Each of us enters this transition from a
different perspective and a different set of needs and therefore each person's
appropriate engagement with the shift must necessarily be unique.
(FUTUREdition) -- Let me first point you to an early warning
piece compiled by Michael Snyder:
George Soros, IMF & The World Bank: Warnings Of An Impending Economic Collapse.
In my DVD, 2012: The Year of Great Transition, I talk about the multiple
indicators that propose that the global economic system will suffer a great
implosion starting late next month. I certainly have thoughtful friends who
don't believe this is going to happen and I have other friends who have
questioned both the value and motivations associated with highlighting these
potential discontinuities. They generate fear, they say. And furthermore, those
things might not happen.
This got me thinking a bit more about this whole transition and our
preparation/response to it all.
I guess it's becoming clearer to me that each of us has only ourselves to assess
in determining what we need to do going forward. I remember the response of one
of our friends here in Berkeley Springs when he began to read my 2012 book: "I
read the first couple of chapters the first night and wanted to go get my gun
and shoot myself," he announced to a party we were attending. My response was,
"No, no! You've got to read it all, don't stop as soon as you find things
uncomfortable!" I guess, in general, I'd suggest the same thing in terms of
these kinds of messages that harbinger destruction and upheaval. Don't stop at
the bad stuff, the really exciting stuff comes where the larger context is
explained.
E. Dee Conrad's book, A New Dawn Awaits, which I've mentioned here and many of
your now have, is like this-you can't stop in the first chapters that talk about
all of the disruption-you have to read it all. You need to understand where this
all is going. I've had many people tell me that they were seriously moved and
appreciative of my making her book available to them, so I know that it works
for those people for whom it works.
I guess that is the point. Each of us enters this transition from a different
perspective and a different set of needs and therefore each person's appropriate
engagement with the shift must necessarily be unique.
That being said (and I really do appreciate that each of us must approach this
personally and that none of us is in a position to judge others), let me loft
out a couple of ideas. I think one of the most fundamental (practical)
objectives of this life experience is learning to live without fear-finding
comfort in the "eternal now"-as Paul Tillich called it. The ability to live
without fear of the future fundamentally changes one's approach to life and
opens up significant options that fear and anxiety preclude. There are a number
of ways to find this space-Echardt Tolle has famously written about some of
them-but what I, at least, have found is that fear seems to coexist with a sense
of uncertainty. In other words, the more uncertain someone is about a potential
situation, the more open the person becomes to unleashing a gnawing apprehension
about what might happen -- and, of course, how bad it could become.
For me, the two general approaches to dealing with this uncertainty revolve
around ignorance and information, the pursuit of which, in turn quickly becomes
a bit of a logical labyrinth. On one hand, you can purposely stay uninformed of
what is developing around yourself and, in not knowing about what might be
inbound, neither think nor worry about the future. That works. That is what
Wayne Dyer advertises that he does. I have no doubt that that is the best
approach for some, if not most, people.
The problem for me is that this approach revolves around the notion of
surprises. When something big happens that you haven't considered-and therefore
don't understand and can't contextualize- uncertainty is generated. If the event
is really abrupt and strange, it engenders a great deal of very rapid
uncertainty and therefore fear. Having not considered the possibility before the
fact (when time was available to make some sense of not only what such a thing
could mean but also what might be done about it), you very quickly finds
yourself out of time, money and options -- and that's usually not fun.
The alternative is to try to stay knowledgeable about what might be on the
horizon, therefore engendering a picture of what you might encounter and having
the opportunity to prepare yourself, mentally, physically and spiritually for
the coming changes.
But that only works if you don't become stressed by what you see. If the
incoming change is scary, you internalize all of the potential ways in which the
future might turn on you and that compounds your insecurity. You're fearful
again. So that won't work either.
The challenge, therefore, is to be informed but not to become emotionally
involved in what you learn and consider-to maintain an arm's length, "observer"
perspective of all that might happen that has any aspect of what might be
considered negative personal implications. It's a process of looking at the
future with your head, not your heart. The underlying principle, of course, is
that the future almost never shows up as you thought it would -- and it
seldom is a bad as anticipated. Worrying does absolutely no good whatsoever and
embellishing those "negative" images with stressful emotions which literally
increases the likelihood that something unsavory will, in fact, be manifest.
Your consciousness is causal and when your emotions are supercharged, it's like
pouring gasoline on a fire. It really gets going.
So, you can stand on the sidelines and hope everything works out, or engage in
the process, but only if can do so without internalizing the emotionally
negative things you see emerging. It's one thing to be surprised when the events
are small but it's quite another when the unanticipated is large and fast
moving. Like the difference between a thunderstorm and a hurricane: the net
effects are magnified when things are unfamiliar. They don't make sense. You can
only make sense out of anything by understanding its context. Pick any single
event or concept by itself-star, storm, change, or my wife Diane-and unless you
understand the context, you have no idea what it means. We all know that you
also need some history-some distance-from an experience to fully appreciate what
its real meaning was. Everyone has had what at the time seemed to be a bad
experience, that, in retrospect made a lot of good sense and contributed
positively to their lives. That is the value of context-you begin to see how the
short-term disruption contributes to the longer term stability and expansion.
I mention this because many substantive indicators suggest we are entering a
period of very significant, abrupt, unprecedented events. Like the article
mentioned above, the channeled material from E. Dee, the clear picture coming
out of the webot process, and a host of other credible sources, very good source
material suggests that our world is about to change dramatically. My friend
Kevin Blackwell (and many others) make the point that the planet needs to change
in order for the new world to emerge. It's all part of the process.
The bigger context is the key. It is all good, because the short term change,
like childbirth, might be painful in the present but it is an integral part of
something quite wonderful and beautiful being born. If you can hold that larger
picture in your mind-and the fact that the universe is benign and loving and
will care for you-then you can look at big change without any negative charge
and be excited about participating in what appears to be the grandest event in
the history of our species. The context is rather extraordinary and shifts how
you look at everything.
An important distinction must be made between reasonable, supportable attempts
to inform, and those kinds of transmissions that have words like "apocalypse" in
their title-which, wittingly or not, are designed to prospect for and mine fear
and other negative emotional responses. I would clearly put E. Dee's book in the
former category. It is coherent, unimpassioned reporting from a source that is
very consistent with many other sources. As a number of people have said to me:
"There's nothing new here, but this presentation is so coherent, comprehensive
and clear."
Now, we all respond how we respond, so it would be foolish to feed one's fear
while knowing that that would be the effect. That's why I think that many, if
not most people probably can't effectively handle the full truth of what appears
to be heading this way. They will neither see nor fully appreciate the much
larger context of what is transpiring and therefore slip into fear; but in this
case, being uninformed risks being unprepared.
This is why I think we need balance. We have a mind for a reason and we should
use it. The human mind's capacity for logic has been one of the central tools in
the evolution of our species. We have reached this place of being about to be
catapulted into an extraordinary new world in good part because of the
increasingly effective use of our minds. Now we need to expand-and balance-the
way we operate to include logic and analysis as well as the softer, non-linear
intuitive resource that many of us have essentially ignored. But we shouldn't
throw the baby out with the bathwater as we move in this larger, expanded
direction. That's my guess.
But, all of the above is conventional analysis. Let me be quick to say that we
can jettison all of this kind of thinking in a heartbeat if some indicators of
the character and magnitude of the incoming change turn out to be true. There is
the possibility that with DNA change, expanded operation in fourth and fifth
dimensional reality and a bunch of other radically unconventional ideas, all the
rules about how to live on this planet could change. It would be a different
game on a different playing field with very different rules. Should this emerge,
much of what is capturing our attention on a day-to-day basis (in the short
term, at least) would be unlikely to illuminate the magnitude of what we are
really experiencing. In that case, it might turn out that effectively insulating
oneself from all that is going on around would be the best policy. Maybe not
cluttering up one's mind with trying to understand and anticipate in a linear
way would be the best approach. I honestly don't know. But I do think that we
each must do the best that we know how to do at each stage of this transition
and that, if we do that, there isn't anything else that we really can do.
The real-life business of the government's X-files remains hidden in
plain sight. The government claims "we can neither confirm nor deny"
that documents exist showing extraterrestrial objects have been
tracked as they enter the Earth's air space. Meanwhile a handful of
very high ranking intelligence officials play out spy games on the
Internet about reverse engineering alien technology and a former CIA
Deputy Director for Intelligence is implicated in the sordid affair.
The core of this story involves high level government intelligence
persons and SERPO, a "soap opera" about US government contact with
an extraterrestrial alien intelligence.
The Revolution is Love
As I mentioned in the last issue of FE, there is a practical example of how one
can think about these things. It's not the endpoint, but you can start to see
the possibility of a different paradigm. Here's a short YouTube video featuring
Charles Eisenstein called The Revolution is Love. There's an almost
angular difference to the conventional analytical orientation. Eisenstein is
working from a different operating plane-he's using a radically different set of
metrics to assess and make sense of what is happening.
That's what is interesting to me about this big shift, "they" are changing not
only the rules -- but also the playing field. This is really a different game
that we're in.
Charles Eisenstein Coming to Berkeley Springs
So, I'll mention again that Charles is coming to give a presentation here in our
Transition Talks series in Berkeley Springs next month. He will talk about his
sacred economics ideas and some of his other both creative and radical concepts.
We're really looking forward to it.
If you can, you should try to come and hear Charles. He'll be here on Sunday
afternoon, the 4th of March at 2PM at the Ice House (that's a new time-we had to
reschedule this presentation to a week later).
You can get details
here.
We hope that you can join us.
Anticipating 2012
As I mentioned above, we've got a new DVD out on what 2012 looks like to me. I
gathered the information from eight or nine credible sources together in a
synthetic picture. It was interesting because it became clear that there were
multiple indicators that were very specifically forecasting the rapid collapse
of significant pieces of the existing system in the coming 12 months-some of the
big pieces start coming down in the next 90 days!
For example, one can make a pretty compelling case that there will be an
extraordinary cosmic happening in the third quarter -- to say nothing about
two other major earth-shaking events that appear to be on the schedule for June
and September.
2012 is gearing up to literally become one of the most important years in the
history of humanity.
Very strange things seem programmed for the third quarter-events for which we
don't yet have descriptive language. It is interesting that the input from both
conventional and unconventional reporters has pointed consistently toward the
uniqueness of this period.
I talked about these things for about an hour on this DVD and then the producer,
Brian Hardin, and I added a half-hour of interchange about preparing for what
appears to be headed our way. If you're interested in seeing this presentation,
you can get the DVD of the interview
-- 2012: The Year of Great Transition -- You'll find it both interesting
and provocative. I promise!
We've had some production issues associated with these DVD's that will get
resolved this week, so these DVDs will ship about the 12th of February if you
order them this week.
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