“The proper way to fix the world isn’t to fix the world. There’s no reason to assume that you are even up to such a task. But you can fix yourself. You’ll do no one any harm by doing so, and in that manner at least, you will make the world a better place” Jordan Peterson.
Back in the 1990s, during one of my talks at an environmental conference, I was asked about my aspirations in saving the world from environmental disaster. I said, “I’m not going to try and save the world, it has done well without humanity for all of its existence. I want to try and save humanity from itself, and thereby make the world a better place.” As I have said many, many, times. Technology will help us, but the solution is changing how we think to a more spiritual connectivity and then using appropriate technology from that new perspective.
“The character of your soul is created by your thoughts, so make sure they are virtuous and pure” Marcus Aurelius. The way to change the world is to change your heart vibration – to be heartfelt – to be kind. Not everyone has to be a frontline activist against all the apparent evil in the world. But everyone needs to be the center of their own heartfelt world. Dwelling about fear all day robs you of your connection to life.
I ponder why so many affluent people use recreational drugs that keep the drug cartels and law enforcement so busy, and also the numbers in prison around the world (the U.S. being particularly bad about this). If there was no demand there would be no need to ruin so many lives with the mayhem of trying to stop the flow of these kinds of drugs. (I won’t even go to the problems of the legal drugs from Big Pharma in this post.) I know, a simplistic look for sure, but a simple observation of a major social problem of the materialistic-consumer mindset. This topic alone could be the basis for a whole blog of its own and not one I want to spent any more time discussing. The point I wish to impart here, and have done throughout this blog, is that our worldviews and mindsets determine everything we do and how we view the world. Recreational drug use is a symptom of lower consciousness – it is one of the Ego that is focused on the self. If we can elevate our consciousness then we begin to elevate our heart-centered-focus and change our worldview to one that elevates life. Life is about now. Too many live with fear derived from past traumatic occurrences creating personal trauma, which is then projected as fears into imagined futures. Trauma is not what happens to you, but what you hold unresolved deep inside yourself. There is only now. Time to heal and release those traumas. They are just memories and are no longer real, but the ego likes to perpetuate the trauma as a part of its self-defense mechanisms.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of the words, you can control the people who must use the words” Philip K. Dick. People addicted to the mainstream news are addicted to the fear generated by the words used in those systems and hence relive traumas real and imagined. How words are interpreted is critical in understanding how we change our focus (see links Framing for Positive Communication and Interactions- How language creates our thoughts and frames our behaviors and well-being {August 2018}) and, Coming Back Into Our Sovereignty – Part 5: Strict or Nurturing Belief Models {April 2021}).
Anger at the system must also be channeled differently. We have been conditioned to rebel through aggression, which merely promotes more aggression that also creates more fear. Fear is the tool of the hierarchies. Until we use a different tool, like compassion and Love, we will always play into their hands. “When you allow anyone to anger you and you respond in a defensive angry manner you are allowing that person to occupy your mind and your emotions. The best defense is no defense and to deflect the attention back to them somehow and regain control over your emotions. You give them your power by being angry. Keep Calm – Stay Calm. Don’t respond to them the way they expect you to. Treat them like they have good sense anyway and maybe one day they will. You can’t change them. But you can change how you interact with them. Keep your cool” Carol Lashley.
Psychopaths are about 1-4% of the global human population, but currently represent about 12–30% within governments and corporate power structures – that alone should tell you the problem. For example, who is controlling the WHO? An update about the WHO and its pandemic treaty recently came from British politician, Andrew Bridgen M.P., talking to the European Union parliament recently. Psychologist, Robert Hare, has some advice on dealing with these predatory animals. Some extreme psychopaths are criminally violent, but most mainstream psychopaths engage in manipulation of others for their selfish needs. Most of us live by our consciences, but psychopaths have no conscience and lack empathy or any sense of guilt. They are incapable of feeling love, friendship, or emotional connection. Other people are just things they use to fuel their egos and desires, and any negative consequences to us are irrelevant to them.
“The most seductive stimulant for a psychopath is power.” And these are the people we have inadvertently elevated to the hierarchy and that now control it, and by default, us and the natural world. You cannot ‘cure’ psychopathy – it seems genetic. Since psychopaths act rational and are usually quite charming on the surface, one thing that helps in recognizing them is seeing their unbridled confidence, entitlement, and extreme sense of self-importance at whatever level they live within a society – they are extreme narcissists that hide among us. Identifying them is recognizing their empty, cold, and intensely dispassionate nature. Psychopaths have difficulty following continuous narratives and answering questions posed to them without wandering off topic – that fits well with many politicians.
I don’t think we can just ignore these power-hungry predators, especially at country wide government levels. I’d love for all politicians and corporate higher-ups to be psychologically analyzed for any empathy to be allowed to hold positions of power, but that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Since so many are dependent on mass media for so much of their information and the psychopaths control the mainstream, it is incumbent on us to work with each other to identify them. That is more easily done at the local level; one reason I believe that re-localization is a first step in creating a better world. We can then remain connected at larger regional levels, and with more interconnectivity can communicate our observations about leadership to each other more clearly.
We fix humanity by waking up from the mainstream controlled narrative and becoming authentic people. We discuss what kind of world we want to see and then work together to create it together. Psychopaths want us to create the world they see that benefits just them and not us. It is not about us individually, although individual sovereignty is paramount. It is about the collective us; humanity and the rest of the natural world, and even the whole planet as an interconnected system. There’s a reason it called Gaia, or Mother Earth by many religions and indigenous peoples.
“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it” Wendell Berry.
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