Introduction

My intention for writing this book is to provide a framework from which to   assist and work withother like-minded people who are passionate about bringing a healthy change and a new consciousness and perception to our world. (Visit ‘Global Consciousness Engineers’ Facebook Group).

What follows is a message of hope and possibility, where I propose using an accessible and flexible methodology that will trigger a shift in the awakening that is already happening: To channel it from fight-or-flight-ego-survival-mind to cooperative, collaborative, conscious-awareness engagement with life. 

To get there, we need to slog a bit through the ugly story we are living right now in order to get clear of it as we journey toward the mountain top, to get the new view. 

The great Chinese spiritual philosopher, Confucius, is reported to have said; “May you live in interesting times”.  

Well, thanks for that, good sir! But I would go further and say that these are incredible, fascinating times, just on the basis of living through the changes I have witnessed in my lifetime. Everything is accelerating!

They are certainly unprecedented, which is true of all ages. But there is something very different about our modern era from previous paradigm shifts that have occurred across human cultures in previous times. 

And that is our capacity to destroy our world, our globe, as we know it and the consciousness of our inherent creativity. 

So, here’s the deal. Destruction is inevitable. 

We have used our creativity unconsciously and are destroying the world in its current form. Forget the nuclear bombs. If we do nothing other than  point fingers or speak words of great intention at our global conferences, board rooms and governmental institutions without rapid, concrete and broad  implementation, be sure that the natural forces will take their course and our ever burgeoning species and the thousands of others that are still left inhabiting Earth will be swallowed up. No asteroids required. 

Alternatively, we can destroy it consciously. By this, I refer to destroying our human modus operandi of behaviour – That is, divide, conquer and control of the masses, while marginalizing and suppressing non-conformist thinking, for the purposes of greed and power where fear psychology is used as to leverage this end. (This is not to condemn any one individual or group, for we all participate. Most of us are unconsciously immersed in our global systems in one form or another).

And I do not mean, going out and wholesale destroying our systems. That would lead to chaos, devolution, revolution, not evolution. 

The following words of Buckminster Fuller ring particularly true in the face of any evolutionary change you can observe to have occurred:

The car made the horse and carriage obsolete; smart phones have pushed newspapers and landlines to the brink of obsolescense, while the compass eliminated the need for the seafarer’s astrolabe.

When you start to dig beneath the surface of the information we are being fed, you will find a wide range of new models being tested and created. When using system-conditioned thinking, some of these new models and  initiatives, seem ‘weird’. But it is precisely this out-of-the-box thinking that needs to happen to sustainably craft our way forward.

Using our creative possibility to change our current trajectory, is available to us even as I write this and just as you are reading this. It is ever-present, just as the air is always available, for each one of us to access. We are just not conscious of it. 

The positive and creative change rests in awakening thinking (Stage 6) which is a springboard to awakened consciousness (Stage 7).  

Mystics, visionaries and scientists alike point now to dimensions of reality of which we are not conscious (but we can be). While this might seem at first as magic hocus-pocus, it is important to note that this has always been the case. Once we have been able to explain and verify a reason for the magic ( a stage in the development of thinking/consciousness ), it is no longer magic. Consider any phenomenon: say, electricity, a magnet, the sun rising, our ability to predict and total solar eclipse. At one time, such things were considered magic. Now, they are matter of fact and, interestingly, are things that really are magical in their own way, have slipped into the subconscious and are thought of as routine. 

A lab observation that I conducted many times. Iron filings are sprinkled around a magnet. They orient themselves along the lines of energy flow that is otherwise invisible. Magic? Yes, in its own way. We still don’t really know what magnetism is in its essence. But we do know some of its properties and effects.

Consider the scientific evidence that is pushing us past the modern version of hocus-pocus:

• Light existing as both a particle and a wave at the same time;
• The observation of an action in one location causing something to occur remotely;
• Observations that the universe, (or is that multi-verse?!?) is composed of 95% of dark matter and dark energy (dark because we don’t know what it is). The remaining 5% is matter, which at its foundation, is a form of energy;
• The proposed existence of at least 6 additional dimensions beyond the 3 dimensions of Space and the dimension of Time. 
• The Quantum Field and String Theory (physics) which places us squarely as beings of energy, not matter, in an unlimited cosmos, where we, because we believe it, are limited in a physical body, but of which unlimited is possible. (Einstein’s E = mc2 fundamentally describes mass (m) and energy (E) as interchangeable)
• The transformation of paranormal phenomena to the normal as a result of scientific (objective) validation of subjectively experienced phenomena (visit the Institute of Noetic Sciences – IONS).

This list goes on…

Such observations and validated research indicates that we are bumping up against the limitations of the dimensions of Time and Space (materialism) and that there is the (creative) possibility to transcend that rather than go down with the ship.  

How do WE do this? By awakening independent (compare to individual) thinking of the brain which is the vehicle of awakened consciousness. 

But rest assured, I am under no illusions. The majority of our global population is inwardly perceiving, experiencing and conducting themselves from group (ethnocentric) brain/ thinking/consciousness, as you will see in the pages to come. Modern incarnations of media are directing the minds of the masses to keep them believing there is only material existence, while maintaining their effective helplessness, dependent on the current systems, rather than on any other possibilities.  

Progression to the next stage of brain/thinking/consciousness development is required before this majority can even begin to understand the nature of the kind of trans-dimensional consciousness (perception) to which I refer. 

To summarize, the evolution of the brain/thinking/consciousness is a dependent stage by stage progression, where each stage serves as the basis for the next:

Egocentric > Ethnocentric > Independent > Multi-perspectival > Holistic, where consciousness can be thought of as perception.

It is my contention that the only way to bring about a lasting and positive change is through the understanding of the evolution of the brain, thinking and consciousness, the vehicle of perception.

Once acquired, the result will be the use of these developmental principles to bring about appropriate effective strategies to impact the rapid change needed in the world, some of which I will share with you in the pages to come. 

So, while this may seem daunting at first glance, understand that the daunting part is a function of your own perception and, should you expand and grow that perception, daunting will dissolve from your vocabulary and experience.

I take comfort ( because sometimes, I feel daunted! 😉):

• In knowing that there are many people around the planet that are enhancing their own powers of perception and consciousness in a variety of magnificent ways. In this regard, I am already working in a collective way, with others to awaken a new consciousness.
• In knowing that there are many working from a holistic perception, who want to participate in healthy change in the world. 
• In experiencing forces at work that I cannot see, but of which I can develop my consciousness to find the evolutionary way forward that will guide me.

• In the validated studies of the ‘100th Monkey Principle’ at work, where, when a certain critical proportion of a population learns a new behaviour or skill, that it passed on remotely to and adopted by other members of the population, despite not having themselves physically developed the new skill. (Witness young kids being able to intuitively use modern tech – no owner’s manual!). How many need to awaken to usher human consciousness into the next phase of our evolution? 

So, add yourself to the monkey list, if nothing else.   

‘Be the change you want to see in the world’

MK Gandhi 

And this is the interesting thing. 

It is about being. It is about inner action. For we cannot individually change the world, particularly if we restrict our thinking to change only by doing. But on a collective level, those that are interested in healthy positive change can participate in change, even on the dimensional/energy level of thought and being (still).  

Think about it. If you close your eyes, deeply relax and meditate (without a specific purpose, on nothing, just clearing the mind), when you open your eyes you will realize that you entered into and returned from another dimension of existence, of being. 

Just that, is participating in the shift.

And the bonus is, you will have touched the dimension that every, single human being is seeking in their own way in sometimes nefarious and (self) destructive ways. It goes by many names: Joy, love, bliss, peace, contentment, tranquility, equanimity… And this, by activating your centres of aware-consciousness in your forebrain, has the possibility to be your state of existence every day, regardless of the circumstances.