The Shift: Staying Out of Fear

Here’s an excerpt from an article by the Emergence Project that was recently published in the December issue of Wisdom magazine:

The many misconceptions about 2012 and the Shift serve to create confusion and foster skepticism. One of the most common is the idea that 2012 is all about “the end of the world” or various apocalyptic scenarios. While it’s true that the choices that humanity collectively makes over the next few years will determine the extent to which these energies are tapped for positive transformation, we believe that excessively focusing on the negative can deflect attention from the important notion that this time in human destiny is a window of enormous opportunity.

One of the most important messages that we like to stress is the need to stay out of fear. Fear-based thinking is easy to slip into during this time of great social and economic turmoil, but easily becomes a millstone that weighs down the awakening process.

However the Shift is indeed surfacing darker aspects and energies that are being presented for what spiritual teachers and lightworkers call transmutation i.e. working through the dark matter of accumulated karma. Carl Jung calls this embracing or confronting the shadow self in order to heal the whole. We are doing this now on a collective scale. And it’s part of the process of the Shift. Although theses confrontations and shadows may be difficult to deal with, these “instant replays” of past events and stuck emotional energy are gifts and opportunities for spiritual growth.

The full article is entitled “Understanding the 2012 Phenomenon” and is available online at http://wisdom-magazine.com/Article.aspx/1404/