Here comes our new world! Part 2

Signs of our new world birthing and emerging with new life.

In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that when I was pregnant, my water broke and initiated my labor process. My pregnancy was “breaking down” and was definitely ending. From another view, I was breaking open because new life—my son—was entering this world, and IT WAS TIME!

As I see it, collectively and culturally we’re in a similar process. We’re pregnant, and we’re breaking down and breaking open because we’re birthing and our new world is emerging. IT’S TIME! 

And, it’s a shift in our consciousness, not just in our physical/material experience.

Below are four more signs of that shift I’ve come across recently. They’re not as specific as the examples I included in my e-book Hiding In Plain Sight: Evidence of Our Life-Aligned, Regenerative Culture Emerging.

These are signs at the metalevel--what I see as the energetic architecture and infrastructure necessary for us to birth and midwife our new world into being.

1)     In The Evolutionary Threshold We Are Living On Suzanne Anderson writes:

“We are “between stories” — one era dissolving, another still embryonic and undefined.

“We are not just navigating personal change.

“We are participating in planetary evolution.

“We are living in a moment when the old story cannot hold us…“and the new story is not yet fully formed.

“This in-between space is not a mistake.

“It is an initiation.

“And the call of this moment is to surrender to the evolutionary forces moving through us . .

“. . . in this in-between time — where the old story no longer fits, and the new story is not yet known.

“In times of great change, we need containers strong enough to hold both our unraveling and our becoming. Without that sacred vessel, transformation turns to chaos; within it, chaos becomes creation.

“The forces moving through our world now are not meant to break us, but to awaken what is most essential and true — when held in an alchemical container, they become the currents that carry us home to ourselves.”

2)     Robin Wall Kimmerer has launched a new movement, Plant Baby Plant. As she says:

"We're showered every day with the gifts of plants. They provide the food we eat, the air we breathe, and medicines for mind and body. Despite this unearned flow of green generosity, we find ourselves embedded in a political climate and economic system that relentlessly asks, "What more can we take from the Earth?"

"I think there's one thing on which we can agree: It's wrong to wreck the world. I think the question we need is, "What does the Earth ask of us?" How can we give back in return for everything we've been given, and for everything we've taken?

With Plant, Baby, Plant, we will counter the forces of destruction with creative resistance in support of life.

Our goal is not to reinvent the wheel. It is to amplify, multiply, and carry forward these powerful efforts. Now is the time to help accelerate and expand that work with a groundswell of resistance.

"Together, we can spark a grassroots movement to heal land, build community, and transform love of land into social change. Not only will we plant trees and food and wildflower meadows, but we will plant our feet and say "no more destruction." We will plant a flag, to claim that this is what good citizens do on behalf of Mother Earth."

3)     Cultivating Planetary Coherence: What 20 Years of Presencing Teach Us About Actualizing Emerging Futures  Otto Scharmer/Presencing Institute writes:

“In our current context of systemic disruption and collapse, we realize:

1.     The future of global is local. While many problems are global, most solutions are hyperlocal, place-based, and regionally replicable.

2.     The future of online and digital is offline and embodied. As the world of digital and social media-based environments keeps growing, we need to re-ground ourselves through the creation of new qualities of in-person learning environments that allow us to connect to each other, to our planet, and to ourselves.

3.     What’s most systemic is most personal. Deep systems change starts from within. Your presence, your ways of relating, are connected to the situation at hand. The starting point is: my own attention, intention, and presence.

He says, “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system.”

4)     Voices of Emergence “Conversations at the Edge of Transformation: A Podcast and Community for Emergent Futures” has a number of podcasts to check out, including:

Capital in Service of Life,  with Dana Ulrike Glatz.  “A pioneer at the intersection of finance, regeneration, and human potential, Dana unites changemakers, investors, and innovators to redirect capital toward life-affirming projects and alliances.”

Turning Capital into Regeneration, with Alessa Berg.  

“What if money didn’t just measure value? What if it carried life?  We explore money not as a measure of extraction—but as a field of reciprocity, intelligence, and relational energy.”

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These are all examples of Life continually creating and expressing itself.  

We’re in a time of breaking the spell of our old narratives, stories and structures that we’ve created (often unconsciously) over millennia and that have held us “locked in place”. It’s a time of shifting our consciousness and opening to new life.

It is not, and can’t be:

¨      linear,

¨      planned,

¨      designed,

¨      organized,

¨      implemented,

¨      managed, and

¨      controlled.

It is about moving:

from productivity, performance, and perfection

to authenticity, alignment, and aliveness.

This shift is about seeing, acknowledging, appreciating, and applying a new (to us) paradigm, with its new narratives, principles, structures, and stories, in our culture and lives. No small thing! This is a birth, and not a small transformation!

This is Part 2 of (at least) three parts. Part 3 will be posted by Friday Dec. 12^th.

I know these examples are just the tip of the iceberg, and new ones show up on almost a daily basis. I’d love to hear about others you’re aware of!

Please hit reply and let me know.