Emergence

EPOCH 6: Integral Holistic Defining features:

• Universalistic

• Integral

• Self-Actualization

• Insight and Intuition

• Systems thinking

• Holistic

• Flexible

• Holds Multiple Perspectives

• Sees relative reality as co-created

• Depth Spirituality

• Horizontal + Vertical orientation

The first signs of light from the new dawn is now appearing on the horizon, as the early waves of cultural creativeness are cutting a path into the unknown territory of Epoch 6. A variety of developmental researchers are starting to note a small percentage of people experiencing the world in a new way. The Harvard developmental psychologist Dr. Suzanne Cook-Grueter has found through her research that becoming aware of how reality is constructed is a hallmark of this emerging new stage. This new Life Altitude leads to the awareness that we are part of the creative process of reality, and that reality is moldable.

You see reality as systemically and holistically linked together and context dependent. A certain merging of mind-stuff and matter co-creates reality. The world is interconnected and interdependent, not a collection of isolated parts bumping into each other. Spiral Dynamics (and Dr. Clare Graves who provided the base research that spiral dynamics was built upon) considers this next Life Altitude to be ‘second tier’ and states that it is a greater leap forward than the

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combination of all of the previous Life Altitudes combined. The magnitude of the seismic shift into the Epoch 6 Life Altitude is in part due to the fact that, for the first time in history, a consciousness has emerged that can see, understand and honor the 13.8 billion years of evolution and the entire hundred thousand year history of human cultural and consciousness evolution.

Your ‘relative self’ is the part of you that you navigate in this world of space and time with, as contrasted to your Transcendent Self, that is eternal and free of space and time. As your relative self begins to evolve towards Epoch 6 I refer to the relative self as the ‘Authentic Self’. We could say at earlier Life Altitudes, this same relative self is what is commonly called the ‘ego’ but as the ego self-actualizes into Epoch 6 it becomes the Authentic Self and starts to recognize its vertical directionality and importance to the evolutionary process.

The Authentic Self’s drive is to self-actualize, to move vertically. To not just translate better and become more healthy and happier wherever you are but to transform vertically into a new world view. The new territory that it seeks is Epoch 6. Epoch 6 reaches down with love and compassion and re-captures Epochs 0, 1, 2, 3 4 and 5 into its being. When the entire spiral of development is transcended and included in this next emergence the whole becomes much greater than the sum of its parts. The Authentic Self strives to create a world where everyone can exist and feel meaningful wherever they happen to be, as long as it is healthy, at any point in their evolution. Epoch 6 is the first truly all encompassing, all-embracing level of development.

An architect of Epoch 6 knows itself as a ‘Holon’ (to borrow a term from Arthur Koestler), a complete autonomous evolving being and yet simultaneously a part of a greater whole. It also knows the power of its presence and intention to create change in those around it, and in fact those distant to it. You don’t end at your skin, your thoughts don’t stay inside your head, your heart and brain energy become entangled with those around you. You have a Kosmic (I use the term Kosmic with a ‘K’ as the ancient Greeks did, to refer to all of both inner and outer reality, not just the outer reality commonly expressed as Cosmos) responsibility to SHOW UP in integrity. What you are ‘transmitting’ drives the evolutionary impulse.

Disillusioned with the superficiality of much of the spirituality of Epoch 5, the Authentic Self seeks deep and genuine spirituality. SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation are designed to provide this spiritual depth as the journey into new territory ensues. The vertically arranged Epoch 6 altitude of conscious-ness can become the scaffolding for the direct experience of the enlightenment states we read about earlier. These enlightenment states can now be interpreted

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and acted from in a new deeper and more meaningful way. In Epoch 6 the Authentic Self integrates the Soul State as permanent trait while gaining greater access to peak State experiences of transcendence and unity.

The Authentic Self becomes the vehicle of the soul’s journey in the world of space and time and matter and manifestation and your soul is enriched by that journey. Knowing deeply its soul and having glimpsed absolute freedom in the transcendent state, existential fear it knows not. This allows the heart to open for the entire world.

Since Higher Consciousness/Higher Heart/Higher Brain arise as one irre-ducible but connected dynamic, there is a unique signature of brain/heart/physi-ology/function, which correlates with the consciousness and culture of Epoch 6.

As the Higher Brain awakens and establishes the full shift out of survival mode and into a new way to thrive, that other brain center, ‘the heart’, confirmed by neuroscience to be neurologically rich, opens. The opening of Higher Brain and Higher Heart become more permanent traits than the temporary state experi-ence of earlier openings corresponding to Unitary Enlightenment. This allows greater synchronization of the Higher Brain, Higher Heart dynamic. Over time the powerful resonant pull of these two powerful and integrated biological structures begins to reconfigure all of the evolutionary brain layers into an emer-gent whole, prepping the way for Epoch 6.

Those of us on the path to free our brains from outmoded primitive survival mechanisms, who are now uploading energy into Higher Brain structures and consciously evolving, will be the creators of this new culture, the Architects of Epoch 6. I have articulated below two separate phases within Epoch 6; Epoch 6 Emergence and Epoch 6 Ascension. Due to the evolutionary perspective of Epoch 6, when a significant minority enters into this new Life Altitude and starts living it, the rate of evolution will accelerate and we will start to experience a rapid vertical accent. For that reason, even though Epoch 6 is shown to have two phases that highlight early and late development, we really need to consider the two phases (Epoch 6 Emergence and Epoch 6 Ascension) as one potential dynamic, as the rapid vertical movement at this level of development is more

‘process’ than actually stabilizing at any Life Altitude.

Technological innovation has gone vertical now and therefore conscious-ness must catch up fast. What happens next depends on whose hands that technology lands in. The dissemination and distribution of advanced tech-nologies are landing in the hands of those not developed enough to use it wisely. With the exponential growth of technology, which has gone vertical, the innovations are happening too fast and cannot be controlled. Too much

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of humanity is dominated by the lower brain. The trajectory of technology requires that we must create the right conditions, for human consciousness and physiology to catch up quickly. Those of us at the leading edge have to create this change in ourselves and create communities that forge the path;

we must be the architects of a new age of transformation.

Signs That You Are Moving into EPOCH 6 1. Intuition and Insight, ‘trans-rational’ new modes

of knowing in Epoch 6

In Epoch 4 and 5 rational thought became our primary mental modality.

Extremely useful for our survival, it got us to this point in history but it doesn’t appear: it alone, will take us much farther. It’s time to transcend (and include) rational thinking and enter deeper and higher modes of knowing that are slumbering in the Higher Brain.

The level of complexity in our modern world has exceeded the ability to create meaning and find solutions through rational thought alone.

Science is making it clear that to thrive in the face of complexity, we need energy in the pre-frontal cortex (PFC), and we need to go higher and forward in the brain not lower and backward.

The Epoch 6 mind does not lose access to logic and rationality, it transcends and includes it. Rational thought will continue to activate when appropriate. Insight and intuition are not ‘anti-rational’ they are

‘trans-rational’; allowing us to see deeper into reality. They are not con-fined to ‘either-/or thinking’, but rather, can instantly recognize patterns and interlinking relationships spanning both horizontally in space and vertically in time. Higher Brain insight and intuition jump ahead to reveal the simplicity on the other side of complexity. They make visible elegant solutions by revealing a proactive, potential future.

Source Code Meditation creates the activation energy to the Higher Brain so that it can remain in the preparatory state for insight longer, thus leading to more frequent bursts of insight.

Science has shown that our brains are most likely to produce a breakthrough when they are producing alpha waves. Alpha waves have been measured surging in recipients while receiving Higher Brain Living

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(which SCM was derived from) sessions. In Epoch 6 the Higher Brain circuitry and pathways needed to produce insight become primary and replace analytical rational thought as the primary mode of knowing and relating to one’s life.

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2. Transforming Challenges into Opportunities

Problems become the catalyst for transformation, rendering the concept of a problem obsolete. Transformation occurs through what would previously, at a lower Life Altitude, have been defined as a ‘problem’. In effect the solutions to problems on one level of existence define the new higher level of existence. Therefore the ‘problem’ arrives with its solution.

If no ‘problem’ existed, then no solutions exist and no growth could occur.

Epoch 6 turns all challenges into opportunities. As you mature in Epoch 6 the very idea of a ‘problem’ is meaningless.

3. New behaviors

Doing things that are good for us feel good to do. James Austin in his book, Zen and the Brain, discusses how the medial PFC (part of the Higher Brain) helps engage the motoric aspects of motivational drive.

Motivation now becomes action and is unconsciously and automatically integrated into life. This phenomenon requires less energy and frees the Higher Brain to grow beyond its current state...forever.

Our unconscious brain is not necessarily all lower brain – we can expe-rience Higher Brain unconscious processing and automated action too.

In fact, once we consciously create new patterns of living, it can become relegated to unconscious behavior, which frees up more brain energy.

4. Heightened Perception

When the lower brain is dominant, its safety mechanism filters and dulls our experience. Beauty, vividness and intensity (of nonthreatening stimuli) is not prioritized, so that threats seem to stand out. When the Higher Brain is dominant in the Authentic Self of Epoch 6, the world takes on a luster, a glow, a beauty; that has been there all along, but is now obvious.

5. Confidence

Confidence emerges, the sort of non-ego-based fearlessness that isn’t dependent on anyone or anything. You stop personalizing events and see them as patterns playing out in a larger context. You realize that people do not do things ‘to you’ because of who you are, but instead act accord-ing to who they are. The petty personal drama drops away and you feel invincible. Driven by a deeper meaning and not ruled by the lower brain, you engage in life with gusto. You realize that there really isn’t anything to fear and you can go boldly into the world.

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6. No personal drama and zero sign of victimhood

Feeling limitless power, all claims to victimhood vanish. The ‘blame’

inherent in Epoch 5 can never be leveled at one’s own life in Epoch 6.

When we see the world from this larger perspective we don’t see other people doing things to us and we don’t see our life conditions repress-ing us: we have unlimited power for conscious choice and conscious change.

We don’t deny the repression pathological lower altitudes have created, nor do we deny that there are victims of those creations. We simply do not see ourselves as part of the oppressed or victims of any-thing. The Authentic Self doesn’t blame and takes full responsibility for his/her life.

7. Joy

Joy and well-being are catalyzed by Higher Brain energy accessed in Epoch 6 by your Authentic Self. Research on the part of HBL that SCM was derived from has shown profound shifts to alpha waves in the pre-frontal cortex. Higher production of alpha waves is associated with increased dopamine levels in the brain, which heightens our sense of joy.

8. Purpose

The shift from lower brain dominance to the Higher Brain, AND the Awakening of your Authentic Self into Epoch 6 leads to a path of purpose.

We move towards experiences that make us feel whole, creative and in service instead of moving away from things that scare us.

Sadly, for those who do not make the momentous leap to Epoch 6, the number one regret at the end of life, according to research performed by palliative nurse Bonnie Blare, was the wish to have had the courage to live a life true to oneself, not the life others expected.

9. Creativity

The unlocking of creativity is a product of the Authentic Self being in align-ment with the evolutionary impulse. The production of novelty through creative advance is a defining feature of evolution. As the Authentic Self emerges into Epoch 6 the ecstatic urge to ‘create’ becomes driving life force.

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10. Meaningful Relationships

You step into deeper, more transparent ways to engage in relationships.

Relationships promote evolution. And you’ll seek out only those that create win-win dynamics. At this level of development, it becomes impos-sible to remain in a relationship that stifles your own becoming.

11. Synchronicity and Psychic Capacities

The emergence of psychic abilities, synchronicity, lucid dreaming, telepathic powers, premonitions and trans-rational modes of knowing are frequently reported.

I want to provide you with a real life example of synchronicity emerging in real-time, right now. I chose to spend my last few days completing this book in a cabin in the woods with no Internet and most of the time, no cell signal. This experience, I was sure, would keep me in my flow state and be to my advantage with the remaining time I had before the manuscript was due to the publisher.

The downside was that I had no access to the Internet for any research purposes and no access to my library.

As I left my home in Chicago to come to the woods I grabbed a few books.

Towards the end of one day of writing it occurred to me that this section on synchronicity and psychic capacities was empty; I hadn’t yet written anything.

As stated earlier this is not a book about brain physiology and was never intended to be a highly referenced science book of any kind. Instead, this is the book that’s been inside of me for a very long time and based on my personal experience of working with thousands of people, and on intuitive leaps that have come through me. With that said, I am a fan of science and do my best to create solid theoretical constructs around my experiences and intuitions. So one night, after dinner alone in the woods at the dining room table realizing that I had yet to write anything on this subject, I grabbed the book nearest to me and randomly opened it to a page. The book was ‘Sacred Pathways, The Brain’s Role In Religious And Mystic Experience’, by neuroscientist Todd Murphy. The chapter I randomly opened to was titled, Psychic Skills, an entire chapter on clairvoyance, telepathy, remote viewing and a number of PSI skills that have been confirmed through science.

Dr. Murphy went on to elucidate proposed mechanisms, regarding fields of energy that transmit information, that seemingly some people develop capaci-ties to access. An example is the research done in what he calls ‘brain to brain communication’ or what is commonly called ‘telepathy’. Murphy proposes that

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this telepathic communication is happening from brain to brain through elec-tromagnetic energy fields. I went to bed that night with the chapter percolating, and awoke early to find that I had one bar of cell signal – I clicked on my phone and the first thing that I saw was a Facebook post with a link to a documentary about ‘quantum biology’.

The documentary provided theory from the quantum biological perspectives underlying psychic capacities in human beings. I watched a few minutes of the documentary, made a couple of notes and settled into my ritual of morning read-ing before I began my day’s writread-ing. I make it a point to read every mornread-ing a few pages before I begin my daily Source Code Meditation practice.

Another one of the books I had brought with me from my home and had just begun to read, was the new book by Grant Maxwell called ‘The Dynamics of Transformation, Tracing An Emerging Worldview’. The first few pages I read, discussed ‘time’ as a dimension of reality that expands when humanity emerges into this next worldview (that I am calling Epoch 6). The theory is that the reason we feel trapped within a linear unfolding of time is because we are only able to experience a fraction of that dimension. The other three dimensions of space, we feel as though we can move much more freely within, but time we are trapped within.

This brought me into contemplation on an earlier theory by Jean Gebser (previously mentioned) and his belief that each one of the seismic epochal shifts of human consciousness and culture, unlocked more dimensionality.

For instance, the cave paintings produced by pre-modern humans in magical/

Power Epochs are two-dimensional because this altitude of consciousness can only see and relate to two dimensions! The depth perspective of the third dimension does not emerge until later Epochs emerge. Maxwell is proposing that this fourth dimension of time is just now being unlocked and we are cur-rently experiencing only a small portion of its potential.

This helps explain how quantum physics seems to defy our common experi-ence of time. This got me thinking about an experiexperi-ence I had in my 20s when I went through my initial waking up process. I was lying in bed one night and had an intuition, a vision of ‘time’ existing all at once, as opposed to a linear one-directional process. But my constrained consciousness could only experi-ence time in a linear forward-flowing way. The image that popped into my head that night was one of moving a penlight across the pages of a book while

This helps explain how quantum physics seems to defy our common experi-ence of time. This got me thinking about an experiexperi-ence I had in my 20s when I went through my initial waking up process. I was lying in bed one night and had an intuition, a vision of ‘time’ existing all at once, as opposed to a linear one-directional process. But my constrained consciousness could only experi-ence time in a linear forward-flowing way. The image that popped into my head that night was one of moving a penlight across the pages of a book while