An Earthling's Journey to Life: abuse

Dienstag, 31. März 2015

543 | Just because you’re a Slave doesn’t mean you have to Suffer

Continuing in the context of my previous post, Creatures of Habit …

I chose this title for this post –Just because you're a Slave doesn't mean you have to Suffer– because I find that a) we ‘suffer’ too much in our minds, in our head bubbles, which prevents from giving a real fuck about the actual suffering that exists in our world, and b) yes we are all enslaved within the current world system however if we do not rise above the misery of self-victimization and self-indulgence we stand no chance of changing our existence into freedom and peace and ending slavery once and for all.

So. There. We have it.

In this same context, an article I read the other day made me think about SOCIETY in general. What is shown in The Likely Cause of Addiction has been Discovered and it is Not What You Think –i.e. how the environment and the individual experience within it effects behavior– applies also to all kinds of abuse, violence, or failure, which are all a form of disenfranchising.

Creating our world, our HUMAN SOCIETY, as a responsible and supportive environment is now as vital as ever.

Our FUTURE depends upon what we will accept and allow, and what we will create-, and our future cannot be ‘saved’ unless WE humans stand-up in awareness, connect and work together, as LIFE.

In the same way that we understand ourselves as products of our environment, we must see the necessity of creating an environment that will enable a new, self-corrected way of life and living to emerge, organically so. A new living environment will allow for a new human being to emerge – but we must BE the change we want to see. In empowering ourselves we empower our own lives and living, which in turn touches the lives of the people we meet, empowering them to empower themselves. We have to EMPOWER our people in order to empower our world. We have to EMPOWER our legal, monetary, and social systems by transforming them such that they EMPOWER LIFE. Life should not be here to serve them. Instead, we must create our systems to serve LIFE!

If each living being would live their full potential as life - wouldn't this be heaven on earth? We can stop creating addiction, we can stop creating scarcity, we can stop creating fear, we can stop creating control institutions to lead us, ‘protect’ us from ourselves and each-other. We can instead lead ourselves and each-other in the wisdom of life as the highest value, in oneness and equality as life.

Equality and oneness is a principle that is also coming through in the evolution of the internet, which –even though it was initially created to further perpetuate the propaganda that keeps the human divided and conquered– has failed to veil the truth of our existence. Everything is here, in our face, so let's face it. You and me, WE are the ones CHANGE depends upon, let's be the change we want to see – every breath counts and is a building block of the future. What we do does make a difference, so let’s make every moment count for life – in the name of life.

Relevant read:

Living Income to Cure the World of Crime

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Samstag, 13. September 2014

Day 518 | Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Psyche

How does Hierarchy create a destructive force within the psyche - be it the psyche of an animal, a human, or society as a whole?

This short documentary (9 minutes) says it all! When I watched this, I was astounded to see how it took Baboons a few months only to fundamentally CHANGE their CODE of conduct, and those that brought forth and established the change were not even the superior ones, they were not even the original ‘leaders’.

When looking at the human society, what we can see in relation to hierarchy is how it is both the beginning and the end (cause and effect) of exploitation, abuse, manipulation, and a ‘winner takes all’ mentality wherein self-interest prevails and is in essence the driving force behind all individual and collective movement.

The current human condition is based on hierarchical structures within as without; and we can all see the destructive nature this condition exists as. It is a disease, a cancer, a parasite.

Now - the Baboons group in this video were faced with ONE calamity, one catastrophic event which they in fact LEARNED from, directly, immediately, and made the decision for a CHANGE which they could see was ‘best for all’.

Looking at the human society, we are facing calamity after calamity, war after war, crisis after crisis, and yet the human condition indicates that we are not yet truly learning from history, or at least: that we allow our FEAR and conditioning to be stronger than our awareness of the necessity for change. How much more destruction do we need, before we realize that unless we want to head towards self destruction, we must abandon the path we have taken as humanity and find truly NEW WAYS to live and co-exist on this ONE PLANET.

I mean, what would have happened if this Baboons group succumbed to fear the moment a new group with large, bullying alpha-males arrived? You got it, their fate would've turned back to what it used to be, with all the oppression and stress that a hierarchic code brings along. But they didn't succumb to fear. They didn't just accept their fate. They LEARNED from their own history and decided to CREATE their own DESTINY.

Instead of submitting and succumbing to the new alpha-males that arrived, they patiently and consistently showed the newcomers that “we will not play this game any longer! Keep your hands to yourself, we don't do this anymore here, we respect everyone equally and this is our new way of living together, check it out!” It took the newcomer group 6 months (!) to adapt to this new code of conduct and integrate themselves as equals.

We are looking at a new form of leadership here. Leadership - because that's what it took for the Baboons to establish their preferred code of conduct and pass it on to a group of newcomers who would never have imagined such society is possible or even desirable. But they went beyond leadership in the conservative sense - they did not use violence, they did not use domination, they did not use that which they set to abolish from their society.

Now - looking again at the human society, it's interesting how the word Hierarchy sounds like ‘Higher Key’… And we all know/see: the higher you are on the hierarchy of ‘power and control’, the bigger your ‘key’ is with which you can unlock the ‘goods of the gods’ like money, status, security, etc.

So basically we could say that in the current system Hierarchy is the key to ‘divide and conquer’, the key to exploit and abuse, the key to manipulate and control.

We will find this trait not only in the bigger scale of the world system, but in the smallest of human relations. And this is exactly the point that’s vital for each of us to look into and investigate, to begin with, as that is where we each can start changing the code.

After all, you and me – we are the building blocks of society, we are the building blocks of the system, we are the image and likeness that we see reflected in the world ‘out there’. And surely, it is not far fetched to see and realize that a society with a code of conduct that is 'best for all' conduct is what is equally best for me and you, as we are equally part of the whole.

The Baboons (in itself quite an aggressive and selfish species, not unlike the human) are showing us in this short video that we can go beyond leadership as it is defined within a system of fear and control; that we can go beyond revolution as equal to violence; that we can go beyond evolution as equal to mutation without awareness; and that CHANGE IS POSSIBLE.

But we have to WILL it, we have to move beyond our conditioned limitations, beyond our petty fears and selfishness, and find within ourselves that which is truly supportive of LIFE, as who we all really are.

The spark of life is in us all, but we have to nurture and cultivate it; birth it into existence for real – practically, visibly so. That is our responsibility as human beings, as HUMANITY. In the name of LIFE.

Relevant blog post to read:

If our Cells were like humans We’d All be Dead

If our Cells were like Humans we'd All be Dead