Conscious Evolution: A Novice's Report

I am a relative newcomer to the movement that goes by such titles as “Evolutionary Enlightenment,” “Conscious Evolution,” “Emergence,” or simply “The Shift.” It has been galvanized by the “end-of-an-era” prophecies of the expiration of the Mayan Calendar, but it has been around for much longer in the writings of Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, Deepak Chopra, Craig Hamilton, and of my latest hero, 83-year-old dynamo Barbara Marx Hubbard.