The Omega Option

Imagine that, all along, there has been a clause in your 'contract' with the universe ~ something that you, and every other human, can exercise if you so choose; an 'Omega Option', if you will.
This clause enables you to opt out of your human journey being a purely personal ‘education course’ for your soul’s evolution, and use it for something much greater.
Perhaps you believe, as so many do, that the purpose of the journey that your life has been thus far has been to nurture and evolve your own identity, to help you grow spiritually, grow in wisdom, strength and integrity. You may feel that this is true throughout the human collective: each one on his or her own journey to greater awareness and understanding.
But, somewhere along the way, perhaps you got the distinct sense that this might actually be a 'lesser' option, when all is said and done. It doesn't seem to be working out, somehow. The younglings in Gaza being starved and amputated without anesthesia are certainly hard to see as spiritual beings guiding their own evolutionary path. What 'lessons' can such a one learn through abject misery, caused by others? In the rare case of surviving all that, how could that human 'nurture' anything other than hatred and desire for revenge? It is a recipe for endless cycles of bloodletting, NOT gradual awakening.
Back to the 'Omega Option'. What if you, and anyone else who chooses, could take all that you have learned thus far on your personal journey and use it for a higher purpose? Wouldn't that purpose be to elevate collective humanity to a higher plane of awareness and existence such that what is happening in Gaza could never happen again, and the people choosing to commit the unspeakable crimes there could become incapable of even thinking of behaving in such a way ever again? Wouldn't that naturally be your choice? How could you choose to remain 'little old me' with maybe a dream or two of writing a novel or making a documentary while the tsunami of misery grows and grows and threatens to turn this very planet into Hell itself (which is where we are heading now, clearly)?
IF you had that option, to subsume all that wisdom and experience and strength that you have gained from being you into a grander - transpersonal - purpose, and sacrifice personal goals so that your journey's fruits (up until now) can be redirected toward saving humanity from its worst aspects, WOULDN'T you?
If the Omega Option exists, for you and every moment, is there a better time than now to exercise it? And is there a reason NOT to?

When I write "to subsume all that wisdom and experience and strength that you have gained from being you into a grander - transpersonal - purpose", I am not talking about abandoning any personal missions or relinquishing individualized identification. There may be some spiritual traditions that call for this, but this is not and could never be my approach.
I am saying, rather, that we can actually FULFILL our identity as an individual by bringing it, warts and all, along with us to our higher mission of awakening humanity and ending suffering. Everything that we have learned up to this point from both losses and triumphs can be put to good use.
The crucial point is that we go beyond 'personal' and enter into transpersonal. This is not 'transhumanism', as that is a distorted and delusional concept of using technology to move humanity forward. Transpersonal refers to recognizing oneself as more than just an individual, and rather an aspect of Collective Humankind. As from toe to foot to leg to body, we can extend body further to shared body, One human being made up of billions of individuals.
And that One human being is clearly struggling. There is no evidence that if all of us merely continue on our own journeys, spiritual or otherwise, that any evolutionary progress will be made. We cannot imagine that what is happening to the victims of Gaza, or going on in the minds of the victimizers, is all part of some grand divine plan that ultimately leads each one to enlightenment. How long must these cycles of violence continue? Thousands of years? Tens of thousands of years? How about never? As in, such cycles of violence and retribution can NEVER right themselves into a divine path. There must be an intevention.
Unless we come together as a collective force, we will not achieve a New Earth; there aren't enough billions of years in the universe otherwise, and anyway who has time for that when so much misery is unfolding every moment humanity fails to evolve?
So the greater mission, then, beyond any personal evolution, is awakening humanity to its divinity. NOW. We have gone around in circles, fooling ourselves that eventually we will pop out of that groove after a few more spins. Becoming 'enlightened' on a planet where for every enlightened person there are several hundred being tortured, thousands going hungry, and so on is about as useful as going to see a movie with a bag over your head.
IF a person here, a person there, becoming enlightened had any ameliorating impact, that would be one thing, but what evidence do we have for that? The New Age movement, Marianne Williamson, the 'Conversations With God' books and all that stuff has touched millions of lives, but what have they accomplished on a planetary scale? You don't have to think too hard about this. A genocide is unfolding before our very eyes, funded and propagandized for by the 'leaders of the free world'. Individual enlightenment-seeking, if it could do ANYTHING positive for the world, should have been able to do something about THIS, of all things.
But it hasn't, clearly. Because, ultimately, one person becoming enlightened is an oxymoron. The whole POINT of enlightenment is to connect oneself TRANSPERSONALLY to everyone and everything else. It is to see beyond the very illusion of exclusive identification as an individual. Once this happens, the appearance of individuality becomes an expression, no more and no less. In my own case, I no longer identify as Andy Boerger, but I use this personality I have honed and refined as my way of expressing. Since I have been an artist and writer for many years, this has actually not been difficult for me. 'Andy Boerger' is to me only somewhat different from a painting I create or an essay I write. My paintings and essays aren't 'me', but they EXPRESS me, just as my personality/body/mind does.
I no longer have any personal goals toward becoming enlightened. 'Andy Boerger' is as enlightened as he is ever going to get. Rather, I choose to abandon that project completely and subsume all of that into a greater cause, the Awakening of the Human Collective.
So, the Omega Option means choosing to subsume personal expression into the greater project of awakening the human collective and ending the current era of recklessness and rage.
Sounds easy, right?
First, let's consider what I am saying, which is that by exercising the Omega Option we align ourselves with the event of human awakening to the point of merging with it. This is the ultimate transpersonal action. And it may sound impossible from the start, because people can't become 'events', can they? We tend to think of events as having no agency, no real awareness, and having very little in common with human beings.
Let's consider a possible (though hardly hoped for) event, and let's make it a biggie: a massive eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera.
Now THAT'S an event! We tend to think of it in terms of what it would mean for biological beings that would be impacted by it. What would happen to the trees, the squirrels, the coyotes, the eagles, the humans, and so on. We don't imagine the event experiencing itself, we imagine it being experienced by millions, or billions, of life forms, each of them experiencing things more or less similarly to how we ourselves would. Panic, fear, pain, etc. The event happens without experiencing itself, and at some point it is over; history moves on.
That seems so different from the human experience, which we tend to picture as a narrative that unfolds over time. A personality is gradually acquired, it matures, it has numerous experiences including triumphs and defeats, it has a rich and intense inner life, etc. Thus, juxtaposing this with an event like a volcanic eruption, they seem to have nothing in common. And if we are convinced that our human experience IS us, then we probably neither desire to become an event or imagine it to be possible.
But that limits our effectiveness - our usefulness to humanity - because people tend to think only in terms of how they, as an individual, can contribute to a desired event. If that event is the election of a preferred candidate, they think in terms of the calls they can make, the donations they can make, the canvassing they can do, and finally that one vote among millions they can add. If the desired event is the awakening of the human collective, it is the same. People wonder how they, as one individual, can contribute to bringing it about. Typically, they will come up with answers such as 'be kind', 'meditate', 'read and share books with important messages', 'forgive those who have wronged me', 'follow my guru's guidance', and so on. Basically saying, 'I may just be one drop in a bucket, but I will try to be the best drop I can possibly be and hope that by doing so I can contribute somehow'.
Sadly, that holds out very little hope, and a glance at history reveals that it doesn't have much of a track record. We need to think bigger. And here's the thing: by thinking bigger we also learn a lot more about who and what we REALLY are.
The idea of 'becoming a (desired) event' is unusual, to be sure, so let's break it down. First, let's inject the perspective that the alternative is to imagine that we, as individuals, can merely CONTRIBUTE to a desired event or outcome through our deeds and words. Although certainly true, that places us in the position of being a mere drop in a bucket, which doesn't seem all that helpful when the fire is raging all around. And let's be clear: the fire IS raging all around. What is happening in Gaza, as well as this freakishly hot summer (and last year's, and almost certainly next year's) are clear indicators that we don't have a lot of time. Individual efforts are, sadly, not up to the task of bringing about massive change. The forces ~ basically Greed ~ that are resistant to our individual efforts are too entrenched, too equipped with the instrumentation and methodologies required to keep things from shifting in the face of grass roots movements and 'bold new candidates' etc.
We don't have enough time to bring about the required changes, and more importantly, there IS not enough time in the universe for that. Thus, we must BECOME the event, rather than merely contribute to it. You, me, everyone who feels the pull must extend beyond the illusion of individuality and embrace the idea of BEING the Great Awakening of the Human Collective.

Yet, we might think that a.) that's not possible, and b.) nor is it desirable, because events are just 'things'; they don't even know they are taking place. If those two concerns were adequately addressed, we might be convinced to exercise the Omega Option.
If someone presented you with the opportunity to trade places with The Big Bang, why wouldn't you? What could possibly be more attractive about being one tiny individual on one tiny planet for one tiny sliver of time than being the grand event that brought everything you are, PLUS everything else that is, into being? The answer is nothing, other than the idea that The Big Bang doesn't even know it happened, and you are aware of your life from moment to moment.
Put that aside, and it's a no brainer. You can trade little old you and your mere decades of life for the biggest thing that ever happened, which resulted in all things that exist existing, and is this very moment causing things to happen trillions of light years away that are beyond our ability to comprehend. Hell's Yes! Sign me up!
However, IF The Big Bang was completely unconscious, was merely a thing that happened without awareness, then we'd probably have to say, 'nah, I'll pass; I'm good as is'. We will take consciousness, even our own limited one, any day of the week.
But, how do we KNOW that events are unconscious? We don't; we simply imagine them to be because they seem so different from the only consciousness that we can comprehend ~ that belonging to biological life forms (and perhaps eventually the inventions of biological life forms such as AI).
If we can think outside that box, suddenly everything changes.
The question comes down to: who, and what, are you, really?
If you believe yourself to be a biological organism that experiences things purely through interactions of your brain and sensory apparatuses with the world around you, then the idea of changing over from 'me' to Event of Human Awakening is pretty much D.O.A., is it not?
With my writing, I continually emphasize the fact that you are so much more than that. You are an expression. Your biology is an expression. Your brain is an expression. Your five senses are expressions. Your thoughts and experiences are expressions, and so on.
Meanwhile, everything identifiable in your world, from news events to forest settings, from spouses and children to stellar nebulae, are also expressions. All of these are expressions of the One Elemental Consciousness that is doing the expressing. Everything and all of it, seeming to be unrelated but actually intimately connected by virtue of the fact that EVERYTHING derives from the same Source. And that Source is your TRUE 'identity', NOT the expression of individualized consciousness you appear to be.
With that knowledge, it becomes easier to bridge the seeming gap between human being and Event. Events are also expressions of Universal Consciousness. The Big Bang, The US Civil Rights Movement, the discovery of oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the first manned aircraft flight, etc. ALSO expressions.
And, as you are not the expression itself, but the One doing the expressing, and events such as those mentioned above are similarly not the expressions themselves but rather the One doing the expressing, your ability - as well as your right - to modify your expression seems apparent, does it not? If, at your core, you ARE Source, then what sort of limitations are placed upon your channels of expression? And by whom? Furthermore, at this point in history, what better way of expressing could there be for a human being than to become the event of human awakening? An event that can largely end suffering, end greed, end recklessness, end conflict, etc.?
This is the moment to choose that, by subsuming all that you are expressing as now into a larger purpose. You are familiar with the expression 'Be the change you want to see in the world'. From an outside-the-box perspective, what does that mean? Perhaps it goes beyond advising you to make your own meaningful individual contributions to change. Taken verbatim, it means 'become an event', exactly what I am saying. The 'change' we want to see in the world IS the Event of Human Awakening, is it not?
That is the Omega Option. Choose to become the event. The only step left to learn is……how? First, by embracing the ideas I have offered here. You might not, and that’s fine. They are unconventional, to say the least. However, if what I have written seems true to you and more importantly beneficial to others, then that is where to start. After that, it is a matter of focus and intent. I focus on this all the time! Every day, and often throughout each day, I take time to concentrate on outgrowing my personal identity and subsuming it into the collective, for the purpose of awakening the collective to its true nature. I have not stopped living my life. I haven’t stopped creating art, writing, teaching or anything else. There is no need to retreat to a cave. There IS a need to continually apply focus and intent, and not allow this idea to fade into just another passing fancy or idle daydream. I will not allow that, because of the importance of this to me. And I welcome you finding it to be important as well. Let’s awaken humanity by BEING that awakening. This nightmare has gone on long enough.