All meaning is context dependent... and it does not get much bigger than this! Have you noticed things that you can't seem to explain? Things that you see going on 'out there' and also, things that you feel inside yourself. Things speeding up. Things changing how your body moves through your day. Things feeling heavier and denser. And sometimes, ... Continue Reading >>
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Jennifer Hatt: Feeding Ourselves in the New Millennium
"Nourishment for a healthy life goes way beyond proteins and vitamins and dietary fibre. The food we choose to consume is part of nourishment that keeps our body healthy and we as divine godforce engaged with our human experience here on Earth. Our body also needs nourishment of other sources. We need information that challenges, invites, and creates ... Continue Reading >>
Are we doomed?
Since my last urge to write (Ascent into Chaos), I have found myself in varying enquiries about the apparent trajectory on which we find ourselves. Many are troubled…agitated… about what may well lie ahead. I can appreciate that some would conclude that we’re doomed. The way I see it, being ‘white’ makes it less aggressive… and being ‘old’ makes it more ... Continue Reading >>
Audio Clips for Challenging Times: Deb, Naomi, Sheila, Ella
"In response to what now presents, I am excited to share audio clips from The Virtual Village, a meeting space for expansive conversations held regularly during these changing times with Deb Gleason, Sheila Winter Wallace, Naomi Irons and Ella Schatzmann. All four of us have deeply immersed themselves in the WEL-Systems® framework and speak to these changing ... Continue Reading >>
Wise Women ~ Wise Words
It helps to have something to think about that expands potential rather than compressing it. It's a choice, really, and that choice shapes your world. It has long been understood by many: we become what we think about. Here are some things for you to consider thinking about. And remember: anything that we have created was first a thought in someone's ... Continue Reading >>
Deb Gleason: An Invitation to Thrive!
I share with you an email recently received from Deb Gleason as she continues to carve out new paths for her own evolution. When we choose accelerated personal evolution as a way of Being, it really never does end. Take a moment and consider Deb's invitation to discover personal resilience and resourcefulness in a world that presents increasingly rapid ... Continue Reading >>
What’s important to you about being alive?
As far back as I can recall, my curiosities have often proven to be deeply annoying to many of those around me. Over time, if that changed at all, it was with an increasing perturbation of the murky waters of the status quo. I wanted to see what was under the surface… to see what littered the bottom that might trip us up should we choose to attempt to stand ... Continue Reading >>
2020: Random Thoughts into the Doomosphere
January 1, 2020: the start of yet another year. I woke up this morning to my first thought of: 7 Layer Dip. (That in itself is highly unusual since my first thought is pretty much always about coffee….). You may know the dip I’m referring to: designed to grace a nacho chip after you’ve selected it and before it arrives at your mouth. The metaphor of ... Continue Reading >>
Tenets of a Life Well Lived
I believe we live in a Sea of Intelligence; that wholeness is our essential Nature; that reality unfolds as required to lead us back to ourSelves. I believe that the greater the upheaval, the greater our need to pause... and consider: who have we been that brought us to this place? And who else must we become to create anew? ... Continue Reading >>
The Beating Heart of Climate Change
As is likely for many of you, I am mindful of a ‘quickening’…. not just a bringing-on of more of the status quo, faster and more intensely…. but the arrival of a new heartbeat. Like the moment in the pregnancy when you first hear the baby’s heartbeat and you know - in every cell of your body - that this New Life is coming your way. The heartbeat that I ... Continue Reading >>
Climate Change: What do we tell our children?
Yesterday, another compelling conversation with Deb Ozarko in her Deep Adaptation Forum Q & A with Jem Bendell. In these challenging times, the information shared and perspectives explored will (I believe) make great sense to those who are struggling to come to terms with that which is unfolding before their very eyes. I encourage you to find a ... Continue Reading >>
Collusion: the path to isolation
As change continues to press itself upon us, many find themselves falling away from the core of their Being... seeking some way of reclaiming a sense of internal safety and stability. As we lose our way, the pull to embrace collusion with others replaces the alignment we once had with ourselves. In a world steeped in apparent expanding collusion, we ... Continue Reading >>
Poetry of Predicament: with Deb Ozarko and Dean Walker
Now retired, I rarely engage in much beyond the joys of simply living my truly blessed life! However, every now and then, I am invited to be part of something that is so compelling to me I feel The Call to simply engage and see where it goes. Recently, I was invited to be in conversation with Dean Walker on the Poetry of Predicament podcast. In the ... Continue Reading >>
Climate Change: A Deeply Intimate and Personal Affair
Every time I spend a dollar, I remind myself that doing so is a 'yes' vote to the manufacturers of whatever it is that I'm paying for. By buying it... by bringing it into my life... I'm saying that whatever they're doing to make this available to me: I'm ok with that. Waiting for politicians and governments to make a difference in these increasingly ... Continue Reading >>
Climate Change – the facts
Observations
Have you noticed how time is moving more quickly? Are you noticing that more things seem easily forgotten… quickly becoming irrelevant when in times past, they would have seemed essential to retain? Can you feel the degree to which what once mattered, no longer does? As a species, we’re changing. Our planet is changing. Our future is changing. And through ... Continue Reading >>
Simple Choices – Complex Results
In my retirement, my attention has turned to recognizing, acknowledging and deeply appreciating how immensely fortunate I am to have family and friends that I cherish. For decades, I was drawn to engage in what was, for me, the only way I knew how: caring about and focused on how we, as human beings, were expressing so far below what was possible for us; and ... Continue Reading >>
Creeping Reality
“Reality!” We say that like it is an absolute and we all share it. Yet, I know ‘reality’ to be fluid…. fickle… at times even, whimsical… and unwilling to be boxed. There is the one that is visible to me through my personal sensing of it - the one for which I calibrate as I look out my window and notice the hills in the distance, the rising sun and the ... Continue Reading >>
Mind Share: Possibilities
Another insight into the joys of my retirement: I have an abundance of ‘empty space’ into which I can flow my interests. For those of you who have come to know me over time, you already know my interests encompass things like abrupt climate change, biocentrism (Robert Lanza), transhumanism (from Joseph Farrell to Ray Kurzweil), GMO’s, vaccinations, the ... Continue Reading >>
Climate Inaction: Denial or Design?
To others, I leave the task of the clarion call. The task of identifying all that is not right in the world. The task of naming the forces that will move us closer and closer to the edge. The task of tracking the inventory of the seemingly insurmountable. I recognize the need for it and I also recognize that none of these are representative of why I exist at ... Continue Reading >>
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Nature’s Final Lesson: The House Always Wins
Until now, we have always recovered. We have embraced the folly of our choices and trusted that when we were done, the nurturing world would still be there; that we would find new footing in a familiar, reliable place and move on. We trusted that when we had wreaked our violence against each other and other living forms, all would return to normal as the ... Continue Reading >>
Death: Vibration of the Unspeakable
This exploration is a fuzzy one. It is disjointed, lurching from one thought to the next. As I begin, I have no idea where it will end. I only know that now that is not the time to distrust a process of Life that has been there for me for the last 40 years. As I begin, I know it will take me where I need to go. For many, many years, I have focused my ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 10 – The Next Inhalation
Here’s what I have discovered about myself in this 10-day writing process. It is clear to me that I am here: To agitate. I have no memory of ever being other than that as an expression of Being. Even in the innocence of no intention, simply being my Self was agitating to those around me. So be it. To leave no conversation unengaged. Whether it is ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 5 – Fluidity of Truth
I woke up with a start at 3:30 am. And now, as I approach 5:00 am and am still awake, the message is clear to me: get up! Stop thinking about engaging and just engage. And so, here I am. I’ve read and re-read your responses many, many times. With each pass, I am attuned to my own experience of myself through the read. I recognize certain things about ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 3 – Provocation
There are no accidents in the intelligent Universe that is my reality. I started my day by listening to Yuval Noah Harari in conversation about the two most important skills for the rest of your life. As I listened, two significant distinctions emerged for me: the boundaries between mind (the Signal of the I AM that I am) and body (the exquisite, organic ... Continue Reading >>
Locking Eyes with The Beast
When we separate ourselves from our creation, we lose all capacity to affect its unfolding. We created this - and to pretend otherwise only leaves us at the mercy of this unclaimed/orphaned manifestation. In that, we lose ourselves into the victims we believe ourselves to be and are swallowed up by our own powerlessness. I offered that thought many years ... Continue Reading >>
Finding my tribe…
Perhaps, if we can find grace in our own mortality, we can find courage in our day-to-day expression of Life. One of the great benefits of ‘retirement’ is a redistribution of time. Same number of hours in a day - different allocation of how I embrace them. So often, I would be frustrated by the many, many books, articles, videos, podcasts, etc. that I ... Continue Reading >>
To Share or Not to Share: that is the question….
I choose to stay informed. In particular, I choose to stay informed about climate change, AI development and the transhumanism movement - my top three on a much longer list. In addition, bits and pieces of ‘life’ drift in and out of my awareness. These include local events in my community, what my friends and colleagues are up to, the lives of my sons and ... Continue Reading >>
New Book by Deb Ozarko: soon to be released
It came as a surprise. Although I knew that Deb Ozarko was working on another book, I was honoured when she asked me if I would write the Foreword for this new creation. With a sense of great possibility, I enthusiastically received this gift from her with a deep sense of the Sacred and the inevitable. Very soon, her new book will be available. In the ... Continue Reading >>
The Gift that is the Burden of Mind
I am coming to better recognize and understand the depth of my agitation around all that is unfolding in my larger world. I know this process well as it echoes what it was like in my house when I was growing up. Stuff happened. The more significant it was, the more we pretended it didn’t matter or worse, had not happened at all. Or we just looked away. ... Continue Reading >>
The Guy McPherson Factor: The Fluidity of Truth
Woke up about an hour ago with the notion of ’truth’ flapping in the breezes of my mind. One thing I have come to trust: truth is flexible and depends on our intention and point of reference. I’ve always found ‘truth’ to be such an interesting concept. Before I can come to truth, I have to experience a perception. And before that perception can be ... Continue Reading >>
Acceleration: The Forces of Change
I do not know your story I do not know your dreams or visions I do not know your limitations or constraints I do not know your hidden super power I do not know your desire to become What I do know is your Soul. I do know the Self that is you because I too, am that Self. Although we appear separate at the expression through body into this world, at ... Continue Reading >>
Climate Change: 4th Level Collapse
From a CODE Model™ perspective, I look at the world I share with more than 7,000,000,000 other humans (not to mention all of the other expressions of Life, in its many, varied and mesmerizing forms) and I know that we, as a species, are at the precipice of 'evolve or die'. What I also see is that we are in the throes of a 4th level collapse, with 2nd ... Continue Reading >>
Do No Harm
5:00 am and the message from the birds is clear: my day has begun. I stand and breathe in my morning; expansive view of the Gatineau Hills from my 8th floor window; observing the rising sun just out of my line of sight, yet evidence of its movement fills the morning sky with those soft pink and grey hues that mark the start of another day. The unusual ... Continue Reading >>
Truths, Perceptions and Choices
Everything is true somewhere, at some time, for someone - not because the content is ‘real’ or ‘accurate’ but because perception makes it so. Now prone to being awake and ready to start my day anytime after 4:00 am, I am also prone to thinking in sound bytes rather than complete sentences. Even within myself, I am noticing that I explore my own thoughts ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 4
Good morning! As I settle comfortably at the keyboard… first coffee of the day gratefully within easy reach… I am mindful of the sounds of a new day beginning, as they stream through the open window behind me. The light of dawn and dusk hold a special promise. Light softened yet still allowing for all to be seen, there is a peace as the harsh light of day ... Continue Reading >>
Dodging a bullet?
It all feels very different when it's personal; when someone you care about is living the challenges that Gaia is unleashing upon the planet. As I watch the images from Canmore, Alberta to all around the globe, I am reminded of the 'hype' around the impending global-annhilation predicted for 2012. And here we are - 2013 and counting... and our devastation ... Continue Reading >>
Change or Die!
I am having one of those moments when I am either seeing polar opposites or am seeing in polar opposites. I am so mindful of the deep, urgent and massive desire that exists for an acceleration in the evolution of consciousness of the masses. The outcomes we are co-creating as a global collective are moving rapidly down a track that will kill us all. Gaia ... Continue Reading >>
Polar ice cap: just how fast is it melting?
I got an email today from a family friend who has recently been posted to the Far North. Lou left Ottawa in late '08 and is now living and working amongst those in the community of Qikiqtarjuaq (spell that without looking!). Those of us who are in Lou's life have the great fun of getting her newsy (and sometimes very funny!) updates and pics on life in ... Continue Reading >>