Human evolution is more than a biological phenomenon. We as a species are more than the product of our genes. There was a time in our history where science, the pursuit of truth, was persecuted by religion. Why explore outside the bounds of accepted reality where a male god kept all in order and balance? These brave souls however, following instinct and perception explored beyond what was at the time accepted reality. Some of these adventurers were labeled heretics and faced ridicule and worse.

Today it would seem that the roles have reversed. Despite the fact that science's attempts to find a unifying force, an underlying cause of all observable phenomenon brings it closer and closer the auspice of the mystical, many pro-science/anti-religion followers appear to turn a blind eye to the startlingly similar behaviour of believers in Newton to the hierarchical, authority based nature of other belief systems. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Still, I feel that this is yet one more polar division that distracts from what is happening to us as woman-kind; as human beings. We are changing, evolving; mentally, physically and spiritually. We as a people are becoming more connected. The Internet has made the world a smaller place and at the same time, more people are experiencing more "unusual" phenomenon that make the world smaller still and the the same time more profound. Prophetic dreams, increased sensitivity to the energy of people and places, increased awareness our ability to influence our environment with our mentation. Most of us, raised in the West and over the age of 25 were raised to believe that this type of phenomenon was hocus-pocus, delusion or worse. Our upbringing refuted the reality of our experience and this upbringing now gets in the way of the acceptance of our rapidly changing reality. Fortunately most of our children do not bear this handicap. Thanks to the advent of Quantum Physics the statement that 'Reality is Fluid' is no longer the crazy statement it used to be. It is my belief that our ability to change reality to suit our beliefs is one of the most profound by-products of our evolution.

We are evolving. Not at the generation-spanning pace suggested in our grade-school studies but rapidly, profoundly, now, at all levels. We are as great or as small, as capable or as limited as our beliefs. Believe that you can fly and you are right. Believe that you can not and you are right.

Man-kind has had a long, left-brained reign. Gods slew Goddesses of old and Matriarchy became Patriarchy. Now this trend reverses itself as we can see in the rise of female lead single parent homes and the rise of female political power. The power of spirit, the power of the psychic has always resided most dominantly in the female. So much so that we still call it "Woman's intuition" and priest and medicine men alike wear dresses. Women, our mothers, grandmothers tended to be unifiers. It is this very trait we need now. The acceptance of the divine feminine, the embrace of the primordial waters shifting within us in this Age of the Water Bearer, The healing and unification of polar schisms is required now for our growth, our evolution, as a people to continue.

We are evolving, in more ways than one. Our role, I believe, is to embrace it.

With Love,
Raja Afrika