Study Notes

The Future Evolution of Consciousness

I. Storylines and Themes

            A storyline has an “arc,” describing a sequence of events that create, cause, or are involved with a process that evolves consciousness. “Return of the Goddess” is one such storyline. Themes are images/ideas that appear in the various prophecies about coming changes in consciousness. An example might be “an end of duality.”

Storylines:

• The Book of Revelations. God takes action upon us and the dead are raised. A new World Order
• Extra-terrestrial intervention in human evolution. Good example of this is the science fiction story, Childhood’s End.
• The Return of the Goddess: A long history (usually described via study of mythology and Jungian approach to psychohistory), starting with a “participation mystique” type of consciousness, associated with the matriarchy, shamanism, etc. Around 1000 AD, the patriarchy became established, pushing aside feminine aspects of culture and awareness; now the “goddess” is returning, as seen in concern about the planet, end of separation and onto inter-relatedness, etc.
• The Age of Aquarius and 2012: Here the storylines are based upon astronomical events, the passage of time, cycles. Moving from the Age of Pisces into Age of Aquarius, marking changes in history. December 21, 2012 is the end of a long calendar cycle for the Mayans, spelling the end of the fourth world and beginning of fifth world.
• Transformation through Crisis. Crisis bring opportunities for growth. Population pressures, resource pressures, catastrophes, climate change, etc. challenge the population to adapt, which requires developing new skills and awareness.
• The Restoration of Balance. When history takes the population down one road of reality, it finally leads to its fault and then begins to change into its opposite.
• The end of boundaries. From ecology, digital information, flat earth, computer viruses, AIDS, terrorism, and finally ESP (entangled minds), and folks have to develop new basis for personal identity.

Themes:

• The End of Duality
• Moving from the physical into the imaginal
• Shamanizing of humanity
• The inter-connectedness of minds (telepathy)
• From separation to inter-connectedness
• Lifting of the veil on the unseen world (after death, imaginal, energetic realms)
• A new image of God
• A new understanding of the law of supply
• Science and spirituality become integrated
• Revival of shamanistic consciousness and other attributes of indigenous peoples

II. Attributes of the New Consciousness

            Various sources describe the attributes of the new consciousness. A question arises: can we predict the future consciousness by looking at the consciousness of advanced souls, evolved beings? Or does the future hold in store for consciousness attributes not even imagined by those today who have evolved their consciousness?

• Psychic ability
• Able to heal self via mental activity
• Compassion for others
• Heart awareness
• Acceptance of continuity of life
• Another way of being with others
• “Christ Consciousness” (“…to know your self to be yourself and one with God.”)
• Fifth “root race” (fifth charka issues: communication, education, science, creativity, invention, technology, progress, higher forms of intuition… questions of will power—shall it be power over or power to?)
• Indigo Children: smarter, more intuitive, inventive, natural born healers, can remember past lives, little regard for taboos, humanitarian
• Lack of judgmentalness
• Non-dual awareness
• Intention: Humans have a choice to participate in evolution

III. Methodologies for Advancing Consciousness

            Many of the anticipated attributes of the future, evolving consciousness are seen in light of developments achieved by contemporary persons. Similarly, the methodologies that are used today for therapy, achieving transpersonal awareness and personal growth are applicable to developing one’s consciousness in the direction of future evolutionary trends. For example, non-dual awareness can come from meditation or a spontaneous breakthrough; psychic ability can come from having a near death experience or taking part in psychedelic therapy. The list below could contain most every growth technology that has anything to do with higher forms of creativity.

• Meditation, especially mindfulness meditation, and training in non-dual awareness.
• Dreams, especially The Dream Helper Ceremony, for discovering inter-connectedness on the soul level
• Exercises for “heart awareness,” to develop ability to perceive unseen forces, imaginal realm
• Psychedelic therapy for learning to work with plant teachers, non-dual awareness, transpersonal awareness, loss of fear of death, etc.
• Holotropic Breathwork and other evocative breathwork therapies for eliciting transpersonal awareness
• Shadow work to develop greater self-awareness and loss of judgmentalness
• The Sundance Experiment for using dreams to access group higher self
• Expressive Arts therapies (dance, voice, painting, etc.) for developing the imagination
• Psychosynthesis exercise for non-dual awareness. On Having No Head.
• Making the “shift” as in glass half full rather than half empty, self-efficacy instead of victimhood
• Bohmian “dialogue” for accessing group consciousness
• Biofeedback to gain relationship with physiological functioning
• Mediumship
• Listening to Nature

IV: Explorations of Extra-human, transpersonal or divine intervention

            Here we explore some of the ideas, theories, myths that suggest something other than human activity may be involved in the evolution of consciousness.

• Book of Revelations
• Catastrophe. An asteroid hits the planet and only a certain few survive, those with seed qualities of the future consciousness.
• Alien Intervention: Extra-terrestrial intelligence (UFOs) performing experiments on humans, creating new species
• Crop Circle: Messages from beyond, from UFOs, from humanity’s transpersonal awareness

V. Sources of the Investigation

            How can we learn what the future holds for consciousness? Here we have the question of sources and methods of discovery, the question of how do we know what we know? To whom or what can we turn for information?

• Personal experience. We have our stories to tell. How do we interpret that experience, question our assumptions, explore meaning?
• Bible and Mythologies: Somewhere in human history ideas have developed concerning the direction and purpose of humanity
• Books: Authors of various backgrounds, methodologies, writing of their research, their opinions, etc. Correlation of various viewpoints
• Personal Testimony: The stories of people who have experienced various increments in consciousness, have been through ordeals, etc., had visions, and so on.
• Channeled information. Humans throughout history, with much happening in the contemporary scene, of transpersonal information coming through human channels. Edgar Cayce, Course in Miracles, etc.
• Does it grow corn? Is it applicable in our lives today? Does it fulfill the purpose of prophesy—consciousness raising, inspiring initiative?

Reading List on The Future Evolution of Consciousness

(Name in Parentheses is the Person Summarizing the book)

The Story Lines: Historical transformations and Prophecies

• The Future of Man: Teilhard de Chardin (Maggie Spilner)

·        Millennium Prophecies: Predictions for the Coming Century from Edgar Cayce. Mark Thurston

• 2012: The Return of Queztalcoatl. Daniel Pinchbeck. (Leah Henry)
• The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness. Carl Calleman (Mimi Hoke)
• 2012: The Year of Destiny. Adrian Gilbert
• The Mayan Code: Barbara Hand Clow (Michelle Cook)
• Maya Cosmogenesis. John Major Jenkins
• The Return of the Goddess: Edward Whitmont (Jan)
• The Future of Mankind: Affluence without Wisdom is Self-Destructive. Tara Singh
• Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination. Keith Thompson.
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Thomas L. Friedman.
• Megatrends 2010. Patricia Aburdene
• The Consciousness Revolution. Ervin Laszlo, (Ed.)
• The Future of Human Consciousness. Harry Stafford. (Linda King)

Qualities of the New Consciousness:

• Primary Perception: Cleve Backster (Susan Joseph)
• The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy. John Prendergast (Diane Evans)
• Otherwhere. Kurt Leland. (Marjorie Nevins)
• The Unanswered Question. Kurt Leland
• Lucid Waking: Mindfulness and the Spiritual Potential of Humanity. Georg Feuerstein. (Debbie Leighton)
• Awakening into Oneness: The Power of Blessing in the Evolution of Consciousness. Arjuna Ardagh
• Experiencing the Next World Now. Michael Grosso (Mike Gallamore)
• Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution. Stanley Grof (Ed.)
• The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think: Robert Ornstein.
• Lessons from the Light. Kenneth Ring.
• The Omega Project. Kenneth Ring (Quentin Benson)
• The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness. Gary Renard
• Archaic Revival. Terrence McKenna.

Methodologies:

• The Intuitive Heart. Henry Reed (Clay Montez)
• The Secret Teachings of Plants:The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature. Stephen Buhner. (Naomi Mullen)
• The Possible Human. Jean Houston (Susan Arslanian)
• Living in Grace: The Shift to Spiritual Perception. Beca Lewis
• Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship. Christian de Quincey. (Clay Montez)
• The Mystery of Human Relationship: Alchemy and the Transformation of Self. Nathan Salant Schwartz (Julia Stauffer)
• Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals. Huston Smith.
• Experiencing the Next World now. Michael Grosso.
• The Breathwork Experience: Exploration and Healing in Nonordinary States of Consciousness. Kylea Taylor.
• Look for Yourself: The Science and Art of Self-Realization. Douglas Harding.
• Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness. Swami Rama.
• The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All. Tom Atlee.
• The Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research. Stan Grof
• The Intentions Experiment. Lynn McTaggert

Divine (or External) Intervention:

• Cosmos and Psyche. Richard Tarnas. (Debra Schneck)
• The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness. Carl Calleman (Mimi)
• 2012: The Year of Destiny. Adrian Gilbert
• The Mayan Code: Barbara Hand Clow (
• Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters. John Mack.
• The Final Choice. Michael Grosso (Andrea Rumpsza)
• Love without End (Sylvia Moran)
• The Matrix (a movie)
• Childhood’s End. Arthur C. Clarke
• The Future of Mankind: Affluence without Wisdom is Self-Destructive. Tara Singh
• The Hopi Survival Kit. Thomas Mails.
• Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Carl G. Jung
• Needed: An appropriate reference on Crop Circles