by Bill Isaacs

We are all participating in a vast creative cycle that is the culmination of many centuries of unfoldment, all aimed at the ascension of human consciousness. This goes well beyond the idea of human progress. There have been numerous changes in human experience over the past millennia, which may be viewed as improvements. The primary causes of human difficulty have diminished or turned into manageable challenges, namely famine, war, and disease. Although there are immediate examples of all three, overall these have been demonstrably lessened. However, there are many new problems, some of which carry far more catastrophic implications. We also live in a time that is more interconnected than ever before, where technology is advancing at a pace never before seen, and where we have an unprecedented level of globally shared experience. At the same time, we appear to be at a threshold where the confluence of challenges now arising is more intense than anything we seem to have known before. All these changes are arising together.