According to a credible source, the 23 year old son of a Big Oil executive publicly expressed the following conclusions after he experienced the oil business at one of the largest oil refineries in the world:
“…it’s time now for a full scale, mass mobilized transition process off the fossil fuel economy. We need to use all of our resources we have left wisely to create a whole new system of operation that is global in scale. This process needs to have the mobilization power comparable to the proportions of the Manhattan project, and then some. It’s time for us to journey into a new dream, a new way, with new design and new fundamental principles. It’s time for us to end millennia of pain, suffering, shame and unconsciousness. It’s time to create resilient, sustainable and flourishing communities, that have the adaptive capacity to respond to any challenges they may face in their external environment – and be able to effectively respond specifically to the coming age of peak oil, climate change and rampant global economic instability.
It’s time for us to dismantle the institutions that are beginning to imprison us. It’s time for us to un-learn, to remove the power structures, and to decentralize the grid so that individual communities can produce their own food, energy and own internal means of production for hundreds to thousands of years to come.
And ultimately, it’s time for us to become the true masters we are meant to become – true, planetary mastery — in balance with the emotional, cultural, spiritual and psychological wellbeing of every inhabitant. It’s time for us to embrace the new consciousness that is emerging at this time, where by busting open the hearts and minds of our people, we will propel ourselves forward into a new golden age of humanity that is imminently upon us.
We are those people.
So, if on one hand, you had an unpredictable path, that leads into a new dream, a new way of life for all of mankind and on the other hand, you had a predictable path that leads to the slow, inevitable decline of a civilization.
Which path would you choose?”
I couldn´t have said it better myself.
In fact, he aptly describes central parts of the great paradigm shift that is the principal theme of this blog.
So let´s embark on a mini-tour together of exploring the paradigm shift in progress, to help you get a better grip on it. To that end we need to apply a holistic, integrating, organic, ecological perspective. This represents a huge challenge to anyone trained and indoctrinated by modern science, since it requires us to rise above its reductionist, compartmentalized “box-thinking”. The reward is the ability to see beyond appearances and to understand hidden causal relationships, as well as dynamic systemic and organic interactions. To get an idea of the kind of possibilities this implies, you might think of the anecdotal fluttering of a butterfly in China that sets off air movements that eventually cause a hurricane in the Caribbean weeks later.
We like to simplify things, to see them in a linear, clearly defined way, in separate boxes with neatly discrete labels where no mixes, mingles or ambiguities are admitted: It´s this, or it´s that. Black or white. Yes or no. Yet, life is not at all like that. Neither Nature, nor Humanity works like that. On the contrary, both are ambiguous, constantly shifting color, phase, expression and content.
To understand how real life operates, we need to study Nature and see how there are no clear boundaries, no clearly drawn lines, no discrete phases, but a continuously shifting and intermingling conglomerate of a myriad of cyclic processes that can never be meaningfully frozen into a static picture like a photo or a graph. Especially our modern science is guilty of this dangerous over-simplification of reality. The reason is that it does not acknowledge the role of the right half of our brain, which deals with the invisible reality, with thoughts and emotions to guide our creativity and our actions, with beauty and happiness, with fear and faith and love and intuition.
So with only the left half of the brain to work with, all science can do is try and make rational sense of the visible physical reality that we see around us. That´s how the reductionist, materialistic world view comes about. However, it is a deeply flawed and inaccurate view of our world, that is leading us seriously astray.
To begin to understand what reality is, we can look at a complex ecosystem, where a great many different species, including micro-organisms, live in symbiosis, and where each millisecond the picture changes through a myriad of different interactions within each organism, cell, molecule etc., between different species, between each species and the surrounding environment, the weather, the geomagnetic field etc., each and every fraction of which is constantly changing and mutually interdependent.
Look at the seashore and experience how the turbulence and waves of the water are never clear or discrete, but unpredictably intermingling, as they are influenced by currents in the seas, by winds, by temperatures etc. all of which in turn depends on the movements of the Earth, the Moon and the planets, but also on the activities of marine life, e.g. whales, plankton, and so on and so forth, in a constant dance that we can never fully perceive nor predict. That’s the reality of life, and it has very little to do with the way our deified science sees it in simple isolated little compartments with clear boundaries, such as a slice of dead tissue under a microscope.
The first of the two main Aquarian themes is social. It encompasses the ideas of collectivism, of equality in worth between all human beings regardless of sex, race, creed, sexual preferences, age, personality traits etc. This gave birth to the ideas of human rights, of parliamentary democracy and universal suffrage, and it led to the abolition of slavery. We are still debating equal rights for women, blacks, gays, religious minorities, disabled persons etc. in a global perspective. This is a typically Aquarian issue.
On one level, this signifies the need to focus on the collective WHOLE rather than on the individual components of that whole. And this is where the holistic viewpoint emerges, as expressed through ecology and holistic medicine, both eminently Aquarian concepts.
The Whole is far more than the sum of its parts, and rather than the Whole being determined by the parts of which it consists, as would generally be assumed by the old reductionist paradigm, the Aquarian holistic viewpoint is that the parts are conditioned and shaped specifically to serve the purpose of the Whole to which they belong.
This is a profound shift in awareness: Instead of seeing only the trees, you now see the forest.
The Aquarian paradigm wisely incites us to learn from Nature and cooperate sustainably with it, rather than fight, kill and exploit it, while turning the planet into a toxic garbage dump. If you analyse it, I think you will find that most, if not all, really worth while inventions have been modeled from Nature. They work with Nature, not against it. And the closer they resemble their natural models, the more successful and sustainable they are.
Perhaps this is as good a context as any to introduce the winning Aquarian concept of win/win strategies in business and politics, rather than the old win/lose stratagem. This implies rising above the primitive concept of crude competition and fighting for the same booty, where there are winners and losers resulting in lots of wasted energy and resources.
The new, and far more productive win/win concept means never competing for the same thing, but always trying to cooperate and share, creatively adding value to an existing product or service, or introducing it to a new market, or adapting it to a new niche, or achieving something new and better through innovation and cooperation. In this way money and efforts are not wasted on destroying competitors or squeezing profit margins beyond profitability, and both parties stand to gain, along with Society as a Whole.
The same principle is applicable to politics, both national politics, and international politics. And from it emerges the insight that all wars, without exception, are destructive, wasteful, and disastrously costly, not only in terms of money but in lives, suffering, health and well/being. In other words total losers for all concerned, except for a handful of people focusing on their shortsighted greed for money and power with zero concern for the lives and wellbeing of others.
Part of the described Aquarian principles is built on a sense of solidarity, of general brother- and sisterhood (a slogan of the French revolution), exemplified through a net of social security and health care embracing the entire population, as pioneered by Sweden, a country traditionally seen as Aquarian. Taken further, across national borders, this has led to an urge for international solidarity in the form of aid from the wealthy developed countries to the developing and poor countries.
Perhaps the most essential of the Aquarian principles, evident in nearly all of its expressions, is that of invisibly connecting and uniting separate entities by transcending boundaries of all kinds, physical as well as cultural, religious, social, sexual, and financial. And here we meet the typically Aquarian idea of trans-disciplinary and cross-scientific research, bridging and integrating different knowledge systems, and often culminating in new inventions and technical innovations.
So now we see as an important Aquarian principle that of electricity and electronics, used not only for lighting, machinery and transport devices, but also for communication, first by telegraph, then by telephone, radio, television, mobile phones, communication satellites, and the Internet. All of it typically Aquarian phenomena to do with energy frequencies and resonance, used to connect and to exchange information.
The modern idea of networking combines the Aquarian communication aspect with its collective, democratic and equalitarian aspects, including decision-making by consensus. This highlights yet another aspect of the Aquarian principles, namely that of team-work and horizontal management practices, replacing the previous vertical and hierarchical management and order structure, traditionally exemplified in its most typical form by the military.
This same principle also translates into a shift from centralization and concentration of power to decentralization and the sharing of power. The heat is on – the battle has started.
That’s it for this time, folks. Till next week, keep swimming, safe and dry!
Dr. Jens
