Age of Consciousness Just Round the Corner

By neelammehta@rediffmail.com. Contact: 9810065913

The writer is forming Discussion Groups for consciousness conversations.
These are exciting times. An evolutionary mutation of consciousness is just round the corner. In the history of evolution, whenever a critical mass of members of a species adapts to a new way of being, mutation happens and the species evolves. A new level of human consciousness is on the verge of emerging. It is just waiting for the critical-mass tipping point.
There must have been a period, just before we became full-fledged homo-erectus, when some of us were still using our forelegs for walking while others were using these as hands with increasing dexterity and perhaps already walking on twos. And then suddenly, a critical mass was reached and everyone started following the new model.
Thereafter, mutated offspring were born with erect walk and dexterity already programmed into their DNA. Likewise, today we find a host of individuals struggling with challenges of unconsciousness uncovering the games we play, the masks we hide behind, the multiple identities of ego we live from.
As soon as enough of us become consciousness-conscious, that critical mass will be achieved. A new chapter in the story of evolution will begin. What will the new realm look like? The world will no longer be black and white; good and bad, because at the source of all dualities is conscious and unconscious.
Once unconsciousness is dispelled, everything comes under light. That is what enlightenment actually is — not some thunder and lightening phenomenon that leaves in its wake a halo around our heads. When everything in our minds is brought under the light of our 'seeing' or consciousness, we can call ourselves enlightened.
Hidden drivers no longer run our lives, making us act against our very own will. It is these drivers that are at the source of all wrongdoings, and in the extreme case, all crime. When you act from full consciousness, then whatever action you take, is exactly as it should be.
It is said that 'the human brain works only at a tenth of its capacity' or that 'the quantum of unconscious memory is far, far greater than the conscious material in the human mind'. 'Tripping' or the use of stimulants enhances our mind capacity only marginally and the results are dramatic: creative insights, spiritual highs and even ecstasy.
Imagine a new reality where instead of marginal access the whole domain of uncons-ciousness is accessible. We paid a huge psychological price for our transition from the animal to civilised state. The process of socialisation demanded rigorous discipline, and discipline implies repression of spontaneity.
Individuals needed to fit into social moulds and the price was individuality. That individuality our singular uniqueness is what we call our spirit.
The spirit of the individual got alienated. in the larger interest of community-building we stopped heeding to it. We had left it behind in the march past to our scientific glory, where being in step was of supreme importance.
Consciousness pioneers and the science of psychology are enabling us to retrieve this lost essence of our selves. We are fast approaching the critical mass. it is in the air and it is infectious. Everyone will catch it willy-nilly because it is in the natural flow of human evolution. The countdown has begun.