All around us the pace of change is increasing, the stress levels are rising and one wonders "What's happening?"

The technologists tell us that gadgets are making us more efficient. Nostradamus sayers predict we are heading to Armageddon. Christian sects predict the return of Jesus. Ever more spam intrudes. We all know something is happening - lots of movement abounds. So why am I running so fast just to stand still?

On a temporal level time is both speeding up and expanding. The days rush by yet we are able to accomplish more per each unit of time. I perceive also that our group consciousness is also expanding at an increased rate or at least the potential for conscious choice is enhanced to promote increased self-awareness.

This conscious potential is like a push or a yearning from deep within ourselves, unsatisfied with the norm and pushing us to seek ever higher levels of awareness – to expand our inner reach. Many resist this now faster rising potential and its combined temporal expansion. Their lives are becoming hellish as they attempt to maintain their sense of security in a “stasis” that does not exist. They seek to maintain their identities, beliefs, careers and financial security in a worldview that is no longer supported in this more rapidly expanding paradigm. This leads to stress and anxiety in the attempt to “hold on” to the conventional wisdoms.

What is the stock response to the risk of the unknown? To stay with what you know. It is obvious that today's world is dramatically different from yesterday's yet we stay with the security of the known past - the world that once was. We stay secure with that worldview through insurances, hoarding, defining ownership in strict terms and retirement plans. It is our effort to stay unconscious of the new world by projecting our past, what was, into the present. We in effect are living in the past.

That is why so many are not coping as we are not embracing true change for we are fighting it. Society is becoming insane as its occupants and more importantly its vested interests are not acknowledging the incredible dynamic and creativity extant.

More and more people are now cocooning in response to this stress. That is the key to coping - change is upon us - we all feel it - the power of change, creative change, systemic change, social change. Our whole relationship with ourselves, others, this planet and the Universe is dramatically on the move. In reality there is no stasis and our awareness of change is now more acute and it is hard to deny.

So faced with the disparity between the worldview and mythologies promulgated outwardly and our fears inwardly, we cocoon. This is not a bad thing. We are voluntarily withdrawing from the insanity out there and eventually there is nowhere to go but inwards. If you are not going to play in society's insane game you then have to make your own choices. Choices that reflect you not the insanity. Your integrity, integral to you. This takes courage as you will fear and guilt for being contrary to society's view and its teachings. But contrary you must be as your personal choices are evidenced with success and sanity.

So is there a shift going on? Yes.
Is the world speeding up? Yes.
Is a change of consciousness happening? yes
Are some exhausting fighting and avoiding change? Yes.
Does vested society need us to stay unconscious ? Yes
Are some cocooning in order to cope? Yes.
Is this the start of an inward journey? Yes!!! Yes!!! Yes!!!
Will they metamorphose and emerge more conscious? Yes, most definitely!

That is what this website is all about. That it is time by whatever means you choose, to seek your own inner guidance which found deeper than your fears and for you to "re-member" with who you are. Many are starting to do this and they can be found in your daily life. They live lives that run smoothly, effortlessly, as they ride on top of the wave of change. They pick and choose their course with relative ease and life is an exhilaration, not a drudge. Conscious people do not hold on to the past but live in the present and embrace the future.

[Stephen's addendum] I am now noticing a change in my wife's and my music business. Our clientele are mostly Cultural Creatives and they are ever increasingly dropping out of the consumer culture. They are slowing down and contemplating. This is exciting as now not only am I seeing the stressed-out non-copers but I am seeing a whole group of people making adjustments, making the shift and starting to align with the flow of change. The Shift is ON in a tangible way! Group consciousness is rising!

Namasté
Stephen Vardy
2004.12.24
Victoria BC Canada
+250.598.6679