“There is a purpose behind distorting history to make it seem like only great men achieve significant things. It teaches people to believe they are powerless and must wait for a great man to act” Noam Chomsky.
As I peruse the internet for ideas on sustainability and spirituality, one thing that I see is how many people yearn for a better world, but they do not want to ‘suffer’ disruptive change. That might have been possible 50-60 years ago if we collectively had made decisions to be wise about how we lived and used technology. Obviously, that never happened, consequently, for all of those decades, humanity has been living in a period of ‘Chronic Uncertainty’ driven by media promoting environmental apocalypse, and for boomers, nuclear holocaust as well. Sadly, rather than uniting us and galvanizing us into action, the powers-that-be have used that time to line their pockets at all our expenses and to consolidate control of global society. And the craziest part of it all is that nearly everyone went along with it because they told us continuous lies we wanted to accept.
Human beings crave certainty in a period of uncertainty. Leaders offering promises of solutions has made us compliant and all too willing to believe in the ‘Great Man’ or ‘Savior complex’ – I often say this as the ‘Waiting for Superman’ problem. Chronic uncertainty leads to so much stress that it leads to ‘explosive reactions’ that exacerbate polarization – trying to find blame. Unchecked, it fosters PTSD and an escalation of fearful outcomes. It doesn’t help when our institutions continue to drive fear with things like ‘The Doomsday Clock’ of global collapse, or the ‘Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices.’ My criticism is not that we should not know the seriousness of our problems, but that we need to think about how we solve these problems at the local as well as the global levels. ‘Think Locally, Act Globally’ has been an environmental mantra for decades, and except for environmentalists, has been largely ignored by most people.
As long as we continue to focus on the hierarchy to resolve the problems, we keep looking outward. We must work on our inner world for the solutions. When we focus inward and recognize the power within us, it reduces fear and brings hope of new possibilities that can occur. Fear triggers instincts for survival, which shuts down any place of creativity or ability to think logically with discernment – something the hierarchy knows very well. Be OK with fear but don’t let it control you; unless the lion really is chasing you,
Crises (real or perceived) can acute or chronic. Acute crises arrive with clear signals and identifiable parameters than can be handled. Chronic crises are the opposite. They have no clear start dates and are characterized by multiple factors that lead to stressed actions by overwhelmed leaders. In chronic crises, the primary goal is building resilience rather than preventing immediate harm. When we empower ourselves and focus on our internal world, we move past preoccupation with threat complacency and think of ways to build resilient adaptations.
Many psychologists studying the human condition from peace to social interactions note how chronic stress and uncertainty, while related, can also be separated to yield new ways to find calm and creative solutions in places where science until recently has been reluctant to look. While physicists have been studying quantum realities for over a hundred years, all the other disciplines have only recently come to realize how related they all are to the quantum world.
The two false assumptions of science are that the ‘empty’ space in the universe is really empty, and that inner experiences have no effect beyond our individual bodies. I talk about this in-depth in five of my earliest posts (The Non-Solid Universe 1-4 and Reality 2). It’s no secret that I actively encourage a more spiritual perspective as the primary way to solve all our global problems. A spiritual perspective also explains our universe at a technological level. This has spawned a whole new set of sciences that once understood can help us delve into the very nature of life and its processes.
If you look closely at the natural world and the universe, you realize just how mathematically constructed it all is. Everything from how sea shells grow to petal arrangements on a flower and even our DNA display math principles. Indeed, when you think about the applied nature of our disciplines, they all come back to the elegant beauty of mathematics. Applied math is geometry. Applied geometry is physics, which then applied becomes chemistry, then biology, then psychology, then sociology, then philosophy, and finally, applied philosophy is also interestingly notable as a form of mathematics. Even how mountains and shorelines erode can be seen as fractal math.
Many scientists, especially engineers of all areas, and physicists, find that base ten math is too cumbersome, and use the number base 12 (see link), which interesting is also reflected more within the natural world and astronomic cosmology. When one looks at the ancient world, base 12 is more often used (still is in parts of the world) within their building designs (the pyramids for example). It would be hard to change our everyday world to a base 12 because so much is encapsulated within the base 10 system and getting old farts to change would be really awkward. Kids would pick it up readily, and I know some schools that actually do teach this kind of math – it’s actually easier once you get it. Do you recall how Matt Damon used Hexadecimals (base 16) in the film ‘The Martian’ just as an example of how different math bases can be more helpful.
An elusive key to all this science is the idea of consciousness (again something I talked about earlier e.g., see link). Orthodox science dogmatically believes that consciousness is somehow created by synaptic connections, but have no evidence whatsoever to support this belief. Meanwhile metaphysical researchers have extensive evidence, but it was correlational and anecdotal, and only recently have hard research practices shown empirical evidence that the brain acts as a ‘receiver’ of consciousness, not the other way around. And even more interestingly, this consciousness as we perceive it is mathematically constructed – at least as it manifests within this physical reality. If your interest is peaked by this idea, I recommend for starters any of the books Noetic Scientist Dean Radin (see profile). Your beliefs create reality (e.g., see link) so changing your beliefs seems to be the first step, not a last-ditch effort to get through the coming changes.
Now all this new science discussion must sound quite esoteric when what you want are practical examples for how to solve global problems. Yet, our current thinking that got us into the problems isn’t working. So I am trying to get you to recognize that different thinking, as Buckminster Fuller or Einstein advocated for example, is a completely different way of thinking, which drags us out of the thinking ruts we find ourselves mired in at this time. Changing one’s worldview is more than simply having different values, it is a different existential way of looking at the world you think you know.
Chronic uncertainty exists because we, the masses, gave our thinking over to the technocrats, with the belief that they know what they are doing. When technocrats are coupled with a failing and corrupt economic system, you get our current problems. When we can bring balance to the systems we live within then change will occur. I saw this meme earlier this week, which reminded me of what I have said many times when non-environmentalists ask me why I am so concerned about the Earth and the global environment, I say, “Because it’s where we all live.” And for me that includes every part of the extensive biodiversity and non-biotic aspects of the planet we call home.
I don’t just want us to get through the coming changes. I want to completely transform how we all see the world in order to create a whole new kind of world in which we ALL thrive along with everything on this world. And that is not as hard as many would believe it could be. When we empower ourselves into the highest version of who we can be, instead of the victims the cabalistic hierarchy prefer, then a New Earth is ready for us to live in. Imagine the best world you can conceive of – that is the world we are heading towards if only we let ourselves do so. Instead of a world run with the worst of humanity, let’s instead envision a world run with the best. That isn’t some whimsical dream. It’s a real vision. We just have to wake up to our individual greatness. When our consciousness and consensus reality move to a higher spiritual vision then everything is possible.
To be Continued ……
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