We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For

During a time of transition and societal upheaval, it is each of us who has a role to play and who can respond to the current moment. (New Updates)

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I wrote this piece for my personal Substack yesterday but had some further thoughts I wanted to include in this piece here.

I was recently reminded of the Hopi prophecy issued On June 8, 2000. I wrote about this many years ago but thought it would be a useful reflection to bring forth given our current moment.

I feel this prophecy can help us make sense of and ground in our current moment in a meaningful way. It can help us consider how we show up to our current moment and embrace what is occurring.

Here is the prophecy from 2000, followed by some further reflection.

“You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?

Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for your leader.

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

--Hopi Elders' Prophecy, June 8, 2000

I am moved by this as I read it again. It reminds me of the passion that filled my body and soul when I created Collective Evolution back in 2009. A passion that has sometimes gone dark in times of struggle, but has reignited as I further attune to myself.

Today I want to share some notable reflections that arise in this moment for me as I read this prophecy. They of course are in no particular order of importance, and different parts may stand out to you. I’d love to hear what stood out to you in the comments below.

1. “It is time to speak your truth.”

This hits me because I know we are in a moment of the rise of cancel culture. Further to that, we have seen people lose their jobs for speaking their truth during COVID.

Sure, in some cases people have said some truly harmful things, but I believe during COVID we saw extremely well-meaning and kind-hearted folks lose their jobs for doing what they felt was right. And that can make it hard to speak your truth.

But what is the cost if we don’t? Should we shy away into the closet? Is our moment asking us for deep trust?

To me, there is indeed an unconditional trust for life that needs to be held. When I got censored and lost almost all I had built in my business starting in 2016, I still felt a deep trust in speaking my truth, and I do to this day. But it wasn’t easy.

To me, staying anchored in that trust, even when it’s hard, is a skill that needs to be developed and can be supported by community. Hence I feel it’s also important to note the Hopi advice to “Create your community.”

Perhaps it’s time we dive into and truly trust life and the process that is unfolding. This doesn’t mean we throw all caution to the wind per se, but that we allow a trust of something deeper within us to emerge, and choose that trust over the fear of what may happen if we do speak up.

Perhaps we can be still during that fear. Notice it, hear what it is saying, allow it to diminish, and then attune to and embody a feeling in ourselves of courage, knowing, and trust. See what it feels like to speak from that place instead of fear.

In a moment of dying worldviews, it can feel chaotic and unstable to navigate life. But that is the point.

To evolve beyond the old and accept and hold a new worldview requires that we grow, know ourselves more deeply, and enter into a dark night of the soul.

Why attempt to skip the process? Did we expect it would be easy?

A commenter on my piece turned me onto another meaningful quote from the Hopi as it relates to community and spirituality.

"Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility."

The comment went on to say:

“I see it as, being in community with others who support us and offer their own and maybe different perspectives, gives us the equilibrium necessary to see things from all sides. While connecting to the spiritual dimension, we all are nourished by what is greater than each of us, yet is integral to each one of us.”

This is beautifully said. And I totally agree.

2. And do not look outside yourself for your leader.

Here I see an invitation to go inward. So often culture becomes enamoured by one individual that is out there in one community or another who captures our mind and soul in an unhealthy way.

Now is the time for self-empowerment, to truly explore ourselves and learn to trust ourselves. This is the path of The Explorer as I call it.

To become the Explorer of our own experience in a changing world is to consciously choose a new path. To understand ourselves, our consciousness and how our world is shaped by both. It is to move from having life happen to you, to being engaged in the flow and change of life on a collective level.

This global moment of change is not happening to us, we are part of it, we are it, and we can consciously choose to direct it as players within it.

An Explorer to me is someone who also moves beyond the individualistic view of creating a life, and connects to a larger ‘right relation’ to each other, nature, consciousness and more.

A shift from the hyperindividualism of our current moment to the intraconnection and love that a new quantum understanding our modern science (and ancient wisdom) is inviting us to accept.

3. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

And so as we enter into this space between worlds, what does it mean to keep our “eyes open” and “our heads above water?” For me, that is capacity and resilience.

The ability to have energy and the ability to respond to our moment. With that, we maintain the energy to bounce back when things get a bit more difficult.

Capacity and resilience are built when we slow down, attune to ourselves and our experience and move away from the constant distractions of our unwell society. It builds through embodiment and rewiring our body (and nervous system) to a new story.

How much time do we make each day to attune to ourselves and how we feel? How much do we create wellness within our mind and body? Can we access and feel what feels good and coherent within our body? Why does our attention not go there but to our stress instead?

It’s a choice point because we CAN turn our attention to our own wellbeing but we often don’t because we don’t make the time to do it. Further, we are often addicted to attuning to problems and our stress. But this is the power of consciousness, we can choose a different option, little by little.

If it feels hard to attune to what feels good, consider whether the reason for this is that we have become so trusting in our current, now dying, worldview that our attention should be ‘out there.’ That we don’t fully believe that attuning to ourselves will truly help us.

Does this feel relevant to you? That your attention is always pulling you to something else as if you will miss out on it by making the time to listen in?

Perhaps we believe it’s still some book, some lecture, some event, some teacher who needs to help us, so we don’t spend the time truly practicing slowing down and attuning to ourselves. But when we truly make the time to do it, amazing things happen.

How do we do that? How do we slow down and listen in? Perhaps this challenge I created is a meaningful place to start. It has worked for me, and this is why I share it with others.

4. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

To me, this piece invites us to consider our own empowerment…. truly.

As I work on completing my upcoming course called Empowered To Thrive, I am reminded of the themes I discuss about creating a truly empowered individual.

Beyond my Explorer analogy above, is it truly a new politician or leader who will stand up in order to “save us?” Or is that just part of our old paradigm? Instead, is it we who truly have the power to be the holders and creators of something new?

Like birds flying together via murmurations, there is no leader and no plan to follow per se. Instead, massive amounts of birds are flying together and move all in one direction, each bird attuning to the other in a meaningful way. They keep track of the whole and adjust accordingly. They LISTEN to the whole.

I’m not suggesting we oversimplify this process and turn it into “we become a hive mind of zombied out followers…” no, no, no, I actually believe that is closer to what we do now.

Instead, we learn to embrace, embody and sense the true connection that we have with one another and attune to collective wisdom and intelligence that isn’t set forth in popular culture, but that which comes from a deeper place within ourselves.

I believe we have within our DNA the knowledge of how to thrive, but we must listen to and act from that place. As we do, and anchor within that, more of us will go in that direction, and others will be curious to adjust accordingly.

To me, the bird analogy shows the power of each of us choosing to embrace and embody a new future and story, and the power that has on the whole when we anchor within it. If each of us says “No, I will stick to our current story because no one else wants to move,” then that is exactly what we signal to the whole.

This process of turning within is driven by consciously responding to our current culture which doesn’t feel good any longer. By adjusting, it slowly becomes our new culture as more attune to what others are doing. I’ve watched this happen profoundly over the last 15 years doing this work.

We may not know where things will head in our collective future, but we are the conscious choosers and creators of this potential new direction as we move through this time of upheaval. In that sense we can ask, do we want to create from our current state of consciousness or a new one?

By this I mean for example, if we only view the possibility of our future based on the limitations we’ve been taught by existing paradigms and societal systems, will we truly create something better? Or enter another cycle of duality-driven destruction?

For a practical example, if we look at the upcoming US election, can we say “getting Biden out” and installing Trump is ACTUALLY a meaningful change? Or is it just another swing in the other direction we’ve experienced many times over?

Perhaps a much clearer change would be seeing someone like RFK Jr. in there? Maybe, maybe not, but I tend to think so because he feels like a true independent.

But with that said, make no mistake, he is not a saviour, only a potential evolutionary pressure. I believe WE (as a whole) are still the ones who must engage to let go of the old ways of seeing the world and birth a new paradigm within ourselves, and then in our actions.

Current events like RFK Jr. running for president provide the ‘real space’ to ask questions, awaken, and expand our consciousness around the current moment we give our faith to.

Please feel free to share what stood out to you from the Hopi prophecy below.