Like, Who Does She Think She Is.

This is an excerpt from a letter i may or may not send.

I saw Rick Steve's show on Fascism last night. The Mussolini, Franco, Hitler triad that shocked the world awake for a minute or two, sent chills up my spine and raised my hackles. The feminine snarl can be a more powerful device than the slogan,"don't tread on me." As she is protecting the well
being, the health of the future and puts herself on the line, fierce and loving at once. This is the  "she" the ancient Greeks feared! (okay is theory, but makes good sense)

Please see this PBS Special yourself. Rick did an elegant job of portrait painting. The show, the script, the details are at:

https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/fascism

Using old footage and current monuments, showing the past, illuminating the patterns, this special was an elegant reminder, a poignant show and tell.

Exposing the twisted charisma of what has been called a Godot, a Deus ex machina, a "powerful" character, these dictators donned the masks of shape shifters, illusionists.  They took advantage of the fear and discontent in the 1930s. It is not difficult to lay this script over the current era and see common threads. The what to do now is where the change can manifest.

Just in case that "be the change you want to see in the world" is not trendy enough now, it is from Gandhi. Back in the late 90's it was printed on backpacks and hoodies, another era of naive activism. But it was/is a step none-the less!

Cut to the personal impact experiment of fashionRIP now!

Yesterday, i heard a man tell his friend, "it's texting, us old people have a hard time with technology"  repeating the meme of voluntary diminishment.  Next time i see him, i plan to ask him why he wanted to tell himself this sort of thing.  If it opens a space, i might suggest a rethink like,  "Oh technology has it's place, i use it and make sure it doesn't use me" or "it's good to learn new things, keeps our brains alive"..something!

Earlier in the day, i helped a woman stow and hold her cart, after lifting up a seat to create a niche, at the front of the bus. I had wondered about her and her cart of large pack toilet paper, but when a man yelled at her for blocking the aisle, creating a trip hazard, to "move up front like other's do," and she moved, i realized she wasn't trying to be a princess, she just didn't know the etiquette. My offer to help was really appreciated. She told me her daughter used to pick her up, but she was ill and she had to get some necessities. A lovely lesson in assume NOT!

 I said, "I think we are here to help each other help each other, tho many of us have forgotten " She and i both beamed, felt like an energy flow in neon!  And yes, i said it loudly. Because we can "remember."

I'm telling you because i think specificity sets the individual, the unique space/time relevancy that is as important as the whole in that it is integral to the whole. It's what reverberates, ripples and makes changes in consciousness, like water through mountains, new thoughts to neural connections, it is interrelated, connected.

Okay this is part of my theory of everything, mentioned a year or so ago and i'm still finding it difficult to attract, solicit, generate feedback ....nevermind:-)

Anyway, if this is true, if it sets up a simple positive reaction that transforms negative emotional energy, then the pattern is altered and if it is altered in the micro, it alters the macro. Thoughts are energy, thoughts put to action are actualizations. Now as beliefs become actualized, (A Goswami, the Quantum Activist)  then the reverse is also true. 

Consciousness expands as beliefs change and then "we change what we actualize" Therefore being the change is instrumental and Gandhi like other great thinkers,  leaders of movements, artists and activists, was right minded at the space/time of his action. 

I am busing to work until the weather says "car time."  I enjoy the serendipity that  arises in public spaces. Opportunities to connect in meaningful short term ways is part ,of my practice, my experiment in trusting life itself. (I am pulling from the life spark idea that resonates with the biological event of sperm hitting egg, love it!) There is a health/joy benefit in these moments.

I know our busy goal-oriented templates have corroded our collective awareness. The noise, odor, all the pollutants and toxins of contemporary existence are easily filtered out with headsets and apps. We are adept at filtering out what we have been taught to think of as irrelevant. This too has a history and comes from stoicism and a work on ethic, however working through the pain can be really detrimental.  Blocking the emotional, physical, spiritual stresses with X, has consequences.

We can continue this crazy ass version of  "growth progress"  or we can question the "authors" the thinking at the time of the "set-up" and all the babble, the smoke and mirrors that we erect to fool ourselves and each other.

Aren't we due for a real change here? A change from the pattern repeating default story, that story full of dictators, data miners and prophets that "see" the evidence but do not understand the crime.

Let's put our naked truth on the table, let us be brave and vulnerable, strong and humble at once! After all, we are humans and we deserve a better story.

Love,

deborah

World by Numbers

 

Photo collage from 9/22/14 

An homage to the Fall Equinox -everything dies so that everything lives

Numbers are a great tool.  Numbers enhance the human tool kit and through numbers we learned analytical  and relationship concepts.  But then along the way something very absurd happened. Step by rational step, numbers gained importance over other means of seeing, thinking, divining, intuiting, knowing.  We as a species started understanding the world from a self defining aka constricting-window of all that is true and possible.

By focusing on numbers we started to disregard the subtle nuances of our sensual realities. Numbers, like words, are abstracts of mind, useful yes,...but they are not the actual "thing" itself.  I think it is time to remind us of this obvious and yet veiled notion, for it influences what what we create and set into being..

The more we believe in the tool, the more we actualize to fit the tool. ("we actualize our beliefs " A Goswami) Think how apps are made for cell phones and the more we rely on them the more necessary they become.  We are  addicted, chained bribed into utilizing this tool. This is bondage. The better to screw you m'dear! (Nothing personal..you are a market statistic, a digit in the target audience, a dot on the graph)

The corporate application of technology is to enhance their bottom lines. Bottom lines reduce reality to numbers.

This is a coercing force causing dependency on things we have to constantly upgrade. IF this isn't addiction..? Opting out, saying no, effectively culls one from the herd. Entrapment by any other name...

This nifty simulated reality is causing harm!What i was taught to see as the price of progress i now understand to be mere justificsation. I am calling this out!

 Male archetype thinking adapts, mutates but cannot "birth" leaps.

 It is the feminine archetype that gives new life and therefore it is the feminine that is necessary for great leaps in evolution, creativity and no doubt the quantum physical aspect here is feminine too!.

Is this the missing link? Quantum, evolutional, creative leaps are all ancient and yet mystically new in the matter of "serious" research. I suspect this feminine leap ability has been rescuing "life" for a very long time. In a conscious application of mind and matter, might we create these feminine archetype heros to lead us from our old ways and begin our next journey?  Yes.

So though numbers have allowed us to define ourselves ever more in ways that can be counted, measured, worked into formulas that  provide satisfying solutions and allow us to feel in control they  limit our conceptual arenas. Though we point to them proudly and say the world works by the numbers, it is only a belief. No matter how gratifying this might feel, it is a small part of all truth, all that is possible. 

I have the formula for figuring odds in mind here. Though it may be valid for a machine gambling device as it too is man made, in the world of all possibilities it is an insult.

Einstein couldn't convince his peers that " the energy (E) in a system (an atom, a person, the solar system) is equal to its total mass (m) multiplied by the square of the speed of light (c, equal to 186,000 miles per second)."  from the Guardian until he hired a mathematician to write the formula, so he could publish..

Apparently no matter how useful or brilliant an idea, somewhere along the way we were taught to believe that without a mathematical language to illustrate ii, .the idea was useless and/or questionable.

But give it that formula and that same idea can become the holy grail of progress.

Silly humans- as the tool became ever more the master, as accountants counted and the numbers grew they mesmerized the culture and helped create the myths of our current era.  It is time to let them go for they have had their day, we learned and are grateful for the gifts delivered and now the time has come for the new ideas to bloom. It is simply life.