The Great Split: When Evolution Becomes a Choice

Something is happening. And if you're even a little awake, you feel it.

Maybe you don’t have the words for it yet, but the tension is unmistakable: People are getting louder, more hostile, more irrational, crueler, more afraid, and the divide is growing starker by the day. The world feels like it's splitting in two, and that’s because it is.

Because what we are all witnessing is the truth that we’re living through a neurological and spiritual fork in the road. One group of people is choosing coherence, while the other is doubling down on distortion. It’s playing out in real time, and one path leads to evolution, and the other to collapse.

At the root of this split is the brain itself. More specifically, the battle between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.

The amygdala is the oldest part of the brain. It’s our ancient fear center, wired for survival, control, reactivity, and tribalism. It thrives on loops of scarcity, dominance, us vs. them thinking, and emotional hijacking, making it, and those stuck operating within it, highly susceptible to disinformation and manipulation.

Basically, when the amygdala is in charge, everything becomes a threat. Everything is “us vs. them.” Just take a look at the current state of affairs, not just in the United States, but across the globe; it’s pretty clear who those individuals are who are trapped in the hypervigilant threat state of their amygdala.

For centuries of human evolution, the amygdala served a valuable purpose. But now, it’s become a prison, and far too many people are still trapped inside of it, clinging to outdated models of power, authority, and worth when we are all being forced to choose: evolution of our brain and our consciousness, or entropy through stagnation and, ultimately, collapse. And yes, forced not asked, because evolution waits for no one.

The prefrontal cortex, by contrast, is the seat of higher-order consciousness: Empathy, love, compassion, understanding, imagination, self-reflection, self-awareness, and unity. It’s the part of us that can evolve beyond instinct into wisdom.

But here’s the catch: To access it, you have to choose growth over fear. You have to choose to evolve, and as we can see on a global stage, not everyone is willing to evolve, especially not those who have made billions off the old, yet dying, paradigms of extraction and subjugation. Those individuals who would gladly force people of color back onto fields and own slaves if they were allowed. But I digress.

Yet here’s the truth no one wants to admit: Evolution of consciousness, while rooted in the brain, is not automatic. It’s a choice. And some people are actively refusing it.

This isn’t hypothetical, it’s unfolding right now in plain sight. Just look at what happened at the University of Florida:

A University of Florida law student, Preston Damsky, openly identifies as a white nationalist and Nazi. He wrote a paper arguing that the Constitution only applies to white people, including proposals to revoke voting rights for non‑whites and authorize “shoot‑to‑kill” orders at the border. Instead of condemnation, he was awarded the seminar’s top prize and the highest grade by Trump‑appointed federal judge, John Badalamenti. Even the university defended the decision under the guise of “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” 

This isn’t just an individual with extremist views. This is a broken, rotten system rewarding dehumanization and upholding amygdala-level distortion as if it’s an academic triumph. It’s institutional distortion—a system-level example of how the limbic brain is hijacking even our cultural and educational institutions.

What does this show us?

·         Systems once designed to uplift are now rewarding distortion, not accountability.

·         Dehumanization isn’t fringe, it’s being endorsed and validated by authority.

·         The amygdala-driven mechanisms of fear, supremacy, and tribalism aren’t just personal, they’re institutional.

Let’s be clear: You cannot empathize with, or show love or compassion for, someone you’ve dehumanized. Furthermore, people who don’t see other people as human, can’t feel empathy. And you cannot evolve while clinging to supremacy, because without empathy, your evolution halts, and the amygdala takes full control.

This is what it looks like when systems collapse from the inside, when they’re run by brains stuck in survival, fear, and scarcity loops.

Read the full article here:

Trump Judge Gave Jew-Hating Neo-Nazi Coveted Academic Prize (The Daily Beast)

As divisive and overwhelming as everything is currently, take comfort in the reality that not everyone is choosing that path. There are those of us who are choosing coherence instead of collapse, choosing love and evolution instead of fear and entropy. We may be quiet, grounded and resolute, but make no mistake: we are growing in number by the day, letting the prefrontal cortex lead.

I won’t blow any smoke: it’s hard. Stagnation is easy; it requires nothing and no actual brain power to stay rooted in the old ways of doing things, othering people, choosing anger and violence and subjugation. Evolution takes true strength and courage, self-awareness, love and empathy and the choice to make the unconscious conscious.

And when enough of us stabilize that frequency, we become the map for those who are still lost in the storm. We’re not here to save those who refuse to evolve. We’re here to become so fully evolved ourselves that we cannot be pulled back down, and the old, outdated paradigms of fear, extraction, control, greed and domination collapse around us.

It may be unnerving, or even scary, but let the split happen. Let the collapse come. But do not collapse with it. Just breathe, feel, and lead by frequency.

Here are some reflective questions that have helped me throughout this process:

1)      Where in your own life are you still letting fear make your decisions?

2)      Can you feel the difference in your body when you lead from love instead of reaction?

3)      Are you willing to evolve, even if others around you choose not to?

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