David Spangler - Revelation : the birth of a new age

Copyright 1976 by David Spangler All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

Published by The Rainbow Bridge A Publishing and Distributing Company Ltd. 3548 22nd Street San Francisco, California 94114

Second Rainbow Bridge printing 1977 Printed in the United States of America

DEDICATION

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To the Network of World Servers, Those Persons Who in their lives seek to be the co-creators of a new world, the living revelation of Limitless Love and Truth.

INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

by William Irwin Thompson

A generation ago Teilhard de Chardin made a prediction that has now become a cultural reality: Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.1

It was a fanciful thought that Pere Teilhard had in those dark postwar days in Paris when le neant seemed to be the ultimate expression of Western civilization, but now it is exciting to hear the scientist and the mystic speak in similar terms. In his new book, The Survival of the Wisest, Dr. Jonas Salk puts forth a theory of individual and group evolution that is remarkably similar to the work of David Spangler.

My aim here is to suggest that the tendency toward the separation and isolation of human groups according to EGO values that have formed and prevailed until now has prevented the recognition and expression of the BEING. They have favored the association of individuals according to EGO values rather than BEING values. If, as is suspected from what has been happening in the human realm, BEING standards are emerging with EGO values appropriate thereto, removing the encumbrance of essentially foreign EGO values which contributed to the development of enormous internal and external conflicts, then Man is entering upon a new phase of his evolutionary development. 2

There are some playful ironies present in Dr. Salks work, for, in many ways, he is dimly intuiting and vaguely expressing in his charts and graphs what is more clearly and substantially presented in Spanglers revelations. In a religious revelation, the concepts of evolution are expressed in emotional and spiritual imagery that enables all men to participate in a common mythology, but in a scientific expression of evolution, there is always a pronounced elitist tone that gives one pause. David Spangler has addressed himself directly to this problem, and his transmissions are very clear on the point that we go astray if we begin to think of mankind in terms of the apocalyptically damned and the millennial elect. Nevertheless, Dr. Salks description of the new evolutionary vanguard seems to fit Findhorn more than the American Academy of Arts and Sciences:

A new body of conscious individuals exists, expressing its desire for a better life for Man as a species and as individuals, eager to devote themselves to this end. Such groups, when they are able to coalesce through an understanding of their relatedness to one another and to the natural processes involved in Natures game of survival and evolution, will find strength and courage in sensing themselves as part of the Cosmos and as being involved in a game that is in accord with Nature and not anti-natural. These groups will initiate movements which, in turn, will be manifest in their effects not only upon the species and the planet but upon individual lives. Their benefit is likely to be expressed in a greater frequency, or proportion, of individuals finding increasing satisfaction and fulfillment in life. 3

In this vision of evolutionary change through well-being, Salk is coming very close to Spangler.

This is a simple difference between a person who is inwardly at peace and attuned to a source of strength and power greater than human level problems and one who is attuned to conflict with such problems and consequently to a consciousness of fear and anxiety and limitation. It is also known that people who are undergoing inner emotional stress are more accident prone, another consequence of this simple difference.

Yet, it is just this simple difference that may be the key to the separation of the two worlds, not through something exotic, such as a miraculous translation of an elect few into some other plane, but through something as prosaic as people dying in significantly increasing numbers because they cannot live at peace within themselves and with their world nor can they create conditions of harmony. Earth itself, as a physical place, does not need to be cataclysmically altered in order to usher in the New Age. 4

If the individual is to survive, he will have to have a life that does more than meet the basic need of his survival. It is one thing to stand with your fellowmen in a subway in Tokyo or New York, and quite another to stand with them singing Handels Messiah. Human evolution is not simply a matter of creating a technology for our survival, or, as many political scientists suggest, building a fresh ethic for our technology. 5