The Shift & The Hundredth Monkey Effect
by Owen Waters
The Shift is the
awakening of humanity’s heart. This transformation of consciousness, the
greatest one ever recorded, first became apparent in the mid-1960s and has been
building momentum ever since.
The Shift is a collective transformation consisting of the
sum of each individual’s step into the New Reality. Each person, in their own
time, is moving forward into a stage of consciousness which brings a wider
vista and an awareness which springs from the heart. When enough people’s
primary attention becomes focused through their heart chakras, then the
‘hundredth monkey effect’ will occur.
The Hundredth Monkey Effect was first introduced by
biologist Lyall Watson in his 1980 book, ‘Lifetide.’ He reported that Japanese
primatologists, who were studying Macaques monkeys in the wild in the 1950s,
had stumbled upon a surprising phenomenon.
His book was soon followed up with a deeply inspired work by
Ken Keyes in 1981, called “The Hundredth Monkey Effect.” In this, Ken Keyes
made an impassioned appeal for an end to the Cold War and its policy of
mutually assured destruction. Here, in the words of Ken Keyes, is a description
of the key elements of the Hundredth Monkey Effect:
The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, had been observed in
the wild for a period of over 30 years.
In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing
monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the taste of
the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.
An 18 month old female named Imo found she could solve the
problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to
her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their
mothers too.
This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various
monkeys before the eyes of the scientists.
Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash
the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable.
Only the adults who imitated their children learned this
social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.
Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958,
a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact
number is not known.
Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were
99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes.
Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth
monkey learned to wash potatoes.
Then it happened!
By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing
sweet potatoes before eating them.
The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an
ideological breakthrough!
But notice.
A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was
that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea –
Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop
of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.
Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness,
this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.
Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey
Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way,
it may remain the conscious property of these people.
But there is a point at which if only one more person
tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is
picked up by almost everyone!”
Lyall Watson had originally researched and assembled the
story from the available testimonies of the primate researchers. Because the
phenomenon took the researchers so much by surprise, they had not counted how
many monkeys it took to trigger this effect. So, Watson proposed an arbitrary
figure of ninety-nine monkeys, and said that one more, the so-called
one-hundredth monkey, would then provide the critical mass of consciousness
necessary to trigger the effect.
The new behavior pattern spread to most, but not all, of the
monkeys. Older monkeys, in particular, remained steadfast in their established
behavior patterns and resisted change. When the new behavior pattern suddenly
appeared among monkey troupes on other islands, only a few monkeys on those islands
picked up on the new idea. The ones most receptive to new ideas started
imitating the new behavior and demonstrating it to the impressionable younger
ones. Thus, they too began their own path towards their eventual hundredth
monkey effect.
How the Hundredth Monkey Effect Works
The mechanism for this transference of ideas works the same
way for monkeys as it does for all sentient beings. We exist within an
atmosphere of global mind. The human brain is constantly receiving and
transmitting mental pictures and information to and from that mental atmosphere
in which we are immersed.
The global mind, otherwise known as Jung’s collective
unconscious, does not cease to function because a few skeptics don’t like its
effects. It functions just like it always has, passing information from one
individual to another based upon their common frequency of consciousness. If
progressive monkeys had a new idea, then so did other progressive monkeys on other
islands. They resonated at the same frequency of consciousness.
Inventions often occur at the same time by inventors who are
not in physical contact with each other. For example, in 1941, Les Paul
designed and built the first solid-body electric guitar just when Leo Fender of
Fender Musical Instruments was doing exactly the same thing.
Have you ever had an idea, then seen other people express or
use that idea. You probably said, “Hey! I thought of that first!” Well, that’s
the way the global mind works. It’s an atmosphere that you share with all other
sentient beings, but you tune in especially to the particular topics and
frequencies of mind that interest you the most.
When enough people have gone through their personal version
of The Shift to the new consciousness, then a critical mass will form and
suddenly everyone will become aware of the New Reality and its heart-centered
values.
That is the day when heart-centered values will become the
focus of everyday thinking for the vast majority of people. That is the day
when humanity will begin to look back on what has changed and realize that a
massive shift has occurred.
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