Transcribed from a talk delivered by Guy Dauncey

First Unitarian Church of Victoria

April 20, 2008

What’s going on ?

Well good morning everyone, and thank you for inviting me to come and join you here. When I was cycling up Interurban Road to get here today and snow was melting into the creek, which was rushing along by the edge of Interurban, and the fawn lilies were sort of bursting out everywhere… You know we live in such a miraculously beautiful part of the world here.

I must admit if you’re a cyclist, you also notice the incredible garbage along the roadside – the toss-away McDonald’s stuff that’s been thrown out. If you’re a motorist you don’t see that, but if you’re walking or cycling you really see the disgusting garbage that we leave.

So there’s a duality to my theme here, which is the incredible need for us to be grateful, and appreciate the wondrousness of this planet we live on, and to pull a piece out of the prophet Job and say “what a shit-awful mess we’re making of things!”

What a shit awful mess we’re making

Whenever you go before the divine, you’re supposed to bring your heart clear and empty, and one way to do that is to show gratefulness ‘cause it gets the ego out of the way. Another way is to honour sins. I mean there’s a good old-fashioned tradition in the Catholic Church of honouring sins, because if you come and you’re holding onto that and you’re not honouring what you’ve done that’s bad and harmful and wrong, your heart can’t be open to receive grace, to transmit prayer, to be clear in any kind of giving. It’s a precondition of that contact with the divine to have that openness.

Some of the things we do are willfully obvious and blind. Others of them happen at a distance. And the analogy I found myself working with recently for us humans on Planet Earth is very similar to that of a child. When a baby is born, for the first year and a half or year of its life it lives in this world of yes. Its parents give it everything. It gets unconditional attention, love, the breast, the sleep, the food; it’ll do whatever it wants, and we say yes to it all the time.

On Planet Earth, for the last ten thousand years here, ever since we stopped being hunter-gatherers and started being settled agriculturalists, we have taken everything from the Earth. We’ve taken the topsoil, we’ve taken the forests, we dump our waste wherever we want it just as a one year old does and we expect Nature to clean up just as Mother cleans up. That’s the world you expect as a one year old.

And you live in a world of abundance, and that’s how it should be for a one year old! That’s what you need, ‘cause you’re ignorant of the ways of the world. You don’t understand how it all works. You look up at the adult world and it’s a mysterious thing, just as we look up at the stars and it’s a mysterious thing.

Me, Me, Me and Screw You

Then there comes that period when you’re beginning to become a bit more important, as a two year old. And you think “oh, I’m getting good ideas now, and I’ll take that and I’ll take this and I’ll take that” and your parents say “no, no! Put that down!” and “Put that back! No, no, don’t go there! Don’t, watch that!” and all that. That issue comes in and the child is entering the world of no, no, stop, stop; you all know that.

Now if the child is allowed to go on living in a world of yes after it’s crossed the barrier of no, and its temper tantrums are indulged, you’ve got a miserable eighteen years of parenthood coming up! And that child has got a miserable life coming up, because it grows up thinking it can always live in a world of yes. Everyone owes it everything it wants, whether it’s the forest, the water, the land, the fish; it’s entitled to take it.

The grim truth is that of the world’s major large fish – the tuna, the cod, the sharks (which have been around in our oceans for probably some six to eight hundred million years) – in the last fifty years, we’ve eliminated ninety percent of them. And by the year 2015, in about seven years time, a lot of them are going to be extinct. Because our fishing fleets are using modern, fancy equipment, we’ve taken the world of the endless yes to the depths of the ocean.

Land, Forests, Water, Air, Food – we’d grab it all if we could

An analogy I heard is that, if you have the Plains of the Serengeti in Africa, and you took two big tractor-trailer type vehicles and put them a kilometer apart and put a net between them, and you drove across the Plains of the Serengeti and put everything into a great big pile – all the lions, all the antelope, all the trees, the bushes, the shrubs, a big pile – and picked out the ones you wanted and left the rest to rot, that is what we’re doing on the floor of the ocean with our trawling practices.

So that we can fill our shops with fish, and our cat food and our dog food with fish, and stuff like that. That’s what trawlers are doing on the bottom of the ocean, ‘cause we have no legislation at all that guides what happens outside territorial waters.

It’s the same with the forests. (This is the Job in me coming out now.) You know, we’ve taken most of the old-growth forest on Vancouver Island – gone.

We’re treating the atmosphere like it’s just this invisible thing up there. The reality is that our carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels – and we take fossil fuels for granted, even our candles here, unless they’re beeswax…

That flame you’re looking at is ancient sunlight that’s two hundred million years old. Because the oils used to make the candles are the fossilized remains of forests that grew two hundred million ago, that stored sunlight from the sun, locked it up as carbon and became coal and oil and became candles. You’re looking at the sun that shone two hundred million years ago, in the release of that little flame.

Using in a second what took millions of years to form

And whenever we drive a car, that’s the energy we’re using. Every single year, we use a million year’s worth of ancient sunlight! All the heat over a million years is being put back into space.

And the blunt reality of that is that the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere, which is absolutely essential for us to have warmth and existence… Mars has no atmosphere, no carbon dioxide; it’s minus one hundred and eighty-three degrees Celsius at night, on Mars, and plus ninety-three Celsius in the daytime. So like, you don’t want to live on Mars in a hurry.

But on Planet Earth we have this wonderful atmosphere, thanks to carbon dioxide and water vapour and methane gasses which create the right temperature.

But you put more carbon dioxide in there – ‘cause you’ve taken the energy over two hundred million years gathered in fossil fuels, and releasing them in two hundred years – you get a rise of CO2 levels from 285 parts per million, which is pre-industrial, to 385 today, to 450 by the year 2030.

The last time the Planet Earth went through the 450 parts per million barrier, (which is when it was cooling down fifty million years ago), at 450 parts per million, Antarctica became ice. So when we go the other way, past 450, Antarctica becomes water again. And there’s enough water locked up in Antarctica for an eighty-meter sea level rise.

Richmond is at sea level. Bangladesh is at sea level. Shanghai is at sea level. I’m talking eighty-meter sea level rise. And that’s within thirty years, that we’ll pass that threshold. It’ll take several hundred years for the melting to take place, of Greenland and Antarctica and stuff like that, but if we don’t change our behaviour that quickly, that’s what is coming for the future of this world.

And the scientists say they can’t get over that threshold point. James Hanson, NASA’s top climate scientist, said the threshold we need to aim for is not 450 parts per million, it’s 300 to 350, which is lower than we are at the moment. So we’ve got to cut back on all our fossil fuel use right now, and find ways to farm differently and forest differently to absorb the carbon back into the soils and the forests. We have a very, very practical, immediate agenda to cease using all fossil fuels by the year 2030.

And it’s possible and doable – I’m not going into all the details ‘cause I have other things I want to share now.

Get together to find group solutions

But one of the very practical things you can do as a church (‘cause your biggest carbon footprint as a group here, without doubt, is your traveling to get here) is to do a benchmark, and say “here’s how many car trips we have in April 2008; let’s reduce that by 20 percent by April 2009, by 40 percent by 2010, by car-sharing.”

By setting up a site on your website, anyone who’s willing to offer a ride or needs a ride can use a Google Map – a little Google Map symbol for everyone who’s willing to offer a ride or can share a ride – you can look at the map and see who lives nearby, click on the button and it tells you the phone number… to sort of collectively reduce that footprint.

And then by doing so, show how every other church in North America can do the same. When we do something innovative, it becomes a torch for everyone else and becomes a beacon for everyone else.

There’s a major conference of the churches in British Columbia happening a week on Monday, “The Fate of the Earth”, in Vancouver, which Campbell’s going to be speaking at, and all the Sikhs and the Christians and the Buddhists and the Muslims and the Jews are all gathering together to look at global climate change. Saying “what do we do, as spiritual congregations?”

Religions Unite

Now moving to the larger theme here, before I put that Job piece aside, ‘cause I can go on… Job can get quite a grip and there’s a lot that Job wants to say. But, if we look at the history of our religions, it’s interesting: almost all of our major religions have a story, which says that the Earth is a terrible place of pain and suffering and woe, and that if we just pray enough, or buy enough indulgences, or confess enough sins or meditate enough, we can escape Earth, and get enlightened and go to Heaven.

It’s a standard story! Even the Hindu faith, when you scratch it hard enough, that’s what it’s saying. The four ages of God, the four ages of Earth: the Golden Age, which degrades to the Silver Age, which degrades to the Bronze Age, which degrades to the Age of Metals, and there’s a great conflagration, a massive terrible disaster and everything gets destroyed and the world is made new again.

These religions were made, you know, two thousand years ago before anyone had any concept of “progress”, of “science”, of “development”, the fact that you can overcome patriarchy, overcome slavery, overcome child labour, overcome misery, overcome all that stuff. And since the Renaissance, we have had a new vision that actually, we can achieve miraculous stuff on this planet. And every generation since the Renaissance has hoped that their children will live on a better Earth. Our parents put up with terrible grinding work so that their children would have better lives.

For the first time now, we’re the first generation where the children are actually going to have a worse life, ecologically and materially speaking, than we are, ‘cause there’ll be less of everything – unless we go through this crisis and change things. Because every crisis is also a crisis of opportunity.

The key piece in here for me is actually our modern understanding of what evolution is all about. Because our science (which is our story to these days), our scientists are really telling us that evolution is a random bunch of genes trying to reproduce and going nowhere, doing nothing. It’s formally and officially random and meaningless. That is the formal, official science of evolution.

The wonder of human potential

My evolutionary theory includes the work or Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo, and it’s that the whole of our consciousness is evolving toward a greater divinity. There’s a deeper unfolding, which I call the process of “syntropy”. All of life seeks wholeness. It’s a very profound thought.

Now have you ever found a human who says “I wish I had hemorrhoids!” Or “I wish I had a lousy marriage!” You will never find a human with negative ideals. Why is that? Why are we all programmed with a positive vision, with a hopeful vision? Why is that?

There’s something profound, biologically, because… science is not just about the material world. And very soon this great merging is going to happen, of science and spirituality. When science understands that, yes, consciousness is for real, that consciousness touches the world of the greater wholeness where prayer is operational, where meditation works, where healing is clearly something that works, and that we’ve got to understand that and link these things together.

Abundance is possible for ALL

Then we can start looking at our future. Then we can start thinking – well, if on Planet Earth, we accept the nature of our two-year-old tantrum process, and accept the need for limits, the world of no, and accept that we need to manage the fish carefully… And by the way, we discover that whenever we create a marine reserve which is totally off-limits to fishing, the fish recover very quickly, and you can fish sustainably on the perimeters of the marine reserve for our needs. Not necessarily for our greed, but for our needs.

And when you farm organically, there’s enough food on the whole planet. When you stop eating meat, there’s eight times more food, because every kilogram of beef requires eight kilograms of grain to feed it. There’s no need for any food crisis in the world if we simply stop eating meat. And if you’re worried about the healthiness of that – I’m sixty years old; I’ve been vegetarian for forty years; I ran ten kilometers around Elk Lake this morning and then cycled up here and back.

I’m healthy; I’m strong on a totally vegetarian diet. And I don’t get sick, at all. (Helps being self-employed because no one pays you to get sick, but that’s another story!)

Work with Nature not against her

There’s an abundance available to us, if we cooperate with Nature. An abundance on the material level, and on the spiritual level. It’s like when the two-year-old discovers the joy of cooperation with its parents, you discover “what a wonderful childhood I can have!” What wonderful things we can do together, when we cooperate together.

There’s always fighting, and saying “mine, mine,” grab, grab, from the world of scarcity – when you think there’s not enough, you’ve got to grab it all.

When you look at the world of alternative energy, you say “how do we operate a whole planet with no use of fossil fuels?” I’ve done all the numbers, I’ve examined the whole thing; there’s a thousand times more energy than we need, when you take solar voltaics, solar thermal in the world’s deserts, wind energy, super-efficiency, deep-rocks geothermal energy, tidal energy, hydro power; all done within ecologically appropriate means.

There’s way more energy than we need. Including totally enough to run our vehicles on electricity, as well as to use far more busses and transit and cycling and ride-sharing and stuff like that.

The numbers add up just fine, and there are companies showing that it works out. I mean, Catalyst Paper, the one that runs the pulp mills, has reduced its CO2 emissions by 71 percent since 1990.

There’s a small town of Gussing, in Eastern Austria, where the whole town has reduced its carbon footprint by 93 percent in just fifteen years.

Apply Our Mind by asking HOW DO WE DO IT?

It’s just a matter of applying our mind with a positive approach to say “ok, how do we do it”? How do we systematically stop using carbon fuels, farm organically, forest sustainably, fish sustainably, and live within the limits of our Earth? And then turn our brains around so that instead of seeing the environmental message all the time (which is like “humans are a disaster, we’re a cancer on the Earth, we’ve got to stop doing this, we’ve got to stop doing that”, you know, it’s all negative, negative, negative), see it as a cooperative vision of where we’re going.

Once we get over this two-year-old tantrum crisis and learn to cooperate with Nature, to do green chemistry instead of toxic chemistry, eliminating cancer, and asthma, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s (all of which come from our relationship to our lousy food and our toxic chemicals getting into our bodies) – all that can be gone! We can get back to healthy living for a good, hundred-year lifespan. We can live within the abundance of Nature.

And then, start asking the fundamental, deeper questions. Like, “ok, now that we’ve got over that crisis, what are we going to go for our next ten million years on Earth”? We’ve been walking around on two legs for seven million years quite successfully; why shouldn’t we have another seven million years? Planet Earth doesn’t go supernova for five billion years!

There’ll be historians around a million years from now, looking at this little crisis we went through with the age of fossil fuels, when we suddenly got the knowledge of science and technology and fossil fuels all at the same time, and what did we do with it? Did we use it to just indulge ourselves on flying to Hawaii, and getting a bigger truck, and a bigger house, bigger television and everything?

Or did we use it to do a transition; as a takeoff process to enable us to become a world entirely in harmony with Nature; as a baseline for a happy childhood? So we’re just about to enter our childhood on Planet Earth. As to what adulthood might mean, that’s so far beyond us, it’s like asking “what might God be?” Why should we begin to know that?

Humans are Phenomenal

But here’s another thought. The fact that every single one of us is alive today, with fingers and eyes and ears, is 100 percent proof that if you go back through your ancestors, right back through the human chain to the primate chain, to every single form of existence there’s been – every single one of your ancestors has had successful nookie and produced a new generation. Without failure! Not a single one of our ancestors failed or else we wouldn’t be here.

We have a genetic heritage that runs back, unbroken, to the very first bacterial cell division. Unbroken! It’s a phenomenal thing to carry in our beings.

The fact that each brain has one trillion – a thousand billion – brain cells in it is because Nature took that long to evolve such an incredible thing. And my belief is that every single step of the road, every cell was conscious. Even the atoms were conscious.

I’ll wind up with a much bigger thought here now, because we’re about to have a whole rediscovery of the integration of consciousness and spirituality into the nature of science, coming out of the interaction with healing and the way we know that healing works on our bodies.

Using our Consciousnes to Change the World

One of the interesting things here is around quantum theory, where it says there are positrons and electrons. Electrons have their causal origin in the past, but positrons have their causal origin in the future.  No one’s got close to finding them yet, but we know they should exist. And the reason we haven’t found them yet is that all consciousness, everything that has consciousness, everything we do has its causal origin in the future, through intention.

Every one of us set an intention to come here, and we acted on it and here we are. Everything we do is set on intention set in the future. And that may be the very nature of consciousness and spirituality in the atom itself, that it’s always moving. That’s how time is created, is we have future intentionality.

When we have negative intentionality we will get pain and suffering and grief.

You have negative thoughts about yourself or about the planet, that’s what you manifest. If you think you can’t win a soccer game, you’ll lose it. To be a beautiful choir, you’ve got to visualize that clear ringing note, those harmonies, and know you can do it.

As a planet, we absolutely have to visualize that clear, ringing, harmonious future, ‘cause in the process of science and evolving consciousness, that’s how it happens. When we can visualize it clearly, we can move toward it and make it happen. If we visualize fear and disaster and things going wrong, we get immobilized!

The people who are systematically denying climate change, the oil companies, are as harmful as the environmental communities who are stuck in negativity and defeat; who say that “the corporations are to blame, the government’s to blame, we can’t do anything”, and feeling hopeless and defeated.

Can you imagine Churchill feeling that way in 1939? I’ve been reading Churchill’s memoirs of the World War II and the analogies are really close. Because in 1939 Hitler had occupied the whole of Europe because no one had done anything about the Rhineland or the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, or about anything else, and let him do that stuff. The home army in Britain didn’t even have a rifle to hold!

The only thing the British had going for them – Hitler wasn’t even invading Britain – the only thing Britain had going for it was an absolute determination that they were not going to put up with that bully thug Hitler. They were not going to let him do that to the world. And there’s a point in Churchill’s memoirs when he first became Prime Minister, after Chamberlain handed over, he said to his Cabinet, “look, we’ve got nothing here apart from our own determination to go the whole distance and get total victory”. And he said in his notes “if I’d said anything different, they’d have tossed me right out the window”, ‘cause his whole Cabinet was so fully behind him.

We’re not quite at that stage yet; we’re in 1935 equivalent when it comes to these global ecological crises. Most people are still in denial, still thinking it’s not going to happen, we don’t need to change. And it’s really, really serious.

And yet out of that seriousness comes a whole new vision. Out of World War II came labour rights, came the welfare state – ‘cause after World War II they tossed Churchill out and brought in the first Labour Prime Minister, Atley, who brought in the welfare state.

So out of this upheaval comes a new vision of who we can be and what we are. And it’s really important not just to leave it to the ecologists who have just a narrow scientific basis and don’t include the spiritual dimension. ‘Cause it’s that understanding of how spirituality works that we get the power of our deepest vision from, and the power of our ability to manifest the beauty in our human interaction with the world that Nature has in its own interaction with the world.

So please ask your transportation committee to get organizing on ride sharing. Tell other people what you’re doing. And hang on to that deep belief that we’re going somewhere amazing on this planet. It’s not just an ecological disaster; this is the bumpy road we’re coming to. And we’re heading toward an amazing, amazing transformation”

Acknowledgements – Check out Guy Dauncey’s blog  Earth Future. This guy has some cool ideas

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A community forest garden is a vital cog in the wheel of transition, that we must inevitably spin into. It is a transition from oil based consumption and materialistic lifestyles and emerge into simple satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, local sustainability and smaller group inter-dependence. 

There’s no doubt that big changes are pushing their heads above ground and that we must begin now to prepare.  If we do we WILL ride this wave and emerge refreshed and renewed.. landing on new shores of potential. 

To us, as long time observers of the social shifts, it does seem that we, today, are present to a crumbling of ‘what was’ and an emergence into a new way. 

As information spreads and things seem to happen much much more quickly [people can connect, share ideas, start groups, research through the internet] more people are aware.   Ideas are beginning to synchronize like women who live together experiencing their menstrual cycles synching with each other.  

We are being pushed towards finding creative alternatives for our basic needs which are safety, shelter, food, wellness and connection to other from intimate, family, friends, neighbors into the community and beyond.

And it seems that the place to begin is really at grass roots, one or two people, adding more as the idea spreads, neighbor to neighbor, neighbor to community, community to other communities…and our role exists within our individual community yet as part of the entire whole…ain’t that cool!

 Forest Food Gardens are one part of the great web of emergence.  It is one [jolly good]  way of ensuring abundant, localized community  food and wellness.

Natural Building methods and all the variants thereof offer effective, localized, low cost and resource friendly solutions to providing shelter for all

Shared Land in the form of people offering parts of their land for community shelter/food growing spaces knowing that they will be supported and helped by the community as their generosity melts the divide between have’s and have not’s..

Shared Labor in the form of people working on projects and knowing that they will be fed and sheltered as they help create an abundant world for future generations not just for themselves.

Free energy solutions from those who are fascinated by experimenting with solar/wind, magnetic, water and whatever power.  Like this we can step over the  spirallingly expensive grid electricity and gas-fuelled transportation.

Connection to Other and Community  is the spirit that fuels us to come together and pool our resources, ideas and skills. It is also the spirit that connects one community to another and thus springs the spider network of local communities, trading, bartering, sharing, caring helping….

Living v Working to Live.  In living we bypass the ’middle man’.   Instead of going to work for someone to earn ‘money’ to pay for heat, light, food, entertainment, transport and keeping up with ‘them’, we will expend our energy on living.  

We forsee that there will be a shift towards people using their ‘time’ to dig, plant and tend food forests, collect herbs and concoct tinctures, preserve and prepare food, collect wood, tend the fires, build homes, care for the livestock, school the children…..

This alone would consitute a good enough ‘work’ day. The fruit of your labor is the home, the eggs,the warmth, the nutrition, the healing and the children delighting in playing in ‘secret’ hidey hole under the large fruit bushes. 

We are going to have to learn to make do with less, be more independent and self-sustaining, become more hardy and resiliant and come up with creative ways to utilize what we do have in abundance.

And thankfully, something we humans have in abundance is the ability to transcend through adversity via creativity and soar to heights of magnificence and when we pull together.   The evidence is there.

Past Evidence of the Great Human Spirit

A friend’s mother who grew up in the Great Depression of the 30′s said to us the other day ‘I don’t know what all the fuss is about the ‘great depression’ and how people had to live – that’s the way we’d always lived.    Rural folk know how to survive, how to adapt, make-do and use the natural resources. And they know how to pull together as a community from taking food to bereaved neighbors to sharing the surplus of their gardens with those less well off.   They had no other choice.  It was live off the land or die!  And they had a sense of caring for their community.

Anyone in the UK who knows someone who is in their 80′s will have heard tales of how they managed in the 40′s WW2.   Food shortages, nightly bombings in big cities, people being made homeless in an instant were all part of their everyday reality.  A woman recalls how living rurally they had lots of orchards. During WW2 her father dug up the orchards, by himself with the help of a neighbor’s son and planted vegetables that he gave away to locals so that they would have fresh food to eat.

Riding the Wave of Transition Together

So how do we begin to energize a transition wave in our community.   And before you get all scared about official stuff, there is none.   One of the pleasures of living in the rural South is that people just do things… they aren’t too fussed about what the officials think.    They don’t get all bogged down in ‘what about the codes’ or ‘you can’t do that’.  

Here are some initial guidelines…

1.  We have to find our bliss, the thing we love doing that fit into this new kind of living

2.  We may need to develop new skills or link together with others to pool our skills

3.  We have to work with the greater good in mind, knowing that we will be taken care of as long as we are genuine and doing the right thing

4.  We can’t just sit around talking, we have to start doing NOW.  We’ve talked a lot over the last year about how it is and what’s going on and now we are acting.  We went out into the world and connected and followed the leads and found the like-minded energies and we asked for connections, help, guidance…and it comes in

5. We have to be prepared for a bumpy ride as we shift gears, but we must also allow ourselves to experience the vision of living a more natural, earth-based, community centred life… and all the joys that it brings.   There really is nothing like good honest labor to have that feeling of being in the moment and alive. 

 The increasing research and talk around global warming, carbon footprints, oil running out aka post-peak oil combined with evident economic challenges [to use a mildly inoffensive word] and price-hikes everywhere is making a pretty LOUD statement.They are the result of people waking up and getting that we can’t go on living the way we do.

Across the globe people are preparing for transition. There’s even official transition sites and examples of what people in communities are doing to create a more earth-based less oil dependent life.

Forest Food Gardens are part of a transition initiative that is designed to help communities become less reliant on oil derivatives which includes all manufactured items, electrical goods, grid lighting and heating, truck/plane/rail transported food and more reliant on producing what they need for themselves within the community.

THIS is NOT THAT

Please don’t start to label this and compare it to any political movement.  It is not that way.  This is NOT that other ‘c’ word.  It is about human challenges, emergence, freedom and working together and finding creative solutions.

We don’t just need to create food, we need to find ways to harness free energy, build affordable or even free shelter, utilize our land for the community, share our labor and the fruits of that collective labor.  And NO this is NOT anything like the com****** word.    That was awful.   That system was heirarchical and worse still hypocritical. This is something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

This can and will become a global initiative.  The global initiative will not be orchestrated at global level.  It will consist of each individual playing the instrument they play best and all coming together in harmony with others to allow community initiatives to unfold.  We like to think of this transition as a harmonic emergence of humans, a return to earth.  H.E.R.E.

More on the topic of Community Transition

Transition 2 – The just do it’s 12 steps to creating a self-organizing community initiative coming soon

How to set an initiative in motion and avoid energy sapping bureaucracy whilst surprizing and then  inspiring the authorities with what you all achieve.

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What is normal? Are you a mis-fit or a real-fit?

Misfit is the label given by society to those humans who don’t match the criteria for  ‘normal’ behavior, beliefs and desires.

Most so-called ‘normal’ people accept if they are to sport the ‘normal’ badge, they will be required to shape themselves into psychological, career and social boxes that we know deep down are not contoured to the freedom, spontaneity and genuine expression of the individual spirit.

The ‘normal’ illusion versus reality

In other words to become normal will most likely require us to deny or suppress our individual and unique human spirit.  And because this denial and suppression is SO  painful we are driven to opiate ourselves with TV and material goods to stop us becoming neurotic about not being real.    

The powers that be know that. They maintain control by forcing us to slave at the altar of money whilst hypnotically drawing us to all manner of stuff designed specifically to dumb us down.

Imagine all life on earth as being an integral part of a huge multi-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. All members of the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms are given a specific, unique structure and ‘shape’ that is designed to fit into the puzzle and complete the big picture. The fit is dependent on the unique structure of each part of the system maintaining it’s shape system.

However, the world hasn’t learned to work like that.   We aren’t taught to explore and realize our true role.

Are you trying to squeeze yourself into the wrong slot?

Instead most of us are forced to squeeze ourselves into a distorted shape to fit the illusory big picture thus creating a global distortion. It’s a bit like the ‘ugly’ sister trying in vain to squeeze her foot into the shoe designed uniquely for Cinderella.

When we assume our perfect, unique shape, and step into our own shoes, the entire world operates smoothly in harmonic orchestration, this is what we call REAL-FIT 

How to tell if you’re a real-fit

If you’ve felt like a mis-fit for most of your life, or wondered why the world is so alien to your way of thinking and being; if you sense that society is unjustly organized; that people’s spirit is suppressed and that money as the primary goal has become a self-looping addiction, then you’re probably a REAL-FIT.

You’ve likely refused to squeeze yourself into a shape that you’ve known is NOT you and you’ve paid their price for being real. 

Psychoanalyst and Social commentator, Dr Erich Fromm questioned the definition of normalcy in his paper ‘The Psychology of Normalcy’. He suggested that neurotic symptoms are not a ‘default’ on the part of the individual. Instead, they are a partial rejection of oppressive or alienating society?

So what the frack is considered normal in 21^st century society? 

As you read this list you will likely realize with gratitude just how abnormal [according to today’s standards] yet real [according to universal laws] you are.

 And, you will be reminded once more of the degree of perverted thinking that is gripping the majority of people in our so-called ‘civilized’ society.

In ‘normal’ society all of these behaviors are going on all the time and until now have been commonly accepted as ‘how life is’. 

The Real Mis-Fits

The Real Mis-Fits in the evolving world

Below are some of the things that we have been taught are how life is. They are mostly considered ‘normal’ and acceptable to the majority of society despite the fact that they go against the laws of nature and true humanity.    And most of you reading this, including the authors, will have bought into this normality in some way or another. 

• Land owned and fortressed by a few individuals rather than open and stewarded by all.
• Selfish-concern – I’m all right Jack and frack you, even if you are dying
• Walking past a homeless person, salving your conscience by giving them money yet secretly judging them for being lazy, good for nothings
• Believing that the Earth is an endless resource designed primarily for human consumption
• Signing petitions virtually to save dolphins or end landfills and thinking you’ve done enough
• Buying food and other items in disposable containers yet not repurposing them
• Burning second-hand tires that could be used to produce walls for Earthship houses
• Goods deliberately designed to fail or become obsolete to further profit interests of the manufacturers
• Eating factory farmed meat that is produced with disregard for animal life and poisons us with chemicals and hormones
• Eating food that is full of MSG because it seems to taste nicer
• Microwaving food for speed and ‘efficiency’ while totally destroying all the enzymes in that food
• Kidding ourselves that ‘all-natural’ means healthy when anything from uranium to deadly snake venom can be defined rightfully as ‘natural’.
• Allowing the destruction of rainforests to grow soybean to feed cattle to satisfy our addiction to burgers and other cheap meat products
• Big Corporates paying off law suits out of court with contingent ‘no publicity’ clauses so that they are still free to continue their ‘socially criminal’ activities.
• Justifying pouring huge amounts of money into military activities in the name of securing resources
• Being opiated by the media to the point of mental numbness
• One person driving a six-seat gas guzzling SUV
• Far greater percentage of corporate investment in new weapons technology versus sustainable energy facilities
• Harnessing natural, sustainable energy in the name of ‘green’ yet selling it at great profit to individuals
• People grubbing a living on $1 a day while others spend $$$$ to buy an additional home that they use no more than two or three weeks a year.
• Gated communities to protect the resources of the have’s and have-more’s
• Managed healthcare that is more concerned with making a profit than making you well
• Physicians recommending pharmaceuticals based on material rewards for them versus an untainted concern for what’s best for you
• Greed – more for me even if it means less for ‘them’
• Buying political influence for personal/corporate gain even at the expense of the greater good
• The right-wing rich using illegal immigrants as virtual ‘slave’ labor whilst promoting tougher crackdowns on immigration
• Persuading third world countries with offers of loans they can’t afford to develop huge infrastructure projects, which must be contracted to friends of the administration and result in huge debts and political and military blackmail
• Money printed and sold to the government for profit by a private organization
• Peddling drugs that don’t cure diseases but manage symptoms
• Prisons that punish rather than reform
• Using goods, gadgets and gaud to present a fake view of who you are to the rest of the world
• Expensive insurance that offers sweeping promises of security crippled by small print limitations and company profit policy that dictates paying out as little as possible
• Transference of blame by society to solely individual responsibility with a blind refusal to see our contribution to all of society’s ails
• Easy credit sold via ‘dreams can come true’ hypnotic marketing with a disproportionate mention of the downside
• Protecting corporate profit by preventing generic manufacture of drugs to make them financially available to those in need
• Buying designer and low cost clothes produced in inhumane sweatshops
• Treating workers like slaves because there are 2,000 other hopeful desperates waiting to step into their shoes
• Promoting of earthly resource pillaging such as coal mining in the name of ‘jobs for our people’
• Peddling food that is engineered to taste ‘better’ and thus becoming addictive and poisoning our systems
• Fear and mistrust of strangers – confinement of trust to small nuclear family  rather than embracing wider community
• Being able to win a law suit based on the default of having more money to throw at a lawyer regardless of whether the case is just or not.
• Letting people die on the streets because there is an inadequate welfare or employment system
• Media hypnosis that persuades you to buy things you don’t need but will dumb you down for a little while longer
• Giving up freedom/civil liberties because we’ve been corralled into the fear pen
• Believing the President of the US is the actually running the country
• Allowing Corporates to legally ‘purchase’ self-interest through campaign contributions.
• Your every online activity being open to monitoring by government agencies
• Children stuck indoors for hours playing video games as opposed to running around in the fresh air
• Creating compliance in the face of propaganda generated by ‘managed’  fear of a common enemy.  Nazi Germany used the Jews.  Make your own conclusions about the US
• Dumping litter in the national forest because you can’t afford garbage pick-up
• No-Scavenging signs on local dumps preventing people from taking one person’s discard to repurpose into something someone else can use.
• Marketing that has you sign up for a ‘one month’s free trial’ in the hopes that you’ll forget to cancel
• Snake-oil peddling of ‘get rich without lifting a finger’ schemes
• Bail-outs going to big corporates in the name of bolstering the economy while the taxpayer gets poorer
• Building codes that don’t take into account the viability of naturally built shelter homes.
• Preferring a manicured green bug-free lawn over a brown fertile food patch

And that’s just a few of the things that the majority of people in the Western world consider ‘normal’.

What would you add to the list?  

 As George Bernard Shaw said the world was never changed by reasonable people because it takes an unreasonable person to go against or beyond the ‘norm’.

 As more and more people wake up and begin to join together in movements that buck the system and the ‘norm’ we are on the dawn of a breakthrough.  It is time for the mis-fits to rise up and say as Peter Finch said in the film ‘Network’ way back in ’76.

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more”

What can we do?   

Each person has to choose their way or mixture of ways knowing truthfully that this is the best way for them to help turn the rest of the world in the right direction.  Here are a few alternatives

• We can insinuate our ideas into the society, working from within the system under the guise of normalcy, spreading subtle awareness and rallying others to a new way of thinking by making steady progressive changes in our own lives.
• We can step out of society and reject the way it works whilst building a life and community that is more suited to what’s going on and a living example of how it can be.
• We can take legal action, rebel, protest, object to, disobey the rules, get thrown in jail as ways to bring public attention to the cause.
• We can play the system game to accumulate amounts of ‘money energy’ in order to plough it into changing the same system

Each person must choose the way that works for them.. and know that even if others’ methods aren’t right for us, they are our sisters and brothers in a vital time of human evolution and we must find a way to work together or we will fail.    

We are the vanguard. We are the pioneers. We are the guides.

To take this road requires great courage, and some of us may not survive long enough to see the results. The question we must ask ourselves of our every action is

Is this taking me closer to my intent and ultimately is it the right thing to do for the good of all life on earth, now and into the future?

Please add your suggestions in the Comments for real mis-fits. 

IMPORTANT  – HOW PREPARED ARE YOU?   If there is a gas shortage and the power goes out leaving you with no water, refrigeration or heat and stores with empty shelves, how will you survive.     If you are on the end of one of the worlds ever increasing natural disasters how prepared are you? How will you take care of yourself and your family?   Find out here www.alternativeresearchconsortium.org/beprepared.html and www.planetearthship.org

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Clare Graves, a research psychologist, mapped the structure of the evolution of human emergence from the time of primitive man into a future beyond his own death. Not only did he explain how we got where we are today, but he offered a logical futuristic look at what will come next.

Graves was no Nostradamus. The ‘predictions’ in the model are not about what will happen but what’s the next logical shift in emergent human coping systems given where we are right now.

Harmonic Emergence is the name we give to what is happening as people evolve through the 3 latter levels of bio-psycho-social shifts that Graves outlined. Here’s a brief lowdown on the Graves’s model and how it can help us understand our current situation and what has to happen for us to truly evolve and emerge into Global Harmony.

Level 1 – Primitive Sole Survival

Once upon a time the earth was populated by primitive man struggling on his own with his mate against the elements on a quest to find, sustenance and shelter, scavenging like wild animals to merely survive. Everyone else was a predator, a competitor or an enemy.

There are still people on this earth who are surviving with this level of coping strategy and some of them are living right here on our streets.

Level 2 – Ritualistic tribal societies

Level 2 of emergence sees our primitive man, motivated by a desire for security and safety, emerging from a solo existence and banding together with others in an interdependent way.

At this level there is a fear of the sacred, spirits, things that are inexplicable and in shared ritual the fears are allayed. The individual contributes his or her skills to the group and feels safe knowing that others will pick him up when he falls, and vice versa.

It is the forming of basic tribe, sharing everything as we learn to trust but with a lack of knowing of how the world works, hence the fear of gods and the unknown.

Level 3 – Rebellion and Me Me Me

Level 3 of emergence is where caring and sharing breaks down where the individuals rise up and question the laws of the tribe or the rules of the family. That individual develops their own identity apart from the tribe and becomes more egotistical, competitive and self centered seeking instant gratification, stuff, land, oil fields. It is the beginning of the ‘private private private’ ‘me me me’ culture.

Level 3 is the culture of ‘greed war’ motivated by a desire to control people and or resources. World War 2 was Hitler’s Greed War. The Iraq War is ours. The level that emerges next, Level 4, is as are all levels of the model, a ‘knock-on’ effect from the previous stage. At Level 4, people band together once again to protect themselves from the rampages of the rape, pillage and greed of Level 3.

Level 4 – Rules, Regulations and Righteousness

Thus we witness the emergence of a ‘rule bound society’ where right and wrong appear crystal clear, the law is respected, extreme levels of behavior are suppressed and frowned upon and people live a structured routine life in their desire to maintain ‘order’ and ‘rightness’. And as it continues order slowly evolves into restriction and rightness becomes righteousness.

This was the kind of psycho-social culture that existed here in America and the UK immediately after World War 2 from the fifties onwards.   At it’s healthiest, level 4 thinking helped people recover from the traumas of war and turbulence by providing a structured cradle-like system.

Level 5 – Pioneer Entrepreneurs to Gordon Gecko Grab it all

As the individual begins to feel more bound and limited by the rules and regulations we see the devleopment of material ambition and entrepreneurship. This emergence often occurs from a situation of abundance where resources are rich,the living is easy and it seems as if the world is there for the taking as long as we are crafty, clever and ambitious enough to get to the party early.

Level 5 consciousness  also represents the invididual break away from the rule-bound group conformist thinking of level 4.

Level 5 consciousness was epitomized in the Reagan/Thatcher era with their ‘free markets’ ‘self motivation’ and survival of the sharpest. Capitalism was [and still is] the religion, profit is the Promised Land and bankers and lawyers are the holy men. And at it’s most unhealthiest, we are overstuffed with greed, extravagance and workaholism and a technology fest of ‘toys’ and ‘gadgets’ where status takes precedent to utility. And this is for the most part the prevalent paradigm that dominates the US today.

At it’s healthiest level 5 is the emergence of individual entrepreneurship and the ability for humans to break out of a paradigm.  And there is hope…

Level 6 – Caring Kindness Our Way

As more and more people start to get that their own riches don’t make them feel any better about world poverty, hunger, poor education and extortionate or non existent health care a more ‘other’ based caring consciousness emerges. This way of thinking slipped in as an anomaly in the hippie era, but sank back into obscurity as it was overtaken by Level 5 More for Me Capitalism.

As we move into a Level 6 consciousness, we notice what devastation we have created in our greed, destroying the natural bounty of the earth. Oceans are polluted from chemical wastes. Food has become toxic from irradiation, chemical fertilizers and genetic modification. The air we breathe is filthy and the water more polluted because we have cut down all our trees. And in our shame we get that we must give back some of what we have taken and so profited from.

Level 6 thinking is what gives birth to free medical clinics, food programs and the ‘green’ movement. The values are more other- considerate and spiritually based. Social responsibility is embraced with almost religious fervor as people rush to start groups, volunteer, give to charity, promote worthy causes, send out petitions and recycle plastic bottles.

We band together with others in internet social groupings such as Facebook and ‘tut-tut’ over films like An Inconvenient Truth, and join and form community and global action groups, like Save the Whales and Replant our forests.  There is a revival in in alternative therapies and spiritual movements. And somewhere in all this ‘peace and love’ we get a little lost..

At it’s unhealthiest the level 6 mentality deteriorates into preciousness about ‘my personal cause’ tendency towards a ‘them’ and ‘us’ mentality with those who don’t join their groups or are not as politically correct as they deem proper.

This is the level of consciousness that has been building in small pockets around the USA.  The green  movement has become trendy and people talk about eco-this and eco that.  And that’s good and there is more. Even as level 6 consciousness expands, something else is cooking behind the scenes.

Level 7 – The Lone Spiritual Warrior

This very different kind of consciousness .  Until this level of thinking is reached, all the levels perpetrate a rejection of the previous paradigms.  At level 7 there emerges a recognition of each level of development as a part of a vital puzzle for saving the world. It is at this level that the human is able to generate new thinking and radically different ways of living.

At this level we see the emergence of the lone spiritual warriors, moving away from the pack to boldly go where no man or woman has gone before. Level 7 consciousnesses is emerging in tiny pockets from the current world of chaos where resources so abundant at Level 5 and 6 are rapidly depleting and despite well meaning efforts.

There has been an increase in poverty and depravation as we continue to gather resources for the rich few, leaving the poor poorer than ever while we  blatantly destroy the earth that harbors us… A need to right the imbalances in the current system is coupled with a strong integrity whereby someone at this level would rather go without than compromise or remain silent when they must speak out. Level 7 consciousness is apparent in those brave individuals who right now are daring to expose the horrendous machinations behind the scenes of corrupt political power through docu-info movies like Zeitgeist, Loose Change and more latterly Food Inc.

Through the appreciation of how technology interacts, the ability to hold different viewpoints and see the relationship between unrelated concepts and a fearlessness in approach to the world and it’s challenges  the level 7 consciousness is driven to seek unique and unusual global answers to the problems of our time .

And when the warriors return they begin to evolve into and spread a breed of individual thinking globally aware spiritual warriors, who will lead the way in these troubled times. History tells us that today’s whacko’s are often tomorrows spiritual warriors.

Level 8 – Peaceful, Free Flowing Global Community

These pioneering, innovative, warriors show us new ways of bringing all mankind together in truly global community where there are no boundaries and the land belongs to the people and we are free to roam our planet, treading lightly on her as we enter into a brave new world.

H.E.R.E. – Harmonic Emergence – Return to Earth

Harmonic Emergence is the process of consciousness evolving through the last three levels to true global unity.   And this will be the focus of many awakened people in the next few years. And as we do so we embrace the qualities of the previous paradigms including the ability to survive, create a safe environment, seize opportunities, create and follow system-aware rules, be abundant, get things done accept, develop and encourage others and think out of the box.

Return to Earth – When we return to earth, stripped back to basics, living simply we find the inner quietand groundedness necessary for us to put together all the pieces of the puzzle . Like this we harness the best qualities from each evolutionary level to generate a truly innovative global lifestyle where no one goes without and all life exists in symbiotic relationship to all that is. And like that true harmony reigns in the global tribe of We The People,All of Us, One Mankind

RECOMMENDED BOOK

Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
is the clearest and most comprehensive reference for this model.  Not only will you understand why you focus on what you focus on but why others are irritating or why you are beyond all that,.. know who you are, accept it and know that you are evolving… knowing this stuff can speed it up.

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“A single, seemingly powerless person who dares to cry out the word of truth and to stand behind it with all his person and all his life, ready to pay a high price, has surprisingly greater power, though formally disfranchised, than do thousands of anonymous voters.”    Havel  – Artist and Revolutionary Leader Czechosolvakia

These rare and divinely inspired people  emerge in every generation.   They are ahead of their times , they see the world as it could be and  they fight for that dream, knowing the risks.  At every turn they know they may be blocked and yet they continue. 

To Boldly Go

Driven by some divine inspiration, they fear neither death, imprisonment, poverty or disenfranchisement because their own interest is secondary to the driver to contribute to a better world for now and in the future.   They are the Star Trek pathfinders.

They open people’s senses to what is really going on and they shine a light on the path to what’s possible.  And it is through the memory of their bravery in standing up and being counted that we find our own strength .

What would you give your life to?

 Is there some idea, cause, belief that you would devote your life to ?  We can only ponder under what circumstances we would stand up, be counted and face the direst consequences of breaking out of current thinking paradigms.             

Every day we are being asked to make a choice.  We are given the choice to support that which we don’t agree with or to stand up and say ‘I challenge this’.

Being True to YOU

There’s an episode of House, the 4^th Season, where one of the candidates for a position in the dept of diagnostic medicine under House agreed with House’s diagnosis  even though he was sure House was wrong.   Why? He was being filmed for a TV documentary.  He said later that it would ruin his chances of a career if his future employers saw him being disagreeable. 

Of course the character evolves as his ‘shameful’ secret is revealed and he is no longer able to hide behind the mask he created.   Through this process he learns to stand up and accept himself and value his opinions…  He becomes honest, he dares to differ and as a result House hires him.   He’s also a damned fine diagnostician!

Do The Right Thing

We all have our own sense of integrity of what is the right thing to do and what is not.  The Native Americans have the ‘one law’.   The law is to always consider other and the greater good in every action we take.   I’d add another ‘rule’.      Follow your deepest fascinations and that which you feel naturally drawn to do.   Like this we can evolve.

Insinuation v Revolution

Every day we have opportunities to do the right thing.  And sometimes the right thing is not always direct protest.

 Because there are times when it is more effective to  flow with the system gently the way the water soaks into the earth nurturing and reviving it and encouraging new growth by just being water and doing what water is meant to do.   

Follow Your Fascinations

We all have purpose, meaning and a unique set of gifts that are our contribution to the world.   When we follow our fascinations, our joy and our bliss we will sow the seeds for the future through our unique contribution to the world.

 Dream the World Into Being

In the midst of these seemingly chaotic and exoponentially, rapidly evolving times, did you ever stop to wonder what kind of world you’d like to leave behind for the next generation and the next and the next and what unique gift you have to offer the future?   

The Venus Project

Jacque Fresco did.  This 83 year old French designer and futurist, dreamed a design for a world that is technologically and socially possible, fair to and respectful of all life, virtually crime free and where law is not necessary.  This world is a paradise of creativity and technological evolution for the betterment of all mankind and the entire system we are part of…

 Proposal for A New World

Wanna know what he has proposed?  

www.thevenusproject.com  An amazing design for the future

 www.thezeitgeistmovement.com  Join with others to create a world fit for all life, present and future  more than 250,000 members worldwide.   

PS Even if this world does not come into being in our time here on earth, imagine what seeds of potential we can sow for the generations to come.

PPPS We are tenants of this earth and there is an unspoken harmonic agreement that says in return for our tenancy we agree to leave the property in good shape for the next tenants.

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As every day brings new stories of chaos and challenges, we are drawn to consider these emerging values for a more harmonic life on Earth.

This is no dream.  What we forsee is what is naturally emerging in the face of global shifts.

Power

When the majority begins to realize that those our current leaders are not evolutionarily mature enough to hold the positions they think they merit, power will be divested to those people who are conscious enough to understand that leadership is a stewardship, a sacred assignment to be used only for the greater good.

Leaders will be selected because their actions have shown them to be worthy stewards of all life on earth.

Like this they will be able to direct efficiently and wisely the urgent process of returning to earth and rebuilding our world

Love

As the challenges of the current system begins to affect more and more people, human compassion will surface in the face of loss and sadness. As more and more people begin to vibrate love in the face of hatred, fear, and loss, Love will emerge as a dominant force.

Knowledge

As access to information becomes more widely available global consciousness is already expanding. The mankind will make more informed decisions and begin thinking and acting from our core with integrity and consideration for the greater good

Action

Action will increase as awakened people throughout the world step-up their efforts towards laying the foundations for a renewed, more harmonious and sustainable world. As a result of their pathfinder accomplishments, others will be inspired to awaken and take up the mantle of their own action.

Cooperation

As we find ourselves increasingly beset by severely challenging situations, the inner urge and need to band together with others and live in harmonic cooperation will emerge.

People will desire and demand right human relationships as a natural way of life. Community spirit will revive as our lives become more localized.

Simplicity

When more and more systems falter or become uneconomically viable, people will be nudged to explore simpler more natural activities. We will find ourselves being nurtured by nature as we return to earthly pursuits such as camping.

The more time we spend in simple pursuits such as sitting round a fire with others the quicker we will lose our addiction to passive diversions such as watching TV.

We will learn to be more delighted by nature and people as we engage in wood gathering, camp fire cooking, conversation, laughter, dance, music making and storytelling.

Persistence

Persistence will emerge as a dominant human characteristic in the face of greater trials . This will be prompted by an increased awareness that time IS running out.

More people will get that we must act now if we are to preserve the earth for future generations

Creativity

As the mankind experiences increasing shortfalls in the material supply system, the creative spirit will be activated to design and adopt alternative renewable energy sources, new ways of food culture, ecological shelter building, non pollutant transport, natural healing and intentional community structure.

Organization will emerge harmonically to support and facilitate a symbiotic system as the mankind begins to let go of the need to control and dominate and recognize and accept his role as an integral part of all that is.

Thought for the Day

“One enlightened thought can change your whole day. One thought of appreciation, joy or gratitude can change your whole internal state. One enlightened thought can turn a half empty glass into a half full one, a challenge into an opportunity, and a stranger into a friend. One enlightened thought can open your heart and clear your vision of the future. So why not think one, just one, go on!” Steve Nobel

You can make a difference

If you are reading this, then you are a pathfinder; you have started the awakening process and with that awakening comes a responbibility to share what you know with others.

with love and blessings

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

Creative Life Foundation
Harmonic Emergence – Return 2 Earth H.E.R.E.

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