Dunno how to answer you Rudy...the points you raise are possibly the nuts and bolts of the whole process...rather than a "floating in air" concept....so I see what you are saying.
How does the floating in air concept/idea/dream actually function in the face of individuals being involved....hmmmmm....no idea....
Maybe the answers to those pragmatic questions you ask on implementing a "dream" are foundational to it's success or failure and maybe they are not. So to me the real question relative to your questions is-if it truly will be a new civilisation with a new understanding are those types of questions even relevant?
If not....go to step 2....

So...
are they relevant questions....if so....let's try and answer 'em...
Gosia I should have said that the orange becomes a tree without having to die

Jen...there's heaps in what you described re: Underbelly/Yogananda....maybe we can all explore that as well...there's a kinda impossible-to-reconcile contradiction-thingy there eh? Bit like trying to meditate on Love while polishing your gun...
In an earlier post I said
Now...there's a lil twist to this it seems when it comes to our little neck of the woods (our planet).
as far as gaining the type of enlightenment I'm describing goes, so I'd like to adress that now.
Keep in mind that this is only a developing understanding on my part and I've started to come to these views after many years of trying to understand 'what's really going on" and why. If I started quoting references from sources it would take me a month (more like 6 months) to compile it so I'm not going there. At any rate this is only my (still tentatively evolving) attempt at trying to understand who we are..and why we are here...and how the fudge we have ended up in the mess we appear to be in.
That said...some things are starting to make a lot of sense to me.
When whoever or whatever created this universe they did it for a reason. To believe we are the only beings who inhabit this universe becomes increasingly absurd the more you look into it. A plan was in place and many civilisations beyond Earth it seems achieved the original plan. Remember that Earth is pretty much out in the boondocks when it comes to physical position within the Universe.
It's a big place....this Universe...
When the Universe was created also were created non-physical (some say physical-but not bound by physical reality) beings with free will who's task was to help the evolution of physically created beings towards the fulfillment of the ulimate plan of the creator(s).
Within the created Universe of polarities there were certain "negative energy" places
they were instructed not to go near. Of course one group of them did and set off a chain of events that changed the course and original purpose of the Universe. Whether or not the creator(s) were aware of that eventuality beforehand...who knows...
Long story short the group who had willingly exposed themselves to the negative energies underwent a bit of a personality change and started a war against not only the evolving and fully evolved created
physical plane beings but against their own kind.
There's a
lot of evidence still on this planet to make the following believable.
Fleeing the carnage being caused by the now bad-guy beings some of the good-guy beings found Earth and settled here hoping that the bad guys wouldn't find 'em out in the boondocks..
Each populated planet undergoes it's own process of evolution and it takes billions of years (a blink of an eye in cosmic time) before the beings on that planet have evolved enough for the tasked beings to assist them in their final stages of evolution. So when this crew found Earth we were still undergoing the process of evolution.
'Nother long story short these guys accelerated our evolution by mixing
their DNA with ours
and with the clay of the Earth. If ya think clay is just "dirt" read Lyall Watson's "Supernature". It's for that reason that Earth is considered a truly unique jewel in the Universe by "others" and some it seems even call us "royalty" because of it.
There is plenty of evidence still on Earth to explain all this and much more.
In light of this understanding a lot of scriptural texts start to make some sense....but keep in mind that most have been deliberately altered (usually by omissions).
Advanced civilisations thrived on Earth for (well a long time) until...the bad-guys turned up.
Then the clay really hit the fan. A war ensued and two continents were sunk (maps of the ocean floor between Australia and the Americas reveal them clearly). The good guys exited stage left
with a promise to return.
The bad guys...stayed. Now...the bad guys ain't overly-fond of we humans....in fact they despise us because they have lost forever (not quite, but that's another story) the priviledged position they were in....and the
last thing they want to see is "us"....Enlightened. So that "war" is on two levels...maybe more than two but anyway.
It is the birthright of every son and daughter of the creator(s) to attain enlightenment. The type of enlightenemnt I have attempted to describe in this thread, which culminates in a face to face "meeting" with our very creator.
Being marooned here now it seems...the bad guys operate on a physical level to cause (well look around you) all sorts of strife,
and on an astral level "above" ours .Their aim is to enslave man...particularly spiritually...at the level of the soul. They also use many humans for their own amusement.
I understand if all this is a bit hard to swallow

But in reality it is no laughing matter.
The good news is that this situation will not be allowed to continue. And it is...it seems...this very time...rapidly approaching....when intervention will occur. The intervention has become necessary because our very evolution as a race was interfered with....both positively and negatively.
So..we are indeed it seems....unique in the created Universe.
John