Your Reality Is About To Get Its Ass Kicked, Again.

This post is a continuity from yesterday’s post about a critical mass of consciousness.  Yesterday, I wrote about the ideas in the book, The Celestine Prophecy, and how a large population of the world is beginning to realize that there is something more to life then what we have been taught and are accustom to.

In order to explore this idea of what more to life there is, we need to understand how we got to where we are today, we must look at the longer now.

What exactly is meant by a longer now?  A longer now is a way of looking back over a period of time and trying to understand how the attitudes, perceptions, and consciousness of  the people at these times in history have brought us to where we are today.

We typically look at history in scope of technological advancements and growth, but what a longer now approach does,  is look deeper into the collective thoughts and feelings of the people at any given time and how this collective consciousness shaped that era and those that followed.

I have for some time questioned my current reality and that of most of the world.  The idea of constantly striving for more economic growth cannot sustain itself indefinitely.  We cannot continue creating more stuff, for the sake of creating more stuff, just because it acts as the oil that keeps this economic machine working.

How did we get to this point? What the heck happened?

Here is a brief history lesson. The Dark and Middle Ages saw a worldview where we were the center of God’s universe and anything that happened could easily be explained by being that of God’s will.

Severe drought? God was mad. Great crops? God was happy. Get it? People lived in a geocentric worldview where everything could be explained as being cause by God.  Earth was the center of the universe and the Sun revolved around it.  This was the reality of the times which  of course was endorsed and taught by the Churchmen and those in power.

Then the people  saw corruption in the Churchmen, people got curious, people started questioning, and they slowly discovered that everything they were once taught about their reality wasn’t entirely true.  This prompted the creation of the “Scientific Method” as a means to understand our world.

The Scientific Method was a way of making an assumption of what is, testing it out, and proving or disproving the assumption , thus coming to a conclusion that validates or modifies the assumption.

So, with this new tool in hand we sent out explorers to figure out how our world worked and report back to us.

Something happened though. It took longer than expected to get an answer to how the earth worked and why we were here.  In the meantime, as we waited for answers, we decided to use our new knowledge and technological advancements to create a more comfortable life for ourselves in this new worldview.

The problem is, we got preoccupied in thinking that making a more comfortable life for ourselves was the  reason for living.  We completely forgot about why we started on this path of discovery in the first place.

Things are about to change, and it can be summed up by saying “Everything’s Amazing, but Nobody’s Happy”.  Growth, New Gadgets, Larger Homes, Faster Cars, Easy-Done-In-5-Minutes Meals…..is making life  more comfortable, but it’s not making us happy.  It can’t. It never will. It never was meant to.

Our reality is about to get shaken, just like it did over 400 years ago, the sad part is we are starting back where we started only this time we can do it from comfy chairs.