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and it seems that we are tied to this phenomenon. The ancient mind of humanity has been around for millions of
years. This ancient mind is the “group” mind that affects not only all human beings but also all living beings
and all of nature.
The very name that is applied to Homo sapiens, the name human,
which is normally abbreviated as man, has two roots. Hu means the divine resonance in the heart of man or the divine word
and man means soil or thinking or mind. Thus we see that there are two primary influences in man, who has been created in
the likeness and image of God. The one influence is the divine spark or the divine word, vibration, or sound (hu) which is
anchored in the spiritual heart of man and the other main influence is the physical (soil) and mental (emotion, thinking or
mind) nature of man.
Sir James Jeans, an English mathematician, physicist and astronomer
who lived from 1877 to 1946, stated, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine”
and “The world is nothing but mind stuff.” Seen in this light, it is this group mind of humanity that has had
the greatest impact on the behaviour of human beings over the last 11,000+ years.
The nature and qualities of this ancient group mind, at this
particular stage of humanities evolution, have been dominated by fear, doubt, suspicion, grief, anxiety, anger, hatred, and
separation. In a word, it may be said that currently this ancient mind is filled with darkness or a lack of spiritual light.
Or we may say that over the last 11,000+ years this ancient mind has been disconnected from or has overshadowed the spiritual
heart of humanity and as a result man has almost completely been absorbed in the experience of separation. Acting from this
disconnect has created immense pain and suffering for humanity and for the living being we call Mother Earth and her air,
waters, soils, plants, and animals.
The ancients of many traditions, including Native Americans,
Aborigines, the Maori, the Mayans and others clearly understood that man is not separate from nature. One quote from Chief
Seattle will suffice:
“This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man
belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.”
A modern expression and understanding of this idea that everything
in nature is connected comes through the scientific theories of morphogenesis as reported by Sheldrake, Gilman and McKenna.
“According to its founder and main proponent, the biologist
Rupert Sheldrake, a morphogenetic field is similar to an electromagnetic field that carries information only, not energy,
and is available throughout time and space without any loss of intensity after it has been created.
Morphogenetic fields are created by the patterns of physical
forms. They help guide the formation of later similar systems where a newly forming system "tunes into" a previous system
by having within it a "seed" that resonates with a similar seed in the earlier form.
Morphogenetic fields can be used to describe how human consciousness
is shared. The Morphogenetic fields therefore play the main role in the idea that humanity at one point in time will go through
a dramatic collective shift in consciousness. A shift that will happen when the critical mass for a shift is reached, for
example, when a certain number of spiritually awakened individuals are reached.”
In its present condition, acting out of identification with
this ancient mind, because it has been disconnected from the spiritual heart, has led to immense human suffering.
The ignorance of the unenlightened mind has been the root
cause of the World Wars (I, II) and the unusually large outpouring of violence recently seen around the world in Israel, Serbia,
Africa, Afghanistan, New York City, Iraq and many other places.
This ignorance or unenlightened mind is also the root cause
of the natural disasters across our planet recently witnessed in the massive loss of more than 250,000 lives in the Boxing
Day Asian earthquake/tsunami (December 2004).
There is no one individual or group of individuals to blame
for all this pain and suffering. This suffering is part of a cosmological cycle that has been expressing its predominantly
darker aspects that result when mankind fails to comprehend and directly experience its own spiritual nature. Awakened individuals
have provided the necessary counterbalance and relief for this tremendous pain and suffering endured by humanity. Before the
light has fully dawned in a new Golden Age awakened individuals have been few and far between.
A list not intended to be exhaustive, the Great Saviours of
the world over this last 11,000 years of darkness, including what is known in Vedic cosmology as the present Kali Yuga or
dark age, have included the following spiritual lights from the eastern tradition: Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Buddha, Chaitanya,
Ramakrishna, Babaji, Nanak, Bahaullah, Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Chinmoy and others.
From the western tradition we have been graced with the presence
of Melchizedek, Abraham, Solomon, Zoroaster, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Rumi, Shems-i Tabriz, Hazrat Inayat Khan and others.
This is It is part of the cosmic plan for humanity to move into the Golden Age and be free of the ancient unenlightened
mind of the previous three Yugas. This ancient unenlightened mind field may be replaced with the “Supermind ”
field, a field of pure consciousness existing beyond the present ancient mind field. This great transition, foretold in different
terms at different times by Sri Isha (Yeshua or Jesus Christ), the Mayans, the Hopi, the Tibetan, Sri Ramakrishna, Sufi Inayat
Khan, Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo, and others, will mark the end of the tremendous suffering that humanity has experienced
for millennia. There will be no more separation between the spiritual heart and the mind. Heart-brain integration and coherence
will be the physiological norm. Humanity will experience peace and harmony on a world-wide scale never before seen in recorded
history.
