And if you accept that as a truth, what are you going to DO about it? Accept it and live under its shackles, or reject, resist, overthrow?
I think we are beyond the point of no return...
My 'sense' of what's happening in the world is usually about two years ahead of the curve... and it's usually pretty accurate - say somewhere between 80-100%...
And what I've been seeing/sensing coming (for about the last six months), is societal breakdown on the back of planet degradation, financial collapse, food and water shortages...
I'm not alone in these views; indigenous elders have been warning about this coming for hundreds (if not thousands) of years, western mystics have foreshadowed it, and even hard-headed academics who are not necessarily in tune with 'energy' are stepping out into the open on this...
Some are calling what is coming the "Post-Industrial Stone Age"...
And why do I think it's going to get so bad?
Some are calling what is coming the "Post-Industrial Stone Age"...
And why do I think it's going to get so bad?
WE ARE LIVING IN A CLOSED LOOP....
ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED - IT CAN ONLY BE TRANSFORMED...
SO, IF WE ARE LIVING ON A PLANET THAT HAS FINITE ENERGY/RESOURCES, IT IS COMPLETELY ILLOGICAL TO THINK WE CAN HAVE INFINITE GROWTH... it just does not make sense, no matter how you look at it...
We're literally trashing our planet, contaminating and killing the earth and the waters and the air, damaging and disrupting natural cycles like the weather, driving other life-forms to extinction, and with our uncontrolled population growth, we've been spreading like a viral plague...
It's been said that if we wanted all people on the planet to live as westerners do, we'd need the resources of at least four Earths...
Most of the planet's wealth and power is concentrated in the hands of less than 3% of the planet's population. Everything's been commodified. Now it's not just the Third World poor who can't afford food, water or shelter - millions in the west are in the same boat...
Here in the US, the housing market has not yet finished its downward spiral; each week foreclosures go up and house prices go down...
The real unemployment/underemployment rate is hovering around 30%; 44 million people receive food stamps and 25% of American children are living in poverty.
This in the richest country in the world, while trillions of dollars are being spent on senseless wars/fighting for control of far off places....
In one news story, they tell us that X number of jobs have been created last month... at the next news bulletin, they say that unemployment has climbed yet again... NEVER ONCE, DO YOU GET BOTH SETS OF INFORMATION IN THE SAME NEWS STORY, so that you can tell the number of jobs lost EXCEED the number of jobs created...
Things are worse now than during the Depression, but no one wants to call it that; instead, this time we're living through the Great Recession!
The worst the 'experts' will say is that it will take several years to climb out of this pit...
But our way of life (social structure, economic and political philosophies) got us into this mess, and continuing on with the same ideas and actions will never get us out of it...
We're literally trashing our planet, contaminating and killing the earth and the waters and the air, damaging and disrupting natural cycles like the weather, driving other life-forms to extinction, and with our uncontrolled population growth, we've been spreading like a viral plague...
It's been said that if we wanted all people on the planet to live as westerners do, we'd need the resources of at least four Earths...
Most of the planet's wealth and power is concentrated in the hands of less than 3% of the planet's population. Everything's been commodified. Now it's not just the Third World poor who can't afford food, water or shelter - millions in the west are in the same boat...
Here in the US, the housing market has not yet finished its downward spiral; each week foreclosures go up and house prices go down...
The real unemployment/underemployment rate is hovering around 30%; 44 million people receive food stamps and 25% of American children are living in poverty.
This in the richest country in the world, while trillions of dollars are being spent on senseless wars/fighting for control of far off places....
In one news story, they tell us that X number of jobs have been created last month... at the next news bulletin, they say that unemployment has climbed yet again... NEVER ONCE, DO YOU GET BOTH SETS OF INFORMATION IN THE SAME NEWS STORY, so that you can tell the number of jobs lost EXCEED the number of jobs created...
Things are worse now than during the Depression, but no one wants to call it that; instead, this time we're living through the Great Recession!
The worst the 'experts' will say is that it will take several years to climb out of this pit...
But our way of life (social structure, economic and political philosophies) got us into this mess, and continuing on with the same ideas and actions will never get us out of it...
And I believe the oligarchs know this... but knowing this, they continue to push us all down this path... they appear willing, determined even, to suck the very LIFE out of us and the earth, the mother who carries us all...
So what's next? Where do we take this knowledge and build on it?
Maybe the best we can do is get together with like-minded people...
Get as far off the grid as we can...
Create connections and networks and ways of living that make minimum impact on the earth and her resources and wait it out...
While we're waiting it out, support each other and work together to come up with a different system of social organisation - perhaps "thrivalism" in small communities, perhaps a resource-based economy...
Maybe a "Triple P" society, where the focus is Planet, People, Prosperity...
Where, before we make any decision and take any action, we ask ourselves:
Is it good for the Planet?
Is it good for all the People?
Does it bring Prosperity (which is different to profit)?
If the answer to any of these questions is "no", then we scrap whatever the idea/plan/action is...
What do you think?
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I think there is a spiritual battle going on between good and evil, one of our own making to be sure, and manifesting as the reality we see around us. But it is a projection and since we are more than a physical body, it is not really solidly real even though it appears so to us.
ReplyDeleteI believe we are players in a game; the goal of which ultimately is to not fear our own demise. But while we have this life which allows us to learn, understand and become enlightened, we have to try our personal best to do what is right simply because that is the right thing to do.
The more we do that, the more we realize that although the world is doomed we have indeed won the spiritual war and can ultimately rest in peace.
I'm really grateful for your insight/words, Conny.... you articulate an understanding that I have been feeling my way towards over the past few months... thank you... Namaste
ReplyDeleteI intuit that we are very much alike not only in our views of the external world but also in the experience of our inner, spiritual one. I find that so much of what you shared in that wonderful interview is what I feel and believe as well, but you have the gift to vocalize it well. It is music to my ears to listen to you speak of that found gnosis on BlogtalkRadio with Tamara! <3 to you! Namaste!
ReplyDeletevery happy to have you in my life! and am honoured that you find value in what I experience and express....
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Namaste
It's like the Mahabharata... the great battle of Kurukshetra. The "bad" guys were plotting constantly against the "good" guys. When it finally came down to fighting in the battle, Krishna himself went to the front line to negotiate a deal... but the bad guys would not accept giving the good guys so much land as you could put on a head of a pin to avoid the conflict. Both sides were decimated.
ReplyDelete@Meryl... our collective "death wish" egos are in the way.... wonder what it will take to move/dissolve them?
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