A Time of Extraordinary Change

Futurist John L. Petersen predicted the global financial meltdown with stunning accuracy. Now this hard-headed soothsayer is tracking the winds of change that he feels are destined to sweep away the foundations of our current society and prepare the way for something completely new.[Interview]

There have been predictions about major Earth changes, as far back as I can remember. Far before my awakening, there was the Harmonic Convergence of the mid 80's, then it was 1999, and of course our most recent, Y2k. The world did not end as predicted.

Recently I hosted a group during a session of 'Combined Intentions' , were we utilize Salvia Divinorum as a bridge for our visions. We pick a topic and meditate on it for 30 minutes, then we 'bridge' ourselves, and discuss our visions afterwards.  This particular afternoon we meditated on the year 2012.  I experienced a feeling or a sense of discontinuity along feelings of great changes. Others in the group had even stronger visions, some said they had visions of Earth with rising seas, others said they experienced seeing damaged cities.

This is our 3rd session, and we have concluded that most of the group are seeing some sort of change.

If you not familiar with Abraham through Esther Hicks, I recommend that you do some homework on the subject. Abraham in their usually manner basically say that it's all nonsense, and paint a beautiful picture. The Guides by Ron Scolastico, say that we as humans like to predict future calamities in order to motivate ourselves to make changes in ourselves and society. and The Lightspeakers say that there will be changes in the consciousness of many people (those who choose to make them) but no major physical changes. We can all debate what it is, and we can all come up with different perceptions.

I'm certainly not discounting anything, obviously something is going on. I am in the process of finishing up reading the book 2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future by Mark Borax.

I have enjoyed the read...or maybe not so much...it tends to help put me to sleep quickly, now that I think about it. Actually most of the book is about Borax being trained by this famous astrologer and visionary William Lonsdale.

Here is what's interesting, at one point Lonsdale tells Borax:

“Atlantis was an incredible place, an amazing place, one of the greatest stages in human development so far. But at a certain point, towards the end, a small sub-group of elite became drunk with power. The forces they’d unleashed backfired. …

...The resulting impact set in motion the primary downfall of the species. This is the main karma of humanity we’ve been repeating in various ways every since. …

...Because during the Harmonic Convergence of 1987 to 2012 a great purging is taking place in which the current world drama is intended to replicate what went wrong in Atlantis so we can make it right....

...The reason the story’s coming out now is because you can’t turn around an entrenched karmic pattern until you sufficiently recreate enough of it to have something to work with.

I have always had trouble understanding the Atlantis thing, but Borax and several other sources have given me a better perspective and understanding. What I believe is going on is that we again have the technology to destroy our civilization, and this is bringing back race memories of terrible earth quakes, floods and land falling into the ocean.

I think this is what our Salvia group may have tapped into. This would be consistent with what The Guides and The Lightspeakers have said: some of us are motivating ourselves to create a better civilization and to environment.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Indeed, when it comes to peering into life’s crystal ball—whether one is a futurist or a fortune teller—the experience is likely to humble all that dare.

That’s why it is particularly meaningful when someone steps out, takes a risk, bets their reputation on a controversial prediction—and then is proven completely right. John Petersen is the founder and director of the Arlington Institute, a think tank that has made a specialty out of helping its clients anticipate and plan for rapid, unpredictable change. Petersen’s always interesting thoughts on the future have appeared in the pages of EnlightenNext Magazine before, and is a must-read for those interested in keeping up with the frontiers of human knowledge.

In August 2006 Petersen gives a frightening warning of the world’s finances, he claimed, were overstretched, overleveraged, and overexposed to the U.S. housing market, creating the conditions for a financial panic that was likely to unfold in the near future. Petersen was going out on a limb, and doing what so many others, futurists included, are loathe to do—make specific predictions with specific dates and do it publicly. Petersen has a pragmatic, no-nonsense attitude that has earned him respect inside the Pentagon and in the corridors of Capitol Hill. And yet his interests are extremely eclectic and would frustrate attempts to easily categorize him, ideologically or philosophically. On any given day, he is as likely to be having lunch with an Air Force colonel, a maverick physicist, or a New Age psychic.

Petersen’s crystal ball has turned more and more gloomy with his recent book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change. He see's us heading into extremely rough waters but feels that those turbulent seas are necessary to induce the much-needed transformations that can truly remake our society. This is where I connect with him, Petersen believes what I believe, that we must have CHANGE, and we can not afford to turn our backs to it this time.

We must walk into the storm, face it head on and pay the inevitable price of living in a time of extraordinary change.[source]

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