“The Planet doesn’t care about your political beliefs. The laws of nature don’t bend to human stubbornness. Either we adapt to a world without endless extraction, pollution, and destruction, or nature will remind us we are not in control” Forest Web.
Jordan Osmond (https://folklorepictures.com/) recently did an inspiring short 15-minute film about one person’s life (Jo Nemeth) to live in a contributing sustainable way. At this time as we live withing the globalized corporate world system, this individual way of life may not appeal to everyone. The person whose house she lives within goes out to work as most people do, but because of the cooperative nature of their relationship, Jo is able to help model what a collaborative community life now and after the ‘collapse’ could look like.
The technological human timeline compared to the life of the planet has been done many times, but to reemphasize it again about why making this sustainability transformation is so crucial now; Our planet is 4.6 billion years old. If we scale that to 46 years, anatomically modern humans arrived on the scene just 4 hours ago. The industrial revolution began a mere 1 minute ago and look what humans managed to achieve. Technology yes, but approaching as much destruction as one of the ancient planetary extinction events. The planet will recover and carry on as it always has. But the world we know will be transformed in ways even our technology cannot adapt to. We talk about terraforming, but we currently do not have the wisdom nor the technology to understand the myriad ecological threads that are crucial to a sustainable world
“Sustainability requires continued innovation, not just restraint. Our short tenure grants us both responsibility and the unique capacity to restore and steward the planet intelligently for the long future ahead” Science Acumen.
I look at the world at this time. The world’s ‘leaders’ are enabling disruptive chaos, all in the name of increased profits for the few elites. I read of the fear and pandemonium of a dystopian future. Meanwhile I remain calm and optimistic. Why you might ask. Because this chaos is waking people up to the true reality – the mythical ‘They’ don’t care about the mass of humanity – they never have and never will. The behavior of ‘world management system’ mirrors the behavior of how a cat plays with a mouse. But the crazy thing is that the cat is more like a single mouse (the Cabal) compared to a large heard of elephants (the mass of humanity). The mouses power in this simile, simply comes from the stories it uses to scare the elephants.
People in fear are in survival mode and use their imagination to project negative outcomes they wish to avoid, instead of creative pursuits for positive outcomes they would prefer. When people are completely disempowered, they also project victimhood onto each other, which merely encourages an escalation of violence, negative tribalism, and overall disunity. Instead of building for collective resilience, we do the bidding of psychopathic individuals designed to diminish our personal and collective sovereignty and keep us compliant. As I said in the last post, imagination is our greatest cognitive talent to build a resilient world, but not when it is tightly controlled by external conditioning.
“Resilience in tough times is the ability to stay functional, curious, effective, connected to your values inside genuine uncertainty…Stop trying to predict how all the instability around us ends. You can never predict what Trump will do next. Or how AI changes the world of work. Nobody knows, and the cognitive energy spent predicting is better spent preparing. Think in scenarios and prepare accordingly. What are two or three plausible futures, and what would I do in each… Nobody is coming to stabilize the world for you. Not your government. Or the institutions we trust. Waiting for external stability before you build internal stability is the oldest trap in human history. The Stoics knew this. So did Frankl. And Epictetus. The specific crisis changes. The human challenge does not” Thomas Oppong
In the US, there is a saying, ‘Stuck like a deer in the headlights.’ “It is an idiom used to describe someone who is so frightened, surprised, or overwhelmed that they cannot move, think, or respond. Often used to convey a moment of paralysis under pressure, shock, or danger, much like a deer that freezes in place when it sees a car’s headlights” Cambridge Dictionary. The current chaos is like the headlights, but we are not deer not matter how much the Cabal try to convince us so. When I look at people everywhere on a daily basis, I see thinking and caring people. When we are focused on each other instead of the theater the mass media and conditioned societal system feed us every minute of every day, we display our true nature – a nature of cooperation and compassion. We are spiritual beings and we are connected both physically – literally – and spiritually with the whole planet.
Time to recognize this interconnectivity as the truth of who we are. We might be the ‘dominant’ intellectual species upon this planet, but we cannot dominate it, we cannot control it. We must embrace it as the stewards that live and thrive with it for the benefit of all life upon it. To do otherwise is simply folly and to foster our own humanity’s demise. Love, Compassion and Respect apply to all life, not only humans. It’s what we all really want, and have always wanted. To you spiritual warriors who see through the illusions of modern living, I salute you. Don’t despair. Continue to live your truths about a sustainable future. With all the disruptive chaos, literally, hundreds of millions of people already see you. In the next year or two, the reality of this dystopian world will be obvious to nearly everyone else who will not look.
We are all called to heal this world and it all begins with us empowering ourselves. I was about to express some ideas when I realized the following writers already said it. So here are their words that echo mine exactly. I am not alone. We are not alone. When we think as one, the world we seek is but a thought away. The deconstruction is already occurring. Let the reconstruction begin. Let your imagination lose from the shackles of fear.
A Call for Peace. As healers, we move through many personas. Some of us are parents, others do their work through a variety of professions. Some offer healing publicly, while others hold space for family members, communities, and even for the world in the privacy of our thoughts, prayers and intentions.
No matter the extent, capacity or commitment of your light work, there are moments in time that shape who we will be moving forward. We believe this moment to be one of those pivotal times in history. A time where our differences must be put aside for the greater good of all. A time where threats cast against men, women, and children in a distant country inspires a response as if the existence of our own family hangs in the balance.
As healers, we dare to stand for what we are for, not what we are against. We anchor the light of truth — even in our darkest hours of agony, despair, and regret. We spread hope not hate. We choose faith over fear.
Whether this turns out to be a political bluff, the next stage of global conflict, or the nuclear exchange those behind-the-scenes desire to the equal extent we crave peace, we are inviting the healer in every heart to anchor the light of unity for a world on the brink of collapse.
If inspired, let us use every ounce of sadness, fear, confusion, exhaustion, contempt, and rage to focus peace to all places on this planet. Let us surround and fill the world with light to pattern interrupt another potential genocide from unfolding. If we have learned anything from the people of Gaza or any country and its people that have been devastated, it is a remembrance that involvement must be active, consistent, and unwavering.
May we pray, intend, and bless the world, including all victims and predators, as if, you are intervening during a rock bottom crisis point of family members — because we are. We are one cosmic family. A family whose most sick and depraved family members are moving the safety of our society well past a point of no return. Life is not a show we are watching on Netflix. It is not an illusion. This is real and life is a gift worth honoring and preserving. At this moment, each of us are being invited to make a real decision as to the world we choose to live in and who we choose to be moving forward. May we peacefully rise — together as One. Peace for all. Matt & Joy Kahn.
“If we were a planet with advanced intelligence and a proper moral/ethical compass we would be able to co-exist quite easily. Earth provides enough for all our needs, but not when greed is in the mix. We have the potential to do some really incredible things. But our geopolitical (and other) systems have severely narrowed and condensed our incentives, thinking and perspectives. If there are others watching us, with all of our technological development, we must look like traumatized and hurt children playing with matches, a dangerous combination” Arjun Walia.
“All the solutions to the world’s problems already exist. We lack nothing materially. A just and abundant world is buildable now. So what is stopping us? It’s not knowledge or resources. It’s coordination and alignment. The gap is in incentives, like trust, and shared direction. Our systems reward fragmentation, short-term wins, gaining more [monetary] wealth and power, not positive collective outcomes. So the real work isn’t finding solutions, it’s changing the structure those solutions have to move through: aligning incentives with long-term value, rebuilding trust between groups that don’t coordinate well, and creating conditions where coordination scales better than competition. We have to shift conversations, culture, and sensemaking to make this happen” Joe Martino.
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