"Our ecological devastations and--more significantly--our collective desecration of all that is sacred are polluting the spiritual energy of life itself. Through our self-centeredness we are poisoning the spiritual lifeblood of the Earth such that the situation has become almost irreversible.
When the collective forgetfulness of humanity reaches a certain point, then humanity reverts to an earlier stage in its evolution. We see indications of this regression already in our collective greed for material possessions that have no spiritual purpose--that do not really nourish us. We are reverting to isolationism and a tribal sense of self-preservation. Yet this survival instinct is not founded upon any real need but upon the sense of a loss of a way of life, and an underlying anxiety that our culture's promises of continued prosperity may be false. A fundamental sacred purpose to life is being buried under all this debris. Soon it will be lost to our collective consciousness, and humanity will have regressed to a less spiritually developed stage. The signs of this are all around us, especially in the West, but they are obscured by the glitter of our possessions, by the toys of our technological development. But what is the purpose of all this outer development if the music of the soul is lost, if the spiritual purpose of life is forgotten?"...
"The awakening of the light of the world is an opportunity for us to reverse this cycle of forgetfulness and remember why we are here...When the light of the world awakens in us, we can begin to redeem what has been desecrated and empower the whole of humanity to take the next step in its evolution. Without this light we cannot see where we are going or the work that needs to be done....With the light of the world there will also be dangers. An individual participating in this work might not fully acknowledge that this light is for the whole and could take the light of the world for his(her) own. Individuals or groups might try to use the light for their own purposes, even with good intentions, not recognizing or respecting the much bigger process in which they are participating. As the vibration of this light is very specifically designed for its real purpose, it only works properly in service to the whole, as a part of the organic wholeness of life. If it is misused, it can become destructive. This energy is the whole of life, recreating itself from the highest level. It cannot be beneficially used for any other purpose."
--Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Alchemy of Light