I have gone on at length in this blog about Spirituality and connectedness. I even wrote an 18-part series of posts in this blog starting June 2021 (Spirituality, service and Connectedness). I mentioned the Roseto effect briefly in an earlier Espe post (Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part Read more…
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure” Victor Frankl. The downfall for many indigenous peoples worldwide, when they met the outsiders (mostly European) roaming across the world’s oceans, was being seduced by technology. It’s human nature to want anything that makes life Read more…
I have been traveling a lot recently (through Iceland, Denmark, and Norway – I’ll call them collectively Scandinavia for this post). Wherever I went, and got into a conversation about sustainability, the same problem arose that I observed during my sabbatical trip in 2010. Most people are oblivious to the Read more…
“Living more [Sustainably] is not just where you come from. It’s also how you think, how you treat others and the world that surrounds you, and what you treasure” Scandinavisk. I saw this in a catalog for organic, earth-friendly products. What I liked about it was that it was a Read more…
I have talked many times in the blog about indigenous wisdom (e.g. Wisdom of our ancestors 1, 2, and 3 {April 2018}; and Relocalization and Community {January 2018}; and Reframing and Visualizing a New Society 1{March 2018}). While I have used the works of Jared Diamond (The world into yesterday) Read more…
I talk a lot about how our socio-cultural conditioning has created the myriad global problems we suffer from today. While I think I have been clear about this, recently, I got a question from a friend to explain more what I mean by this conditioning. Look at the image on Read more…
I have talked about the corruption in our world quite a bit. I was asked the other day about this for our future in a sustainable society. Simply; we will eliminate corruption at the highest levels. And why? We cannot be sustainable if corruption runs the whole global economic system. Read more…
I have talked a little about Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as it is occurring now, and in my Espe stories of how it was avoided in that futuristic view. While the potentialities of a CBDC could be positive, the very fact that they are to be controlled by global Read more…
“Humanity’s next great evolutionary leap will be the discovery that cooperating is better than competing” Pietro Ubaldi. The one thing that characterizes the birth of great civilizations, and also, the fall of them, is how they approached problem solving – thinking in general changed between the beginning and the downfalls. Read more…
“The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our ego and live in another’s world” Plato. “Her body tensed and quivered as she felt wave after wave surge through it. I should probably have told her about the new electric fence” Farmers writing romance novels. Read more…
“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of universal responsibility, not only nation to nation, and human, but also human to all other life forms” The Dalai lama. We are all aware of the corruption, injustices and ugliness of a world run by fear, Read more…
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is” Winston Churchill. I have been told by a couple of close friends that if they ever saw fairies at the bottom of their garden, I would be the first person Read more…
“The proper way to fix the world isn’t to fix the world. There’s no reason to assume that you are even up to such a task. But you can fix yourself. You’ll do no one any harm by doing so, and in that manner at least, you will make the Read more…
Today’s post is from a set of ideas and musings I have stored up. Still pertinent to the Espe stories I have been posting this last six months. A couple of friends who read my blog comment that I don’t say enough about the sustainable technologies. Yes, there are a Read more…
“Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations…” and “It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent Read more…
“Go easy on yourself. You are clearing thousands of years of outdated conditioning” Starlight Rose. What if the future turns out better than you could have imagined? “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity” George Carlin. The majority of humanity, spent several millennia living Read more…
“It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter Read more…
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was” Anthon St. Maarten A Read more…
“Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality. The point isn’t to get people to accept that they have biases, but to get them to see [for themselves] that those biases have negative consequences for others” Bertrand Russel. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe Read more…
“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it” Lyndon B. Johnson. Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. As I write these journals about the Great Change (GC), you will have noticed that I keep coming back Read more…
“If you want to understand any problem in [the world], you need to look at who profits from that problem, not at who suffers from that problem” Dr. Amos Wilson. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation Read more…
“If you really want a Star Trek future, it’s not just going to space in cool machines. It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient and otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness and reason. Let’s build that and ride it to the stars” David Read more…
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” Martin Luther King Jr. A short break this week from the Espe stories to highlight a massive piece of global regulation about to erupt into our lives if we allow it. As if the poorly Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. There are a lot worse things than dying. Living within an empire consciousness is one of them – living Read more…
“Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and beauty in the world. Divinity means overcoming the limitations of nature in new ways” Amit Ray. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of Read more…
Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it” Robert A. Heinlein. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. Read more…
“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” Donella H. Meadows A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. After so many decades it is not always easy to explain to the young ones just how fractured humanity Read more…
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become” Goethe. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and Read more…