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By P.M.H. Atwater, Lh.D.
No
other generation of record matches the children now
arriving on the Earth plane. Noted historians, William
Strauss and Neil Howe, authors of Generations:
The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069
(William Morrow, New York City, 1991), put this into
perspective for those of us in the US by identifying
the children born between 1982 and around 2003 as the
nation’s fourteenth or “millennial generation” – the
most wanted, nurtured, and educated group of individuals
we’ve ever produced, and the most protected by law.
Unusually smart and assertive, these youngsters are
as creative and intuitive as they are computer literate.
Not confined to the US, this emergence of new kids is
truly global, as this observation from Mexican pediatrician,
Ibarra Chavez, attests: “The new crop of infants are
coming in more aware... eyes focused and alert, necks
strong, lying in bassinets no bigger than chickens,
and with a knowing-ness I cannot describe [in Spanish
or English]. They are very special babies, this new
crop.”
Sharon Begley, author of the Newsweek magazine
article entitled “The IQ Puzzle” (May 6, 1996), describes
the situation this way: “IQ scores throughout the developed
world have soared dramatically since the tests were
introduced in the early years of this [the 20th] century...
The rise is so sharp that it implies that the average
school child today is as bright as the near-geniuses
of yesteryear.”
The gene pool cannot change fast enough to account for
this leap, so we can’t claim genetics as causal. Test
scores rose only slightly in the area of rote schooling,
so education isn’t the cause either. Trying to make
sense of the situation, experts have surmised young
people today are simply better at taking tests – or
– maybe it’s because they’re better nourished, or have
larger vocabularies (thanks to permissive parenting),
or play a lot of video games (which demand concentration
before response).
The scurry to find answers to what is happening to our
youth centres around one glaring fact: the extreme jump
in intelligence, between 24 to 26 points, concerns “nonverbal
intelligence” – the ability to know or intuit information.
This means the new children are natural “creative problem
solvers.” Yet in the area of genius, once ranked with
scores between 134 to 136 points (some say 140), a preponderance
of today’s youth regularly test out at 150 to 160; many
over 184. No precedent exists to explain this.
The anomaly in IQ scores immediately caught my eye
because it exactly reflected what I was finding with
child experiencers of near-death states. The more sources
I studied, the more professionals I interviewed, the
more confident I became that humankind’s long predicted
quantum leap in evolution was happening right now, and
on several fronts: kids being born “different,” and
children “changed” either because of an intensely powerful
life event or from an encounter with the “power punch”
that best describes the impact of a near-death or otherworldly
experience.
Although my research of the near-death phenomenon didn’t
begin until 1978 (the year after my own experiences),
I actually began tracking the impact of consciousness
transformations, especially with children, back in 1966.
Five books cover the findings from my research: Coming
Back To Life, Beyond The Light, Future
Memory, Children Of The New Millennium, and
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Near-Death Experiences
[Editor’s Note: P.M.H. Atwater’s Children of
the New Millennium has just been republished under
the title The New Children and Near-Death Experiences,
and is available in Australia from New Dawn Book Service
for $34.95 plus $4.95 p&h].
Let’s explore this issue, at least to the extent that
we can here, by identifying various traits and characteristics
being noticed in these newcomers, and then let’s discuss
the critical issue of timing.
Many people are aware of the discoveries made by authors
Lee Carroll and Jan Tober that are detailed in their
book The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived.
Their interview with Nancy Ann Tappe, for instance,
highlighted how technologically oriented she has found
the new generation to be; how unusually confident, fearless,
and strong they are, with quick, active minds and a
non-attached, almost objective way of regarding the
world around them (which enables them to be innovators
or killers with equal ease). She claims they are influenced
most by the colour vibration of indigo (the sixth frequency
in the colour spectrum), since that is what she sees
around them psychically.
Drunvalo Melchizedek, a self-realised mystic, echoed
many of Tappe’s observations during an interview he
had with Diane Cooper about “Children of the New Dream,”
held on June 22, 1999. Only he went further by explaining
that, in his view, there are three different types of
children now emerging: those in China
who are super psychics, the indigo children, and kids
born with AIDS. He describes the Chinese youngsters
as “psychic beyond belief.” He says they have scored
100% on every test given to them, no matter what kind
of test it was or how difficult. This has puzzled their
parents, who often lament, “I have a kid who knows everything
– what do I do about this?” He reports such children
are now showing up in Russia
and the United
States, and that these super psychics
are similar to the indigo children.
But what excites Drunvalo the most are the AIDS kids.
“About 10 or 11 years ago in the US,” he offers as an example, “there was a baby
born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months
and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year
later and he still tested positive. Then they didn’t
test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing
is that this test showed he was completely AIDS free!
In fact, there was no trace he ever had AIDS or HIV
whatsoever!”
He goes on to reveal that, in close monitoring by medical
researchers at University of California/Los Angeles,
the discovery has been made that youngsters like this
particular boy exhibit a unique DNA patterning no one
else has – 24 active codons. (In human DNA the world
over, 20 of the 64 different patterns or codons are
“turned on” and active, 3 operate like “stop/start”
codes similar to a computer, while the rest remain inactive.)
The children with 24 active codons, instead of the usual
20, have shown resistance to disease that is quite remarkable.
They seem to be immune to everything. Drunvalo believes
this DNA advancement heralds “the end of disease” in
that anyone, by choosing to align with unity and interconnectedness
as the kids do, can achieve the same result.
Gordon-Michael Scallion, a psychic futurist and prophet,
has for several years spoken of the children who resonate
to the blue vibration, detailing his insights in Notes
From The Cosmos (Matrix Institute, West Chesterfield,
NH, 1997). To identify the new ones, he looks for: cat-like
eyes that can readily adjust to differences in lighting
and colours; vision that is both physical and non-physical;
communication and language versatility; a bluish tint
to the skin or the presence of blue around them; heightened
body sensitivity/digestion; increased longevity – maybe
up to 200 years of age. He feels the colour vibrations
of blue, indigo, and violet will take on great importance
throughout the third millennium.
Despite some variance in messages about today’s children,
the traits most commonly mentioned dovetail what I have
found in the fieldwork I’ve conducted. Children of
the New Millennium examines the near-death phenomenon
from the child experiencer’s viewpoint and, in so doing,
turns upside down some of our pet notions not only about
near-death states, but about the power of major transformational
events to change individuals both psychologically and
physiologically.
I have observed, for instance, that the younger the
child the greater the effect – perhaps because the “power
punch” experienced (above and beyond any imagery, visitations,
or lights) can happen during critical junctures in brain
development. Some characteristics displayed afterward:
Faculties enhanced, altered, or experienced in multiples
77%
Mind works differently – highly creative and inventive
84%
Significant enhancement of intellect 68%
Mind tested at genius level (no genetic markers to account
for this) –
Main group, overall figure (from birth to 15 years
of age) 48%
Subgroup, those under the age of 6, 81%
Drawn to and highly proficient in math/science/history
93%
Professionally employed in math/science/history careers
later on 25%
Unusually gifted with languages 35%
Experience in school –
Easier after near-death episode 34%
Harder afterward or blocked from memory 66%
NOTE: I found no statistical difference between males
and females as regards enhanced intelligence, spatial,
and mathematical abilities. Although percentages shown
are based on questionnaire results, they reflect what
I have consistently observed with the 277 child experiencers
in my study – with one exception. Professional employment
in math/science/history rises to 40% if you include
those who did not fill out the questionnaire with those
who did (which is still substantially below interest
level and proficiency).
Whether the child experiencer was still young, a teenager,
or in varied stages of adulthood when I interviewed
him or her, I noticed that after the near-death episode
was over the individual’s learning ability reversed;
instead of continuing on with the normal developmental
curve, from concrete (details) to abstract (concepts),
he or she returned immersed in broad conceptual reasoning
styles and had to learn how to go from abstract back
to concrete.
Example: A young boy halfway through the first grade
drowned, had a near-death episode, revived, then returned
to school once recovered. No longer interested in “See
Spot run,” he became fascinated with Greek mythology
and wanted to know the reason why the book Moby Dick
had been written. His shocked teacher was unable
to handle his “change.” The most oft-repeated phrase
child experiencers said to me was, “I felt like an adult
in a child’s body.” Although adult experiencers usually
become more child-like afterward, I have noticed that
kids are just the opposite – they come back more mature.
Years of discussing my findings with scientists, physicians,
educators, and parents, have convinced me that near-death
states are evolutionary by nature, and their evolutionary
aspects are the most readily apparent in child experiencers.
For the young, shifts of this magnitude constitute what
appears to be a “second birth.” I offer you the following:
ELEMENTS
OF A SECOND BIRTH
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Those hardly born can undergo a second birth.
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Temporal lobe expansion in the brain can precede or
accelerate normal development.
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The basic learning curve can reverse itself, placing
abstract conceptualising before foundational understanding.
*
IQ enhancements and faculty extensions can accompany
heightened spatial/nonverbal/sensory-dynamic thinking,
giving rise to uniquely creative problem-solving skills.
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An awareness of future that emerges can clarify the
Earth world of time and space by engendering “rehearsals”
– that provide for advance preparation in meeting life
demands.
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Sensing in multiples can open up whole new worlds of
possibility and new dimensions of what is real.
*
Shifts in the brain can jump-start the engine of evolution,
enabling the individual to adapt to ever-changing needs
and pressures of his or her internal and external environments.
*
Shifts in spiritual awareness can redirect attitudes/behaviours
toward social justice and moral integrity, as compassion
replaces the obsessions that drive greed.
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The higher mind can surface from the developing higher
brain – as structural, chemical, and functional changes
in the brain couple with a realignment of the heart
to produce a brain shift/spirit shift.
Anyone who goes through a transformation of consciousness,
no matter what the cause or under what condition, displays
virtually the same aftereffects as do near-death experiencers.
And the same brain shift/spirit shift. That’s why I
no longer consider near-death states to be a separate
phenomenon but, rather, part of that larger genre classified
as transformational states.
In making this statement, I want to recognise the research
of experts in the field of giftedness, who work with
children who are “different.” One of these is Michael
M. Piechowski, who writes at length in professional
journals about the behaviour of children who are or
who become spiritually attuned. He points out they display
an unusual creative spontaneity, have an inner conviction
of other realities, see everything as alive and interconnected,
know they are not limited by physical existence, have
boundless energy, are joyous, confident, not as easily
swayed by adults, and possess non-ordinary consciousness.
Sound familiar? We’re all basically saying the same
thing because what is happening is accelerating to such
a degree across populations that it is undeniable.
Children are twice as likely to experience a near-death
state as an adult when faced with a life-threatening
situation. Thanks to high technology, greater numbers
of these kids are being resuscitated... the vast majority
of which return “rewired and reconfigured” for... high
technology.
Coincidence? I don’t think so. Today’s children are
either being born this way or becoming this way. Society,
quite literally, is being provided with the very citizens
it needs to people the emerging global village, and
exactly on time. Humankind, as a species, is taking
a quantum leap – now!
The famous American psychic Edgar Cayce supplied a strong,
albeit brief, indication of this timing in, when he
said:
“With the storehouse, or record house (where the records
are still to be uncovered), there is a chamber or passage
from the right forepaw [of the Sphinx] to this entrance
of the record chamber, or record tomb. This may not
be entered without an understanding, for those that
were left as guards may NOT be passed until after a
period of their regeneration in the Mount, or the fifth
root race begins.” (Reading
5748-6, question 17)
The indication given was that a major evolutionary event
had to happen before anyone could be “readied” to find
this chamber, and that event, along with Earth changes,
was the coming of the fifth root race. Timing, as stated
previously by Cayce in other readings, covered the years
between 1998 and 2010.
Cayce was never queried as to what the term “root races”
meant. Still, he did refer to the subject in two other
readings:
“How was this begun? Who was given that this should
be a record of man’s experiences in this root race?
For that is the period covered by the prophecies in
the pyramid. This was given to Ra and Hermes in that
period during the reign of Araaraart when there were
many who sought to bring to man a better understanding
of the close relationship between the Creative Forces
and that created, between man and man, and man and his
Maker.” (5748-6, para. 4)
“(Q) Any other suggestions, counsel or advice on this
project? (A) Do consider it seriously. It is the basis
of any undertaking that is worth while. It may not only
become a local but a statewide and a national movement
in ways and means as to insure [ensure] the meeting
of the problems when there is peace again in the land,
and also insuring [ensuring] the better products for
a better people. You expect a new root race. What are
you doing to prepare for it? You must prepare food for
their bodies as well as their minds and their spiritual
development.” (470-35, Q. 26)
Other visionaries and psychics before him did use the
phrase, and to describe species-wide mutations or advancements
in the human family (“root” referring to “foundational”
or “root stock”). Among such esoteric understandings
of root races was the one established by the Theosophical
Society during the early 1920s. C.W. Leadbeater wrote
at length about such changes or leaps in the development
and refinement of humankind in his book The Masters
and The Path (Theosophical Publishing House, Madras,
India, 1925), as did Lieut.-Colonel Arthur E. Powell
in The Solar System (same publisher and place,
1930).
The Theosophical material focused on the evolution of
the human species as part of a scheme of seven great
races called root races that would facilitate each global
period of adjustment for new growth and change on our
planet. Powell says: “Each of these Root-Races, or stages
of development, is divided into seven sub-races, or
seven sub-stages; and again each sub-race is further
divided into seven smaller units, variously known as
branch-races, or nations.”
The advancements Leadbeater and Powell discussed were
identified as:
*
First Root Race – Etheric (spirit first entering matter)
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Second Root Race – Hyperborean (early physical forms,
mostly in the northern climes)
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Third – Lemurian (movement to southern regions, introduction
of darker skins)
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Fourth – Atlantean (lands now lying beneath the Atlantic
Ocean, progenitor of modern people-types)
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Fifth – Aryan (global leap in our overall refinement
as a species)
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Sixth – Unnamed (the future occupants of a new continent
predicted to appear in the Pacific
Ocean)
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And the Seventh Root Race – Unnamed (said to be the
last stage of our development in human form on the Earth
plane).
The esoteric traditions I have studied emphasise each
advancement of foundational root races was for the purpose
of developing a major chakra (energy vortex or energy
“generator”) in the species at large, with the end goal
being a total of seven. As advancements accelerated
over the span of ages, certain individuals and select
environments stood out as being more receptive or conducive
to the process than others (hence our historical progression
of masters and paradises). Further claimed is that,
eventually, everyone, everywhere, will possess all seven
fully open, active, and balanced energy spirals (chakras)
that join the head with the heart, heaven with Earth,
spirit with matter, so the created can rejoin the Creator
as conscious Co-Creators in the Divine Plan.
If you summarise the various esoteric teachings of root
races, acknowledging each stage of advancement was said
to describe the opening up and development of a given
chakra or pattern of energy, beginning with the first
or primary chakra (base embodiment) and culminating
with the refinement of the seventh (spiritual attainment),
it would look something like that displayed in the chart
on page 30 (colours signify vibrational frequencies).
According to this chart, the root race Cayce spoke of
would come under the purview of the blue vibration.
I hasten to add that all of the esoteric teachings about
root races cautioned it took thousands of years for
the process of advancing from one stage to the next
to unfold, and that numerous stages and steps were necessary
before each major shift could occur.
With this in mind, there is every reason to suspect
the fifth root race energy may have first entered the
Earth plane as early as the time of Jesus (when the
fourth was gaining in momentum), but did not attain
any appreciable numbers until the European Renaissance
between the 14th to 17th centuries. From the late 1800s
and continuing to the present, however, an outpouring
of exceptional magnitude has and still sweeps the globe
– an outpouring of channeled and visionary guidance,
coupled with the unprecedented choice we as individuals
and as a society must make between war and peace (“power
over” or “power to” – the dominant issue for fifth chakra
balance).
This growing fervour heralds what I believe to be the
ascension of the fifth root race energy pattern – a
“birth” in the sense that we can now recognise what
is occurring. (The full effect of an energy pattern
does not take place until its existence is acknowledged
by enough minds to bring it into mass consciousness.)
What seems “new” has really been en route for a long
time, gathering strength, while fourth chakra energies
matured (related to the balance between intellect and
emotions). As fifth chakra energy reaches a crescendo,
the challenges of discernment and the desire to access
a greater wisdom and a higher form of knowing may well
become goals of major proportions. I have no doubt that
sixth root race types are now entering the Earth plane
– since root races overlap each other during waxing
and waning periods – but not in the numbers some people
claim. Remember, it takes thousands of years for any
given root race to spread worldwide.
Cayce’s timing, though, for the “entrance” or “birth”
of the fifth root race (its true “ascendancy of critical
mass” in terms of population) covers a time-span concluding
very close to the end-date of the Mayan calendar, December
21, 2012. Aside from the myriad cycles depicted by the
Mayan astronomer-priests, their calendar was based on
Sun Cycles – the rotation of our sun around the central
sun, which takes about 25,800 years per trip, or twelve
solar ages of a little over 2,000 years each (like the
Aquarian Age we’ve just entered). What actually ends
near the close of 2012, the Mayans tell us, is the Fourth
Sun, followed by the rise of the Fifth Sun. Consider
this: the fifth root race will be in ascension in time
for the Fifth Sun.
Additionally, of the child experiencers I interviewed
from 1978 to the present time, roughly 15% spoke of
being here “for the changes.” They were explicit in
their descriptions of a time when the Earth and its
people would need them – a time when they themselves
would be parents or grandparents (depending on age when
interviewed). Twice that many adult experiencers said
the same thing, but most of them indicated the years
from 1980 through 1999 – a span when incredible changes
did indeed happen, yet not on the order of what they
predicted. Right along, the kids disagreed with their
adult peers. Finally I did some calculations, the difference
between their age at interview and the descriptions
they offered of that future time of great need. I was
surprised to discover that a single timeframe was revealed
– the years between 2013 and 2029 – the first “light”
of the Fifth Sun!
I was even more surprised when I read the last chapters
of Strauss and Howe’s book where they made futuristic
projections based on the statistics of historical cycles.
And they highlighted the period between 2013 and 2029
as a time when America
would face the greatest challenge in its history!
To understand the significance of this period, Strauss
and Howe ask us to recall the parallel eras of the Glorious
Revolution, the American Revolution, the Civil War,
the Great Depression, and World War II. “How will this
crisis end?” they wonder. This comment is their reply:
“Three of the four antecedents ended in triumph, the
fourth (the Civil War) in a mixture of moral fatigue,
vast human tragedy, and a weak and vengeful sense of
victory. We can foresee a full range of possible outcomes,
from stirring achievement to apocalyptic tragedy.”
The dominant issue for fifth chakra balance is “power
over” or “power to” plus the development of wisdom.
Do we learn to discern wisely and incorporate higher
intuition into our daily lives? Or, do we continue to
assert our rights and desires out of context with that
which honours the greater good?
Based on my own research, I project that 90% of the
world’s population will be fifth root race types, in
place and ready, by the early years of the Fifth Sun.
The indigo children, already “spicing the mix,” will
provide needed encouragement and inspiration. But the
balancing agent, the muscle, will come from us “blues.”
We need to finish what we started many years ago. And
I think we will. Not only my faith tells me this, but
the results from a recent survey.
Sociologist Paul Ray, vice president of the San Francisco-based
market research firm American Lives, Inc., labels a
growing faction of society as Creative Intuitives. These
people, as a group, support and engage in: community-based
economics and regional trade, revitalised main streets,
amateur theatre, open workspaces, small-scale sustainable
developments with Internet capacity, the uniqueness
of place and history and the importance of neighbourhoods,
handmade objects over mechanical or plastic ones, homes
that fit into natural landscapes complete with herb
gardens, restoration and recycling, pilgrimages to sacred
and holy places in place of commercial resort vacations,
gender equality, lifelong commitment to growth and learning
and the exchange of ideas, loving and committed relationships,
citizenship that is global as well as national, community
volunteerism, civic responsibility, spiritual development
as an essential component to a healthy life, and personal
awakenings to spirit realms and the power of Source.
If ever there was a meaningful description of ascended
fifth root race energy patterning, it is the one that
emerges from this survey – a description exactly matching
the average near-death experiencer, anyone who has undergone
or who is in the process of undergoing a transformation
of consciousness, and those who by choice and intention
choose the holistic approach to living and lifestyles.
Ray categorises the Cultural Creatives as a renaissance
culture that blends modernism with traditionalism, East
with West, and is about 44 million strong or 25% of
the [United
States] population. He notes this
group of people are almost angry in their demand for
that which is authentic and genuine.
At the current rate Cultural Creatives are becoming
politically active, and to the degree that sixth root
race newcomers get involved with a similar agenda, a
tipping point or “threshold of change” could be reached
in as little as five to ten years. Tipping points are
endemic to history, always unpredictable as to exact
timing, but ever fateful in collapsing that which has
grown inefficient, top heavy, or “out of touch” with
the citizenry (e.g., the dismantling of the Berlin Wall
and every dictatorship that has ever existed. There
is a time when sheer numbers alone are enough to trigger
a massive shift in the prevailing order.)
The New Thought Movement is poised to become the majority
mindset.
If it happens in the United States, might it happen elsewhere? Could
this be the event that launches the Fifth Sun on a spiritual
trajectory the likes of visionary dreams?
It is not my intention with this article to minimise
the work and the sacrifices which lie ahead, or the
losses many of us will shoulder. But, as a child who
grew up watching Hitler’s elite goose-step from blaring
headlines to newsreel footage, while I joined in spirit
with the energy guardians of Idaho’s deserts and canyons,
I know for a fact God’s Will is primary and God’s Plan
for our world will complete itself. Our job, at least
as I see it, is to live this truth – and we do so by
developing and operating from that wellspring of wisdom
which is within us.
The
above was first published in the May/June 2000 issue
of Venture Inward Magazine, www.edgarcayce.org.
P.M.H. Atwater's book, The New Children and Near
Death Experiences, is available in Australia from
New Dawn Book Service for $34.95 plus $4.95 postage.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Dr.
P.M.H. Atwater Lh.D survived three death events that
produced three different near-death experiences (NDE)
in 1977. She is one of the original researchers of the
near-death phenomenon, having begun her work in 1978.
Today, her contribution to the field of near-death studies
is considered on par with those of Raymond Moody and
Ken Ring. Her first two books, Coming Back to
Life and Beyond the Light,
are considered the "Bibles" of NDE research.
With the publication of Future Memory,
she expanded her work into areas of brain development
that calls for a reconsideration of what is presently
known about transformation of consciousness. Her research
into children's NDEs led to her writing, The
Children of the New Millennium, which has recently
been republished under the title The New Children
and Near Death Experiences. P.M.H. Atwater
can be contacted by writing to PO Box 7691, Charlottesville,
VA 22906-7691, USA. Her web site is located at www.cinemind.com/atwater.
