“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t pull you down unless you allow it to get inside of you” Thich Nhat Hanh
We live lives filtered through a story, usually imposed on us by our conditioning. Of course, we don’t realize it is a story in which we limit ourselves to what others think about everything and especially about us. We try to fit into that story. So everything is colored by what we expect to see. It’s why belief confirmation is such a problem – we seek to confirm what we believe, no matter how contradictory any belief might be to what else is occurring. Our story is scripted by the Cabal to keep us in line and to avoid thinking independently.
We have spent so long letting the Cabal script our lives and hence out stories that define most of us, recognizing that we are the true authors of our lives is hard. We have been conditioned to look outside ourselves for the solutions and permissions on how to live. It wasn’t by accident that this last hundred years especially has been designed by the powers that be, to addict us to a hedonistic, materialistic, hyper-consumer lifestyle with its high standard of living but greatly reducing quality of life. Yes, in affluent society, we may have ‘lots of fun’ but our health, our sanity, and our sovereignty has been all but steadily diminished to a fraction of what we once would have considered acceptable.
For those living on the edge within this current affluent hedonist society, the transition to a caring-sharing society spiritually connected to the natural world, the transformation as we reconstruct humanities role in the world will be a welcome event. Sadly, the hardest hit will be those most affluent and addicted to modern hyper-consumerism and hedonism. For those of us already leading more simple living lifestyles, the transition will not be a big deal. Indeed, we will be the pathfinders of the new world. Our role is to show the stubborn ‘logical idealists’ how a much higher quality of life is much more beneficial for ourselves and the planet. The die-hard utilitarianists who perceive the earth merely as a resource to be exploited will just have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the new world: however, once the deconstruction of the old system occurs, I think they will quickly wakeup and recognize the world that is passing was but a sham illusion.
I am not alone in my thinking. For those more academically minded, I recommend John Huckles website. In 2001, Huckle and Martin wrote a book on critical social theory in a future world, that like me, try to envisage this new and better sustainable world. A short except from the story set in Bedford, UK, 2045:
“It is a Wednesday in September 2045 and Jane Pearson wakes early. … The solar collector on the roof has warmed the water for Jane’s shower and by the time she has dressed and gone downstairs, husband Tom is giving Jake his breakfast. … Jane, Jake and Tom tuck in to their breakfast of cereals and fresh fruit from the neighbourhood orchards. A lot of food in now grown around the town and Tom spends some of his time working at a local nursery where the glasshouses are heated with hot water from a small combined heat and power generating station which burns straw and willow. … Over breakfast Jane and Tom talk about their plans to add another room to their house before January when their second child will be born. Friends in the street will help them with some of the work once the prefabricated timber sections are delivered and they will engage a plumber and electrician through the town’s local economic trading scheme (LETS) which now accounts for 30% of local business turnover. They will need to get a low interest loan from the Credit Union. … Most people now live near enough to walk or cycle to work, but there are electric bus services and some light rail links to surrounding towns which accommodate dual rail-road vehicles. … At the tram stop Tom meets his father Bill who is disabled and needs the tram to get him to the community centre where he helps look after young children like Jake. … It takes Tom another five minutes to reach the engineering factory where he works for twenty hours each week. The regional government now guarantees all adults between 18 and 55 this amount of work and with a national minimum wage, it is generally sufficient to meet their needs. They can do additional paid work but few do so. Most prefer to use non-work time for education, leisure and voluntary work and this means that there is less stress and fewer health problems. … The community cafe, like the community laundry, is a way of sharing domestic work and saving energy. Some people work in them for wages which are set by the Neighbourhood Council, but most people work in them to obtain services at a cheaper rate and meet their neighbours. All the talk over dinner this evening is about the community meeting ….” Huckle J. and Martin A. (2001) Environments in a Changing World, London, Prentice Hall.
While I like Huckle and Martins writing, a major difference – if you could call it that – is that I postulate the need to also develop a different worldview from today that embodies a spiritual connection to the natural world that elevates human evolution back to where it probably was before the Cabalistic take-over in Sumer all those millennia ago. Still existing indigenous tribes all over the world never lost this worldview. While we long considered it primitive, especially during the European colonialization period starting 500 years ago, on reflection we see it was far more advanced than the current materialistic worldview that sees the world as a ‘dead thing to be exploited.’
This is just my personal view, but I find that people living within a Buddhist philosophy exhibit – at least in the more developed eastern countries – an odd cognitive dissonance in that they adopted the dystopian western lifestyle while still practicing a Buddhist reverence for the natural world. I suppose it isn’t that much different from how most countries have waged insufferable and terrible war over the centuries on each other despite their various religious teachings proselyting that we be peaceful and love each other?! Let’s not forget my hypothesis that war is just a political tool used by the Cabal to keep us under their control.
We need to believe in ourselves and rise to the occasion, and I think this coming deconstruction phase will be just that, an option to reconnect with our true selves. We need to create and write our own story again. My best friend and I were discussing the amazing book (Braiding Sweetgrass, 2013) by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an indigenous ecology professor. The subtitle is ‘Indigenous wisdom, Scientific knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants.’ I think Kimmerer captures the essence of the new worldview I talk about in a most eloquent and scientifically framed and captivating manner. I’ll discuss this a little more in the next post.
But for now, my best friend sent me a beautiful comment I think is most appropriate in wrapping up this particular post: “For me this is the essence…you can’t know reciprocity until you know the gift. To know the gift is to be immersed in it, living it moment to moment. We have been so removed from knowledge that our ancestors tried to maintain regarding the gifts of the earth. Couple that with brainwashing from egocentric money-grubbing materialists. It’s no wonder that so many of us who seek a different path throw up our hands in exasperation. I think Kimmerer’s message is one of patience. Change comes with quelling want, mending the heart, finding unity, justice, humility, compassion, respect, blessings and gratitude. And of course, living without fear. And those changes are taking place” LDC.
To Be Continued ……….
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