Time for Change Barbara Marx Hubbard: What is Self and Social Evolution - on February 1, 2013
What is Self Evolution?
Each of
us is a unique part of the living planetary organism which is itself
undergoing a shift from one phase of evolution to the next. As the
crises on planet Earth deepen, each individual person is affected.
According
to Carl Jung, we are undergoing the “continuing incarnation of the
Self”. This Self is seen as the essential aspect of our being that is
directly animated by Source, by Spirit. It is the localized,
individualized aspect of the Process of Creation, the God-force, and the
Impulse of Evolution. This Self has been in the past often projected
onto gods and ascended beings.
Now, as
the human species slowly matures, this Self is incarnating as our own
essence, our own incarnation of spirit, our own individual expression of
the divine. As this process continues, we integrate this higher or
essential self within our body/minds until we become whole beings.
Self-evolution,
then, is the process of becoming a cocreator with the impulse of
creation itself. The maturation of our species finds its expression in
each of us unfolding the divine within.
Eventually,
as envisioned and expressed by Sri Aurobindo, we can expect to evolve
from the mental phase of understanding to the supramental, which is a
state of direct awareness from the consciousness force within us. When
this happens, universal intelligence descends so fully into our
body/minds that we become direct expressions of the Consciousness that
is creating us.
Social Evolution
We are in “Late Transition” on Planet Earth.
Our
evolutionary transition began in 1945 when the United States dropped the
first atom bombs on Japan. This was the signal that humans in
self-centered consciousness with this degree of power would not long be
viable. Of course, power to destroy and create has grown rapidly since
them. We have powers we used to attribute to our gods, but we are not
always “good” gods. We do not have many years to change our behavior if
we wish to avoid a catastrophic collapse of our life support systems,
our social systems, and indeed, life itself on Earth.
Social
Evolution is a vast field designed to guide ourselves through this
“crisis of the birth of a new humanity” such that we can cocreate a
future equal to our spiritual, social and scientific potential.
We have a
very short time frame. Linear, separate initiatives no matter how
powerful will not suffice. Nor can we solve our problems in the same
state of consciousness in which we created them, as Einstein told us.
What can we do that can make THE Difference?
It is to follow the guidelines of 14 billion years of transformation from sub atomic particles to us.
Here is
what we learn by examining the principles of evolution. When nature hits
limits and crises that cannot be resolved by doing more of the same,
she innovates and transforms. The key method of transformation is to
foster synergy and cooperation.
As
evolution biologist Elisabet Sahtouris tells us, when young species are
over populating, polluting, and competing, they either learn enlightened
self-interest, negotiation, cooperation, and synergy or they become
extinct. The same seems to apply to us. The only difference is that we
are conscious of our situation, that we can destroy or evolve ourselves.
This is a great step forward in evolution.
In order
to get through this set of interrelated problems quickly enough, we need
to cultivate SOCIAL SYNERGY, the coming together of separate groups,
initiatives, and ideas to form a new whole system different from and
greater than the sum of our parts.
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