The Omega Point and 2012
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel and David Healy
The universe has been complexifying
and increasing in novelty since its birth, crystallizing into the
culmination point and pinnacle of universal evolution. It started
out with an explosion of pure energy, the Big Bang. Over long eons
that energy coalesced into matter, and that matter brought forth
the constituent molecules that formed life.
Like a lens, this evolving life focused reflective consciousness
within ourselves, compelling us to study ourselves and the world
in which we live. This evolving process appears to be progressing
at an exponential rate and is leading to a crown of perfection. This
moment has been designated by some scientists and philosophers as
the Omega Point. The term Omega Point was first coined by the French
Jesuit Priest and Paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and
the Russian Biogeologist, Vladimir Ivanovich Verdansky. Together,
these two thinkers promulgated the idea of the noosphere and the
Omega Point utilizing the scientific method. This analysis sought
to find a way around Einstein’s second law of thermodynamics
with its entropic, doom ridden Big Crunch. This event was also to
bring a direction as well as an end point to Darwinian evolution.
It was their supposition that the biosphere in which we live would
soon extrude an envelope of global thought, the noosphere. This was
mid-twentieth century and long before the advent of the internet,
which is apparently the hardwiring for the noosphere. As the crystallizing
of the noosphere completes, the rapture of the Omega Point will occur.
This experience is a divine eternal moment which will lift all of
humanity to a higher plane of existence and bring us into a more
intimate connection with Providence.
As unbelievable as this Omega Point might seem, our recent explosion
toward a technological singularity is a glimmer of this monumental
event. The technological singularity appears to be evidence of the
flowering of the Omega Point within the long trek of human evolution
and is a consequence of thousands of years of “striving for
the unspeakable.”
Just as Teilhard de Chardin has shown the Omega Point to be the pinnacle
of evolution, other scholars have and leading to a similar culmination
point. Could all this talk about a Mayan Calendar with a 2012 end-point
be describing the same process that Teilhard described?
It’s compelling to note that the ethno-botanist and shaman,
Terence McKenna, unaware of the Mayan endpoint and during a deep
shamanic trance, discovered a similar conclusion to our historical
process. He intuited a model for his theory based on the 64 Hexagrams
of the I-Ching, which he later developed into a computer program
that delineated a time-wave. This time-wave mapped the ingression
of novelty, or complexity, within space-time. When he fit the time-wave
to the historical continuum and anchored a novelty spike with the
dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, he hypothesized that reality
reaches maximum novelty in late 2012! Another way of saying this
is that human evolution reaches its pinnacle in 2012 and experiences
an exponential leap into the unknown.
Neither of us know if this Omega Point will happen in 2012 or not,
but our own experiences and later research has shown us that this
Omega Point will be established within our lifetime; nevertheless,
based on the research of many independent sources, 2012 looks very
promising. Utilizing system’s theory and complexity theory,
Ervin Laszlo has shown in his recent book, “Chaos Point,” that
in late 2012 we will reach a tipping point, a Chaos Point, where
a bifurcation in the trek of humanity occurs; we reach a huge fork
in the road and either go one of two ways. We either enter the
path of stability, thereby enlightening a large portion of society
and entering a Utopia. Or on the other hand, we could pick the
path of destruction and decimation, accordingly creating a Dystopia.
We, therefore, have many sources zeroing in on late 2012 as a time
of radical and novel transformation.
As we transverse through time to this Omega Point, we will become
aware of synchronicities happening more frequently. This phenomena
is the universe’s way of winking to the initiated and showing
us how much our mind and matter are coherently linked. Additionally,
it is the effect of this event occurring on the temporal landscape,
the fourth dimension of time, sending back waves and reverberations
into the past. As we get closer to it, these waves will become
more pronounced and increase in occurrence.
It is our duty as human beings to ignite the flame within and awaken
our God given power of formation, bringing heaven to earth and
establishing the New Jerusalem. It is within our ability to “Immanentize
the Eschaton” and draw the Omega Point into existence.
Jonathan
McGregor Bethel is a writer, lecturer and researcher of futurism, esoteric wisdom,
mystical science and eschatology. He is director of Omega Point Institute,
a futurist think tank, singularity watch group and group for the study
of esoteric wisdom. http://omegapoint.org
Contact
him at 770-416-0642. jonathanbethel@comcast.net or 770.416.0642. He teaches the
group "Mysteries" at Inner Space.
Jonathan
McGregor Bethel is a writer, lecturer and researcher of futurism, esoteric wisdom,
mystical science and eschatology. He is director of Omega Point Institute,
a futurist think tank, singularity watch group and group for the study
of esoteric wisdom. 