As I ponder the logistics of what it will mean to live sustainably, I have to wonder if a centralized or more decentralized system is the way to make it happen. Centralized economies (what we erroneously called Communism) failed miserably – even China had to resort to a capitalistic system Read more…
One of the main features I talk about with living sustainably is that everyone will need to live more localized. This then raises the question whether the governing systems will also need to be more localized as well. There has been a growing trend globally in the last 130 years Read more…
Rethinking Economics 3 – A Rant about Corruption and Preoccupation with Money I talked about Les Brown of the World Watch Institute in a previous Blog post VISION – How we focus on what we really Want 3 – population, economics, choice. and morality. When you consider how many trillions Read more…
“The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. The truth applies to individuals and institutions.” Michael Margolis. I had two recent posts on this blog (Spiritual Crisis is the World’s Greatest Problem Part 1 & 2) Read more…
I do not see how we can become a sustainable society with the current economic system that is designed to not be sustainable. How can we have a sustainable world in an endless growth system based on money? As I have often said in economic content within this blog (e.g. Read more…
“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.” Fabienne Fredrickson Think of Greta Thurnberg’s actions that have made her a worldwide media focus. She isn’t special – she’s just a 16-year-old school girl. There is nothing she has done that really sets her apart from Read more…
“Opinion is the lowest from of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The Highest form of knowledge … is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self-kind of understanding.” Bill Bullard To regular visitors Read more…
A short diversion from Flow to discuss something that we need to fully digest before I come back to how to get to a sustainable world. Do you handle your life or does your life handle you? Do you use love as a weapon or allow Love to work through Read more…
Flow Theory Part 2 – Understanding Why Flow is Important “Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.” “…It is when we act Read more…
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The blog today is a bit more esoteric but bear with me on it. Our focus and mindset is crucial to how anything is perceived and how we feel empowered, or not, about making change happen. So many people Read more…
As I said in the last post, Audience Analysis is good communications technique for well thought out and well-crafted ‘honest’ messaging. Now using data sets from social media platforms with negatively fear based invented news and misinformation has turned it into something resembling an Orwellian control system. We hear a Read more…
Collecting data about people has long been a primary goal of the advertising industry, e.g. The Madison Avenue crowd. The more you know about potential customers, the more closely you can match your advertising to their interests and preferences. This is true for any kind of communications messaging – it’s Read more…
“Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it” Erin Bury I just spent three weeks in the Silicon Valley area of California. I toured the Facebook campus and ran through the Google campus as well as wandered around Stanford University – Read more…
There are some modern philosophers that have commented, “The young do not question the wrongs of adults, they just suffer the poor decisions.” We are at a critical point in human history where our descendants will look back on us all and I have to wonder what they will have Read more…
I went online and looked at many varying opinions about 5G and health effects. Like most issues, the opinions were quite polarized. It really came down to the telecom industry and scientists (most that were connected to the telecom industry in some way through employment or research funding) saying there Read more…
Regular readers will notice that I write a lot about how we think and how that in turn creates the world in which we live. Whether we get a dystopia or a utopia is completely dependent on what we believe that in turn creates the actions we support for either Read more…
“You are not responsible for the programming you received in childhood. But as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.” Tiny Buddha.com Laying down new neural pathways is a key to reprogramming our brains (see previous post VISION – How we focus on what we really Want 4). Read more…
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E Frankl In psychology it is said that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, which is because of the Read more…
The greatest threat to our planet is the [disempowering] belief that someone else will save it. Earth Guardians I have talked with people about why we seem to have so little faith in our own better angels. Experiences with greed and the lack of community seem to be the main Read more…
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas One of the biggest problems we have is not all the chaos we see in the world, it is how we live with each other. We live in a never ending drama of our own creation. Read more…
Your thoughts are you and your body and mind. Over 80-90% of your thinking is literally the same as yesterday. You worries, anxieties, and the story you tell yourself is unchanging as you listen to the ego-voice in your head. This ego-voice is just your conditioned beliefs. A belief is Read more…
When I moved away from being a research biochemist, I found myself exploring and researching about beliefs. What intrigued me was why they were barriers to environmental changes that I perceived should be a no brainer to make for a better world for everyone. In my dissertation I had a Read more…
I was asked to expand on the idea of chaos that I brought up in the last post. A universal principle is that de-construction occurs before re-construction. Whether it be a supernova or collapse and rebuilding of a ‘civilization, the old always de-constructs before the new re-constructs. It doesn’t have Read more…
“The most important ally in creating a new sustainable world is one with hard skeptics that have a fully open mind to all possibilities. Pseudo-skeptics (of which the majority belong) are irrational in that they automatically dismiss anything that does not fit their highly specified worldview without even making a Read more…
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein When we talk of entrainment, dispel notions of brainwashing – this is not a situation in the films like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ or ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ You always have free will and that remains unimpaired as far as I Read more…
“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change it, or accept it. All else is madness.” Eckhart Tolle. Regular readers of this blog will understand why I concentrate on the communication of topics around Sustainable Living and the social community perspective rather than simply writing about Read more…
“What we have at many levels in our world is denial of the obvious.” Richard Jurin Although this goes against the grain for most religious people, we a multidimensional beings playing at being human. We have been doing it for a long time in this linear time frame we think Read more…
“Time and Space are modes by which we think, and not conditions by which we live.” Albert Einstein We exist within a field, and this field responds to our thinking, our consciousness. All limitations in our life exist because we have created them at the deepest level of our psyche. Read more…
This next collection of posts builds on previous posts (The non-solid universe 1-4) and rational for its connection to Living Sustainably (Transformation not Reformation – Reclaiming our Power is a Spiritual Transformation NOT a Mental One – even deeper down the Rabbit Hole). Until relatively recently, metaphysics was always the Read more…
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself or herself” Leo Tolstoy. I will be going down the rabbit hole a bit more on this post. If you undergo a physical trauma then you need a hospital trauma unit and that is where modern medical Read more…