“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
“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with Read more
“Truth does not mind being questioned – A lie does not like being challenged” Brian Weiner 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 The political chaos Read more
I am but a single drop in a limitless ocean, but what is an ocean but a multitude of drops? David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 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 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. It would be too easy to just record that the future was going to get better for humanity and 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. I still recall the profound sadness I experienced as a young woman at the numbers of people whose life 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. It is hard for our young in 2112 to fully understand how so many of the world’s population in 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. My Father, a great influence on me, was originally grounded in the status quo of recognized scientific information of Read more
Regular readers will recognize that I usually follow a theme for a while before switching gears and writing on something else. If anyone wants me to write on anything specifically, just let me know by email to richardjurin@outlook.com (email found at bottom of my blog page one). “Any sufficiently advanced Read more
“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else” Leonardo Da Vinci. “As our own species is in the process of proving. One cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying”Arthur Read more
“Quite an experience, to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave” Roy Batty, Blade Runner (movie). “Safety and security have become their own arguments. Officials and organizations seem to believe that the mere mention of these words is enough—no further justification is needed. Safety Read more
A Happy New Year to everyone, everywhere. This is of course using the Gregorian calendar, which is the dominant one used at the point for most global businesses. But it might be good to remind everyone that it isn’t just the Chinese that have a different date for the New Read more
A quick diversion from my Espe stories. It’s a major holiday today here in the U.S. and many western countries – Christmas – but my comments are about what it ought to be not what it has become. One of the newer Christmas movies in the west is ‘Love Actually’ Read more
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Esperanza (Espe) from 2112 about the start of the transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. “You can argue all day about whether one person not using straws or going vegan makes a global difference. Read more
In July 2009 there was a TV program on US television called Earth 2100. The essence of this program was a business-as-usual worst-case scenario of what might happen if we do not make any major decision about changing our westernized consumer lifestyles in the very near future. Rather than the Read more
” There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong” Hindu Proverb. Sustainable Read more
“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad“ Leo Tolstoy. We must avoid the alarmism that is so prevalent with environmental activism and politics. We have some serious challenges Read more