2010: The Year We Make Contact? January 19, 2010
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I’ve always been a strong believer in alien life because it seems absurd to me that in such a vast cosmos humans are the only intelligent life. In fact it seems egotistical and counter-intuitive. Over the years, I’ve seen objects in the sky that I could not identify, some of which might be explained rationally and some which defied explanation of any kind because they displayed characteristics that should be impossible. My sense is that we have been visited and continue to be visited to this day by alien species who have taken an interest in our development but who refrain from interference until a culture is ready. History is filled with references to visitors from above and they appear in the mythology and artwork of almost every culture. The question I’ve been asking myself lately is whether this may be the time when their existence is revealed on a large scale?
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Avatar – A Message from the Goddess? January 5, 2010
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Having heard so much about the movie Avatar I finally went to see it today. I expected a decent sci-fi/fantasy film because I trust the people who recommended so strongly that I see it and I very rarely see mainstream movies anymore because I find most of them mind-numbing. I heard rave reviews from people and considerable criticism but I figured I should see for myself because I felt intuitively there was a reason to go see this particular movie.
2012 and Disaster Lust November 29, 2009
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It has been interesting over the last few years to watch the concept of 2012 emerge into mass consciousness and grow into the household word it is today. Given its popularity there are now a wide range of perceptions as to what meaning the 2012 date holds. As it has become more popular, I find it interesting but not surprising that it has assumed the projection of a destructive apocalyptic future. This is most clearly illustrated by the current blockbuster film “2012″ which I watched for the first time yesterday more out of curiosity than anything else.
A Massive Wake Up Call October 22, 2009
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It is my belief that with the challenges facing us today what ultimately must happen for any real change to occur is a shift in consciousness or an awakening out of a collectively unconscious state. The level that our human collective conscious is currently operating on continues to allow things like war, hunger, environmental collapse, economic problems and more destructive processes to play out. I would even say that it is our collective as well as personal unconsciousness that fuels these things. Yet we still go about futilely trying to resolve them on an external level. Most (not all) of these efforts however don’t quite make it because we still have the issue of the level of consciousness on a mass scale not being able to support real change.
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The Age of the Goddess October 19, 2009
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A powerful trend is growing in our society as we move deeper into this time of transformation. It is becoming more and more clear to me that the changes we are experiencing involve the movement of the Divine Feminine into a more dominant role in the world and society. This is being reflected for me on both an inner and an outer level but it feels like it is a very powerful and important aspect of this transformative time.
A reflection on climate change October 15, 2009
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Today is the annual blog action day and this years topic is climate change. I’ve decided to participate in this action because climate change has become such a major issue and I think this is a good reminder to pause for a moment and reflect on what it means to us. As with any major issue there are many aspects to it, many views and in this case a good deal of fear because the estimates regarding the potential outcomes continue to become more grim. So I’m inviting you to reflect on climate change and what it brings up for you, what it means to you and how it impacts your life and your vision of the future.
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From Fear to Empowered Engagement October 5, 2009
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What does the current world situation bring up for you? This question produces a variety of responses depending on who you ask. There are seriously alarming things playing out right now many of which are major global events such as climate change. Beyond that we seem to be creating increasingly oppressive governments even in our so called free western societies. Our society at least to me appears to be suffering from a degenerative sickness which is entering a terminal stage. The degradation of our society is evidenced by many symptoms including increasing extremism, a poisoning of the food supply due to genetic and toxic contamination, a health care system that is based on profit instead of healing and sells poison under the guise of medicine, an almost complete lack of honesty and morality in government, a numbed out population that spends its time entranced by mass media promoting extremely dysfunctional behavior and propaganda and an economy where both greed and manufactured scarcity run rampant.
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Holding on to a dead paradigm, and letting it go February 11, 2009
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The year 2008 marked the beginning of the current financial crisis. However I would say that what it truly marks is the beginning of the end of the capitalist, consumer based economy in the US and probably the world. Just like the fall of communism (what remains of communism today is like a more totalitarian version of capitalism especially in China) in the late 80s and early 90s, free market capitalism is a corrupt and purely dysfunctional approach to managing the resources of a society. It’s practices and ideology could be maintained for a long time and propped up by governments and central banks but the dysfunction inherent in the system is finally catching up and bringing us back to reality. Our system in its current state cannot be maintained indefinitely.
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The power of I don't know February 7, 2009
Posted by bodhidude in : Society, Spirituality, Transformation , add a commentThere is a great article on Reality Sandwich by Daniel Pinchbeck entitled “The Age of Uncertainty” (http://www.realitysandwich.com/age_uncertainty). It seems like I can find all the evidence I need to support opposite conclusions on almost every issue these days a few of which are mentioned in this article. But I think the I don’t know is the key because in my view reality is moving into a state of intense contradiction on one level. A state where the rational mind cannot figure things out in the ways that we felt it could in the past.
I don’t know has incredible personal meaning for me these days as I have needed to let go of relationship, work, ways of living and even many seemingly integral parts of my identity. I don’t know who I am anymore, I don’t know what my future holds or even what to do with myself in terms of livelihood. But I’ve begun to see that I am being lead to embrace the I don’t know and let go of trying to figure it all out. The place of I don’t know is powerful because it contains immense potential but can also create intense fear because it involves learning to be ok with the unknown in a very direct way. The thing is I find that the more I embrace I don’t know and let go of trying to rationalize my way through life the more I am able to be present and connect to life in the here and now and I’m finding incredible peace and clarity in that. What to do and how to address life seems to emerge naturally from that place of peace and clarity and action becomes rooted in it instead of fear and confusion. Its so simple and subtle that it can be easily missed.
I’m starting to see the shifts happening now as a powerful force to move us beyond our addiction to thinking and the ego and into true presence putting the thinking mind in its place as one tool for higher consciousness to interact with the dualistic world. A tool but not the driving force of life. I think the new world or new paradigm has already begun to come into being, it just depends on where you choose to focus you attention because I see much suffering and destruction but I also see a great many people beginning to awaken and cast off old habits and ways of being. Its happening right now and the practice is the choice of putting our attention on the old and holding on or letting go and embracing the new, right now.
Giving our power away and taking it back – Bush and Obama as reflections November 12, 2008
Posted by bodhidude in : Society , add a commentWith the election of Barack Obama and a new person assuming the role of president its interesting to look back on the years of Bush and reflect on just what we have been dreaming up. I’ve become mostly interested in this contemplation from the perspective of personal power, to what degree have we been empowered or disempowered as co-creators of our society and larger reality?
In my view President Bush was the ultimate and most extreme representation of a society that had given its power away. Bush in so many of his qualities and actions personified this especially in his disregard for the opinions of anyone that disagreed with him and in his incredible abuses of power with very few consequences. I mean I don’t know if you remember Bush publicly admitting that he broke the law with the warrantless wiretapping decision basically saying – yeah I broke the law, so what, what are you going to do about it? That’s a powerful reflection of an incredible imbalance and just how blatant it became. With all the incompetence, abuses and callousness of the Bush administration many people clearly began to feel hopeless and feeling powerless to do anything to change the course we were on.
So maybe we hit bottom with Bush and from this bottom the Obama campaign was born. Obama’s campaign drew on a mass of grassroots power and enthusiasm like no campaign in the history of this country. The statement on Obama’s website whether you take it seriously or not is a reflection of that – “I’m asking you to believe, not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington, I’m asking you to believe in yours.” That statement is asking us to believe in our ability to bring real change. I think that speaks to the heart of the matter and the key in all of this. Do we believe that we have the power to bring about real change, both internally within our own lives and externally in the larger society?
I think it is important also to contemplate all of this in relationship with the deeper process of transformation that is happening now especially in these last few years before 2012. From my perspective we seem to have made a shift to dreaming up change on a large scale, a black president whose message centered on change and personal power. Wow! You may be skeptical and so am I in many ways but this also resonates for me and seems to fit into a larger pattern. It feels optimistic to me to think that whether we actually see real change manifested has far less to do with Barack Obama and his new administration and far more to do with us and what we choose to do with our power. Power that can never really be taken away by anyone, only temporarily forgotten about.
Co-creating change November 8, 2008
Posted by bodhidude in : Society, Transformation , add a commentWe’ve experienced a historic moment in this country with the election of our first black president. That fact alone is transformational with our long history of racism, segregation and inequality. It changes the collective personality of the nation and potentially opens the door for greater and deeper healing around the issue of race. On election night the celebrations were spectacular and incredible as they should have been however now that the election is over and Barack Obama is President-elect the question becomes what happens to the incredible energy that fueled his campaign? The energy of hope, empowerment and change which so many people helped to create. Does it continue to evolve and grow to usher in fully manifested transformation or does it fizzle out in disappointment as politics as usual takes on one more mask?
I think the answer to that question depends on you and I and what we do and how we choose to participate in co-creating the change we want to see. Can we actively envision it or do we give in to pessimism? Do we truly believe its possible and inevitable or just a nice dream that we embraced for a short time before returning to a harsher reality? Will we consistently and enthusiastically work for it or will we give our power away to people in Washington (or somewhere else) to do it for us? And finally will we look inward to illuminate the ways that we have participated in creating what we don’t want to see in the world or will we assign blame to someone else or some other group?
I’ve read a lot about Barack Obama and studied his record and I can find all the evidence I need to support the idea that he is a fake, a corporatist who comes in a prettier package but has no interest in real transformation. I can also find plenty of evidence to suggest he is a thoughtful, passionate, skillful person who genuinely cares about this country and the people in it. Which is true? niether? both? Who knows, I sure don’t. But I think that in the role of president at this critical point in history ultimately Barack Obama will be who we dream him up to be on a collective scale. He can be a lighter kinder and more insidious version of Bush or he can be a figure to channel real change and transformation or something in between, its up to us. We will have to dream him up, we will have to hold him accountable and not accept anything less than true transformation and we will have to take full responsibility for our part in the process.
We have the power if we only realize it and use it……
Dreaming up a new president… November 4, 2008
Posted by bodhidude in : Society , add a commentWell as we go into election day tomorrow it seems as if Barack Obama may actually win. But even if he does win what does that really mean? Will he or can he bring about true change. I’m skeptical. Why? Because you can find a great deal of evidence that Obama despite his obvious intelligence and charm is a typical (even though more cool) politician. He has voted for some questionable bills in the senate most notably to extend FISA and not hold the telecom companies accountable for their complicity in violating the privacy of American’s. He has said he would end the war in Iraq but his plan leaves troops in Iraq for some time to come although at low levels but he has vowed to escalate the war in Afghanistan and to defend Isreal militarily. So just how much and what kind of change would Obama really bring? Much more than McCain no doubt but what we need right now is nothing short of a paradigm shift. Rewinding back to a Clinton type presidency isn’t going to make things better, its part of how we got to where we are now.
But from another perspective focusing on Barack Obama the man may be a limiting point of view. Whatever Obama’s record, beliefs and history are he is stepping into a new role as president, an archetypal role. As such he is the receiver of our dream, of our projections, good and bad on a grand scale. I’m more interested in the viewpoint of if Obama wins and becomes president how do I want to dream him up and how do I envision the change that he has come to represent to so many people. One thing is certain to me, Obama in and of himself has no power to effect change and if people externalize their power on to him they will very likely be disappointed. However if we accept our responsibility to create the change we want to see and dream up Obama as a figure to represent and carry that change on the national stage we may be able to dream him up as the transformational figure so many hope for him to be. The key though in my view is not hope despite Obama’s campaign slogans, the key is conscious co-creation by every single one of us. Not just by voting if we choose to do that but by accepting our role in the change and by not giving our power away to any external figure no matter how good they may look. Whatever you think of Obama he is a powerful figure, he has mobilized enormous energy and that energy can be harnessed for true change if its directed consciously. I plan to help do just that.
The false financial crisis and the robbing of America September 20, 2008
Posted by bodhidude in : Society , add a commentThe events of this month have been very interesting from Hurricane Ike to the financial crisis to the unfolding of the election. While there were no obvious terrorist attacks on 9/11 this year the so-called financial crisis sure seems like a terrorist attack on our wallets. Many people have said that the apparent failure of these major financial institutions including Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, AIG not to mention Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a few weeks ago reflects irresponsible capitalism and mismanagement by the federal government. Well I’m seeing it in a bit of a different light.
We’ve seen an accelerating policy of extremist capitalism for some time now which has included the erosion or outright repeal of many safeguards put in place during the New Deal. This especially includes the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which effectively separated investment banks and commercial banks that hold consumers personal accounts. We’ve also seen an almost complete lack of regulation and enforcement of conflicts of interest between financial companies such as the Bank of America acquisition of Merrill Lynch, two types of companies that were supposed to be explicitly forbidden from merging due to a conflict of interest in their missions and the resulting risk to individuals. Business on Wall Street has become so corrupt that you could honestly classify it as organized crime. That’s just the point; these companies have gone bankrupt due to the transfer of funds to the wealthy elite. But they are not being allowed to fail, instead the federal government is going to bail them out which of course means that you and I pay for it. The government bail out is said to exceed 700 Billion. The average American has skillfully and effectively been robbed blind and is seeing the government as a savior when it is really just the other side of the same criminal organization. It is a systematic transfer of wealth.
The current system is rotten to the core. Just like in 1929 because of the lack of separation between commercial banks and investment firms the average American’s assets are directly at risk from the corrupt practices of Wall Street speculators. We may be on the verge of another great depression but this is all engineered at a higher level. It’s a cyclical process of harvesting the wealth of the people and transferring it to an elite group. That’s what our economy essentially is. We’re manipulated with our desires and needs to buy into this process and then kept locked into it with fear, fear of losing what little security we think we’ve managed to create. It’s a false sense of security however because its based on something we ultimately have no control over and most likely don’t even understand and this is how it enslaves us.
We ultimately cannot blame the government however or even the crooks on Wall Street. The people share in the responsibility for this because we have allowed it to happen, we have allowed these thieves to take our money over and over again. We do it every time we pay the illegal federal income tax for which there is absolutely no law mandating. We do it by purchasing the garbage products that the corporations manipulate us into thinking we need or want. We do it by voting for politicians who support this whole mess. Most people don’t know what they are doing though. This is why the time has come to take back our power and to say no to this dysfunctional system. This is something we can do quite effectively and we don’t need any politician or leader to do it for us. We can vote with our money and our effort. We can buy local and boycott the corporations. We can support non-corporate candidates who see the corruption and want to truly fix it. We can cease paying illegal taxes that go into the pockets of the international bankers and demand the extortion around this stop. We can educate our friends and family as to what is going on and the effect it is having on them. We can change all of this we just need to take our power back and come together. Most importantly we can refuse to buy into the fear and instead focus our energy and attention on creating a more healthy supportive economic reality.
The timing of the present financial spectacle is also very interesting in terms of its correspondence with Hurricane Ike. In watching coverage of Hurricane Ike I noticed that it seemed to be covered fairly thoroughly by the corporate media before and just as the Hurricane hit. Just after the Hurricane it seemed to me that the degree of national coverage got diverted. I saw more coverage of the election than I would have imagined at a time of national disaster. I did learn about how cool Sarah Palin’s glasses were however. Then shortly thereafter, the financial crisis seemed to hijack the news further diverting coverage of the hurricane. I’ve heard from local news both corporate and independent as well as individuals down in Texas that the destruction is far worse than is being covered, as is the government’s response. Some are saying the media is being deliberately kept out of many areas and supplies are slow to come if at all. Sounds like Katrina to me and it also sounds convenient that there are so many distractions for the media so we don’t see the kind of coverage we saw of Katrina which was quite an embarrassment for the powers that be. The powers that be may not be able to create hurricanes but they certainly can control the timing of long standing problems in financial institutions becoming public.
There is a lot going on right now and I think we all need to pay close attention, look under the surface and see the interrelationships of all that is happening so we can be positive agents of change.
Dear Mr. president August 18, 2008
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Dear Mr. president
I’m writing to let you know that I’m taking back my power. For a long time I believed that I was helpless to do anything to change this world. Then I believed I was helpless to stop you and those like you from destroying it. But more recently I realized that it was I who was destroying this world by giving my power away and unconsciously playing the role of a victim. You see I now know that you have no power to rule this world, you only have the power that people have unconsciously given to you. They of course do not know they are doing this but I have realized it and so I’m taking my power back.
I’m taking my power back by taking back my attention. No longer will I allow my attention to be focused on the stories of the past, current distractions or the fear of a dismal future. Instead I will choose where I put my attention. I won’t watch your TV or listen to your radio or any other propaganda. I won’t fill my mind with your unconscious mass media or buy your garbage products. I won’t pollute my planet with your toxins or my body with your poisonous drugs and genetically modified food. I won’t fight in your wars or hate my fellow man because he believes differently than I do. I won’t vote in your fraudulent elections or fall for your illusions of freedom. I won’t pay your illegal taxes or help you take away our remaining freedoms. I won’t put my money into your corporations or give it to your banks. Like I said before I’m taking back my power, all of it. You won’t be able to prevent this because no amount of darkness and repression can stop the illumination of light and consciousness.
I’m putting my attention on the now, the present moment and tapping into the power of life. I’m assuming my role as the creator of my reality and no longer playing the victim. I’m spending my time expanding my consciousness and helping my fellow man. I will nurture my body with local organic healthy foods and natural medicines. I will promote and support local business and green technologies. I will be aware of what I put into my mind and get my entertainment from sources that truly educate and empower me. I will embody peace and cooperation and build community. And I will help and encourage others to do these things too and take their power back.
I don’t blame you for trying to destroy this world and enslave us because you are a part of me and I gave you my power. We are interconnected and when we take back our power you will no longer be able to do the things you have been doing but in losing that you will also gain your true power, the power of life. I will no longer create separation because I know its an illusion. We are all interconnected and so what we do to each other we do to ourselves and all creation.
I’m taking back my power and taking responsibility for changing myself and my world.
Just thought you should know.
Be in peace
Colin
The delusions of science and materialism October 15, 2006
Posted by bodhidude in : Society , add a commentOur society is mired in a materialistic paradigm that has degenerated into something of a pseudo-religion among its most fanatical adherents. Science is a double-edged sword in our society today in my view. It has allowed us to advance our understanding of the physical world to a great degree and create a highly advanced technology that stretches across most or all areas of knowledge. However it has also had a very destructive effect as well. The materialistic approach and its underlying beliefs have brought the planet and humankind itself to the edge of destruction. Our material worldview has blinded us to seeing the earth as a living breathing life supporting organism and instead systematically stripped it of its resources and polluted its atmosphere to a point where its ability to function to sustain life is being compromised. Our materialistic views of our bodies and health have caused us to reject natural medicine and adopt a drug culture where we regularly poison ourselves with synthetic chemicals that alter our body’s functions in ways we don’t fully understand. We add chemicals to our food and genetically engineer plants and animals while we destroy the biodiversity of the planet and create a new set of diseases never before seen in human history. Our worldview and technology create such a rigid and intense relationship to time that we find ourselves living in a world where stress and stress related diseases are the norm and we seldom have time to really take care of ourselves. The meaning that our forefathers found in all aspects of their world has been stripped away by a cold materialistic understanding and created a crisis of meaning where peoples attempts to find meaning become convoluted and destructive. In my view this is in large part due to a fanatical attachment to the materialistic worldview.
This fanaticism causes us to adopt this worldview and accept it as the only valid approach to understanding the universe and our own consciousness. The problem is this worldview is flawed. The scientific approach itself is nothing more than a belief system; all of its supporting constructs function only within its limited version of reality. It is a man made approach that seeks to find meaning by imagining that we can understand the universe by measuring it. Science makes an assumption or accepts a belief that material reality is all that exists and that is something it must do. If we approach something scientifically we also know that we are approaching that subject from a materialist point of view. However we have no evidence that the material world is all that exists, actually we have a great deal of evidence that there is much more to the universe than that. This evidence comes from other ways of knowing. There is nothing wrong with looking at something from a materialistic point of view until you mistake that for all of reality because then you have become trapped a rigid incomplete viewpoint. Science makes many assumptions and accepts many beliefs just like non-scientific approaches. The belief in a totally materialistic universe is one of them. The belief in objective truth is another and it’s a concept that creates serious flaws in the scientific approach. There is no such thing as an objective observer; this has been shown in studies in quantum physics and psychology as well as being known to the mystical traditions for thousands of years. The consciousness or mind of the observer influences the outcome of the experiment by virtue of the observer’s observation and bias. The objectivity that science relies on is impossible because that’s not the way human beings or the universe function. Our experience of the universe co-creates it. Science also assumes that measurement, quantification and reductionism are the ways to understanding. While this may be the case with some phenomena there is no reason to make this assumption across the board. Much of the universe and human consciousness is complex and qualitative and the very act of reducing it to fit our limited viewpoint also destroys meaning.
The materialistic paradigm has had the effect of putting blinders on our society. It’s like looking at the universe through a keyhole. I see this approach deteriorating and falling apart at this point and I think we need to retain our scientific understanding but put it in perspective and integrate it within a new more expansive paradigm where we see the materialistic approach as one of many ways to see reality all of which have their own flavor of validity. In this way we can deepen our connection to ourselves and the universe and find much of the meaning we have lost.
Interest in 2012 October 1, 2006
Posted by bodhidude in : Society, Transformation , add a commentI have recently started looking into the idea of 2012 (the end date of the Mayan calendar) for two reasons mainly. One is that 2012 has become a symbol of transformation or transition. A symbol of an ending of old systems and ways of being that have become dysfunctional and a beginning of a new way of being and new systems of society that are more integrated and healthy.
The idea of transformation is one that I see reflected all across society and the world at this time both on an individual and a collective basis. We see old systems moving into greater and greater states of dysfunction and breakdown. Examples of this include the system of government in this country sliding into fascism and totalitarianism, the environment fast approaching a critical point of biospheric breakdown, the addiction to materialism and disconnection from the spirit reaching a point where a greater percentage of the population could reasonably be considered mentally ill, the extreme rigidity of the scientific paradigm and its inability or unwillingness to account for large portions of human experience while it provides the tools for destruction of both the planet and the human race. What I see in these and many many other such examples is a winding down or last gasp of an old grand paradigm or age preparing to give way to a new one.
On an individual level I see more and more people experiencing personal transformations on a scale I have never before witnessed, myself included. By this I mean people going through drastic life transitions where not just one part of their life is thrown into chaos or forced to change but their whole way of being and defining themselves. The kind of transformation where old habits break down and don’t work anymore and the person is almost forced to change or lose it completely. This isn’t a new thing obviously but I have never seen it on the scale I am seeing today. Its as if transformation is beginning to occur and accelerate on a planetary level and effecting all aspects of the planet from the smallest beings to the largest global institutions. The way this process of transformation affects the individual is of particular interest to me as a student of both eastern and western psychology as well as a spiritual seeker.
The other interest I have in 2012 is an interest in the Mayan approach to time and cycles as I find this fascinating. I also think tribal cultures and tribal spirituality have much to teach us going forward because they represent much of what we have become disconnected from and need to reintegrate. I’m not sold on the idea that 2012 itself is some sort of drop dead date for the end of the world, not at all but I do think its a powerful symbol of the increasing and intense period of transformation this planet is in. I seek to understand that as best as I can and put that knowledge to use to play an active role for the benefit of all beings on this planet and beyond.
Fear September 29, 2005
Posted by bodhidude in : Psychology, Society , add a commentFear is the ultimate tool of control. All totalitarian governments have used it very effectively over the centuries and the American government is no exception. Without keeping people afraid you cannot maintain control and implement the measures that enable a repressive state. People don’t think rationally when they are afraid because they are caught up in an anxiety state, worried about their safety and survival and eager to accept anything they believe may alleviate the situation.
As the US has begun to transition into a more totalitarian state we have seen fear invoked in the classic ways with this perpetual war scenario, “the war on terror”. Our government feeds on the fear of the masses, I think its why we are always at WAR with everything. The war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war the war the war……… We are taught to be afraid of all these things, that they constitute a threat. This is a very dysfunctional way of relating to the world and it creates mental illness on a large scale because we can easily see what happens to people when they are kept in a state of fear and stress over a long period of time. Fear supersedes critical thinking and awareness and it has worked on the American people to allow the government to pass repressive laws, subvert the constitution, lie on a larger scale than ever before and avoid being accountable.
The only solution to this is to see it for what it is and consciously choose to remove oneself from the fear loop by not giving into it. By returning to critical thinking and seeing through the delusional games. By turning off the mechanisms of fear delivery, the mainstream media and entertainment, and getting your news and entertainment from a more coherent source and intentionally exposing yourself to positive experiences in your life. If we can remove ourselves from this cycle of fear we will be able to effect change and change the course of our society.