“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”  
~ Rob Siltanen

I’ve always loved that quote for obvious reasons. Traditionally, those ‘crazy ones’ who have carried humanity into the future have been alone.  Not only alone, in their listening to and following the impulses of emergence, but also in being misunderstood, maligned, ignored, and sometimes persecuted.

Those heretics and innovators, saints and mystics, artists and outliers who breathe the inspiration of the new are often choiceless visionaries. How can you turn away from what is coming through? The grace to be so intimate with what is coming into form is such a gift. And yet, the personal isolation and the world’s resistance towards your ideas or creations can be painful and challenging.

There has been an inherent dilemma given to the ‘crazy ones’. Either we can honor the gift of divine creativity coming from the future and stand alone, or we can maintain our comfortable connection to the status quo, normal reality, and other people and turn away from the power of what we see and know. Until recently, to be a visionary and belong to the future meant to be alone.

Belonging is a primary need for all human beings, like food or shelter. Maslow placed it just after survival and safety. We need to embrace a new, higher order of belonging that includes the complexity of being profoundly unique and in communion with others within shared unity.

EVOLUTIONARY BELONGING is that kind of belonging. It is exciting and historically significant. There are levels or waves of existence that activate new evolutionary stages for human beings. Human existence has been characterized by subsistence or survival for thousands of years. That means we’re more like animals than gods and have progressed in our capacity to deal with essentially earthbound subsistence or survival-level concerns. Even though our physical existence is, for the most part, quite civilized, most of humanity is still functioning from a kind of survival consciousness, worrying about work, relationships, money, etc.  This is the phase of moving from our primate nature to the higher levels of individual development. 

About thirty years ago, a new evolutionary wave began to invite us into a higher level of individuation and collective consciousness. Less than 1% of humanity has currently answered the call, but many are poised to begin.

Inside this higher level of development, we seek out like-minded others to serve universal goals. We hunger to harmonize with a strong collective of individuals. Our experience of feeling is integrated with knowing. We see holistically and recognize that, given the complexity of these times, we need to come together in new ways to solve the problems our world faces. We know that collective creativity, synergy, and emergence are now necessary. We reconnect with deep intuitive abilities, and our inner senses are heightened. Our consciousness has a kind of omniscience where we can detect harmonics, mystical forces, and pervasive flow-states that permeate any situation. Through our exploration of shared unity, our uniqueness becomes more illumined.

Instead of functioning from survival, we are being given the opportunity to directly participate in the real purpose of existence—UNITY and true RELATEDNESS.

The evolutionary impulse is the desire for PERFECT RELATEDNESS – to make manifest unity in the realm of multiplicity. That’s why we are so drawn to each other – and why, now, is the time to move into higher orders of relatedness, not based on survival, scarcity, competition, insecurity, fear, and mistrust.

Inside this collective awakening together, our innovative uniqueness—that which would have made us not fit in—is what allows us to ‘misfit’ together perfectly, to ‘misfit’ in a way that creates a new world.

Take a moment…. and sense into your invisible, ever-present uniqueness sourced by our evolutionary future.

Allow yourself to come in contact with your experience of possibly being an outlier, heretic, visionary, mystic, lover, artist, poet, inventor, geek, cosmic nerd, or troubadour.

Sense into the place where your real, unique particularity is unchecked, where your divinity exists, where you are too beautiful, too vulnerable, where you care too much, love too deeply, where the experience of being in this world is sometimes intolerable to you…

Sense into the place where you not only see the future but you know it intimately, where you see what is possible and would rather stand inside that world and be alone if necessary…

As outliers, we have had to be separate to be truly ourselves, and yet at this point, we can’t truly be who we are without the right others and the right environment.

Many of us live in a kind of existential pain. We don’t belong to the world as it is. We belong to the future. We belong to love. We belong to each other as the future of love, as beloveds inside the Beloved.

Now…. sense into the reality that instead of having to stand alone, we are being called to be together. Finally, we can be outliers, together. Finally, we can share a quality of love we’ve always known existed and create the world from there.

Everything we do in the Evolutionary Collective is dedicated to bringing forth the new world and helping us align with current forces of evolution. Human consciousness is where evolution is occurring, and now is the time for this.

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:

         What would a higher level of belonging make possible?

In Unity,
Patricia Albere