Although all soul ages are represented on this planet, it is populated mostly with late-level young souls and early-level mature souls. The time is ripe for many of the souls here to change levels in their soul perception. As the shift progresses, many of those late young souls will move into mature perceptivity. When a majority of the planet is populated with mature souls, the shift will be complete.

Many essences agreed to undergo an instinctive center re‑evaluation in 1984, a year of significant shift. This is a process that you undertake every 10 to 20 lifetimes. In it you examine your patterns on an instinctive (unconscious mind) level, and your essence makes decisions that will affect how it will alter those patterns in the future. The instinctive re‑evaluation undergone by many people on the planet in that year will speed up the planetary shift in upcoming years, when those new patterns begin to manifest themselves.

The Harmonic Convergence of August 1987 marked the point in history when mature soul consciousness began to have more planet-wide acceptance than the young soul point of view. Since that date there have been more mature souls than young souls on the planet. Although it is impossible to predict exactly how this shift will manifest, it is certain to continue with great intensity during the coming decades of the 21st century. Accordingly, over the next few centuries, civilizations will begin to adapt to their new perceptivity levels.

Because a planetary shift is such an interesting phenomenon, many souls wish to be here on the physical plane at this time in order to experience and facilitate it. That is one of the reasons for the population boom in recent times. A second reason of great interest is that the infinite soul is likely to manifest in the near future in order to guide the planet in its shift. There are many opportunities for spiritual advancement during this time, and souls wish to be here to experience that growth.

Because most areas of the world are populated with young souls, the predominant cultures are structured and imprinted according to young-soul values. Young souls value success and competency over the emotional or spiritual areas. They also see the world from the point of view of a black‑and‑white, good‑and‑bad, right‑or‑wrong mentality. This mentality is easily viewed in the predominant political systems. Most of television and mass media also reinforce this young-soul perception. Because people are strongly imprinted by their parents and their culture, older souls have a hard time manifesting at their appropriate soul perceptions and tend to become stuck at early levels.

Those late-level young souls who are approaching mature perceptivity will vary between trying to see themselves as right and at the same time feeling that those strangers over there are also recognizable human beings like themselves who deserve to be treated as such. So it is a painful transition as the world opens itself to being more emotionally connected and begins to drop old authority patterns of "might equals right." These changes will be reflected in government and economic structures, in the basic values of civilizations, and in changing social structures and family relationships. Mature souls also deal with each other on a group level, rather than from a sole authority, so mature-soul governments and businesses will organize themselves around group structures rather than hierarchies of authority.

While a majority of souls are shifting from young to mature, souls at other levels will also shift to higher perceptions. So, infant souls will be moving to baby, and those primitive areas of the world in which infant souls tend to congregate will be civilizing themselves into more structured societies. Baby souls will be moving to young, and structured societies will be becoming more independent, productive, and materialistic. Those who are already mature will find the world a more comfortable place in which to experience mature perceptivity, as this way will be more respected. Some of those mature souls will move to old, where they will learn to detach from the physical plane and begin to teach what they have learned here to others.

Around the end of the century, no more infant souls will come to the planet to begin their cycle here. Eventually, those infants already on the planet will mature and more old souls will cycle off the planet, having completed their physical- plane lessons. At some point in human development, probably a few hundred years from now, we will begin to make contact with and relate to other sentient beings from other planets—extraterrestials. What is required for extraterrestials to be in contact with us (there are many who visit the planet "on the sly" now) is for humans to have advanced enough to not want to kill and/or dissect the first extraterrestials we meet. Humans would need to be less aggressive, so we will probably be mid‑mature cycle before that happens. We would also need to be more technologically advanced in case we run into a more aggressive extraterrestials.

Toward the end of the cycle, there will be mostly old souls remaining and the planet will move to old-soul perceptivity. At that time, the planet will begin to take a more metaphysical attitude toward life. People will learn to develop those powers and psychic abilities that currently are not widely accepted and that they learn as children to repress.

It will be at least 6,000 years before the last old-soul humans cycle off. That is a relatively short amount of time, considering the first infant-soul humans were seeded on this planet over 6 million years ago. There is a geometric progression in the spiritual development of the human race because of the influence of the vast quantity of older souls on the younger souls. When the last human has completed her lives on the physical plane, the use of this planet by humans is then complete. The planet can then be used by other sentient creatures who have either developed here or who have been seeded here from some other planet, if that is desired.