Shifting to a Better World
While the New Age community is currently divided into two camps, those who believe that the world is indeed coming to an end—or, at the very least, that we’ll be unceremoniously booted back to the stone age to start over—and those who believe next year’s winter solstice will be the greatest event ever to happen to mankind, ushering in a golden age of peace, Braden does not fit neatly into either camp. Instead, he says, how we choose to evolve affects the tone the new age will take. Braden says that we’re in the middle of a small window of time—one that started in 1980 and extends to 2016—where we have the opportunity to choose our destiny.
“We’re living in the last years of a cycle that began in 3114 B.C. Scientists are trying to reconcile how we deal with these cycles. The answer is: We don’t. People who are not aware of the natural cyclic nature of our world see the Earth as broken, but it’s not true.”
Time to choose
Calling the present a “rare, pivotal time,” Braden says, “Our systems are stressed, and those that are not sustainable will collapse, like our economic system, or our use of fossil fuels—namely, the ones where someone benefits at someone else’s expense. We’re facing two possible outcomes, one life affirming, one dark. We can prop up the old, which suited us at the time, or embrace the new. It’s a choice.” However, he warns, “we’ll end up with the dark option if we keep going as we are now.”
While we’re already in the middle of the massive earth changes we’ve been warned about (“and we’re handling it well,” Braden points out, as society as a whole hasn’t imploded in a panic), people still fear the future, mainly because of the constant bombardment of sensationalism courtesy of the media.
“In the 1980s, the media picked up on these end-of-an-age prophecies, but they focused on the frightening ones. Why? I was told by a person in the entertainment industry, ‘Peace don’t sell.’ I’ve also been told that ‘the economy needs war’—but peace is profitable if we change the way we think. We can manifest a positive destiny by choosing peace.”
The big question, Braden says, is how we will respond to these changes on a “personal, collective, and social basis,” and it’s here that New Age shopowners can contribute to the collective calming down of the populace, offsetting the alarmist content coming out of the mainstream media in its quest for ratings and monetary profits, as well as providing a support system for those working toward a positive future.
An important job to do
The spiritual seekers who have incarnated now, whom some refer to as lightworkers, are facing a large and important task. “As the prophecies said, our ‘old system’ is being pulled out before the new is in place,” which can be frightening and chaotic, Braden says.
I agree we are in changing times and we have a responsibility. We are giving birth to a new reality. So how do we want that reality to appear?
We will instantly get the society we all dreamed of if we all could rise above our self serving nature and make all our decisions based on the benefit of society. This is a win win situation, since you and I, all of us, are part of society. If we each base our decisions on benefiting all, then we will not need to worry about going without our basic needs, or living in fear of others. Many of our worries will disappear instantly.
How do we manifest this? – that is up to you, as a holistic minded individual. Use any technique you are master of, yet rather than focusing on manifesting that new car or more money, try focusing on this sort of society – where we all rise above our selfish wants and make sure all members of society get what they need.
By doing so we will be giving birth to that loving, caring, benevolent reality we have always wanted. This could be our last chance to get it right. As Mr Braden said…
“The world’s problems are so big they will never be solved by one nation, but by us, individually and collectively. We will work together to survive, and when the need disappears, we will be in a better world—the new world our ancestors saw.”