We are spiraling through the last vestiges of linear time and the third dimension to a point of completion, an omega point, at which reality as we have known it ceases, and our history, our personal and collective evolutionary "story," comes to an end. This omega point serves as the alpha point, or beginning, of a radically new and different evolutionary cycle. The Omega-Alpha point we are approaching may inaugurate the most profound shift in human history, the point at which a new human species is born.

That we are approaching a major point of crisis and change is becoming increasingly apparent. Network television, the mirror of collective (un)consciousness, increasingly features programs on prophecies, Earth changes, extraterrestrials, and various fourth-dimensional phenomena. Entire aisles in bookstores are devoted to these and other topics that, just a decade or two ago, would have been considered obscure, arcane, or just plain strange. As this evolutionary process gathers momentum, such topics increasingly fascinate previously skeptical human minds.

Coming to a conscious understanding and acceptance of the scope of the changes we are facing seems to be one of the first steps necessary in aligning with Omega-Alpha. It is easy to stay asleep in the still-pervasive collective unconscious agreement that nothing has changed and that life is still "business as usual." Yet it is increasingly obvious that humanity cannot continue on its current vector much longer. El Nino and La Nina are but the most recent severe weather imbalances. Ozone depletion, species extinction, air, water and soil pollution, desertification, and deforestation are clear significators of an ecosystem on red alert.

In 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists (a group of 1,700 scientists from 69 countries, including 99 of the 196 living Nobel laureates) announced that humanity appears to be on a collision course with nature. Soon afterward, the landmark book Beyond the Limits asserted that, based on highly sophisticated computer projection models, our chances of avoiding ecological catastrophe appear slim to none. According to the authors, the resources we will have fall far short of what we will need to sustain everyone, and they term this a state of "overshoot and collapse."

As if the state of the ecosystem weren’t alarming enough, much of the world economy seems to be on the verge of collapse. Strange, incurable epidemics like Ebola evoke primal fear and helplessness. Governments seem almost totally ineffective in dealing with it all, while scientists and philosophers have yet to tie all the pieces together in a comprehensive, intuitively believable theory. It certainly seems as though we are beyond the limits of our capacity to cope, and possibly of our ability to continue as a species.

Could the ubiquitous crises all around us be a holographic projection of the unresolved evolutionary crises within us? Might the magnitude of the "problems" indicate the necessity of an enormous evolutionary leap—a shift that will take us beyond all that we have known?