“2021. Don’t pick a narrative, pick a process, pick many, pick none, but what ever you do, don’t pick a narrative just to stick with it after the change has come. “
It’s evident no one is going to make sense of 2020 let alone come out unscathed, unless you’re a billionaire. Notice I didn’t say millionaire? Even my favourite truthers are claiming they’re unable to determine a reliable direction. For those ruled by very specific belief systems, they’ve stuck to their narratives, like minds that have been branded, an unwavering flickering throughout the storm. Others, swayed back and forth as though rocking a newborn baby to sleep during the long winter nights.
“When I really want to know something I conform to it. I become like it in some important way. I get in my mind the same real pattern that’s in the thing, because that real pattern is what allows me to come into reciprocal realization with it.” John Vervaeke
I’ve explored belief systems from far left to far right and everywhere in between. Politics and religion will take you to the far reaches of humanity’s hopes and fears. Where has it brought me? As I sit here peering out this window onto a river confluence, I notice that both left and right passages connect into one main river flow. The main one moving quickly, water rushing, gushing, pushing forth with great speed, as if it were a hungry bear looking for it’s last meal before hibernation. It’s as though the water molecules know something I can’t understand. An algorithmic map imbedded into its dynamical flow. This part of the river, for me, represents what’s happening beyond our control.
The other, the affluent, is pooling, whirling and bubbling slowly before trickling into the greater current. So nonchalantly it sways back and forth. It doesn’t seem to have a fixed destination, none the less it’s eventually taken by the rushing current at the bottom of the fork. Seemingly unsuspectingly it’s sucked into the urgent flow. This part of the river represents us, the people, unsure, waiting, ruminating, grasping, letting go. Perhaps giving up on making sense all together or those still determined to figure it all out. Yet none the less, it is genuinely consumed by unknown forces at play.
I remember a time when sayings things like, “not living in fear” meant being guided by an inner light to salvation. Now, fear has become a supportive friend. It doesn’t have a grip on me like it did leading up to 2020, but it’s there, a faint pulsing, a presence, a daily reminder that this is just the beginning. In an oddly spiritual and skeptical way it’s helping me navigate the tumultuous waters of transformation that these times require.
Something inside of me constantly returns to the question, “what if we lose it all?”. Then I ask myself, “what is (all)?”, “what is loss?”. Another part of me knows we’re going to have to lose certain freedoms if we’re going to start living in a more balanced way with the natural eco-system, with each other. Then I ask, “what will it really require to live in a more balanced way?”.
Even if you don’t believe in climate change or that the virus required the world to come full halt, you might believe that the way we’ve been living on this plant is destructive to the natural world and the people on it. Right? Is it just me or was that clear for you all a long time ago too? Perhaps I’m just being pessimistic and human evolution on this planet was not what I was expecting. What was I expecting? We are almost eight billion large.
According to the United Nation’s report. “Each day, 25,000 people, including more than 10,000 children, die from hunger and related causes. Some 854 million people worldwide are estimated to be undernourished, and high food prices may drive another 100 million into poverty and hunger.” United Nations 2020
Perhaps cities were never a good idea to begin with. Yes, cities were not designed to properly scale in a healthy way. They were the messy rushing current of the agricultural and industrial revolution. Is it even possible to build new models of living during such a rush? Some have already been working on new models for decades. Who are they? Where are they? Have you began to live differently, both within your mind and out within the world?
Relationships of domination use force, manipulation and coercion. Healthy relationships seek to mutually benefit each other through clear communication (seeking to understand) and are agreements of reciprocity.
People have been dying since women have be giving birth on this planet and man seeding woman. Death isn’t going to stop us now. Do you remember the stories from Atlantis and Lemuria? Atlantis’ empire grew and grew, evolving in great leaps towards a technological revolution. Lemuria towards a heart based coherency revolution. The two met, head to head in a great battle. They both lost, destroying each other to a large extent. History doesn’t quite repeat itself so exactly as to say that this is what will happen again, but.
“No man steps into the same river twice; for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.” – Heraclitus
So what if the world’s population gets force-vaccinated with such relatively new biotechnology and a universal identification card or chip is implemented world wide? Let’s just imagine hypothetically that everyone is obligated to live under a new regime that streamlines everything from health care to food supply because capitalism was a dead end game for humanity. Will it be a form of communism or a technocratic totalitarian regime, an oligarchy? Or is it possible that we develop a new form of a technocratic democracy without falling into the same traps found in the ancient history books?
Taiwan, hummm.
Still, there is a tiny option left for those that don’t want to participate. If they have enough resourcefulness, grit and wit to survive the storm. They’ll be allowed to exi(s)t, but segregated from the majority of societies, out homesteading in the woodlands. Very limited medical and financial assistance, no access to cultural events and travel prohibited.
Will they become the wisdom keepers of the old, maintained by the use of ancient and new technologies? Like Lemuria, like indigenous cultures, guarding books on plant medicines, up regulating survival tactics and using mystical knowledge, all while living in a modern day world isolated from the biometric changes happening all around?
I might have about 40 more years left on this beautiful planet, how about you? What do you wish to do with your time left here given the circumstances of the current unfolding?