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.
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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."
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.
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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.
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."
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
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
Thank you Gary. Beautiful reminder.
Stunning photograph leading your article, @Gary!
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.
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!