by Ken Carey - Taken from: "The Third Millennium-Living in the Posthistoric World" by Ken Carey - published in 1991 by Harper San Francisco)

At the moment of quantum awakening, change will occur rapidly, rippling across the terrestrial surface like a wave. Everything in the earth's gravitational field will be affected in some way. There will be a time of massive change, of change on a scale that has no historical precedent, though it does have antecedents in the prehistoric events of this and of distant worlds.

The changes that your generation will experience before it passes the torch to another are more fundamental than those that accompanied the agriculture revolution-and those changes took thousands of years. They are more far-reaching than the changes of industrialization, which took nearly three centuries to transpire. Yet, deep and fundamental, massive though these present changes are, they will occur within the span of just a single life.

Properly understood, these changes and their coming have the ability to inspire a degree of hope and optimism unprecedented in the history of your race; for they spell the end of mankind's subconscious condition and therefore portend, as the scriptures of the world foretell, an end to bloodshed, starvation, warfare, exploitation, and needless suffering.

Within your lifetime you will witness revelations that will show the foolness of much that was once deemed wise. You will watch as traditions and historical habit patterns once assumed to be survival imperatives are discovered to be detriment to a healthy life and to a healthy society. Behavior that made sense for creatures who imagined they were islands of individuality is abandoned by those who experience the interconnectivity of all life.

The consciousness that is awakening upon this world is no respecter of Darwin values. Its perception brings new values and new ways of being. During these decades you are seeing the descent of the Angels of Healing. Even now, all around you-and perhaps in your own life-they are incarnating. In some cases these are beings who have not known human form since before the decent of historical time.

It is possible that you are among those who have held only a tenuous and flickering connection with your incarnational successions. It is no matter for judgment. Those who incarnate now, those who bring the fullness of their eternal talents, attributes, and perspectives into today's people, are the agents of healing. They alone have it in their power to experience this awesome time of transition as glorious or traumatic. All are invited to remember their essence, their purpose, their reason for being here, and to bring through into this age of transition the sense of celebration that invariable accompanies such remembrance.

Our numbers upon the earth have grown rapidly since our first large-scale arrivals began in the late 1960's. Yet it is not quantity, not numbers that will make the difference, but the quality of our compassion, the quality of the love that radiates from our hearts. Every individual who becomes a clear and undistorted channel for eternal love into these times offsets a thousand who remain locked in the dissolving values of the old.

We are rapidly dispelling what remains of human illusion, helping all to identify with the growing currents, the energies and the forces of love and life. You are already living in the dawning of the age of Planetary Awakening, the age of peace and community building. It is here now for the most sensitive to its fragrance, texture, majesty, and vision. The age has begun when the earth is to be cultivated like a flower garden and her gifts presented as conscious offerings to the gardeners of eternal beauty, the age when humankind return its gifts to the earth, to her soil, her streams, her mountains, her oceans, her creatures of water, air, fire, and clay.

The future, as always, holds an element of surprise. Yet some things are as certain as the movement of the stars. A mother never knows exactly what hour she will give birth to her child, but since she has a "due date," an approximate time when the baby is expected and will most likely be born.

For millennia now there have been those in various traditions of both East and West who have known that the earth has a due date something during the second decade of the twenty-first century. Though there will be much awakening of individuals prior to the first unified movement of the awakened planetary organism, this movement, like a first breath, will occur in but a single moment. It is then that the Star Maker will consciously awaken in all systems of human biocircuitry capable of sustaining universal awareness.

Babies are sometimes born early, sometimes late. So be aware, be vigilant. Do not discount the possibility that the moment might come as a thief in the night. And do not be among the foolish who will wait until the last moment to come to terms with the rising awareness. This is to be an important occasion. It is the event that is central to all of human history. Our emphasis for many thousands of years now has been and continues to prepare you for this single moment. For though the changes will be dramatic, they need not be traumatic.

Though they will bring a fundamental human revisiting of reality's nature, this need not be perceived as threatening. Essentially, it is a positive and joyous event. The consciousness that will eventually emerge will be the consciousness of the Eternal One, the Creator, the Being of Life, awake and aware for the first time inside a material universe. Human circuitry is designed to accommodate this consciousness. In much the same way that your individual cells understand their relationship to you, each awakened human being understands him- or herself in hologramatic relationship to this unified field of awareness.

Since this perception of self differs significantly from historical perception, its emergence in collective human consciousness presents the potential of disorientation in those who might react to its coming in fear. We have much to do before the preparation of human consciousness is complete. Still, even if the awakening were to occur in this very moment with no further preparation, it would be an event of unprecedented beauty. However, in that case fewer people would be in a position to appreciate it. We wish to to maximize enjoyment and minimize discomfort for all concerned. If human beings understand more fully what is occurring, they will be less likely to react in ways that would cause them unnecessary discomfort.

Regardless of whether one accepts this change or attempts to back away from it, this event will be of greater power than any the earth has ever seen. More energy will be released in a very few moments than is typically released upon the surface of the earth in many years. This energy will take the form of heightened perception and deepened emotional connection, rejoining the individual and God.

Though this unprecedented time of intensified energy radiation still lies a few years before you, you are already near enough to it and the event will be so powerful that time is behaving with increasing subjectivity, bubbling and warping, creating islands of the future wherever there are those who deliberately invoke the energies of the emerging consciousness and demonstrate willingness to live their lives in love.

These are not disconnected islands beneath the receding seas of historical illusion. They are united in a veritable continent of rising awareness. As the new reality comes fully into human consciousness (at that moment when the Creator's luminous field comes into perfect alignment with the Earth Mother), all illusion of destructive nature will be dissolved. Though there have been many centuries leading up to this moment, when the moment comes it will be decisive.

There will be a great shift then, a single moment of quantum awakening. In this moment, the smallest interval of time measured in these dimensions-this interval that occurs in every atom between each of its billions of oscillations per second-will be lengthened unto infinity. An interval of nontime will expand. Through that expansion eternity will flow. Some will experience this moments as minutes or hours, others as a lifetime. Still others will experience this flash of nontime as a succession of many lives, and some few will, in this moment, know the Nagual itself, the great nameless Presence that exists before and after all these worlds.

In the expanse of the nontime interval, human beings will have all the time they require to realize, experience, and remember full consciousness of their eternal spirits and to recall the origin of their individuality in the primordial fields of being. All will have ample time to recharge their form identity and its biological projection with the awareness of who they are, why they have individualized, and why they have chosen to associate with the planet's human expression. Each one will have the choice to return to biological form or to remain in the fields of disincarnate awareness.

Those who choose to return to human form will do so fully aware of who they are. No longer will they be put partially incarnate; they will resume biological residence with the full memory and consciousness of their eternal natures, sharing the creative capacities of the Star Maker, whose reflective cells they will then know themselves to be.

Subconscious orientation in fear will be replaced by conscious orientation in love. The sudden release of power, as the polarity of the collective human emotional field shifts from outer to inner orientation, cannot be avoided no matter how smoothly we seek to guide the transition. All will feel an unmistakable surge of power in the instant of quantum awakening. This is as inevitable as the daily rotation of the earth's continents into and out of the light of the sun.

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A Non Local Universe, Falling Birds and the Rush to War

Einstein spent the later years of his life trying to find a way out of the universe that was being suggested to him. As the implications of quantum physics began to become apparent he dismissed it as too"spooky" to be true.

What spooked Einstein was an emerging body of physical evidence and mathematical logic that pointed to the universe being non local in nature. A non local universe meant that action at a distance was possible and that there are hidden variables embedded in reality that control the outcome of the physical world. Action at a distance means that there really is a connection between all parts of the universe. A rush to war may in fact be linked to events happening in the heart of the galaxy and vise versa.

After Einstein's death John Bell, a fellow physicist, was able to provemathematically that the universe is indeed non local. Some years after he demonstrated this proof, experimental validation was made in several locations. One particularly dramatic experiment took place in Switzerland, the very country in which Einstein in  had formulated his most significant work. A beam of light was split and sent many miles apart. The polarity on one beam was shifted and the other instantaneously changed as if connected by an unseen force.

Once particles become entangled their fates are inseparable. What happens to one happens instantly to the other, even if they are at opposite ends of the universe.

Not being privy to the quantum world directly we humans rely on our mind, body and senses to report on "reality". A kind of entanglement seems to take place in this realm as well. We have a remarkablecapacity to become like those we associate with. And even more disturbing we often become like those we hate.

Which brings us to George Bush and the omens of birds falling fromthe sky. In August of 1939, only  few days before the outbreak of war, two hundred and fifty pigeons attacked each other in Trafalgar square in London. That same week scores of blackbirds where found dead, washed along by the waters of the Danube. At the time these unaccountabledeaths were considered an omen of war.

"A recent spate of robin deaths across Central Texas is under investigation by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Kills and Spills Team of environmental scientists. Observations of dead and dying robins were first reported near Dallas in mid-January and have tracked the bird's migration as far south as Gonzalez. The incidents rangefrom a few dead robins observed in suburban back yards to several hundred in a five-block area in Waco."

From the Texas Parks and Wildlife web site in February of 2002

(http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/news/news/030217h.htm)

Omens might be conveniently dismissed as the imaginings of the deranged except for the fact that Einstein is turning in his grave. We live in a non local universe and we now have scientific proof of what we knowfrom the wisdom of our souls. There is a way in which life unfolds as if it were aware of what is happening within and around us. Events large and small confirm the undeniable intelligence of this unfolding. As we move through our world the world reflects back our progress in the form of synchronicities, accidents and omens.

Condolezza Rice, standing with her father before the White House as a young girl announced to him that she would be in that building one day. How did she know? On what current of destiny was she riding?  And when destiny's current begins to buck, what to do?

Ancient kings understood the omen making function of a nonlocal universe and would often surround themselves with men and women of vision sufficient to read the pattern of life arranging.

George Bush has Karl Rove as his soothsayer. A man who has a genius for reading political patterns, but probably missed the fact that the robins in Texas were dying.

This may seem inconsequential in a world preparing to go to war, but it may in fact explain a lot of the tenor of these times.

"Symbolic representation of the Universe as a self-excited system  brought into being by 'self-reference'. The universe gives birth to communicating participators. Communicating participators give meaning to the universe ... With such a concept goes the endless series of receding reflections  one sees in a pair of facing mirrors."  John Wheeler, Physicist

What we focus on tends to form our consciousness, and our consciousness tends to form what we focus on.

For anyone who has found their mind and body afflicted with the deep pain of an emotional loss or challenge this truth is apparent. So long as one's attention is arrested in the pain of the injury then theworld is seen through the lens of such disturbance. As the pain lifts, life returns and the world suddenly seems to flow on a more even keel.

When consciousness is undergoing a severe test the physical world tends to give echo to the process. When the content of consciousness is not brought to a conscious level of awareness then the effect of that tension can and does take form in omens, accidents and disturbances in the physical world.

The real war that is being waged across this world is not being fought with guns, ships, smart bombs and satellites. It is being waged in the way in which our perceptions of reality are coming up against the hidden variables of existence. The very variables that made Einstein say,  "God doesn't play dice with the universe".

Einstein's colleague, Neils Bohr, responded to his complaint bysaying, "Quit telling God what to do."

Our human capacity to project beliefs, attitudes and points of view upon the activities of this planet is remarkable. That the planet has withstood such projection is nothing short of evidence that there is an underlying intelligence at work.

If a nonlocal universe is a conscious universe then there should be clues when our human ambition and limited understanding areinterfering with the flow of this intelligence.

In August of 1914 as the world stood on the edge of the first truly global war a liberal feminist journalist in Germany penned the following words: "The limitations of our egos broke down,our blood flowed in the blood of the other, we felt ourselves one body in a mystical unification."

She was describing the mood of the the German nation as it discovered that war was imminent. Another writer in 1915 was to characterize the feeling in Germany that late summer as follows: "Under the incredible pressure German life melted in that indescribable wonderful unity of sacrifice, brotherhood, belief and certainty of victory which was, and is, the meaningful of the unforgettable August."

This nearly religious invocation of the power of war was echoed to a soaringly painful effect by a young participant in trenches of battle that followed that famous August. Adolph Hitler was to enshrine the "Spirit of August" on the altar of the fatherland and rose to power on the consolidation of this sense of belonging. It was  a mind set and belief system that unleashed one of the worst horrors of the twentieth century. A horror that began was signaled, in part, by the death of the birds.

A German newspaper man Theodor Wolf, in 1915 dared to refute this inflated view of war by saying, "Two years ago today the state of siege was declared... we know how false it was when Temps and similar newspapers assure their readers that the German people greeted the war with an outbreak of joy. Our people had heavy hearts; the possibility of war frightened was a frightening giant nightmare which caused many sleepless nights."

For his courage he was threatened with arrest and signed a pledge to not write anything similar for the rest of the war.

It took the nightmare of the first World War and the horror of the Second World War to rectify the illusion of unity that the taste of blood in August had created.

When inflated beliefs become a drug used to insulate power and control from necessary feedback systems, then long hard lessons are sure to follow.

"Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." -George Bush State of the Union Speech in January of 2002

What does it mean to be truly free?  This is a question the best and deepest hearts of the planet have pondered. The Buddha understood freedom to be a state of awakening in which the nature of the universe is seen to be an emanation of consciousness itself. Christ presented freedom as a state of deepest surrender to that innermost truth worthy, indeed, of the beloved name, Father.  Mohammed understood freedom to be found in a complee submission or Islam) to a higher, more radiant power.

Because we live in a non local universe that is interconnected at its essence our actions create conditions of feedback that help fine tune our journey towards freedom. Omens are a critical part of this path, because omens are the emanation of the real state of our consciousness, not our superimposed ideas or beliefs.

When the space shuttle Columbia broke apart, it broke apart not over India, or Asia, or Europe, or even the Pacific. The first pieces hit the coast of America and the bulk of the debris fell upon Texas. The state that is the home to the President that is launching a war to ensure our freedom. Omen?   You decide.

What we do know now about the Columbia is that engineers envisioned the precise pattern of action that accompanied the disaster before it happened. In the end the warnings were dismissed as the worst case scenario and nothing was done. The result was disastrous.

Numerous men and women of wisdom and depth have viewed the impending war in Iraq with grave misgivings. When the Pope, Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama and even President Bush's own pastor raise serious concern about the process of war know being readied then it stands to reason that a wise man would listen. An unwise man, in the rush to judgment is likely to set off effects in this nonlocal universe of ours.

Reading omens is the business of the wise of soul. When one of the preeminent birds of flight in our modern technological arsenal falls from the sky over the home state of our president because the worst case scenario was not heeded, then one has to wonder.

The left wing of this country has been curiously crippled of late. Because of this the vessel of state is in danger of being driven forward on the right wing alone. This is  a possible prescription for a dangerous break up our ship of state.

A near mutiny has occurred in the British parliament as a significant number of Tony Blair's own party has voted against his rush to war.

Serious internal resistance to the war can be found in Spain and Italy as well, both countries invoked by President Bush as supportive of his cause. There are indications that organized labor in these countries may well rise to a new level of political power simply because the leadership of these countries refuse to listen to the wisdom of those who sense where real freedom is to be found.

For the first time in United States History the top leadership of Labor has com against the policy of war being pursued by the President.

If the rush to war was indeed supportive of true freedom then there would be indications in the world psyche that such an event was sustained by truth. Millions, would not take to the street, human shields would not be drawn to the country in the line of fire, and the soulful of the world would not be recoiling in horror.

When Russia was transformed from an unsustainable superpower into the true state of its own internal condition, the change happened miraculously fast, and with a minimum of blood shed. The same with the tearing down of the Berlin wall. Freedom found expression in  a spontaneous demonstration of non local reality. It was simply time.

The arrogance, unilateral insistence, bullying, refusal to listen to other points of view and rush to action without a compelling case for such speed is the mark of hubris.

And as the Greeks, the progenitors of our western civilization, understood only too well, when hubris flies high, it must come crashing down to earth.

The robins' death and the Columbia's terrible end may only be accidents. But then again, in  this highly charged time, they may not be.

Paul Tillich, a theologian and a deeply soulful man, described this process as Kairos: an outstanding moment in the temporal process, a moment in which the eternal breaks into the temporal- shaking, transforming it, creating a crisis at the depth of human existence.

If this is a non local universe, one interconnected and intent of evolving a self reflecting image of its own inherent unity, then the omens of the physical world become important signpost of humanities progress. Freedom appears as true alignment with the self revealing nature of consciousness. Illusion appears when man's ego projects his own agenda onto the world and hopes to control the outcome of his ambition.

Someone should invite the President to take a long walk through the Texas countryside and have him contemplate what is falling from the skies over his home.

David La Chapelle

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