I really needed this right now as I am in the process of deep grief of the planet and being removed from the society and systems that ironically, I never truly felt a part of anyway.. trying to navigate my way to rise to co-create this Beautiful World as everyday it seems relationships are either deepening or falling away. Thank you for your magical words of hope 💜 (from Australia)
Same here, Bel. The challenge is going to be finding each other. The beautiful world we want to create is not online but in person. We need to find a way. 💜 (fellow Aussie)
Joining you in our Oneness Bel. We are creating a New Earth and New Everything, therefore the sadness of the things that were, is so quickly replaced that is is difficult for me to catch up. Learning at the speed of Light is possible for us now, like never before.
The support we have is immense. It is a process to recognize it...
"I really needed this right now as I am in the process of deep grief of the planet and being removed from the society and systems that ironically, I never truly felt a part of anyway..."
Nothing like a 2-year-long kick in the butt to get us moving in a different direction. Necessity is the mother of invention...
Thank you for your comment Bel. You have put into words how I feel. "I never truly felt a part of it anyway". I am in England and I send you love and support as we find our way together even though we are on opposite sides of the world.
I woke up in a funk. On my way to grab some coffee from the local shop, I was noticing all the trash along the roadside, which didn't exist in such a volume before 2020. The recent diaspora from the major metropolitan areas has my little rural town seeing a huge boom and tons of development, meaning tons more waste and in a place that doesn't yet have the tools to manage these things. I've been keeping my heart centered on this idea that you and I both share of a new story emerging, so as not to fall into the nihilism of "humans are shit". It simply hurts to watch the desacralization of the beautiful forest I have lived in my whole life. In general I don't struggle too much with centering, but some days are better than others. Today is one of the worse ones. This article helped me climb back up on my horse. Thanks Charles. You are legitimately one of the only people whom I feel understands my own perception of this story as it plays out. For that I am deeply grateful. Bless 🙏
I always appreciate your articulation Charles and your championing of a collective movement towards a better future. I am hugely optimistic and largely in part because of your writing, the communities I have chosen to align myself with over the past 10 years make me feel directly connected to the groundswell - there is a collective spirit at work. Old structures falling away are a necessary part of the transition and I am awed to see how that is happening on a global level in a way I always sensed was necessary but could never imagine happening. I dont fear it but I have had the good fortune of 15 years to prepare for it since I actively and consciously chose to step out of paradigms of separation and competition.
If only we could retire the word "collective", which I do not read into this essay, and use your better word "community", I can probably understand. Still, I struggle even with "enlightenment" because it also has been co-opted. In current parlance, neither one of those concepts obtain to a More Beautiful World.
A beautiful introduction. So many of us have reached the same conclusion and understanding. A new emergent world of abundance is forming right before our eyes.
hopefully the world enlightens sooner than later. all the best keepin up your inner harmony https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FU6oBV6iIKk lovely greetings from the netherlands 🌻
'E-night-enment' is definitely a collective activity... groupthink/collectivethink is what creates the horrific Dark Night evidenced countless times throughout history.
Enlightenment, however, is most certainly a personal, individual process. Indeed, it is the most radical, mind-blowing, individual breakthrough process imaginable... one that is impossible by its very nature to ever happen collectively.
I love this Charles. I also love how you shared Novak's artwork. I feel images are very helpful to kindle hope and inspiration. If you ever want to use any of my artwork, you're welcome, free of charge. See www.emmaburleigh.com for example work.
Wow, those are awesome too. Can you email me so I don't forget? I"m not on my home computer now. My email address is my first name, dot, my last name, at gmail.
Yes, I agree Emma! Imagery, as well as all the ARTS really, deepen us into an altar-ed state where we are connected to the creative force. Your water colors are very soulful, thanks for sharing xo
Thank you for sharing Charles, the book does indeed sound very 'of the moment' within the repeating cycles we have been witness too. I'm sensing it's important we put razor sharp focus on "a future built on a new-and-ancient story of interconnection, trust, synchronicity, and healing." Since we are the ones who can see beyond the veils, then it seems that we are the ones to re-vision and begin building the new Earth in each and every sacred moment.
Charles, please continue to feel encouraged. We appreciate your role in empowering our imaginations towards manifesting the "more beautiful" world. The increasing numbers of hopeful and loving are more than what it seems.
Yes. Religion will not bring back the "good old times". It was just another control system. The eye in the sky was as orwellian when it was "god" as it is now with science.
You see this as a failure of religion (the institutions of which I will stipulate have been no bit-players) and not of secular humanism?
Interesting perspective, given that’s been the dominant religion for at least 100 years. Maybe it just wasn’t done hard enough?
An enduringly better world won’t be built on misty-eyed sentiment any more than it was built on gross materialism or on jack-booted ecclesiastical totalitarianism.
I think you may find 'misty-eyed sentiment' here as the starting point. Expressing our hopes is the beginning of the path to actions. It's easy to see it as a weakness and on its own it won't achieve goals but it connects and leads back to the deepest source within us that, when allowed access, will naturally manifest the actions needed to create something better. Maybe we need to go in further at the softest point and just let things flow from there. Maybe the endless trying is not working. Try less, feel more. Maybe?
Hi Charles - can you provide a link to the artists website or work? I LOVE it! And as an artist always appreciate when this is done for my work when images are used. Thank you - Kara
Hello 👋 it is Agnes here, painter of the artwork above. Thank you for your enquiry and also receiving my painting. I appreciate it 🙏
Charles asked me if he could add my website but I said that crediting my name was enough as I don't have one at the moment.
Most of my works are being uploaded into a public folder on FB, which is accessible even without a FB account (https://m.facebook.com/agi.novak.779/albums/108691525841719/ ), so that is the place to find them currently. I am also very approachable 🙂 I may create an easier format and share it at the same place at some point, as I can see the gifts of having different publicity too...
Hi Agnes. You can make a free website on Wix.com. It's easy to do, but if you need help, I can offer it. No charge to fellow artists who are planning the new world of beauty, peace and harmony.
Great! Looking forward to seeing your website (I don't have Facebook). I also create mandala style paintings and more. Keep in touch - Kara www.kararane.comwww.cosmiccircles.com
Thank you Charles. It felt like you wrote and sent that just for me. I have been going through the process of becoming a new landlord for a little cottage on my land. And so I went online to educate myself. All the material I read was written with one purpose in mind and that is "how to protect yourself from a BAD tenant". I didn't totally GET that until this moment in time - reading your essay this morning. I have been thrown for the last weeks into a state of fear and the creation of all sorts of things that were geared to energizing and grounding that fear. It was incredibly stressful. I realized with a sort of blinding flash of insight after reading only part of what you wrote - that I was trying to cram myself - after working so hard all my life to come from a NEW story - back into the Old story... the one of fear and lack - of "I need to protect myself against all the "others" who might take what little I have away from me" mindset - of --as you have said "more for you is less for me". I realized that the sort of person I want to attract to my little cottage will not be attracted by this energy. And I am making myself ill by steeping myself in this sort of energy and these sorts of thoughts.
So Thank you so much for bringing me the perfect reminder at exactly the right moment - just before I posted the ad for the rental. I feel like I just stepped back into reality ( the reality of the New Story and all that is possible from there). I feel such a sense of relief and gratitude. Blessings on you... :-)
I really needed this right now as I am in the process of deep grief of the planet and being removed from the society and systems that ironically, I never truly felt a part of anyway.. trying to navigate my way to rise to co-create this Beautiful World as everyday it seems relationships are either deepening or falling away. Thank you for your magical words of hope 💜 (from Australia)
Same here, Bel. The challenge is going to be finding each other. The beautiful world we want to create is not online but in person. We need to find a way. 💜 (fellow Aussie)
Joining you in our Oneness Bel. We are creating a New Earth and New Everything, therefore the sadness of the things that were, is so quickly replaced that is is difficult for me to catch up. Learning at the speed of Light is possible for us now, like never before.
The support we have is immense. It is a process to recognize it...
Much love and compassion to you!
"I really needed this right now as I am in the process of deep grief of the planet and being removed from the society and systems that ironically, I never truly felt a part of anyway..."
Nothing like a 2-year-long kick in the butt to get us moving in a different direction. Necessity is the mother of invention...
Thank you for your comment Bel. You have put into words how I feel. "I never truly felt a part of it anyway". I am in England and I send you love and support as we find our way together even though we are on opposite sides of the world.
well i deeply feel you.
sending some harmony around the globe https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FU6oBV6iIKk greetings from the netherlands 🌻
I woke up in a funk. On my way to grab some coffee from the local shop, I was noticing all the trash along the roadside, which didn't exist in such a volume before 2020. The recent diaspora from the major metropolitan areas has my little rural town seeing a huge boom and tons of development, meaning tons more waste and in a place that doesn't yet have the tools to manage these things. I've been keeping my heart centered on this idea that you and I both share of a new story emerging, so as not to fall into the nihilism of "humans are shit". It simply hurts to watch the desacralization of the beautiful forest I have lived in my whole life. In general I don't struggle too much with centering, but some days are better than others. Today is one of the worse ones. This article helped me climb back up on my horse. Thanks Charles. You are legitimately one of the only people whom I feel understands my own perception of this story as it plays out. For that I am deeply grateful. Bless 🙏
beautifully said :)
reminds me to appreciate https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwqm6ic14tU lovely greetings from the netherlands 🌻
I always appreciate your articulation Charles and your championing of a collective movement towards a better future. I am hugely optimistic and largely in part because of your writing, the communities I have chosen to align myself with over the past 10 years make me feel directly connected to the groundswell - there is a collective spirit at work. Old structures falling away are a necessary part of the transition and I am awed to see how that is happening on a global level in a way I always sensed was necessary but could never imagine happening. I dont fear it but I have had the good fortune of 15 years to prepare for it since I actively and consciously chose to step out of paradigms of separation and competition.
If only we could retire the word "collective", which I do not read into this essay, and use your better word "community", I can probably understand. Still, I struggle even with "enlightenment" because it also has been co-opted. In current parlance, neither one of those concepts obtain to a More Beautiful World.
"Community" was a buzzword of Germany's Nazi movement. They were against the word "collective," too. Oh yeah, and the Nazis were mystics, too!
Yeah, most of this has been heard before, hasn't it. Kind of like biblical...
Humanity repeats the same old-same old, again and again. Only now we add deadly technology into the mix. Seems 'human evolution' is bogus...
Filled my heart this morning. Thank you.
I really appreciate this. It is so comforting to know that I am not alone in how I feel. Grateful for your words.
Yes! Not feeling alone is what counts!
Thanks for fueling the spark of my dwindling optimism.
Reading this strengthens my hope and reaffirms my convictions. Thank you.
A beautiful introduction. So many of us have reached the same conclusion and understanding. A new emergent world of abundance is forming right before our eyes.
Certainly in its infancy, but still, we hope...
hopefully the world enlightens sooner than later. all the best keepin up your inner harmony https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FU6oBV6iIKk lovely greetings from the netherlands 🌻
"Enightenment is a group activity." Yes! What is discovered between us will help us move beautifully through this space in between💗
"Enightenment is a group activity."
Interesting play on the spelling error there.
'E-night-enment' is definitely a collective activity... groupthink/collectivethink is what creates the horrific Dark Night evidenced countless times throughout history.
( https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM )
Enlightenment, however, is most certainly a personal, individual process. Indeed, it is the most radical, mind-blowing, individual breakthrough process imaginable... one that is impossible by its very nature to ever happen collectively.
It's a one-person-at-a-time deal, no exceptions.
I love this Charles. I also love how you shared Novak's artwork. I feel images are very helpful to kindle hope and inspiration. If you ever want to use any of my artwork, you're welcome, free of charge. See www.emmaburleigh.com for example work.
Wow, you are quite an artist! I have decided to use original artwork in every post from now on. I'd love to use some of yours Emma.
Yay Charles, thank you for supporting visual artists! Here is a link to my husbands artwork, a bit visionary and fantastical: https://www.spalenka.com/collections/prints
Wow, those are awesome too. Can you email me so I don't forget? I"m not on my home computer now. My email address is my first name, dot, my last name, at gmail.
Just sent
All right, I'm using one right now. I hope this comment constitutes proper permission :) I put your name and website in the caption.
Yes, I agree Emma! Imagery, as well as all the ARTS really, deepen us into an altar-ed state where we are connected to the creative force. Your water colors are very soulful, thanks for sharing xo
I also love the Novak artwork, and your artwork is amazing too, Emma. I will be looking at your Etsy shop today!
Oh thank you so much 😊
You are not alone.
Thank you for sharing Charles, the book does indeed sound very 'of the moment' within the repeating cycles we have been witness too. I'm sensing it's important we put razor sharp focus on "a future built on a new-and-ancient story of interconnection, trust, synchronicity, and healing." Since we are the ones who can see beyond the veils, then it seems that we are the ones to re-vision and begin building the new Earth in each and every sacred moment.
Charles, please continue to feel encouraged. We appreciate your role in empowering our imaginations towards manifesting the "more beautiful" world. The increasing numbers of hopeful and loving are more than what it seems.
Yes. Religion will not bring back the "good old times". It was just another control system. The eye in the sky was as orwellian when it was "god" as it is now with science.
https://youtu.be/7dimO83BtyY
Tears for Fears - Break it Down Again
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Break it down again
So those are my dreams
And these are my eyes
Stand tall like a man
Headstrong like a horse
When it's all mixed up
Better break it down
Oo, oo. Oo, oo
In the world of secrets
In the world of sound
Oo, oo
It's in the way you're always hiding from the light
See for yourself, you have been sitting on a time bomb
No revolution maybe someone somewhere else
Could show you something new about you and your inner song
And all the love, and all the love in the world
Won't stop the rain from falling
Waste sleeping underground (break it down again)
I want to break it down (break it down again)
Break it down again
So those are my schemes
And these are my plans
Hot tips for the boys
Fresh news from the force
When it's all mixed up
Better break it down
Oo, oo. Oo, oo
In the world of silence
In the world of sound
Oo, oo
"No sleep for the dreaming" say the architects of life
Big bouncing babies, bread and butter can I have a slice?
They make no mention of the beauty of decay
Blue, yellow, pink umbrella, save it for a rainy day
And all the love, and all the love in the world
Won't stop the rain from falling
Waste sleeping underground (break it down again)
I want to break it down (break it down again)
Horsing around
Pray to the power
Play to the crowd with your big hit sound
And they won't simmer Won't simmer
Won't simmer down
Play to the crowd
Play to the crowd
It's in the way you're always hiding from the light
Last off to heaven just like moses on a motorbike
No revolution maybe someone else somewhere else
Could show you something new to help with the ups and downs
Break it down again
I want to break it down Break it down again
Break it down again (break it down again)
Break it down again (break it down again)
Break it down again
No more sleepy dreaming
No more building up
It is time to dissolve
Break it down again
No more sleepy dreaming
You see this as a failure of religion (the institutions of which I will stipulate have been no bit-players) and not of secular humanism?
Interesting perspective, given that’s been the dominant religion for at least 100 years. Maybe it just wasn’t done hard enough?
An enduringly better world won’t be built on misty-eyed sentiment any more than it was built on gross materialism or on jack-booted ecclesiastical totalitarianism.
I think you may find 'misty-eyed sentiment' here as the starting point. Expressing our hopes is the beginning of the path to actions. It's easy to see it as a weakness and on its own it won't achieve goals but it connects and leads back to the deepest source within us that, when allowed access, will naturally manifest the actions needed to create something better. Maybe we need to go in further at the softest point and just let things flow from there. Maybe the endless trying is not working. Try less, feel more. Maybe?
Hi Charles - can you provide a link to the artists website or work? I LOVE it! And as an artist always appreciate when this is done for my work when images are used. Thank you - Kara
Hello 👋 it is Agnes here, painter of the artwork above. Thank you for your enquiry and also receiving my painting. I appreciate it 🙏
Charles asked me if he could add my website but I said that crediting my name was enough as I don't have one at the moment.
Most of my works are being uploaded into a public folder on FB, which is accessible even without a FB account (https://m.facebook.com/agi.novak.779/albums/108691525841719/ ), so that is the place to find them currently. I am also very approachable 🙂 I may create an easier format and share it at the same place at some point, as I can see the gifts of having different publicity too...
Thank you, wishing ease and thriving to All
👋🌸🦋🦌🌳🌹💗🎶🌟
Hi Agnes. You can make a free website on Wix.com. It's easy to do, but if you need help, I can offer it. No charge to fellow artists who are planning the new world of beauty, peace and harmony.
Great! Looking forward to seeing your website (I don't have Facebook). I also create mandala style paintings and more. Keep in touch - Kara www.kararane.com www.cosmiccircles.com
Best wishes!
Your mandalas are beautiful. Thank you for creating.
Yes, please!
Thank you Charles. It felt like you wrote and sent that just for me. I have been going through the process of becoming a new landlord for a little cottage on my land. And so I went online to educate myself. All the material I read was written with one purpose in mind and that is "how to protect yourself from a BAD tenant". I didn't totally GET that until this moment in time - reading your essay this morning. I have been thrown for the last weeks into a state of fear and the creation of all sorts of things that were geared to energizing and grounding that fear. It was incredibly stressful. I realized with a sort of blinding flash of insight after reading only part of what you wrote - that I was trying to cram myself - after working so hard all my life to come from a NEW story - back into the Old story... the one of fear and lack - of "I need to protect myself against all the "others" who might take what little I have away from me" mindset - of --as you have said "more for you is less for me". I realized that the sort of person I want to attract to my little cottage will not be attracted by this energy. And I am making myself ill by steeping myself in this sort of energy and these sorts of thoughts.
So Thank you so much for bringing me the perfect reminder at exactly the right moment - just before I posted the ad for the rental. I feel like I just stepped back into reality ( the reality of the New Story and all that is possible from there). I feel such a sense of relief and gratitude. Blessings on you... :-)