Did you know that humankind is on the brink of evolving into a whole new species? This Great Change is about to take place and, according to a long list of global New Age elites such as Deepak Chopra and New Thought preachers Michael Beckwith and Gregg Braden, it’s time to get prepared to evolve from homo sapiens to homo universalis.

As fanciful as it sounds, there actually is a very large group of elitists who believe that this change is coming about. Known as the Evolutionary Leaders (EL), they describe themselves as “a network of people who feel deep caring and a sense of urgency about the state of our world, and who each dedicate our lives and work to expressing a passionate commitment to both the inner work of human transformation and the outer work of social transformation.”

Their purpose? “to collectively inspire, support and serve conscious evolution.”

The group formed during a series of retreats sponsored by the Source of Synergy Foundation and the Chopra Foundation which brought together dozens of “evolutionary leaders in the movement of awakening consciousness.” Their goal was to explore ways to work together on how to help people make this transition, to “collectively create momentum for a new emerging consciousness so that together they could be a greater force for transformation.”

The retreatants were comprised of scientists, business experts, social entrepreneurs, journalists, educators and dozens of “cutting-edge visionaries” who designed projects intended to “co-create our future”.

So who are some of these people who have taken it upon themselves to determine our future?

Among the better known members are Deepak Chopra, who refers to himself as a “world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation” who has written 95 books on a variety of topics from meditation techniques to the wonders of ayurvedic medicine.

Then there’s the infamous late Barbara Marx Hubbard, who referred to herself as the Mother of Evolution. She claimed to have had a powerful mystical experience in which she rose above the Earth and heard Evolution speaking to her. It said, ‘Our story is a birth. What Christ and all the great beings came to reveal is we’re one, we’re good, we’re universal. Go tell the story Barbara’.” And so she did, leaving her husband and hob-nobbing with the world’s elite such as Jonas Salk, Abraham Maslow and Buckminster Fuller. Hubbard died in 2019.

The majority of this crew of self-appointed elites are lesser known, such  as Suzanne Geisemann, a former U.S. Navy Commander, who follows the lead of her spiritual guides into a new “21st Century Spirituality.” This new spirituality blends the latest scientific understanding about Consciousness and merges it with ancient spiritual wisdom.

The EL also welcomes Speaker, author, Reiki Master, and certified energy healer Diane L Haworth into its fold. Haworth claims to be passionate about “helping heart-centered leaders consistently live from their own inner Divine wisdom” which she hopes will bring about a new world for us all. She claims to have studied A Course in Miracles and trained in the Enneagram with Robert Holden. She is the author of How to Choose Love When You Just Want to Slap Somebody which was published in 2014.

There are dozens of others listed in the elite EL Circle, all of whom have taken it upon themselves to design our future for us.

Jules Evans, writing for Medium, says that it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to proclaim yourself a Leader of Evolution. “Imagine. ‘I am leading evolution. I am pulling humanity up by its bootstraps. I am the leading edge, the peak, the transcender, I am a whole new species’. And who is it that says this? Not Friedrich Nietzsche, no, a motley crew of botoxed business coaches and fixed-grin Law of Attraction zombies.”

According to these self-proclaimed super-prophets, they are merely challenging people to rise to the occasion of this impending change, and not be one of those unfortunates who get left behind.

As Hubbard once explained: “Our time is coming. We who survive the transition will have crossed the abyss from creature to co-creator, by virtue of our creative genius. We shall identify increasingly with the perspective of God as we build new worlds, create new microorganisms and redesign our bodies for cosmic time and space.”

What about those who don’t go along with this grandiose plan?

“Those who attempt to maintain the old separatist stance…will harden, calcify and eventually die of separation,” Hubbard writes. “Only love can advance the next stage of evolution. Those remaining in self-centered consciousness will be either extinct on Earth like all past earlier humans, or so different that they seem to be a different species.”

In other words, the elite few will move on and the rest of us are headed for extinction.

This passing of the unfit is something the elites need to accept because, as Hubbard once said, “Evolution is compassionate, but not nice.” You’re either willing to join the ranks of the strong, the conceivers and co-creators of this brave new world, or you get left behind.

As outlandish as it all sounds, the EL is doing a healthy business selling their “conscious evolution” courses to help people make this imaginary transition into a new species. But what they’re actually doing is building a new breed of narcissistic elites who indulge in the gnostic fantasy that their secret knowledge of the coming change makes them more advanced than the rest of us.

And they really believe it.

As Evans points out, this despicable “evolution” is what has become of the New Age’ Human Potential Movement with its self-help books and motivational speakers.

“Now, its chief spokespeople are business coaches and New Thought hucksters with bad hair and too much make-up, or discredited hucksters like Andrew Cohen and Marc Gafni. It’s such an intellectually mediocre scene now, filled with platitude-spouting shysters. . .” Evans writes.

It's all been reduced to what he calls “a flaky sort of capitalist spirituality.”

Needless to say, we need to keep everyone involved in the EL in our prayers!

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