Over ONE BILLION PEOPLE on this planet grub a living on less than $1 a day. In the affluent west we will unblinkingly throw away 5 times that amount on a piece of useless crap made in a sweatshop. If this system is so wonderful, how come we’re still we’re sometimes more unhappy, depressed, stressed, and generally exhausted than some people living simply in a forest in South America?
Our ails are directly due to the fact that we are being sucked into the ‘humanivoros’ black hole of the current monetary system, struggling and mostly failing to ‘keep our heads above water’
Greed and Scarcity – Money by-products
Even if we have money we are often terrified that someday we won’t. We envy those that have it. We feel sad if we do not. We lust after it and betray our deep human values for it. We centre our lives on squirreling away resources so that if anything happens we’ll be OK, Jack.
We keep more than we can ever need as we put up signs saying keep out, private, mine, mine, mine. We separate ourselves into them and us and we bow to the credo of ‘the survival of those most able to pull in the money and let those who can’t perish’.
Those of us that have want more and more laws to protect ourselves from those that don’t have whilst finding more and more loopholes so that those that do have don’t have to share it.
Fact is we have become a world of greedy self centred f**kerswho don’t care if they destroy the very world that sustains them as long as they are OK. We are turning into a pack of Gollums, lusting after our ‘precious’, willing to destroy whatever keeps us from her.
What on Earth went wrong?
How is it that such awesomely creative, high minded and sophisticated creatures have sunk so low.
We have evolved super potent technological capabilities and nurtured highly developed scientific minds that are capable of researching and generating facilities that can free humans from scarcity, drudge, envy and greed whilst still sustaining and nurturing all life on earth.
Yet the manner in which we use this potency suggests we have devolved to primitive, survival of the fittest, kill or be killed savages.
We have devoted most of our creative and innovative energy to finding ways to acquire and protect land, oil reserves and our precious Prada pants. We go to war with other humans over stuff, resources and money. We rape and pillage the Earth to provide more stuff, resources and money not caring that we are leaving Gaia half dead and bleeding profusely on the sidewalk of our existence.
We have become hardened to anything other than our own selfish needs.
And in a way we’re not to blame. For most of our lives, we have been mezmerized by masters of the hypnotic arts.
Deep Hypnosis
As a hypnotherapist, I, Sunny, understand this process well. We’ve been asleep in a world of illusion. We’ve been fed stories of how life is meant to be for so long, so often and so seductively that we utterly believe in them with as much fervor as a muslim believes in the will of allah or fundamental christians believe that jesus is our only savior.
Hypnosis is very powerful and unbeknown to most of us we have been trapped in deep and seemingly tender hypnotic trance.
But the times they are, once again, a changin’ with one big difference since Bob Dylan wrote that song. Today change is happening exponentially much faster than it was.
Even as we sleep in arms of the the matrix that feeds on us, we cannot completey switch off from the extensive waves of information and calls to new ways of living that are spreading across the planet. Everywhere people are coming out of their trance. In what seems to be a dark world, more and more tiny sparks of illumination are waking us up.
We are slowly opening our eyes to the illusion and realizing that the way we are living our lives is both crazy, destructive, and utterly illogical.
The Tender Trap
Life is a paradox. We spend our lives working to make money so we can have a ‘good life’ but we work so hard that we get stressed and are then compelled to spend spend spend to alleviate the stress thereby requiring us to work even harder and … so on.
We are bombarded daily by mainly poisonous hypnotic thought memes that stealthily penetrate our consciousness on the news and in the raised volume adverts that appear between the syrupy content we are so spellbound by.
They whisper sweet nothings telling us we will only be happy if we have the latest phone, car or home appliance. They transport us to a wonder world where life is oh so perfect as you stroll through life living the illusion that you one of the elite because of what you have.
They lead you to believe that a $500 pair of shoes will make people sit up, respect and admire you. And the more you indulge the more dependent your self esteem becomes on having stuff to the point that you will radically defend your reasons for buying them even if you already have more than enough. You say ‘it gives me pleasure, they’re better quality, I need retail therapy’… until you are so entranced that you believe it’s OK to spend like that when a billion people live on less than $1 dollar a day.
They know we are stressed, economically challenged, overworked and depressed and they seduce us in syrupy, gelatinous voices like an over-doting mother ‘Oh sweetie, I know it hurts. Let mommy make it better’ with Killudan, Diesoonillin, Zombitol and all those other high falutin’ sounding pharma names or credit scheme or dependencies they’re peddling.
And we nod our heads, falling into what sales people call the ‘yes’ set (That’s where the salesperson elicits your needs, getting you to say ‘yes’ to something enough times so that when they make their move, it appers logical to say ‘yes’ to whatever’s on offer)
We say to ourselves ‘Yes, I am sick’! ‘Yes, I am depressed!’ ‘Yes I’ve got kids to put through college’ and ‘YES! I need help! And you willingly enter their trance, forgetting that it is not their business to help you but to keep you sick or in debt so that you’ll continue to need their snakeoil.
We sit in front of the TV feeding on rotten news whilst eating junk, processed and microwaved food pretending that ‘all natural’ is goo. We are literally poisoning ourselves in exchange for a moment or few of relief from world realities, the daily grind and our obsessive mind chatter.
And every day the food industry feeds on our weakness, bombarding us with new offerings of food made tastier, prettier and easier with the help of MSG, E-numbers, sugars, GMO’s and microwaves.
Whoopee! Thanks to the deforestation of the Amazon there’s land to raise soy to feed the beef to make a burger that is cheaper than a head of broccoli. DOH! But as we’re delighting in the burger, we need to wake up to the fact that without that forest, the earth will soon be unfit to sustain man, beef cattle and even that head of broccoli.
In school our children are being peddled lies about the past and how life works as part of the process of training them to conform, compete and function in the current system. And, like good little soldiers they will emerge with a prolific desire for more money, stuff and power and a readiness to do anything to get it.
And day by day, year by year relentlessly the messages continue to insinuate into our sleepdaze…until a bell goes off..
System Failure Alert – Activate Escape
The good news is that they can’t keep us under for ever. There are too many alarms going off all over the planet as the system begins to break down. They are warning signs. We can wait until it happens or we can wake up now and take action.
Look at the patterns of the past. People have been sounding warning signals about all sorts of things. People you know, the alternative researchers, even the traditional news agencies are amongst the few that get it. Mark these words, in ten years, if we haven’t let go of our rapacious life style, we will not have a life on earth, let alone a lifestyle.
It’s time to wake up and to the truth
The food, pharma, oil industries and the media are NOT here to help us. Their disguised strategy is to hypnotise us, damp us down and keep us sick [most produced and processed food makes us sick therefore we need pharma]. Thus the circle turns.
They addict us to their products thereby supporting a system that makes them very rich leaving us stressed, sick, depressed, angry, fearful and weak.
SO, what has to happen for us to begin to escape the trance, break the evil spell and step into a new way of living?
The Great Escape
- We will begin to escape when we make wellness our goal versus expensive pharmaceutically based health ‘care’.
- We will begin to escape when we make the generation and delivery of free, sustainable energy a priority versus oil dependency.
- We will begin to escape when we harness technology, science and nature to generate enough sustainable resources for all versus earth raping war mongering activities.
- We will begin to escape when we take charge of the education of our children versus subjecting them to someone else’s propaganda
- We will begin to escape when we start making our own investigations versus taking news as reality
- We will begin to escape when we adopt a new attitude to nutrition, home or community grown seasonal food versus processed, junk and microwaveable gunk.
- We will begin to escape when we learn to repurpose existing goods versus always acquiring new
- We will begin to escape when we create open sharing community versus gated urban gaols.
- We will begin to escape when we adopt natural building techniques versus building high rise steel and glass monsters.
- We will begin to escape when we realize that one human or nation is no more important than another versus the us and them sensibility of nationalism
- We will begin to escape when we allow people to share and build on our land versus fencing ourselves in
- We will begin to escape when we make wellness a focus, changing our diets and using natural remedies where possible
- We will begin to escape when we spend more time in close connection to the earth, camping in the forest, learning simple earth-living techniques
- We will begin to escape when we turn off the TV and selectively watch more meaningful movies or go for a walk in the forest
- We will escape as we move from ‘green’ activities to ‘brown living’ Natural, earth based lifestyles, simple and self-sustaining
And above all we will be well on the path to escape when we turn our consciousness outwards sensing ourselves not as an organism struggling for personal survival but as an integral part of the entire universe working symbiotically for the greater good.
Like that we are continually asking ourselves..
‘Is this the right thing to do for the greater good versus how it meets my personal needs.
Start Planning Your Escape NOW!
Time is running out. We have maybe 3 years to begin the exodus and embrace a new way of living before the entire planet is wiped out by us. Are you ready to move towards the Great Escape?
Help is at Hand
There are internet groups of activists and people all over the planet who have already gone far down the Great Escape Route and they are rallying for all of us. They are there to inform us, help us see another way, teach us how to move from green to brown and lead by example.
Find out more in this directory of alternative activities and solutions for creating free and sustainable energy , natural building techniques, land sharing, food production and nutrition, wellness, new forms of community and viable systems of economy.
Coming Soon – Life on Earth Part 2 – The Great Escape
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