Creating a Better World
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Evolution is the self-organizing selection for reproductive advantage. If there is a lion on your tail you don’t stop and wonder if he’s hungry. But evolution endows us with the mindful gifts of reasoning and unlimited creativity.
Evolution is the self-organizing selection for reproductive advantage. If there is lion on your tail you don’t stop and wonder if he’s hungry. But human evolution endows us with the mindful gifts of reasoning and unlimited creativity.
We have learned that a lion seeing a tourist van full of people considers it neither threat or prey, just a big noisy thing, but human passengers better stay inside.
Way back when, in fact all the way back, genetic mutations that provided reproductive advantage became embedded instincts over generations, and still do. Only now we are evolving in days, even hours as our communication scope and speed creates new norms a lot faster that ultimately still endure by reproductive advantage.
Intellectually we sustain new ideas that we consider improvements. by redirecting our energies from old ways. For humans at least, with our great gift of adaptability we can override blind unthinking instinctive responses to possible threats with reasoned alternatives if we can just be open to seeking better alternatives instead of instantly fighting or fleeing.
Many respectable studies warn that we are now faced with possible extinction if we don’t get our act together very soon, and that collaboration is far more successful than competition in finding the best alternatives to any problem.
Bottom line, reproductive advantage is now about disarming and working together.
Reproductive advantage, in fact the survival of life on earth, now depends on understanding that we are part of nature with the intelligence to understand that survival depends on harmony with, not control of, nature. Mindful researchers are discovering that everything is connected to everything else, and that the dominance of fear-driven addiction to control or destroy everything perceived as the least bit threatening will likely destroy most if not all life on earth.
We have been fear-conditioned to support and endure loveless authoritarian hierarchies forcing submissive low self-esteem obedience squelching self-organizing free-thinking collaboration since the beginning of human settlements struggling to protect their crops. These days it is quite possible to eliminate poverty by intelligent management of natural resources. Making war to create peace is just stupid.
We are now courting oblivion as mindless war profiteers and self-interest boxed corporations, realizing their days in power are numbered, desperately do whatever it takes to stay in power when they could shift their enormous ill-gotten resources to wage sane efforts to save everybody, including themselves. How stupid is that? How bad does it have to get?
To be ruled by fear is to be easily ruled., and is unsustainable.
The Great Awakening
Ok, don’t panic. Going with the wise flow means trusting that when stuck after doing everything you can imagine to set things right just let go and expect an even better outcome from the thereby informed inner wisdom we all share. Steve Jobs and millions of others who do what they love and settle for nothing less conquer fear with love and action.
This is already well underway. Just look at the great awakening triggered by the pandemic that motivated, un-belittled and freed the wage-slaves of the world to create their own far more rewarding and happier life paths and refuse to go back to oppressive offices which, now empty, are being transformed into housing!
Predictable management mandates to return full time to the office or be fired, by the likes of Amazon, but, surprisingly not Microsoft and others, are meeting stiff resistance by awakened folks with new confidence in their own abilities who are creating a new norm which historically only takes about 25% of the population.
Looking to reliable sources for awakening trends reveals a fast growing movement under-reported by corporate controlled media whose audiences are dwarfed by internet podcasts and other uncontrolled streams and videos. The internet is saving our butts!
The graduates watching Steve Jobs’ 15 minute 2005 Stanford commencement address (watch the whole video) got a head start.
Process
THE way to become positive and optimistic in the face of difficulty is to mindfully focus and act on what you want, not what you don’t want which becomes a path to what you do want.
Think about it. If you focus on what you don’t want until it is all controlled or destroyed what are you left with besides your victims’ wrath?
In short, you get what you dwell upon so dwell on what you want and mindfully study what you don’t want for ways to make it better.
There are many ways, e.g. meditation, to cultivate your inner wisdom by regularly withdrawing for whatever time it takes from all distractions to make room for the inner wisdom to flow and get centered on what is really important to your real self, not your conditioned distracted pseudo-self. You are then synchronistically guided at just the right time to the right teachers and resources toward the a more loved reality.
Suggestions
1. A pregnant common vision will generally multiply into compatible collaborations as players join or birth more collaborations that focus on an expanding universe of new and better visions. Participants may come and go, even circulate for cross fertilization. We can learn and create a lot from self-organizing Nature.
2. Treat troubled, ill, angry or hurtful people with healing kindness, not rejection or punishment, and kind therapeutic confinement when warranted which will become more and more seldom.
3. Invite thoughtful feedback to feed self-organizing progress.
4. Link other thoughtful projects with this one as a contribution to inspire and save time on re-inventing the wheel..
5. Don’t worry, be happy. What you believe is what you get.
In a few words, tell the truth, trust the process and get the hell out of the way. In fewer words it’s Gandhi’s “Be the change you want to see in the world,” “Be Here Now”, “Go With the Flow.” In 2 words from the Dalai Lama, it’s "Be Kind.” Love is all you need.
Continue with My Story.
Ted King, Jr. 10-9-24
