We've Read the Wrong Books

I saw the movie 'Home' recently (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU ) with my Light Circle group at Columbia College. It is a graphic depiction of the situation on the planet at this time, and how scientists feel we have about 10 years or so to get our shit together as a species. So the question that's come up is, are we, as a human race going to make it?

I believe we will. And I'm not into being optimistic just for its own sake. In chatting with a member of an intentional community the other day, I said that the world is not all faeries and pixie dust. Group hugs and trust falls, while nice, aren't gonna reverse the damage to what Native Americans call Pachumama, or Mother Earth. We all need to answer the call to the sacred activist within. To be the change. The alternative? We will not survive as a species, probably within one or two lifetimes. Humans evolve, or humans become extinct. Pretty simple.

Having positive beliefs is different than just positively thinking. One can have all the positive thinking in the world, and still feel like shit behind closed doors, be depressed, experience chronic anxiety, etc. Positive thinking, while nice, comes from our conscious mind, and easily gets trumped by the behavioral programs, or beliefs running in our much more powerful subconscious mind. It's the same as when one goes to see a traditional clinical shrink, you sit on the couch and vent, it feels good for a little bit, you pay your money, pass go, and then a week later you're doing the same shit as before. A person with positive beliefs rooted at the subconscious level can recognize there is lots of disharmony and dissonance on Planet Earth at this time, and help said individual remain centered and at peace despite the outside noise or dissonance. A person with positive beliefs can have emotions such as anger, anxiety, fear, without those emotions "having" him or her. Positive beliefs are essential to sacred activism, in my humble opinion.


We've fucked up the biosphere(Earth) pretty good. 20% of humans consume 80% of the planet's resources. 40% of arable land has suffered permanent damage. Species are dying out at a rhythm 1000x faster than the natural rate. 3/4 of all fishing grounds are depleted, exhausted, or in dangerous decline.

Most human beings I know have good hearts. Most try to lead authentic and aware lives. Most live by the book and mean well. So how the hell are we literally on the brink of extinction as a species? How did we fuck things up this bad?

Simple. We've been reading the wrong books.

There is a lotta confusion out in the world because the Darwinists and Newtonian scientists have metaphorically peed in the cosmic chili. The science that our genes control our destiny is false, it is our beliefs that do. Our perceptions create our reality. Change the perception(at the subconscious level), and you change your reality. Our environments DO matter. In English: "survival of the fittest" has been the scientific basis running the show for the last couple hundred years, and with it the idea that we are all separate. Symptoms of this include that greed and consumption and competition are good. That you must lose in order for me to win. That I have to do whatever it takes to get the job, win the audition, accumulate as much as I can. To survive. This science works for the self-interested few(economic elite, politicians, church/religion, and so forth) as a means to maintain a stranglehold, on what else, POWER. The trickle effect leaks it down unconsciously to a popular culture that for a long time, was(is?) obsessed with, "keeping up with the Joneses". With material wants and over-consumption. I, at times, conscious or not, have been part of the problem. I, and many others, now have chosen, and choose every day to be part of the solution.

Dr. Bruce Lipton, molecular biologist and epigeneticist, and author of the Biology of Belief and Spontaneous Evolution, says that evolution is not random, and it is through cooperation that the first cells evolved into multi-cellular organisms. This has happened throughout evolution when faced with a biological imperative to do so. One might say the planet is at such a threshold. We must evolve, adapt, and thrive as a species, or we as an entire human race will perish and die.

A lot of things ARE seemingly backwards right now. The people in charge of our fiat-based consumer economy are punishing savers, and rewarding spenders, rewarding reckless risk-taking. We have inflation in things we need(food, energy, etc) and deflation in the shit we don't(DVD players, electronics, retail anything) Allopathic medicine is hamstrung by insurance companies and many doctors are frustrated and disempowered to do their true work, to heal and be one with the Hippocratic Oath. Politicians spend most of their time and money on re-election, not service. Scandals in religion. Wars against invisible enemies. Football is our national religion. (i like football, i'm just sayin')

All of this stems from the false notion that we are all separate from one another. This is simply not true. In the quantum world we live in, everything is connected. We are literally all One. The science has arrived. And only through cooperation do we have a chance to answer and transcend this biological imperative the planet is currently faced with.

The Mayans believe we are entering the Age of the 5th Sun, in which ethics will transcend power. It is already happening all around if one looks closely enough. There's over 1,000,000 organizations across the globe promoting conscious living and unity and sacred activism at this time. That number grows every month. It's not a point in time, but rather, a process. We haven't tapped the potential of 90% of our brain, and 80% of our DNA potential. Science, like Dr.Lipton's, is catching up to consciousness and spirit and religion. They are literally merging. They have always been one, but we have been conditioned and programmed and distracted from these facts, as a means of control.

My monkey mind doesn't know if we'll make it or not as a human race. If enough people wake up, if enough "imaginal" cells survive, and form a version of a galactic butterfly, or critical mass, we will. Ends are beginnings, death becomes re-birth, yadda yadda yadda.

I believe in my heart that we will evolve in time. And to quote from the movie Home, I feel, "It's too late to be pessimistic."

I choose to be positive, not in the aerie-faerie, singing Kum-ba-ya on the top of a mountain-sense, but in a way that my belief system is aligned positively to affect change, in myself, and for the planet, at this time.

It doesn't make it right or wrong, it simply makes it my choice.

Peace.

Eric

Love is the New Religion

(from www.thebigglow.com, re-printed in its entirety)


Love Is The New Religion

On the surface of the world right now there is war and violence and things
seem dark
But calmly and quietly, at the same time, something else is happening
underground
An inner revolution is taking place and certain individuals are being called
to a higher light
It is a silent revolution
From the inside out
From the ground up

It is time for me to reveal myself
I am an embedded agent of an secret, undercover
Clandestine
Global operation
A spiritual conspiracy
We have sleeper cells in every nation on the planet

You won't see us on the T.V.
You won't read about us in the newspaper
You won't hear about us on the radio

We don't seek any glory
We don't wear any uniform
We come in all shapes and sizes
Colors and styles

Most of us work anonymously
We are quietly working behind the scenes in every country and culture of
the world
Cities big and small, mountains and valleys, in farms and villages, tribes
and remote islands

You could pass by one of us on the street and not even notice
We go undercover
We remain behind the scenes
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done

Occasionally we spot each other in the street
We give a quiet nod and continue on our way so no one will notice

During the day many of us pretend we have normal jobs
But behind the false storefront at night is where the real work takes place

Some call us the "Conscious Army"
We are slowly creating a new world with the power of our minds and hearts
We follow, with passion and joy
Our orders from the Central Command
The Spiritual Intelligence Agency

We are dropping soft, secret love bombs when no ones is looking
Poems
Hugs
Music
Photography
Movies
Kind words
Smiles
Meditation and prayer
Dance
Social activism
Websites
Blogs
Random acts of kindness

We each express ourselves in our own unique ways with our own unique
gifts and talents

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
That is the motto that fills our hearts
We know it is the only way real transformation takes place
We know that quietly and humbly we have the power of all the oceans
combined

Our work is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains
It is not even visible at first glance
And yet with it entire tectonic plates shall be moved in the centuries to
come

Love is the new religion of the 21st century

You don't have to be a highly educated person
Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it

It comes from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings

Be the change you want to see in the world
Nobody else can do it for you

We are now recruiting
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have....
All are welcome...
The door is open

-Brian Piergrossi
(From the book "The Big Glow")