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TRANSFORMATION BEGINS WITH CONFUSED INITIATION

3 min readApr 29, 2025

PARTICIPANTS IN THE SHIFT

Every generation somehow feels chosen for the big change. To some degree that is true, but not in the manner I address here. Yes, we are chosen for the big shift. We discover this by looking at the history of generational changes in consciousness. We quickly see great differences that single out our place in a quantum jump in consciousness.

It is no accident that you and I are here, now, taking part in the great Shift. We have been prepared through lifetimes of teaching. This does not make us superior in any way. The senior is not superior to the freshman, just prepared by prior expeerience for higher learning.

I have never thought of being gratefully confused, but now is the time. Initiation into the Shift begins with not knowing where I am or where I’m going. What is going on? Am I the only one who has these feelings? No, I am not. Chances are you feel the same. The Shift is upon us, all of us. It is our choice whether or not to participate.

Shift from what to what? Shift in consciousness from partial to greater. It is pleasing to know I am in the company of many now tasting initiation.

I realize I stand in the threshold, leaving the familiar, entering the unknown. This is to Shift awareness, to gain a new level of consciousness. But, in the threshold, in between, I must feel confused.

The threshold is a place of initiation, a place of introduction into a new understanding, a…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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