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The Art of the Shift- Making it Through to 2100 and beyond
First, there was the Big Bang, some 13.5 billion years ago. Then, stars began to form, then galaxies, lighting up the darkness of the early universe. The bang of fusion in stars created all the elements that exist in you and me up until iron, after which supernovae explosions created the rest of the atomic table and the heaviest elements we use today in our global civilization, from gold to uranium.
After life began some 3.5 billion years ago, and multicellular creatures and nervous systems several hundred million years ago, the sparks that traveled through those nervous systems, then brains, changed the face of the earth forever. Today, you and I are capable of shifting ourselves physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, as a result of such micro-bangs in our nervous systems and those of others, the fiery sparks of consciousness illuminating and creating new ideas, knowledge, and possibilities.
As things change, we learn and change and adapt to new life conditions and the shifting role of others in our lives. New futures emerge out of the old, we evolve and move on. And so do societies and organizations. Everything must change, nothing stays the same.
Given these rather obvious, yet sublime happenings and the ubiquity of change and emergence, one would think that when faced with the…
