What If Our Crisis Is A Birth?

Anna Margolis
3 min readOct 27, 2020

In the wake of the Presidential race, I found myself sitting, imagining and feeling how witnessing that display would likely have left many feeling dumbstruck, bereft and terrified for the future of the US and of the world.

I was struck by how much of the process demonstrated the worst effects of “competition” on human beings.

And how it was almost impossible to discern the signal through all of the posturing and noise.

It struck me that fundamentally, as Daniel Schmachtenberger shares, the current political system, predicated on competition:

“𝑰𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓.”

But that’s not to say that there isn’t still value in what happened.

Or that it’s an indicator that there’s anything wrong or off track in our evolutionary process.

In fact, in recently feeling moved to revisit the work of Futurist and Evolutionary Pioneer Barbara Marx Hubbard, considered by many to be the grandmother of Conscious Evolution, I’m increasingly reassured that we’re slap bang in the midst of a collective birthing process.

For those of you who are familiar with the Gene Keys, Gene Key 3 speaks of how

“𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟.”

In the multiverse of infinite possibilities that we exist within, there’s a chance that the wider we open ourselves and surrender, the more we will learn that the seeming chaos is simply the natural birth contractions of a new higher order version of humanity.

Serendipitously, I received this quote from Thomas Hubl yesterday:

“𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐹𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠…

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Anna Margolis

As a former lawyer, Anna merges material world memories, tales of transformation and embodied experience in articulating the future of collaboration