January 2007

The expression of our consciousness through our material creations leads me to conclude, that consciousness functions as one continuous mobius like sphere that extends outward and inward weaving together the finite with the infinite. Separation is an illusion in the mind of the universe. To separate is an egoic trick that developed from some past evolutionary necessity that needs to be re evaluated. We can see in the newfound mass awareness of global warming that while the effects are examined the overall process remains elusive. The reasons even more so. What I mean is that by focusing on the details exclusively (separating from the whole) we miss the overall expression of this global event. The environment is our greatest unifying factor. Its a closed loop system that does give us feedback. Regardless of the boundaries of nationality or land mass, the environment of this earth contains us all. When climate change is seen around the world it puts us all back into the same space and forces communication. Another example would be if there were no power companies to fix your electricity when it goes out on your block. It now becomes a group problem with each person communicating and reasoning and testing, all working together to fix the problem themselves. The cells in our body all work together to form one whole. The system of unification is built into this place. It is simply our desire to gain perceptual power through individual ego expression that moves us away from unity. This does not mean unifying under one belief or one anything. It is not something we have seen on this planet before. Its the next step forward. As unique individuals empowered as free agents with the necessary resources to begin to express a set of ideas contained within our conception of the highest good we will move forward.

But it starts locally. As locally as you can get, within your own body. Science has given us the data we need to keep ourselves healthy. Eat simple foods and exercise. If you feel good inside you have one point of reference to compare the other things around you. Do they make you feel good or not. You will start to find that the things you need become easier to obtain. Your signal to noise filter gets tuned to your frequency. The effects begin to propagate and amplify. At some point there is such a deep connection between your consciousness and your environment that the two merge and you realize that they were never separate. Like a simple answer to what appears to be a complex riddle. Slowly this expands to embody all of the things you see around you. With your agency intact, you will feel compelled to shape your man made environment into an image of this feeling. So it appears in the same form that the ego manifestation does but the process and outcome are vastly different. The seat of creation has shifted into the next twist of the spiral upwards. You become a partner in the process of co creation. The points where your consciousness ends and the environment and the people and their creations begin starts to become harder to differentiate. Fun

One good thing done for yourself leads to another. The positive feedback that you get from actions that are truly beneficial should build on one another until a path of least resistance opens up. The next good thing to be done can be seen more clearly. The definition of “what is good for you” is unique to each and every individual yet is comprised of similar attributes. I believe that the most important one is an intangible but palatable sense of well being. When you are going the right way there is a sense of peace. Effortless movement into the future, moment to moment. Heading in line with the harmonic resonance established in our environment at the time of the big bang. This couples with your own unique note to build a chord that sings through all aspects of your life. If something in your life is disharmonic its feels like someone playing the wrong note in a chord. Before you can navigate accurately you have to tune your life and the things in it. The most effective way to do this is to reduce the number of things taking attention. Basically you want to take a vacation from all of your stuff. I know that the material goods that we surround ourselves with are the things we use to ping an image of our conception of self but often we change more dynamically than our stuff or in other words, we outgrow it.

In the process of shedding old layers of reflected environment we will start to be able to identify our internal directions as opposed to the needs of the things that we surround ourselves with. Throughout this process when struggling with whether to keep something or not, ask yourself if this thing represents the best possible you, your highest potential? Does the thing represent you in the future when you have chosen to live in the best possible space for who you see yourself to be? If not, let it go. The secret that emerges is that you don’t need any thing to tell you who you are. If you evaluate these things on the basis of need you find quickly that you don’t need any of it. The sun rises and so do you. Towards the end of this exercise the concept of signal to noise ratio will become clear. Start looking around at the environment beyond your immediate surroundings and marvel at the amount of stuff you don’t need. This is all “noise”. Like SPAM competing for your attention, taking up space in your brain, in your eyes and ears. The signal to noise ratio of the commercial landscape in america is clogging our ability to live lives in pursuit of real happiness. It has become very difficult for most people to know which direction is a step into greater harmony. It has been made hard to know what is really good for us anymore. We trust scientists and outside experts before we trust ourselves. Its a cycle that keeps us off balance.

Its not impossible to get back on track. Stepping away from disharmony and into the last library of truth that we have on this planet, nature, can be the pattern interrupt we need to calibrate our compass. To see that it functions without any human intervention is a simple reminder of the direct path. We attribute many characteristics to nature that we wish to see in ourselves. Its time to bring those to the front of our attention.

We have become so alienated from our lives through the mediation of information that the balance between direct experience and the simulated experience provided by the Spectacle has become unweighted. The term, signal to noise ratio is an excellent metaphor to describe our situation. For example if your e mail account is 50 percent spam and 50 percent messages you care about, your signal to noise ratio is 50/50. At 50/50 the value in having the account in the first place should be questioned. Look around us at our mediated environment and separate what is valuable and what is not, or “spam”. You get the idea. The line has blurred. What no one considers is the effect this process has on us as people. It would take many a lifetime to scientifically explain the thing we all feel within us; that our manufactured culture does not have our best interests in mind. The market does not give a splat about us nor our government. Logic has betrayed us. The thing that has made sense no longer does. Logic pulled us out of the darkness, thank you, but now it has put us into a very matrix like set of scenarios and its using our life energy for the perpetuation of systems that no longer benefit us.

Machines are predictable. The one thing we have going for us is creative dissent. And if we are to survive we are going to have to step out of the machine world and do the unexpected. Direct experiences, however we define this are always chaotic. The first bite of an organic tomato cannot be told to you but must be experienced. Love cannot be sold to you. Things like this are “real” although often we have forgotten them in the chatter of our evaluation of the information coming from our environment. Subjective experiences have been devalued by our objective systems. Feelings are considered less valuable because they are intangible. This comes with the assumption that all feelings are subjective and lacking in logical proof. Yet we find much agreement when things are beautiful. We do not need objectivity to tell us what tastes good or feels good. By only focusing on the objective, as our society has trained us to do we lose a huge portion of meaning in our lives. We need to find value in the subjective again. Even if we could bridge the gap between subjective and objective it would be a start. It wouldn’t matter if the institutions disappeared if we knew that our lives were good even without them. By keeping us entertained the current system keeps us jailed within it because we couldn’t imagine ourselves without it.

The next generation will know very little about racism and bigotry. The walls of separation are falling everyday. In their dust we should see the false beliefs that held them up and turn away from our errors. Unity is coming without regard for the control systems currently in place. The solution will be to embrace our similarities and nurture our differences so that the bonds between humans become stronger than any falsity created by men who attempt to control the masses. Anything that stands in the way of our next step in evolution will only slow us down but never stop us. We are nature. We will move freely as the wind through your imposed borders. We will no longer recognize your authority because we answer to our hearts and the laws of the natural world. We are no longer animals to be herded like cattle. Our evolved minds are not interested in destroying each other. We proclaim that war is over. We want our victory over the last phase of existence to be rewarded with freedom. Freedom from the man made systems enslaving us to mechanisms of thought that use us for their own benefit. We want to navigate within our world using our senses as guides rather than the oppressive regimes of the past. Your creations will crumble from disuse under these desires. Once we find ourselves we will no longer need the negative reenforcement of the totems that have shaped how we see ourselves. Our future will be built on the foundations of information you had not even considered. The acceleration into time and its ever moving spiral upward will bring us back around to where we have been with new understandings and tools and we will build anew the structures that lift us even farther into ourselves and the future. The future you offer us is unacceptable. We will not be complacent components supporting your power. We are self realized individuals with the agency to create the world that we want to live in. Your future is continued embattlement and war and separation and destruction and oppression. These clothes no longer fit us, they were hand me downs from generations of the failed past. If we must we will make our own clothes in the image of our highest selves. Everything around us will be the reflection of our best and we will do this out of the love of our existence and thankfulness for the ability to create as in all of us. So it is now.