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Greetings All,
Have you noticed Staying Awake is showing up in your mail box on a Wednesday? Like you, sometimes I rearrange schedules when other schedules get changed. I know you know what I mean. So, mark your memory for the next Staying Awake newsletter, back on schedule on alternate Sunday’s beginning April 29.We Are in Training, Again
Our awareness training doesn’t rest. So, take your vitamins, eat and sleep well, and share and teach your expertise. Open your workbook to page one of stimulating ideas, and consider sharing thoughts and curiosities with circles of your colleagues and friends.
· Reconsider ideas espousing humans are the only animals that matter; consider other creatures of equal endurance in the animal kingdom.
· Imagine all cultures on Planet Earth create an invisible web interconnecting one culture with all the others, and call that web the global ethnosphere. Consider seeming ineffectual governings in one nation affect its global sisters and brothers.
· Consider our solar system and sun have been moving through energies the results from which Earthlings are beginning an awakening; other animals and insects have been feeling those energies and responding all along.
· Consider environmental changes will quicken through this decade, perhaps with uneven distribution; that is, one change might not happen to everyone everywhere, neither simultaneously, nor overnight.
· Rely on alternative, credible weather sources; imagine living without electricity; read materials about which you wouldn’t normally agree.
· Consider money and electronic bank accounts as illusory things. Consider masterful, international bankers’ systems not final authorities; instead, the cosmos, the physical universe, and our Sun have final rule.
· Reconsider citizenries in the more developed countries wouldn’t develop into squatters communities; of the estimated one billion squatters, especially in Asia, they could be birthing generations of world leaders.
· Become deeply familiar with and intentionally grateful for capabilities you cannot help but perform well; intentionally upgrade your communication skills and vocabulary.
· Consider listening to your physical presence, heeding quiet insights and nudges stimulated by the physical heart before those wisdoms are overridden by the brain’s training; imagine unseeable energies expanding your intuitive capacity into unlanguageable empathic surprises.
· Fearlessly let those in your world know your abilities, concerns, needs, and whatever you value; our collective well being and unburdened memes is Staying Awake’s prime manifesto.
Let’s stay attentive to and sense a responsibility for our collective creations as we remember intention is all any Earthling creates out of. Let us create being in a state of staying awake.
In a quickly fluxing future, it’s highly probable that anyone’s expertise will be valuable, no matter how disorienting the expertise might seem.
Accurate or Just Interesting?
We Earthlings have a thing in our brains called the prefrontal cortex, and it’s a marvel to behold. With it, we are able to quickly imagine anything imaginable or nearly imaginable. Author and speaker, Joseph Chilton Pearce, points out that the physical heart and brain work in tandem, but only after the heart has prompted the brain for choices. That’s when we Earthlings are able to choose to believe our imaginings are accurate or just interesting, then we become resolute for what we believe. And, we’re likely to change our minds on a dime, another fickle facility in the prefrontal cortex.
Let’s get curious about what’s accurate. But, we can only keep our finger on the pulse of what’s accurate or presumed accurate if we hear forum after forum for relevant aspects. On matters of climate change, we discover not so surprisingly that we taxpaying hirelings are supposed to be neutralized to differing scientific judgments, opinions, and evaluations.
Not unlike religious fundamentalists’ method of moral control of populaces, many times pertinent debates about climate are quickly closed to neutralize any ideas other than questionable, politically driven moralisms. ‘You’re with us or against us,’ or ‘we must do something right now,’ or ‘do as I say, not as I do’ are examples of popular memes unfortunately underpinning much moralized climate debate in the U.S.
However, if you’re on Internet, that’s where we read articles and listen to lectures and panel discussions by scientists on the pros and cons of climate cycles and challenges. I understand climate is the one most complex system of study, because climate is governed by thousands of factors. But, you’d never know it by the climate calamité of many experts, educators, journalists, reporters, preachers, politicians, and retailers who fill our cortexes with banter suggesting humans should take all the blame.
Just interesting and entertaining ideas are whirling the world right now rather than matured scientific consensus.
Scientific Clusters of Nuance
The prefrontal cortex seems to be a willy-nilly widget, an instrument that seems not to make up ideas on its own, but instead allows infinite subtle sensations to rush our imagination. Add to that notion any social pressures to agree with politicized climate change, and we sense we’re entangled with fork-tongued politicians’ suggestions.
Those of us who’ve been untrained in imagining scientific clusters of nuances can too easily dismiss adding new words to our vocabularies, words that help us describe in detail the subtleties in our next round of opinions. A little education and applied curiosity can quicken an upgrade of political choices.
I helped my own curiosity last week while listening to a recorded debate presented by Intelligence Squared on National Public Radio (NPR), San Francisco, California USA. Of the six prominent scientists on the panel of debaters, three scientists agreed with the debate’s proposition, and the others disagreed. The debate’s proposition was: Global Warming Is Not a Crisis. †
In a vote before the debate, about 30 percent of the audience agreed with the motion; 57 percent disagreed; and 13 percent were undecided.
However, after hearing the debate, about 46 percent of the audience agreed with the motion; roughly 42 percent disagreed; about 12 percent were still undecided.
So, it appears the audience’s scientific clusters of nuance had been collectively educated into a reasonable balance of considerations.
During the debate, one panelist brought to our attention that another panelist was speaking on behalf of his accumulated financial interests in oil. Therefore, all any of us has to do is investigate the flow of money to discover which fawning scientists, speaking with such authority, actually blend good science with insinuations of caring, without voluntarily disclosing financial profits and luxuries personally gleaned from industries the scientists in question represent. And so it goes for politicians.
Climate change is simply cyclic waves of warming and cooling presently happening at various areas of Earth even as you read this. Yes, we Earthlings may help energy conservation by lessening uses of materials that emit carbon dioxide, but our decrease of those materials would be only a drop in the bucket compared to myriad clusters of nuance in climate change factors. Besides, as spoken by a panelist, we U.S. residents like to talk change more than do it!
It’s All Made Up
If you’ve never been omnipresent, then you’re likely to awaken tomorrow morning still not omnipresent. Moreover, you’ve likely not been eyewitness to all the stories written in history, religious, science, and philosophy books, nor daily stories presently allowed into the media.
With exceptions only you could assume, everything we’ve heard or read, everything we presume true has been made up—it’s all made up into story forms, filtered with a gain of power in mind. If you cannot believe that, the burden of proof would be on you.
I can’t imagine anyone debating energy conservation, but how journalists and reporters and their editors, or big business, and international bankers’ use of advertising and marketing to impede reasonable conservation since World War One, is quite another story!
We should be asking our politicians to make up another story, please, and this time tell us which climate would they prefer we change. And, won’t any climate that’s changed change again?
Further, until political leaders, espousing energy conservation, give up their limousines that shuttle them from one luxury hotel to another for speaking engagements; or, until they give up their private jets that shuttle them from county to county, or one country into the next for still another speaking engagement, why would the taxpaying public model their behavior with politicians’ energy conservation? What’s wrong with that picture?
All the more reason for staying awake to made up, preposterous insinuations by advertisers and marketers, swaying blame onto the taxpaying commoners for climate changes that can only be induced by natural cycles.
Millennia after millennia, people of controlling influence and wealth have made up illusions for their benefit, but not for the benefit of the good-hearted, untrained lay public; then, the stupefied commoners forgot the illusions were made up; now we realize we’ve lived for generations as if illusions are true.
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