Totally agree. We are at a significant transition point in human history. Individually, we have access to knowledge and resources that our parents, grandparents, and all our ancestors could not imagine having. Our limitations are of two types. One is perception. This is mostly of our self-perception, what we believe is individually possible for us to accomplish. Two is the limitation of the structures of organizations and cultures. People are not free to do their best. We must play by the rules that no longer make sense for the world we live in. I am convinced that both limitations will fall away as we transition to new time of human flourishing. I, too, agree that people are beginning to awaken to this new situation.
Personally, I think that the world has always been going to hell in a hand-cart, whilst simultaneously always on the verge of mass enlightenment! Seems that way to me anyway.
My favourite practice is not to try and stimulate the vagus response, or come out of SNS activation, as for me personally I find, on a certain level, such concepts only exacerbate the mental control issue further. As in, "I am in this, but I should be in this."
I prefer the path of "opening the body, feeling the body."
Perhaps it is always like that, and I have only become aware recently - although things do feel a lot more dramatic and fraught than when I was a kid - or even pre-covid. I would tend to agree on your second point... here is something I wrote a while back:
"The trouble with being chronically ill is that usually we have lost our interoception, the senses of our own internal states. One of these is sense of tiredness, especially when feeling chronically fatigued a lot as then it is even harder to work out when we are just normally tired. There is also a serious temptation to go hammer and tongs at the neural exercises we hope will make us better. Unfortunately, this is not how neuroplasticity works - too much of a good thing isn't better. This type of healing process can't be rushed. It takes time. Indeed, even only a few minutes a day on any particular neural exercise may be all that is needed for long term benefits, but over-doing do it just exhausts the system more and more, which can actually be detrimental, especially when we find it hard to tell that the work is making us tired. The danger is we just keep hammering a way at it, exhausting our system further and further in a negative spiral of descent.
"The second issue is that a very significant factor for many of us becoming ill in the first place is that we hold ourselves to impossible standards. This is often translated to our healing processes, so when we don't manage to fit in a busy schedule of neural exercises into our day (because eventually our body says no), we end up making it all worse by feeling like we're failures, or getting stuck in looping thoughts of self-doubt and guilt. Again, another spiral of descent.
We need to remember that healing is primarily about neuromodulation and neurorelaxation, calming our nervous and endocrine systems, and thus, while relaxation techniques are crucial for healing, being relaxed about our healing activities is also vital for increasing our aliveness. This is why I recommend healing exercises should always be done in the spirit of fun, joy and curiosity - or not at all! It should be part of our day when our inner child can come out to play!"
Thank you so much for that response. This is how I feel presently as my boyfriend lay dying. I am exhausted and my pain is overwhelming. I don't seem to be able t calm my nervous system. I am in high alert. Reading this response to Devaraj helped.
Keep sorting and sifting through your scrambled nerves Yvonne , there will be a place to step by step keep moving forwards - and you will not ever regret this place in the forest , the brambles , the mud , the beauty -- it is intense and that can register as pain -- but you would not want it any other way when your future self looks back . The pain or fear of fatigue slows us down and allows us to be more careful with our own self , and especially , with the people near us who we are "Being There " for . Blessings on your path --
Yes, it also seems to me that things, certainly in the West, are more fraught since 2020. (For decades, I actually had the intuition to write a book with that title - 2020 - referring to the point when we could see everything. Never did it. Would prob be a millionaire now if I had!)
I think you are right about interoception and I think it is getting ubiquitous and a core issue. I don't know if anyone will ever monitor the insula, or whatever, and prove this, should that be possible. But our access to the sense of the body does seem to be decreasing as we become more triggered by external events.
I don't think we can avoid the inner journey aspect, in all that is going on. The first thing for me is to acknowledge that the possibility, say, of machine takeover is not "evil" per se, rather it is triggering. The thought of it happening cuts into our psychological programming and provokes an NS response. This we must investigate as much as resist.
this is a copy cut paste from Wikipedia about the word " Interoception " which I decided to look up . Write the book , make it a series of stories , and switch up the narrators OF the stories -- to help people learn how to see IN to their inner workings . You actually are ALREADY writing the book , in your series of posts , like the one about the cold swim , and the river hounds , watching . - here is the etemology of the word : History and etymology
Early to mid-1900s
The concept of interoception was introduced in 1906 by the Nobel Laureate Sir Charles S. Sherrington. He did not use the noun interoception, but did describe as interoceptive[12] those receptors that are within the viscera—what are today called "visceroceptive"—and thus excluded all other receptors and information from the body, which he grouped as either exteroceptive or proprioceptive. In Sherrington's model, exteroceptive receptors were those that received information from outward stimuli, like light, touch, sound, and odor. He classified temperature and nociception as exteroceptive sensations as well, though these are now regarded as having interoceptive qualities.[2][14] He further divided the internal milieu of the body by its somatic and autonomic functions. And proprioceptors were those found in skeletal tissue that control voluntary movement. For him, interoceptors (a term which has lost prevalence in modern literature) were thus confined to visceral involuntary smooth muscle (e.g. surrounding blood vessels).[18]
Further work on interoceptive processing after Sherrington was delayed for many years owing to the influential claim by John Newport Langley that the autonomic nervous system used only efferent (brain-to-body) signaling to implement its functions.[19][20] By the 1950s and 1960s, many investigations of interoceptive processing had been conducted, and once it had become apparent that interoceptive receptors are present in many tissues of the body other researchers began to investigate afferent body-to-brain signals, mainly by conducting animal experiments to see if interoceptive conditioning was possible. Using principles of Pavlovian conditioning, different physiological systems in dogs were perturbed to elicit a conditioned response to food.[20] For example, in one experiment, dogs' pelvises were distended using infusions of solution when food was presented to them. After rounds of pairing the two, salivation occurred without presenting food once the pelvis was distended.[20] Interoceptive conditioning studies like this illustrated that interoceptive sensations may be important for learned behavior and emotion.[20]
I think that healing is the place where the inner and the outer meet - and healers are a part of humanity for ever - but both healer and wounded must trust and connect . Having had the experience of healing the healer - a hand surgeon who had a problem with the skin on his hands , and I was able to give him information he did not have - I saw how seriously we NEED each other . I actually believe that both patient and doctor must enter the room with the same level of need and humility for the story to merge and arrive . This is why I know that people who are walking in suffering , are actually bringing us all gifts of sensitivity and knowledge , as you actually do Gary . Keep Going Strong , I really liked this post , I like the guru's song at the end . It fits in with a small children's theater play I am working on . - My future bright , I got the key , the key is ME ! Getting this connection with the ME of the self , be it the mind or the body , is super important , and it is the story that most propoganda works at destroying - I think it's important to see the stuff of the external confusion - merely propoganda . Nothing more , nothing less .
This really hits it home for me. I can so relate. It is rather oxymoronic to feel one has to "struggle" to relax! But many feel it's a genuine challenge. Time is one key.
Yes thank you Gary - I have been feeling, reflecting and writing on this as well. Prophetic times, in the sense of tipping points ecologically and as to what the human species prospects are for the future. Liminality arises in transition times, and is an achievement of cultural imagination in itself, whereby something new may emerge from the broken narratives of a degraded noosphere.
The mass slaughter of innocents makes right action even more precious and pressing: to have voices of nonviolent agency heard in these times, to stand and be counted, to collaborate on building a positive future. Abundant system design is available to us, necessitating new forms of economic exchange and a release of the usurious extractive colonization current of society. Indigenous cultures and leaders seem way ahead of the curve, along with some holistic pathways, and I am sure there are many people holding pure prayerful space around the world always to help keep us in some balance.
When I read Arthur Firstenberg's newsletter, I am further compelled to try to help humanity take a better path. With a million cell phone satellites applying to be launched into the ionosphere, and the insect and bird populations already in precipitous decline from too many towers destroying the Invisible Rainbow, there is no time to lose in any benevolent campaigns in so many directions. The question of agency is an important one - who can lead?
What I envision is a vast Truth and Reconciliation process, and multi-generational effort to heal divisions along with healing the ecology. But the stakes and demands of current events in the Middle East command it begin there. Nonviolent campaigns of prayerful presence to unwind the root causes of war. Empathy Action teams, Restorative Circles, massive trauma care... so much can be done, with some courage and creativity.
An international Jubilee Bank has also been tugging at my imagination, as a form of remediation, remedy, repair, and reparation. An international clearinghouse by which debtor nations begin to receive debt forgiveness in exchange for massive investments in agreed-upon remediation, as the beginning of a return to the rule of common law. Restorative justice will call for massive amnesty as so many are collaborators in the unjust system which has ruled for so long. Surely, human ingenuity can be put to working on such an economic and legal model. Our tasks already will still fill decades.
While these ideas seem idealistic, they are also suddenly practical, for we can also see that with further destruction, genocide, and even nuclear calamity are another road, one that would set such inevitable work back centuries. The elimination of the human species is likewise within imagination - isn't this enough to turn us toward a better road now? How about repurposing the suddenly useless vast US military to an international green new deal, funded by the debt-reduction jubilee clearinghouse?
Surely, it is time to begin such efforts. The Palestinian people facing annihilation, the conundrums of Israel itself call for such a massive paradigm shift, an emergent dimension of solution-based awareness, far beyond the level of thinking (involving violence, deception, and greed) that created the now-collapsing empire and ponzi scheme of colonialism.
How about John Liu's proposal to re-green the Sinai to such abundant beauty as to once and now again be called the land of milk and honey, with side benefits of reducing global desertification by shifting critical global wind patterns? Might such permaculture restoration of the cradle of civilization be an important leverage point in this new direction?
And forgiveness ultimately? Maybe some sacrifice was part of how the world of science and materialism has been created, but according to all my teachers, guides, and instincts, it now continues at collective existential peril. Native traditions and ceremony elucidate this better than I can. I work at re-indigenizing myself to the natural human roots and the holistic birthrights we all have. What about the right to exist on land without paying exorbitant fees to do so! Landback yes, and so much more! Thanks for the soapbox, and the prompt of your concise and important essay!
Thank you for the shout out, Gary. I very much appreciate this piece and agree to a growing awakening. The squeeze we are currently experiencing has a flip side - and that's a more expanded place. They seem to go together. And yes, the stories we tell ourselves, so important. As are the stories we tell other. Best.
I was recently reading/watching about the two different timelines — the false-white-light artificial timeline of the predators/parasites, based on the mechanistic 10-Tree and Fibonacci sequence, and the Krystal Spiral organic Divine timeline, which is based on the 12-Tree Creation code — and how they recently crossed paths. According to the presenter of this information, every human being has to consciously choose (or *had to choose*) the organic timeline before the paths crossed, or they would automatically default to the devouring artificial timeline. It is very interesting, to say the least.
Yes, very definitely: I feel there are enough glimmers that it is still possible to live in hope, In fact, I'd say there's more than that: I DEEPLY INNER-KNOW there are enough glimmers that WE CAN, OFTEN BE LIVING in THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE CAN BE PART OF CREATING WHAT WE ENVISAGE. Sorry for the many caps. I just wanted to change your statement by a word or 2 so it became accurate for me - and as I went along realized that over and over it did not quite fit for me. Do you know the 12 Rules for Survival? I'll paste it in below.
I have been saying this since before the pandemic and more intensely feeling it after the pandemic began. Thank you for putting it so well here. We are in the birth canal.
Still very relevant. So much has changed in the last year and yet so much, the same. I imagine we've all been in a process of integration - perhaps even an integration of the Divided Brain - which requires untangling and separating out, before again, newly reintegrating.
I think this happens over and over, and we only tend to notice it in retrospect. "Oh, last year I would responded so differently if this happened."
Deep changes happening individually and socially. I'm more optimistic than I was last year, and yet, also less sure about how things unfold. Less attached to timing, more accepting, while also feeling a greater urgency to engage. Maybe the paradoxes that show up in dualistic framing, are moving into a kind of embodied knowing that holds those framings lightly - as if a larger awareness in us knows they too will be integrated.
"Long form allows us to access an increasing number of truly remarkable and enlightened folks emerging all across the planet, with potentially life-changing learnings to share, and for fellow travellers on the path to awakening to find and amplify each other."
Absolutely. It is the antithesis of the atomizing social media trap, in that sense. When we use technology in the way many of us are doing here, what could be used as a tool of great evil becomes a tool of goodness and light.
I think that's what sometimes gets lost in the debates about transhumanism and the Machine; it isn't that our tools are bad. It's that were trying to use flamethrowers to open up tuna cans, or battle axes to vacuum our rugs. Too many of us are just plain "doing it wrong," and are being encouraged to go on doing it wrong by some very sinister people.
Totally agree. We are at a significant transition point in human history. Individually, we have access to knowledge and resources that our parents, grandparents, and all our ancestors could not imagine having. Our limitations are of two types. One is perception. This is mostly of our self-perception, what we believe is individually possible for us to accomplish. Two is the limitation of the structures of organizations and cultures. People are not free to do their best. We must play by the rules that no longer make sense for the world we live in. I am convinced that both limitations will fall away as we transition to new time of human flourishing. I, too, agree that people are beginning to awaken to this new situation.
Thank you. From reading your posts, you are one of the most awake and came to this very early.
Same here. Thanks.
Could you be more specific? I am probably not the only one who isn’t clear about you are actually criticizing.
Personally, I think that the world has always been going to hell in a hand-cart, whilst simultaneously always on the verge of mass enlightenment! Seems that way to me anyway.
My favourite practice is not to try and stimulate the vagus response, or come out of SNS activation, as for me personally I find, on a certain level, such concepts only exacerbate the mental control issue further. As in, "I am in this, but I should be in this."
I prefer the path of "opening the body, feeling the body."
Perhaps it is always like that, and I have only become aware recently - although things do feel a lot more dramatic and fraught than when I was a kid - or even pre-covid. I would tend to agree on your second point... here is something I wrote a while back:
"The trouble with being chronically ill is that usually we have lost our interoception, the senses of our own internal states. One of these is sense of tiredness, especially when feeling chronically fatigued a lot as then it is even harder to work out when we are just normally tired. There is also a serious temptation to go hammer and tongs at the neural exercises we hope will make us better. Unfortunately, this is not how neuroplasticity works - too much of a good thing isn't better. This type of healing process can't be rushed. It takes time. Indeed, even only a few minutes a day on any particular neural exercise may be all that is needed for long term benefits, but over-doing do it just exhausts the system more and more, which can actually be detrimental, especially when we find it hard to tell that the work is making us tired. The danger is we just keep hammering a way at it, exhausting our system further and further in a negative spiral of descent.
"The second issue is that a very significant factor for many of us becoming ill in the first place is that we hold ourselves to impossible standards. This is often translated to our healing processes, so when we don't manage to fit in a busy schedule of neural exercises into our day (because eventually our body says no), we end up making it all worse by feeling like we're failures, or getting stuck in looping thoughts of self-doubt and guilt. Again, another spiral of descent.
We need to remember that healing is primarily about neuromodulation and neurorelaxation, calming our nervous and endocrine systems, and thus, while relaxation techniques are crucial for healing, being relaxed about our healing activities is also vital for increasing our aliveness. This is why I recommend healing exercises should always be done in the spirit of fun, joy and curiosity - or not at all! It should be part of our day when our inner child can come out to play!"
Thank you so much for that response. This is how I feel presently as my boyfriend lay dying. I am exhausted and my pain is overwhelming. I don't seem to be able t calm my nervous system. I am in high alert. Reading this response to Devaraj helped.
So very sorry to hear this. Glad my words helped a little.
Keep sorting and sifting through your scrambled nerves Yvonne , there will be a place to step by step keep moving forwards - and you will not ever regret this place in the forest , the brambles , the mud , the beauty -- it is intense and that can register as pain -- but you would not want it any other way when your future self looks back . The pain or fear of fatigue slows us down and allows us to be more careful with our own self , and especially , with the people near us who we are "Being There " for . Blessings on your path --
Yes, it also seems to me that things, certainly in the West, are more fraught since 2020. (For decades, I actually had the intuition to write a book with that title - 2020 - referring to the point when we could see everything. Never did it. Would prob be a millionaire now if I had!)
I think you are right about interoception and I think it is getting ubiquitous and a core issue. I don't know if anyone will ever monitor the insula, or whatever, and prove this, should that be possible. But our access to the sense of the body does seem to be decreasing as we become more triggered by external events.
I don't think we can avoid the inner journey aspect, in all that is going on. The first thing for me is to acknowledge that the possibility, say, of machine takeover is not "evil" per se, rather it is triggering. The thought of it happening cuts into our psychological programming and provokes an NS response. This we must investigate as much as resist.
this is a copy cut paste from Wikipedia about the word " Interoception " which I decided to look up . Write the book , make it a series of stories , and switch up the narrators OF the stories -- to help people learn how to see IN to their inner workings . You actually are ALREADY writing the book , in your series of posts , like the one about the cold swim , and the river hounds , watching . - here is the etemology of the word : History and etymology
Early to mid-1900s
The concept of interoception was introduced in 1906 by the Nobel Laureate Sir Charles S. Sherrington. He did not use the noun interoception, but did describe as interoceptive[12] those receptors that are within the viscera—what are today called "visceroceptive"—and thus excluded all other receptors and information from the body, which he grouped as either exteroceptive or proprioceptive. In Sherrington's model, exteroceptive receptors were those that received information from outward stimuli, like light, touch, sound, and odor. He classified temperature and nociception as exteroceptive sensations as well, though these are now regarded as having interoceptive qualities.[2][14] He further divided the internal milieu of the body by its somatic and autonomic functions. And proprioceptors were those found in skeletal tissue that control voluntary movement. For him, interoceptors (a term which has lost prevalence in modern literature) were thus confined to visceral involuntary smooth muscle (e.g. surrounding blood vessels).[18]
Further work on interoceptive processing after Sherrington was delayed for many years owing to the influential claim by John Newport Langley that the autonomic nervous system used only efferent (brain-to-body) signaling to implement its functions.[19][20] By the 1950s and 1960s, many investigations of interoceptive processing had been conducted, and once it had become apparent that interoceptive receptors are present in many tissues of the body other researchers began to investigate afferent body-to-brain signals, mainly by conducting animal experiments to see if interoceptive conditioning was possible. Using principles of Pavlovian conditioning, different physiological systems in dogs were perturbed to elicit a conditioned response to food.[20] For example, in one experiment, dogs' pelvises were distended using infusions of solution when food was presented to them. After rounds of pairing the two, salivation occurred without presenting food once the pelvis was distended.[20] Interoceptive conditioning studies like this illustrated that interoceptive sensations may be important for learned behavior and emotion.[20]
I think that healing is the place where the inner and the outer meet - and healers are a part of humanity for ever - but both healer and wounded must trust and connect . Having had the experience of healing the healer - a hand surgeon who had a problem with the skin on his hands , and I was able to give him information he did not have - I saw how seriously we NEED each other . I actually believe that both patient and doctor must enter the room with the same level of need and humility for the story to merge and arrive . This is why I know that people who are walking in suffering , are actually bringing us all gifts of sensitivity and knowledge , as you actually do Gary . Keep Going Strong , I really liked this post , I like the guru's song at the end . It fits in with a small children's theater play I am working on . - My future bright , I got the key , the key is ME ! Getting this connection with the ME of the self , be it the mind or the body , is super important , and it is the story that most propoganda works at destroying - I think it's important to see the stuff of the external confusion - merely propoganda . Nothing more , nothing less .
This really hits it home for me. I can so relate. It is rather oxymoronic to feel one has to "struggle" to relax! But many feel it's a genuine challenge. Time is one key.
Yes thank you Gary - I have been feeling, reflecting and writing on this as well. Prophetic times, in the sense of tipping points ecologically and as to what the human species prospects are for the future. Liminality arises in transition times, and is an achievement of cultural imagination in itself, whereby something new may emerge from the broken narratives of a degraded noosphere.
The mass slaughter of innocents makes right action even more precious and pressing: to have voices of nonviolent agency heard in these times, to stand and be counted, to collaborate on building a positive future. Abundant system design is available to us, necessitating new forms of economic exchange and a release of the usurious extractive colonization current of society. Indigenous cultures and leaders seem way ahead of the curve, along with some holistic pathways, and I am sure there are many people holding pure prayerful space around the world always to help keep us in some balance.
When I read Arthur Firstenberg's newsletter, I am further compelled to try to help humanity take a better path. With a million cell phone satellites applying to be launched into the ionosphere, and the insect and bird populations already in precipitous decline from too many towers destroying the Invisible Rainbow, there is no time to lose in any benevolent campaigns in so many directions. The question of agency is an important one - who can lead?
What I envision is a vast Truth and Reconciliation process, and multi-generational effort to heal divisions along with healing the ecology. But the stakes and demands of current events in the Middle East command it begin there. Nonviolent campaigns of prayerful presence to unwind the root causes of war. Empathy Action teams, Restorative Circles, massive trauma care... so much can be done, with some courage and creativity.
An international Jubilee Bank has also been tugging at my imagination, as a form of remediation, remedy, repair, and reparation. An international clearinghouse by which debtor nations begin to receive debt forgiveness in exchange for massive investments in agreed-upon remediation, as the beginning of a return to the rule of common law. Restorative justice will call for massive amnesty as so many are collaborators in the unjust system which has ruled for so long. Surely, human ingenuity can be put to working on such an economic and legal model. Our tasks already will still fill decades.
While these ideas seem idealistic, they are also suddenly practical, for we can also see that with further destruction, genocide, and even nuclear calamity are another road, one that would set such inevitable work back centuries. The elimination of the human species is likewise within imagination - isn't this enough to turn us toward a better road now? How about repurposing the suddenly useless vast US military to an international green new deal, funded by the debt-reduction jubilee clearinghouse?
Surely, it is time to begin such efforts. The Palestinian people facing annihilation, the conundrums of Israel itself call for such a massive paradigm shift, an emergent dimension of solution-based awareness, far beyond the level of thinking (involving violence, deception, and greed) that created the now-collapsing empire and ponzi scheme of colonialism.
How about John Liu's proposal to re-green the Sinai to such abundant beauty as to once and now again be called the land of milk and honey, with side benefits of reducing global desertification by shifting critical global wind patterns? Might such permaculture restoration of the cradle of civilization be an important leverage point in this new direction?
And forgiveness ultimately? Maybe some sacrifice was part of how the world of science and materialism has been created, but according to all my teachers, guides, and instincts, it now continues at collective existential peril. Native traditions and ceremony elucidate this better than I can. I work at re-indigenizing myself to the natural human roots and the holistic birthrights we all have. What about the right to exist on land without paying exorbitant fees to do so! Landback yes, and so much more! Thanks for the soapbox, and the prompt of your concise and important essay!
Thank you for the shout out, Gary. I very much appreciate this piece and agree to a growing awakening. The squeeze we are currently experiencing has a flip side - and that's a more expanded place. They seem to go together. And yes, the stories we tell ourselves, so important. As are the stories we tell other. Best.
Great post for the times, Gary!
I was recently reading/watching about the two different timelines — the false-white-light artificial timeline of the predators/parasites, based on the mechanistic 10-Tree and Fibonacci sequence, and the Krystal Spiral organic Divine timeline, which is based on the 12-Tree Creation code — and how they recently crossed paths. According to the presenter of this information, every human being has to consciously choose (or *had to choose*) the organic timeline before the paths crossed, or they would automatically default to the devouring artificial timeline. It is very interesting, to say the least.
https://reinettesenumsfoghornexpress.substack.com/p/metatronic-code-are-we-already-living
Thanks, will take a look with interest. Intriguing that the two roads have been named.
Yes, very definitely: I feel there are enough glimmers that it is still possible to live in hope, In fact, I'd say there's more than that: I DEEPLY INNER-KNOW there are enough glimmers that WE CAN, OFTEN BE LIVING in THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE CAN BE PART OF CREATING WHAT WE ENVISAGE. Sorry for the many caps. I just wanted to change your statement by a word or 2 so it became accurate for me - and as I went along realized that over and over it did not quite fit for me. Do you know the 12 Rules for Survival? I'll paste it in below.
Also, I created my own "vision-piece" - Come to the Garden: https://elsasemporium.com/come-to-the-garden.html
Now, the 12 Rules for Survival:
http://mmueller.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/13139788/eng3_itw_deep_survival_gonzales_pdf.pdf
"The 12 Rules of Survival"
by Laurence Gonzales
From Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Great article on survival, I don't disagree.
Thank you Gary. Beautiful reminder.
Stunning photograph leading your article, @Gary!
Just a stock image from pixabay :-)
I have been saying this since before the pandemic and more intensely feeling it after the pandemic began. Thank you for putting it so well here. We are in the birth canal.
Still very relevant. So much has changed in the last year and yet so much, the same. I imagine we've all been in a process of integration - perhaps even an integration of the Divided Brain - which requires untangling and separating out, before again, newly reintegrating.
I think this happens over and over, and we only tend to notice it in retrospect. "Oh, last year I would responded so differently if this happened."
Deep changes happening individually and socially. I'm more optimistic than I was last year, and yet, also less sure about how things unfold. Less attached to timing, more accepting, while also feeling a greater urgency to engage. Maybe the paradoxes that show up in dualistic framing, are moving into a kind of embodied knowing that holds those framings lightly - as if a larger awareness in us knows they too will be integrated.
Thank you, Gary.
I think there is as good word from the trauma healing folks which fits to what you are describing... "pendulation" https://www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com/blog/pendulation-as-a-core-trauma-healing-model
Thanks - I was not familiar with the term - pendulation. Makes a lot of sense.
An encouraging piece. And yes, long live Substack.
Wonderful treatise that gives some hope.
"Long form allows us to access an increasing number of truly remarkable and enlightened folks emerging all across the planet, with potentially life-changing learnings to share, and for fellow travellers on the path to awakening to find and amplify each other."
Absolutely. It is the antithesis of the atomizing social media trap, in that sense. When we use technology in the way many of us are doing here, what could be used as a tool of great evil becomes a tool of goodness and light.
I think that's what sometimes gets lost in the debates about transhumanism and the Machine; it isn't that our tools are bad. It's that were trying to use flamethrowers to open up tuna cans, or battle axes to vacuum our rugs. Too many of us are just plain "doing it wrong," and are being encouraged to go on doing it wrong by some very sinister people.
Thank you for your beautiful writing!