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Society deals primarily with cosmetic change, no matter how threatened the world is. But, the way we think got us into the mess we are in, and, unless we grapple with paradigm change, it's fingers in the dike. For this column, send your thoughts about what outside the box ideas might contribute to setting us on a better course.
Look at this chilling story by the great British journalist, George Monbiot, about the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. It concludes:
"...we have to stop calling it climate change. Using 'climate change' to describe events like this, with their devastating implications for global food security, water supplies and human settlements, is like describing a foreign invasion as an unexpected visit, or bombs as unwanted deliveries. It's a ridiculously neutral term for the biggest potential catastrophe humankind has ever encountered. I think we should call it 'climate breakdown.'"
If we knew that without intervention the world would end at a finite date, humanity would dramatically scratch its collective head. Short of a deadline to save ourselves, what could we do that might change our course? Here are some of my thoughts.
1. My #1 idea is to investigate the crop circle phenomenon. If we knew there was other intelligence, which the circles indicate, we would be one humanity in relation to 'the other,’ working together to solve planetary problems.
2. Promote a change of paradigm where getting the most money as the primary goal would be replaced by doing the most good.
Make a brilliant ad campaign: "Whoever Does the Most Good Wins!"
3. Have revered states people look out from TV and address the human core in everyone, urging us to think as a planet to solve the challenges we face.
4. President calls for a moment of silence perhaps noon in every time zone, for everyone to stop what they are doing and focus on one thing -- try to harness the power of thought. England possibly avoided WWII invasion that way.
5. Call for a truce worldwide, where wars end -- via inducements, including a clean slate for everyone. Even terrorists. Promise everyone universal health care, universal education and job training, and whatever it would take to give everyone the fundamentals of a decent life. Pay for it with military budgets.
6. Give ecstasy to people we want info from -- turn evil people into heart-connected ones.
7. Use plants for vision, a la shamans who use psychedelic substances for guidance.
8. Convene a new Twilight Club. "The Twilight Club was an organization founded in the late 19th century, with the intention to counter the moral decline by bolstering up the spiritual and ethical awareness of the society. Illustrious members were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herbert Spencer, Walt Whitman, Andrew Carnegie, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mark Twain...From this club, service clubs such as the Rotary Club and the Lions evolved."
In the movie, we talk about balls of light that are seen skimming across fields. Sometimes, right afterwards, those fields turn up with circles. What are the balls? Are they scouting the fields? Or what?
We have footage in the film of one of them. What’s not in the film is footage of another one, shot by Kerry McKenna, the singer in my movie (her website says “Artist::Musician::Visionary” — I’ll vouch for that!). The footage isn’t as clear as it would have needed to be to have been used in the movie, but you get it after the explanation Kerry gave me.
First, Kerry sees the ball in her viewfinder, moving along. You’ll hear her commenting. Then, it stops. She changes to a longer shot, where you see that people who don’t see the ball have passed where it would have intersected with them. After that, it resumes moving along.
Soooooo, the ball is under intelligent control. It knows to stop to let the people pass. A giant WOW!!! Have a look:
3 comments to See the ball stop. Stop, ball, stop.
I just heard you on Ilene Dillion’s show,Suzanne.I do agree that you are our modern day shaman to our expansion of consciousness as we try enter the conversation with the crop circle makers.It’s clear, as your chat room caller said, “they want to communicate.”
I saw you last year at the Crop Circle conference in England. Your film is a marvelous expression of what shamans do. They form a bridge between the known and the unknown. With each piece added you help us know. For example, how indigenous people thought the sailing ships were floating islands. I immediately thought of “Avatar,” where what you said, added another piece that the movie had already portrayed, floating mountains. Also how you answered where the circles are coming from. They, whoever they are, are designers, which suggests intelligence embodied in something.
Your approach is certainly needed in this vital work.
From Suzanne:
Thanks for the lovely remarks. The radio shows give me a great platform to talk about how we need to think differently, which is why I’m into the circles. How interesting it will be if humanity becomes receptive instead of dismissive. What else will the criclemakers deliver if we are open to them?
I believe it not to be under intelligent control…it is controlling itself because it has intelligence!!! I believe it is most likely Angels that are trying to tell us something, or perhaps just being their Angelic selves at play!
I love how in different spiritual traditions there are different words for this kind of thing. You say prana, I say deva. She says angel, he says energy. My own teacher and dear mentor teaches very much about how the light of our soul is descending in this moment and how difficult and challenging this descent is because this world isn’t exactly a warm and cozy welcoming environment for the soul (you should meet her some time, she’s in LA, her name is Deirdrehade – deirdrehade.com).
This video also suggests why, when I was at my mum’s house in Wiltshire during crop circle season, I would have nights of zingy half sleep, conscious of so much energy all around…. a kind of buzzy electric night time experience!
From Suzanne:
I looked up your teacher. Wow, this is quite some endorsement:
“Since Deirdre started working with me and all my family members miracles have become the order of the day. Deirdre is the most profound spiritual teacher, healer and guide I have encountered in my 40 years of being on a spiritual path. She has deeply touched every area of my life, healing my body, feeing my spirit, and reconnecting me to my soul.” –Jack Canfield, Cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul series, author of The Success Principals, featured in The Secret.
I just heard you on Ilene Dillion’s show,Suzanne.I do agree that you are our modern day shaman to our expansion of consciousness as we try enter the conversation with the crop circle makers.It’s clear, as your chat room caller said, “they want to communicate.”
I saw you last year at the Crop Circle conference in England. Your film is a marvelous expression of what shamans do. They form a bridge between the known and the unknown. With each piece added you help us know. For example, how indigenous people thought the sailing ships were floating islands. I immediately thought of “Avatar,” where what you said, added another piece that the movie had already portrayed, floating mountains. Also how you answered where the circles are coming from. They, whoever they are, are designers, which suggests intelligence embodied in something.
Your approach is certainly needed in this vital work.
I believe it not to be under intelligent control…it is controlling itself because it has intelligence!!! I believe it is most likely Angels that are trying to tell us something, or perhaps just being their Angelic selves at play!
I love how in different spiritual traditions there are different words for this kind of thing. You say prana, I say deva. She says angel, he says energy. My own teacher and dear mentor teaches very much about how the light of our soul is descending in this moment and how difficult and challenging this descent is because this world isn’t exactly a warm and cozy welcoming environment for the soul (you should meet her some time, she’s in LA, her name is Deirdrehade – deirdrehade.com).
This video also suggests why, when I was at my mum’s house in Wiltshire during crop circle season, I would have nights of zingy half sleep, conscious of so much energy all around…. a kind of buzzy electric night time experience!