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The Great Adaptation
What within each of us must adapt for the betterment of all?
Posted July 28, 2019
Change is continuous in everything. From our human view, change may be fast or slow, visible or invisible, consciously known or unknown. We experience change internally within our thoughts, physical body, and emotions. We laugh at a funny joke and tire our muscles with work. We observe change outside our own physical form as well. A log rots on the ground or is burned to warm a house. We do not need to look far to find change, for it is a process built into the essence of the universe.
As humans, we are limited to what we can observe as it changes. Within seconds, we can see a river flow but not a tree grow. Through our senses we cannot directly see our own molecules chemically changing, hear sounds of ants crawling or see the universe expanding. We need intervening equipment to gather signals for interpreting changes beyond our natural sensory ability to detect.
As living systems and their conditions change, a species may undergo adaptations in a response to sustain the life of that species. Adaptations vary in rates and characteristics. A species may completely disappear because it is unable to adapt. It may also seem to disappear, when in fact it has mutated or evolved into another species without interruption of life along the way.
Addressed here is whether the human species is currently participating in a major change into a new era, a change called The Great Adaptation. Will we become extinct or evolve into a modified species of our current form? Changes are simultaneously occurring in Earth’s climate and in the humacosm of international relationships, national governance, economic and social structures, political organizations and so much more. All are currently affecting changes in humans, even as changing humans are affecting them.
Adaptation has always been essential for the continuation of life on Earth. We can ask ourselves many new questions about human adaptation in these times, but only one will be the particular focus here: “What do we adapt?” As a popular example, if we are asked to identify “what we adapt” to lose weight, the response would likely be “our eating habits.” In sharp contrast, this exploration of adaptation is under the all-inclusive theme of the primary nature of existence. The question “what do we adapt?” will be reflected upon as a philosophical/spiritual inquiry.
The central proposal is that what must adapt at our most fundamental level of existence is human consciousness. This shapes the basis of The Great Adaptation.
Each human is being called to realize his/her personal consciousness in new ways so that we may all co-participate in the evolution of universal consciousness. Even when gratefully assisted by teachers with deep insights, ultimately each of us must pursue his/her own impulse to expand consciousness through unassisted experiences such as meditation. It is requisite that our intent be based on principles of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Words and images will always be limited but can still be shared to encourage others to open their minds and hearts to access what is already of great value within them.
The basic premise here is that there exists a fundamental Universal Consciousness, sometimes referred to as the Ground of Being. Forms are naturally and continuously created from it. Those forms may superficially appear separated, but actually remain connected to their Source of Being and through that Source interconnect to each other. Though human forms may not at first realize this connection due to unconscious limitations, they may naturally awaken to its Presence. Such waking-up events adapt limited local consciousness by expanding it into the Whole. When many do this The Great Adaptation will occur. We will know it is happening by shifts to openhearted, rational, and embracing experiences among us.
It seems life has been adapting since it began, so why is it any different now? It’s about the increasing number of humans and the diversity of our contributions to the consciousness of the whole Earth. It is about learning methods of connecting variations in consciousness for the betterment of all.
Historically, the development of human consciousness has always reflected adaptations in the context of the times. As creativity moves signals from the unconscious to the conscious within us, novel questions and methods for answers arise. This evolutionary process has been demonstrated by human exploration from primitive to current times. It has always been about awakening to information that was already there but unrevealed. Connections and disconnections unfold imaginative structures and processes based on underlying principles within the universe. Humans have influenced the direction of our evolution through expanding consciousness of our participation in an expanding process.
Along the way, we have tried adaptations that failed. We have often fallen prey to ignorance. We have gotten stuck in our own misguided desires for personal power and recognition. We have clung to fixed identities in a fluid reality and have closed minds and hearts in exchange for a false sense of stability. We have believed we have discovered our true nature before going deeper to find we have not.
To reach The Great Adaptation will require many small steps taken with humility and shared fundamental values. We will need teachers and leaders committed to creative collaboration to discover our shared spirit as a global community. We will need to include all living beings and view Earth as one of them. It begins within each of us as we expand our consciousness not out of fear but out of hope, not out of need for personal fame but out of joy for being diverse contributors.
The Great Adaptation has already begun with attentive groups of adaptors who are speaking out that we must accelerate our awakening of consciousness to include Earth and all of her inhabitants. The first step may be for each of us to ask “What do I adapt?” and then humbly listen to the stillness of our shared Source within.
© Betty Luceigh 7/28/2019
