The VISIONS SERIES (2) - a new series of prophetic visions exploring potential evolutionary futures of humankind based on extraordinary visionary experiences. This second series explores the visions of Chris Bache as told within 'Dark Night, Early Dawn' (SUNY Press, 2000).
No.3 in Series 2: A COLLECTIVE PURIFICATION
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Text extracts from: 'Dark Night, Early Dawn' by Chris Bache (SUNY Press, 2000) Both the author Chris Bache and the publisher SUNY Press have given their permission to use these extracts publicly - we express our gratitude.
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From this perspective I saw that our culture's scientific "knowledge" about the origin of life was profoundly incomplete in two respects. First, our materialistic understanding of the actual mechanism of evolution is pitifully incomplete, and second, we have been basing our interpretations on what has emerged just up to this point in time, ignoring the obvious fact that we have seen only the early scenes of a much larger play. Imagine someone from antiquity who was completely ignorant of cars observing the early stations of an automobile assembly line and trying to comprehend what was being built. We simply see too little to guess what is coming and therefore do not properly understand what has gone before. The depth of our ignorance is measured by our conviction that our universe has been assembled by accident. In being given glimpses of the future, in touching the edges of the Creator's intent, I saw that evolution was indeed no accident but a creative act of supreme brilliance and that humanity was being taken across a threshold that would change it forever.
I then moved deeper into the unified field of existence and experience the dynamics of humanity's awakening as movements initiated and orchestrated by a single, integrating Intelligence. Previously my frame of reference for understanding these processes have been individual human beings, and the themes of individual evolution are the skilful exercise of free will over vast epochs of time. Now I was drawn into a superordinate level of reality that revealed a deeper organisational pattern, a pattern that paradoxically did not contradict the reality of individual agency. From this perspective, I experienced the evolution of our species as the systematic growth of a single organism, a unified and unifying Being that all of us were part of. The subtlety of the co-operation of the parts with the whole was extraordinary. Nothing in our theological or philosophical systems does justice to the facts. To experience the incredible diversity of our species as a single unified field made many events clearer. New patterns sprang into view and the patterns made transparent sense.
What I "saw" was that the unified field was moving decisively and precipitously to become more aware of itself in spacetime. Whereas previously it had existed as an extended fabric of being, largely unconscious of itself at the physical level, it was now waking itself up. Visually this took the form of energy coming together in swift, contracted spasms that created bright flashes of awareness. I repeatedly saw extended webs of energy suddenly contract and explode in brilliant flashes. In the past these flashes had not endured long and had been swallowed by the inertia of the collective unconscious of our species. Now, however, the flashes were beginning to hold their own. Not only were they not dissolving, but they were beginning to connect with other flashes occurring around the planet.
The next theme was that of purification. When an organism is called upon from within to become more conscious, it must first cleanse itself of the psychological by-products of living at its lower level of awareness. It must bring forward the residue of its past and purge that residue from the system in order to lay the foundation for a more refined level of operation. Our species was doing this in a wholesale manner and with greater determination by crystallising within itself generations that embodied this legacy. What I have previously seen simply as individuals reincarnating in order to clear individual Karma, I now experienced as a highly centralised decision to cleanse the human mindfield of its collective karmic legacy in order to prepare humanity for what is to come. It was the coordinated exercise of the self-evolution of the species as a whole. At a deeper level it was the deliberate movement of the Divine Being that was evolving Itself through the experiences of our species. All our individual histories were expressions of this Being's larger history, our individual struggles were aspects of its larger struggle. The process was so beautiful and so elegant that it swept me into a deep ecstasy and almost took me beyond my capacity to maintain coherence. It was not a vision but an experience of the reality itself.
From the centre of this experience, it seemed to be the case that our current generation had been deliberately karmically configured to precipitate an intense cycle of collective purification. The poisons of humanity's collective past were being brought to the surface in us, and in transforming these poisons in our individual lives, we were making it possible for divine awareness to enter more deeply into future generations. We had volunteered for this role for both our personal benefit and the collective good. We were cells in a Superorganism intent on rapid change. As such we were heavy with both the burdens of our collective past and the promise of our collective future. I saw that this century formed something of a watershed into which the karmic streams of history were flowing, and I knew that as this process came to fruition, our future condition as a species would be beyond anything we might project from our current state of fragmentation.
It is difficult to describe the jarring combination of emotions these insights stirred in me. On the one hand, I was deeply disturbed by the decisive and almost impersonal manner in which this transition was being effected . To experience entire generations of human beings as expressions of a larger evolutionary pivot was absolutely devastating. The entire process had the ruthlessness of Kali the destroyer, mercilessly cutting away the old to make way for the new. On the other hand, I also felt an exquisite tenderness coming from the Creator, who experienced with us every pain we had taken upon ourselves. Humans were so precious to the Creator that not a single ounce of pain, not a single tear was wasted. The depth of that divine care so moved me that no sacrifice seemed too large or unreasonable. Moreover, I could see that the future we were creating was a future that we ourselves would participate in through future incarnations. We were doing this for God, for others and also for ourselves.
Eventually the multiplicity of perspectives from which this transition can be experienced became so overwhelming that it completely shattered me, and I exploded into a frame of reference that included all these levels. The remainder of the session was spent in this state of expanded, integrated plurality. The theme became the experience of "no-self". I experienced my work in the sessions as being not breaking through the shell of anything real (the death of a "self") but as the simple restoration of an open, inclusive wholeness that was and always had been the true reality. All else is a mistaken illusion. For a short time the illusion was suspended and I experienced my life as pure process, a rippling of an expansive field of consciousness that supported endless ripples. What a freedom of movement! What contentment in this spacious emptiness! How wonderful must be the experience of those who have stabilised this freedom.
These experiences reached beyond the ripple that was "me" into the morphic field of the species. It is difficult to describe this process because it was largely devoid of cognitive content, and I only began to grasp what was happening retrospectively. My frame of reference was not the usual self/ surround polarity but the seamless fabric of a unified existence, and yet there was a subtle agency operating that presupposed my individual historical existence as well. As best as I can put into words what was happening, it is this.
Just as my previous work had mediated the experience of collective anguish out of the collective field, my current task now seemed to be to mediate the experience of no-self into the collective surround. I experienced this primarily in terms of a flow of energy moving through me into the species-mind. To the extent that this flow took cognitive form at all, it took the form of becoming comfortable with the loss of boundaries. This had many aspects to it-being comfortable surrendering the boundaries of race, the boundaries of socioeconomic distinctions, the boundaries of nationality, the boundaries of religion. Wherever we had drawn boundaries around ourselves in history, there was fear. I seemed to be mediating a common energy that encouraged the dissolving of these boundaries and the softening of these fears. This went on for a very long time as boundary after boundary fell to a social melding. Soothing energies moved through me and reached into the human field, making it a bit easier for persons to relax and yield to the flow of historical events that were challenging and dissolving the unreal divisions humanity had drawn upon itself. Together we were paving the way for a future that was a radically unlike the present.
There is a social awakening coming, a time when we will have dropped our attempt to live in the atomised cells of our historical past and we have appropriated the truth of our inclusive nature. Everything we are currently undergoing both privately and collectively is paving the way for this future. The net result of these and many experiences was to focus me on the question, "How can the entire species be awakened? What would it take for the whole of humanity to make this quantum jump in awareness?" Though I had seen that this awakening was our immediate historical task, I had not seen how it would be accomplished.”
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