Ways of Being

Believing our ways of being are the only ones that matter is likely to make us a little edgy, because teeming online communications are allowing us to see how disruptions of our global sisters’ and brothers’ cultures and lives affect ours. And, if there were ever a time for practicing living in the moment, to retrieve one’s body by listening and relaxing and breathing, it is now. Living in the moment is paying attention to our feelings and intuitive capabilities rather than relying only on comfortable sentimentalities from which we’ve trained our standardized brains to reason.

In elementary anthropology, we’ll remember a culture’s ways of being are tied closely with geography upon which a culture thrives. Now days, corporations’ runamuck want for corrupting capitalism by disappearing Earth’s magnificent biospheres, along with their indigenous Earthlings, cannot help but eat up and disappear myriad ethnospheres of indigenous ways of being. To a beastly, uncurtailed international banking system and its acolyte politicians, I ask ‘to what end?’

Too many Earthlings simply don’t have the luxury of quietness, mostly because they’re hungry, or they have been forcibly removed from their homes to be traded in human trafficking. Their ways of being, the ethnosphere in which they’re comfortable, is unseemly to powerful men who can’t profit within a geography that’s not pillaged of natural resources—and that land’s peoples.

Unethical, secret, and unknown small corporations leave disaster behind, and if we U.S. residents aren’t feeling the results of such, we’re likely to. Remember, everything under the sun, on and in Earth, also happens to everything else—we just forgot what our very nature is about.

Then, there are Earthlings who are retail minded, that is, producing income so we can buy things and services, likely don’t calendar an hour or day for anything near quietness—not even me any longer. Perhaps like you, since September 11, 2001, my studious curiosities and creative mindedness have taken over. A uniform routine quietness has turned into spontaneous moments of thoughtfulness and listening to my breathing while contemplating global happenings.

Those of us who read a lot know we’re seeing more of the world’s economically stressed underpinnings than others have time to imagine. It’s like looking through a window from a train traveling a runaway speed: We don’t know where we’re headed, but the landscapes seen through the window are quickly passing. Reading only U.S. newspapers, magazines, and watching common commercial television hardly cuts the mustard any more.

People who go online get the latest alternative reports by authors, scientists, journalists, and bloggers not yet susceptible to governments’ communications restrictions around the planet. If we want to stay awake to other Earthlings’ thoughts and words, their ways of being, then online is the place for watching how global cultures’ cosmologies are altering.

Too many of us have lived through occasions in which what we thought the heart wanted was reasoned out of us by the brain. Get ready. I’m guessing U.S. residents in particular are likely to experience more hardy samplings of collapses of unethical business practices that have matured into counterfeit standardization and uniformity. Are standardization and uniformity cover-ups for unethical ideas and behaviors? Perhaps, some painful adjustments may be intuited until we settle into the next fascinating psychical ways of being.

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead