“Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations…” and “It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else” C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self.
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed.
Humanity is a species that thrives on social connection. When positive it promotes unity and equity, but it also allows dark forces to control it when it when lets its guard down. When we lived in fear, we lived lives of fear in all its forms continuously. Fear serves a survival purpose but it was only meant to be a short-term metabolic mechanism to escape from true immediate threats (e.g. the Saber-Toothed Tiger). Continuous fear all the time creates unlimited stress that allows manipulation, and causes immense health problems over time – we lived from the reptilian brain and minimized the mammalian brain (see How the Control Happens parts 1 and 2 {January 2018} and, Becoming different – Part 1: Moving past Victimhood {May 2022}). “Most [people] lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them” Henry David Thoreau.
So what is different now in 2112? Interconnectedness and we live for life and to just BE. Many people before the Great Change (GC) would have understood this readily, but for the majority of humanity, this would have seemed non-sensical. They lived in the past from memory and projected into the future, rarely living in the moment except when things were just right. Living from memories of the past puts one in a state of anxiety and fear, since most memories are recollection of hurts and traumas of varying degrees, too many just projected such problems into their future events and actions, making them self-fulfilling projections from the fears of the ego-self. Even positive memories are clung onto as islands within the psyche of the egoic need to control outcomes.
So long ago, but I recall the thinking of that time. Our thoughts and beliefs shape how we view life, as victim or master of our lives. Our young ones have a hard time fathoming the thinking of the pre-GC. We no longer have business models driving our lives. Being successful is not based on some arbitrary monetary system. The old beliefs could not coexist with our new ways of thinking. The old foundations of societal structure were crumbling, as was evidenced by all the chaos at all levels in our local and global societies under the old regimes of power, control and money making. The very notion of a profit-driven economic system also collapsed under its own misguided beliefs. We could have gone the totalitarian AI route, but fortunately we knew we couldn’t go that way any longer.
While some pockets of the old beliefs carried on for a few years in dystopian enclaves all over the world, they eventually collapsed as the members saw how the transition (The Great Change) was occurring elsewhere and creating a better world. We still have businesses, but success is measured by the benefits that accrue to the communities, not profits to shareholders. In 2112, we live by the principle that all life is a stakeholder and so everything is closely scrutinized whether it helps life or not. Most businesses are cooperatives so everyone benefits by how much input they give.
The new mindset for Medicine that began around 2026 utilized the best of allopathic medicine (mostly surgery and trauma treatment) and the best of holistic medicine that includes mushrooms natural plant medicines in which negative side-effects are no longer tolerated. Our healthcare is seen as a lifelong process of health management through diet and well rested interventions as needed. I do have to have to note that it is all non-profit and yet we are all healthy. There are still genetic diseases and other inborn metabolic errors but all is managed for the maximum benefit of the individuals.
The growing exponential problems of the monetarily wealthy and corporate privatization of public domain no longer exists. A problem for most of history was wealthy individuals buying up land and resources that belonged to the villages and their inhabitants. This created untold hardships for centuries. In the early twenty first century, it had risen to ridiculous levels where huge corporations from countries around the world would swoop in and purchase village land, from corrupt politicians, in remote areas and alienate, or worse, enslave, the people to farm and mine resources from which the locals did not benefit. And it wasn’t just remote areas. Whole countries and regions like the economic union were subject to the economic whims of financiers and uber-rich, like the infamous Klaus Schwab, and the insidious Bill Gates, front people for the global Cabal.
In retrospect, we now realize just how lucky we were that these economic forces were so obvious in what they were doing. It had all been under the sensors before 2020, but became a call to action for people all over the world during the Covid era shenanigans. Not revolutionary action of course but what my father called global civic-disobedience, using peaceful tactics and actions. The greatest action was being able to disregard the hierarchy and set up local and regional parallel societies (e.g. see Creating Sustainable Communities part 9 {November 2022}). Once we freed ourselves of the controlling economic regime we were also free to make decisions on how best our new communities could thrive. In short, money became a tool and not a master of all our lives.
It seems that in talking about the GC to sustainable living that I’m always going back to the concept of sovereignty. But that is the linchpin of the GC. Before that time we were slaves to a uncaring system and most didn’t even know it. Indeed, the Cabal had planned so well to hoodwink us, we had become almost euphoric participants in our own enslavement and worse, the genocide that reduced the population so quickly (e.g., see Espe part 7 {January 2023}). Once we found (I suppose you could say regained) our individual and collective power we quickly transformed ourselves and our actions towards the planet. I am still grateful to be able to write this story of the GC, but am always keenly aware of needing to remind our global society just how close we came from being bamboozled and seduced into accepting a global totalitarian system.
As a way of understanding human consciousness evolution, we, as a collective species, needed those millennia to learn – our collective karmic path. Before we could find what we truly wanted and needed, we had to follow a dark path to finally find the light. As the Tolkien character, Samwise Gamgee expresses in LOTR, “It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was [many millennia ago when humanity was free] when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for” J.R.R. Tolkien
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