You're kidding, right? You can't be serious about this convergence end of the world crap.

A: Yes and no. We definitely are an unserious bunch. In fact, the less serious, the better. At the same time, there is a core of meaning behind what we're up to that couldn't be more serious. More about that later. Secondly, "convergence" and "end of the world" just don't belong in the same sentence. "End of the world as we know it", even if that phrase is now a cliché (thanks, REM), is closer to the target. The idea is not that everything changes, though it does over time, but that our perception of reality, of ourselves and our place in the scheme of things, changes, and changes radically.

Q: So just how fast does this change happen?

A: No way to know, of course. For the sake of drama, of communicating the impact of Convergence, we suggest it's a very fast change and that it affects all people. In fact we don't necessarily believe that. The change has, in the opinion of many, already begun - perhaps began long ago - and is growing steadily as a thought, a vision, among the human race. The thing that excites us and motivates us is the possibility that we're reaching critical mass with this idea of species-wide transformation, and that at some point the momentum of the idea becomes unstoppable, irresistible.

Q: Just what "idea" are you talking about?

A: We don't know if the answer to that is even knowable in advance. The message we've had from prophets and sages through the ages is, it's possible to literally POP into a new state of awareness which is so much bigger, broader, and higher in perspective, that our previous sense of ourselves, of reality, of everything, now looks like that of a worm inching its way over the dirt. As primitive beings, we have almost no sense of the next dimension, of altitude, of what it's like to be an upright being looking across vistas, with everything in sight now part of a larger grid or pattern. As we are now, we can't see the Big Picture, the Grand Pattern. When we change, when our "vibration level" shifts suddenly to a much higher plane, then everything takes on a finer grain. It all becomes clear and understandable. Right action is then possible.

One way to think of the "idea", the change, is to imagine the human race suddenly and dramatically increasing in intelligence and in its willingness and inclination to cooperate to achieve universal peace, harmony, and prosperity. The species finds it uniformly treasures life in all of its forms, and turns its attention and energies to finding ways to practice compassion, protection and preservation for all life forms and for the ecology which sustains it. Rather quickly we solve the age-old issues which have plagued us: poverty and over-population; greed and irrational need for power and control over others; sloth, indolence, and the resulting dependencies and hierarchies they produce; intolerance and aggression toward others. Solutions to the problems which increasingly threaten our existence as a species.

Q: Isn't that all just hippie pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking? Get real.

A: Reality is and always has been what we make it, at least personally and socially. To ignore the fact that we have the power to envision a saner reality for the human race is perhaps the ultimate expression of irresponsibility. It's not a message most of us want to hear or think about ... it imposes too great a burden on us, or so we imagine. But there is nothing more real than hunger and poverty and oppression. Accepting that kind of post-apocalyptic vision for our species is an indulgence of the first order. It's accepting the End Game for the species, running wildly from all efforts to take responsibility for ourselves.

So sure, you can choose to see this vision as pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking, or you can choose to see it as the opposite. It's projecting a vision for the future which is better than the one we collectively have accepted for ourselves at this moment. Why not imagine it's possible to improve? To fail to do so means we accept decline and deterioration and death. Not just for ourselves individually (yes, that), but for all of our loved ones, and ultimately for the species. It's time for the human race to grow up.

We can and we must do better than that. How? It's simple and painless: Believe in a possible transformation of the human species, then work toward that goal. Sure, you're responsible for cleaning the cobwebs from your own mind and cleaning your own nest. Then Celebrate it wildly and loudly! Have fun and communicate that to everyone you can. Join in the party, not a political party, not a "it's all going down the tubes" party, but a "we are finally about to get it right!" party! See you at the celebration of the New Age.

Q: Suppose I'm willing and able to do that. I'm just one person - I can't really have any impact on something so big as the salvation of the whole species, can I. So why bother?

A: The conditions around us, our Reality, is really an aggregate of all of the personal realities we humans indulge in. Every mind, including yours, contributes to that aggregate. Whether you choose to believe we can do better than we're doing affects me, and all others. What I choose to believe (and act on) affects you and all others. We are in this lifeboat together, like it or not. As we collectively begin to bend our minds and will toward solutions and sanity, then solutions and sanity will manifest. You are, like it or not, an important player in this scenario. So adapt a positive attitude instead of a negative one. Choose to believe in life and transformation instead of death and deterioration. You can make that choice. As enough of us do so, the tide turns. So c'mon, don't be a grouch. Join the C3 party and enjoy the ride!