14 Signs Our Collective Awareness Is Evolving
A number of things that reflect the current societal shifts and the expansion of awareness in the world, in my eyes.
1. The World Doesn’t Feel The Same
You might be tempted to attribute this feeling to an event, or to a time in the past. The Pandemic. Climate change. Political upheaval. Generational changes. You might say something like, “since the year N, or event X, the world feels different”.
This perception isn’t just because of one event or another. The world is going through changes and sometimes upheaval, and many of the foundations of what existed up until now are shaken. When you feel things feel vaguely different, you’re connecting with these transitions on a subtle level.
2. More Attention Given to Mental Health and Neurodiversity
In a not too distant past, the idea of going to therapy was a taboo you had to hide, lest others could think something was wrong with you. The further back you go, the less likely would it be for matters of mental health to be acknowledged. In part, this is because the lower the awareness, the easier it is to dismiss things of more subtle or nuanced nature — even if, paradoxically, they’ve always been there.
I think it’s safe to say, fortunately, times have changed about this. For the current zeitgeist, giving attention to how you’re functioning on all levels is becoming increasingly common and normal.
Along with this, neurodiversity is also being given validation on unprecedented levels. Some might wonder if things can go a little overboard, if “everyone is autistic these days.“ Honest opinion? No amount of attention given to these themes can ever be enough.
3. More Space for Divergent Life Choices
A sign would be a greater tendency and space for more individuals to make life choices that might not fit what society conveys as “normal”, and despite what others might think or feel.
Things like not having children; not marrying or establishing a format of long-term relationship of their own; exploring and embracing diverse sexual and gender identification. If nothing else, sometimes it’s just the willingness to not go along with the life aims that might be more typical, and giving it the thought to formulating one’s own.
It’s less about any circumstances or limitations that might justify those choices, and more about the (relative) space you feel in making them. It doesn’t mean you’re 100% unaffected, that you’re completely impervious about what others might think. Rather, it means you’re unwilling to go a different route despite of it.
4. Greater Resonance With Wholesomeness
When you witness spontaneous good in another, that resonates with and awakens the good in yourself. You may also say your “faith in Humanity” has been restored. This is because you’re witnessing the good that Humanity Itself is made of, which in the past has often been suppressed and hidden, out of necessity due to this harsh world.
Wholesome means the good that’s done for the sake of itself with no underlying interests or agendas. This is both a need from and a symptom of an awareness that is metaphysically rising and expanding on the planet, demanding not just lighter vibration but being willing to make our reality a better and more whole place to live.
5. Less Patience
You’ll often hear neurodiversity can involve difficulty in picking up social cues, handling small talk, introversion, and generally navigating interactions. But did you know “normal” people are also drained by these things too?
Consciousness naturally seeks deep connection. However — and perhaps more on edge by the world’s lesser safety — it also grows increasingly tired of all the shenanigans in human interaction that don’t reflect that connection. The result is individuals in general growing more sensitive and drained by “dealing with people”.
This doesn’t condone acts lacking in compassion, incidents of aggression, etc. But as much as some of this impatience can be violent, there’s also a deeper context about this that relates to the spiritual process of the world in general.
6. Less Formality
There’s something to be said about the effort made by individuals in the past to present and carry themselves. But while sometimes good effort may have been made to build up for outside perception, the private and inner world were often neglected, and could sometimes conceal abject darkness that would never find the light of day.
The more awareness expands, the more it prefers transparency, truth, and for the two worlds, inner and outer, to reflect each other. While, at the same time, also finding more draining the effort that has to be put in the small or menial things that have to be done in a systematic way.
The higher the awareness, the more mindful and truthful, not necessarily formal, it wants things to be.
7. More Self-Awareness
A significant part of growth in life is the self-reflection that enables taking ownership for one’s accountability in situations.
Everyone makes mistakes and the past can’t be changed — that’s just how human life works. But if you get entrenched in a defensiveness that doesn’t allow you to offer acknowledgment to another, you’re basically leaving them to deal with burdens you helped create on their own. Whereas even just coming up to the fence to grant your validation in earnest to the other, can and will make all the difference for their own healing and closure.
Self-scrutinizing and revising one’s stances can be one of the hardest parts of life. As can be just reaching a place of holding the willingness to do so. In my opinion (thank you Z. for bringing this up) earlier generations often had an especially hard time doing this; whereas newer ones tend to be (comparatively speaking) more self-conscious, which can make this effort marginally easier for them.
8. More Youthful Appearance For Longer, But More Contentious Relationship with Aging
The perception of people looking younger than what they did in the past at the same age, is not a trick in perception. It’s also not (just) down to better food standards, less smoking, medicine, plastic surgery, etc — although, again, these play their roles. But the deeper underlying reason for this “phenomenon” including everything surrounding it is, always will be, higher awareness/vibration.
This is not to be traced 1-to-1 i.e. you look younger because “your vibration is higher”: it’s a collective factor as well as an individual one. So in a general sense, on average, the higher the awareness/vibration of the collective the lighter the various elements of the setting may tend to be, this being one of them.
Another element is that the higher the awareness, the more it is in touch with the notion of consciousness being eternal — and this may exponentially clash with the experience of the finite human existence. Aging was always difficult and depressing. Humans always chased beauty, and always tried to live longer, delay the effects of aging, and so on. In some ways, this effect might be exacerbated. Humans in general might find more and more objection with the useful amount of time their lifespans grant, and with the parts of themselves that might gradually be taken away by age.
The more awareness rises, the shorter the average human lifespan will feel — and the more it might seek or “demand” extending it.
9. Authority and Worth as Inner Factors
Throughout human history, you’ll always find many who started out as leaders from a young age, as well as those who achieved success in a self-determined way. Even so, today you’re likely going to see a more disseminated type of self-determination mindset in individuals across all social and wealth strata.
People might feel the need to more free and independent in what they do. Some might strive for self-employment and/or to be the owners of their own product and answer to less above them. Some might be less willing to action off their product or themselves for the sake of achieving success, attempting to to so while keeping as much control over their own path as possible. Some might stand up more for themselves when they’re stepped on, even by bosses and superiors. In one way or another you’re standing more in your worth, and you’re being more your own independent voice.
You might also notice that in some occasions top merit and/or leadership might be younger relative to those who preceded them. Whereas in the past age and longevity could sometimes play a more significant role in the attribution of status, the higher and lighter the awareness, the more room there is to recognize leadership, quality, affinity etc. of leaders regardless of age or previous “track record”.
10. Questioning The Concept of Work
This relates to the above and goes deeper. It’s more than better “work life balance”; it’s questioning and revising what purpose should work have in life, and what weight and space it should take up.
It’s questioning whether humans are supposed to spend most of their waking time at work, traveling back and forth from it, and waiting until they retire in their later years to finally do what they’d rather be doing. It’s trying to find work that is pleasurable and fulfilling. Sometimes, it’s not wanting to work at all. And it’s questioning all we’re told about that justifies things having been like this until now.
Previous stages of human development might have made this reasoning different. But the more awareness rises, and the more technological improvements create the potential for tasks to be either assisted or automated entirely, the more the traditional idea of having jobs and earning a living will be put into question.
11. Questioning The Power of Big Money
… and how those who are able to hoard it attain power without accountability, which tend can grant de facto rulership over the rest.
This presents itself, for example, in the rising collective awareness about billionaires and corporations; and how decisions with major impact for the collective are made on an everyday basis against what would otherwise be their best interests.
12. More Distributed Information, Movements, and Ideas
In the past, movements of all types, particularly those on a societal level, tended to be highly influenced by a few figures that inspired if not represented them directly. Conversely, there’s an increasing tendency for information to be more widespread and distributed, and change to take place in a more disseminated fashion. Major societal shifts may happen not because certainly leadership figures incited them, but because the general population or a part of it decided, and perhaps coordinated, that it would be so.
Further, in the past channels of news and information may also have been fewer and more consolidated, which allowed governments and others to better control the information that was reported, and the narrative from its interpretation. Whereas in the current zeitgeist information and communication is more widespread, with news and reports arrive from across the world virtually instantaneously, and through a slew of sources and individuals, over the internet and through social media. While tech companies might still try to uphold similar forms of control, through filters, algorithms etc. ultimately information can’t be easily contained. Overall this gradually increases the opportunity for individuals to be more informed, makes it difficult to keep truth concealed, and reduces the degree by which groups may hold uncontested control over what’s perceived by the rest of the collective.
These may increasingly better represent the dynamics of collective consciousness, and reflect its needs in a more immediate fashion, whatever they might be.
13. The World Becoming Acquainted With Actual Evil
Every single human being has the potential for darkness and separation. That potential is one of the things that make our choices meaningful; and what sometimes make redemption arcs i.e. where we choose Love and Light after having known their absence, powerful.
But there’s a difference between having the capacity for darkness, and committing to it fully.
There are energies that have been coming to the light of public scrutiny, and will predictably continue to, reflecting the type of awareness, individuals, groups, and so on, that had been indulging in the lowest human impulses without integrity for the longest time. And have been able to do so hidden from the world at large, outside of the reach of law, without accountability, and so on.
These aren’t cases of people who might have taken a wrong turn, who made a string of poor decisions, or to whom life didn’t afford the best opportunities. Rather, this represents realms of our society that are in constant and systemic breach of integrity, and where, more often than not, those who’ve navigated them for long enough, might seem to hold very little Light, and very few redeeming qualities.
Under those circumstances, how low and how bad do you think things can get? The answer is: yes.
14. Seeking More “Real” Spirituality
Last but not least. The kind of spirituality that might stay in the ritual or inside the temple; the kind the interpretation that‘s doctored and given by an external organization; and/or the kind that remains a “part” of life, that may or may not apply, and is at best on par with many other parts — these kinds of spirituality may no longer suffice.
The higher the awareness, the more it will see itself as an integral part of a very real abstract, infinite existence, rather than something external to it. Therefore, the more it will require forms of spirituality that it can understand and experience firsthand, naturally and without intermediaries. And the more it will see what is spiritual as something that exists within in every breath and waking moment.
Look no further than online in social media platforms, Youtube channels, forums, and others, for interest in topics such as spiritual awakening, metaphysics, reincarnation, energy, channeling, healing, manifestation, and so on. Think of and call these what you want, derogatory or otherwise: these aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
