Self Expression Skills and Evolving Human Consciousness

SELF EXPRESSION SKILLS AND EVOLVING HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

by Marcus B. Chism, MA. Reading Specialist & Literacy Advocate

      “The momentum is building for a great awakening in human consciousness.  This is occuring in tandem with significant Earth changes, natural resource depletion, the globalization of trade, population explosion, revolutionary breakthroughs in science and exponential growth of information technologies.”                                                 “Shifting Your Power Source”  SEDONA Journal of Emergrnce. October 2008.

According to both scientists and sages, new types of dialogue are now taking place between our conscious minds and the cells of our bodies.  Evolutionary types of interaction can be discerned within our DNA.  Significant new forms of pattern recognition are becoming evident within the function of our “Messenger” RNA cells.  The thin membrane, or veil, separating the finite, rational, cognitive left hemisphere of the brain from the infinite, supra-rational, intuitive right brain hemisphere seems to be becoming thinner.  We Humankind are sensing evolutionary change – even at the cellular level.  And it is accelerating.

Toward the end of the last century, Canadian Literature Professor and Media Prophet Marshall McLuhan wrote at length about the “outering” of our sensorium via our technological inventions. The wheel, he said, was our outered extension of the foot and rotating action of the leg.  The steam shovel, said Professor McLuhan, is the mechanized version of the scooping and lifting function of the human hand and arm.  By extension of that same, rather obvious logic, he went on to tell us that, “…electronic technology is the outering of the human brain and central nervous system.”  We found ourselves, McLuhan told us, suddenly in the midst of the era of the neurally instantaneous, wearing our thoughts and feelings outside our bodies..

In his most frequently quoted aphorism, the 20th century’s leading media guru told us that “The Medium is the Message.”  And while the subject matter is being well rubbed in, we often either ignore, lose track of, or become inured to the effects of the processes by which our information is being administered to, by and amongst us. Communications today are accurately characterized by the term “implosion” as a thickening plethora of data inundates us at ever increasing speeds and exponentially growing quantities.  We not only need well-honed self expression skills to be able to effectively and succesfully respond in today’s super-charged information environment, but also a high level of discrimination as relates to the taking in and processing of all that imploding data has become hypercritical. This is definitely the age of “T.M.I.”!

As Reading Specialists and Literacy Advocates, we have expressed our concern for the critical nature of the relationship between self expression skills and self esteem for the learner.  (See Shop Class #1 & Shop Class #2)  Beyond that concern for the capable, articulate and skilled production of information in our language, it becomes clear that “human consciousness” also entails a critical consideration of how one takes in and responds to surrounding information. And so we come at length to the issue of discernment. It is, finally, through our discernment that we sort through the quantitative clamor around us and seek to ingest and assimilate information which contains valid, valuable, meaningful and positive quality for us; information that is, finally, worthwhile.