Revolt of the Rebel Angels: The Future of the Multiverse by Timothy Wyllie

Author:Timothy Wyllie [Wyllie, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Age/Spirituality
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2013-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Apart from the cataclysms that upended entire civilizations in a single night, few times in human history has a global population undergone such rapid changes as this world has been experiencing over the last sixty years.

England and America were very different places in the 1950s and ’60s than they are now, and in ways that are sometimes difficult to grasp today. The English class system, for example, which had been harshly maintained for hundreds of years, was collapsing after two world wars. It finally breathed its last toward the end of the twentieth century.

The old social orders, whether czarist feudalism, Indian religious castes, or the English class system, were strictly conservative by nature, holding their people in cultural trances in which everyone believed they knew where they fit in the social hierarchy. Naturally, there were always a few who rebelled against the social structure and took their consequent lumps for it. Yet, like members of an authoritarian cult, most human beings who are existing within restrictive social orders tend to live blinkered lives, in which they are tacitly, or harshly, discouraged from breaking out of their inherited roles in society.

In the West, the Industrial Revolution, followed by two world wars, put an end to all that. Among the cultural shifts: new technologies required an educated populace; armies needed skilled warriors; new inventions gave rise to new industries; local wars, the growth of consumerism, and expanded tourism all broke down national barriers; better-educated men and women demanded their rights of parity; traditional religious belief systems were forced to reevaluate their doctrines in light of scientific advances; and, perhaps at the root of the changes, information became massively democratized, ultimately manifesting in the World Wide Web.

From a spiritual viewpoint, the implications of this social shift and the similar changes occurring all over the world are truly profound and probably will not be fully appreciated until after the coming transformation shakes out. However, having said that, I’m well aware that conditions on this planet from a purely materialistic viewpoint don’t appear to be much improved—rather the opposite. The deterioration of the biosphere has accelerated; the political leaders in most countries are increasingly corrupt and craven; dreams of a united world have resulted in dehumanized transnational and global corporations—the list of woes is as endless as cable news.

Yet, from a spiritual standpoint, what this profound shift in human affairs has been demanding is a much higher level of personal responsibility. And, more specifically, that each of us, Watchers as well as mortals, to the extent we can assert ourselves, now has far more freedom to believe or disbelieve, to work how and where we wish, to succeed or fail, and to live the life we choose for ourselves.

By spiritual in this context, I mean all that is of lasting spiritual significance, which you’ll be carrying through to your next existence: what you’ve learned about yourself, your capacity for love, your acts of kindness, your ability to forgive yourself and others, and any knowledge of value to your continuing Multiverse career.

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