“Affairs are now Soul size
The enterprise is exploration into God….” A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry

When I arrived at Findhorn in 1979 I had just been to Esalen where I listened to Michael Murphy and Stan Grof with others discuss altered states of expanded consciousness and whether these could bring about genetic changes that could be passed down i.e. inherited by our descendants. In Auroville groups were discussing the Mother’s Yoga, which was believed to have the potential to bring about actual physical changes and bodily transformation. Sri Aurobindo wrote of Man being an unfinished animal and about the necessity to collectively bring about the Descent of the Over Mind and the future of Humanity as Gnostic Beings. Eileen showed me her favourite VCR tape, which was an exposition of Teilhard De Chardin’s concept of evolutionary consciousness, The Cosmic Christ, The Alpha and the Omega. This was the core of what she was about. The growth and expansion of Christ Consciousness.

It sounds intellectual but it is not. We have arrived in the midst of a great awakening. As the Darkness wells up as if to swallow us and all we believe in, we stand poised on the threshold of evolutionary change itself. It is our purpose and birth right to waken to the full potential of Spirit awake and present within matter. The Awakening of the Earth and of our Knowing Self. Humanity as the awakened shepherd gathering awakened creation into co creation with the Source. Divine Humanity. The One Mind. One Love.
We are at the crossroads between Alpha and Omega, between the beginning of evolution and its inevitable end in Unity. To me this is the most emotive subject imaginable and is not bound in books. Eileen told me she had never read Teilhard de Chardin. She didn’t have to.

When Sir George Trevelyan declaimed Christopher Fry’s Poem in the Hall my hair stood on end.

“ Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake…
But will you wake, for pity’s sake?”

Rory O’Connell