Engineering a Global Transformation
by Howard Rosenberg • Brooklyn, NY

I began my professional life as a mechanical engineer. On my application to college, I wrote an essay on why I wanted to study engineering: “Engineers develop technologies that will solve the world’s problems, and I want to be part of the solution.” I honestly believed that with powerful enough technology, we humans could solve all of our problems and live happily ever after. Hah!

My life path taught me something so radically different, that we are now drowning in fancy technology while our world’s problems continue to get worse. Technology without love is dangerous, toxic, and often fatal.

Some people look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them that this is the best time ever to be alive. After all, what is there to be optimistic about? They say we are in huge crises: “The country is falling apart; the American dream is way out of reach. We have more and more unemployed people. Our failing education system has left the middle class unequipped to prosper in the global economy. Government debt is bankrupting our country; we are hamstrung by a corrupt, but legal, political system where corporate money drowns out citizen voices. We are committed in three wars, when we can’t afford even one. And the problems go on; unaffordable healthcare, threatening climate change, mass rapes in the Congo,…”

So when I am told we are in huge crises, I reply: No, this is not a crises, this is really only the end of an illusion; the illusion that we can live with an unsustainable economy based on pollution, excessive consumption, and cheap labor followed by the illusion that our astronomical defense spending can create peace and security while our country continues to be the world’s largest exporter of weapons, sold to countries who can least afford them.

This illusion has been shaped by our old consciousness, one we need to shed like a snake’s skin, as it no longer serves us. Our old snake-skin-consciousness informs us that we are a victim of circumstance; we are like hapless passengers, fearful strangers carrying weapons to protect ourselves from each other, on this sinking ship called life, sailing vicariously in shark infested waters through a storm of tragic events not of our making.

As we don our new silky skin consciousness, one that better serves us, we are now the empowered crew on a gorgeous yacht, sailing in an ocean of abundance, through crystal clear waters teaming with life. We each share our unique gifts with each other, whether they be in the arts, entertainment, cooking, healing, technical, navigation, or administrative; all of which combine to make the voyage one of joy, wonder and bliss. We care deeply for our fellow crew members because we fully realize that our fates are one and the same. When a storm hits we respond with skill, calmness, and confidence in our fellow crew and ourselves, knowing that we can persevere anything nature brings, because we are part of nature.

It is up to each one of us to discover, live, and share our own unique gifts. And to assist, we now have the global Internet that physically connects each and every one of us, and our gifts. The same Internet allows this change of consciousness to immediately influence entire countries and even the entire planet. The Internet has empowered humanity with a global brain. Actually, I may have been half right on my essay question. I really wanted to be a spiritual engineer! Yes, I am thrilled to be alive now, because for the first time in human history we have access to the complete spiritual and physical tools necessary for creating the world we desire. We now understand how our consciousness creates our thinking and how our thinking creates our reality through our actions.

Our challenge now is to transcend the obsolete and linear way of thinking from “What is the solution to our problems?” to “How do we evolve our consciousness to create the world we want?” When we try to resolve problems the old way, we are merely changing the effect without dealing with the underlying root cause, consciousness, and we naively shift the problem someplace else. For example, the more money our “healthcare” system pays to pharmaceutical companies for drugs, the more our health worsens and the more we bankrupt ourselves. While drugs may treat the symptoms of stressful and toxic living, only a loving higher consciousness will create true health. When we raise our consciousness, we change the cause, the main ingredient that will create the life and world we want.

Howard Rosenberg is a spiritual engineer committed to raising consciousness. His current projects are working with the 100,000 Voices campaign to bring together people from around the world to stand in solidarity with the victims of rape and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Other projects are deploying technologies to clean up mining pollution and bringing low-cost cell phone service to areas in need. He is a graduate of Stanford University, MIT… and has yet to graduate from the University of Life (current enrollment 6,955,713,152+).