Relational Energy Healing

A New New Age

Posted on 01. Jan, 2010 by Dean Ramsden in Spirituality

It’s January, 2010, marking the beginning of a new decade. What will the next ten years bring? How will we characterize the “Tens” of the Twenty-First Century, when we look back on them in January, 2020? Although each decade cannot really be contained by generalizations I still like to categorize the shifts that I experience in my life. It’s a personal perspective, of course, but one I allow myself to indulge in tonight, as my celebratory glass of champagne warms up in the tropical Borneo air.

I was born out of the radical shifts in society activated in the Radical Sixties, and I moved into early adulthood in the Alienated Seventies. The Expansive Eighties brought me into touch with the New Age themes of spiritual expansion embodied in the self indulgent – and yet enthusiastic -  human potential movement. The Affluent Nineties inflated economic bubbles, feeding our childish fantasies of omnipotence, and then the Manufactured Crises of the Zeros deflated them, one at a time. Cycles of expansion and contraction, each phase falling within an approximate ten-year time frame, reflecting the core values of the generations raised within each of them: Baby Boomers, Gen-X, Gen-Y, and now the Millenials. Is it possible to see the future trend from these previous patterns? Here’s my best hit on the meaning of the coming decade. Don’t bet the farm on it, though.

Since we are coasting towards the end of of contraction phase it seems safe to bet we will enter another time of expansion within a year or so. But the United States Dollar remains teetering on the brink of collapse. There is no way, but down, for the USD. Meanwhile, Asia is surging with renewed vigor (all but ignored by Western media) as it prepares to take up mantle of global importance. So, what should we expect? How about a combination of economic transformation and Millenial themes? What if we both contract and expand … at the same time? I’m guessing the Tens will be the new New Age.

As the West digests the impact of the economic terrorism wrought upon it by the international banking cartels, and Asia moves away from servicing the American economy and towards the creation of local wealth, so will the New New Age zeitgeist be an enormous reorientation for spiritual seekers. The message will be “Let stuff fall away, and create within the village model”. Rugged individualism will play second fiddle to the power and needs of the group. Social networking technology will transport the new memes, as changes rapidly rise and fall from our view. Blink, and you might miss something important.

For Healers the new New Age will be more about coaching than teaching, more about building on simple building blocks then expanding upon existing complexities. While the New Age was naive, the new New Age will be a privileged child who expects everything, and needs a careful, patient mentor. The greatness of the current generation is not what they know, but rests in the collapse of what they expected to have… but don’t have. They are constantly reaching out, to make contact with the virtual world that lies beyond the drabness of daily lives. Want to see it in action? Walk down any street in Tokyo, and watch the Japanese reading text messages as they walk, or chatting on their hand phone while with friends … witness the digital culture streaming into the Millenial psyche, almost 24/7. And the future of entertainment? Mostly digital fantasies; stories unrestricted by the limitations of everyday life and boring Newtonian physics. Computer game meets Reality TV show. Excitement trumping substance. And still more changes are coming, ready to surge into the light of day through our Twitter feeds, Facebook accounts, and Message Boards.

What does this portend for the work of an Energy Healer? I’m guessing a huge upswing in clients looking for elementary validation, and coaching in how to get their basic needs met: in relationship, health, and career. Practical stuff, rather than esoteric curiosity. And, in contrast to the previous New Age in the Eighties, we will now see the power of the group’s progression as being as important as any personal attainment. Spiritual advancement will seem to be like coming to the end of an online computer game with other players, and gaining access – and hence more tools to play with – at Level Two. An increasingly surreal and manufactured reality will dominate the coming decade, leaving we Baby Boomers stunned, shaking our heads in amazement, as we watch Millenials interact with fake reality on it’s own terms. We will have to remind ourselves that it is the healer’s job is to serve Spirit, and to flow with the Tao. We must trust that we are moving into a new world unique only in amazing technological expansion, but yet just another expression of the archetypal spiritual journey. It’s still all about releasing our human and spiritual potential.

But, then again, I would say that. I’m a baby boomer.

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