Although I'm no longer using the header Notes from the Freedom Trail, this journey we all share (even as we each experience it in individual ways) is one of increasing freedom from past ways of being and a growing independence from all that we have created to hold us back.

As I'll describe in Becoming the New Human, we're in the midst of an unprecedented (r)evolution that will release us from the constraints of past human limitations and propel us into the limitlessness of our unleashed divinity.

My July 11 teleconference, Evolve! Becoming the New Human will focus on supporting you energetically through this radical transformation.

In honor of Independence Day, I'm also reprinting a piece first published here in November, America as the New Jerusalem. I believe this is the ideal time to reexamine the promise and potential of this country.

The United States is not the only country to observe a national holiday in July. Both Canada (July 1) and France (July 14) celebrate their nationhood this month. All three dates represent new beginnings, which, though we're in midyear, represent the spirit of both this newsletter and these times.

Speaking of new beginnings, my web site is undergoing a renewal of its own. By the time you read this, my redesign/rewrite will be well under way, though far from complete. I hope you'll find the new look airier and more streamlined, and the content briefer and clearer.

The web site's new banner, for example, is the same as on this issue of the newsletter (for those of you receiving the HTML version).

A few site features have already been updated, among them the excerpt of sacred sound, accessible from the home page or this link. Also, I've added several new drawings to the transformational art pages. (See below for thumbnail versions.)

A high priority for renewal are the pages dealing with private sessions -- if they're not updated by the time you read this, check back in a day or so.

On the subject of updates, many of you have asked where I am, where I've been and what's going on -- with my travels and with my writing. The short answer is that I'm still on the road and still writing.

If you subscribe to my New Earth Chronicles blog posts, watch your in box for an update later this week.

If you're not getting these mailings, you've unsubscribed -- either intentionally or not (it has happened). To resubscribe or verify that you're still subscribed, click here. Please note that, unlike this newsletter list, I cannot add you back in to the blog-post list once you've unsubscribed. You must do it yourself.

Finally, if you're wondering why I haven't yet turned up in your neighborhood with a group event this summer, it's because I've delayed my tour until the fall.

Already confirmed (though dates have yet to be fixed) are events in
• Rapid City, South Dakota
• Fort Collins, Colorado
• Brookfield (Milwaukee), Wisconsin
• Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Detroit area, Michigan
• Mount Vernon, Indiana
If you'd like more information on these events or are interested in seeing an event added in your area (or you'd simply like to know what these events are all about!), please drop me a line.

Or drop me a line for any other reason. It's always great to hear from you!

Wishing you a sweet summer...or, if you're in New Zealand, Australia or otherwise hemispherically south, a blessed winter.

Namaste,
Mark David

Radical Evolution

You're not going crazy.

I know it feels that way sometimes. It certainly does to me.

One moment you feel fine, on top of the world. The next, something pushes you into a depression or despair it's difficult to pull out of. Or you feel yourself sinking into a morass of apparent meaninglessness and purposelessness.

Old patterns -- addictions, even -- poke and prod at you, demanding to be satisfied.

You feel as though you're going crazy.

You're not.

Then what the @#$&%!?# is going on?

It's called Radical Evolution.

Our humanoid ancestors had the luxury of millennia to evolve from cave to condo, from simplicity to sophistication. Even for our grandparents, evolution was a subtle process, barely discernible within a generation, let alone a lifetime.

All that has changed.

We are experiencing, in this lifetime, a revolutionary overhaul that is unprecedented in human history.

We are morphing into a new species.

You could call it the New Human, although that's not truly accurate, because where we're going transcends much of we have come to know as human.

In effect, we are stepping into our Divine Selves, into the Gods we have always been, but only as a potential.

That potential is now being realized. Not for everyone, perhaps. But for those who have made that choice, however unconsciously, that's what's going on.

Exciting? Yes.

Miraculous? Absolutely.

Fear-provokingly uncomfortable? Without a doubt.

We stand in a place of transition.

Increasingly, our old ways of living, coping and feeling secure are not working. Even many of the New Age paradigms we have grown into in recent years seem out of place, dysfunctional, wrong-minded.

We are, as Gregg Braden put it nearly a decade ago, walking between the worlds.

Who we were is outmoded. Yet who we are becoming is not yet ready.

Remember that awkward period in early adolescence? You were no longer a child, yet seemingly far from adulthood. On top of that, your physical and emotional bodies were doing all kinds of weird and wacky things.

Welcome back to puberty.

You're experiencing peculiar symptoms and your emotions are volatile. You're beginning to think and act in ways that are foreign to you and others. Your likes and dislikes are shifting, as are your passions and priorities.

Even the face staring back at you from the mirror seems disconcertingly unfamiliar.

In this twilight zone we now occupy between our human and divine selves, cognitive disconnect is the norm.

Our human minds struggle to control our lives in ways that our divine intelligence considers unnecessary.

Our human mind has expectations. Our divine intelligence has none.

Our human mind tries to figure out and understand, functions our divine intelligence regards as irrelevant.

Ascension is not about moving into deeper understanding. It’s about moving away from understanding. It’s about abandoning any need to understand and moving into a place of permanent mystery...divine mystery.

Yet we're still wired to function in human ways. Or, rather, our divine electrician has begun the rewiring, but it's a massive job. And the transition is as weird and wacky as was puberty .

That's not reassuring to the human self, which feels as though everything familiar is breaking apart.

It is. To add to that divine comedy, some of the breakdown is occurring in our material lives -- mirroring what's going on inside us and simultaneously reflecting the global shifts also going on.

Over a recent two-week period, for example, I was forced to replace my cell phone three times, uninstall/reinstall my printer and camera software (it still doesn't work properly) and remove a spam filter that was slowing my e-mail delivery to slug-mail speeds...among other bizarre repairs.

Our minds and bodies are doing their own version of that same dance. Sometimes the dance isn't graceful or pretty. Sometimes it looks more like struggle.

Think of the biblical Jacob wrestling with the angel.

That's the essence of what's going on for us: our human wrestling with our divine. The human seeks to hold onto the perceived control of knowingness. The angel, on the other hand, represents all that is free, and therefore free of control.

All that is free is the mystery. For, along with its other implications, freedom frees us from having to know, to understand, to place in context.

As we move to this next level -- a step that is gargantuan in its steepness and implications -- we are leaving behind more than we can begin to imagine. Not in the physical sense. Not even in the emotional sense. In the human sense.

Much that has defined you as human is being squeezed out of you -- in that spin cycle I wrote about last month or, perhaps better put, in an old-fashioned wringer-washer. And as each new space is freed up, more of the divine that you already are is entering in to fill that newly created emptiness.

Put another way, it’s like the child (Peter Pan) who resists growing up, leaving childish (but not childlike) things behind to make way for the adult. In this case, it’s not the human adult but the divine adult that is coming through...sometimes, or so it feels, like a steamroller.

No wonder you're in emotional crisis at times. No wonder you feel as though you are dying. No wonder signs and apparent synchronicities refuse to be interpreted.

Nothing is the way it was or ever will be again. Nothing can be understood in the old ways. Nothing can be fixed in the old ways. Nothing can be controlled. Period.

There is only one magic pill, and it can be a tough one to swallow.

It's called surrender.

Yet it's the only way.

All we can do is move through our cosmic puberty with as much grace as we can muster.

All we can do is surrender...to the mystery, to the freedom, to the divine that is taking over our lives, our will and our beingness and launching us into an era we cannot predict, anticipate or understand.

See yourself as a baby bird pushing through its shell. The shell is your human construct. You are breaking through that now. It is breaking down now. The bird is emerging, regardless. And it will fly. You will fly. And life on the other side of that shell is nothing you can begin to imagine.

You are stressed by all this. This is natural. Your human self is in panic. This is natural.

Know that you are neither dying nor going crazy, though that is what it feels like. Rather, you are experiencing radical evolution. You are becoming the divine.

Stop wrestling the angel and, instead, step into the angel. Become the angel. Become the god, your god, the god that you are.

NOTES FROM THE FREEDOM TRAIL REVISITED FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY 2006

America as the New Jerusalem...
America as a Shining Light Among Nations...

These words intrude into my consciousness in the predawn semiwakefulness of an Ohio morning. I turn over, trying to ignore them, preferring the silence of sleep.

They repeat...

America as the New Jerusalem...
America as a Shining Light Among Nations...

And they continue to repeat until I surrender.

Even in surrender, my logical Canadian mind is reluctant. It doesn't want to write this. No part of my mind wants to write it.

Yet, even as I pen my objections, my higher mind insists that it is true.

Perhaps it takes a Canadian to write this. Certainly non-Americans and even some Americans might view these statements about America as the New Jerusalem and a Shining Light Among Nations as self-aggrandizing or offensively nationalistic.

The Founding Fathers knew this; some, perhaps, even at a conscious level. Certainly at deeper levels they all understood that they were creating a template for heaven on earth.

People of a conspiracist bent like to talk about the Founding Fathers' Masonic machinations and pre-trilateralist plots.

Perhaps that's true on some dimensional level. After all, in our multidimensional omniverse, anything is possible.

On that same basis, however, so is the reality I'm guided to present, which uses some of the same physical evidence to make my case as do conspiracy theorists: the illuminating force of the eagle, the mottos e pluribus unum ("out of many, one") and novus ordo seclorum ("new order of the ages"), and the metaphysical symbolism on current banknotes (the pyramid and its radiant-eye capstone). To this I would add Lady Liberty's presence on early coinage and in New York Harbor, as well as the motto In God We Trust, which, to me, is a call to trust the God Presence you are.

However, my point here is not to argue whose interpretation is correct. It doesn't really matter.

Nor is it to argue for Manifest Destiny in its wrong-hearted historical meaning of "divine right to territorial expansion."

Yet there is a manifest destiny here.

It's a destiny that transcends small-minded, closed-hearted, fear-based politics. It's a destiny that transcends this country as we know it on this plane of existence.

Like all destinies, it exists as a potential...

To read the complete piece, click on this link

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