Welcome to olotila.net!

I'm Jyri, a 35-years old guy from Helsinki, Finland. I set olotila.net up around April 2007, after experiencing a sudden and totally unexpected `awakening'. Up until then my life had been more or less of a mess; I had huge problems with my self-esteem and was kind of manic, so I was constantly in some kind of trouble with myself, with my finances, and with my relationships. That was also the situation in March 2007, when one evening I just suddenly began feeling the presence of some kind of energy. It felt like consciousness, self-aware and connected to `my' consciousness. I intuitively started calling it collective consciousness. I soon found out about the Global Consciousness Project and many similar initiatives, and found a lot of people who seemed to be talking about the same kind of ideas that had `magically' come to me as intuitive thoughts, during and after this first, sudden confrontation with a living noosphere.

More of these experiences followed soon, as well as many crazy and beautiful magical moments in forms of endless chains of synchronicities. For me, everything changed completely in a very short amount of time. I began seeing myself, other people and the whole thing called reality in a totally different light. Most of my problems just kind of disappeared, and those remaining have become much easier to live with. It was and is a life-changing experience, which could be considered `spiritual' in nature -- even though I like not to call it anything, as all terms mean so completely different things to different people, and often raise lots of strong prejudices.

I established olotila.net in the hope that it would help people and organizations, interested in different aspects of `collective consciousness', `global awakening', quantum physics and so on to get networked. Olotila.net is promoting a very broad-minded view of all of this; it can be called anything, it can be seen as spiritual, religious or scientific phenomena -- to me the most important thing is to see as big picture as possible, see the interconnectedness and totality of whatever it is we call it. It goes way beyond any particular tradition or name.

I'll quote an excellent writing which summarizes what I think is happening much better than I ever could:

Truth is eternal, yet unfolding. Unchanging, it assumes ten thousand guises. Its form varies in order to speak to a given age and its people. Indeed each one of us needs to find the truth that is ours, what works for us if we are to achieve the life we wish to have..

Every age creates the forms of truth by which those of us who create that age will live. The crucial variable is the extent to which awareness comes to recognize, experience, and live the truth that is most evolutionary on both individual and collective levels. The number and degree to which individuals are conscious of any portion of such truth, are able to align their truth with eternal truth, has varied enormously throughout history. When many individuals recognize the truth of their being and the nature of life itself, the world witnesses periods of incredible spiritual advance…a transformation, an awakening.

We live in such an age. Perhaps never before have so many people come to understand the truth of life to such an extent as is occurring at this very moment. We are living in the midst of what may be our histories grandest spiritual awakening, the beginning of an era of astonishing spiritual progress. We are, in fact, not only participating in, but creating this spiritual awakening from within ourselves. Such spiritual progress will, as it turns out, be the factor that solves the social, political, economic, environmental problems that vex humanity.

This global spiritual awakening, it can be argued, is an inevitable event in human history… an event whose time has simply come. A strong case can be made that this spiritual awakening is a logical outcome of the evolutionary process of life. The inference is that evolution is a process that works toward enhanced spirituality achieved by means of expanded consciousness on both the individual and collective levels. A central tenet of this spiritual awakening is the understanding that evolution takes the form of expanded consciousness, and through this expanded consciousness can be channeled to yet further expand consciousness. The result is greater love of our selves and our fellows coupled with the unselfish desire to be of service to others. In this way world peace and prosperity for all will be achieved.

In terms of consciousness, evolution is a cybernetic, creative, self-referent, self-interactive, self-organizing system that builds upon its own inner nature to move onward with constantly greater impact, more rapidly, more deeply, more persuasively, and more beneficially…unfolding, infolding, expanding, and all inclusive. As the individual rises to new heights of awareness and joins others in this enterprise, that awareness spreads beyond even those "consciously" participating to become part of the fabric of the consciousness of the whole.

The evolution of this awakening can be traced through the ages, through the evolution of our world from geosphere to biosphere to noosphere, in the advances of modern physics from Newton to Quantum Field Theory, in the evolving theories of complexity, in the growing convergence between religion and science, and between the philosophies of the East and the West

In our time, this global spiritual awakening, manifesting in ten thousand forms, has come full term. As a result we are discovering a new and deeper understanding of God, of ourselves, of the relationship between God and ourselves, of life, of death, of spirituality, and enlightenment. We are developing new values and models based upon those values for our social, political, economic, religious, and cultural institutions. We are reinventing ourselves and our world.

This global spiritual awakening is culminating now in a revolutionary experience of our selves, our collective consciousness, and our destiny. We are creating a true Age of Enlightenment. The advent of this Age of Enlightenment depends upon our collective choices. Let us choose together to bring this global spiritual awakening to fruition always remembering that we ever stand at the beginning. Our journey is an adventure without end leading to more and more happiness and fulfillment.

Source: GlobalSpiritualAwakening.org

Olotila.net is my humble contribution to the attempt to raise people's awareness of themselves, of other people, and of the whole reality. Terms such as awakening, enlightenment, flow, collective consciousness etc. are related to the issue I'm writing about, but they should not be understood in any limited, canonized way.

Basically all content at olotila.net is in Finnish, but please join our discussion forum! You can write in English; most people participating in the discussions can read and write English quite well.

The link collection of olotila.net lists a number of English web sites talking about the same ideas I am. I would like to especially recommend three of them:

• GlobalSpiritualAwakening.org
• Collective Wisdom Initiative
• Duane Elgin's site Awakening Earth

You can contact me directly by sending e-mail to jyri@olotila.net. I would love to hear from you, so please send even just a short greeting and tell a little about yourself if you have any thoughts regarding the issues I have tried to describe above.

Hoping to hear from you soon!

Peace & love!

- Jyri