Personal musings on development

In many ways, I think humanity is at a crossroads right now. Eckhart Tolle repeats some views about this. A long time ago, enlightened people, i.e. people who were able to step into the Present for prolonged periods of time, were extremely rare. Everyone was caught up in the swirl of chaos that was humanity, and they didn't know the chaos was their own doing, and that it was fake. Then you start having these enlightened people popping up in rare cases. Poof! There goes Jesus! Oops, no wait, they killed him soon after. Poof! There goes Buddha! Oops, nope, he didn't have an easy time with people either. Poof! There goes... You get the idea.

These rare people that popped up suffered greatly, which was part of their evolution, and ours. Then over the centuries, something started to slowly happen: the rate of enlightened people appearing began to increase. Thomas Aquinas... Shakespeare.. Meister Eckhart... The Baal Shem Tov... and more and more people. Still, you could make a list of them if you tried. There were only maybe a thousand.

Along with that phenomena, something else happened. The rate of insanity also started to increase. I'm using Tolle's definition of insanity here, to keep things consistent: insanity is identification with the ego instead of the Real You. In other words, insanity is getting wrapped up in past and future and not being Present.

Scarily, now we have a real case of both rates speeding up exponentially in today's world. There are now probably hundreds of thousands if not a few million enlightened people of varying degrees, but there are billions of insane ones. The more the world wakes up and disidentifies from the insanity, the more the insanity fights back. It seems like for every person that finally says, "I'm done with this idiocy." there are 10 fundamentalists that spring up ready to berate that person, or even kill them sometimes.

There really isn't anything you can DO about it except be here now, and know. Being aware of the insanity dispels it. The more people that are aware of it, the more it deflates those who aren't. There really isn't any other way to "fight" it.