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?  

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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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