I have theory on all this...
Perhaps all this extrordinary phenomonon that is starting to unfold (what you have referred to as the shift)...is being "leaked" (for lack of a better term)...to prepare us for what *is* beginning to happen.....slowly allowing the people to get used to the idea.
I wonder if some of the better known debunkers feed us dis-information so we can *safely* absorb these incrediblilities...not have it force fed to us. [Questioning the phenomonons , but all the while...it is making an impression...a lasting one.]...allowing us to take it all in one step at a time....so we can mentally handle it.
It could/would never work any other way.