Apocalypse,
or New Age?
The Emerging Perinatal Unconscious
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by Michael Derzak Adzema, M.A.
PART THREE: APOCALYPSE?
OR NEW AGE?
Chapter Thirteen: Moving the World
Apocalypse? Or New Age?
But Is It Enough?
A Race Against Time
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Chapter Thirteen: Moving
the World
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APOCALYPSE? OR NEW AGE?
The Evidence for Change Occurring
Finally it is time to answer the question posed by this book:
Apocalypse? Or New Age?
Our answer begins by pointing out that we have discovered, in this
book, that there are things that can be done to prevent our extinction
and, on the contrary, bring in a New Age of harmonious cooperation with
the forces of Nature. And in the last four chapters we have seen
that there is evidence of a collective change in consciousness occurring.
A radical change in our attitudes to war, racism, the environment, and
even spirituality -- and thus to the very way we live our lives
-- is manifesting in our culture, the youth of the world, our children,
and is even popping up in our collective dreams.
Natural Law
In addition we are aided by some fundamental processes of natural and
cosmic law. In preceding chapters I have pointed out how both our
nature inside and Nature outside seem to be conspiring to force us into
the changes necessary. From this perspective we are in the hands
of natural law, and its homeostatic mechanisms may bring us into line in
ways unimaginable, beyond even the speculations I put forth in our attempt
to see "through Gaia's' eyes" in Chapter Seven.
Visible and Invisible Allies
Furthermore we may be aided by unseen forces and entities of which we
know not and may be incapable of knowing. Though I think it foolhardy
to sit on our hands and hope that some intergalactic or spiritual cavalry
will arrive to save the day at the last moment, still it is eminently reasonable,
considering the minuscule knowledge we have in relation to the immensity
of All That Is, to put aside our familiar hubris and at least consider
the possibility of aid from higher forces or entities. Indeed, there
are many people in this day and age who believe that particular forces
have come together at just this juncture in time to aid us and to
ensure our success. Who knows why? Perhaps it is because our
interconnectedness with Everything requires that we not fail, for it would
have detrimental effects on things of which we do not know. I must
confess that I myself have received knowledge of such help being given
us.1 Similarly there
are others who believe that God will not allow His/Her creation to be destroyed
and has in fact come in the flesh to ensure its success.2
Cosmic Law
And there may even be cosmic laws at work. "Truth has its own
momentum," said one of our participants during one of our recent workshops.
My wife and I conduct regular workshops in what we call primal breathwork,
which is based on the Holotropic Breathwork™ of Stanislav Grof. In
these workshops, which involve access to all aspects of the unconscious,
including the spiritual/transpersonal, the biographical/psychodynamic,
and the sensory, as well as the perinatal, it is not unusual for us to
witness people being motivated, because of their profound transformative
experiences, to commit themselves with all their being, talents, and resources,
to aid in the processes of renewal on this planet.
BUT IS IT ENOUGH?
Don't Expect to See It on the Evening News
But some might argue that there are not enough people changing.
You might easily get that impression if your prime source of information
is the mainstream media of the cultures of the world. For it is in
the interest of the mainstream media of all lands to support the status
quo -- for economic, as well as political reasons. They are
not likely to report the new and controversial.
In fact, the proof of this is that when truth is truly democratized
and shared freely, as on the World Wide Web, the information that comes
out is drastically different from the mainstream media; indeed, in recent
months it has been the Internet that has led. Like a tail wagging
a dog, the Internet has been the first to expose information that the mainstream
media, who knew of it but repressed the information, only afterwards were
forced to present.
So don't expect mainstream media to give you an accurate portrayal
of what is truly new and breaking or for them to accurately reflect cultural
changes as they occur. And don't either expect for them to present
the news of positive developments occurring -- especially
when those positive developments threaten an entrenched status quo.
No, the mainstream media are the last to report such changes, and they
do so only when they absolutely have to.
The Peace Symbol (Moratorium) Reversed
Meanwhile, from my vantage point, I would answer the query that there
are not enough people changing by reiterating that, in fact, there are
many of us who are integrating this emergent material, who are regaining
our truth and the truths of this Earth and the Universe, who are expanding
our consciousness to include this information, and who are carrying that
information forward into positive action to heal ourselves, the people
around us, humanity at large, and the planet. This response of constructive
action is exquisitely expressed when the peace symbol is reversed and symbolizes
a human figure with arms upstretched -- meaning the expression into
the external world of what was discovered within.
Putting Out Our Hand By Creating Healthy Alternatives
An answer to the question of what will happen is that we can hope that
the forces of integration are more successful than those of disintegration
and reaction in the face of this influx of material, for one thing.
In addition, those of us who are dealing positively with these emergent
truths can help to build societal structures and processes that make it
easier for others less fortunate to face and deal positively with their
environmentally enforced psychological transitions. Those of us who
can should put out our hand to our our struggling sisters and brothers.
If we can set up and provide accessible alternatives to the ones of reaction
and acting out that now exist, we’re going to make it more likely that
those more prone to reaction and avoidance will instead also grow in response
to these eco-apocalyptic, bio-noetic changes.
Facing the Monster Is Always Better, Often Beautiful
For, contrary to what many believe, the evidence from the experiential
modalities involving the perinatal, and my own experience, concludes that
the dangers of not accessing the perinatal unconscious are much
greater than the ones of attempting to access them. For the perinatal
unconscious influences us one way or the other. If we deny it, we
can be deluded into acting it out, completely unconsciously, without an
insight or a clue, in a "fetal trance state," in the form of war, social
violence, spouse abuse, sexual promiscuity resulting in the contraction
of AIDS, and a myriad of other destructive and self-destructive ways.
Whereas if we turn to face this supposed "monster," with only a tad
of insight into these forces that direct our life, we are at least able
to avoid the most horrific of the destructive acts that keeping it unconscious
can cause us to participate in. And then, on the more positive side,
fully working through these seemingly hellish inner traumas can result
in a transformation of the person and a lightness, peace, beauty, and fulfillment
of life unlike anything that can be imagined beforehand.
A RACE AGAINST TIME
Regardless of whether we succeed, at any rate, we must try. As
Stanislav Grof put it in his conclusion to a recent article on this global
crisis: For our very survival,
We seem to be involved in a race for time that has no precedent
in the entire history of humanity. What is at stake is nothing less
than the future of life on this planet. If we continue the old strategies,
which in their consequences are extremely destructive and self-destructive,
it is unlikely that the human species will survive. However if a
sufficient number of people undergoes a process of deep inner transformation;
we might reach a level of consciousness evolution that will bring us to
the point of deserving the name given to our species, Home sapiens,
i.e., wise humans.3
"The Leaven In the Dough"
Of course, I do not expect that the sort of application of experiential
techniques Grof hopes for above can occur on the massive scale that would
seem to be necessary to avoid apocalypse in the short period of time that
we have left. Yet it might be that we would be lucky enough for that
not to be necessary. It is possible that simply a significant
fraction of the world’s population -- like the "leaven in the
dough" -- can make all the difference in the world, literally, by
tipping our course one way as opposed to another, especially if these people
-- because of their healing and their awareness of the crisis --
are motivated to place themselves in positions of influence and education,
or to put their efforts toward healing, on individual and collective levels,
in larger numbers than the average populace would. In other words,
not just the leaven in the dough but as persons, standing in the right
place and with the lever big enough, who can move the world.
THE END
CHAPTER THIRTEEN NOTES
1. See "Sure
It's Hard! But Always Are We Here Helping You" in Chapter Two
of my book, Primal Renaissance:
The Emerging Millennial Return, on this website. [return
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2. See "Sathya
Sai Baba, Avatar" by Mary Lynn Adzema, on this website. [return
to text]
3. Stanislav Grof, "Planetary
Survival and Consciousness Evolution: Psychological Roots of Human Violence
and Greed." Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology
2(1): 3-26, p. 25. (Article reprinted, with permission, on this website).
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Copyright © 1999 by Michael Derzak Adzema
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