We are all at the helm. Truly, we are. There is a word in chemistry that describes when all the ingredients for change are ripe, available and ready to catalyze. They say that the mixture is ready to "go". Most often when these conditions occur, the change is quite noticeable. Energy, often times vast quantities of it are liberated as chemical bonds are broken or reorganized. Associations are made, intimate connections are established. We humans are not unlike our atomic relations. If you have ever been to a party where things are slow to get started, or where everyone is somewhat resistant to having a good time for one reason or another, you may have seen how the atmosphere can change radically in a very short time if someone takes the first step toward being open. I have seen that inspiration to change come from some of the most unlikely places. Once, it was from a person who just made the statement, "This is fun."
Conditions are ripe for exponential change, but it seems that someone has to dip their toe in the water before anyone else will be willing to take a dip in the waters of the new age. Who has not seen the rising tide of rebellion and protest around our planet? Why do you think that these things are taking place? We all know that we deserve better and that the people that have been at the top of the income ladder have been having their way with us, with the environment and with the resources of the planet. There are more and more stark reminders that if we do not put our foot down, and soon, there will be nothing left to save, nothing left worth eating and nothing to leave our children.
If we do not hang together, we will surely all hang separately was the watchword for the American Revolutionaries. Thomas Jefferson himself said, "God help this nation if it should go even twenty years without another revolution of this kind", and he was speaking of the revolution. we have put over two hundred years in the history books since then without an uprising of that type. The trade unionists made some tentative steps toward wresting some of the money and power from the ultra-wealthy, securing a bit of rest from their wage slavery and an end to outright exploitation of children, but over time many of those protections have eroded. Worldwide, women are still second-class citizens in many nations. Remarkably, just those in India and China abused by forms of sexual slavery dwarf the number of black slaves that were traded worldwide during the cruel exploitation of the northwest Coast of Africa 150 years ago.
Global consciousness and a growing conscience is on the rise. Protests are gaining strength and followers. some are willing to die rather than accept continued exploitation. We must not let their deaths be in vain. If we do not stand for something, we can expect nothing from the elites who have plagued civilization from the start. There are plenty of billionaires who deem themselves benevolent, but the working class, the wage slaves who give their lives so that the wealthy can sleep on their golden fleeces, eat at the trough of luxury and bathe in the blood of the rest of us need to understand that we are the actual makers of all wealth upon the planet and they are the real takers.
When we conserve, we are always met by the powers that be raising the price of whatever it was that we conserved. When we buy nothing, we are told explicitly that we are the reason that the economy has collapsed. Never mind the fact that we work longer hours for less, or that we have to make choices between food and medicine, or the health of our children and a job. It is criminal that we do not have truth in news, in advertizing, often even in our schools. This on top of the fact that Christ himself, if you believe in him, would have been a radical, yet the churches refuse to speak truth to the wealthy and powerful elites that run our nations ragged trying to keep the wealthiest in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
We need to take conversations of this type into our family gatherings, into our faith communities, into the schools and the marketplace of ideas. No one is going to do it for us. We need to be the catalyst for taking a long hard look at what needs to be done. When the change starts to "go" all the money in the world will not stop it. All the weaponry on the face of the planet will not snuff our hope and the small steps we take to get things started will be remembered for the essential part they played in kicking off a revolution of conscience.
I would like to add a special thanks to Films for Action. blessed Be and namaste'
Conditions are ripe for exponential change, but it seems that someone has to dip their toe in the water before anyone else will be willing to take a dip in the waters of the new age. Who has not seen the rising tide of rebellion and protest around our planet? Why do you think that these things are taking place? We all know that we deserve better and that the people that have been at the top of the income ladder have been having their way with us, with the environment and with the resources of the planet. There are more and more stark reminders that if we do not put our foot down, and soon, there will be nothing left to save, nothing left worth eating and nothing to leave our children.
If we do not hang together, we will surely all hang separately was the watchword for the American Revolutionaries. Thomas Jefferson himself said, "God help this nation if it should go even twenty years without another revolution of this kind", and he was speaking of the revolution. we have put over two hundred years in the history books since then without an uprising of that type. The trade unionists made some tentative steps toward wresting some of the money and power from the ultra-wealthy, securing a bit of rest from their wage slavery and an end to outright exploitation of children, but over time many of those protections have eroded. Worldwide, women are still second-class citizens in many nations. Remarkably, just those in India and China abused by forms of sexual slavery dwarf the number of black slaves that were traded worldwide during the cruel exploitation of the northwest Coast of Africa 150 years ago.
Global consciousness and a growing conscience is on the rise. Protests are gaining strength and followers. some are willing to die rather than accept continued exploitation. We must not let their deaths be in vain. If we do not stand for something, we can expect nothing from the elites who have plagued civilization from the start. There are plenty of billionaires who deem themselves benevolent, but the working class, the wage slaves who give their lives so that the wealthy can sleep on their golden fleeces, eat at the trough of luxury and bathe in the blood of the rest of us need to understand that we are the actual makers of all wealth upon the planet and they are the real takers.
When we conserve, we are always met by the powers that be raising the price of whatever it was that we conserved. When we buy nothing, we are told explicitly that we are the reason that the economy has collapsed. Never mind the fact that we work longer hours for less, or that we have to make choices between food and medicine, or the health of our children and a job. It is criminal that we do not have truth in news, in advertizing, often even in our schools. This on top of the fact that Christ himself, if you believe in him, would have been a radical, yet the churches refuse to speak truth to the wealthy and powerful elites that run our nations ragged trying to keep the wealthiest in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
We need to take conversations of this type into our family gatherings, into our faith communities, into the schools and the marketplace of ideas. No one is going to do it for us. We need to be the catalyst for taking a long hard look at what needs to be done. When the change starts to "go" all the money in the world will not stop it. All the weaponry on the face of the planet will not snuff our hope and the small steps we take to get things started will be remembered for the essential part they played in kicking off a revolution of conscience.
I would like to add a special thanks to Films for Action. blessed Be and namaste'
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