Drop your Assumptions now if not ever before

In case you haven't noticed, the world is completely different now, it has been for some time. It seems to have become common knowledge that we have reached a serious turning point in global consciousness. Everyone I've spoken to in the last year has at least heard something to the effect, although they may discount it as "some spinny 2012 appocalypse bullshit," and try to pin it on the fancies of old religious cranks or newage junkies, the thought has been through their minds.
[deep breath] So if you did notice that the world is changing, and a month or three ago you thought just briefly "did we just pass a hump?" Let me just be a person saying YES, we did. On this beautiful rainy night of the first full moon after Burning Man, IT IS OKAY for the world to be completely different from whatever it was two weeks ago. Our struggle of this moment is to drop our old assumptions, and accept that maybe the world has changed.

I have never read the Mayan calendar, I don't believe that any god is going to judge or smite myself or any other, unless they want to be smote, but I see every cat in my neighborhood carry the same hunch for a single day, and two days later I see the same smile trying to crawl out of everyone's face. I notice, and I do not disbelieve. I have never attended Burning Man, and perhaps I never will, but I have felt it every year. This year the effect was to be filled with such inspiration that I could write through my mind and not from it, and through my writing learn new things about myself and my surroundings. So in some ways this is a personal plea, to those who've noticed, I encourage you to accept it. Do not write it off this time, make this spike of global consciousness more of a plateau, let because without the planet thinking through me, I have trouble finding what I need to say.