Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

14: As Above — So Below
H
umanity as a whole could soon be faced with the
same choice confronting each one of us as indi-
viduals. As was pointed out in the previous chap-
ter, the choice is to heal by choice or trauma.
Heal by Choice or Trauma
Many visionaries claim that all the signs are present
that point toward humankind receiving a massive dem-
onstration of the 
heal by choice or trauma principle
in
the very near future. The Earth has a cancer and it is
called the human race. This living, breathing, conscious
planet has been in a state of perfect balance its entire
life with every little part doing what it must to sustain
the system in balance. This is analogous to the job done
by healthy cells in the human body.
For thousands of years we have been part of that bal-
anced system. In the last few hundred years, however,
we have put ourselves above the natural order and have
come to believe that we can control and dominate the
entire system. Just as a cancer cell multiplies out of
control, metastasizes throughout the system, and be-
gins to devour its host, so we continue to multiply expo-
nentially out of control all over the planet and to plunder
its natural resources as if nothing else mattered be-
yond the satisfaction of our greed.
Like a tumor wrapping itself around the heart or block-
ing a lung, so do we, in the same kind of deadly em-
brace with our own life-source, chop down forests, pol-
lute the very air that we breathe, and poison the envi-
ronment. Scientists are telling us that we are close to
destroying life as we know it within the next 40-50 years
if we don’t make dramatic changes.
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The greatest need however is for a change in con-
sciousness. Collectively, we must change mass con-
sciousness or face unprecedented trauma at such a
level that all the existing structures maintaining our
present life-style will be swept away.