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
As a continuation to my last post about the precautionary tale of simply accepting mainstream authority as holders of the scientific gospels, I will explain further how money backed science and medicine came to dominate our lives today. Many years ago, when I worked as a biochemical technician with a Read more
In much earlier posts (Health – Sickcare 1 & 2) I have talked about the Microbiome and its importance to our personal health. There is much news about more natural health care, but then there is also the response from the science and medical community that automatically debunks such options. Read more
When I was still teaching about sustainability, I sometimes used the simulation program Sim City. The first time I used this program was back in the early 1990s. (SimCity is a city-building and urban planning simulation game.) What becomes clear from doing this kind of simulation is that there are Read more
I have made a big deal about us all needing to be involved as active participants in manifesting a new and better future. I get a lot of comments from friends and students about what kind of political and economic system this involves. Whatever comes out of this transition it Read more
I am amazed that I have to actually say this but the transition requires us to make a decision away from the consumer paradigm. WE don’t have to leave all the creature comforts and luxuries behind – let me dispel that ridiculous notion straight away – but we have to Read more
As an academic, in a university setting, I found myself leading a sustainability degree program and the charge for many sustainability projects and situations that I felt needed change on campus and within the local communities. I would not say I am a person who aspires to be a leader. Read more
I have spoken of the desperate need to rethink and change our global economic systems (see previous post The world Economy – are we really doing better? Measurement is everything!). Bhutan has metrics in place since 1998 to measure Gross National Happiness (GNH) using over 9 major metrics instead of Read more
I get a lot of comments from readers. One recent one was about going more in depth on some of the topics. That has always been my goal and my blog posts tend to build on previous ones. Indeed, regular readers will note that I often refer back to previous Read more
One of the greatest gifts we have is free will. Yet, so many, because of conditioned fear and anxiety, relinquish their free will to some kind of authoritarian system that does not have their best interest as a priority. When you listen to someone else’s opinion, you are listening to Read more
I was able to do a lot of reading over the holiday period. As we begin a new year, a little backtrack to emphasize much of what we all seem to keep forgetting. All of the ideas I express in this post I will cover in more depth in the Read more
In the previous post I outlined how one of the most pressing problems of the day in 1899 had been the widespread accumulation of horse poop, but how that had been resolved by the adoption of a new technology – the automobile. This also highlighted another problem of technology in Read more
Just a couple of weeks ago I attended a City Council Meeting to support a local measure to have the Power Company in my area commit to 100% Renewable Energy by 2030. I sat patiently to the agenda of the many items that the city council have to deal with Read more
News stories that you hear from the mainstream that are not negative tend only to revolve around new positive technological innovations. That is the creativity that excites us. We get excited by things that work well and improve conditions. Yet, the many positive stories that show social systems where people Read more
I have talked many times about our need to become more collaborative, but what models exist in the political arena that use collaboration and not disruptive competition. The concept of Synergistic Democracy was first proposed by Barbara Marx Hubbard (World Future Society). The term Synocracy seems to have been independently Read more
It is a misconceptionthat the ultimate power belongs to the government because the greatest powerhas always and will always belong to the people. The 1% knows this, which is why they divideus, so we can hate and fear each other, thereby disempowering the greatestpower there is, which is the power Read more
Imagine, if we were contacted by an alien race, what is the story we want to tell about humanity? Would we want to emphasize the brutality or the humanity of our species? Think about the message we sent out into the cosmos on two golden phonograph records aboard the Voyager Read more
The mainstream news is not about what is working well, but only about what is NOT working. If the mainstream is all that you hear then you can be forgiven for thinking that the world is heading to hell in a hand-basket. Don’t get me wrong, we have passed, or Read more
A key aspect of a flourishing culture is one that allows people to be the creative beings they know themselves to be, in whatever form that takes for any one individual. I really believe that we are not meant to be just existing with no purpose. Societies all around the Read more
If we see everybody as ‘same to me’ or ‘other than me’ we find that this creates either compassion or fear respectively. What separates communities that work and have resilience is that they bond together for the benefit of the whole. Community expert Mark Nepo uses the analogy of Aspen Read more
One of the greatest challenges we face (as I have talked about earlier in this blog) is that of education for a flourishing future. Scholar Sir Ken Robinson makes a big point about how our educational systems are not designed for fostering creativity or critical thinking (I recommend any of Read more
I have informally counseled many people over the years. By far the most popular comment that always comes up is that everyone feels a need to do something ‘useful’ in life and the big question, “Why am I here and what is my purpose?” This is usually spurred on by Read more