2012 [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONwith uninhibited fingers for the unfathomableur civilization is on a path of ever-increasing acceleration, but what are we rushing toward?Anxieties are multiplying. The environment is disintegrating. The heat is rising as the ozone layer thins. Jihad faces off against McWorld in senseless wars and televised atrocities. Populations are displaced as cities disappear beneath toxic flood tides. Rogue nations stockpile nuclear arsenals. Presidents assure us they will "make the pie higher," while increasing inequity and rubber-stamping torture. Military analysts prepare for resource wars fought over water and grain; indigenous prophecies point to an imminent polar reversal that wiU wipe our hard drives clean. Technology advances according to the exponential curve described by Moore's Law, its unforeseen consequences following Murphy's Law. New Age cults scan the skies for extraterrestrial apparitions. Old Age religions anticipater!\rmaged-don. The linear progress and "end of history" once promised by liberal theorists seem a hallucinatory figment of another reality. Activists and radicals, horrified by the scorched-earth effects of globalization, insist "another world is possible." But few people have any idea of what that world would be.This book advances a radical theory: that human consciousness is rapidly transitioning to a new state, a new intensity of awareness that will manifest itself as a different understanding, a transformed realization, of time and space and self. By this thesis, the transition is already under waythough largely subUminallyand will become increasingly evident as we approach