This is an excerpt of Chapter 8.1 from the upcoming book, Preparing Ourselves for the Great Shift by Russell Boulding

Something amazing is happening on planet Earth at this time and whatever is happening is catching the attention of individuated consciousnesses throughout the cosmos. For me to say this is a huge switch from my perspective as a geologist from which I saw human history as an inconsequential blip in the broad sweep of Earth history. In fact, for most of my life the notion that the human species represented the apex of the evolutionary process struck me as arrogant.