Clearly we had to choose the path of love and believing. As I had seen earlier, the polarization was not intended to be so severe. It was known in the Afterlife that each side represented a part of the truth that could be integrated and synthesized into the new, spiritual worldview. Further, I saw that this synthesis would be a natural outgrowth of the Insights themselves, especially the Tenth Insight, and of the special groups that would begin to form all over the world.
Suddenly the hologram raced forward and I felt another expansion of consciousness. I knew that we were now moving into the next step of the process: the actual remembrance of how we intended to become believers and accomplish this prophesied utopian future. We were finally remembering the World Vision!
As we watched, we first saw the Tenth Insight groups forming all over the planet, reaching a critical mass of energy, and then learning to project this energy in such a way that the entrenched sides of the polarization immediately began to lighten and ease, overcoming the Fear. Especially affected would be the technological controllers, who would remember themselves and give up their last efforts to manipulate the economy and seize power.
The result of the projected energy would be an unprecedented wave of awakening and remembrance and cooperation and personal involvement, and a virtual explosion of newly inspired individuals, all of whom would begin to fully recall their Birth Visions and follow their synchronistic path into exactly the right positions within their culture.
The scene shifted to images of decaying inner cities and forgotten rural families. Here we could see a new consensus forming on how to intervene in the cycle of poverty. No longer would intervention be conceived in terms of government programs or merely in terms of education and jobs; the new approach would be deeply spiritual, for the structures of education were already in place; what was missing was the ability to break free from the Fear and to overcome the hellish diversions set up to ward off the anxiety of poverty.
In this regard I saw a sudden surge of private outreach surrounding each family and each child in need. Waves of individuals began to form personal relationships, beginning with those who saw the family every day—merchants, teachers, police officers on the beat, ministers. This contact was then expanded by other volunteers working as “big brothers,” “big sisters,” and tutors—all guided by their inner intuitions to help, remembering their intention to make a difference with one family, one child. And all carrying the contagion of the Insights and the crucial message that no matter how tough the situation, or how entrenched the self-defeating habits, each of us can wake up to a memory of mission and purpose.
As this contagion continued, incidents of violent crime began mysteriously to decrease across human culture; for, as we saw clearly, the roots of violence are always frustration and passion and fear scripts that dehumanize the victim, and a growing interaction with those carrying a higher awareness was now beginning to disrupt this mind-set.
We saw a new consensus emerging toward crime that drew from both traditional and human-potential ideas. In the short run, there would be a need for new prisons and detention facilities, as the traditional truth was recognized that returning offenders to the community too soon, or leniently letting perpetrators go in order to give them another chance, reinforced the behavior. Yet, at the same time, we saw an integration of the Insights into the actual operation of these facilities, introducing a wave of private involvement with those incarcerated, shifting the crime culture and initiating the only rehabilitation that works: the contagion of remembering.
Simultaneously, as increasingly more people awakened, I saw millions of individuals taking the time to intervene in conflict at every level of human culture—for we all were reaching a new understanding of what was at stake. In every situation where a husband or wife grew angry and lashed out at the other, or where addictive compulsions or a desperate need for approval led a youthful gang member to kill, or where people felt so restricted in their lives that they embezzled or defrauded or manipulated others for gain; in all these situations, there was someone perfectly placed to have prevented the violence but who had failed to act.
Surrounding this potential hero were perhaps dozens of other friends and acquaintances who had likewise failed, because they didn’t convey the information and ideas that would have created the wider support system for the intervention to have taken place: In the past perhaps, this failure could have been rationalized, but no longer. Now the Tenth Insight was emerging and we knew that the people in our lives were probably souls with whom we had had long relationships over many lifetimes, and who were now counting on our help. So we are compelled to act, compelled to be courageous. None of us wants to have failure on our conscience, or have to bear a torturous Life Review in which we must watch the tragic consequences of our timidity.
As the scenes rushed past, we saw this burgeoning awareness motivating activity toward other social problems as well. We could see an image of the world’s rivers and oceans, and again I observed a synthesis of the old and new which, while admitting the often capricious behavior of government bureaucracy, also raised to a new level of priority the human desire to safeguard the environment, initiating a surge of private intervention.
The wisdom was emerging that, as with the problem of poverty and violence, the crime of pollution always has compliant bystanders. People who would never consciously pollute the environment themselves worked with or knew about others whose projects or business practices damaged the planet’s biosphere.
These were the people who in the past had said nothing, perhaps because of job insecurity or because they felt alone in their opinion. Yet now, as they awakened and realized they were in exactly the right position to take action, we watched them rally public opinion against the polluters—whether it was the dumping of industrial wastes into the ocean in the dead of night, venting excess oil from a tanker far at sea, secretly using banned insecticides on commercial vegetable plots, leaving the scrubbers off at an industrial plant between inspections, or faking the research on the dangers of a new chemical. No matter what the crime, now there would be inspired witnesses who would feel the support of grassroots organizations offering rewards for such information, and who would take their camcorders and expose the crime themselves.
Similarly we observed the environmental practices of governments themselves being exposed, especially regarding policies toward public lands. For years, it would be discovered, governmental agencies had sold mining and logging rights on some of the most sacred places on Earth, at below-market rates, as political favors and paybacks. Majestic, cathedral forests, belonging to the public, had been unbelievably pillaged and clear-cut in the name of proper forest management—as though planting rows of pine trees would replace the diversity of life, and energies, inherent in a hardwood forest that had matured for centuries.
Yet it would be the emerging spiritual awareness that would finally force an end to such disgrace. We watched a new coalition forming, made up of old-view hunters and nostalgic history buffs and those who perceived the natural sites as sacred portals. This coalition would finally sound the alarm that would save the few remaining virgin forests in Europe and North America, and begin to protect on a larger scale the essential rain forests in the tropical regions of the world. It would be commonly understood that every remaining site of beauty must be saved for the benefit of future generations. Cultivated plant fibers would replace the use of trees for lumber and paper, and the remaining public land would all be protected from exploitation and used to supply the exploding demand to visit such unspoiled and energizing areas of nature. At the same time, as intuition and awareness and remembering expanded, the developed cultures would finally turn to the native peoples of the world with a new respect and appreciation, eager to integrate a mystical redefinition of the natural world.
The holographic scene moved forward again, and I could see the wave of spiritual contagion permeating every aspect of culture. Just as Charlene had foreseen earlier, every occ
upational group was beginning consciously to shift its customary practice toward a more intuitive and ideal level of functioning, finding its spiritual role, its vision of true service.
Medicine, led by individual practitioners who focused on the spiritual/psychological genesis of disease, was moving from the mechanical treatment of symptoms toward prevention. We could see the legal profession moving from the self-serving methods of creating conflict, and obscuring truth in order to win, into its true role of resolving conflict in the most “win-win” manner possible. And just as Curtis had seen, everyone involved in business, industry by industry, was shifting into an enlightened capitalism, a capitalism oriented not just to profits, but to filling the evolving needs of spiritual beings, and making these products available at the lowest possible prices. This new business ethic would produce a grassroots deflation, initiating a systematic evolution toward an eventual full automation—and ultimately the free availability—of the basic necessities of life, liberating humans to engage in the spiritual “tithe” economy envisioned in the Ninth Insight.
As we continued to watch, the scenes accelerated forward, and we could see individuals remembering their spiritual missions at increasingly younger ages. Here we could see the precise understanding that would soon embody the new spiritual world-view. Individuals would come of age and remember themselves as souls born from one dimension of existence into another. Although memory loss during the transition would be expected, recapturing pre-life memory would become an important early goal of education.
As youths, our teachers would first guide us through the early experience of synchronicity; urge us to identify our intuitions to study certain subjects, to visit particular places, always looking for higher answers as to why we were pursuing these particular paths. As the full memory of the Insights emerged, we would find ourselves involved with certain groups, working on particular projects, bringing in our full vision of what we had wanted to do. And finally we would recover the underlying intention behind our lives. We would know that we came here to raise the vibratory level of this planet, to discover and protect the beauty and energy of its natural sites, and to ensure that all humans had access to these special locations, so that we could continue to increase our energy, ultimately instituting the Afterlife culture here in the physical.
Such a worldview would especially shift the way we looked at other people. No longer would we see human beings merely in the racial dress or national origin of one particular lifetime. Instead, we would see others as brother or sister souls, engaged, like us, in a process of coming awake and of spiritualizing the planet. It would become known that the settling of certain souls into various geographical locations on the planet had occurred with great meaning. Each nation was, in fact, an enclave of specific spiritual information, shared and modeled by its citizens, information waiting to be learned and integrated.
As I watched the future unfold, I could see that a world political unity, envisioned by so many, was finally being achieved— not by forcing all nations into subservience to one political body, but rather through a grassroots acknowledgment of our spiritual similarities while treasuring our local autonomy and cultural differences. As with individuals interacting in a group, each member of the family of nations was being recognized for this culture truth represented to the world at large. Before us, we saw Earth’s political struggles, so often violent, shifting into a war of words. As the tide of remembrance continued to sweep the planet, all humans began to understand that our destiny was to discuss and compare the perspectives of our relative religions and, while honoring the best of their individual doctrines at the personal level, ultimately to see that each religion supplemented the others and to integrate them into a synthesized global spirituality.
We could see clearly that these dialogues would result in the rebuilding of a grand temple in Jerusalem, jointly occupied by all the major religions—Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Eastern, even the de facto religion of secular idealism, represented by those economic enclaves in China and Europe who thought primarily in terms of a pantheistic economic utopia. Here, ultimate spiritual perspective would be debated and discussed. And in this war of words and energy, at first the Islamic and the Jewish perspectives would hold center stage, then the Christian perspective would be compared and integrated, along with the inner vision of the Eastern religions.
We saw the awareness of humanity entering another level, with the collective human culture progressing from primarily the sharing of economic information to the synchronistic exchange of spiritual truths. As this occurred, certain individuals and groups would begin to reach levels approaching that of the Afterlife dimension and would disappear to the larger majority remaining on Earth. These select groups would walk intentionally into the other dimension, yet would learn to go back and forth— just as the Ninth Insight predicts and the scriptural prophets saw. Yet, after this Rapture began, those left on Earth would understand what was occurring and accept their role in remaining in the physical, knowing that they would soon follow.
Now it was time for the secular idealists to proclaim their truths on the temple steps. At first their energetic thrust into Jerusalem would come from Europe with its primarily secular vision, with one strong leader proclaiming the spiritual importance of secular matters. This perspective would be met strongly by the determined “otherworldly” spiritualism of the Muslims and the Christians. But then this conflict of energy would be mediated and later synthesized into one by the inner spiritual emphasis of the Eastern perspective. By then, the last attempts of the controllers, who had once conspired to create a tyrannical society of chips and robots and forced compliance, would have been won over by the contagion of awakening. And this last synthesis would open everyone to the final infusion of the Holy Spirit. We saw clearly that through this Middle Eastern dialogue of energy integration, history had fulfilled the scriptural prophecies in a symbolic and verbal manner, avoiding the physical apocalypse expected by the literalists.
Suddenly our focus shifted to the Afterlife dimension, and here we could see with great clarity that our intention all along was not merely to create a New Earth, but a New Heaven as well. We watched as the effect of the World Vision remembrance transformed not only the physical dimension but also the Afterlife. During the raptures on Earth, the soul groups would also have been rapturing toward the physical, completing the transfer of energy into the expanded physical dimension.
Here the full reality’of what was happening in the historical process became apparent. From the beginning of time, as our memory opened, energy and knowledge had systematically moved from the Afterlife dimension into the physical. At first, the soul groups in the Afterlife had borne full responsibility for maintaining the intention and envisioning the future, helping us to recall what we wanted to do, giving us energy.
Then, as consciousness on Earth progressed and the population increased, the balance of energy and responsibility had slowly shifted toward the physical dimension, until, at this point in history, when enough energy had shifted and the World Vision was being remembered, the full power and responsibility for believing and creating the intended future would be shifting from the Afterlife to the souls on Earth, to the newly forming groups,to us!
At this point, we have to carry the intent. And that’s why it now fell to us to resolve the polarization and to help shift the particular individuals, right here in this valley, who were still caught in the Fear and who felt justified in manipulating the economy for their own purposes, justified in seizing control of the future.
At exactly the same time, all four of us glanced at each other in the darkness, the hologram still surrounding us, the soul groups still merged in the background, glowing brightly. Then I noticed a huge hawk fly onto a limb ten feet above the group and gaze down at us. Beneath it, less than five feet away, a rabbit hopped to within three feet of my right elbow and stopped, followed seconds later by a bobcat, who sat directly beside it. What was happening?
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tly a silent vibration tingled my solar plexus; the experiment had been reactivated!
“Look over there!” Curtis yelled.
Fifty yards away, barely distinguishable in the moonlight, was a narrow fissure, shaking the bushes and small trees, extending slowly in our direction.
I looked at the others.
“It’s up to us now,” Maya shouted. “We have enough of the Vision now; we can stop them.”
Before we could act, the earth under us shook violently and the fissure accelerated toward us. Simultaneously several vehicles pulled to a stop in the underbrush, their lights shining through fuzzy silhouettes made by the trees and dust. Unafraid, I maintained my energy and focused again on the hologram.
“The Vision will stop them,” Maya yelled again. “Don’t let the Vision go! Hold it!”
Embracing the image of the future before us, I again felt the group marshal energy toward Feyman, as if holding our intention like a giant wall against his intrusion, imaging his group being pushed back by the energy, fleeing in terror.
I glanced at the crevice still racing toward us, confident it would soon stop. It accelerated instead. Another tree fell. Then another. As it sped into the group, I lost my concentration and rolled backward, choking on the dust.
“It’s still not working!” I heard Curtis yell.
I felt as if it was all happening again. “Up this way,” I shouted, struggling to see in the sudden darkness. As I ran, I could barely make out the dim outlines of the others; they were veering away from me to the east.
I climbed up the stony ridge that formed the left wall of the canyon and didn’t stop until I was a hundred yards away. Kneeling in the rocks, I looked out into the night. Nothing moved, but I could hear Feyman’s men talking at the canyon entrance. Quietly I made my way farther up the slope, angling northwest, still watching carefully for any sign of the others. Finally I found a way to climb down to the canyon floor again. Still no movement anywhere.
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