and Beyond: Humanity’s Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution. Indi- viduals that feel compelled to join with others in expanding their consciousness to help foster systemic change and a culture of a higher order are invited to find a compatible group. Hubbard offers webcast training for Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE), now 3,000 members strong; Craig Hamilton, founder of Inte- gral Enlightenment, provides an online telecourse called Awakening to an Evolutionary Relationship to Life. “Evolutionaries sense that we are facing a critical moment in the un- folding of our human story and feel called to create pathways to a better future,” says Hamilton. He notes that the 35,000 participants in his most recent introduction to his webcast were interested in where they could find a supportive community of kindred spirits committed to living life on the same level. He states, “We instinctively know that we can accomplish more together.” A partnership with The Shift Network, which empowers a global movement of those intent on creating an evolutionary shift in consciousness, has enabled Hubbard, a featured sage in the documentary Awaken Soul to Soul, and her ACEs to launch a global initiative to mark the inauguration of a sustainable planetary civilization on December 22. Thousands of individu- als are now working in collective hubs across the United States to prepare for
the Planetary Birth Day celebration. An initial concern for many indi- viduals seeking to experience Oneness is, “What happens to my identity?” Christo- pher M. Bache, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the department of philosophy and re- ligious studies at Youngstown State Uni- versity, in Ohio, reassures us that within the matrix of connectivity, individuality is not suffocated, but paradoxically liber- ated into deeper forms of self-expression. “While opening to the collective fields that surround us melts the bound- aries of the private ego, bringing about the ‘death of self’ noted in spiritual lit- erature, as the ego dies, a deeper form of individuality is born—not an isolated individuality, but one that thrives in subtle give-and-take,” explains the au- thor of The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness. While the idea of a future in which American and other cultures reflect one- ness can seem distant and idealistic, it is already present in South Africa’s Xhosa community in the form of Ubuntu, a worldview which means, “I am what I am because of who we all are.” According to South African Arch- bishop Desmond Tutu, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, Ubuntu it- erates the essence of being human and speaks to the fact that it’s impossible to exist as human beings in isolation. We are people through other people. “We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated
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from one another, whereas you are connected, and what you do affects the whole world,” he observes. “When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”
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