The New Breed : The Next Generation of World Changers

There's been so much talk lately about the current time of change, the shifting paradigms, and the various "movements" that are working toward a better, more sustainable, more enlightened world. It's really exciting and uplifting to see this awareness spreading like wildfire across the globe! I don't run into anyone who says the system or the way things are right now is great. Everyone is dissatisfied. We all want some kind of change. Every single person would love to see the world become the happiest place in the universe. The New Jerusalem, the Promised Land, ...Heaven on Earth.

But if that's the case, why isn't the world shuddering under the magnitude of our drive toward a better world? Perhaps ... because we don't know what Heaven looks like yet. Or at least we don't AGREE on what it should look like.

Everyone is rushing up the mountain as fast as they can, hoping and praying that the glorified, unified world awaits us at the top. And it does. But all these different movements are rushing up different sides of the mountain, different paths. On one side, you’ve got the Conspiracy Movement led by Alex Jones with his megaphone, all charging up like warriors to knock the “king of the mountain” off his perch. Just around the corner are the Tea Party people who agree that there is a better world up there but they are being led by the Corporate Pied Pipers who turn their rage against the other people rushing up the mountain instead of urging forward just to get there. On the other side, there’s a path where the Zeitgeist Movement is urging us forward toward technology and logical ways to solve the problems of resources and basic needs. Just to the side of them is a group of Evolvers made up of contemporary shamans, hippies, gurus, and space cadets who know that the top of the mountain is really inside us all anyway but we want to meet everyone up there just the same.

And as these different groups go hurtling toward the peak, toward the Promised Land, they think their own path is the best and straightest and why can’t those other fools figure out that they’re headed the wrong direction??

But remember, friends. The Mountain only has one peak. We’re ALL headed to the same place. It’s all merging into something beautiful and complete and altogether perfect. But the more we push each other off the path, the longer it takes for us all to get there.

If we’re going to get there, the way is together. Nature doesn’t waste anything. That means we can’t either. No one gets left out. Those bankers following the beast of greed into the swamp are just as important human beings as the gentle hipster with his hash pipe promoting expanded consciousness. Each of us has something to offer. We cannot, I believe, construct a better world without first getting rid of all the things that separate us. Evolvers have to embrace the Zeitgeist Movement. Both need to embrace the Conspiracy Movement. Crazy as they seem to some, and despite their methods, the InfoWarriors are true counter-cultural warriors. They’re out there protesting and yelling into megaphones and calling for the system to crumble. They just need their John Lennon to step forward and say “Hey. It’s gonna be alright.”

We can’t ignore the “other movements” because we think WE’ve got the special formula for Heaven. It hasn’t worked for religions trying to save the world, it didn’t work for the revolutionaries of the turn of the century or the 60s… and it won’t work now. It takes US ALL to get there, brothers and sisters, can I get an Amen?! ;-)

The reality is that this thing takes work. It takes work in terms of sustainable practices and green living and all that, sure. But the REAL WORK, the difficult alchemy, is the work in setting aside your sense of right, your cherished ego that loves to be right and loves to be the savior of the others who "just don’t get it.” But let’s be real here. That ego just draws those lines in the sand and creates division and strife. The work is getting your head right so you can work alongside ANY of these different groups or movements or paths to create an infinite blossoming of unstoppable progression towards unity. Weapons of Mass Creation. Hoping only to "will" the transformation, via expanded consciousness and vision questing on your own, without being willing to come down from the trip and actually shovel the shit out of our collective front lawn, seems to produce a diffusion of the revolutionary energy. There's no traction with reality in this case and, as we saw with the fizzling of "flower power" in the 1960s, the movement falls off the horse.

If the hippies taught us anything, perhaps we can gather that when you bliss out and retreat from the human or 'mundane' world, those heavy boots that seek to control and start conflict just march right over you, no matter how pure your light and love may have been. The flower wilts and the free love turns bitter. As the Buddha taught, there must always be a middle way sought. Balance. 'No waste' means nothing (and no one) is left out. We have to work with everyone. All faiths. All groups. Those soldiers and bankers too.

The 1960s was a stand-off between the flower children and the soldiers. And, let’s be honest, only one side had guns. I think the modern revolution needs a synthesis of the two sides of the coin. (Not meaning guns, by the way.) We have to get the materialists to open up to psychic realities, sure. But perhaps we need to get the psychonauts to keep their feet on the ground now and then too, eh? The new Aeon, so to speak, is going to require a well-balanced new breed, I would imagine. Not materialist thugs, nor hippy-dippy gurus. Rather a generation of warrior-priests with a tech edge. Knowledge of how to maintain and preserve the physical world responsibly and abundantly while enjoying the sacredness in each moment and the (inevitable) expanding human consciousness that will blossom as a result.

I say co-opt just about every paradigm driving for change that's out there. Instead of drawing lines in the sand, I say we find the best, most workable parts of each "movement" and fit them together. This isn't compromise, in my opinion, since we all intuitively know that it all has to come together as One anyway eventually, right? Don’t name the movement, not any movement. Just move.

Imagine what the New Breed might be like? The generation that embraces our unity and the sacredness of life but knows how to stand up to that which oppresses it. Sacred Warriors that don't fight one another, but stand in defense of the Mountain itself. Those that know how to use the best of science, technology, religion, spirituality, mind, matter, and heart in synthesis... in beautiful harmony to guide all paths to the glorious peak where the party awaits.

If the Evolvers are to truly consider themselves emissaries of a new world, the diplomats of a new consciousness, then we have to be able to work in all circles, with all peoples and groups. Set aside that beautiful ego of yours (yes, the one that contains the glorious vision of utopia you saw in the DMT realm) and hear what other living, breathing human beings want. What are we all working for? And, most importantly, what are the commonalities and similarities? (Not the differences, silly.)

We're one world, one species, one people, one mind. We have to be well-rounded about this. We have to be willing to set aside what we think is right in order to meet others on their path. We all have to get to the top of the mountain together. Anyone and everyone who wants to throw off this crusty, out-dated system we're in and create something new should be looking for similarities, rather than differences. We all know it must change. Let's all just work together on HOW it can change, eh?

There’s a party waiting at the top of the mountain, friends. It only starts when everyone gets there. And damnit, I’m ready to party so let’s work together! Haha!

Onward into the Transformation, shall we? ;)