The MetaMind

As the 2012 meme gathers pace and begins to rear its head in mainstream media, it's worth an overview to see whether it's possible to distil anything further from this development. After the damp squib of Y2K, meme-grazers are inevitably making the comparison and resting, content to observe just another media circus. That the two memes bear no comparison requires no justification, but the plethora of entrained memes does, I think, carry an interesting subtext.

A short and inexhaustive summary:

• Global warming - plenty of data to show a steady global mean temperature rise, plus increase in ice-melt.


• A mini ice-age around the corner - the lack of sunspot activity conforms to a known pattern, the Maunder minimum, last observed at the nadir of the 'Little Ice Age' over the years 1645 to 1715.


• A magnetic pole reversal - the weakening strength of the Earth's magnetic field has been taken by some observers as strongly suggestive of an impending reversal.


• A dramatic series of natural disasters - tsunami, hurricane, flood, earthquake... Could be linked to any of the previous ideas, but worth solo consideration for their portentous nature.


• The now well-known and much debated Mayan calendar and implied prophecy.


• The technological singularity - a little early, but you never know.


• The McKennas' Timewave hypothesis - too esoteric by far for mass-consumption, but it has a strong place for the cognoscenti.


• Galactic alignment - a unique astronomical fact closely linked with the Mayan prophecy, there are many spin-offs and links. It may be the cause of the pole reversal, the opening of the Star Gate...


• Crop circles - the rise in incidence and complexity of this fascinating and confusing phenomenon has been linked with trans-dimensional communication preparing for the Big Event.


• The Illuminati/New World Order (NWO) - they no longer attempt to hide, and are intimately connected to the following:


• Terrorism/paranoia; wars; economic instability - manufactured by the NWO as a basis for increased control.

Conflict in consciousness

Frightening times. As these memes jostle for attention, what is the overall effect? There must be great conflict in human consciousness as the linear/rational brain attempts to sift merit or otherwise from these far-ranging subjects. And similarly at many different levels as governments the world over peddle blatant lies and misinformation on international and domestic issues. This may be taken as part of the NWO Master Plan to break down human will, but that seems too simplistic.

Looking at other implications, there could be a severe failure in morphic resonant processes as the rational part of global consciousness fragments and breaks down. As with party politics, a 2- or 3-party system is relatively stable, shifting periodically between states. Push the system further, and we have the onset of chaos. But chaos is the mother of order (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a stable self-generated system), and a consequence of the breakdown of rationality is the possibility of increased receptivity to a deep change, a change in the actual structure of consciousness. Daniel Pinchbeck has noted that "material reality seems less dense", and many others connected with 'the consciousness movement' report a marked increase in synchronicities. Either the NWO Master Plan contains a fundamental flaw, or it's all part of the fabric of the unfolding order, just as hunger precedes eating.

Strategies

Rather than getting sunk into despair, how can the individual weather the storm? Seeing the possibility that the storm is necessary for inevitable change is a first step. Not getting drawn towards any single meme is another. It's worth quoting from Philip K. Dick's 'VALIS' a piece of wisdom that captures this aspect strongly:

"To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox: whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies."

Echoes of Thoreau's 'civil disobedience', Ghandi's 'satyagraha' (a form of non-violent resistance), insofar as these methods offer a means to effect change without playing the same game, like suddenly changing the rules and steadfastly claiming that this is how the game is played.

On a more theoretical note, it can be seen that the familiar uber-rational binary logic just doesn't work as a framework for these issues: it is impossible for any single person to determine what is 'true' and what is 'false'. Enter the world of ternary logic, a suitable first step into the thought processes of a higher consciousness:

http://www.highintelligence.com/index.html

The third category of 'mystery' is definitively anti-rational, yet the proposed system elevates 'reason' to a supreme position. However, it's at least a start.

Becoming more involved in the process is essential. One method is to take up the art of synchromysticism, whose premise is that since all things are connected, all things may be deduced from all others, if one has the means of so doing. This is effectively an aspect of the Holographic Universe postulate. Of course, large events send proportionate ripples across the spacetime fabric and are therefore much easier to detect, like the passing of an elephant compared to that of a mouse. Seeing the connections in this way is an empowering experience, like learning a new language and suddenly understanding a much broader field of information about one's surroundings.

The shamanic tradition offers a direct connection to higher levels of being, most notably by intake of entheogens like psilocybin, DMT, peyote, LSD, salvia divinorum etc. under carefully controlled conditions. The experience of universal unity, of the falling away of time, and of a bliss beyond description should be insight enough to properly contextualise the sheer hubris of those who claim to know 'what's best' for all, and loosen the hold of the Establishment and it myths, misinformation and disinformation on the psyche.

Outcomes

So, what will happen? The most surprising would be nothing. In fact, by definition, this is impossible. To understand such an apparently rash statement, we must turn to the aforementioned ternary logic. Provided that we don't restrict 'happenings' to apocalyptic events at a certain stroke of the clock, then it could be argued that any subsequent event is connected with the meme. Or not. Therefore, it could remain a subject for endless speculation.

Also very surprising would be the apocalyptic event. But it shouldn't be ruled out.

More likely is that something completely other will happen/begin/reach a tipping point. Terence McKenna has suggested that alien contact has already happened via our relationship with entheogenic fungi. The idea is that contact would be something so completely alien that we need to reach a certain level of intelligence/consciousness to actually recognise it - it will not conform to any cultural stereotyping (unless, of course, 'they' wish to manifest as such). And so this returns to the 'nothing' scenario: those who co-create so-called consensual reality will simply not notice the change. Those who are receptive, through preparation or natural bent, will. So long, and thanks for all the fish? And this follows from the postulate that many, if not all, of the entrained memes are simply consciousness destabilisers, there to act as a wake-up call to those ready for change.

Probably the process is already well underway. This blog entry is another tiny step in its unfolding, in the breaking down of the established consensus reality tunnel to make way for a more malleable, polymorphic 'reality'. Jean Gebser has proposed this kind of scenario as a shift from the mental structure, with its over-emphasis on rationality (now observed to almost laughably obsessive proportions in various collectives under headings such as Brights, Sceptics, New Atheists...) to an integral structure. This latter allows all the previous structures their respective remits within a much larger new framework.

Whatever does or doesn't happen, there is no doubt that our current civilisation is at the brink of some form of change. Every person needs to awaken to their individual and collective responsibility to bring about this very change, before a different change is foisted upon them. To leave the last word to Ghandi: "Be the change that you want to see in the world."