The other day, a familiar ’70s song started playing. As I softly sang along, the lyrics stopped me mid-phrase:

’Cause I haven’t got time for the pain
I haven’t got room for the pain
I haven’t the need for the pain
Not since I’ve known you…

Something in those words pierced me differently this time.

Everywhere we turn, the language of trauma surrounds us. It shapes our conversations, our social media feeds, our diagnoses, and even our spirituality. We analyze it, name it, trace it to childhood and beyond, then seek to heal it.

It’s worth taking a moment to contemplate humanity’s relationship to trauma beyond possibly our own personal experience. Since the dawn of time, the human story, though filled with great achievements and development, has been one of fragmentation, separation, and suffering. The evolutionary template for human existence is a design emphasizing individual development through a kind of hero’s or heroine’s journey. It also arises within a competitive environment.  Our existence depends on being separate individuals learning to survive and succeed in this world.

One simple example is the split between matter and spirit we experience through our individual incarnation. We can feel trapped, lost, alone, and disconnected from source. We focus on staying anchored in our bodies, or we meditate to free ourselves from the limitations of the mind and the density of physical existence. The endless struggle to overcome separation defines our relationship to the earth, ourselves, our bodies, and each other. And even with all the time and energy devoted to our individual healing and development, we seem to be swimming in an overwhelming amount of trauma and pain. Daily, we awaken into a chaotic world that seems to be generating ever more opportunities to be violated, hurt, disappointed, and discouraged. The individual journey, then, is to fight the darkness and overcome injustice while trying to love and forgive.

Suffering was the only thing
That made me feel I was alive
Thought that’s just how
‘Til you showed me how,
How to fill my heart with love
How to open up and drink
In all that white light
Pouring down from the heaven

We think (without really thinking) that human nature is fixed. Our creation stories tell us that we were created to have free will within a world of duality that presents us with choices between light and dark. We are existentially on our own, wired with instinctual drives to survive. Our individual journey is one of experiential learning. We make choices and reap the consequences.  Hopefully, we learn, forgive ourselves and others, and find our way forward.  

But with almost 8 billion people, separately learning, separately choosing, exercising our individual freedoms, we now live in a world that may not be able to recover from the mess we’ve made. It’s painfully clear that no savior, no leader, or global disaster will catalyze humanity to come together in solidarity to take actions that will solve the problems and the trauma we now share….

Fortunately, evolution (that which gives the potential for existence itself) has not abandoned us and is inviting those of us who innately feel an attraction to the future to go further. If you listen deeply, there is something trying to capture our hearts and our awareness. Some of us feel that the background frequencies for individually focused work and healing are abating. It’s actually an acknowledgement that over many thousands of years, humanity has evolved individually, and now it’s time to be sourced anew. Even though many millions of people are still focused on those modalities, the source of the power is no longer plugged in. The axis and arrow of evolution have moved on, and its focus has changed. And as soon as the new state has arisen, it immediately assumes center stage in the evolutionary process.  

Humanity is destined to mutate, to change, and evolve into a new way of being human.

We are being lifted into an entirely different kind of existence where SHARED UNITY is the template. The pain we experience and inflict on others that comes from our separate egos is not part of the fabric of that existence, of that world. This may sound radical. It is. And it’s definitely worth paying attention to. Listen to the part of you that knows something more is not only needed, but also knows we have not been abandoned. Healing trauma, although useful, is not where the true solutions lie. Existence needs us to listen and begin to align with the new frequencies that are moving us beyond the pain, beyond the design of separation into new ways of being human. 

The highest potentials of evolution beckons.  

The time for the pain is over.