[MD] the 60s, evolution and the new age

[gav]

hiya,
the 60s heralded a new age for humanity. for the first time the idea of a democracy of enlightened human beings became something of a reality. the 60s live with us today...for weeks the french have been examining the 40year legacy of 68 and the cultural hold it still retains. the conservative govt is still railing against the revolt of 68, revealing the watershed that this time was. you could say the battle was lost (true of the 60s generally) but the war was changed for ever.

now we are trying to find our way through a time of unprecendented change. we are unable to find any anchor - any ideology or static belief - that can guide us through these troubled waters...we are left with the only true guide we ever have - or own authenticity.

i teach schoolchildren in the garden - how to plant, propagate, harvest and care for plants and trees - how to work with nature. the enthusiasm and joy of primary school kids is amazing. it is as if they already know what they want and what is required for a peaceful world, but they need their elders to recognise the same and help them get there. kids do what their parents teach them to do - we cannot rely on any other generation - it is up to parents and teachers to learn from their kids and provide them with the guidance they require.

we have to come back to the natural world and let it provide for us. we are never homeless, we are always provided for, we need to align ourselves with the intelligence inherent in nature...for it is the only authentic deity we have. all others are abstractions.

we are making the transition to a plant-based economy, which is an intrinsically healthy, integrating relationship to the natural world. 
there is something that happens to people, kids more rapidly, when they spend time with/in nature. it is an osmotic process. information begins to flow between human and plant, human and animal, human and fungi, human and microbe; between gaia and ourselves.

the irruption of a gaian consciousness is the message of the ufo phenomenon. the ufo is an aspect of consciousness like any other; its seeming objective reality and its relationship to the projections of the collective unconscious do not contradict one another - they complement each other. the unconscious can remain unconscious no more - the hero has to delve deep, he has to go down into hades - the unconscious - to bring back the knowledge that he and his fellows require to survive. any enduring culture requires this shamanic service. the ufo is there to destabilise, to create the uncertainty and wonder necessary to being open to the mystery.

gaian consciousness can be analogised to the net. we are moving, ineluctably, to a real-time collective consciousness. the net keeps getting broader and quicker, eventually becoming like the fungal webs that connect all plants - a coherent matrix of energy and info transfer.

the new age is the golden age. they have been many before and there will be more again. the golden age is eden. it is the age of harmony. 
the age that precedes the golden age is the age of dissolution, destruction. the destruction is the destruction of the reified ego.
the giant feeds and feeds on the ego. as the giant is threatened he fights back. the death of the ego is a transformation for us; it is an end for the giant however. he will be replaced by gaian consciousness. that is why the shit is getting thicker by the day...and more obvious. our governemnts and corporations - the giant's vassals - are still holding on to the same entropic strategies....ironically ensuring their own demise as more and more individuals are forced into taking their own lives into their own hands.

the key is nature. kids that grow up with trees, space, birds, insects, animals, sun, moon, wind and rain....these kids will never be fodder for any manifestation of the giant - cos they lack nothing. they are at home, they are integrated, they are aware, they are happy.
as voltaire ended candide - you are better off tending your garden than searching for the truth. the truth is already in front of you.




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