Childhood’s End
The Agony of Our Collective Puberty
Copyright 2011 Sacred Mysteries Productions
By
Jay Weidner and Sharron Rose
The passage from childhood to adulthood happens when
the child begins to realize that life is hard, death
is certain and the chances are pretty good that he
or she is going to be struggling for the rest of their
life. These harsh realities wash away the idealism,
naiveté and illusions of youth. Also this maturation
process causes the youth to have a new understanding
of what responsibility and stewardship means as well
as the desire to make an impact on reality and leave
the world a better place. This process occurs as a
result of both experience and information. As a youth
gathers more information through the experience of
life he or she reaches certain inevitable conclusions.
The initial inquiry into life involves the consumption of vast amounts of
information. Some of it is fascinating and life-altering but sad to say,
much of it useless within the confines of daily life. As one matures, one
begins to learn the art of discernment and to weave their way through information,
discarding that which is not useful and keeping that which is. This is how
information becomes knowledge. Once information has gone beyond facts and
has woven itself into a coherent stream of knowledge, a certain kind of confidence
in engendered in the individual. As we grasp and understand the world around
us through the process of turning information into knowledge, we begin to
gain experience in a multiplicity of different facets of reality.
As a thinking person matures, he or she gains greater knowledge and experience
of the multitude of seemingly disparate aspects of reality until they reach
a clear cohesion of thought and heightened level of awareness. This new level
of awareness occurs when the individual begins to not only look outward to
perceive the facts and forces that shape our reality, but focuses inward
to digest and distill all that they have learned and experienced. This maturation
process, which happens in later adulthood, is called Gnosis or wisdom.
A key to this process is the discovery and understanding of the deceptive
power inherent in the massive amounts of manipulation and psychological imprinting
that has taken place over the course of life. As this occurs, one gains the
ability to perceive reality from a higher perspective and detach from the
storm of emotional cravings and psychological addictions, which have veiled
his or her innate awareness and cohesion as human beings. Through this process,
one learns to discern and clearly decide which of these varieties of knowledge
is important and meaningful to his or her life and which is not.
The gathering of information and experience is the first level of this process.
The activity of turning information into knowledge is the second part. Turning
knowledge into wisdom is it’s final aspect.
Our youth is a relatively short, confusing and an often chaotic processing
of information. Schools, religious institutions, and the media fill our heads
with gigabytes of information. By the time we reach puberty the glut of information
that has been poured into our heads makes most of us dizzy. It is at this
stage in life where the separation of those who will have an effect on the
future of the world and those who won’t occurs. The sudden realization
that old age is immanent, death is certain, and working for a living is a
necessity causes a large number of people to recede from the act of information
gathering. They stop reading. They stop questioning. They are no longer interested
in the ebb and flow of the mechanisms of the larger reality. They become
numb, jaded, cynical, defeated and desensitized to the power and beauty of
the extraordinary gift of human life. The second group embraces the dizzying
array of information being offered to them and by puberty they are turning
information into knowledge. At this time in their lives, through devotion,
focus and discipline, people begin to excel in their chosen areas of exploration
be it math, science, sports, the arts and many other fields of endeavor.
Long after college, the birthing of children, and anxiety about employment,
if they are lucky, a wonderful new mental process begins. It starts in the
late 30s and 40s. Synaptic pathways in the brain that were disconnected from
each other previously have now woven themselves into a situation where the
countless pods of knowledge begin to interconnect. Revelations, visions and
comprehension of their own gifts and unique place in the nature of human
experience begin to occur. This interlinking of thought distills experience
into wisdom. This next level of discernment, not only engenders the creation
of books, movies, philosophical treatises, inventions, and innovation, but
also it brings with it a certain inner peace and sense of fulfillment that
the immature self lacked.
Fully immersed in life and creative expression, the fear of death begins
to recede. From this heightened spiritual perspective, the ones who attain
wisdom begin to look at the world around them and bear witness to the evidence
arrayed before them. Yes, the vision of connectivity, beauty and wonder that
inspired their pursuit still lives within their hearts. However, at the same
time, the undeniable evidence of a pathetic and immature reality filled with
destruction, divisiveness, nihilism, egotism, greed and sexual depravity
is ever present. There is a reason why students are not allowed to study
the Kabbalah until they are 35 years old. The human intellect cannot possibly
be mature enough until that age to fully comprehend the inner dynamics of
the Kabbalah or any of the other deep spiritual and esoteric traditions that
have been left for us.
Until around 1992, the human race lived and operated in an extremely isolated
fashion. Until the invention of the telephone, telegraph, automobile and
train in the early 1900’s people were even more isolated. It is really
only in the last 50 years that the human race has become fully aware of the
vast and varied cultures, languages and peoples that exist on the earth.
But in 1992, something happened. Whereas much of the human race before were
like isolated babes in the woods surrounded by wolves, confused and simplistic,
in 1992, the first coherent stream of information was released all across
the planet at the same time. It was appropriately called the World Wide Web.
For the first time in human history, any human being who had a laptop or
computer could increasingly access all of the information concerning the
vast wealth of human history, experience and expression.
This shift was disorienting and confusing just like school was when we first
started. A startling and mind expanding compilation of the best and worst
aspects of human endeavor, the Internet overwhelmed us with facts, distractions,
disinformation, lies, distortions, hopes and fears, everything. It became
a mirror of who we are as a species and reflection of our collective psyche.
Critics arose decrying that the Internet was a jumble of false ideas, a free
for all, a place where a housewife in San Antonio has the same power and
voice as a columnist for the New York Times. It can be safely said that the
Internet was and is a land of incredible opportunity, massive confusion and
one of the most important tools that has ever been invented by the human
race.
2012 represents the 20-year anniversary of this great event. Through the
course of this time, through the consumption, digestion and integration of
massive amounts of information, many people have begun to notice that there
is a spiritual awakening occurring. It’s just a rumbling underneath
the surface but we all can feel it. More and more we sense that there has
to be something more to human life than slavery to the manipulations and
whims of what many call, The Controllers. Rising like a powerful tide, the
collective yearning for clarity, intimacy, community and harmony is the result
of 20 years of endless information being spewed out by the Internet.
From our metaphorical perspective, the human race in the past 20 years has
gone from an infant babe lost in the woods to a post puberty young adult.
The same processes that make a child into an adult are the same processes
that are happening across the world at this very moment in time. At first,
like school, the Internet was a jumble of information that we were taking
in while not even questioning or understanding why we were doing it. In school
we were force fed the prevalent conditioned perspective on mathematics, reading,
science, history, philosophy and much more, without even knowing why our
teachers thought that these things were so important. Later when we matured,
we realized that many of these skills, which we had learned earlier and frequently
thought weren’t needed, suddenly were very useful tools in the game
of life. The last 20 years has been a voyage of collecting millions of bits
of information, much of it useless to our physical and spiritual growth and
maturity as human beings.
Now the second level of this process is starting. All of the secrets, the
corruption, the wars, the reasons for wars, the understanding of the monetary
system, the realization that conspiracies aren’t theories, the destruction
of the environment and the dawning knowledge that all of the members of the
human race have a lot more in common than we have ever known before, have
become apparent to a large swath of humanity. This coming to grips with the
darkest and the lightest aspects of human beingness by people all over the
planet marks the beginning of the maturation of the human species. No we
are not wise yet. But we are waking up and becoming aware of what has to
be done.
The next level in this process, what we call the wisdomification and spiritual
rebirth of the human race, will begin occurring after 2012. Because the Internet
is so malleable, we can speed up this crazy wisdom process. Clearly, there
are among us people who are wise. Some of them have created websites espousing
their unique forms of wisdom. These sites are taking the various pods of
knowledge and interconnecting them so that the result generates a new clarified
vision of reality. Intelligent and discerning people are attracted to these
types of sites for one fundamental reason. The information that they are
offering, and remember information is the foundation of wisdom, is reliable.
The members of the human race who have not backed away from seeing beyond
the veil of the vast mental and emotional manipulation of the times, those
that know how to relax, take a deep breath, sit is stillness and reflect
on the information being offered with open and discerning minds and hearts,
are all reaching the state of wisdom at the same moment. They are the wisdom
keepers of the future. These are the enlightened ones who have and will come
to grips with and offer solutions to the myriad of problems we collectively
face.
This mental dynamic happening on a collective level across geographies, languages,
and cultures is the single most earth-shaking event that has happened in
human history. It will be these wisdom keepers who will come to understand
that the many mistakes of the past from wars to nuclear meltdowns and environmental
catastrophe are largely the result of the childlike destructive nature of
our predecessors who indulged in and exhibited the most vile and juvenile
aspects of ourselves.
While we can forgive the excesses of youth, it would be unpardonable for
us to allow these excesses to continue. That process is starting now.
The single most important information that we humans need to understand and
come to grips with is that our childhood ignorance, our addiction to distraction,
has allowed a corporate criminal network to take over the entire planet.
The coming wise human race needs to recognize that the only way towards a
future where absolute truth, freedom and expression are allowed is to find
a way to divest ourselves of this corporate criminal network. For the last
ten years we have been besieged by the darkest conspiracy stories, the most
frightening descriptions of disaster, and the whisperings of rumors of an
elite who rule us with an iron hand.
Facing up to these dark truths is the first level of the human maturation
process. If maturity is caused by our understanding of the darker aspects
of life, if maturity is the shedding of preconceived ideals, the realization
that we are responsible for our own actions, that life can be tough, then
the maturation of the human race will occur when we come to understand the
dark nature of this criminal network and how to rid ourselves of it.
This corporate criminal network owns all of the politicians, police forces,
militaries, media, movies, news networks, judges, the CIA, the FBI, the United
Nations and much more. In many cases the corporate criminal network set up
agencies like the United Nations, not to help create world peace, but to
cover up their own existence. The one thing that cannot be said out loud
is that this corporate criminal network is in total control. If we do not
find a way to rid ourselves of it forever we will continue to be their slaves.
In order for us to get to the collective wisdom aspect of this process, we
as a collective are going to have to start behaving like adults. Yes, our
childhood was fun and filled with many fond memories, the last 6000 years
of running roughhouse, brawling, backstabbing, living in phantasms and allowing
ourselves to indulge in our most perverse fantasies may have been fun, but
in retrospect, highly destructive. However, like a young person in their
early 20’s, we are beginning to understand that our society, our way
of life, and even the human species too can die, that we are not immortal.
With that understanding, like the young adult, the human race needs to set
aside the destructive habits of youth. We need to realize that the senseless
addiction to video games, pharmaceuticals, violence, rape of the environment
and much more are the manifest expression of the last vestiges of childhood.
A wise human race would discourage these activities. The argument that these
indulgences should even be allowed seems ludicrous to a wise person and a
wise human race.
The leading edge of the wave of this wisdom sweeping across our planet is
now reaching some seriously damning conclusions about our current situation.
Like the fat, depressed food addicted boy who wakes up one day and realizes
that he is overweight and out of touch with reality, which forces him into
pursuing a healthy lifestyle, that is where we are as a collective today.
We as a race are waking up to discover that we are unhealthy, corrupt, bereft
of any meaningful spiritual understanding, cynical and arrogant. And now
we have to clean up our act.
A wise person knows that you cannot continuously dump refuse into the air
and water. A wise person knows that dropping depleted uranium is a crime
against nature and humanity. A wise person knows that the spiritual dramas
that we call religion are corrupt. A wise person knows that no single person
should be in total power, that centralization of power is always a bad idea.
A wise person knows that it is impossible to regulate the human condition.
So why bother?
The world after 2012 is going to be raucous and unnerving. The maturation
process, like puberty will be extremely painful to observe. But around 2020,
long after the hormones have started shutting down and the pimples have disappeared,
a wonderful thing is going to happen. The human race is going to emerge as
a beautiful, intelligent and perceptive young adult. And this young adult
will be smart enough to know that the true knowledge and wisdom of their
elders is the most important thing that they can cultivate.
If the Powers That Be do not destroy the freedom on the Internet and poison
our environment beyond repair, by 2030 our collective human neuro-system
will have matured and developed into a great font of collective wisdom. In
that situation, decisions will be made not according to how much money can
be made, but how much benefit can be created. The scrapes and bruises of
our childhood folly will be repaired as we see the puerile remnants of these
false lives and shed them. Nuclear power plants built in areas where tidal
waves hit will seem ludicrous to the coming human race. Stockpiling nuclear
weapons, chemical weapons, assuming a mutually assured destruction posture
and much more of our current experience will seem silly to the people of
the future.
It should be noted that through this process there will be much resistance.
No one resists with more adamancy than a child. We can expect countless temper
tantrums over the next 20 years. With the awakening power of Internet, the
shedding of the phantasm, and the rising experience of our true spiritual
nature, no one can hide from the truth.
When the contrivances and distortions of our current spiritual systems have
been fully realized and rooted out, then we as a human race will collectively
journey to an authentic, heart-centered spiritual path based on truth, beauty,
direct knowledge, ubiquity of sources and tolerance.
Wise people know the value of spiritual truth, but they also know when someone
is lying to them.
About the authors:
Jay Weidner
Called by Wired Magazine an “authority on the hermetic and alchemical
traditions,” and “erudite conspiracy hunter,” Jay
Weidner, is a renowned author, filmmaker and scholar. Considered to be a ‘modern-day
Indiana Jones’ for his ongoing worldwide quests to find clues to mankind’s
spiritual destiny via ancient societies and artifacts, his body of work offers
great insight into the circumstances that have led to the current global
crisis.
Sharron Rose
Sharron Rose, MA.Ed, is a true renaissance woman. A filmmaker, choreographer/
composer, author, teacher and performer, she has spent the past thirty years
working in the fields of education and the esoteric arts to investigate integrate
and impart the knowledge and wisdom of ancient and traditional cultures throughout
the world.
Sacred Mysteries
In 1999, they founded Sacred Mysteries and have worked together to bring
new insight into both the physical and metaphysical nature of reality through
the contemporary art of filmmaking. Currently they are in post-production
on their first feature film, Shasta. For more information, www.sacredmysteries.com.