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It’s not all bad news

Posted by on September 14, 2010 No comments

I’ll veer away from Spirituality with this one and wander towards a different direction, it’s time for a change.

I’ve written before about my views on Peak Oil and the other bogeymen that stalk our collective near future.  It might have come across that I was a doomer, with a bearish outlook.  The comments on my last post have made me think more mindfully of how I came across on this and I feel a correction is due.

I’m watching a few developments and realising that the  future isn’t as gloomy as the doomers might have us believe, though I do think that the pace of things will slow down as we become more energy constrained.  We will become more local, but I don’t see that as such a bad thing though if you’re a fan of globalisation it’s bad news.

We seem to seek out the negative and fixate on it, enthralled by the feeling of impending doom.  But what of the effects on our psyches?  Unbalancing toward the negative is damaging and I found that out to my cost recently.  So, I’m thinking of looking up some more “good news” sites  as it’s been a while since I did that.

So, I’m going to embark on a little journey to rebalance, let’s see what I can find.

A Gradual Awakening

Posted by on June 26, 2010 No comments

I have to say that I believe that an awareness of our society’s problems with Peak Oil and the end of growth is creeping slowly further into the mainstream consciousness.  The assumptions that our Western way of life is based on are being called further into question over time and the voices doing the questioning are growing more numerous and louder with the passing of time.

With each problem, each speed bump along the way, more people get bumped onto the road towards waking up and people already on the road get moved along.  With that said, I know that many people have a colossal investment in Business As Usual, there are many who will fight the coming changes fanatically; even though their position in that of King Canute, their belief in the status quo is almost religious in it’s intensity.

For their part, the Vested Interests; the powers that be, are deploying every while and weapon in their not inconsiderable arsenals to fight this.  Every person whose consciousness is raised and who starts thinking freely is a loss for them, a body blow, and the more people that awaken to our situation the easier it is for others to do so.

For my part, I think the VIs are fighting a losing battle.  Once a person awakens, it’s impossible to unawaken; a consciousness raised cannot truly be lowered.  You may have denial and suppression but that’s all you have, consider that a religion knows that once the conditioning is broken that person is lost to them, it’s the same here.  This is a secular raising of consciousness that goes far beyond anything we’ve seen in religious terms.

But that’s a thought, and I will swing towards religion as my final thought in this post.  Religions hold views that are in some cases counter to the coming reality, those faiths are in for a shock.  For example consider Catholicism and contraception.  The coming population issues will challenge and break that teaching, the faithful believe the Pope is infallible, they are about to see both their leader and their faith shown to be in error.  Where does that lead?

Pale Blue Dot

Posted by on June 21, 2010 No comments

I received the link to this Carl Sagan video in my RSS today and in light of what’s been happening in the Gulf of Mexico, I thought this was something I had to share.