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Good Day, Everyone!
And, welcome to our new subscribers! For new readers, think of Staying Awake like a grab bag of topics we’ve too little considered. You and I just don’t know which ideas will stream out of my brain through my fingertips into the keyboard to finally show up on your computer in the form of Staying Awake.
We are living in the most challenging and exciting times we could have possibly imagined; we are creating and recording a magnum opus of change. Be grateful for every single day you breathe and move, and listen for signals inviting a warm and nurturing refuge into the area of your chest. A certain quiet breath is the only authentic repose. It doesn’t take much intuitive sensing to say that retraining ourselves to be grateful for every breath and laugh would be the start of one exquisite path for re-imagining what we’ve nearly forgotten ourselves to be.
On Being Right
You see, in a topsy-turvy world stirred by stories about our planet, our cultures, and ourselves as humans, it’s too easy to shun the fascinating idea that humans are just not what we’ve pumped ourselves up to be.
Humans are like an apostrophe to all of creation rather than the reason for it. ~ DM
In our hubris, we could feel smug on being right about answers to queries of unknown realms, for instance, on the sun and climate change.
Many of us assume a cloak of control over what we want to believe is true and attempt to manage zig-zags in our homes and lifestyles. However, considering ourselves absolutely right, we’d be wiser to reconsider old beliefs converging with a new batch of supposed concerns for us and our global sisters and brothers.
There’s a way of being that keeps us believing we’ve already got the answers, and feeling resolute on being right. I have to admit I’m still grieving that all answers to disturbing queries no longer spring out of one source, like religious moralistic platitudes, poetic metaphors, or any new thoughts espoused as pet metaphysical enlightenments.
Until we’re studying and discussing sacrifices inherent in extinction, then the repackaged and retailed language of metaphysics and traditional worn out poetic religious sentimentality can only keep Earthlings unconscious and unhappy throughout the current species’ transformation. ~ DM
Just ponder what people are talking about; there are so many political and environmental dilemmas, one’s awareness vexes at the humongous effects. Apparently, no right answers exist what with all the memes in judgments, opinions, and evaluations floating about science. Anthropologists, political scientists, astronomers, cosmologists, and other kinds of scientists who’ve been closeted too long, are painting similar pictures on being right, framed by their particular specialties on global plights. Staying Awake delights in relaying their messages as best it can.
Are our children or our grandchildren going to look back 20 years and wonder if we stayed awake to plans for taking care of each other in critical times? Are they to wonder why our high priority on being right about politically correct home and business environments? Our buying and selling of politically correct light bulbs, thermostats, and washing machines probably won’t seem as important to them as to us. Progenies would see clearly our delusions, presuming an inevitable abrupt wake-up call was sounded. The future aftermath is only our children’s beginning. ¹
Our future families could perceive us Earthlings as prancing jesters, nearly wearied by notions we could have actually halted Earth’s disruptions and societal systems’ cascading failures. A great travesty about being right is the joke we’re playing on ourselves when we applaud the politically savvy, alluding science by proclaiming moralistic metaphors as they present us with a bunch of material environmental things to buy.
Climate Cycles
Climates changing have become conversations from which learning could be paramount! Yet, information on climate cycles, presumed as waves of natural, unavoidable temperature alterations in Earth’s biomes, isn’t supposed to be confusing, smothered, or disappeared into the black hole of corporate and political bank accounts.
At this point in my self education, I distinguish climate cycles from climate change or global warming or the warming globe, or whatever the term du jour might be, because the latter terms have been whelmingly corporatized and politicized. From books, audio and videoed lectures, I’ve saturated myself with mere traces of geological and astronomical information referring to climate cycles. Here’s a snapshot description.
Layers of grand sweeping waves of change have their own rhythms in warming and cooling cycles over eons. Cycles have impacted, and constantly impact Earth’s crust. The crust is that part of the planet upon which continents float, and the crust is to the planet what the skin is to an apple: Both are thin and vulnerable. ²
As scientists feel less pinched, layers of new presumptions and evidence will wash over us like tides on a beach. We science-friendly people won’t have to wait very long before credible books and reports update or blot any political movie, film, or documentary sensationalizing nature’s climate cycles. Scientific revelations on solar and climate cycles will probably be updated as quickly as unethical governances will be exposed this decade. We must become really good swimmers to stay in the flow of science, and here’s why.
On Tuesday, January 30, 2007, National Public Radio (KQED, San Francisco, California USA) aired a commentary, which I quickly noted on the second listening: Nearly half of the 279 USA federal scientists said they had been pressed by the current administration to alter their results on climate change; in effect, scientific evidence had been censured. Another commentary presumed the administration’s modus operandi safe guarded big oil interests rather than protect the environment [during the last six years]. Brackets are mine.
So, as more climate cycles science is released to global citizenries, what are some tips when conversing about the latest science reviews, articles, journals, reports, and so on?
When someone says ‘scientific officials said…,’ or ‘experts agreed,’ or ‘vast majority’ or ‘consensus,’ then request names and whom the scientists represent. The answers will give pointers to which organizations fund or payroll scientists’ biases.
Scientifically Fashionable
I’m getting used to the idea of human extinction after reading about cycles upon cycles of species’ extinctions. All the while, popular, semi humorous, self effacingly obnoxious politicians and religionists parade back and forth on stages, proclaiming their scientifically fashionable skew of Mother Earth’s natural cycles without mentioning the word unavoidable.
Corporate leaders, whose unethical gambles are acceptably embedded, multiply reckless games of politicizing climate controls just to see who’ll gain the most dollars and votes from the electorate. That’s business as usual, and another thing for which to stay awake.
Further, it appears citizenries have been trained to neglect science too much. And, we’ve been trained to manage things, which potentially disrupt shrined lifestyles, by throwing money (a grand retail panacea) in the way of the forecasted predicament. Perhaps, it’s still too early for Earthlings to imagine fixes rather than avoidances for cascades of systems’ breakdowns given our shallow three centuries of industrialization.
Just follow the money. It’s too easy to see who’s cashing in on nature’s cycles. It wouldn’t surprise anyone to find religious, corporate, media, and educational juggernaut systems’ profits pumping the hearts of marketing and advertising, claiming assumptions that Earthlings endanger the planet if we don’t buy into scientifically fashionable collusions of profiteering bankers. Umph! Preposterous.
Political sock puppets handled by swaggering industries tell taxpaying hirelings that humans are entirely responsible for warming the planet—it’s fashionable to say so—a pander to advised actions not purported to solve problems but to postpone them, a bit.
Who’s popularizing and retailing products and services for visiting the surface of the sun? If profits can be made by politicizing such an absurd trip, would corporations and obsequious politicians highjack the idea by not publicizing to people who would likely buy into it? Worse has happened. ³
It certainly seems we Earthlings can be as easily stupefied as ever; it’s a wonder our species has lasted this long! No matter how suspect, believing moralistic speeches and politically allusive promotions has become desirable, rather than exercising abilities for studying scientifically attributed articles and reports of varying theories.
Possibly, we may awaken ourselves from our scientifically fashionable delusions, avoiding unreasonable purchases of programmable thermostats, compact fluorescent light bulbs, energy qualified washing machines and who knows what other retailed items, which by their use, only avoid for a while and distract us from anything profoundly grander—like the sun’s transforming creation with or without human hubris to dodge it.
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