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
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
“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
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
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
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
Human power comes from every human being on the planet. The reason that the ultra elite-hierarchy or Cabal have such power is that we collectively give them our power. We can happily exist without this super hierarchy – we don’t need them. They make us believe that we do, but Read more
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
Hi everyone, and apparently that is now a lot of you that have recently discovered my blog. I’ve had lots of comments from the comments section and while it is wonderful and positive feedback, I have to be honest because it is now getting overwhelming. So I have added a Read more
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
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
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
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
I have talked several times in the blog about reality and how quantum science tells us it is an illusion and that the world is a holographic simulation (see posts The non-solid universe 1-4). Most people caught up in the reality consensus that we think is our world readily poo-poo Read more
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
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
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
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
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. @science & metaphysics When I talk of community it is more than a group pf people living and working together, it is, as I have said before, meant to Read more
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
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