Jung wrote:
"It is difficult to estimate the sickness of the age in which we live.
"If we reduced humanity... to a single individual, we would see before us a highly differentiated personality who, after mastering his environment with sublime self-assurance, split himself up... and thus fell into a hopeless conflict with himself.
"In the end the conflict led to such a state of enfeeblement that the world he had conquered broke in like a devastating flood and completed the process of destruction... he disintegrated psychologically [and] in a disastrous fit of weakness he lost control of his environment, and finally succumbed to the forces of destruction."
Dissociation only exacerbates our collective insanity. In our fragmented and disempowered state, we go about our business in a numbed-out trance. We become like zombies, sleepwalkers in a dream, lemmings headed for the sea - all the while being unaware that this is the case.
Yet, ironically, this may be the optimal time for a positive transformation of our consciousness.
The Past and the Possible Future
It took the universe eons to create some 100 elements. With each shift in evolution from atoms to molecules to biological organisms, the pace of change has jumped exponentially. Molecules are more complex than atoms; biological organisms are more malleable and complex than molecules.
When we - Homo Sapiens Sapiens - appeared some 60 - 40 thousand years ago, the pace of evolution accelerated further. The universe's creativity could be expressed in conceptual, rather than merely biological innovations.
The mind is now the cutting edge of evolution. It is refreshing to consider the possibility that, amidst the growing chaos, we are now at the beginning of a revolution of trans-conceptual dimensions.
It is estimated that that the sum total of human knowledge is currently doubling every 18 months. Peter Russell argues that the pace of change has been consistently underestimated regarding our evolution.
Physical data suggests that 10 billion or 10 to the 10th power is the approximate number required for higher levels of self-organization to emerge. Few cells contain less then this number of atoms; the human cortex contains 10 to the 10th-power neurons. Since it is estimated that the world population will reach 10 billion people by 2030, the possibility exists for a jump to a new order of existence, a trans-conceptual consciousness.
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