THE NEW EARTH

The Ascension
of
Planet Earth

We are living in times of increasing doubt and uncertainty.

There is a widespread feeling that the old order of society is breaking down, that the forward development of our civilization has come to a dead-end.  The certainty and enthusiasm of the 1950s and 60s, the visions of a 'Brave New World', of stunning ultramodern architecture, exciting new transport systems and bold urban designs - all this has faded, our creativity and future vision have reached an all-time low.  In terms of architecture, we have returned to a pastiche of the 1930s and 40s.  And the grand visions of fast monorails speeding us magnetically between cities have been quietly forgotten, whilst in a typical year our present transport system produces some 40,000 deaths and 5 million injuries in the USA alone, with an officially estimated cost of $170 billion in traffic congestion and accidents.

Despite efforts, more often cosmetic than real, to tackle environmental pollution and degradation, we continue to destroy rain forests at an accelerating rate.  In addition, the food we eat and the ground in which it is grown are subject to ever-increasing pollution by toxic chemicals, and progressive destruction of the ozone layer has turned even the simple act of sunbathing into a cancer-threatening danger.  In the detail of everyday life, the deterioration of society is equally visible.  Violence, vandalism and disrespect for law-and-order are on the increase; so also are the use of drugs and the proliferation of sexually-transmitted diseases.

Political leaders no longer lead, and governments appear increasingly ineffective.  As the International Institute for Strategic Studies points out in its Strategic Survey, "alliances lack direction, so do nation states, which are themselves weakening as institutions.  In most countries, weak leaders are balanced atop shaky governments."

Life should, in theory at least, get better year by year.  In the USA and a growing number of other developed countries, statistics show that the next generation will, for the first time in history, be worse-off than the present one.  This reflects both an economic and an environmental deterioration, to which many would add the loss of moral standards and old-fashioned family values.

America's growing sense of malaise is reflected in the gambling fever currently sweeping the nation, with over 42 million regular gamblers and more than 400 casinos newly established across the country.  In 1996, over $586 billion was spent on gambling in the USA, considerably more than the $120 billion a year spent in the Wall Mart super-stores.  Architect Errol Barron comments philosophically in "Architectural Record":

Deep down, many of us harbor a fundamental feeling that there will be, and has to be, a significant change to our whole way of life before the new Millennium begins.

In the search for answers and viable alternatives, people are turning in ever-increasing numbers to a new lifestyle, to new ways of thinking, eating, healing and living brought loosely together in the term "New Age".

While on the fringe only a few years ago, "New Age Thought" has become very much mainstream.  New Age bookstores, once hidden in obscure corners of major cities, can now be found on main streets and suburban shopping malls, while most major bookstores now have a substantial and growing "New Age" section.  Books reflect changing human interests, and this growth of New Age thought, in turn, reflects changes in our attitudes to ourselves and to life around us, changes which can clearly be seen in so many aspects of our newly developing beliefs and conduct.

Care for our total planetary environment, reduction of pollution, protection of forests, waters and endangered species have become major themes in news coverage and politics.  Recycling programs are growing everywhere, and environmental action groups are increasing in number, size and influence.  We have become more sensitive to the feelings of others, for those with mental or physical disabilities, for the rights of those yet unborn, and for the well-being of animals.  Even though we still eat meat in massive quantities, factory farming is coming under increasing pressure to reform, and is already severely limited in Sweden and, more recently, in the rest of the European Union, and the wearing of animal furs is no longer considered environmentally correct.

Whole food products, stores and restaurants have blossomed; 'light' menus, salad bars and vegetarian dishes are readily available; and vegetarianism, once considered 'cranky', is now widely accepted as more and more people choose to eat 'lighter', and reject 'factory farming' and the killing of animals for food.  Walking, jogging and biking are popular everywhere, fitness centers and diet groups are spreading, and there is a growing interest in all manner of new-old therapies for mind control and bodily coordination.

An entire range of non-establishment medicine is likewise gaining in popularity, including acupuncture, herbal remedies, radionics, faith healing, and others far too numerous to list.  Many deal with the physical body, but in ways different from traditional western medicine; others deal with the spirit, or with our etheric or astral bodies which Western thought is only now beginning to recognize.  Westerners in increasing numbers are opening their minds to concepts from the Eastern religions such as reincarnation, karma (the law of cause and effect) and the co-existence with our physical world of inter-penetrating Spiritual Worlds of higher levels of evolution.

A growing number of people are also learning to tune in to their 'Higher Selves' and Spiritual Guides, through the multiple concept of reflection, introspection, intuition, meditation and listening to our inner voice.  It has long been accepted that such practices form a part of many people's private lives, a part which they may have preferred to keep to themselves.  But surprisingly perhaps, this concept is now even taking its place in the mainstream of American business management.

Business schools from Harvard to the University of Southern California are including exercises in reflection in their required course-work.  Mainstream corporations such as AT&T, PepsiCo, Hoechst Celanese and Aetna are integrating various forms of 'introspection-training' into management development programs.

Even Fortune magazine, traditionally the voice of American business in its more aggressive, material-achievement aspects, was quick to catch the spirit.  "Leaders Learn to Heed the Voice Within" (published in August, 1994), read more like something from a New Age newspaper:

As we learn to become more intuitive, we are also awakening to and accepting ideas and concepts outside the range of normal physical experience: extra sensory perception (ESP), astrological predictions, past-life regressions through hypnosis, and the channeling of messages from those 'passed over to the other side' or from Guides on Higher Spheres.

Acceptance of life after death has grown considerably in the last two decades.  Raymond Moody's book "Life After Life", deals with the afterlife as experienced by those who have been through clinical death and then returned to life.  Their stories give support to the existence of a life after death by their very consistency of detail.  Opinion polls have since estimated that over eight million Americans have had 'near-death' experiences.

Even the existence of life, and not just life, but friendly life, on other planets has gained a wide acceptance.  When 'flying saucers' were first reported in the early 1950s, those who claimed to have seen them or to have had contacts with visitors from other planets were generally regarded by friends and neighbors with ridicule and mistrust, and by governments with suspicion.  A recent Gallup Poll reported that one-half of American citizens now believe in UFOs, and that one in eleven reports having had a personal sighting.  Currently, over 10,000 cases of UFO sightings a year are reported worldwide.

That all of this and more can be gathered under the heading 'New Age', reflects the fact that New Age thought is now open to the entire range of esoteric and metaphysical teachings; from the ancient religions of East and West, to contemporary writers.  It is also now open to channeled messages from the Higher Spheres, and to an acceptance of 'Higher Knowledge' from the unseen Worlds of Spirit.

However, the New Age Movement is more than a menu of 'altemative lifestyles' to explore, fascinating and beneficial though they may be; it has another dimension which gives the very term New Age a much deeper significance...

A growing volume of predictions channeled from Higher Sources advise that we are at the end of a long planetary evolutionary cycle, coinciding with the turning point of an even greater Galactic and Cosmic Cycle.  These predictions began with the 'Book of Revelations' in the Bible, and have recently been updated by numerous messages 'channeled' from Ascended Masters on the Higher Spiritual Planes. Planet Earth is coming to the end of a long evolutionary cycle on the physical vibration-level, and is due to step up to a higher vibratory level or 'dimension' at the end of this century.  This is also marked by the end of the astrological Age of Pisces, running from the time of Christ to the start of the coming new millennium with the commencement of the Age of Aquarius, a 'New Age' of a thousand years on Earth of peace and harmony.  This reflects the Bible's long-predicted 'Day of Judgment' and subsequent 'Tribulation'... in which we shall be put to a final test before our Ascension by great storms, earthquakes and the movement of continental masses.  This is also the historical time of the 'Second Coming of Christ', to be followed by a Golden Age of a Thousand Years under His guidance.

New Age thought strongly emphasizes this coming period of change, explaining that Humanity has now reached a significant turning point in its evolutionary cycle, and that Gaia/Mother Earth herself is also ready for a major step-upwards to a 'Higher Plane', preceded by a thorough cleansing of her surface of all the environmental disasters wrought by Humanity over the years.

In preparation for this change, our Planet is at this very moment experiencing an increasing incidence of serious storms, earthquakes, floods and drought, much of it popularly ascribed to the 'El Nino effect'.  We humans too, although we are not directly aware of it, are undergoing a gradual elevation in the frequency of our vibratory structures.  The outcome of all these changes is one of major evolutionary significance, so it is important for us at this time not only to be aware of these coming events, but to have a full comprehension of their deeper significance.  We shall very soon be faced with major planetary changes and vital choices for which we need to be fully prepared.

There is a great body of hitherto hidden 'Higher Knowledge' available to us from the Spiritual Worlds.  This knowledge is not at present readily accessible unless we are prepared to make a lengthy and difficult search through the most esoteric of bookshelves, nor is it obtainable from the majority of the world religions.

In Volume One, entitled "The Higher Knowledge", we introduce some elements of Occult Wisdom and Channeled-wisdom from the Higher Spheres.  Subjects include: Creation; Evolution; Vibration and Density-Levels, knowledge of our 'Higher Self', as well as the great Universal Law of Cause & Effect (the Law of Karma), and the processes of Reincarnation; of birth on the physical level and return to the Spiritual Worlds at the time of death.

Volume Two, "The Earth Reborn", brings together the many prophecies, both historical and contemporary, of the Earth Changes predicted for the end of this current millennium, reinforced by geological evidence of past upheavals, with an explanation of their deeper significance as part of a Higher Plan.

Volume Three, "Life in the New Age", presents a vision of life on the "New Earth", the planet cleansed and rejuvenated, inhabited now by a more spiritually enlightened human race.   Descriptions of housing and transport, urban living, work and recreation, relationships with animals and the environment are combined with functional detail on economic, political and administrative systems.

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