fashionRIP: Set 'em Up- Ice on Fire

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Set 'em Up- Ice on Fire

detail Isa gown

Intro to a New Story- Trilogy of Ice and Fire

Humans have had a 5,000 year old plus story of the hero’s journey [1] that heralds male accomplishments and virtues. We have experimented with ego and tool making and have made amazing discoveries. We have left the nest and developed as individuals We have gone and continue going afield, gathering and at times utilizing, the information we collect. We have built amazing, complex machines and systems to handle it all. We call this progress.

However, this very process is jeopardizing said “progress.” For at the very core of all this activity are old stories and beliefs which limited possibilities and therefore, choices, from the very start of what we call civilization.

So, even as we build and create opportunity, we lose perspective and choice. We are drawing from an ever shrinking pool of the whole that is possible.

And since we built and grew systems based on what we thought was true, we magnified consequences and manifested huge correlations between probabilities and choosing limits. Our free choice is now dictated from the shrinking pool of options that appear the most rational and therefore “right.”

We have painted ourselves into a quantum corner with a classic and materialist brush.

This can’t be good.

We need a new hero’s journey and some new archetypes. We need to figure in deep ecology and planet systems. When we change the stories, we can change the paradigm, which in turn rearranges, renews and re-expands possibilities.

One such story needs to be the journey of the feminine hero. We need this for balance

This journey is not about women going out to conquer the world, nor does it relate to equality in the old story. This is a new journey, a journey to the whole of being. It is a personal journey that resonates and interacts with concepts of whole consciousness.

It is a story about unity, healing and the interactive uni-verse. When we free our selves from the old beliefs, free consciousness from fear, we enter love.

So all in all this is just another love story, and it starts in the frozen north as the glacier melts and the Ice Queen starts to thaw.

[1] “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.^[^“

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Why it Matters

What's the matter with more and more fashion choices?

It sounds good; we love to be able to pick the perfect outfit. You wear it once or twice and then ....what was the real cost here?

Your time to shop and the money spent, not so much ....go a little deeper and consider the fiber source, the dyes and chemicals used, the health toll on the workers, the energy to run the machines, the transporting carbons...and now it just takes up closet space. But so what? It's been going on for-almost-ever and you didn't make the rules.

In fact we are told this is what a "healthy" economy looks like.

You will recycle it after all, give it to charity or your sister. This is more transportation and more release of those greenhouse gases. We are using a lot of our personal energy and the resources of this planet to make, use and dump "trash" Some rags, remnants and tawdry bits will molder for eons in landfills, as nature's microbial actions are hampered by our normalized, everyday toxic lifestyles.

This goes beyond dumps as the breakdown cycle that nourishes the life of this planet has been sorely challenged by GMO crops, fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials..RIGHT!!. All the "living better through chemistry" propaganda after WWI and II- AKA how to sell your "garbage," is our legacy. Well no more, not on my (our) watch, we are seeing things quite differently.

As we now carry 298 toxins in our bods that weren't there in the 1930s the toxic residues of normal are haunting us more and more. Ironic, no? Advanced is merely a word.

Go to the So Whats the Point blog in February for the numbers.

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Extinctions ...So What?

Life evolves, some species survive some don't. We like to allude to Darwin's "natural selection" or Herbert Spencer's "survival of the fittest" because we are so good at reproducing and taking over this planet and justifying that side of our natures. The fact that we are wiping out the food chain by destroying habitat, fouling air and water and generally behaving like arrogant, tinkering idiots, is called business as usual. .....Well I and others are no longer buying that "sell."

We are wising up to the idea that we too, are dependent on these resources. We too, are physically an organic species and we really don't know what little extinction will be the start of the chain reaction that collapses the structure that we too, are dependent on.

Is this the price we are willing to pay for a pair of plastic shoes?

I say no, that despite the focus on the physical, we are more. We are heart and soul, mind, body, spirit. We are born of stars and we can and will leap over this world view based in old, untrue beliefs led by a science of isolation and religions of patriarchal, hierarchical constructs (your basic dominating Dad- with self reflective rights to rule). It is time to come together and heal. To transition into our fuller expectations and open the new possibilities. We are born with genius...let us help each other get to where we all can shine.