A couple of friends informed me that the link I gave in the last post wasn’t working. Since corrected if you wish to go to the post on my blog site.
Heal ourselves; Heal each other; Heal the Earth. These past 64 posts of mine have focused on this. I’ve tried to be practical by showing specifics (5 items that take priority) as a path to follow in gaining and personal sovereignty. A central premise throughout my blog has been that hierarchical systems created the dystopian systems we accept as normal, when in fact, the way we now live is completely alien to how humans evolved. Humanity (the 99.99%) has been conditioned and trained by a small number of socio-psychopathic families over the millennia to give away their sovereignty. It’s not that we were all ‘happy families’ all the time before the take-over, some 5-6000 years ago, but we knew how to live mindfully, lovingly and compassionately with each other and with the natural world. There may have been the survival factors that encouraged this, but isn’t that what life is about anyway – finding a way to live that is fun and rewarding, and more often than not, meaningful.
Technology has always been a novel way to make life easier, hence we love novelty. But think about the best times in your life. They may not have always been the easiest of times, nor the most joyful at the moments they happened, but inevitably, what sets them as special was how they elevated your spirit. You felt yourself in flow and connected – you felt actualized. You most likely felt happy, joyful and connected deeply in a space of gratitude. We are autonomous sovereign beings, yet feel happiest when we are working together even as we follow our own personal bliss.
Rollo May said, although several have been credited with similar quotes, “Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness.” In essence, this is the mindfulness I talk about, choosing the beneficial response over the conditioned reaction.
Technology, per se, is not our problem; how we currently think about technology is. I’m trying to not sound like the cheesy Disney Pocahantas movie, but we look at the Earth as a dead and inert thing to be used, and not as a partner. Scientist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis transformed how we need to see our planet – curiously, the way that indigenous peoples have always seen it. Together, they developed the Gaia Theory – the idea that Earth is a self-regulating, living system of biotic and abiotic factors that maintains conditions suitable for life. Lovelock saw Gaia as a great system “looking after itself and keeping the planet habitable.” Life is an interlinked set of systems from the planetary level, all the way down to the cellular level of every organism, all
contributing to the health of the whole planet. Once we can truly accept this simple premise, then we will start living ‘connectedly’ and not as individuals adrift in a world of apparent chaos.
I have said that my five items are not hierarchical, but maybe mindfulness (item 1) is a crucial one, that once attained, acts as a falling domino against the other four thrusting us into a new way of thinking and living. Wisdom is a part of living responsibly. That means responding after pausing from a place of wisdom rather than just unconsciously reacting and creating more trauma. It’s not a hard thing to learn, but you have to be mindful of how your conditioning has been so absolute in your life – it’s about your worldview. Father Luke Kot (100 year-old Trappist monk), when asked about living a positive long life is purported to have given a short list (and you don’t have to live as a monk or nun to understand these): 1) Health is your real wealth – protect it; 2) Time moves fast – don’t waste it trying to prove things to people; 3) Skills pay more than degrees – keep learning; 4) Friends come and go – family and community is forever; 5) Save money when you don’t need it – you’ll thank yourself later; 6) Choose peace over drama, drama isn’t worth your energy; 7) Your daily habits shape your future, not motivation; 8) The world owes you nothing – work for what you want; 9) Learn to say NO, it’s a superpower; 10) Mental health is as important as physical health; 11) Nobody is thinking about you as much as you obsess that they do; and, 12) Never stop growing – age doesn’t mean to stop evolving.
I could have written this post on agreeing or needing to modify this list, but they are close enough to what I am proposing to warrant being left as what they are. As in the Gaia hypothesis, consider biomes – all the way from the planetary biome down to your own personal microbiome. Your own health usually mirrors that of the planet or at least it does if you think interconnectedly. Thinking disconnectedly, as most people currently do, mirrors how much of science and technological advancement currently runs. I think we all intuitively know that the dystopian world we live in is a major cause of our global social and health ills.
Tying not to sound like a ‘broken record’ (for all you younger readers, think of playing a scratched vinyl disk where the play-head sticks on a single groove of the disk) our hierarchical human system has been set up to permit the controlling minority (probably more like the 0.00001%) to control and manage the planet for their sole benefit. This small group are addicted to power and control. They do not have borders or anything we can ‘overthrow’ per se. They are invisibly infused into the highest levels of human society. They really have no power except the fear with which they control us. All we have to do is choose responsibly and stop reacting from their prompts using the arsenal of media they own and control. Once they were emperors, monarchs, but in the last two centuries have moved into the shadowy world of finance and politics. Even the dwindling numbers of modern uber-billionaires are subject to this Cabals bidding.
Once WE start choosing to make mindful and wise decisions for ourselves at the local level, the whole house of cards upon which our world is built, will collapse. Only fear stops us making those decisions – that’s what the Cabal relies upon. It already is, why do you think it is so chaotic at this time. Tens of Millions are already making these choices, but don’t look to the main stream media for conformation of my words. Look to the smaller enclaves of sustainability in the developed world.
Look to the many in the developing world that our dystopian global systems have ignored for too long, and have started sustainable living as a way to survive. Look at your neighbors in the next neighborhood, the next village, the next town that have started the sustainability revolution without any fanfare. More often out of necessity, but as often out of awakening to choices of a different way to live. Parallel societies abound everywhere. Some are merely community garden cooperatives; others are Climate Change cooperatives; many are transition communities of various sizes; some are coalitions of individual farmettes and/or organic farming often under the name of ‘Community Supported Agriculture (CSA’s); Framers markets have grown exponentially, which in itself is a positive sign of the changing world and mindsets.
Sustainable Living is all around us, in its infancy perhaps, but merely awaiting a larger populace to make more mindful choices. For over 30 years I hoped humanity would make these choices because they were a peaceful and better alternative to the Cabals dystopia. But just as necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps chaos is the mother of sustainability and the Great Healing? I don’t think we have to wait much longer to find out.
To be Continued ……………..
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