Try this idea on for size: No one has any right to any entitlement to any portion of any part of planet Earth. No one owns any property. Property is a made up concept that is not serving humanity and must be discarded.
Before you automatically disregard it as impossible, unrealistic, idealistic or insane,; think about it. Who gave anyone the idea that they could own the Earth? And who gave them the authority to behave as if that belief was true? And why do we all continue to allow it to go on like this?
At the bottom of it all, and building all the rungs on this ladder to hell, is fear. Fear of not having enough. Fear for survival.
But let's back up a moment. Imagine that it is the truth that no one owns the Earth. That it is actually impossible to own any part of the land, the aina, the being named Gaia. (Unless you want to be a slave owner, which I would hope that no one would want to be.) So imagining this, imagine that everyone, every human living on the Earth, gave up all of their imagined entitlement to any part of the Earth. Everyone simultaneously stops paying all mortgages, rents and taxes on all now dissolved properties. No one anywhere owns or controls any part of Earth, including what humans dub her "resources."
What would happen? I imagine that many people would move around some and then resettle in a place that felt right for them. People with a lot of property, ie. wealth, would probably need to scale down a bit. And people with little or no imagined "property entitlement" might move out of a slum or a ghetto or a city and find a more comfortable place to access clean air, water and soil for growing food and families. People might congregate in groups that felt supportive, without the conflict over who has the authority over the land where they live together. The investment would be in time, care, skills and energy offered. People would need to learn how to share and cooperate!
If people did not need to leave home to work to make money to pay their rent or mortgage, what would they do? Those expenses are often a large portion of income. Would we be more free to do what we love? Would we join with others in the simple pleasures of growing food and building the communities from the ground up?
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
What To Do?
Dear friends,
Times they are a changin'! Yes, everything is always changing, yet the many of the changes at this time are not gradual, predictable, desirable. Yes, some of us are making new levels of commitment to sustainability, to love, to connection, to service... yet the overall picture is one of continuing destruction, chaos, dissolution.
I have to admit I was waiting for this. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but I could feel it coming, feel the pressure building, like before a storm. And now, it seems to me, the storm has arrived. We are in the darkness and disruption of forces bigger than us, which have gained a certain momentum, and are going to play out for an undetermined amount of time.
I don't want to be "negative," I don't want to focus on the fearful stuff, the reality we don't want to create... but it is here, created, happening, and I cannot just "create my own reality" and put my head in the sand of spiritual materialism. I have to at least shine the light of consciousness on the inner reality. Who doesn't silently hope it doesn't effect "me and the people I am closest to" too much, meanwhile keeping a brave and cheerful mask on as we go about our usual business?
Yes, we are limitless, we are co-creators, we are divine love and light. And we are also human, interdependent and interconnected, limited by whatever we are limited by on this plane of existence.
Denial. I am trying to learn to live with the incredible amount of denial I am seeing all around me. I am trying to come completely out of denial. And to redirect my fear and frustration into Love, into Love because there is really nothing else left to do. There is no security in anything else. There never was anything else but Love to count on, but there was a pretty believable illusion that there was. But that illusion is crumbling. In our lifetimes it will be gone. Thank God!
And so, if we want to keep our heads on straight and make the most beautiful response possible, we must put all of our eggs into the basket of Love, and give them out freely as we take one step at a time along the path into the emptiness of the unknown. There will always be more eggs in that basket.
We do not need to pretend we know what is happening, or what to to, because, although we can make some educated guesses and maybe even have some prophetic dream-visions, we are in the dark, we can't see, and we don't know. There is only one thread left. Love. Hold on tight.
With Love,
Christy Mountain
Times they are a changin'! Yes, everything is always changing, yet the many of the changes at this time are not gradual, predictable, desirable. Yes, some of us are making new levels of commitment to sustainability, to love, to connection, to service... yet the overall picture is one of continuing destruction, chaos, dissolution.
I have to admit I was waiting for this. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but I could feel it coming, feel the pressure building, like before a storm. And now, it seems to me, the storm has arrived. We are in the darkness and disruption of forces bigger than us, which have gained a certain momentum, and are going to play out for an undetermined amount of time.
I don't want to be "negative," I don't want to focus on the fearful stuff, the reality we don't want to create... but it is here, created, happening, and I cannot just "create my own reality" and put my head in the sand of spiritual materialism. I have to at least shine the light of consciousness on the inner reality. Who doesn't silently hope it doesn't effect "me and the people I am closest to" too much, meanwhile keeping a brave and cheerful mask on as we go about our usual business?
Yes, we are limitless, we are co-creators, we are divine love and light. And we are also human, interdependent and interconnected, limited by whatever we are limited by on this plane of existence.
Denial. I am trying to learn to live with the incredible amount of denial I am seeing all around me. I am trying to come completely out of denial. And to redirect my fear and frustration into Love, into Love because there is really nothing else left to do. There is no security in anything else. There never was anything else but Love to count on, but there was a pretty believable illusion that there was. But that illusion is crumbling. In our lifetimes it will be gone. Thank God!
And so, if we want to keep our heads on straight and make the most beautiful response possible, we must put all of our eggs into the basket of Love, and give them out freely as we take one step at a time along the path into the emptiness of the unknown. There will always be more eggs in that basket.
We do not need to pretend we know what is happening, or what to to, because, although we can make some educated guesses and maybe even have some prophetic dream-visions, we are in the dark, we can't see, and we don't know. There is only one thread left. Love. Hold on tight.
With Love,
Christy Mountain
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