On the road to the next reality
Can we pick up the pace?
I am for creating a new resonance in humanity. Nothing less will do. In a culture controlled by the richest people, fixing this and that won’t get us very fixed. We should be looking to get humanity to make its next major move, following up on Copernicus. It took a long #time for losing our place in the center of the universe to get us from kings and serfs to democracy, but we have the internet. How can we use it?
Whenever I say no one else is looking for what we-the-people could be doing, where I’m a little Paul Reverish about the apocalypse coming, people say there are a lot of others or they talk about the futility of any effort. Well, no one has turned up who is looking for we-the-people to become a force and I’m not buying into futility. Poor van Gogh, look what not selling any paintings drove him to. But he didn’t have the internet! Maybe we just need an idea. Or an island of coherence, like those buddies in the garage, where 10 shares of Microsoft that would have cost you $210, in 1986, would get you $416,000 today.
Could a committee to think with for a conversation to save the world get so tight? Just a thought.
The recent essay contest for “how we saved the world” did stir up thinking about making impact and I was encouraged by contributors being grateful for being prodded to think. With Joan Walton, one of the finalists, getting a new leadership role as Interim Director of the Scientific and Medical Network, it’s enough of an occasion to pass along her essay, Living Life as Inquiry: Every Moment Counts!
And it’s not just because Joan incorporated ideas of mine ”to evolve education about consciousness within a postmaterialist worldview” rippling out from an ‘island’ of sorts, “a small group of 12 people,” that I like it so much, but I sure was charmed by her fixing the world with my brainstorms. Here’s a taste:
“What was also wonderful was that, in the different educational contexts that people were in, they could introduce all the ideas that individuals had been generating in their own worlds. This is where the ideas of the originator of the contest, Suzanne Taylor, came into their own. Suzanne had put together a fantastic list of suggestions as to what could be done to generate positive change. Because they were on a website, though, they did not get the widespread attention they deserved. But an educator introduced them into her group sessions, encouraging participants to choose at least one to implement in their own lives. Members of her group were motivated to such an extent that they then began to create ideas of their own to add to the list. The educator would share this experience in one of the collaborative inquiry monthly meetings, and then others took her initiative into their projects. In this way, valuable ideas were adopted and spread through diverse places. For example, an Appreciations Page became almost standard in all the schools touched by the project, and contributed enormously to the improvement of the mental health of young people. And the Circles of Trust, where 8 people met on a regular basis to share what was happening for them, became a great way of creating confidence in individuals, enabling them to work out what they were born to be, and to go out into the world as that person.”
SMN is my go-to consciousness organization, with Nobel Prize-winning members and member interactions with them. Check out joining, aware that the website is very very slow and you have to wait for pages to come up.
I just want to make mention of something that struck me. I may do my next Substack on what Marianne Williamson is up to in going back to being a spiritual guide, but this is a sentence from the first chapter of her new book, that waited for publication till after her presidential campaign, that stunned me with how profound it is:
“Our society calls it a mental health crisis, but in fact it’s a spiritual one.”
What a gamechanger that awareness would be. How I’d love to see our Kamala take a meeting with Marianne!
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