New Paradigms for a New Paradise
Everything We Were Taught Is Wrong
When I was a child everyone knew that human brain cells didn’t regenerate, and cavities couldn’t heal in children’s teeth; but they do now, in case you hadn’t noticed.
Only
a few years ago everyone knew that genes were fixed and unchangeable
in your body, and that your DNA didn’t alter in response to
environmental effects; it does now.
Stem
cells can grow your organs back in situ and heal almost all
degenerative diseases, free energy technologies exist which have been
ruthlessly suppressed for decades, there’s plenty of life in space,
psychic abilities including telepathy and telekinesis have been shown to
be real, we live in a nested series of multiverses - and there are
many, many other reasons why almost everything you were taught in school
beyond the ‘three Rs’ is partially correct at best, and is likely to
be completely wrong.
People
still believe that space is a vacuum, even though we’ve long been
aware that it’s a highly charged medium filled with a plethora of
energetic particles, waves and fields.
A
generation ago the oldest artefacts of full-blown Central American
civilizations were deemed to be around a thousand years old. New
evidence has emerged that these advanced societies were extant over
thirteen thousand years ago; yet we’re still taught that ‘civilization’
began when cavemen crawled from their holes to build Jericho. Even
though ample evidence of steel-using societies exits to show that the
Iron Age began at least eleven thousand years ago (preserved in what is
now the Black Sea and Turkey, among other places), outdated views of
ancient history are still being taught.
The
widely acknowledged unhistorical lies of all religions – including
Christianity, Judaism and Islam – remain gospel to hundreds of millions
of deluded people. These fundamental falsehoods continue to hoodwink
humankind and blind people to the truths of the new paradigms emerging
all around us – and to our own true potential.
Many
foods, chemicals and drugs which societies prescribed for their
citizens only a generation ago are deemed crazily toxic today. Many
ideas that were regarded as gospel for millennia have been swept aside
in just a couple of decades. Until the advent of the internet, broader
perspectives and broadened minds were difficult to achieve; the world
was even more of a dysfunctional set of competitive and mutually
suspicious tribes than it is today. More and more people can see that
the emperor has no clothes and entire populations are learning to think
for themselves.
Until
a generation ago it was considered natural for women in ‘developed’
countries to stay at home to raise children and feed their men, who
trooped off all day, every day as the primary wage earners. Unwed
mothers were social pariahs and fatherless children were regarded as a
sub-class of humans. Even more recently, homosexuality was considered a
heinous crime in many ‘advanced’ nations. Many mental illnesses were
often ‘treated’ with lobotomies or electro-shock ‘therapy’ and
homelessness was a crime.
The
death penalty was widespread a generation ago, along with rampant
unreported rape and unspeakably common pedophilia - acts which
regimentally-minded control freak cultures preferred to leave unexamined
and unspoken. Rape within marriage wasn’t considered a crime, and a
woman’s property was subject to being summarily confiscated by her
husband. People customarily turned a selectively blind eye to all sorts
of unconscionable behaviour, and daily drunkenness was a normal regimen
for millions.
Children
were regularly hit by adults; bullying and sexual harassment were
unavoidable in most schools and workplaces. Violence was often ignored,
and regarded as unavoidable in many circumstances; domestic violence
was a taboo topic. Bloodsports were common and socially sanctioned,
while safety equipment and the development of safe practices and
procedures in sports, schools and workplaces was almost unheard of.
The
choice of foods was abysmal a generation ago, when the excesses of the
agro-chemical industry were already well established and poisons were
ubiquitous and virtually unavoidable. Societies stuck to the limited
range of foods their parents had introduced them to, and nutrition was
haphazard and poorly understood. Alternative healing was used only by a
discerning few and healthy foods were viewed with suspicion and
contempt by the co-opted consumerist majority.
Only
a generation ago, people were usually old and tired at fifty-five or
sixty and considered themselves to be very lucky if they lived to be
sixty-five or seventy.
Politicians
were widely respected and their word was commonly believed. Many
citizens were rabidly nationalistic in nations that huddled under
nuclear umbrellas, in fear of a mythical Cold War’s shadow. Many
believed that theirs was the last generation and that a sky fairy would
be on their side in an imagined final war that would destroy the entire
world – a conflagration which many ‘religious’ people actually longed
to witness.
We’re
still largely blind to the craziness of today’s civilization and
blissfully ignorant of the unnecessary poisons and dis-eases we inflict
upon ourselves every day, in every way. Underarm deodorants and tight
bras cause breast cancer. Most cosmetics, soaps, shampoos and
conditioners contain dangerous chemicals, and toxins easily pass through
your skin into your bloodstream; with many chemicals, your skin is
more permeable than your gut. Vaccines are laden with mercury,
formaldehyde and other poisons that shouldn’t be allowed near adult
bloodstreams, let alone those of growing children. Most meat, eggs and
dairy products contain hormones and dangerous levels of a range of
chemicals. Processed meats (including salami and devon, corned beef and
cabanossi) are downright lethal, and microwave ovens and mobile phones
are unsafe to use. Fifteen poisons are routinely sprayed on almost all
food crops.
Most
plastics contain hormone disrupting compounds which damage fertility
and health in women and men. When the aromatic compounds in unleaded
petrol pass through a catalytic converter they create nerve gas that
permeates entire cities with a low-level numbing poison. Small amounts
of radioactive waste are added to other metals in order to dispose of
the stuff – in spoons, forks and knives, among other things – even in
‘developed’ countries like the USA. Radioactive uranium is used for
ammunition in machine guns and howitzers, polluting the soil with a
lethal element for billions of years to come. The ‘safety levels’
for pesticides, herbicides, radioactivity and most toxic chemicals are
ludicrously inaccurate, and synergistic effects - when
more than one chemical is introduced into the environment or your body
to mix and blend - create unprecedented and unpredictable problems. Just
off the top of my head I could go on, and on, and on…
Modern
society has surrounded itself with so many threats to life and health
that it’s little wonder most people choose to exist in a state of
denial. Many simply cannot believe that almost everything they touch,
eat, drink or put on their bodies is a poison that’s slowly killing
them. Most cannot bear to contemplate the fact that the simple wisdoms
of Taoists, Wiccans, Animists and hippies - who have always avoided the
sophisticated pseudo-luxuries of city-hives in favour of natural
climes, entertainments and nourishments – are the sanest paths to
follow. Most people cannot conceive giving up their addiction to toxic
consumerism and living with the natural, living, breathing, growing
world – and insecure cities swell to the point where they become
totally unlivable, while the forests need replanting and the ravaged
land needs the healing caress of a billion nurturing hands.
We’ve come a long way – and yet almost
everything still taught in schools is wrong or misguiding. Even though
repetitive rote teaching is finally out of favour, education has
narrowed in scope as real learning is subsumed beneath the suffocating
shroud of job training. Knowledge is deemed secondary to conformist
academic results, and schools have become industrious training grounds
for overspecialized slot-fillers, whose lives are dictated by the
transient whims of business.
Teachers
teach without explaining – many have no real grasp or vision of the
knowledge they’re supposed to be imparting - and fundamental errors are
copied and blindly recapitulated by overworked and stressed-out
students. If you ask a teacher to explain the simplest fundaments of
their subject from first principles you’ll often be disappointed by
their response. They can tell you how electricity behaves, but can’t tell you why
it behaves as it does, or actually describe the fields and energies
that make possible the technological devices you use every day. They can
tell you the value of everything but the meaning of nothing;
meanwhile, ‘Humanities’ has become a term of vilification.
So
much of what we take for granted is incorrect. We’ve been talking
about healing the environment and creating sane healthy societies for
so long that many people seem to believe the task has already been
accomplished. In the past, citizens have usually fallen for rhetoric and
chosen style over substance – but now we stand at the cusp of a brave
new aeon, and have important personal choices to make. We can’t afford
to fight each other to a standstill any more, or treat ourselves
differently to the way we do others. We have to open our eyes to new
realities and possibilities, and open our hearts to the unknown
strangers and the strange ideas that we fear the most.
Great
advances don’t occur in times of kings, emperors and other tyrants –
they come about in melting pots of ideas and cultures; in times like our
own.
These Were the Bad Old Days
The tides of time and history have reached a
confluence, and our choices are rapidly narrowing as we enter the cusp
of a decisive moment. As many of the wiser conservative politicians
have remarked, ‘we’re all greenies now’. As the world economy goes down
the gurgler and people become more desperate, we have a bright brief
moment to decide the course of our individual and collective futures -
before rationality is once more swept aside by the apparent dictates of
unsustainable competitive behaviour. We can ride the shifting tide to a
more pleasurable destination than the obvious horrors elucidated by
prophets of doom.
The
competitive chaos and eternal dissatisfaction of modern consumer
societies is almost as stultifying and alienating as the moribund
communist regimes of the last century. If we’re to live in a
civilization built to accommodate the real needs of human beings
we’re going to have to create it ourselves. We have to cast off the
shrouds of outworn notions, lifestyles and technologies and embrace the
most ancient truths of all – the realities that arise from being an
enlightened immortal consciousness experiencing the life of a
tribally-oriented domesticated primate on planet Earth.
Extraordinary
new paradigms are already growing within the outmoded shell of the old
social orders, which will inevitably implode of their own accord when
the time is ripe. Complex societies are inevitably submerged beneath
the constricting weight of hyper-organisation and restriction. Like
water, freedom inexorably seeps through the seams of regimental order
and ultimately overcomes all barriers, levies and narrowly focused
canalized systems.
We
can still create a sustainable civilization and survive the worst
excesses of our past addictions to poisonous lifestyles and toxic
consumerism. Growth for its own sake is pointless and lethal on the
surface of a highly populated sphere. We can only continue to grow and
prosper by changing the ways we think and act, and by spending our time,
energy and money more intelligently and honourably. If we’re to live
in a truly healthy world we have to see the problems our current
lifestyles create, and dream up new ways of living together.
We
need to say goodbye to outmoded jobs, tools and industries and ride
the changing currents to healthier and happier lives. Wage slaves need
to free themselves from mundane tasks that eat up the time of their
lives. Pointless industriousness, money-grubbing self-enslavement and
beurocratic punctiliousness must be recognised for what they are -
time-filling distractions from the main game of having a fruitful life
in a bountiful world.
We
must question everything about our fundamentally feudal and medieval
civilizations, and conceive how to create and enjoy a plentiful world.
There’s more than enough to go around if we can only relax enough to
share. We can still create a paradise on Earth – if we stop destroying
the planet in the pursuit of illusory money, merit, credit, careers and
power. If we’re to learn how to live in a global paradise, we have to
work, play and live with each other, now, today. We need to
achieve far more than simple tolerance of each other’s differences and
foibles – we have to open our lives wholeheartedly to other women, men
and children who are brave and open enough to do the same.
There
is actually an abundance of energy and materials on Planet Earth; a
thorough shakedown of the world’s economies and industries is necessary
to break the gridlock of the military/industrial/feudal mindset, that’s
congealed around humans like a hypnotic cloud for the last few
millennia of regular war and monarchical terrorism. The current shift
is a nexus point in history, yet the future is still writ on water; we
shall emerge from the shadow of dark industrial mills and step into a
new paradigm, but the delineaments of the future will be decided by the
struggle within each and every human heart.
Once
in every generation there comes a time when the tide turns, and
meaningful choices can be made by each and every one of us – apparently
personal decisions that will directly influence coming events. If we’re
ready to climb out of our private bunkers and fortified homes we can
seize the day and right the wrongs of the world – and learn that the
world is made of mindstuff. If we aim for a happy, healthy, hopeful
future we won’t be trapped in the default settings created by fears and
desires - which feed on the insecurity created by the socially
segregating separation of woman and man, child and parent, of
differently hued tribes, races, flags and religions. This is the time to
examine our motives and transform our inner selves, if we’re to have a
real hope of creating a future powered and nourished by clean, green
natural systems. We can all have a great future, in our very own
lifetimes, crafted from the shifting clay of our heartfelt hopes and
dreams – if we stop feeding destruction with our thoughts, words, deeds
and jobs and seek out better ways to live together.
At
this nexus point in history, the future is in our hands; we have a
chance to create fairer societies at last. Free clean energy, abundant
healthy food, pure water, increasingly diverse ecosystems, human rights
and technologically advanced and interesting lives are not mutually
exclusive *; only prosperous, well-educated, freedom-oriented societies
can have a hope of saving the environment. Prosperity, free access to
information, free choice and a large amount of leisure time are all
prerequisites to healing ourselves and the planet. There are plenty of
interesting things to occupy us and many ways to exercise our bodies and
imaginations in the days ahead. Do you enjoy the way you currently
fill your time? Can you think of a better way to live? Do you dare to
dream of paradise – for all?
Always
on the edge of conceivability, the future beckons to us from behind a
choice of doors, beyond which await the lady or the tiger - and an
undreamt range of other possibilities. Last time I looked, the fate of
Schrödinger’s cat was still undetermined. You wake up in a new world
every day. If we remove our stupid neckties and subservient uniforms,
and loosen the ties that bind our imaginations we can all live
long and prosper amidst limitless bounty. We live in an infinite cosmos
in which anything is possible – where we can achieve anything we can
conceive, if only we imagine it into being for the right reason.
What would you do with a longer, healthier life? Why are you alive, here, now? What did you imagine you were, before you could understand words?
Who are you, really – how did you get here, and why? The answers to these questions are all you need to know to recreate the world.
What are you going to do when you look away from these words – right… NOW?
- R. Ayana
