The Nexus Age

Increasingly, there is a desire among those interested in human evolution to distance current visionary philosophies from the perceived airiness of what has been called "New Age" thinking. "New Age" has become a pejorative moniker for all that may be deficient about hippy culture.

The replacement label for this Era of Transformation is "Next Age," a concept that maintains a focus on becoming.

Neither is distasteful to me. However, as an even more evocative label for the current period I propose yet a different concept: "Nexus Age."

Nexus means "core" or "center." As Wilber and Gebser put forth, we are living in an Age of Integration. We are in the process of melding ancient and modern wisdom, matter and spirit. The irony is that attainment of enlightenment involves the reconciliation of Above and Below, of Now and Later. We are becoming increasingly aware that the future is not "better" than the present, that life Above is not "better" than life Below. Reality, and life, is a moving process. All stages of the process are in harmony, and this point of evolution is about an awareness of this harmony and process. This facet of truth is becoming transparent to our conscious minds, right now.

In the Nexus Age, humans exist fully in the present moment, aware that we are neither matter or spirit, but the nexus of both. We are neither becoming something different, nor are we only one particular form; we are at the nexus of both. Our conscious minds see through the process, and realize that Now, our future, our destiny, our potential is manifest and manifesting.

In the Nexus Age, we embrace that we are the meeting point of all dualities. Let's meet there now.


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