A Better TomorrowAnything and everything that can help make it happen!

What do we do in this period that we’re heading into and how do we activate local communities and local networks almost as shock absorbers for what may happen to our systems. Most people are totally in a dream bubble they haven’t really been able to deal with the concept of what they’ve seen as their future may not go forward in the way that they think its going to go forward. People like us who are beginning to assimilate different ideas of possibilities may have to step forward in the next few years as kind of leaders in our various communities to try to help people through this transition.

This foward thinking quote is from a series of 10-minute videos recording Dan Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open The Head and 2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl, at the Horizons conference in New York in 2008. After a summation of how his journeys in life enabled him to write his books, he explores where and how the next stages of human evolution might come from. It is a great series to watch for those interested in the enlightened state of being.

One quote in particular went to seed in my fertile mind as it relates to a topic I had been scratching the surface only yesterday. I was attempting to examine what significant events each generation of my family  had experienced in their lifetimes. I was only able to go back 4 generations before I had no knowledge of their environments. In particular, my grandparents experienced huge transformations:

• Living through the era of World Wars in Europe
• Travelling to North America by boat as the sole means of intercontinental travel
• Mass media – From print to radio, television
• Telephones – From creation to cellularization
• Computers – And the nascent stages of connectivity via the Internet

In this quote Dan is examining the past to try and understand if psychic experiences are as possible as his experiences have led him to believe, what could it mean for the future of our society?

If you think about the 18th century, people had seen lightning up until that point but nobody had the idea that you could take electricity down into our level of reality and make it into a transformative force for the planet. So once we learned how to make use of electricity in a century and a half we changed the whole bio-geo-chemical environment of planet earth. We created a global industrial techno-culture. That’s like nothing in evolutionary time of millions of years to make that kind of transformation in century and a half is staggering. So we gained that energy and nobody knew you could do that. It required developing a whole scientific methodology to be able to work with electricity and these other forms of energy.

So what if we’re on the cusp of a different type of energy that is even exponentially more powerful? Potentially transforming the planetary environment and global society. What if that energy is psychic energy? So the fact that more and more people are experiencing synchronicities, kind of intention leading to manifestation … This might actually be a legitimate phenomenom or fact of human experience. Maybe we would be able to use this energy.

Digg.com is a “place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web”. Equal parts timeliness reflection of what the world is interested in, xkcd comics, and other items from the most remote portions of the Internet. I sat down to read a few links / sites and must say that what I found was a very odd collection of items. Some random musings and quotes from what I saw, what it made me think and what I think it says about our current path towards A Better Tomorrow:

ScienceDaily.com – Male Sex Chromosome Losing Genes By Rapid Evolution

By comparing the DNA of the X and Y chromosomes in eutherian mammals to the DNA of the non-sex chromosomes in the opossum and platypus, the team was able to go back in time to the point when the X and Y chromosomes were still swapping DNA, just like the non-sex chromosomes in the opossum and platypus. The scientists then were able to observe how the DNA of the X and Y chromosomes changed over time relative to the DNA of the non-sex chromosomes. “Our research revealed that the Y-specific DNA began to evolve rapidly at the time that the DNA region split into two entities, while the X-specific DNA maintained the same evolutionary rate as the non-sex chromosomes,” said Makova.

The report talks about the relative importance of the different parts of each DNA but doesn’t offer conjecture on a number of interesting questions this raises. What happened many millions of years ago that caused the X and Y chromosome DNA to split into two entities? Why did one DNA evolve while the other stayed basically identical? Could it have been something similar to what some people hypothesize might happen in 2012? Theories which posit that, “during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation rather than an armageddon, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a newer sociopolitical age for the global community”.

Having finished reading The Forever Machine, I could see a scenario where evolution happens by choice on a progressionary level that we could barely imagine today. Something that leads to a similar divergence in the genes of humanity which would have far-reaching implications. The Jump 225 trilogy wondered down some of these paths as technology integrated into all levels of the human condition. Hopefully if that is to be the path before us, the choices that lead us there are made with the impact it could have on 7 generations of our children in mind.

Daily Finance – Journalism Online, would-be newspaper savior, gathers steam

What Journalism Online’s offering is more flexible and compelling than it may have sounded at first. Far from a one-size-fits-all approach, the company allows news outlets to customize their pay schemes with 15 different variables. Publishers will be able to do everything from selling monthly subscriptions to charging micropayments for individual articles with a sliding pricing scale based on the timeliness of the news. “What we’re giving them is a set of dials they can constantly turn,” says Brill. “In no case is is simply charging or not charging. It’s not simply a pay wall goes up around everything.”

I think that the recording and movie industries have been business cases on display long enough to show that suing your clients to support a dying business model is too much a case of biting the hand that feeds you. The more one seeks to control information, the more will slip through your icy grasp. I support the concept that people should get paid a fair value for their services. However, I see the driving desire to change how that value is determined through events such as the Pirate Bay trial. This Journalism Online sounds like it is attempting to offer the path of least resistance by simplifying the execution process of requiring / accepting pay for content of a written nature.

While that is an admirable goal, I would like to believe – and my experiences are starting to bear truth to the fact that – the more you share your efforts freely with the world, the more you will be rewarded for it inkind. This past weekend I attended an event where I felt a huge connection with all the people of the planet. The more positive energy I could project, the stronger the feedback I received that I was walking on the right path. I felt that I – and everyone I encountered – had the potential to make a better tomorrow. We need not be sheeple, but instead an agent of change. The question remains…What is it that most people want and is that goal state something that is sustainable for the entire population to strive towards?

Salem News – You Can Now Legally Use iPhone to Find Cannabis

This week Apple releases a new iPhone and iPod Touch application which allows users to locate cannabis resources worldwide including the nearest medical cannabis collectives, doctors, attorneys, organizations, and other patient services in the states, such as California, that have passed laws allowing medical cannabis.

This is a bold example that typifies the generational shift that our culture is facing. Technology that augments human interaction is radically altering our capability to access and interpret information respond to it through new mediums of communication. While I find it interesting that a significant number of people who have grown up with access to this evolving technology happen to share a number of belief systems  noticeably different from our most recent ancestors, it is really just another side to the same concept which the vanguard of society is struggling with on many fronts: How important are our freedoms to us?

• Freedom from violence and persecution?
• Freedom of assembly and voice?
• Freedom to access information?
• Freedom to modify software?
• Freedom to make choices for ourselves and not be negatively impacted by the choices of others?

Everyone in the world struggles with these freedoms – some more than others. All I can do is work to make my tomorrow better, hope that my efforts in some ways help others and that they do / feel the same way. Bright lights might get snuffed out before their time, while others may fade away.

The Internet is enabling individuals to connect with others who share their interests / passions on a scale not seen since the invention of the printing press drastically changed our ability to share knowledge:

The immediate effect of the printing press was to multiply the output and cut the costs of books. It thus made information available to a much larger segment of the population who were, of course, eager for information of any variety. Libraries could now store greater quantities of information at much lower cost. Printing also facilitated the dissemination and preservation of knowledge in standardized form — this was most important in the advance of science, technology and scholarship. The printing press certainly initiated an “information revolution” on par with the Internet today. Printing could and did spread new ideas quickly and with greater impact.

The question is, what choices can / should we make (with or without technology) that will have a positive impact on our own environment without negatively impacting others? For that, I think we should take the wisdom of peoples such as David Holmgrem to heart and find ways to “creatively re-design our environment and our behaviour in a world of less energy and resources”. I’m quite sure if we do that, we will be on a great road to a better tomorrow.

I heard a conversation on the radio about immortality whilst driving to go and see a horse today. It was a strong reminder of where I am, and am going, is the right path. I have experienced more of these type of inspiring events more frequently of late. The most recent was from a book, Becoming Like God, which explores the Khabbalah’s view of our Ultimate Destiny. The following quote is a very apt description of my thoughts / feelings lately.

So, one day, we’re inspired by a piece of wisdom. It resonates deep within us like an ancient memory. We’re intrigued, inquisitive. Then suddenly we remember a parking ticket we forgot to pay. Then we realize we’re a little hungry and wonder if we should have a snack. In minutes, we’ve forgotten the wisdom. This is no accident. IT’S NOT US. IT’S HIM. Then we remember. I could actually be free of suffering and death, we think to ourselves. Then a voice inside says, “Don’t be naive.” IT’S NOT US. IT’S HIM. “No one escapes,” the conversation in our minds continues. “Don’t delude yourself. Life is suffering and then you die. Anyone who says differently is in it for the profit. You’re depressed, but t least you’re not a sucker.” IT’S NOT US. IT’S HIM. This is a snapshot of prison life. This is the Opponent hard at work, manning the gates.

I imagine it like one flash illuminating one scene to give you one picture. With a series of pictures you can translate into a scene in action. It might not be unlike dancing under a strobe light. At first your brain does not understand the inputs from your senses. Slowly your brain adapts and you can comprehend the concept of isolated images forming motion. But it is still awkward for you to try and do co-ordinated activities like walking up or down stairs.

For perhaps a very long time I have been struggling with the fundamental concepts of the reality I want to perceive. So too does a human child struggle to correlate their own actions and their parents to communicate their desires. It used to discourage me to think about how far I had to go on my journey. Now, I am excited just thinking about:

• How many things there are to see along the way.
• How many ways I will be changed by those future experiences
• How my actions might influence the universe around me

After all, “We connect to the two forces (Darkness / Ego or Light / God) through the law of similarity of form; we connect to and become what we become like.”