“Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it” Erin Bury I just spent three weeks in the Silicon Valley area of California. I toured the Facebook campus and ran through the Read more
There are some modern philosophers that have commented, “The young do not question the wrongs of adults, they just suffer the poor decisions.” We are at a critical point in human history where our descendants will look back on us Read more
I went online and looked at many varying opinions about 5G and health effects. Like most issues, the opinions were quite polarized. It really came down to the telecom industry and scientists (most that were connected to the telecom industry Read more
Regular readers will notice that I write a lot about how we think and how that in turn creates the world in which we live. Whether we get a dystopia or a utopia is completely dependent on what we believe Read more
“You are not responsible for the programming you received in childhood. But as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.” Tiny Buddha.com Laying down new neural pathways is a key to reprogramming our brains (see previous post VISION Read more
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E Frankl In psychology it is said that the best predictor of Read more
The greatest threat to our planet is the [disempowering] belief that someone else will save it. Earth Guardians I have talked with people about why we seem to have so little faith in our own better angels. Experiences with greed Read more
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas One of the biggest problems we have is not all the chaos we see in the world, it is how we live with each other. We Read more
Your thoughts are you and your body and mind. Over 80-90% of your thinking is literally the same as yesterday. You worries, anxieties, and the story you tell yourself is unchanging as you listen to the ego-voice in your head. Read more
When I moved away from being a research biochemist, I found myself exploring and researching about beliefs. What intrigued me was why they were barriers to environmental changes that I perceived should be a no brainer to make for a Read more
I was asked to expand on the idea of chaos that I brought up in the last post. A universal principle is that de-construction occurs before re-construction. Whether it be a supernova or collapse and rebuilding of a ‘civilization, the Read more
“The most important ally in creating a new sustainable world is one with hard skeptics that have a fully open mind to all possibilities. Pseudo-skeptics (of which the majority belong) are irrational in that they automatically dismiss anything that does Read more
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein When we talk of entrainment, dispel notions of brainwashing – this is not a situation in the films like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ or ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ You always have Read more
“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change it, or accept it. All else is madness.” Eckhart Tolle. Regular readers of this blog will understand why I concentrate on the communication of topics around Sustainable Living Read more
“What we have at many levels in our world is denial of the obvious.” Richard Jurin Although this goes against the grain for most religious people, we a multidimensional beings playing at being human. We have been doing it for Read more
“Time and Space are modes by which we think, and not conditions by which we live.” Albert Einstein We exist within a field, and this field responds to our thinking, our consciousness. All limitations in our life exist because we Read more
This next collection of posts builds on previous posts (The non-solid universe 1-4) and rational for its connection to Living Sustainably (Transformation not Reformation – Reclaiming our Power is a Spiritual Transformation NOT a Mental One – even deeper down Read more
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself or herself” Leo Tolstoy. I will be going down the rabbit hole a bit more on this post. If you undergo a physical trauma then you need Read more
As a continuation to my last post about the precautionary tale of simply accepting mainstream authority as holders of the scientific gospels, I will explain further how money backed science and medicine came to dominate our lives today. Many years Read more
In much earlier posts (Health – Sickcare 1 & 2) I have talked about the Microbiome and its importance to our personal health. There is much news about more natural health care, but then there is also the response from Read more
When I was still teaching about sustainability, I sometimes used the simulation program Sim City. The first time I used this program was back in the early 1990s. (SimCity is a city-building and urban planning simulation game.) What becomes clear Read more
I have made a big deal about us all needing to be involved as active participants in manifesting a new and better future. I get a lot of comments from friends and students about what kind of political and economic Read more
I am amazed that I have to actually say this but the transition requires us to make a decision away from the consumer paradigm. WE don’t have to leave all the creature comforts and luxuries behind – let me dispel Read more
As an academic, in a university setting, I found myself leading a sustainability degree program and the charge for many sustainability projects and situations that I felt needed change on campus and within the local communities. I would not say Read more
I have spoken of the desperate need to rethink and change our global economic systems (see previous post The world Economy – are we really doing better? Measurement is everything!). Bhutan has metrics in place since 1998 to measure Gross Read more
I get a lot of comments from readers. One recent one was about going more in depth on some of the topics. That has always been my goal and my blog posts tend to build on previous ones. Indeed, regular Read more
One of the greatest gifts we have is free will. Yet, so many, because of conditioned fear and anxiety, relinquish their free will to some kind of authoritarian system that does not have their best interest as a priority. When Read more
I was able to do a lot of reading over the holiday period. As we begin a new year, a little backtrack to emphasize much of what we all seem to keep forgetting. All of the ideas I express in Read more
In the previous post I outlined how one of the most pressing problems of the day in 1899 had been the widespread accumulation of horse poop, but how that had been resolved by the adoption of a new technology – Read more
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 Read more