P. M. H. Atwater - Children of the Fifth World: A Guide to the Coming Changes in Human Consciousness

To children everywhere: Thank you for being here. No matter how long you stay, we are glad you were born and we are grateful for your energy, your thoughts, your breath.

To my own children and grandchildren: You are each a special blessing and a warm heart of love, hugs, and kisses. I am so grateful to be a part of your life and to have you be in mine.

Extra thanks to the following, without whose help this book would never have happened: Terry Atwater, Stephanie Wiltse, Art Yensen, William G. Reimer, Roger Pile, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Linda Silverman, Betty Maxwell, Robert Silverstein

CHILDREN
OF THE
FIFTH WORLD

If you believe that major changes are coming and the children coming into the world are harbingers of those changesand this has antecedents reaching back thousands of yearsthen once you pick up this book you wont put it down. I suggest you be careful when you pick it up, because your thinking, and your world, will never be the same. And this will be good, very good, for you and for yourourworld.

ERVIN LASZLO, FOUNDER OF THE CLUB OF BUDAPEST THINK TANK, TWO-TIME NOMINEE FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, AND AUTHOR OF MORE THAN 80 BOOKS

In Children of the Fifth World, P. M. H. Atwater has contributed a brilliant consideration of fast-forward human evolution. This is the most thorough treatment of the subject of our new children to date! If you are a parent, caregiver, advisor, or working with the Children of Now in any capacity, read this book. It will tell you what is happening, and why it is happening. In a frank no-nonsense way, she challenges every reader to dig a little deeper, try a little harder, and soar beyond social challenges and into collaboration with the children who will ultimately change our world indelibly. How they change it is up to us, and this book will tell you how.

MEG BLACKBURN LOSEY, PH.D., AUTHOR OFTOUCHING THE LIGHT, THE SECRET HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE CHILDREN OF NOW

Packed with mind-boggling insights, this book is a must-read for parents, educators, and all humans as we ponder how to navigate our fast-changing life on Earth and to respond to the needs of our children. Combining tough talk with uplifting messages, Atwater covers a vast array of challenges and choices with stunning creativity, very much like the new children she is describing.

VIRGINIA COLLIER, PH.D., PROFESSOR EMERITA OF BILINGUAL/MULTICULTURAL/ESL EDUCATION AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

P. M. H. Atwater delivers another brilliant work! Filled with great social commentary on our times, it will give anyone outside this genre food for thought. She details with precision and clarity what we must comprehend about this long-prophesized evolutionary leap humans are now making. This is a must-read guide for the shift into the New World that we have been waiting for!

JOHN J. OLIVER, PSYCHIC MEDIUM, STAR OF COURT TVs AND TRU TVs HAUNTING EVIDENCE

P.M.H. does not lie when she says theres a youth-quake going on. Todays kids have capabilities and understandings that are way beyond many parents understanding. These kids have much to teach us if we will only watch, learn, and listen. Finally, we are seeing the evidence of what humanity is really capable of. P.M.H.s new kids books should be required reading for all who profess to care about where humanity is heading.

SANDIE SEDGBEER, RADIO HOST AND PUBLISHER OF CHILDREN OF THE NEW EARTH AND INSPIRED PARENTING MAGAZINES

In this new book Atwater focuses on new children as she describes an increasingly rapid rate of consciousness evolution. With a compendium of behavioral documentation that supports her thesis, she integrates tangible evidence of out-of-body and past-life legacies with esoteric sources to explain this phenomenon. Aware of the needs of these new children, she sagely advises adults to help children balance new technologies with the natural world to support their self-development.

PAUL VON WARD, INTERDISCIPLINARY COSMOLOGIST AND AUTHOR OF WEVE NEVER BEEN ALONE AND THE SOUL GENOME

Atwater offers solutions for families of why their children are so different from her well-researched and disparate facts, which she has synthesized into actionable processes. Modern neuroscience continues to confirm the ancients innate knowledge regarding sound body, sound mind, and Atwater brings to light the cutting-edge issues in health, environment, and education that the mainstream media tend to ignore. Atwater shows that what looks like a perfect pardon our mess scenario is in reality an entire overhaul of our whole culture.

NANCY K. BAUMGARTEN, MLA, DIRECTOR OF PROFOUND AWARENESS INSTITUTE AND AUTHOR OF THE AWARE HUMAN

No one has captured lifes truth about children better than Kahlil Gibran in his masterpiece The Prophet:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Lifes longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you.

PREFACE

The subject of our newer generations and our changing world snuck up on me. For the past thirty-three years I have been busily pursuing a deeper and clearer understanding of the near-death phenomenon, what it is, how it affects the people who experience it, and the changes that resultin both adults and children. I have written ten books on my findings, including the latest, and I feel my best, Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of the Story.

I quickly noticed in my work a similarity in altered behaviors and character traits between children who were near-death experiencers and kids who were naturally born with the same distinctive patterning. Why, I wondered, were near-death kids so much like our newest generation of childrenespecially those born since around 1982?

The New Children and Near-Death Experiences (the book that replaced Children of the New Millennium) was not only the first book to examine childrens cases from the eyes of the child; it was also my initial attempt to find a link between the behavior differences I kept seeing and the possibility of evolution, that the human race was changing as a species... right under our very noses. This was global and, I felt, important.

Beyond the Indigo Children was an expos of sorts, my way of showing the utter uselessness of labels like indigo, crystal, starseed, cosmic, rainbow, and psychic. Whether from channeling, visions, or dreamwork, most of these label claims do not hold up to careful research. Toss the labels, I advised in the book; then I promptly turned around and invented another oneascended bluesto make a point. I apologize for that. It was a silly thing to do.

This time, for the third in what has become a series of books, I intend to cut to the chase and tackle the fuller story of what is happening to our children, our species, our world. Yes, we really are witnessing evolution at work. Yes, it is stressful and exciting and frightening. And its absolutely necessary that we look at the whole picture, not just the parts we prefer or were channeled by angels. I respect all forms of information, but consider of value only those that can be verified and tested through multiple sources over time.

If you have read any of my books on near-death research, you know that my protocol is that of police investigative techniques. Im a cops kid, raised in a police station, where I saw the value of fieldwork firsthand and absorbed my fathers teaching of how to utilize such information. I was also raised by the Spirit Keepers of Idahos deserts and canyons and grew up able to merge into rock wallsas if passing through the rock itselfas easily as I could bake bread. What we regard today as the polarity between left- and right-brain functions was nowhere to be seen in my world. Lets just say I had an unusual childhood, made even more unusual by my determination to become an objective, logical adult who lost it when I died three times in three months in 1977 and experienced a different near-death state each time. Know, then, that information sources in this book will be as varied as my life has been... and always was.