For years, people have been saying that change is getting faster and faster. In the latest book by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis, ‘The Future is Faster Than You Think’, their best guess is that we will see the equivalent of the past 100 years’ progress, volatility, and wealth generated within the next decade. Until very recently, reading something like that at face value didn’t mean a lot to most people. But if we look at where we are now, this new liminal space where something that didn’t even exist a few short months ago completely changed the shape of our lives, we can easily see how our focal points can literally change over night.
Where we are now is beyond the known, possibly even beyond the knowable. Yet, we can all clearly see that our centralized perspectives and systems have reached their limits to frame the complexity of our entanglement. It is very easy and tempting to appoint blame, as many do. But, in a situation like this, where no one is to blame, everyone is to blame. Put another way, we are in a situation where no one can individually claim responsibility or find the solutions. This means it is up to each of us to face the music and co-create answers rather than wait for incomplete top down approaches that may well take us even closer to dystopia. It is the time to go deeper into ourselves than we’ve ever gone before, both as individuals and as humanity.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world. But no one thinks about changing themselves.” Leo Tolstoy
In this crisis, as in all others before and yet to come, how we respond to the new challenges is up to us. How you are handling the present reality reflects how balanced you are in yourself and in your environment. How ready you are to adapt — even thrive — in the now of your life reflects the investment you have made so far into living a loving, agile and regenerative life.
Though we are all out of our comfort zones, amidst all the drama, tragedy, and suffering we are also given the gift of an awakening. Or, if you say you have awakened, then it is a chance to awaken even more deeply, realizing things truly could not have kept on going the way they were. It is the time for us to muster up the courage and love we need to join our energies, our best joint ideas, to create a new way forward. Together.
Our Consciousness, Connectivity, and Creativity, are the greatest gifts we possess as human beings. We can — and must — use this window of opportunity to give birth new life operating systems that cultivate them. These three C’s have made us the only species on earth that can proactively change the planet’s very destiny. So, now, in full recognition of that, instead of spending our energies reacting through fear and inadvertently supporting the systems that push us closer to dystopia and the end of life on this earth, we need to respond in ways that regenerate our nature. Which we must ultimately realize includes us.
Our man made world has been given reality check and it is up to each of us to seize the opportunity to quell the fear and panic with our love. It is the time to act with our humanity, move beyond good intentions and talk and manifest what can become out of our universal love of life. This is the time to nurture our human algorithm, to activate and connect the nurturing love within us to our closest circles. Love, like nature itself, will spread and grow from there if we let it.
Love Never Fails.
Love is the most powerful vibration that connects us all. When given a chance to perform, love never fails. If this notion becomes part of our collective focus and human operating system, just imagine what we could do? What is your part in this story?
At the core of this transformation is learning how to respond with love, with our hearts, rather than reacting with fear and our conditioned brains. This action in and of itself naturally pushes us all closer to Utopia and focuses the most powerful technology that exists: us. Love is the way to transcend the matrix and uplift the baseline of our global consciousness. It is the path towards exponential humanity and Utopia.
Social Distancing & Interpersonal Deepening
Well into the foreseeable future, we will need to meet less frequently and in smaller groups. And the why, where, and how we meet may forever change from this point forward. But, this just means we must gather with more purpose and intensity than we did in the past. Being away from our normal routine can help us quickly identify the waste and toxins built into our current systems. Hopefully we will have enough curiosity, time, and creativity to replace our own destructive ways with new regenerative solutions that address the needs of us all within the means of the planet. These solutions are not coming from anyone or anywhere else fast enough. It is up to you, me, and every single one of us, to find the courage to be fully present in this moment and make it count.
We will all be challenged more than ever with separating what is real from what is not. In doing so, one way or another we need to be in each other’s presence and work closely, eye to eye, arm in arm, heart to heart, to breathe in our collective wisdom, intuition, common sense, and love.
Keeping our Senses Sharp, Peer-to-Peer
And while we do all that, we also need to stay aware of the intense and widespread changes around us that are real and important for us to sense. Our biggest threat is omnipresent, and built into the very devices that are now keeping us connected — our ‘smart’ phones, and the infrastructure required to keep them moving ever faster.
We need to prioritize strengthening the humanity, love, and faith within us to avoid mass seduction by advertising based predictive algorithms and the sinister forces hacking our beliefs and behaviors in ways that we don’t yet grasp. We must be vigilant, careful not to step into yet another trap. We urgently need to create and adopt more decentralized peer to peer technologies that amplify our growing power as connected and conscious humans and as global citizens. We should not be reduced to being products of advertising platforms that are out to exploit our vulnerabilities and bad habits.
This is the time for the inner exploration required for each of us to see ourselves more clearly. It is a chance to align our relationships in ways that empower us; to remove the divide between work and life and to focus our life’s work; and to be more active participants in the creation, ownership, and sovereignty of our powerful and highly distorted digital selves.
As we are all focused on the same dilemma for the first time in this generation, creating new possibilities from love may well be a possibility, even if that sounds Utopian. I believe it is the single thing we all need to apply ourselves to with reckless abandon.