Signs of the Times: Four

Re-wire Your Nervous System

Many of you are familiar with the statistic that the total of human knowledge is doubling every ten years.  The statistic is several years old so I suspect things are moving even more rapidly now.  How is this a sign of the times?  The average person today experiences more in one year than an ancestor in 1900 would have experienced in an entire lifetime.  That’s why we’re feeling out of breath!  More feelings, more information, more sensory input, more choices, more avenues of expression.  And there’s more coming, fast.

How did this happen?  How can we deal with eighty or ninety or a hundred times the information and experience our ancestors handled?  Because humanity has taken an enormous leap in consciousness since 1900.  We have been energetically rewired and our nervous systems are different.  Practices such as meditation, allowing our imagination a place to play, and working to develop intuitive abilities will continue to energetically rewire our nervous systems and enhance creativity, innate wisdom, compassion, awareness and problem solving capacity.

The growing understanding between science and religion points toward humans learning to use all of their minds rather that just the ten percent Einstein noted.  In his book, “A Whole New Mind,” Daniel Pink explains why right-brainers will rule the world.  He declares that it is the union of the right and left brain that will create the geniuses of the future.  When intellect and intuition work in concert, each side absorbing, processing, sharing information and mutually making choices, a radically expanded intelligence is available to us. 

Here is one of my favorite quotes from Mr. Pink.  “The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people…will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”  - Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind

Another point of view comes from an Episcopalian minister.  Oprah had a traditional cleric, Ed Bacon (Rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena) in for an interview. A part of his belief is the insight that congregations of the 21st Century must be of an interfaith nature (as opposed to preaching that our way is the only right way).  He feels that the sense of separation which is caused by people feeling sole ownership to the right way is at the root of violence and hatred and the justification of war.

My point of view is that it requires a mind which integrates intellect and intuition to make the shift from us-against-them mentality to an open attitude supporting the worth and wellbeing of all.

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