Christine Anderson and Claudia (a/ka/ Karelia) run the earthempaths.net website, and hosted this conversation which grew out of discussions we had about where humankind is headed in this "compression cycle" (eye of the needle) epoch. Words are sometimes limited as to how to convey what we are facing---the breakdown of our duality-based reality; the convergence of seemingly warring factions of the collective consciousness towards a completely new paradigm---or---a logical split in the race.