Floods, Freak Weather, Volcanism, Global Animal Deaths - ARE WE REACHING 'THE CUSP'?

[xcalibre]

The Cusp

For a long time, mystics, revolutionaries and lunatics have been trying to warn us that humanity will face a cusp moment, a fork in the road between two polarised extremes. More recently in our history the alternative media has been suggesting this very thing.

We are living in an age where certain kinds of information can be shared globally in real time. This is unprecedented. It is not only Hollywood marketing campaigns that can go viral within a matter of minutes, hours or days – it’s also all our hopes, dreams, speculations and paranoia about life, secrecy and the unseen world, and the very future of humankind.

Heady stuff. If our speculations and paranoia can go viral thanks to the speed at which information can now be shared, what does this suggest with regards to human consciousness?

ET Disclosure, the degradation of the biosphere, Aflockalypse, and endless, endless war...

Are we freaking ourselves out with collective shadows on the wall of the global cave, or is this explosion of information-sharing ability now going to take us into stranger, less-charted territories?

What is happening here? What exactly is it we are witnessing? Is this crossroads now looming before us in ways we would be foolish to deny? Or are we simply doing what we have always done and spinning elaborate yarns to distract ourselves from the painful business of being alive? If the latter is the case, we are doing so at lightning speed. What awaits us, then?

Chaos? Insight? A revealing of something profound and integral for human consciousness? Self-delusions for the 21st century? Or...a combination of all these things?

If our speculations and misunderstandings and half-truths can go viral, then can our intuitions be simultaneously doing the same? Are we indeed on the cusp of something that will soon bring into relief both truth and lies and the interrelationship between them? With any coming possible insight lies the possibility of the darkest swathes of human political, sociological, ecological and psychological history being uncomfortably, undeniably illuminated.

Are we ready for the Cusp?

[xcalibre]

Conceptually speaking, this Cusp moment has the potential to redefine our identities, individually and collectively. If such a Cusp exists it will also have the potential to terrify, disturb and liberate us. Primarily, any Cusp moment in someone's life will be about re-contexualisation. Thus it takes on the quality of an initiation rite, or a descent into an underworld of images where egoist consciousness is not always in control.

It is a willing oblation, akin to the tarot card called ‘The Hanged Man’; a willingness to experience a measure of melancholy and uncleanliness as a toll for entering the netherworld and gaining valuable insight. We could draw parallels with the Greek myth of Charon, the ferryman who must be paid with silver for safe passage across the River Styx. Simple ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ idiom is not enough to successfully traverse this realm of the dead. In fact, those initiated into the place below the world must attempt to unite or transgress binary systems, to perceive the artificiality and co-dependence of opposites.

Perhaps it makes selfhood a unique and vibrant thing if we can achieve some kind of synthesis or androgyny at the level of storytelling/discourse, if we can face our shadows, for it is this level of perception from which our mythologies and social interrelationships must arise.

Any thoughts?

[xcalibre]

Perhaps recent discoveries in the cutting-edge field of quantum physics are a manifestation of humanity's attempt to recover all that has been lost, and also perhaps a harbinger or herald of this potential cusp moment for humanity. A quick internet search will reveal that the subject of quantum physics is becoming more pertinent on websites dedicated to conspiracy research and occult/esoteric subjects. Just how deep does the rabbit hole go?

Much of quantum theory is based round the EPR correlation and Bell’s theorem; the mathematical suggestion of an unavoidable synthesis that exists at the subatomic level of matter, a mysterious interconnection in which everything is linked to everything else in a way that negates space and time. This is sometimes referred to as ‘non-locality’, or the ‘wave/particle duality’. At a subatomic level the particles that compose physical matter also possess a wave function – these supposedly fixed, discreet units can also smear themselves across the entire continuum of space and time like a wave of non-physical energy. How and why this non-locality occurs at the subatomic level is a subject of furious critical debate. There are various interpretations of quantum theory, including the many-worlds hypothesis, and the Copenhagen Interpretation which suggests that nothing exists without consciousness creating it through the act of observation. The debate rages on in the field, but the implications are clear – there is perhaps a closer connection between the mysticism of antiquity and the discoveries of modern science than we may have thought possible.

The psychologist Carl Jung pre-empts this discovery of non-locality when he discusses the phenomenon of synchronicity as ‘the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogeneous, causally unrelated processes’ and goes on to suggest that ‘it follows either that the psyche cannot be localised in time, or that space is relative to the psyche’. Jung adds enigmatically that ‘it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing’.

Perhaps herin lies a clue to the true power of the cusp - the potential for staggering transformation beyond anyone's reckoning.

For me, the idea that consciousness is the mysterious potential from which psychological and physical reality both arise is a delicious one. Perhaps the field of conspiracy research and the ‘truth movement’ will finally blossom when enough people can digest and comprehend such potentially liberating ideas.

In fields of enquiry as vast as conspiracies, magic and science, what can we really know in absolute definitive terms? It seems that recent discoveries in science are threatening the ontological certainty of material realism itself. If there is some aspect of physical matter that is ‘unreal’, or non-local and holographic, then what does this mean with regards to the human imagination and the power it seems to possess? Perhaps the human imagination is intimately linked with the realm where dreams, magic, spirits and archetypes were said to reside (and perhaps aliens and angels and demons) – and perhaps what we think of as material reality is simply our conscious reflections of that fabled realm. I think that we as individuals and as a society need to explore this basic indeterminacy of meaning. While it may be unsettling to some, I suspect it is a healthy and necessary part of conscious life. I would suggest it is enriching to push against the limits of any intellectual, religious or spiritual absolute, to transgress close-mindedness so that we might become more inclusive and insightful individuals. For me, when I read an interesting essay or an enjoyable piece of fiction I realise that I am separate and yet connected to something much larger than myself. In these moments I sense that there is an almost mystical unity behind the vast process of life and perception.

Perhaps The Cusp will eventually force us to pay attention to such possibilities?

[NoTingles]

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[Humble Janitor]

In addition to all of the weather and stuff, there are also forces at work trying to get us to give up even more of our freedom, thanks to the shooting in Arizona. I have made greater attempts to resist such forces by literally blocking out that crap from my view.

We must focus on our health and well-being and keep our eyes open for our loved ones. We must be ready to step in at a moment's notice and lend a hand if necessary.

[conk]

Interesting points. What to do about our Nemesis then? If you want a Cusp event, this one is the mother of all cusps.

Did you just coin a new word? "You sorry Mothercuspers, stop blocking my energy!"

Good post xcalibre! So many things point toward a possible major turning point in our history. It now seems certain to me that we are about to enter a totally new paradigm. Many people will suffer terrible fates.