Let's Go Wild

#10: 23 July 2023

“Unshakable solace exists in facing the unfolding storm head on with unyielding resolve. No one can take away our will, ever.”

   The traditional, acceptable way to approach even radical shifts in perspective and ways of being is not, as we seem to expect, by just redrawing a new worldview based on different assumptions and values. Re-electing the same politicians, reforms, new laws with more funding, and purchasing ‘this one thing that’s green’ are not the answers. Rather it requires an entirely different approach and set of skills, including living into a new consciousness that owes nothing to money or societal/political power as in our world today. We will find this path most often by opening to experiences and especially, seeking out the synchronicities, the coincidences, that the immaterial world is constantly offering as revelations and suggestions for our way forward; a path that is obvious to those who look. Immaterial, not as in irrelevant but as ‘not solid’. Revelations not as dogma, but as new visions and wisdom.

“The former paradigm is over. It’s not coming back. It was never sustainable; how much clearer can it be at this point? How can it have been possible to loot, plunder, pillage and pollute the planet indefinitely in the delusional attempt to fuel perpetual expansion on a finite planet with finite resources? The only chance we have of salvaging any part of the planet’s remaining life support systems is to be collectively standing against the gathering storm of insanity, no matter what comes. It’s not just the power structure that has brought us to this dark corner we now find ourselves in; the controllers couldn’t do what they do without the active or passive support of the majority population. This must change now, or it will very soon be game over.” Dane Wigington [Also the source of the quote at the top of this essay]

   As I write these essays, as I have these difficult conversations, time after time friends will say, ‘So what’s the answer?” The problem is, just like the caterpillar eating itself silly and spinning out the cocoon, we can’t imagine the other side of this abyss: what might be, could be, precisely because it has to be a return to a totally different paradigm of interconnections, relationships, and natural health as we humans once knew intimately, before we became ‘civilized’.

   No effective general, theoretical orientation has been provided by Dominator Culture to guide realistic and holistic “development” agendas. And no outlines exist for a gentle exit from this permanent debt-austerity cycle. In other words, if you lack a deep understanding of how a debt-based money system functions in real life, you will just have to go along for the ride as the few who do know drive the economic bus. Their vested interests, their sunk costs, ensure they will not offer alternatives that counter their dysfunction. So where can we look to find a different path?

   Any time there is a disturbance that leaves us unbalanced, we must have a memory of balance if we are to regain it. Humans were innately balanced, when we lived in Nature and in right, respectful relationship. How do we remember those lifetimes, those ways of being? Our ancestral memories, faded though they may be, live on in our hearts, in our love of life and this world, and in the magnetic pull towards wholeness that our descendants manifest, even when we ourselves are heart-broken. No one wants a shattered, desolate future, for themselves and their children. Over millennia we sought complete connection; that inertia remains, even as it is obscured by isolation and delusion. Inertia, memory, even love can’t guide us forever without replenishment. If we fail to actively connect, to fiercely love, to focus our energies on a return to goodness, truth, and beauty; we risk it all. The magnitude of our loss may one day soon become too great to ignore, or too much to overcome.

   If that happens, we will be drawn into a new state of equilibrium, divorced from what inspired humans to seek peak connection, possibly to never know that wonder and awe which is our human birthright. As we detach from what was our grounding, we drift at the mercy of the waves, rudderless and storm-tossed. That’s no way to sail.

   We’ve been taught our ancestors were savages, wild; that Mother Nature kills rather than heals; that we are exceptional (-ly alone); and intuition is delusion. What we consider good/bad is not our own sense, but has been fed to us by others. Others that control us, change us, limit us, own us, and believe they deserve these powers and are rightly our Masters. The key to creating a different future is seeing the lies and seeking the truth. Let’s return to optimal health and fierce, community power. Seek to heal trauma, see caregiving as the highest good, and find awe and respect at the transformational power of love. For me, our story is about all kinds of things, but in this context it is about the ways in which we are born into a very hostile, dominant culture, a world that may be "alien," and then are so seduced by our illusions and our hopes and our dreams and our memories that we stop looking at reality. We have become a society of ‘adults’ who think, talk and act like children, pitted against masters of psychological manipulation who've honed their skills for thousands of years on this planet. It's not a fair fight and the weakened adults (made stupid on a steady diet of toxic chemicals, gluttony and luxury) aren't doing very well in this battle for hearts and minds. At this point, we know many people are seeing it; it’s hard to ignore the erosion of values and respect. The question is, "will we ever develop the adult strength to process (heal) the trauma and push against the dominant narrative of exploitation and control?"

   Once more, let me paint a short vignette of what the new world might entail. In this modern, dominant culture, approved behavior becomes our functional currency, with artificial intelligence and surveillance our paymasters. Capital no longer uses productivity to measure our value to this economy and to determine our reward. Rather, the most docile and compliant gain the most. The trap is being sprung; lockdown triggered demands for government to save us, to fund us when we couldn’t work, and to heal us with free medicine. John Trudell, decades ago, encouraged us to resist the seduction of the Tech-No-Logic world being unveiled. While we have been disconnected, generations ago, from our source, from the truth of this life, we now must recognize our isolation is neither permanent nor ordained. Let us intend to reconnect. Our relations with Cosmos can be, must be, exalted and grown. To question is an act of authenticity; therefore, refuse to merely “believe”.

   Plants transmute light into life using photosynthesis, according to quantum physics, not Newtonian. People transmute life into love and consciousness using perception and beingness. Light, life, love: three aspects of this same existence in nondual reality. Humans know of the healing offered by plants because “they tell us”. We are letting them down; when we treat them only as ‘resources’, because healing requires reciprocity. We are not supporting the plants, and their power is fading fast as a result. Our heart-field is non-physical, kinesthetic touch. Our brain and heart both generate electromagnetic fields that extend beyond our skin, as do plants and animals. All of these fields, mingling, can be sensed. Offer a gift. Ask for consent. Be curious. Say thank you.

   Generosity is key to reciprocity. Energy always goes many directions. We can’t only be takers. Many cultures have (or had) a ritual of thank-full-ness prior to harvesting, hunting, and eating. Is it sufficient to pause for seconds, respecting the tomato for relinquishing its fruit or the chicken that gave its life for the meat I now eat? Do I owe the wider world more than a thought in return for what I take? I feel I do, we do. If I am determined to resist this dominant paradigm, shaped by slavery, genocide, and competition, I have to risk healing when a door to health opens along my path. If I am open to possibility, willing to let energy nudge me, and I look, listen, and sense with attention, I don’t need “a plan”. To truly participate in this outer world I have to look deeply inside myself, into my inner world. We tend to allow others to control, limit, manipulate, and exploit us; because we grant the “outer” world primacy and deeply sense a lack of control, of agency, outside ourselves. Discord and division are prime methods used to keep me looking outside. All this changes, once I value what’s inside appropriately.

   Food independence is radical. The Black Panthers were destroyed because of this and the danger their food programs presented in opposition to discord and division. It is why today we are nutritionally impoverished by Big Agriculture, corporations that are killing the living soil with oil-based chemicals for profit. There is no such thing as organic, meaning pure; chemicals and genetic modifications are in everything, everywhere. It will take generations to recover, to mitigate, to heal the rain, soil and seed. Real food is medicine. Hands and feet touching Mother Earth is healing. Heirloom seeds contain the history of struggle and survival of a species; we need this ancestral wisdom too. This culture of control will not survive if we are diligent with our gratitude, ceremony, community, and reciprocity; all arising out of our deep connection with soul. So-called green capitalism is a mechanical Trojan Horse, sent to destroy all that humans who are aware hold dear.

   This is amazing – it’s in our hands. We choose with every thought, every movement, every sensation, every gift. We choose a new world of relationships and true mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health; or we choose submission to a Matrix of violence and greed that leads us straight into Hell. I am not alone, and I have gifts. You are not alone, and you have gifts. Learn new ways to share, new ways to relate and live with heart and soul, always in this moment. Look inside and know. Look to the horizon and be. Let’s Go Wild!