Ascension

A frequency shift in consciousness, scheduled planet-wide. Symptoms include ringing ears.

The channelers agree on the schedule if nothing else: the sun sneezes, the frequency lifts, and some portion of humanity graduates to a lighter arrangement of itself. Symptoms lists circulate like weather reports — ringing ears, 11:11, old souls tired in crowds. It is Christian rapture in yoga clothes, the critics say. It is the Great Solar Flash, the believers say, and the elites' bunkers suggest they've read the same channelings.