nature of time.

We mostly think of time as sequential and regulated – this is the ‘time’ ruled by Chronos (Saturn). The Greeks, and those before them, understood that there is both Chronos and Kairos (Chiron) time.

Kairos spiral time, image from Google

Kairos time is mentioned in the Bible and throughout the mystical traditions as the divine moment, the opportune moment, associated with the crucial moment, the opportunity in crisis.

Chiron as a planet cuts inside Saturn and its glyph is a key. Chiron consciousness is the key that unlocks the door of linear time–space and gives us access to co-existing multiple timeframes. Time exists on multiple densities – the higher the density of time, the more future and the more past exist within the moment. Chiron allows access to the radial nature of time.

Orbit of Chiron above; glyph of Chiron below
Created by Carey

This Sacred Calendar is resonant with both sci-fi-futurism and archaic shamanic consciousness, without there being a dichotomy.

Orbit of Pholus, created by Carey

Pholus, the second Centauric planet to be discovered in 1992, rules 11:11, the further opening into higher densities of time where future and past selves can merge with the Self. Pholus is the opener of the Earth’s energy field and the acceleration of extraterrestrial consciousness into our planetary field. Extraterrestrial craft time travel, not through movement as such, rather more through changing density and then locking onto the frequency of our planet. The Stargates are density transformers.

The science of time is the science to come. Space is the focus for a materialistic society, but time is the focus for a conscious society. Time is the greatest commodity and you already own your time, but everyone else wants your time and vies for it. So remember and be conscious of the fact that your time is yours. 

Glyph of Pholus in painted representation of Pholus Enchantment,
by Carey

6 Rabbit (Star)

A day that is flowing and moving with abundance and light.

Be the dance. Aesthetics and rhythm.

The energy of today is dissipative; it will unlock blocks in your energy field and get your energy moving.

Fractal implosion, created by LjL

An orderly outpouring of expression that leads to a gentle implosion that penetrates the fabric of your reality.

This timewave, Foredawn or Dark Night, is the 13-day period that creates a new space, a new womb. Today, 6 Rabbit or Star, we can connect to the expansion or expenditure of light.

The Star must spend its energy before it implodes into a black hole/white hole. The black hole/white hole is the portal or wormhole to another level of creation.

Quite simply, today means allowing yourself to express the stream of ideas and imaginings and to put out your creative expression as part of the process of emptying.

You might also find you are moving through your personal menu of pleasure, addictive habits and attractions to the glamour and allures of the shiny, glossy surface of the world.
 

One of LjL's Cityscape paintings of Hong Kong,
a city of great glamour and allure, and one he loved

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 6 Rabbit:]
Framing Time
The gradual formation of our present calendar and clock can be traced back to the beginnings of recorded history: Egypt, Sumer and Ancient China. The mechanical clock appeared in the 1300s and Pope Gregory adjusted the calendar to its present form in 1582.

This process has been one of increasing order and mechanization for convenience, and it underlies today’s modern social structure as it creates the first requisite for civilization – moral order, regulation and the class system, in short the civil calendar and its attendant frequency, which is necessary for civil matters.

The problem is that we have become unconscious of the natural real-time frequencies of the body and nature, such as the real day of 23 hours and 56 minutes, which accounts for the incremental changes of Sunrise, the Moon Cycle and the yearly quarters.

Image from Google

In the contemporary era, we are experiencing a ‘culture of speed’, in the sense that there is ‘not enough time’. This is a natural progression from the idealized civil timeframe. The time frequency under which we currently operate (24/7, tick tock, tick tock, time is running out) and our disconnection from natural timeframes supports a moral order based on the concept of ‘time is money’, which ironically means that our society has become relatively unethical, artificial and fragile.

According to that frequency of consciousness, we have run out of time; we are in debt, lacking resources and overpopulated. Within that timeframe, the thinking is that we need more artificial control and order; we need to conserve and hold everything together. However, this approach is in fact the problem, not the solution.

Open to the expansiveness and abundance of a larger timeframe and natural time.

The organic impulse of evolution means that the imperative is to once again connect to nature, whilst operating within multiple time–space frames. Whether we like it or not, we are subject to an array of timeframes, frequencies and cycles...

One of the largest timeframes we are subject to and can access is the Mayan Long Count Calendar, which logs the Galactic scale as experienced by body and soul. I remind you that in that timeframe, we have just entered a new evolutionary era [post-2012, in other words, the end of one Long Count cycle and the beginning of another] and are attempting to plug into a Cosmic scale of abundance. 

Image thanks to Kookie Birjukov

5 Deer (Hand, Grasp)

Day 5 of each timewave is the day where the power is stepped up and your intention for the timewave is transmitted, whereas the previous day, Day 4, is a foundation day, where an intention, plan or idea is formed (or is forming) as a set of components. Day 5 is when you then bring all of the elements together, simultaneously emanating that energy and consciousness.
 

Image from Google

Deer (also known as Hand or Grasp) also has great power through its capacity to operate in all dimensions in all manner of ways. But Deer has to learn not to try to do too much, not to hold too much, nor to utilize too many techniques or options.

Today, be in your centre, yet stay connected to the peripheral reality. Feel the energy that breaks in the external world you are traversing. Hold the centre gently and feel the circling energies from the external environment as oscillations and vibrations within your being.
 

See the World through Your Shamanic Eyes
Created by Carey

Today is a good day to see the world through your shamanic eyes. The future requires a greater synthesis of consciousness from us between our modern selves and our archaic body selves. Today is a good day to feel connected to the aliveness of all that surrounds us, in all directions.

Tune into the centre, the subtle and ungraspable energy; feel it without trying to define it or own it.

Tools, like the computer or a smartphone, are useful – but remember they are just tools.

You might want to use the search engine on the net as an extension of your intuition today; feel into the energy emanating from yourself and Google it. The internet is a training tool for our natural psychic sensitivity. If it were to become restricted as a medium of free speech, then we would naturally find that our connection to the Noosphere becomes more readily available. 

The Noosphere, by Tatiana Plakhova, one of Laurence's favourite artists
Image from here

Today, you can attune to the fundamental substance of reality, which is pure empty consciousness. However, it is slippery – you can understand it through receiving it, you can be a conduit for it, but you cannot ‘have’ it or frame it. Allow and navigate with a loose grip and a disciplined sensitivity.

Today, hold the truth that your body is the ultimate tool in this world, programmed to self-heal and regenerate if you align with the innate life force and energy field.

True power is subtle, not overt.

4 Skull

Do stuff that needs to be done. This is a foundation day for sudden change at some point in the future.

Secure the space with a bit of repair, maintenance and mundane tasks of preparation.

To create a fertile space, as we are doing in this timewave of Foredawn, requires you to create some walls around the space. Set some parameters today – shape your boundaries, find the edges, define the separations. Schedule some things in order to create empty moments.
 

LjL enjoying an empty moment in between tasks, California

Today is a good day for internal clarity, a clear unsentimental acceptance and perspective on your old self. As ever on Skull days, cut to the bone where appropriate. Set boundaries.

A great day for laying pristine foundations in your psyche.

A good day to be real, as they say, which means to temporarily cut out conjecture and sentiment – not for all time, but certainly for today. Enjoy a sense of freedom from your wants and separate the chaff from the wheat.
 

Skull Rock, Disneyland Paris
Image from Google

With shamanism, most people want the fireworks, the big experience, and can see the preparation as boring. However, once you start to see the results of good preparation, you become more wiling to do the little things, the mundane cleansing and the small and simple evocations.

Shamanic Substance Kaleidoscope,
created by LjL using one of his original artworks

3 Serpent

The life force is stirring. Today is about the movement of energy and the dynamics of power; the shifting nature of power and who has power.
 

LjL connecting to his inner power and life force,
through his qi gong exercises
in the Tropical Spice Gardens, Penang

Day 3 is always somewhat restless, and when it comes to power we have to watch the ego, especially when living with access to spirit. Frustration can lead to desperation and then to the dark side, if we compare our successes to those of others. Stay true to yourself. Do not compare your life to external images of success.

Stay with the life force...
 

Hidden Energy, by obeyyourmaster, from here

You may feel vitalized and sexy, without having a direction or place to act out your desire. Today is a day to just feel the life force stirring.

Venom and anger can change into soma and higher consciousness; poison can be used for healing. See how energy changes. Feel that subtle point where pure primal desire can be used for any endeavour as the energy shifts and turns.

The higher expression of Serpent transcends survival-fear – as well as the flip side of this primal fear, which is the urge to have power over others – and manifests as the ability to rejuvenate the body.

The body will indicate the path of rejuvenation today, so listen carefully.

Life Force, uncredited image from Google

2 Lizard (Seed)

[Full Moon, ramping up the energies: exact time 02:52 UTC/GMT, 03:52 am BST; 10:52am here in Hong Kong]

LjL and the bifurcating plant,
Tropical Spice Gardens, Penang, Malaysia

Today we see the inherent duality of our intentions and evolutionary impulses. We want two different realities simultaneously.

One intention is safe; the other is more risky. Both come with a consequence. What is the cost of each and which one are you prepared to pay?

The question then might be, ‘But I cannot choose! Isn’t some resolution of this paradox available?’

Image from Google

The result of this energy is that we might have moments of complete inertia. The best thing to do is to hold both intentions and to feel the differences. The tension will create some energy for tomorrow and you will benefit from being conscious of the polarity within you today. Tomorrow brings forward momentum in the shape of vitality.

Or: We might see the two opportunities sprouting from the same junction. These are the bifurcating potentials of reality, akin to the growth of a plant as it sprouts new stems.

Life is abundant. To live in abundance, we need intentionality and grace, so as not to be overwhelmed. Make choices – but hold those choices lightly.

I remind you that the energy of this timewave (Foredawn) is to allow some empty space of mystery to develop; to create a fecund space within the psyche. Face the shadow with an attitude devoid of solution-orientated logic. Open up your energy to the mystery and embrace the feeling of expectation.

Consciousness reflects upon itself. This is the movement of consciousness; the movement of consciousness is what we know as Time and Space.

The question you may ask concerning a resolution of the paradox should be held for now as a question. Allow the polarity to exist.

Fab image of two lizards from here

1 Foredawn (Dark House, Dark Night, In the House)

Today, 1 Foredawn (also known as Dark House, Dark Night, or In the House; Akbal), begins a new 13-day timewave, one which asks you to enter the crack between the worlds.
 

Hong Kong Cityscape 2, by LjL

The Foredawn Daykeeper is the cave, the bat, the house, the moment before sunrise and the gap between dark and light on the horizon (and also, to some extent, just after sunset).

It is the dream world, the surreal, the womb, the abyss, the portal, the wormhole and, ultimately, inner security and psychic protection. Foredawn is the mystery that cannot be grasped, the space of fecundity and potentiality.

Foredawn Daykeeper,
also known as House, by LjL

How do we approach the next 13 days?

Find your inner security, evoke psychic protections that allow you to filter and work with incoming subtle energies, and open up some Time and Space in your life. Evoke the personal sanctuary that is your soul.
 

Heartfelt thanks to Vicky Baker for this beautiful photo

The world is full of social compartments, walled off by fragile belief systems that are transparently illusory. The world has never been more surreal; the security it is offering is false. The mass mind is scrambling for solidity in a landscape of passing shadows and projections.

In this timewave, be in the space between spaces and find the security you need within yourself.

The challenge of discarding consensual agreements and stepping into a space of personal truth is hard, but the task is to be honoured – it is a challenge, yes, but one must leave the fakery behind now. The time has come...
 

With many thanks to Michelle Harris
for this fabulous photo of the dawn on Lamma

Today, 1 Foredawn, make space in your life for the new to enter. Stay with an edge of uncertainty and embrace the intangible energy that exists between time and space, action and inactivity, light and dark.

Receive the dreams from beyond your self and learn to look in the spaces in-between; look through the cracks, for this is where the new light pours in. Go inside, into the darkness, and create the space for light to enter.

The vastness of the Cosmos is encoded into every cell of your being. Your body is the home of your soul. Inside your home you will find the Cosmic void.

Within all form is space.

Today, open yourself to the mystery; open yourself to the miraculous.

LjL with the rising sun, opening himself to the miraculous
Thank you to André Eichman for this photo

13 Wind

[Every blessing for the equinox today, exact time coming up in a couple of hours from this moment as I post. Here in Hong Kong, today is the Autumn Equinox, exact time 09:54 (01:54 GMT; 02:54 BST)]


The Dog Timewave of companionship and guidance releases its form today and is converted into information; emotion is transmuted into data. The whole feeling of this timewave is harvested and fed back into the matrix. 

Laurence and Chocolate in the hills of Lamma,
releasing the Dog Timewave on 13 Wind

Today, 13 Wind, is a day where you flit from one thing to another, from one person to another – texting, facebooking, emailing.

Message the world.
 

Even on holiday, Laurence was always reading, writing, getting his message honed
so that it was more easily accessible and absorbable.
Here he is in Coloane, Macau, in 2011, working on another presentation.
No laptop, no smartphone, no Internet.
Just joy in the activity, and then joy in releasing that particular activity,
moving to something else...

Alternatively: You write up your recent experiences, you convert experience into information – a story, a report or a even a statistical analysis.

But the challenge today is also to slow yourself down a bit and to be more efficient. So do take some time off the internet today; release yourself from the computer, from writing and communicating, feeling emotionally free. By doing so, will allow your subconscious to receive new data from involvement with random activities.
 

You will still feel the need to do many different activities or things, but allow yourself to release all activity every so often.

Wait until you are impelled to do something useful.

 

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 13 Wind, first posted on 13 Wind of 3 March 2015:]
PLEASE DO NOT GO YET, I LOVE YOU!

Did you know that most people leave a website after 10 seconds? Ah, that is the price for ‘living in interesting times’; we have all gone manic and anxious. Loads of time on the internet with no time to look at anything interesting!

Andy Warhol’s ‘15 minutes of fame’ is an eternity on a website!

Here is a challenge for new visitors. Get to the end of the page and you will have risen above the mass hysteria... Can you do it? (Oh, he’s gone already, something I said?)

Today is 13 Wind in the Mayan Sacred Calendar and so the attention span of web users is a very relevant.

Okay thank you... you can go now... why not go here…

12 Crocodile

[For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere living west of the UK and GMT, today is the Autumn Equinox (Spring Equinox for those in the Southern Hemisphere). 

For those of us living on GMT and time zones eastwards, the Equinox is after midnight tonight, so tomorrow, 23 September at exactly 01:54 GMT; 02:54 BST; 09:54 Hong Kong time.]

A good day for emotional intelligence and the awareness of how life is always supporting and feeding us.

The essential substance of existence is a supply of unlimited energy and unlimited sustenance. Today, look for the nourishment that life is supplying and understand that existence is, by its very nature, supply.

LjL in our tiny Lamma Island kitchen,
joyfully preparing a supply of sustenance and energy

The Dog Timewave can be understood by the mind today. 12 Crocodile says we cannot let the mind rigidly control our emotions if we are to receive and give nourishment.

Today we align our mind with the higher truth of the all-pervading omniscient consciousness, the background supply that is inherent within everything and exteriorized as everything.

Today you can find your own personal understanding of how you can move into enlightened acceptance of life as it is.

Crocodile is the face of the Goddess – nurturing and loving, yet jealous, dark and foreboding if scorned. Pay homage today to the Goddess and be gifted with a deep understanding of your needs and the needs of those around you.
 

Crocodile Goddess from here

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 12 Crocodile, first posted on this day in 2013, but still relevant today:]
Towards a Planetary Consciousness
As planetary consciousness emerges more strongly in the decades to come, one of the tasks and opportunities is the ability to emotionally feel the personal auric space, the body of light. This is the extended egg of the life force, or chi, that is integrating mind, body and emotions, and which also includes the imagination.

We will learn – and in fact have to learn – to be conscious of our perceptional filters and the interface with the collective environment, so that we can understand the energy, information and emotion that is flooding through us.

The psychic fecundity of the highly charged plasma environment enables a whole new level of feeling, a higher resonant emotional connection. The challenge includes greater awareness of energy transmission – the totality of our output of emotions and thoughts – in order to regulate our magnetism. The totality of our output attracts same-same, or self-reinforcing reality tunnels. The challenge also includes consciously filtering out that which does not support or nurture our expression.

The gifts include the ability to feel greater unity, love and communion with all manner of people.
 

LjL's Liquid Light Bodymap

I developed a Lightbody practice in the 1990s, which is based on expanding the ball of chi to a full twenty-foot-diameter egg. This allows for a continuum of felt sensation from body to full personal auric space and the interface with collective energy and informational fields. The interface portals in the energy field can plug into any type of cosmic energy, so willed.

Many years later, I am still developing this ability. It is a slow process at present, but as the energy change accelerates, this will become much more available to a lot more people.

This may sound science fiction-esque, but really it is very intuitive and natural.

The environment is always offering us the nourishment we need. We will be able to absorb more light and synthesize more nutrients directly from the plasma as the planetary field awakens. Similarly, free energy technologies that draw upon the environmental energy are already available (We are not in Kansas any more, Dorothy).

It is the totality of human consciousness that is presently inhibiting the full development. If enough people become aware of the abundance of every kind of energy that is inherent within the planetary field, then no amount of suppression would or could stop the manifestation of a whole new civilization.

[For more about Laurence’s work and thesis, please visit our portal website] 

 

11 Flower (Sun, Lord)

A Door Opens into the Light
Today, the form cracks open to reveal the light. Following the light through the crack, a whole new universe appears before us, previously invisible but always present.
 

 Bringing in the light
LjL in his homemade icosahedral geo-cage,
UK, 1990s

The world is made of light. We can use the broad-brush truth of the spectrum of light to describe reality.

The chakras correspond to the seven colours of light as a metaphor for frequency. Crown is White and Violet, Brow is Indigo, Throat is Blue, Heart is Green, Solar Plexus is Yellow, Spleen is Orange, Root is Red.

Chakras are portals, by LjL

In my experience, I have found that generally speaking we are operating through two (or sometimes three) chakras at a time. At each stage of development of consciousness,* we have two dominant chakras open. That’s not to say we cannot have three or more open, but two dominate at any one time.

The manifest world is comprised of a different recipe of light for each form. Each form – be that rock, tree, car or human – is the ‘solidified’ form of a unique kaleidoscopic mix.

 

Photo by Carey

11 Flower (also known as Sun or Lord) is a day where reality opens to allow us to read the frequency mix.

Our emotions are an expression of the flow of received light filtering through us, which then becomes our transmission of light. Our emotions are especially felt in the abdomen and heart, and yet they are as light all around us. We live in our emotions and see through the filter of our emotions.

The light of the aura is on a finer frequency than the light we can see with our normal vision.
 

Chakras by Ero, from Pinterest
 

We have our being and move around in the concentrated light near our body, but that radiates out into the whole cosmos as a whisper. In effect, we are also walking around in the collective light transmissions of human society.

We particularly pick up on those transmissions that resonate with ours. If we are in a group of people surrounded by incongruous light transmissions, our body of light is either not in resonance – which then creates the feeling of loneliness – or we do receive that light and feel disturbed.

Unless, of course, we can transcend the base frequencies and find a more subtle resonance with people on a higher level, which invariably means operating through the Heart more than through the Spleen or Solar Plexus.

Remember: All types of consciousness are substances.

Main image for our Storyteller workshop of January 2007
Image designed by LjL and created by Kookie Birjukov

[* Note from Carey: To understand more about Laurence’s model of the Enchantments of Life, his ground-breaking map of the evolution of human consciousness, go to the Enchantments page and sub-pages on his portal website.]
 

10 Storm

A day where you can experience the present manifestation of your emotional body – the whole tapestry of emotive scripts, wants, needs and emotional patterns.

If you can connect in a tangible way to your emotional totality, you can experience an unexpectedly refreshing, new or liberated feeling.

 

Rain in Hong Kong, photo thanks to André Eichman

Storm is refreshingly chaotic; it disrupts to liberate. Day 10 in each timewave is the sense of something tangible. Today is a day that feels different – your emotional body twists in new directions and it feels strange but good as you have unusual connections.

So allow a new behaviour to happen. Go with the unexpected and see it as a liberating moment with potentially longer-lasting effects.

Typhoon Mangkhut, heading for Hong Kong, September 2018

Today you can connect to your inner sanctum of peace, regardless of the flux state of the world (and of any external weather storms).

Today find the peace within yourself.

LjL, finding the peace within

9 Obsidian (Obsidian Mirror, Flint)

A good day to see the shadow and to illuminate the multidimensional mechanisms of nature that condition our moods and feelings. See the causes of those emotions.

Created by Carey, using multiple images and layers
Central image thanks to Kookie Birjukov

Today is a good day to wake up to the way our present emotional space – our total energy resonance anchored in our feelings – generates the story we are living.

The story in which we are living is a continuum that stretches from the ancient past to the far-off future. Our total energy frequency creates a timeline. Change your feelings on the deepest level and change the past – literally – and, therefore, change the future.
 

Uncredited image from Google

Aspects from your past return to your awareness today as you see the mirror effect of the cyclical nature of time.

A cycle of reflection ends today as you have a realization of how your past reflects this moment and how your future will have a resonance with your past.


Waking up to the nature of time and the stories we create with others:
We live in the present with our companions and together we create our past in each moment and, therefore, also our future, which springs from our interpretation of the past.

Day 9 in each timewave is the day we wake up beyond linear time. 9 is a Master Number in Mayan cosmology and refers to the Nine Lords of Time (also called the Nine Lords of the Night). 

This era points us towards the past...
The present transition speaks to us of the future, but in the same breath directs our attention to the ancient past.

... and the Cosmos
The 2012 ‘end-date’ (derived from the Mayan Long Count Calendar) was the end of one Galactic spin of 25,600 to 25,920 years. The world was subliminally primed to recognise large cycles of time and to remember that the larger context for our reality is truly cosmic.

Cyclical nature of time Image from here

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 9 Obsidian:]
Towards the Planetary Awakening
The conclusive message of my lifetime’s research is that the human species is in the midst of manifesting a planetary consciousness.

We live in an increasing level of background stress, psychological and psychic pressure or urgency. There is an evolutionary imperative to reach and step into the planetary landscape of the mind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin foresaw an acceleration of complexity towards an Omega Point. In a very similar fashion, Terence McKenna spoke of the acceleration of time, complexity and novelty to a Concrescence Point. From a purely materialistic point of view, Ray Kurzweil speaks of the ‘singularity’ and the convergence of all technology, implicating physical longevity and artificial intelligence. José Argüelles was a prophet of the shift to a post-technological society, where time is art. Jean Gebser observed human cultural and individual evolution awakening to an integration of all that went before and a subsequent trans-temporal state of consciousness.

‘You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience.
You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.’ 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All of these well-known pioneers are but the tip of the iceberg of a host of visionaries who in essence perceive the same general truth.

Barbara Hand Clow expresses a belief that we are moving to a nine-dimensional experience of reality. She finds parallels with Carl Calleman’s theory of the Nine Mayan Underworlds, which is a fractal view of evolutionary timescales.

The Nine Lords of the Night, from the Codex Borgia;
image in the public domain, from Wikipedia

The Nine Underworlds refer to nine levels of consciousness that exist within us. The multidimensional experience is something we already have and is more ordinarily explained by developmental psychology.

What I am suggesting is that every person already lives multidimensional lives – it’s just not recognized as such. The acceleration is the awareness of the totality of Earth’s dimensionality that is expressed through human psychological experience.

The essential truth is not explained merely by the exponential doubling of information, technological innovation or the increasing environmental crisis. It is, rather, the pressure to awaken to the planetary level of consciousness – not the global physical reality, but beyond that to the planetary field we live within.

Whether it’s the outrageous economic situation, or the fragile geopolitical world, the dynamic is pressing towards the big picture.

When you integrate all of the different strands, the array of issues and personal crises, they integrate on the level of planetary consciousness and the future planetary civilization that is product of that consciousness.
We are experiencing an intoxicating and bewildering acceleration to a new fundamental reality. The planetary stage of development is where all the contents of the different paradigms of science, spirituality and culture are experienced as contexts. We step beyond the acceleration into the ever-present toroidal flow of each moment, both experiencing the speed and chaotic relationships within each of the theatres that make up our world and being existent in the stillness of the central channel. 

Created by LjL

Within each moment, we are simultaneously feeling the dense tapestry of emotion and yet are free from the full immersion that is experienced by those whose reality wholly belongs to just one religion or one paradigm – be that Catholicism, scientism, new-ageism, conspiracy-ism, shamanism or any other kind of singular truth mindset.

Modern shamanism is perhaps a more inclusive and malleable paradigm that comes closest to this new consciousness, one which en-souls complexity science within the immanence – the immanence of consciousness, the inherent totality of Earth.

The greatest challenge to this level of consciousness in its early stage of its emergence is loneliness. The conundrum is that once your connection to the whole planet grows more visceral, the comfort of membership you once had with moral certainty, or materialistic science, or idealistic mindsets, erodes. The ego still exits as an arising artefact that comes and goes in the flow of realities, as the freedom of the void and the exquisite aliveness and intimacy of existence simultaneously calls upon you. The conundrum is the ever-present death and then recapitulation of the ego-self that is required for the liberation of consciousness on this level.

The mind becomes more lucid, and yet is felt as more restrictive, as complex concepts appear annoyingly easily and, by doing so, pull us from the simplicity we yearn to attach to. The challenge is nonattachment whilst engaging in the flow of unending death and rebirth.

The planetary level is not the same as the transcendental state of stillness of the ancient traditions, but is a more radical, more human experience of living within and being the dynamic movement of life.

Acceleration of time
Photo by Gary Cummins, from Flickr via Google images

[And here is an extra link, first posted by Laurence on 18 June 2009, as well as another link to a YouTube video:]
More on time from me here: Time Decays Over Time 

The Acceleration of Time
And here is Terence McKenna weaving his magic in this wonderful 3 minute video.