The Conversation

Omg, as they say, I just saw everything at a deeper level — everything that Occupy Wall Street is about, and everything that the movie THRIVE is conceptualizing. Like what’s really going on.

You HAVE TO watch this 7-minute video – big screen. It’s from last May, in the streets in Spain, and is a work of art that brilliantly captures an energy.

When I saw this, what sunk in deeper than before (see Charles Eisenstein’s commentary along these lines), is that although the people are protesting what “they” are doing and avowing that they can’t do it anymore, they is all of us — “we” no longer will go along with the deadening sadness of egos and superficiality that rule our world. And, I got it that it is our intention and our decision and our conviction, operating as one humanity, that will win the day.

Although the set-up in the video is as if the protesters have an enemy, in our dualistic way of seeing things we don’t hardly know how to think any other way. However, there wasn’t going to be a march down the avenue to guillotines to cut off any heads. What’s going on isn’t about separating out some bad people; this is much bigger. No Davids, no Goliaths, but a passion to get out of our scientific materialistic rut of a worldview. The democracy we have fashioned has become a corporate one and no longer is for all the people, and only the people’s uprising could make it change course. Make sense?

After you watch that, this 11-minute clip is another mindbender.

The link I first saw was taken down – if this one goes, look for “The Power of RAW Cannabis.” This from the description:

“This is a must-watch video featuring some of the top researchers on the healing effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) in its raw form, eaten or juiced. Eating raw cannabis as medicine…Cannabis is a dietary essential that helps all cell types function more effectively…anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant…This plant can do phenomenal things…Cannabis is the most important vegetable in the world.”

I had no clue about this startling info. As one person comments, “This video has a Dr. who is chief of Oncology at a Major University Medical center…how much more credibility do we need?”

Coming into the New Year I’ve been looking beyond my movie for how to help the situation we are in where we need to uplevel our operating system here on Earth.

Given a worldview in which we are so violent with one another and so abusive to the planet, I deal with the crop circles because they might lead to reconceptualizing ourselves. As the only higher intelligence we have nothing to compare ourselves to, or to rub against, to hone us or to challenge us to become more conscious and more compassionate. If we knew the circles were coming from other intelligence, just from sensing ourselves as one humanity in relation to “the other” we would rethink everything. That ground of being would enable us to work together, giving us our best chances to solve the challenges we face as we run out of resources and heat up this living planet.

So, what more for me now? How else can I help to bring about a change of worldview?

John Stephenson hosts the radio show on which I do Outside the Box segments, and also is a web designer. He’s working on an expansion of my blog site – MAKING SENSE OF THESE TIMES: Inspirations and Amusements Along the Road to the Next Reality. It’s being conceived as a beacon for that next reality.

One thing it will include is brief accounts — writing and videos — of INSTANCES OF INCONTROVERTIBLE KNOWING, where we are taken beyond ordinary reality by someone who has had a breakthrough experience and is articulate about it. I would much appreciate your submissions, and your passing this to anyone you know who might submit.

This is an example, from Mellen-Thomas Benedict:

I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond all silence. I could see or perceive FOREVER, beyond Infinity. I was in the Void. I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning of time/the First Word/the First vibration. I was in the Eye of Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a religious feeling. Simply I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness. When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and without end.

(I did a post about Mellen which includes the highly recommended and well-known piece from which this paragraph is excerpted. Also, at about 50 minutes into John’s latest radio show, dated 1/15/2012, I talk about Mellen’s astonishing account of when he presumably died.)

What would give us the sense of being one humanity, where service to the whole would be the master game? All thoughts for the website or otherwise are welcome.

May we help the world see Earth as part of a greater reality!

A couple of holiday treats! Visual candy from crop circle land plus something besides crop circles in the category of beyond belief:

You can go on and watch to the rest of this clip after the first 8 minutes, but it is those minutes I’m posting about.

I hosted Joseph Simonetta some years ago, and this part of his presentation knocked me out. He didn’t have this video at the time, and when I saw it I was blown away again. Like my mind can’t really hold onto something so beyond the beyond. We know the universe is very big, but did you realize just how vast it is?

You know, I don’t even speculate about where the crop circle makers come from. In the face of the immensity even of our solar system, is it from elsewhere? Another dimension, perhaps? Or someplace so veiled we don’t even have words for it? Wormholes anyone? Other?

TROUBLEMAKER: A Memoir From the Front Lines of the Sixties, is a great book, and Bill Zimmerman is a major hero.

From 1960 to 1975, as a radical political activist, he helped shape history, inspiring what has come to be the best in our world. Open to daring escapades, he always sought the most provocative games, and I bow to his courageousness.

In fact, there’s nothing like heroism or creativity or love to inspire us. We leapfrog over one another as we tumble toward enlightenment – think torus, as in THRIVE, in everyday operation.

In light of Occupy Wall Street, hearken to this, where Bill was making this prescient reflection about the 60s even before the upheavals in Europe had come about:

“Capitalism was here to stay. Revolution, I realized, was an inappropriate offensive strategy; people who thought as I did lacked the resources to do anything by play defense. Even if the resource problem were overcome, we had no credible revolutionary strategy, nor did I see a way to create one. After much soul searching, I finally understood that it would not fall to my generation to make a revolution. We could do little more that resist, or make trouble for the worst aspects of capitalism.”

And here’s how the book ends:

“It will fall to future generations to create a society fully committed to those ideals. It fell to mine to keep them alive so that someday they can. I hope the fire of our commitment, however bleak the times we lived through, will help inspire future activists to erase the injustice and poverty that need no longer have a place in our world. What I learned along the way is that performing good works, political or otherwise, with no expectation of recognition or reward, was for me the secret to leading an honorable and happy life.”

Stand on Bill Zimmerman’s shoulders by reading his book. And it’s for everyone, not just the young folk. I am the older generation, and it has inspired me.