Signs of the Advent of a New Consciousness in the World Today

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Namaste people find it difficult
to understand how to recognize

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the advent of a new level of
consciousness as initial science

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begin to appear.
There are in fact numerous signs

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if we look at the history of
humanity and we look at where

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things are in the modern day
world.

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For instance, we see the coming
together of people through

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advanced communication where
there is now a worldwide

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network.
You could say the Internet and

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other communication methods that
allow people all over the world

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from different backgrounds,
cultures, social settings,

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religions, whatever, to interact
with each other.

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And that is something that is
bringing humanity to the point

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of starting to recognize our
inherent oneness.

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Another point is that in the
past everything has been done

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more or less secretly, and
levels of falsehood and self

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dealing were kept strictly under
covers, much of it protected by

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what we might call the old Boy
network.

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And nowadays we see increasingly
that these falsehoods and these

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self dealing operations are
being exposed and brought to

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light and that is absolutely
something new in our world.

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We see that people are much more
aware of the environment and our

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relationship to the environment
and that is also something new.

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Fifty, 60-70 years ago, even
people had much less awareness

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about the interrelated necessity
of maintaining an environment

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and keeping it in balance.
And today this is becoming a

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major concern.
And in fact, even major

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corporations are taking notice
and major insurance companies

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are looking at the risks, for
instance, of climate change,

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which wasn't happening 60 or 70
years ago.

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So they are definitely waking up
to the reality of the impact of

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humanity on the world and the
need to move towards a more

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balanced approach.
There's also a new level of

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concern about the needs and
suffering of people all over the

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world.
We see humanitarian movements,

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we see concerns with first aid,
Doctors Without Borders sending

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food aid and medical aid to
people everywhere.

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There's a earthquake or a
tornado or a famine, and

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suddenly people all over the
world are mobilizing to try and

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help people that they have no
direct connection with.

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And that also is a sign of a new
global understanding, awareness

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and consciousness developing.
We see an increased pressure to

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move away from things that
create harm or create a toxic

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environment.
We have more clean energy

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production.
We have an increased focus on

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removing heavy metals from our
food supply and watching and

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removing toxic materials and
disapproving toxic materials

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that have been used in the past.
This represents another level of

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understanding that people did
not have 70 or 80 years ago.

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So we see that many things are
moving.

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In addition to that, we see a
worldwide movement of people

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working within themselves for
greater awareness, greater

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consciousness, greater focus on
how to live in harmony within

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themselves.
We see a worldwide growth of

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interest in yoga, Tai chi,
meditation, Ayurveda,

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traditional healing methods,
vision, quest, et cetera.

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All of these things represent a
relatively new worldwide

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movement, as opposed to a
relationship of an individual

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randomly here or there.
We see attempts to bring forward

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a venue and methodology to work
out differences between

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countries, experiments like the
League of Nations originally and

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then the United Nations.
And it must be noted that the

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success or failure of any
particular initiative does not

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reflect upon the very fact that
such initiatives are taking

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place and that have gathered
people all over the world and

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countries all over the world to
participate in them.

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However flawed these initial
attempts may be, we see the

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development of new forms of
intentional communities.

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And here we've got places like
Findhorn or places like Oroville

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in South India.
And at Oroville, for instance,

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they have people from dozens of
countries speaking dozens of

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languages, different religious
backgrounds, different cultural

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backgrounds, different
educational backgrounds, living

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together and trying to do things
that improve and work out both

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the relationship between people
and their governance.

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And setting up programs and
projects to try to tackle and

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initially work towards a
solution of the major crises

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that we face in humanity.
The crisis of water, the crisis

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of the collapse of the ocean
fisheries, the crisis of

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pollution, of crisis of waste
and energy imbalances, all of

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these things need to be
understood and dealt with.

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And at Oroville we see a
community focused on and

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actively working on finding
solutions that functionally

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begin to address these major
human issues and problems.

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We see actually another example
and that is that we see a

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development of a worldwide
interest community so that

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people of similar interests,
wherever they are in the world,

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whatever their background, can
find people of common interest

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and join with them and work
through that common interest.

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This is something that is unique
in modern day.

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In the past, everything was
fragmented and isolated.

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Now we see people joining
together across boundaries to

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find where their commonality may
support one another.

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We see increasing focus on the
rights of minorities and we've

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seen over the last couple 100
years many countries abolish

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slavery, for instance, which has
been a scourge of humanity for

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literally thousands of years.
We see an increasing focus on

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bringing about equality for
women in the world.

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And while there are still major
resistance areas to this, there

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are also major steps forward in
creating a space where women can

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exercise free and equal rights
in the political, economic and

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social spheres.
Again, these things are not

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perfect, they're not complete,
but they represent new steps

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that could not be seen even 100
years ago.

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So we see that each of these
things are new initiatives, and

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they all speak to a common
underlying thread that there is

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a new awareness, a new
consciousness, if you will, that

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is slowly permeating humanity
and making itself felt.

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We see an increased movement for
better treatment of children.

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Child labor has been outlawed in
many countries, and in European

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countries there was child labor
up to the late 1800s.

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Well, now that's changing.
There are laws, there are

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protective measures.
And while it may still occur,

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when it's discovered the
penalties can be enforced and

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severe so that companies can
take some concern about whether

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they undertake to have child
labor in their organization.

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There's an increased
understanding of the oneness of

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all life and all existence on
the planet.

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The photograph taken from outer
space of the planet really

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illustrated that oneness, and
many people have been impacted

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by that.
Their mindset has been changed

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and they're beginning to
understand that we live together

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in a fragile environment and
that if we don't work together

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to solve the problems of
toxicity and pollution and

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improper use of resources and
climate change, etcetera, those

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who don't live together and work
together are going to die

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together.
And people are understanding

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that.
We see more of a global

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awareness as opposed to purely a
local awareness.

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You go back 100 or 150 years and
everything was centered about

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the local needs of each
community.

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And now we're beginning to see
that everything impacts

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everything else.
And we're looking at a global

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awareness developing.
And finally, we see an increased

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acceptance of alternative states
of awareness, out of body

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experiences, near death
experiences, spiritual

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experiences of various sorts,
which in former times were

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basically very much kept hidden
because people were afraid to

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speak about experiences that
they had, things they could not

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relate to other people without
being ridiculed.

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If we look back, we can see that
science, medicine, give us a new

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deeper understanding of how
things work.

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And we see a breaking down of
the walls between various

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disciplines as people start to
open their minds to a broader

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unified view of our reality.
It must be noted that there is

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at the same time an extreme
aggressive resistance to the

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type of changes that are coming
about here.

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There is a retrogressive
movement that is actually a sign

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of the power of the new
consciousness that is working

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because, as they say, a cornered
beast is more dangerous.

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It reacts because it's very
existence is threatened.

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And the fact that we see this
kind of aggressive, very strong

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reaction from conservative
retrogressions, retrogressive

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forces that do not want to
change and do not want to adopt

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the new reality, implies that
they feel and understand and

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experienced that new reality
coming and moving and changing

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things at a very fast pace.
And so the very resistance and

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its nature and its strength
represents for us another sign

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that a new consciousness is at
work in the world.

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And that is a sign of hope and a
sign of consolation for us when

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we think that everything we do,
all of the changes we make, all

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of the focus we put into things
may not be having a impact.

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In reality, they are not only
having an impact, they are

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having a tremendous impact.
And change, while it seems slow

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to our limited human individual
life experience, in fact is

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extremely fast in relation to
the way the societies undergo

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change.
And what we see in today's world

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is an unprecedented, very fast,
radical transformation of the

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way we relate to ourselves, to
our communities, to our

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societies, and to our lives and
to the planet.

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And that is the sign of a new
consciousness home.