I can't find it, so if I have told this story before, please forgive the repetition. Back in about 1995 (almost 30 years ago!), I attended a New Age-y workshop...I have since forgotten the specific topic of discussion and just about everything else about the event, except for one thing: a young man raised his hand, and told the group that he had seen something online about a chart someone had made illustrating the rise of human inventiveness. Essentially, it showed how slow the pace of human invention was in early history, and then how it gradually rose to a fairly steep pitch during the industrial revolution, then steeper and steeper still in the 20th century. By the 1990s, the pace of new technologies and inventions was changing so fast that it was predicted soon to become a completely vertical line which would collapse back on itself when there were simply too many new inventions for society to absorb. The ensuing discussion must have been about when that would happen and what would be the result; all that has stayed with me is the mental image of the graph's line circling back on itself.
I was reminded of this when I heard the news about the continued rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, despite efforts worldwide to "fight climate change". Rightly or wrongly, I see these two topics as completely related, completely intertwined.
If we are reaching one, or two, or many crucial points, it seems to me that there has been such a long arc of a specific kind of growth and acceleration that we cannot expect small bandages to cover the wound. And while our focus is on protecting the way of life we have created rather than protecting the planet that Nature created, our solutions are not likely to work in the longterm anyway. It would be very easy to fall into despair, even for me, except for one thing -- I feel joy that the energy of the divine feminine is surging into our world. The tipping point will not be about death (which of course doesn't exist anyway), but about new, more sustainable forms of life and love. Those of us who can will have to completely release our attachment to how our human world has looked and operated up until now, and who will or will not "survive". That will be challenging. (How's that for an understatement?)
