Why Haven’t We Destroyed Ourselves yet?

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While traveling in Guatemala in 2022, my wife and I had the opportunity to attend a Mayan cacao ceremony. There were about 25 of us, arranged in a circle on the floor. She and I were easily twice as old as the rest of our fellow attendees.

After some prayers and readings and drinking more unsweetened cacao than I ever imagined consuming, the leader of the ceremony told us a story about this time in human evolution. To the best of my recollection, this is what she said.

“During the period we refer to as the Second World War, those on the other side became concerned that this human experiment might entirely self-destruct. Some older souls chose to answer the call… to come forth into human form and hold the possibility of love and light on Earth.”

She particularly emphasized the dropping of the two atomic bombs, the first on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the second on Nagasaki on August 9. She looked around the room and her eyes gazed into mine.

She said, “You appear to be the eldest of the group. When were you born?”

I answered, “I was born four days after Nagasaki.”

She said, “You were part of the first wave. You, and others after you, came forth to hold that space of possibility through some relatively dark times.”

That conversation had a profound impact on me. Those of you reading these words can, if you choose, consider yourselves part of the first few waves of souls who are here on Earth to lift us all up, to participate in what has been called the Ascension.

This lifting up requires the exploration and ultimately the discarding of our culture’s profound illusions. Observing recent as well as current events, I am compelled to conclude that such exploration requires seeing our illusions and their consequences ‘up close and personal’.

A list of those profound illusions would include, but not be limited to:

• There are good guys and bad guys, good countries and bad countries

• The resources required to live a good life are finite, limited, and therefore we must participate in zero-sum games

• The universe is “local” - objects can only be influenced by their surroundings and such influence can’t travel faster than light

• The universe is “real” - objects have definite properties independent of observation

Lifting one another up… what does that look like? A traditional way of looking at that phrase would imply speaking, or more technically, languaging, which can show up as speaking, writing, creating programs, and so on. It looks like somebody influencing another through words and actions.

Languaging, in turn, nearly always conjures putting something out into your surroundings. This idea rests on top of our belief that the universe is “local” - that we can only influence another by being part of their surroundings, and this influence must obey the realities of time and space.

But wait - I listed locality above as one of our culture’s profound illusions. What’s my justification for doing that?

Well, it’s the basis of the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics! That prize was given to three physicists for experiments that demonstrated the reality of quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement shows that the idea that we can only influence objects, i.e. other people, through their physical surroundings is an illusion.

I propose that there is a profound implication inherent in this finding. The implication is that we can influence other people in ways that do not require obeying the usual rules of time and space, physical languaging, and so on.

I further propose that we live in a sea of illusions which obscure our true nature as creators. Any one of us who carries the knowledge of this condition, and who chooses to regard the world as our mutual creation, uplifts the entire world. That’s what the first few waves of souls emerging in and after 1945 are here to do. We are here to serve as guard rails, keeping the entire human experiment from going entirely off the rails.

It’s a profound responsibility we carry, to fulfill the purpose for which we’re here. It’s also a path of fulfillment and joy.