Earth in Transformation

   

                                                              

At present we are witnessing a process that has been envisioned by most indigenous cultures since long ago.

The earth is attempting to shake off her back, the most poisonous parasite to have ever inhabited her – we human beings. 

Any of us who have bothered to connect with earth cultures and listen to their myth and stories, have been aware for some time of the coming of the age of renewal, which is upon us now.

In fact much of what we attribute to myth and culture was based on precise scientific calculations, ones that we are still incapable of executing with all our advanced modern paraphernalia.      

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan are just more events, designed to rattle us into a space of being really present with life. 

We are way beyond a wake up call at this stage. We are in it, and whoever wants to live in denial of what is anymore, will just have to bear to consequence.

So what do we do now? Do we sit and wait and do nothing, because anyway it’s going to happen?!

Some years ago I joined Sunderlal Bahuguna, a noted Indian Environmentalist in a fast against the building of the Tehri dam.

I remember asking him why he was taking this action, when it was clear by than that the construction of the dam would proceed.

“This is not for me or the dam anymore. This is so future generations will see that someone did care. This is not for the result, this is for the sake of undertaking right action; action rooted in truth and understanding.” He said.

So... the earth changes will happen regardless of what we do anymore 

We have a choice though; we can sit and do what we do best – which is nothing, or we can cultivate our ability to respond from the depths of truth and connectivity and shine the light for the rebirth and renewal of life on earth.

Gone are the times where colourful weekend marches and some light pseudo spiritual fluff are going to affect any change.

It’s hand on deck time; be it our action in the world, be it our self-transformation into beings that abide in all spaces and in all dimensions.

As far as I see it, the key word is trust – trusting that we are supported and one with the Great Spirit – thus holding and sharing the power of the one love.

Another world is possible; in fact she is being birthed at this very moment.

The Scam

The cost of a kilo of onions in India now, is more than the daily wage of two thirds of its population.

India is now considered an economic miracle, while two thirds of its population earns less than two dollars a day.  

India is called an economic super power while half its children are malnourished and go to sleep hungry.

India is promoted as a place with friendly investment environment while half the population does not have access to a toilet and other basic amenities.

We are using India as an example at the moment, though it could be anywhere in the world.

Welcome to the ugly face of the brave new world, where the economy myth reigns supreme. Welcome to the brave new world championing the economy myth. 

As we mentioned in one of the recent postings (the terrorism myth), the two most used words in the media these days, are economy and terrorism.

In fact these two are very closely related. We are being terrorised through the economy and if we offer any resistance to the current economic model we are terrorised by the powers to be.

We have become slaves to the masters in the executive boardrooms of the corporations.

It is very strange this economy story. In most countries where the economy is booming, people are struggling. This is a fact!

Offcourse, a fact never shared by the corporate media feeding our minds.

So if people have less when the economy is booming, obviously, this thing called economy wasn’t really designed to benefit the people.

Let us look for a moment whom benefits when the economy is booming - Shareholders – big shareholders, (in real terms – bankers) and corporations. Which are actually one and the same.

Strangely enough, when the economy is struggling, things are easier for the common folk. Homes are cheaper, food is cheaper, while opportunities still abound.

So they created this myth that the economy is related to you and me and all of us - that we ought to care for the health of the economy. It’s a very clever myth conveyed to us by a media, which is owned by the same elite who created this myth and is ripping all of us off.

When I was in school, you never heard the word economy buzzing around, unless offcourse you were an economist.

Back then people still used terms as society to describe the social order we live in.

Now we don’t live in a society any more. We live in an economy!

At least that’s what they would like us to believe.

Ok, we are not going to go into things such as the debt base monetary system etc.  Lets leave this for future postings. What we do want to get into is why the top one percent of the planet’s population earns as much as the bottom fifty seven percent. Why do we allow this to happen? Are we all so cleverly manipulated?

To me it sounds like utter insanity, and by no means am I a Marxist/ Leninist dreaming of the old communist order.

It just doesn’t sound fair. It smells of exploitation, lies and deceit; other wise, no one in their right mind would accept such disparity.

So what is wrong with the current concept of economy?

First and foremost is the fact that giant transnational companies are in charge and call the shots. They are accountable to no one apart from their balance sheets. These companies operate with impunity across borders and in reality are subject to no rules or laws, apart from the one’s they make.

51 of the 100 biggest economies in the world are corporation and not sovereign countries.

Do you understand what we are getting to? These corporations have stifled all real completion in the ‘market place’ and control the movement of goods and services across the planet.

We are way beyond capitalism now. The cunning word globalisation has put us under the totalitarian rule of the corporations.

The masses all over the world are struggling because of the current system of economy. While few, very few are laughing all the way to the bank.

 Any sign of dissent against the economy is crushed brutally by all means possible.

So, how do we change this, How do we disempower the corporations and take charge of our lives again?

Local – local - local.

Think globally act locally. This is not just a slogan; it’s a roadmap for transformation.

Wherever you are support the local community. Buy local, support local, participate in local and empower each other to be the real decision makers, charting the lives we wish to live.

Another world is possible – we make it happen

(More to come on this subject))

The Great Flood

                                                              

So reality has beaten me to my story. I have just completed writing a novel set in a great flood while Queensland is experiencing floods of ‘biblical proportions’

I watched the saga unfold through the media, as I am far away from home at present.

It was heartening to see the sense of humanity and comradeship disaster brings out in people.

It is though, for a brief moment, we get in touch with our primal roots and identify what is really important – a sense of community and our love and care for each other.

Less heartening was to observe how much coverage was given to the economic loss from the flood - the loses to the mining companies, the growth in GDP etc…

Just gibberish, rubbish, illusion designed to again disempower us, lest for a moment we attune to the power that rests in unity.

The other issue that stands out is a lack of responsibility taken by the authorities for this massive flood. The blame has been pointed squarely at nature, as though we had nothing to do with it.

From 1968 to 1987 Queensland was ruled by a right wing, fascist,  named 'Joh Bjelke-Petersen.' It was a time when even the white rulers of South Africa were jealous of the perfect apartheid exercised in Queensland. He was so admired for his white supremacist christen ideology, that he was even knighted by the queen of England.

A corner stone of this ideology is the premise that man is the supreme ruler of the earth. Thus He exercises total domain over her, exploits her and uses her as a resource to advance His agenda.

Of course what you do the great mama, you do to all mothers.

Anyway, back to the flood and its causes. During the years of Joh’s regime and before hand, Queensland has been clear felled systematically, in order to make way, for farms, beef grazing, mining etc.

No country in the world has experienced such earth carnage as Australia. In fact the environmental degradation we enacted in Australia in 200 years, took Europe a few thousand and western Asia almost ten thousand years.

We were in a hurry; we wanted to act fast, to rid the land of its native primal look - so to make it in the image of ‘mother England’.

We cleared the native people and we cleared the native flora and fauna.

Now, every kid knows that deforestation causes floods. Here are a few reasons…

•      Some rainwater stays on the leaves, and it may evaporate directly to the air (the more water used in the watershed, the less remains to run off).

•      Leaves reduce raindrop impact, and gentler rain causes less erosion.

•      Tree roots absorb water from the soil, making the soil drier and able to store more rainwater.

•      Tree roots hold the soil in place, reducing the movement of sediment that can shrink river channels downstream.

•      In short, the trees actually regulate the absorption and movement of water. With no trees left… the water is left to fend for itself and runs riot.

So once the clean up is over and we get back to our ‘normal’ lives, wouldn’t it be nice to start a massive reforestation drive in order to return the trees to the land.

I suspect the government would be talking nonsense again, money, economy etc.; building higher flood levies and waiting for nature to retaliate again.

Lets tell them it’s not what we want.

We want the trees back!

Another world is possible… lets plant more trees and stop cutting the few that remain.

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Creating new Myths – while discarding the old ones

                                                        

So, at last we have greeted the New Year and have ventured into the 2011 story.

Australia is experiencing its worse floods ever, Europe is under a blanket of snow like never before, in south India they are sleeping under 3 blankets, where cold has never been experienced and in America tornado’s are appearing out of season.

Despite all this, many out there in the corridors of power claim that nothing is out of balance with the systems governing the cycles of Mama earth.

Forget the word Global warming - some of us are freezing.

How about global meltdown?

We have held such little respect for the health of our Mama for so long, that now she is just convulsing. Perhaps she is trying to rid herself of this parasite that has been leeching her life force for so long.

This parasite that calls HimSelf , human being though in reality has long lost touch with the essence of his being.

So we celebrated and danced and welcomed the New Year, while half the children in the world went to sleep hungry. Some of us even spared a thought for the less fortunate, though most of us did nothing and will continue to do the same.

On the news they keep on babbling how the floods, and snow, and other weather chaos would affect the health of the economy, the GDP and growth.

Fuck this insanity!!! What are they talking about? Can’t anyone talk about real things for a moment?

Like, how, we as a people are affecting the planet, and how we as a people can affect positive change - change that has nothing to do with words such as economy, terrorism, GDP, IMF, WTO and other dirty words, designed to distract us from the issues at hand and the moment that IS.

What if each one of us let go of, a few of the gadgets cluttering our lives and brains. Would we be less happy? Will our connection with the life around us; the people surrounding us somehow diminish, or perhaps be enhanced.

Where is our true meeting point with life? And why have we come to accept some mediocre consensus to what our lives are meant to be.

Our brains are shattered by an overload of meaningless information that is utterly irrelevant to our walk on planet earth.

We have been led to believe in the myth of terrorism, the myth of economy, the myth of separation, whilst at the same time we have forgotten the true myths; the ones aligned with the earth Mama and all our relations.

So how about we affirm to connect with the myths of magic, wonder and awe. Wouldn’t myths such as these serve our lives and the purpose we attach to them, in a more meaningful way?

Another world is possible. We have to dream a new parable to life on earth.  Its all what it takes. Change the dream, the reference point, the story we are sharing with each other and life will co – create with us the coming of a dawn full of smiles.

Another world is possible: Vision Future - 2011 and beyond

Another world is possible: Vision Future - 2011 and beyond: "I would like to take a break for a moment from the theme we have been exploring in the last month and dream together a vision for the year..."

Vision Future - 2011 and beyond

I would like to take a break for a moment from the theme we have been exploring in the last month and dream together a vision for the year to come.

We have been looking at the ills of the world and why our socio/ economic/ religious system is so corrupt and out of touch with real human needs.

So let us see if we can envision the world we want to live in, and let us feel the inner scape we aspire to create this world from.

How about we start with a world where our unity is inspired by the celebration of our diversity.

A world where a hundred precent of our resources are spent on health, education, art, music upliftment of the disadvantaged and all other positives, that brings smiles to peoples faces.

A world where we gauge are progress by definitions such as GNP (gross national happiness) as opposed to the current GDP (gross domestic product)

At present more than half the world’s annual wealth is spent on defence, which is a very cunny word. In real language, half the world’s money is spent on instruments of war. So we take this money away from hate and we put it into love, Imagine! Really it’s not so hard to do.

Yes, lets imagine all together, a world where renewable energy has replaced the fossil fuel economy.

Where chemical/modern/ terminator seed agriculture has been replaced with working in harmony with the land and producing food of much higher nutritional quality, whilst preserving the health of mama earth, which grows our food. Imagine! Really, it’s not that hard to do.

Lets envision together conflict resolution through dialogue and understanding, rather than threats and war.

 Let us instil love within each other’s hearts and leave fear to a bygone era. Really, it’s not that hard to do.

Yes, it does take our will and intent. So what? Isn’t it better than the illusion of separation, which is leading us down a dark hole of no return.

So let us affirm together, that we are all part of the one circle, even if for a brief moment in time, we might have differing points of view.

Let us join together to bring about the dissolution of these giant transnational companies, whilst handing back the wealth of each nation to benefit its own populace.

Lets support again the family owned store, which greets us with a real smile, and the small farmer whom really cares for the land.

Let us dream a world together, where no one gets left behind. A world where there is enough to satisfy all our needs, rather than our greed.

A world where there is enough to go around for everyone. At present 1% of the population owns 40% of the plants wealth, lets change this and make sure no one has too much or too little.

Let us awake to a new era of freedom, where democracy actually reflects the will of the people, rather than consent manufactured by the privileged few.

Really it isn’t hard to do, once we stop succumbing to the illusion of fear and offer real resistance alongside real solutions; all of us, together.

Let us create together a world where health is not an industry answering to its shareholders, hence healthy humans are not the desired outcome to the balance sheets of the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates. 

Let us create a health system that does not profit from human suffering, rather celebrates human health and well-being.

Let proven natural healing be the mainstream and invasive, expensive so-called modern medicine be the last resort alternative.

Let us create again together, a world where children can identify the marvels of nature, rather than the logos of hundreds of brand names, luring them away from their innocence.

Let us celebrate innocence, magic and owe as a way of life rather than stories to be told in fairy tales.

Let us all know that all of the above is not merely a dream, but a reality that we can and will create together.

Happy New Year to all of you wherever you are. May you forever know, that that you are a star shining in an infinite galaxy. That you and me and all of us are creating the reality we want.

This moment we are all co-creating the future.

So…. What do you think? How do you want to see the next evolutionary step?

Would you be proud to tell the children you did nothing?

Do you dare to dream big, or have you been made to believe you are powerless by the powers that be?

Another World Is Possible

We make it happen