I ran this little excerpt from Barbara Marx Hubbard’s book Emergence in a newsletter I published a few years back.  The context then was, 911 had just happened.  I’m feeling prompted to reproduce it here, just as a reminder for us to meet darkness — in whatever guise it presents itself – with as much Light as we can muster. 

“To understand the meaning of our crises, it is necessary to view them with evolutionary eyes that hold the memory of 15 billion years of struggle to evolve.  From this vantage point, we can see that, although our current situation is dangerous, painful, and full of suffering, it is also true that the breakdowns we are witnessing on all levels — environmental, social, and personal — are actually evolutionary drivers, compelling us across our current threshold toward the New Humanity.  If we respond to these crises with creativity and compassion, our species will have taken a quantum jump.  We are discovering something very interesting – and a little shocking to our system.  We are finding out that what worked in the past for our survival — the very behaviors that kept us alive in prior times — are the behaviors threatening to destroy us now.”