Lynn Wilson Astrology

“The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the earth….It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts….without which the ultimate wholeness of its (humanity) power of unification cannot be achieved.”

     Teilhard de Chardin                 1881-1955

De Chardin proposed the existence of the noosphere, a planetary system of thought vaguely analogous to Jung’s collective unconscious. The difference is that de Chardin proposed the noosphere as an evolutionary process very much like the field that quantum physicists have been proposing over the past thirty plus years, speaking of it as an evolutionary brain. I believe that what he was proposing is the evolutionary leap we are currently on the verge of. The Mayans spoke of this time (2012) as the end of an era, Christians speak of the End of Days, New Age Environmentalists of the destruction of the earth – every society seems to have its end times theory. I was given the date 2012 in the early 80’s before being introduced to the Mayan calendar so I think it has relevance. What seems to be happening is that more and more people are waking up to what the mystics have always known and what scientists have been discovering over the past 30 – 90 years. We are all indeed “one” in the sense that every thought we think affects the field of consciousness.

Native Americans and Indigenous people everywhere have always lived with the knowledge that every thought and every action affects all around us. They did not separate themselves out from their environment or from the community. They lived in a manner that was respectful of the earth and contributed to its health and renewal. When Europeans arrived on their shores in the 1500’s and 1600’s they took care of the refugees and tried to teach them how to live in harmony with nature. But the new settlers were determined to conquer the native population and exploit the land for its resources. While many books have been written during the 60’s and 70’s exploring the similarities between the thinking of the ancient mystics and developing thought in quantum physics there is a new book written by a theoretical physicist, F. David Peat, exploring the connections between the new physics and ancient Native American thought, beliefs that allowed a large population of people to live in harmony with their environment for tens of thousands of years.

I believe we’re at the end of the period that allowed us as humans to think we were separate from rather than a part of. Science took a huge leap outward in that period of time in recognizing that the earth rotated around the sun. More “advanced” populations moved out around the earth looking for resources to support an increasingly consumer-oriented lifestyle. Cosmonauts and astronauts were launched into space and there is again talk of colonizing other planets. The model of the dominant society has been based on invasion and conquest which requires an objectification of other peoples and places. That same objectification is reflected in a science which has focused on things rather than processes, as if something is real only if you can see or touch it. In Exupery’s Little Prince the prince states “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Indeed this “what is real” could be equated scientifically to the fact that the universe is now hypothesized to be 70% dark matter and 70% dark energy. This is the field, the web that has no weaver, the mystery of life. It is in this arena that indigenous societies have lived for tens of thousands of years. In “The Cosmic Serpent” anthropologist Jeremy Narby explores the links between the so-called myths of indigenous peoples and molecular biology, much as Peat explores the similarities between Native American beliefs and theoretical physics. We are indeed all one. This is also a perfect example of Parallax: our interpretation/creation of reality is based on our measuring tools and hypotheses. Heisenberg’s Principle states that “our hypothesis shapes the outcome of the experiment.” Native populations never separated themselves out from the plant and animal kingdom, therefore they know the healing powers a plant will have and they know how to protect it.

In The Intention Experiment author Lynne McTaggart does a good job of compiling much of the research that’s been performed over the past 40 years in the field of consciousness. The following is a list of people and organizations that have focused on this field over the past 50 years.

Institute of Noetic Science www.noetic.org Institute for the Study of Consciousness www.arthuryoung.com Esalen www.esalen.org Maharishi Mahesh Yogi www.maharishi.org Peter Russell www.peterrussell.com F. David Peat www.fdavidpeat.com Global Consciousness Project http://noosphere.princeton.edu

I believe this is our wake up call. As we move to this next phase of our evolutionary history we will either incorporate these ancient beliefs and the teachings of the great masters with what we’re “discovering” in western science or we’ll truly perish. All the spiritual masters speak of love as the next step. Love means a concern for all sentient beings, plant and animal as well as human. Our awareness of the power of intention and of the effect of thought must lead us to a concern for others and for the earth.

            Peace is more than just the absence of war.  People everywhere seek 
            An inner peace that comes from the human rights to voice their views
            To choose their leaders, feed their families and raise healthy children.


                                               Jimmy Carter