He echoed what I think is a pervasive feeling, as many of us can't relate to the dreams we used to have in quite the same way anymore. We feel a strange disinterest regarding goals that had seemed so exciting before, as though we had been dreaming dreams that belonged to a self we no longer are. A maserati for the maserati's sake just isn't the same thrill anymore. When we were children we loved to play with toys; but something has happened and we are children no more.

I reminded him that any system seems chaotic in the period right before it jumps to a new and higher order. I think our new dreams have not arrived yet because our new selves are not quite formed yet. We are gestating the next phase of our personhood, both as individuals and as a species. We don't quite know what we want next because we don't quite know who we will be next. And this moment of not-knowing in our lives -- during which it can appear that nothing much is really happening -- is perhaps the time when more is happening than ever. It is the moment from which all other moments flow. It is the cosmic grounding for whatever emerges next.

The re-emergence of the goddess means, among other things, an appreciation of feminine imagery as it relates to our experience of life. And nothing is more feminine than that we conceive life, it gestates within us and then we give it birth into the world. That is exactly what is happening today, with our consciousness the womb from which will emerge a new humanity.

Humanity is pregnant with a new experience of itself, and as is always true when one is pregnant, we have no idea exactly what's coming. We are giving birth to a higher evolution of ourselves, and the dreams we will be dreaming next are the dreams our new self will be dreaming. The very best thing we can do right now is to be restful and happy. New life is growing in all of us. And when the time has fulfilled itself, the child will be born.