Seeking to engage my divine agency and be a reminder that there is more to living than the culture in front of us offers.
Christopher Alexander, Meister Eckhart, Rupert Murdoch, George Soros, Howard Bloom, Saint Timothy Leary, Crowley, ect...
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Consensus reality engineering is an amazing tool. I wish it was employed for something other than selling discontent.
From Kevin Kelly's page www.kk.orgWhen thinking in the long term, especially about technology, I find it very helpful to think in terms of human generations. As a rough estimate I reckon 25 years per generation. Civilization began about 10,000 years ago (the oldest city, Jericho, was born in 8000 BC) which makes the civilization now present in Jericho and the rest of the world about 400 generations old. Tha's 400 reproductive cycles of mother to daughter. Four hundred generations of civilized humans is not very long. We could almost memorize the names of all 400 cycles if we had nothing much else to do. After 400 generations we are different people than when we began. We had the idea of automatons and robots only maybe 8 generations ago, and made the first electronic computers 2 generations ago. The entire World Wide Web less than 2,000 days old! The year 2100 is only four generations away, keeping the same human lifespan. If we morph into robots in 2100, civilized humans will have lasted only 400 generations. That would be the shortest lifespan of a species in the history of life.
Most of my heros are dead and that is why I proclaim "WE ARE THEY!!!!" Its time for us to become the heros. Deny the falsehood of the spectacle and embrace your direct experiences, successes, failures, loves. Embody them all and allow yourself to be nourished by the act of living. Take responsiblity for your own struggle and realize that change is up to you.