90 Inspiring and Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways By Tim Hjersted / filmsforaction.org The world today is in crisis. Everybody knows that. But what is driving this crisis? It's a story, a story that is destroying the world. It's a story about our relationship to the world and to other humans, but we take this story for granted. Climate change, political corruption, corporate power, war, racism, sexism, environmental destruction - these are all symptoms of the cultural story we are enacting. The old story of empire and dominion over the earth has to be looked at in the full light of day - all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible. Most of all, we need to see the promise of the new story (which is also a very ancient story). And all of this knowledge and introspection, dreaming, questioning, and discovery is essential for a cultural transformation that addresses root causes. Ecological consciousness.
Mapping the Emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and Its Main Thinkers By Commons Transition / commonstransition.org “We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras” is the way Jan Rotmans from the University Rotterdam describes the structural changes impacting our societies. This is also the phrase Michel Bauwens chose to open his latest book yet to be published in English which title is likely to be close to “Towards a post-capitalist society with the Peer-to-Peer”. For thinkers like Jan Rotmans and Michel Bauwens this change of eras is akin to the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the 19th century, and characterized by transitions in various fields. A change in social order from a central, hierarchically-controlled society to a horizontal, decentralized, and bottom-up working unit. Following this analysis, it is to gain further insights that we at blaqswans.org wanted to paint a big picture of the emerging post-capitalist paradigm, underpinned by peer-to-peer and collaborative dimensions. (click on the images for higher resolution)
Conscious Evolution: Leaping Into Possibility | Kosmos Journal It is 40 years since the Futurist magazine published Prof. Clare W. Graves’ article titled “Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap,” which contained predictions for our future that have proved remarkably prescient. Fast forward to today. The leap is a shift in consciousness. The Conscious Evolutionary Journey We are aware of our position as latecomers to a 4-billion year biological evolution but less so of the psychological and societal development that has since taken place. Societal evolution has been a progression in numbers and complexity. The Coming Stage: Coping with Complexity If Graves’ view of our evolving consciousness was correct—if our Values systems and priority codes are psychosocial responses that adapt to changing life conditions—where are we now in our journey? No previous shift has been as stark as this; we are in a new scenario. In earlier, slower-paced and less complex times we could attempt to predict the outcome of our actions.
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Taking Apart Psychiatry: Fraud-Kings of the Mind Jon Rappoport, GuestWaking Times Exploding the myth of “good science…” “Promoting diabolically false science, psychiatry creates a gateway for defining many separate states of consciousness that don’t exist at all. They’re cheap myths, fairy tales.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport) USA Today, January 26, 2016: “Primary care doctors should screen all adults for depression, an expert panel recommended Tuesday.” —Let’s screen everybody to find out if they have mental disorders. Wherever you see organized psychiatry operating, you see it trying to expand its domain and its dominance. The first question to ask is: do these mental disorders have any scientific basis? An open secret has been bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years. And along with that: ALL SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDERS ARE CONCOCTED, NAMED, LABELED, DESCRIBED, AND CATEGORIZED by a committee of psychiatrists, from menus of human behaviors. In a PBS Frontline episode, Does ADHD Exist? There’s more. His name is Dr.
10 Basic New Age Deceptions and How to Correct Them Waking Times Editor’s Note: This list was gathered and collated by Brendan D. Murphy with kudos to Mark Passio, Tim McClew for the distillation, and Juliet J. Carter. “Real compassion kicks butt and takes names and is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this FIRE, then find a new-age, sweetness and light, perpetually smiling teacher and learn to relabel your ego with spiritual sounding terms. Mark Passio’s 10 Basic New Age Deceptions 1. The notion that you make things worse by focusing on negative issues is false. Correction: Seeing the negativity for what it is creates an ability to steel oneself against its harmful effects and perhaps avoid them entirely. 2. “No one should ever get angry, it’s an emotion that needs to be purged from your system.” 3. Many New Agers tout concepts such as Right & Wrong as “dualistic” and therefore invalid. Correction: “Conscience” literally means: “to know together”, to have “common sense”. 4. 5. The abuse of meditation and yoga. 6. 7. 8.
The End of Capitalism Has Begun Paul Mason, GuardianWaking Times Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian… The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. Instead over the past 25 years it has been the left’s project that has collapsed. If you lived through all this, and disliked capitalism, it was traumatic. As with the end of feudalism 500 years ago, capitalism’s replacement by postcapitalism will be accelerated by external shocks and shaped by the emergence of a new kind of human being. Postcapitalism is possible because of three major changes information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. But what is all this information worth?
Think Global, Act Local; Preparing for and Building the New Era for Humanity It’s mind-blowing the moment we live in. Not only are all the world’s indigenous and modern cultures connecting into a global society for the first time in our known history, but we’re doing it in a reality that is so mysterious that our minds are intertwined at the fundamental level. As duality would have it though; there is madness to this magic. There’s escalating conflict all across the planet. The global economy is deflating from a decades-old debt bubble. There is a bigger picture though. It is right there for us to feel. It is right there for us to play with. Many exciting developments are taking place. We’ve got a long way to go though and there is only one strategy to make it happen: expand our awareness and translate it into action. Whilst we’ve still got a relatively calm and functioning society, we need to form as many groups as possible. It’s time to step into the warrior’s role; one of action made in love, compassion and a fierce determination to fulfill our true calling.
Chris and Dawn are creating and sharing stories that change the world. | Patreon "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." ~ Albert Einstein What did Albert Einstein mean? What is it about the way we think that is going to result in our extinction? What kind of thinking do we need to develop if our species is to survive? Most importantly, how can we actually change the way we think? Changing the way we think is the most difficult and necessary challenge for our species right now. For the past decade, I've worked on exploring these new ways of thinking and sharing them with the world. Realizing that it is not enough to simply create these stories, I have also developed the Sustainable Human Facebook page (with a current following of 1.5 million people) to share them widely. Up until now, this work has been unfunded and offered in the gift because I believe it is the best way that I can use my talents and experience to affect change in the world. Your recurring monthly gift, here on Patreon, enables me to pursue these goals.
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear By Martin Winiecki / kosmosjournal.org/ Nov 4, 2016 In the 1990s an unusual encounter took place in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In plant rituals, shamans of the Achuar, a tribe living in pristine forest that had never been in touch with Western civilization, received the warning that the “white man” would try to invade their lands, cut down the forest and exploit the resources. Deeply shaken, they called out to the Spirits for help. Soon after white people did approach them, coming to them however with supportive intentions – a group of activists from the United States, searching for ways to protect Indigenous Peoples from the oil industry. This experience gave rise to the Pachamama Alliance, an international educational network dedicated to changing the dream of the Western world. What is the dream of the Western world? Fulfillment became a matter of possession, of how much wealth, fame, power and sex we earned for ourselves. “Social being determines consciousness” – Marx [ii] Marx, Karl.
4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization By Duane Elgin / newstoryhub.com/ Jun 2, 2015 What visions of humanity’s journey are sufficiently compelling to transcend age-old differences and bring us together in a common venture of inhabiting the Earth in ways that are sustainable? In recent speeches, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has described our world as moving through a time of “Great Transition”: Throughout the ages, people have said that the world is in the midst of big change. How can the people of the Earth make this “great transition” by coming together in common effort while respecting and honoring our diverse cultures and traditions? According to genetic evidence, all of the humans alive today apparently descended from a very small community of several thousand persons living in South Africa around 65,000 years ago. Looking back, we see that we are all cousins on a common journey. The collapse of civilizations is not uncommon. But today is different. Frontiers are gone.
The New Story | La Nueva Historia The old paradigm of separateness, patriarchal anthropocentrism, religious monopolies, and the dictatorship of the ego, among other guiding threads, have brought humanity and planetary living systems to the brink of collapse. To aspire to a possible future, it is essential to change the narrative roots of our vision and mission in the world. Here in this video, you will find some contributions to a new narrative that is emerging everywhere, including from the Atlantida ecovillage, which we strongly support through our meetings, retreats, seminars and daily life. Located in the south-west of Colombia, close to Popayan, we are an altar for life and a center for the development of sustainability alternatives. This video is a joint production between Fabio Garcia and Jorge Calero. Thanks to all the teachers, friends and residents of the ecovillage for their contributions and to NuhJay for the final song.