Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 22: New and Quantum Technologies – part 3: The LACK of wisdom!

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 21: New and Quantum Technologies – part 2: Breakthroughs

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 20: New and Quantum Technologies – part 1: Overview

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 19: Our Humanness and Divinity – Part 2

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 18: Our Humanness and Divinity – Part 1

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 17: Creativity and Innovation

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 16: New Prosperity

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 15: Transformation.

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 14: Global Transformation – Part 4 – Alliances, Compassion and Wisdom

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 13: Global Transformation – Part 3 – Collaborations for Change

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 12: Global Transformation – Part 2 – A New Political Reality.

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 11: Global Transformation – Overview  – part 1

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 10: Health and Global Healing – part 2

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 9: Health and Global Healing – part 1

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 8: Population Drawdown – part 2

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 7: Population Drawdown – part 1

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 6: It’s all about ENERGY – part 2

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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 5: It’s all about ENERGY – part 1

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 4: Creating our Sovereignty

“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

Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part 2: The Transformation started

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

Creating Sustainable Community – Part 10: The spiritual path – all about choices.

” 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

Creating Sustainable Community – Part 9: Transforming politics

“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

Creating Sustainable Community – Part 8: Regenerative Thinking

Even those who are on-board with a sustainable paradigm are often still hampered by a way of thinking that has been conditioned into them their whole lives.  It’s a part of the system we live within generally titled ‘consumerism.’   I talk a lot about this and if you rad any Read more

Creating Sustainable Community – Part 7: Develop community for now more like a ‘Cruise Ship’ with existing levels of SES, but all sharing community resources, benefits and effort as a Transition-Intentional Community. 

An unusual title about the cruise ship, but let me explain more.  In my research on worldviews (see, Richard’s Research on Worldviews and why he is optimistic about a transformation {June 2018}) I describe four main groups of how people are people are likely move to a sustainable paradigm.  The Read more

Creating Sustainable Community – Part 6: Develop Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) currency and expand to sub-regional economies as it catches on

If anything, 2020, as bad as it was with the lockdowns and disease fear mongering by gullible true believers and public health authorities, was a great year because it began the awakening of so many people to the harsh system that has been controlling us for millennia.  And why might Read more

Creating Sustainable Community – Part 5: The Problem with Climate Disruption and Green Deals – Part 2

Waiting for governments, corporations, and monied elites to solve our Climate Disruption is akin to asking a fox for the best way to rebuild the chicken coop.  I read an article this week about how investment company Vanguard sees a lot of financial benefits that can be realized in pursuing Read more