The USA saw an interesting election this past Tuesday. I’m not going to discuss the outcome with any dichotomous judgment – it is what it is. I have friends on both sides of this political isle and they are decent people. Of course there is a lot of name calling Read more…
Bertolt Brecht’s quote “Grub first, then morals” (Grub – slang for food) suggests that people should prioritize their basic demands before they can concentrate on even more abstract principles, like morals. It is a suggestion that individuals must not neglect their standard needs in order to concentrate on greater ideals. Read more…
“I don’t want to protect the environment; I want to create a world where the environment doesn’t need protecting. The Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it, but part of it. Its health is our health” Thomas Moore. In the Read more…
In this week’s post wrapping up why we must have a Sustainability Revolution if we and the planet are to thrive, I offer a simplified explanation of the big separation and how to heal it. Most readers will acknowledge that I am a great believer in personal sovereignty and self-actualization, 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 freedom” Viktor Frankel. If we are to thrive in the new world coming, we need two major things to change. One is to move Read more…
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…
“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…
“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…
“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…
” 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…
I have written about needs hierarchies and the need for purpose in our lives (e.g., PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY 3 – Overcoming Life’s hurdles and Becoming Happy and Free yet still Connecting, Contributing and Creating Positively {}). The needs models (e.g., Maslow, Alderfer, Murray, Atkinson) all state that sense of purpose or Read more…
“We seem to understand the value of oil, timber, minerals, and housing, but not the value of unspoiled beauty, wildlife, solitude, and spiritual renewal” Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes). We live in a global societal system (or systems if you want to separate further) that seems to dwell on the Read more…
We live on an amazing planet full of teeming and diverse life forms with replenishable resources we can use to give us wonderful lives. Being spiritual means to care for the planet, because if we do, it will nurture us as well. But we cannot go on as we have Read more…
Back during the Roman times, soldiers were often paid in ‘Salt’ (it is the Latin origin of the word salary), which they could barter for other goods they wanted. Salt has an intrinsic value and has multiple uses besides spicing up your food – one of its primary uses for Read more…
“The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. The truth applies to individuals and institutions.” Michael Margolis. I had two recent posts on this blog (Spiritual Crisis is the World’s Greatest Problem Part 1 & 2) Read more…
“Opinion is the lowest from of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The Highest form of knowledge … is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self-kind of understanding.” Bill Bullard To regular visitors Read more…
A short diversion from Flow to discuss something that we need to fully digest before I come back to how to get to a sustainable world. Do you handle your life or does your life handle you? Do you use love as a weapon or allow Love to work through 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 future behavior is past behavior, which is because of the 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 and the lack of community seem to be the main 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 have created them at the deepest level of our psyche. 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…
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…
I was listening to a short U-tube talk by Vandana Shiva, a brilliant philosopher from India. She really put things into simple perspective. It got me to thinking again how we transform the world to one we want to see – I’ve talked about this several times in this blog Read more…