This morning in my email, I received an article from Triaka (Constitution of United Diversity), including a great article by John Assaraf, The Science of Creating Your Own Reality.  He wrote about the "mind-boggling capacity for instantaneous interconnection" which is also termed, "spooky action at a distance."  Spooky because interaction can happen in ways that our prevailing views on reality cannot countenance... much in the way telepathy works... instantaneously.  I love Assaraf's prose, but even more, the ideas that he writes about.

 This is what I'm most interested in; how we can manifest a better reality through the power of mind by our interconnectivity.  In an earlier blog that I wrote on the Zeitgeist of 2011, one of the points I made was that the most significant event happening this year won't be what's in the news, but what's happening in our dreams as we are more consciously becoming aware of each other.

Our visions so often evolve from our dreams.  The reflective person knows that even daydreaming is a rich source of visioning.  Creative people are known for their ability to tap into this "collective consciousness".  I hold that our existence is sacred and that the closer we come to the source of creation, the more we are able to co-create a wonderful reality in this world to manifest and prevail.

Lately, I've been dipping into the experience of no space and no time more and more often, especially as I've been watching what's happening in Japan and praying for the people there.  I think it's important to disengage from the old paradigm of cost analysis and legal liability to consider the full implications of the unfolding disaster of a nuclear reactor meltdown.  

This is an unprecedented disaster, a great earthquake, followed quickly by a destructive tsunami all along the eastern coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan, which devastated several towns, and a nuclear plant crisis that is still unfolding, which will probably prove far greater than that of Three Mile Island or Chernobyl. 

I can't see how the need to evacuate Tokyo can be avoided.  The ramifications of this are unprecedented, a city of 10,000,000 residents. The alternative is equally difficult to imagine or comprehend, that of all those people becoming contaminated with radioactivity if the wind should blow in that direction when the reactor grows hotter and has further explosions.  And the world standing by as they suffer and perish.

 Okay, this is a worst case scenario and we don't really want to let our imaginations take us in that direction.  But we need to consider how our actions do the same.  Building nuclear reactors in highly active seismic zones on the sea, where radioactive water can contaminate the world's oceans.  Turning the U.S. economy into a militarized one of endless war.  

How did we make the turn into this reality?  It was so unnecessary.

I am speaking my truth here, as I see it.  Our only salvation at this juncture is the unified field of loving energy that is coalescing and holds the potential for transforming our reality and shifting this paradigm.  

Our Fate Is Intertwined: Rise Out of Confines of National Identity 

As an American living in China for the past few years, I can clearly see that everyone must begin to rise out of the confines of national identity to see that we are all residents of this planet, and we are interconnected and our fate is intertwined with what happens to all of us.

We must also transcend the dictums of separation by age groups, and get people more involved with other people in other age groups.  This is one of the largest methods of controlling people that is rarely talked about, just as masturbation was such a tabu subject until recent years (and still is, for the most part.)  There is so much fertile ground for breaking down all of the barriers that our old ideas have erected to keep us separated.

I believe that positive change will come when people start to shrug off the shackles that increasingly chafe them... and realize their own power and the ability to create our own reality.  My vision is that baby boomers in the U.S., now mostly in their sixties, will find ways to support young people in taking the practical steps that are needed to make this shift.  

No one age group can make it happen, but working together, we can do it.  I see a time when people realize that they don't have to put up with this shit any more, and that there's enough of us who can start taking steps to create something different. 

 I'll give a concrete example of how I can see this happen.  Let's take the case of the coal companies blasting the tops off mountains in Kentucky to mine coal, a relentless devastation of our natural environment that one of my favorite poets, Wendell Berry, has been working to stop.  His sit-in at the governor's office in February of this year, along with 13 other valient Kentuckians, was an act of civil disobedience to stop state support of the coal companies' practice of blasting off the tops of mountains.  

 A growing community of Kentucky authors, photographers and artists have been going on tours to get a close-up look at the impact of mountaintop removal for coal mining in Kentucky.  They have been writing, blogging, speaking, and publishing photos to communicate their distress about the devastation of coal mining to the beautiful mountains of Kentucky. 

That's all good, as far as it goes, and I'm sure that it contributes to more public awareness of the issue.

We have to remember, though, that demonstrations are not all that effective unless they are supported by economic boycotts, the strategy that Martin Luther King advocated and used effectively in the civil rights movement.  

Work Stoppage

What could work is for everyone in Kentucky to stop working.  Just boycott going to work that day, and turning out instead on the streets to reclaim power for the people to make the decisions that affect our lives so dearly.  

There could be demonstrations of alternative sources of energy that could be used instead of coal... concerts, art and photo shows, poetry slams, speakers.  Everyone could turn out in their own neighborhood. Nobody drives a car that day.  People ride bikes instead or walk.  

People having picnics in their neighborhoods to talk about their concerns... and what can be done, brainstorming potluck dinners, auctions for young people to find financial sponsors for their ideas, etc.

Civil Disobedience:  Don't Pay Taxes - Demonstrate Instead!

April 15 is coming.  Tax day.  What if everyone decided not to pay their taxes?  Why should they?  The government is not doing its job of protecting the air or water or land quality.  Instead of paying taxes on April 15, perhaps there could be demonstrations instead.  And work stoppages.  

Just imagine the havoc this would create.  I love it.  It makes me laugh. It's not that far away or impossible for people to claim their power.