Perhaps a ridiculous question about "The Shift"

[Kind of Blue]

I've been seeing the phrase "the shift" mentioned in lots of posts. I'm feeling like Mimi Rogers in the movie The Rapture, in that she's heard of "the pearl," tries to understand it and then pretends to understand.

I woke up this morning hearing the phrase and then saw Habibi's post "This 'higher vibration' thing . . ." that made me more comfortable asking the question. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=245x86656

What exactly is this shift? Any good sources?

[LaurenG]

1. I think the shift is a personal thing

Shifting your thinking, and consciousness. For instance instead of seeing the world as full of enemies, you realize that the only enemies we have are our own inability to understand our own dark side. I think we all go around doing a lot of projecting, (me very much included). We realize that what we dislike in others are actually things/places that we can't accept in ourselves. The shift starts as a personal thing and sweeps out broadly, encompassing anyone open enough to realize that life is not what we thought it was. It's definitely a process and at some point it reaches critical mass and a paradigm shift occurs, people all start to think in more compassionate terms, etc.

There are tons of websites and information on it all over the internet. I don't buy in to being suddenly "saved" and "enlightened" but I do believe that it is a process of unfolding where we find that we are responsible for making our own way, and knowing who we are and what we want and need from ourselves and others. Also, I think using integrity, gentleness and acceptance will get us to that realization more quickly then using the old tools of blame or self recrimination and demonizing ourselves and others.

Anyway, for what it's worth, that's what I think it means.

[Kind of Blue]

2. Thank you for the response, LaurenG.

I guess I do get it but the critical mass part kind of eluded me.
And Jason Mraz, Live High... "celebrate the malleable reality," very nice way to start the day :) Thanks.

[LaurenG]

3. Well, you know how fads are right?

Especially with kids. Someone starts to like certain songs or ways of behaving or certain ways of dressing and pretty soon all the kids at the school are all dressing in the same types of clothes liking the same type of music etc.

It works the same way with ideas. Someone starts to teach that it's a good thing to move through life in a more gentle way or that it's OK to take good care of yourself and pretty soon more people believe that it's good to be gentle and kind and look after each other. It becomes a healthy way to behave and we are loosened from our past more negative thinking. We start to realize that the world is a friendlier place that competition can cause terrible harm if it's misguided and that trying to keep all the money and power for yourself is really and truly just not working for anyone anymore.

It's a personal shift that starts with one person, and spreads out to everyone. Not everyone will jump on but enough people will. I think it means that we all have the opportunity to start to act and react as if life was fun and that we all matter, all of us. (In a nutshell version)

[catzies]

5. That's how I like to think about it.

You said that very well.

Since all change comes from within and we are part of the Whole, it begins with an inward shift and emanates from there.

I probably heard or read this somewhere like a zen koan or something, but does the stone think about how it ripples the pond?

[Kind of Blue]

8. That's a good question

:hi: Does the stone think about how it ripples the pond? Yeah, I'm still understanding about the critical mass thing and because the journey goes deep within, I never think of myself as part of the pond in a direct way. It's really nice thinking and seeing all the ripples in the bond connecting at their outer edges and gaining critical mass. Thanks for that.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. Good points

I feel people are finding out more about themselves and their reality. I agree about the shift sweeps out--what I'm seeing here is more people of like minds gathering together.

[Shallah Kali]

4. It's the Dawning of Age of Aquarius.....

2012, Photon Belt, Ascension, Hundredth Monkey, Mayan Calender....

a shift in cosmic energies beaming higher and higher vibrations that shake loose the crap like beating an old rug to get out the dirt and yuk. Some say it started with the Harmonic convergence in the 80s, some say it will peak in 2012. I like LaurenG don't believe we will wake up and everything will be hunky dory. It is more that we are being offered a chance to change, to release the crap that has held us back. Some will hold on just like the story of the monkey trapped by trying to steal fruit from a small mouthed jar. He could get away if he would just let go. Even tho it is holding on to pain and fear and rage it is hard to let go because so many don't know any other way.

some think the Shift is space brothers will come and save humanity at the last minute, others think it is some sort of new age rapture or apocalypse. I think we will all just keep on keeping on. The ones who choose to work to change will change. Those who hang on to the old ways will hang on. It is just getting harder to keep the old ways with all the cosmic & other vibes coming in shaking apart badly constructed unhealthy creations. Things built on fear and greed crumble while those built on a sturdy foundation will survive.

[Kind of Blue]

9. Excellent explanation, Shalla Kali.

This shift actually started in the cosmos. Now, this goes directly to the heart of the matter because I've thought people are always going inward and philosophies come and go or stay, ultimately saying the same thing that's lumped into New Age (though very old). And I didn't really get how all of a sudden many are going deep, basically at the same time.

So the beginning is the cosmic shift followed by many feeling it, leading to a critical mass that will eventually result not in a Utopia per se, but a new way of dealing with each other consciously and as part of a whole. That's close enough to Paradise for me :)

Thank you, Shalla Kali.

[Shallah Kali]

11. You are very welcome

The Perennial Philosphy crops up again and again. Mystics may have different methods of accessing the Divine and ways of describing it shaped by their culture but it always come back to same basics in the end. We are all One. or to a quote I love from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 'I believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things'

btw my favorite site that has messages about the shift is Starchild http://www.starchildglobal.com I like what the author said in one article about how it is more of a Descension than Ascension with the higher dimension coming down and blending with ours.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. I have some idea in my head,

but I'm not good at putting it into words..if I were in the right mood, maybe I could try to articulate my feelings about it, but anyway...

Some perspectives on it that I happen to like are in channeled messages, like Kryon and The Group (Steve Rother), Messages from Matthew, Karen Bishop. I think you could google to get the exact URL's

I think we're seeing "critical mass" now, so many more people wanting to focus on a better way for all, getting fed up with old ways of greed and ignorance. And, even though "we" (sorry to polarize that way... ha ha that ol' duality thing) are a small percentage of the whole population, still, the effects are spreading out and starting to show in the 3D. The 20012 thing, I kind of look at as a period that we will see an even larger percent of the people looking at life this way, and the effects will be manifested more clearly, and overshadow the negative. I t hink what is going on now is the wobbling scales of balance, as those who cling to old causes they are used to making (fear, greed, etc), yell even louder at the different perspective that is NOW, CLEARLY held up to their faces.

[Kind of Blue]

10. Wobbling scales of balance...

:hi: Hey, Blanche. Of course I think Obama will do everything covered in his speech of last night, or as much as he can. But while listening I was thinking the Republicans are eventually going to get back in (hopefully not until 2026 :rofl:) and mess it all up again. They just don't get it. It just seems to be the pattern so far.

So what I'm gathering from your explanation is that this shift is going to be so strong as to overshadow fear and greed.

The wobbling scales of balance brings to mind the strength in the shift when Pres. Obama jokingly said on Monday to Rep. Eric Cantor “I’m gonna keep on talking to Eric Cantor. Some day, sooner or later, he’s gonna say, `Boy, Obama had a good idea.’ ”

As you said, "...yell even louder at the different perspective that is NOW, CLEARLY held up to their faces." Man, how cool is that? I love it!

[MorningGlow]

7. All good responses so far

All quite true--definitely moving into a higher vibration. The Shift is "scheduled" for 2012, coinciding with an astrological/astronomical event on Dec. 21, 2012, that I, an astrology ignoramus, can't begin to explain (but other folks here can, I'm sure) but it's not instantaneous.

Instead, the changeover to a more spiritual life is gradual, and we're in the middle of it right now. Well, we've been in the middle of it for a while, and now we're on the downslope and speeding up. It involves a change of viewpoint in how we live our lives--more in harmony with nature, more of an emphasis on spirituality, less on chasing the almighty dollar. We'll also share our lives more and be less solitary.

Some people are embracing the change and going along willingly and gratefully; others are in denial and are running from it. Some have departed this world to avoid it; some have departed this world in order to help us shift from the other side.

Some folks in the metaphysical realm will try to tell you an apocalypse is going to take place and we'll all be living in caves again. NOT true. Other folks in the metaphysical realm (like my former elder--hence one of the reasons she's my FORMER elder) will try to tell you the Shift is the pagan version of the rapture--that the few "deserving" people will be "taken up"--in this case raise their vibration so high that they'll shimmer out of this world and into another dimension--while others "less deserving" will be "left behind". Also NOT true.

The best explanations I've read of the Shift have come from Matthew. His Essay on 2012 is more than a year old, but still useful. Try this: http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=83&z=2

:hi:

[Kind of Blue]

14. Thanks, MorningGlow!

I'm at the link and reading The Matthew Books right now. Lots to absorb there. It's good getting a perspective of what the shift is not as I find out more of what it is!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. It is said to be a process that is happening now

as people start vibrating at higher levels. Now I am sure this will be observed differently by each person undergoing it. What I have noticed is an increase in personal light and a sensing of vibrations that make up all things.

[peacetalksforall]

15. The only change I sense is a constant awareness that I am one of the little

people and that I am a form of one with all the other little people around the world. I am so happy some of them have been able to put better leaders in office in their countries.

The challenge I constantly feel is that I need to get over my disgust and anger at the leaders who I now see as havng been declaring a war against the little people for decades and centuries.

I never spent a lot of time thinking about my connectedness to little people before the last decade - nor the diddain I feel for the evil intended and corrupt leaders and the pain and wretchedness they cause.

I'm now never far from the thoughts.

There are so many of us - the little people. If we send each other little thoughts of recognition and good intentions........ and the hope that we can attain something good for the children. So simplified, I guess, but basic is a good compared to the incredibly complex actions against us - to take the earth resources from under our feet and come up with ways to control us - excessively.

[omega minimo]

16. Eventually individual cocreators become communal cocreators

:grouphug:

[Bluestar]

17. It is a turning to the light and the shift to the light is happening right now

Light workers (many who are on this board) came here to help with the shift to the Ascension and have already chosen the light, but all others will have multiple opportunities to "turn to the light" over the next four years until 2012. At that time the vibrations will be so high that those who have chosen not to embrace the light will find it difficult, if not impossible, to remain on the earth plane and will pass over.

They will continue to have the opportunity to turn to the light on the other side, but it is more difficult to do. Every soul in the universe has a choice--turn to the light or not. There are beings on the other side who work with those who have passed over to get them to see the light.

The shift has been building for many years with many leaps of energy occurring like the one in 1987. A big shift occurred summer 2008 when the energy put out by the Illuminati (Elites) to confine and defeat the light workers was turned back on them. As a result, we have a new president and a new direction and a shift in the energy. The Elites have the opportunity to turn to the light as well, but many will continue to embrace greed, selfishness, violence and hatred instead of turning to the light. The Elites power structure includes banking and oil, so both of these have to experience collapse before a new infrastructure can be developed. Next to experience collapse: Elite-controlled organized religion in 2010 and Elite-controlled parts of the medical establishment 2010-2011

[Pharaoh]

18. The Shift and The Hundredth Monkey Effect

I understand it as a shift in consciousness, and as we all share one consciousness we can only move ourselves in increments till the mass catches on......
http://www.infinitebeing.com/0507/monkeys.htm


The Shift and The
Hundredth Monkey Effect
by Owen Waters
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The Shift is the awakening of humanity's heart. This transformation of consciousness, the greatest one ever recorded, first became apparent in the mid-1960s and has been building momentum ever since.

The Shift is a collective transformation consisting of the sum of each individual's step into the New Reality. Each person, in their own time, is moving forward into a stage of consciousness which brings a wider vista and an awareness which springs from the heart. When enough people's primary attention becomes focused through their heart chakras, then the 'hundredth monkey effect' will occur.


So really the Shift is an event in the future but we are in the midst of it now :o)
At least thats how I see it at the moment.............



The Moment of Quantum Awakening
Excerpt from:
The Third Millennium - Living in the Posthistoric World
Ken Carey

At the moment of quantum awakening, change will occur rapidly, rippling across the terrestrial surface like a wave. Everything in the earth's gravitational field will be affected in some way. There will be a time of massive change, of change on a scale that has no historical precedent, though it does have antecedents in the prehistoric events of this and of distant worlds.

The changes that your generation will experience before it passes the torch to another are more fundamental than those that accompanied the agriculture evolution-and those changes took thousands of years. They are more far-reaching than the changes of industrialization, which took nearly three centuries to transpire. Yet, deep and fundamental, massive though these present changes are, they will occur within the span of just a single life. Properly understood, these changes and their coming have the ability to inspire a degree of hope and optimism unprecedented in the history of your race; for they spell the end of mankind's subconscious condition and therefore portend, as the scriptures of the world foretell, an end to bloodshed, starvation, warfare, exploitation, and needless suffering.O8)

[Pharaoh]

19. Then again..................

The shift may more properly called a split....

But this gets us into Quantum physics and probability's and possibility's which could seriously bend ones mind :toast:




THE TWO STREAMS
With that background, I wish to now speak with you about the two streams of probability that currently stretch out before you. The Great Shift I have talked about is inevitable. It is a certainty in all the probable timelines of your future. What actually happens at this Zero Point, or Cosmic Birth, is still undetermined, however, and depends entirely on the collective consciousness latent in that moment.

My existence among you and that of other masters from your future reflects the fact that a proportion of humanity has successfully navigated through the Shift. It does not reflect what that proportion is. That keeps ever changing, and our wish is that this include the greatest number of beings possible. These are the two probability scenarios that exist at this time. One is that at the moment of Zero Point that all beings on this planet are translated into the 4th dimension. This is the best case scenario. The other is that there will be a split between the worlds, that those who are willing and prepared to move into 4-D will do so, and those who are not will remain behind in 3-D to play out their karma on a parallel Earth, which could likely result in cataclysmic destruction.

The third alternative probability and worst case scenario, that your entire planet would be destroyed in a great cataclysm, no longer exists. This did seem a likely possibility up until a decade or two ago in your time, and on behalf of all the ascended masters I congratulate you on the shift of consciousness you have already undergone so as to avert this! There is a great light being carried on the Earth right now. This is why we believe it is possible to shift out further from the second scenario of partial translation into
4-D to the best case scenario of a full translation of planet Earth. This is also why the advent of Zero Point has been postponed to the extent possible in order to give all humanity the opportunity to make the Shift together.

Many of your ancient prophecies speak to the second stream of probability because that seemed to be the most hopeful scenario envisioned at that time. Jesus spoke of the "rapture", of two men working in the fields, one of whom would be taken, the other left behind. Christian, Muslim and Hebrew scriptures are replete with images of a "day of judgement", when the "righteous" would be rewarded and the "unrighteous" punished. There are also metaphors in this age that reflect the first scenario. The story of "the hundredth monkey", which is an apt description of biological as well as spiritual evolution, is one example. Always it is true that when there is a sufficient number of beings envisioning and practicing a new paradigm, the "law of grace" is then invoked, and the rest of the monkeys, or humanity, as the case may be, are brought into entrainment.

THE CHALLENGE
What needs to happen for mass consciousness to shift from the second to the first stream of probability? The second scenario is based on "karma", the first scenario on "grace". You need to understand that the "law of grace" is a higher octave of the "law of karma". And you need to understand and fully embrace your personal as well as collective shadows. When the master Jesus spoke of forgiving your enemy he spoke not of condoning their actions but of recognizing that you and he both were shadow and light together, and that forgiveness provided you both an opportunity to practice a divine alchemy, unifying both shadow and light in the experience of Oneness. "Love your neighbor as yourself", he said, for indeed you are the same.

The test for awakened humanity is this. Can you extend the hand of forgiveness and love in this expanded sense to your brothers and sisters in ignorance and darkness, a forgiveness that arises from compassion, a forgiveness that embraces your neighbor, yourself, the dark lords, the power mongers, the satanic forces, the military mind, the secret governments, or whatever your own version of the "enemy" happens to be? When you do so, this activates the law of grace, and brings to an end a polarized conflict that opens the door to a full planetary awakening. More than that it provides an opportunity to resolve and heal a long drawn out intergalactic war, and bring much suffering to an end. It assures that in the "inbreath of God" to come that none get left behind. This is the best case scenario, and one that I have traveled back into your time to seed once again.

It begins with belief, followed by desire. Know that it is possible to experience a graceful pain-free unified birthing into the Fourth Dimension and beyond. Know also that you are capable of being the agents of God in this great alchemy. You have already proved this in averting the third probability of cataclysmic destruction. I depart now, and I impart you with love and grace. Know that you have great assistance in this profound opportunity ahead. Call on the ascended masters and the brotherhoods of light, the angelic hierarchies and the Elohim, call on the avatars and saints throughout the ages, call on the star nations and the intergalactic councils of light, call on your higher selves and the Christ, call on the Planetary, Solar, Galactic and Universal Logos, call on the Great Spirit that many call God. You are not alone, and we are not separate!



http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Spiritual_Awakening/id/1895

[Kind of Blue]

20. Just want to thank everyone for their responses.

Just as I was absorbing all of your posts, I caught a flu that's clobbered me from head to toe :cry: