PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY 2 – Becoming Authentic and Becoming More Free    

Fear was the midwife at the conceptual birth of separation. The attendants were desire, greed, suffering, and anger. Michael Roads  Imagine being much more free than you are now.  Once you decide to express yourself as you truly would like to be then you no longer need the system that Read more

PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY – Breaking Past the Control.      

“We are the most obese, medicated, addicted, and in-debt Americans EVER.   Why? We have access to more information, more books, and good science – why are we struggling like never before?  Because we don’t talk about the things that get in the way of doing what we know is best Read more

Changing Business 3 – Shareholders versus Stakeholders – Creating Corporatocracies!

 We have two choices.  We can spend our resources on war, security, walls, fences, borders or we can spend our resources meeting the needs of ALL people by creating an economy of sustainable abundance, which would make obsolete all of those needs for security.  Which do you choose?  Chris Agnos, Read more

Changing Business 2 – Getting back to Basics – Origins of Corporations

In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth production. Jeremy Lent, Read more

Changing Business 1- Understanding how businesses can change the world for the better! – New Social Contracts

I previously outlined how different types of business paradigms are setting out to change how we do business (See (previous post Businesses making a difference). Much of this post is from my Sustainable Living Text but I will introduce it here in this blog. Since business is so much a Read more

Reality 6 – Restarting Civic Engagement and Citizenship

Heretic – original use of the term, “Someone who is in possession of the facts and is able to choose.”  Anyone in the world following politics in the USA will have noticed the final acts of ‘civic disengagement’ occuring.  Since the 1950s, ongoing dialogue within towns and neighborhoods was slowly Read more

Reality 5 – Which path do we take?  Feudal Control or Community Collaboration?

We are at a crucial juncture in human existence.  Besides the need to grow spiritually (and for those that haven’t read my earlier posts on this, I emphasize that this does not automatically include religion, which itself is a control system) we need to regain control of our own society.  Read more

Reality 4 – A Spiritual perspective – Understanding Shame as Control     

In earlier posts (Spirituality Vs. Religion 1 – 5) I talked about how Emperor Constantine assembled the Economical Councils to highly edit the Christian religious texts that would be acceptable for the bible and expunged teaching that didn’t fit the orthodox Christian views of the time – this included expunging Read more

Reality 3 – A Spiritual perspective – How we become separated from our true selves.   

In my earlier posts of ‘Spirituality vs. Religion’ and ‘How Control Happens’ I covered how we are manipulated by elite hierarchies (the Cabal) to fit within certain norms of behavior.  These arbitrary norms have become our consensus reality within whose boundaries we unconsciously operate.  People all over the world are Read more

Reality 2 – A Spiritual perspective – How your thinking affects your reality

Psycho-neuro immunology – How people think affects not only how they feel but also the neurotransmitter systems in the body – so how you think really does affect your well-being and your health in a direct physical way.   Stress from fear and anxiety has been shown to compromise the immune Read more

New Ways of Living Together 6 – Community as the Glue of Humans Living Successfully

The last five posts were a story of how we globally came to be bamboozled by American Hyper-Consumerism.  The problem is not so much consumerism as the economic drive that forced a tragic and mindless lifestyle onto people with the hollow promise of a wonderful life but gave instead loss Read more

New Ways of Living Together 5 – A sense of Belonging 3 – The Final Isolation from Self.

We’ve had the problem of perceiving money as having innate value for well over 5 centuries now, but the last 100 years has seen it taken to new heights.  After the first war and especially after the second war, a consumer mentality took hold with a large growing middle class Read more

New Ways of Living Together 4 – A sense of Belonging 2? – The invention of “The Mall”

I have a sub-title of ‘A sense of belonging’ in this latest thread of posts.  This is deliberate because we all need to feel that innate sense of belonging to something.   In its healthy form it can create a wonderful community with healthy relationship.  In its worst form it can Read more

New Ways of Living Together 3 – A sense of Belonging? – The generation of new business after WWII

To understand economics and how the globalized world we take for granted today came about, in today’s post I would like to tell a story.  It’s a greatly simplified story but the essence is quite solid, and I hope that you see how the consumer mindset took hold rather easily, Read more

New Ways of Living Together 1 – What is Community?

In my Sustainable Living (SL) Text, I overview a few locations where the people are living in a new way of cooperative and localized living.  It is really about rebuilding community, and that’s what ‘Intentional Communities’ are all about – living with cooperative intention instead of just living with people Read more

Adopting a new way of thinking and living – Adopter Theory.

Many scholars support the idea that all we need to do to solve the world’s problems is to reform what we currently do and just promote more laws and regulations to curb humanity’s worse tendencies.  As a broad generalization, many reformers perceive that humans will only behave sustainably if they Read more

Framing for Positive Communication and Interactions- How language creates our thoughts and frames our behaviors and well-being. 

In basic communication theory, thoughts in your head have to be converted into words. As the sender, these words are specifically encoded by how your brain thinks about the world.  The words are transmitted in some manner and are received by another, who then decode the words based on how Read more

The world Economy – are we really doing better?  Measurement is everything!

I was reading an overview of a U.S. governmental financial report the other day and it quite categorically said that the country’s economy is doing well!  I almost fell off my chair in aghast disbelief of what I was reading!  So, I pondered what the report was saying and probed Read more

Biomimicry 2 – Learning from Nature – BioEngineering Processes

Nature has had a long time to get things right and as efficiently as possible.  For instance, an intact grass prairie ecosystem has adapted to survive perfectly in any varying conditions where it exists.  In this area of Colorado, the short grass prairie adapted to have 200 species of grasses Read more

Biomimicry 1 – Learning from Nature – BioEngineering a New World

 I have mentioned a few times in this Blog that we can learn a lot from nature.  Think about it for a minute.  The natural world has been adapting and modifying itself for over 3.8 billion years and is still doing so.  That’s a lot of research and development time.  Read more

Getting to Transformation 3 – Choosing Wisely –  framing for positivity

In the last post I commented on negativity when talking about problems and issues and also the use of interpretive techniques to get people to listen more attentively rather than just tuning out.  The mass media has done a wonderful job in scaring us about a multitude of issues and Read more

Getting to Transformation 2 – Choosing Wisely – Framing for good communication

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”  E.O. Wilson. One thing that always bothers me about Environmental Education and Environmental Read more

Getting to Transformation 1 – Choosing Wisely – the path of a spiritual warrior

I was listening to a short U-tube talk by Vandana Shiva, a brilliant philosopher from India.  She really put things into simple perspective.  It got me to thinking again how we transform the world to one we want to see – I’ve talked about this several times in this blog Read more

Economics and Energetics of farming 5 – So who is helping to change the world to SA?

Whenever I talk about the farming system, many people disempower themselves with disclaimers like “I can’t afford healthy food” or “It’s hard to find healthy food.”  Talk about an external Locus of Control (see prior post – How people think about the future 1).  This seems true of most situations, Read more