Vertical shift

When asked in the late 1970's whether he believed an apocalypse was coming, Ganesh Baba responded that rather than a massive destructive shift, there would be millions of individual apocalypses, some in groups, but all ultimately individual. At the time, I found that comforting - and still do, but in a new way.

Last summer, I sat at my in-laws' dining room table listening to my husband talking to his mother about his lifelong passion for space exploration. He was a kid who dreamed of being an astronaut, who kept a scrapbook of every launch, and who saw NASA's work as the final frontier though much of his adult life.

"And now," Tom said to his mother, "the space shuttle project is finished, there are just a few probes flying out there - and only programs with military value are supported. The dream is over."

At that moment, something came together for me. The 2012 shift is a shift from humanity moving forward on the horizontal dimension, outward into the world, into space, into linear time; into a period of vertical growth. The frontier is inside now, in the timeless, spaceless dimension of depth, imagination, and meditation.

So the apocalypse is indeed individual; the Babylon of the outer world is falling before the glory of the inner light. And it is comforting - all the equipment we need to explore the new frontier is already built into our bodies.

We need to stop speculating, to stop fearing, to stop grasping, and to start some serious meditation practice.