“Mindfulness isn’t difficult. We just need to remember to do it” Sharon Saltzberg
In the last post I talked about choice as the way to create personal, social, and ecological freedom. I want you to think for a minute now about the one singular factor that controls much of the reasoning behind nearly everyone’s choices in the modern world. It is money (finances). The more choices you have the more freedom you have! Increasingly over the past many decades, that freedom has more and more been controlled by your financial situation. But, the kicker here, is that even as you gain more money, your freedom to choose a better life has been more constricted as you get hooked on a consumer treadmill with debt being the chains for so many that keep you trapped on that treadmill. Debt or simply the fear of losing what you do have is the master of most of your choices. The illusion that your life is presently OK, coupled with the fear of losing what material stuff you do have, is the reason that so many billions of people will accept the ecological collapse that is coming.
This fear is perpetuated even more as those, who think they have some wealth, see that there are nearly a billion people around the world who live in desperate abject poverty (less than $2 a day) with little hope of ever getting out of this state. The problem is that while they may have been ‘poor’ (this term only exists in a world run by money) before the modern world fell on them, they were originally a self-sufficient group with a wealth of well-being (see my early blog posts, e.g. Economics and Well-Being 1). I have mentioned this word fear often as the biggest problem we have. This isn’t the rational fear like when a wild animal threatens you for instance but that gnawing irrational deep fear that feeds anxiety and creates worry. The insane fear of change is yet another layer that merely adds to the anxiety, yet change is the only constant in our lives. Change can be beneficial or detrimental (note I avoid the judgmental good or bad terms). What is beneficial is what helps life thrive. What is detrimental is what diminishes life – and here I mean all life and not just humanity.
I want you to seriously look at this world and really consider what we do that helps life overall thrive or diminish? Silly question really. Our lifestyle and technological choices are the primary causes of coming ecological collapse. Most of our choices are ‘mind-less’ and the solutions that work will simply be ‘mind-full’ (metacognitive) – that is we simply consider every aspect of our lives and technologies and weigh the options ‘mindfully’ for those that help life thrive. We then make the ‘mind-full’ choices to ensure that we support only those decisions that support life now, and into the future, recognizing the consequences of ‘mind-less’ choices. I have talked at length about this idea in this blog e.g. Getting to Transformation 1 – Choosing Wisely – the path of a spiritual warrior.
We have become conditioned to be passive accepters of ‘what is’ rather than empowering ourselves to create ‘what can be.’ There is an agenda to have the world controlled by a single government with corporations and the ultra-elite (the Cabal) dominating our lives and our thinking. We, the rest of the 99%, ‘choose’ to give them permission to do so through our apathy and acquiescence to the ‘mind-less’ consumer worldview.
We love to complain and scapegoat the ‘powers-that-be’ that we see are responsible for ruining the planet and our lives. But as long as we scapegoat and refuse to acknowledge our own choices that perpetuate what we do not like there can be no change. The odd contradiction that we fear change but at the same time want a better world that demands change, we will remain sheeple to the current system that wants to control us. Our true freedom is in us deciding on the right thing to do and then beginning to decide on the right way to do it!
What I have been observing during the past decade is how often the members of the Cabal (e.g. just look up Koch industries, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, or anything concerning the Rothchild’s or Rockefeller’s) to see how they are now funding both the industries that pollute and ruin the natural world and also the environmental think-tanks that supposedly debate and even seem to fund the stop-gap solutions. An insightful comment from a New Yorker magazine Journalist, Jane Mayer, “For the one percent to win America (and the world) they have started to rebrand themselves as the champion of the 99%.”
We need to stop listening to Cabal controlled governments and start to demand our own voices be heard. We need to stop listening to Cabal controlled governments and start to demand our own voices be heard. If you haven’t seen the AVAAZ site yet, I recommend it (https://secure.avaaz.org/page/en/). We are being fed so much propaganda and bullshit (and that includes the Covid-19 debacle) by the corporate controlled mainstream media we no longer recognize truth from fiction. I love this 1981 disclosure quote attributed to CIA director, William Casey, by Barbara Honniger, White House policy analyst, “We will know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” The active disinformation campaigns have been going on for decades and to disengage from them requires you choose to think more mind-fully and search other reliable sources of information.
It is a whole lot more than simply deciding whether your coffee is fair-trade or served in a recyclable/reusable cup. It is about taking responsibility for your own life and making choices that serve life, helping it thrive and grow. A couple of readers have asked that I talk a little more about how the current system undermines life, so more about core sustainability issues and technology aspects coming up next.
“Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.” Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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