The Coming Earth Changes
By Joseph Dispenza

For several years, we have been hearing that radical changes are about to happen to our planet. Has the time finally arrived?

Predictions about vast and violent “earth changes” have been circulating for some time now. With natural disasters in Southeast Asia unfolding on an epic scale, we are reminded once again about the prophecies of planetary alterations accompanied by widespread destruction and loss of life. 

“Earth changes” is a branch of fringe spirituality that proposes hypotheses so astonishing they sometimes sound suspiciously like conspiracy theory. You can almost hear the mellifluous voice of Orson Welles behind the conjectures: “Will it happen soon? Was Nostradamus right, after all?” 

Still, the idea that the planet is about to undergo drastic alterations is strangely compelling, which explains why it persists in our imagination. You may remember first hearing of the coming earth changes about twenty-five years ago. Someone had drawn a map of the United States after the changes. It still sends chills up the spine: the Pacific Ocean began in Colorado and the entire eastern seaboard had sunk into the Atlantic. The predictions of the configurations on the map were dated “By 1990,” “By 1994,” and so on. None of it came to pass, thank heaven. Not yet, at least. 

Many of the current earth change predictions were dreamed by clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (1877-1945). He left his body over 14,000 times, journeyed in the dream world, and brought back fascinating information. 

Cayce predicted that the Great Lakes would empty into the Gulf of Mexico in the near future and that ancient repositories would be discovered when people reached the appropriate level of consciousness. 

“The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. When there is the first breaking up of some conditions in the South Sea and those as apparent in the sinking or rising of that that's almost opposite same, or in the Mediterranean, and the Etna area, then we may know it has begun...Watch for them in...the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.” 

Interesting visions of the future from 75 years ago: the Indian Ocean is where the disastrous Christmas tsunami hit; the Persian Gulf is one of the world's great battlefields of the moment. 

We could interpret Cayce's “predictive” dreams as literal external global alterations, but it may be more useful to see them as metaphors for global transformations in thinking, feeling and believing—a paradigm shift in how we see ourselves as a species, and how we regard our relationship to our home planet and to the stars around us. 

Earth changes can be another way of looking at personal growth, as well. Something in us begs to go up to the next level of awareness. In the process, the old self, with its antiquated, narrow vision of who we are and what we are capable of, is swept away as if by a giant wave. 

To dwell on whether our planet is shifting poles, altering its rotation, or drifting into a new Ice Age can make us feel helpless and victimized. Really, what can we do if a tsunami were to hit Santa Monica? But if we take the idea of earth changes with all their transformational possibilities and apply them inward, we might jump-start ourselves in new directions of self-actualization. Richard Bach reminds us, “To the caterpillar, it’s the end of the world—to the butterfly, though, it is the first day of creation.” 

However we prefer to regard earth changes, they do appear to be on our doorstep. It is up to each of us to make them changes for the better, transformations upward in consciousness...and compassion.

Joseph Dispenza is an award-winning author, Atención columnist and cofounder of LifePath in San Miguel. You can read more of Dispenza’s articles at www.lifepathretreats.com.