Demystifying The Shift

The Emergence Project has a number of events planned over the next few months. One of our hopes is to try to demystify 2012 and the Shift and correct some of the many misinterpretations that seem to be out there (although we fully expect that when the mainstream media gets its hooks into this topic, further distortions will inevitably creep in.)

In some of these talks, we’ve been speaking a bit about the concept of world ages, a good starting point for understanding the 2012 phenomenon. World ages and the Zeitgeist are the province of cultural historians and anthropologists who work to discern and preserve human perspective and the complicated advance of cultural change.

In what in my opinion is a stellar work,Transformations of Man, one of our greatest cultural historians Lewis Mumford mapped and correlated the world ages. He also evoked the notion of the Hindu Yugas in reference to some of the strikingly surreal anomalies of the current age and wrote eloquently about the evolution of human thought and consciousness in the progression of world ages.

Getting more comfortable with the Shift and 2012's own complexities does require another leap in thinking beyond the academically sanctioned notion of a world age (if not a leap of faith) since the notion of prophecy and a priori knowledge of the unfolding of the shape of human affairs is introduced. World ages “work” for many people since they are viewed (and developed) in the rear review mirror of historical analysis.

But world ages as recurring cyclical phenomena with spans of time exponentially greater than several centuries are a different animal since to accept this notion tends to bolster the critique of Western knowledge as the pinnacle of human thought and its presumed scientifically sanctioned linear progression towards accuracy and suggests the suppression of indigenous wisdom has been counterproductive to the quest for authentic values, possibly even a wrong turn in history.