Are We Entering a Sea Change?

I have been very restless lately - at least for a couple of years. This restlessness has included my professional and personal lives. It has led me to significant changes, including moving across country, a new position in a new church, a new marriage. Lots of changes, and as I settle into my "new life" the sense of restlessness persists. It is a sense that something is ready to open, to emerge, to take flight; something just beyond the visible horizon of my experience, something I can't quite touch or visualize.

It's not just me. I can't tell you how many of my colleagues in ministry have shared their own sense of restlessness with me in recent months. They keep feeling that their situations are inadequate for what they have to express, and they are increasingly open to new situations, to moving, to changing - although they do not know exactly toward what.

There are a number of marriages and other long-term relationships in my circle of friends and aquaintences that are breaking up. Not because of abuse or the usual negative aspects that bring relationships to an end - but because one or both parties have developed a strong sense of restlessness - and seek to move on to something greater, even though they do not know exactly what that "something greater" may be.

Last week at the Westlake Church, Barbara Marx Hubbard spoke about humans as evolutionary souls on the verge of opening to a new way of being. She said that a review of the evolutionary history of the universe reveals that great changes occur in jumps, that something that did not exist comes into form, and that such events are preceded by times of uncertainty and chaos.

In modern human beings, restlessness or dissatisfaction, are evolutionary drivers - pushing us forward into higher levels of consciousness and conscious awareness. The human species seems to be entering a period of great change - perhaps one of those momentous jumps is coming and we are realizing it at a deep level, like some animals sense a coming storm or an earthquake.

This sense of restlessness or dissatisfaction will come to each one according to his or her level of being, or world-view. I know that I and many of my friends and associates are very much involved in personal growth and change, so our restlessness brings a strong desire to move into something more expansive - a life that is a larger container for our desire to express, if you will. Others, more involved in a consciousness of protection of the status quo, feeling safe, or maintaining stability, might be manifesting more dissatisfaction than restlessness. For them a more conservative, even fundamental, response is emerging.

One thing seems clear - the world, humanity, is heading for a very uncertain future. No one can predict what is emerging - the changes come to quickly and the world has become so complex. The question is not whether we are changing, but what are we changing into. Are we going to consciously evolve toward a greater level of humanity - or will be take the species into a tailspin out of fear and a refusal to embrace the changing nature of our experience on this planet?

There is a sense on the macro level that the wisdom and institutions which have taken us to this point in our evolution are not up to the task of taking us to the next level. We are moving into uncharted territory. This is also the sense for many on the personal level . . .

I happen to believe that there is an Inner Intelligence which both joins all of us into a single human organism, and which contains the blueprint for our success. But that Intelligence cannot override the individualized intentions of human beings - It responds to us by corresponding to our accepted beliefs about who we are and the nature of our reality - whether those beliefs are true or not.

Maybe it is a good idea to search within yourself. Is that restlessness present within you? What is it urging you toward? What is it's meaning for you and for your future? Asking these and other questions is an important step in designing your life to be the highest expression that is possible for you.

Love and Light,
RevLockard