What is emerging?

I'm in the third week of a unique online discussion group. Each week we watch one or two short thought provoking videos and spend the rest of the week in a conversation about the subject of those videos. One of the discussion questions for this week is, "What do you think/feel is trying to emerge now at this point in the human journey?" Here's my response to this question. Contemplating the question about what is trying to emerge right now, I was struck by the connection between the words "emerge" and "emergency". They both share a common source but they feel so different to me. I looked them up and found a couple of interesting ways these words can be used. Emerge can mean to become visible, to rise above the surface. Emergency can mean a situation demanding immediate action. How do we get from becoming aware that something is emerging to deciding we have an emergency? Perhaps our desire for change is matched by our resistance to it. Or maybe we move from desire to resistance depending on the circumstance and our ability to handle it. Sometimes our desire outweighs our resistance, sometimes it's the other way around. When we move from desiring change to resisting it, it feels like we're in an emergency. We want things to be "better" but somehow we feel fearful when things don't stay the same. It feels like an emergency, like we're in a situation demanding immediate action. We're experiencing increases in the rate of change - the rate of things emerging - and that feels like an emergency to many of us. David said in the video that our sense of wonder is the defining human trait. It would seem that we've created amazing extensions of our senses through the technology of video and the internet. Perhaps we've decided at some level below the surface of mass consciousness, that it's time to move to the next phase of our journey. Perhaps what's emerging is a combination of tangible connection through technology that is matched by an intangible connection through consciousness. The awareness that we truly are one is rising above the surface of consciousness in ways that can no longer be dismissed. At the same time, we're discovering that we are more unique than we could have ever imagined. I'm sure many people would feel such an emergence is an emergency. They feel fearful rather than celebrating our transition. We are the mother, the father, the new born, and the midwife - all at the same time! Maybe our part in all of this is simply to be present with it, feel and appreciate it all, and continue to hold the vision that everything is all right. -a- PS - you can get more information about this conversation at http://www.global-mindshift.org.