Category: Personal Growth

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Personal Growth Philosophy Spirituality

Breadcrumbs

Truth is the pattern of how things work.

What is true has always been true.

There is truth and everything else that is not true. The difference is only truth is eternal.

Truth is realized through our understanding, but our understanding is not limited to truth. As such, truth can only be found inside you.

Consider your opinion, which changes as you learn new information. The quality of your opinion is a function of its proximity to truth. Once you learn truth your opinion evolves into knowledge.

Knowledge is power because it serves as a breadcrumb to remind you who you are.

Wisdom occurs once you remember.

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Personal Growth Philosophy

You Are a Part of Me I Do Not Yet Know…

Sounds Utopian…I know, but truth often is.

Everyone who contributes to my wellbeing IS a part of me because I would not be me without them.

Let’s take a personal inventory.

Who produced the food we ate today?
Who produced the clothes we wore today?
Who built the house or apartment we live in today?
Who made the bed we sleep on each night?
Who paved the roads we drive on each day on the way to work?
Who built the car we drive each day?
How many people had to do what they do well for us to have a good day?

I hope you get my point.

If you do all that on your own, take a bow.

If not, acknowledge that all those people who support us daily are very much a part of us that we do not yet know.

Next time you meet a “stranger”…remember.

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Personal Growth Philosophy Spirituality

Anatomy of Purpose

Existence is comprised of energy manipulating matter.

Balance is the necessary condition for flow to occur.

Flow is the essential function of energy.

Love is the unimpeded flow of energy.

Wellness is the balance of food, water, rest, and exercise.

Sustainability is the balance of giving and receiving.

Alignment is the balance of experience with wisdom.

Fulfillment is the alignment of sustainable love with wellness.

Purpose is the fulfillment of our existence.

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Personal Growth Philosophy Spirituality

A Virtuous Cycle…

Red blood cells deliver oxygen to all parts of our body allowing us to function, which provides the environment red blood cells need to survive.

When we exhale, we release carbon dioxide into the air. Trees absorb the carbon and use it for photo-synthesis, which produces food as it cleans the air we breathe.

For over 10,000 years, global average temperature stabilized to within 1 degree Celsius. Stable temperature produced predictable weather that allowed humanity to evolve beyond hunter-gatherer, nomadic communities to develop farming, produce surplus food & products for trade, and create modern civilization. This period that cultivated extraordinary human development is called the Holocene.

In our modern society, each of us contribute our most marketable skill in exchange for money, which we use to purchase all the goods and services we need to sustain ourselves.

This is the pattern of existence in Nature…

A virtuous cycle of interdependence and mutual fulfillment.

Yet since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (1850), human productivity has raised global average temperatures beyond 1 degree Celsius. As human activities pushed our ecology out of the Holocene, the impact on biodiversity has been catastrophic with species extinctions exceeding a thousand times the normal rate.

Today, we are within one average lifespan of depleting our soil of essential nutrients, savannization of tropical forests, ocean acidification, and melting of the polar icecaps.

The virtuous cycle has been broken.

We now face a choice: innovate a modern economic system that supports ecological sustainability, or participate in the sixth mass extinction event.

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Personal Growth Philosophy Social Evolution

The Matrix Exposed

If you believe you are a stone cold realist who sees truth as it actually is, consider…

Are you free?

Free to choose your life’s vocation unconstrained by how much money you will make?

Free to spend your non-working and sleeping time doing the activities you enjoy most?

Free to invest the time you need to build healthy relationships with family and friends?

Are you independent?

How much of what you do is reliant on what other people have done?

Of all the words you have thought or spoken, which ones did you create?

How much of what you need to survive daily do you (or can you) produce?

Does self-interest really serve you?

Every hurdle you face to all you desire is due to other people advancing their own self-interest.

Is competition really a good thing?

Every person you defeat in the competition for resources is a person you may need to rely on for the goods and services that support you.

The conventional wisdom inherent to each of these bolded questions is the Matrix.

Truth resides in your responses.

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Economics Personal Growth Social Evolution

The Urgency of Now


As Americans, the virtues we are encouraged to use as guideposts for success impede our personal fulfillment because they are at odds with how we exist each day.

Nothing in nature lives independently. By design, we all are interdependent on each other and the natural environment that provides for us.

When the cells in our body compete we call the condition cancer. Humanity is functioning like cancer to the ecology that sustains us.

We can’t experience the luxuries of our modern lives based only on what our family, friends, and people like us produce. Self interest at the expense of the common interest is self defeating.

Once we remember we survive daily based on the contributions of many people we will never know, the well being of all of us becomes as important as our own well being.

Why must we remember now?

We face global challenges beyond the capacity of self interest to mitigate:

1. Climate crisis – we are within 15 years of exceeding average global surface temperature increase since 1850 of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

2. Income & wealth inequality is destroying democratic institutions and destabilizing national governments, which is leading to severe polarization and mass migration of under resourced populations.

3. Nuclear weapons proliferation – Iran will be the next nation to obtain nuclear weapons because their most powerful enemies (Israel and U.S.A) have nuclear weapons. This is not new. India responded similarly to Pakistan obtaining nuclear weapons.

4. Technological disruption due to automation and artificial intelligence is displacing low skilled labor and ultimately highly skilled labor. Since technology is owned by the wealthy elites through control of multi-national corporations, income & wealth inequality is exacerbated because income from automated productivity goes to the owners of technology. Masses of people are becoming economically irrelevant.

While our Earth is abundant, self-interest has rendered humanity impotent in the face of extinction level challenges. 

Yet we still have a choice, if only we remember who we are.

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COVID-19 Personal Growth

Nothing to Fear

Are you sovereign?

You appear free, unencumbered by physical constraints, and in possession of the ability to make choices.

Yet look where we are…

Isolated, socially distant, living virtually, hiding behind masks, fearful of strangers…finding security in the magic injections provided by multi-national pharmaceutical companies who demonstrate they are more concerned about profits than saving as many lives as possible.

Are you safe now? Just long enough to buy the next booster shot. More magic from the Wizard.

How did we get so weak?

COVID-19 is more than a virus…it is a metaphor for all the reasons we are encouraged to give away our sovereignty.

Life is filled with many possibilities; some good and some bad. What actually happens in our lives is a function of choices we control and choices beyond our control. When a challenge like COVID-19 appears in our lives, we can choose to put our focus on the choices we can control or defer to choices outside our control.

We can make the choice to support our immune system. COVID-19 preys on compromised immune systems. For healthy, fully supported immune systems, COVID-19 is less dangerous than driving your car.

Or we can succumb to the fear that we are unable to protect ourselves without the paid assistance of a for-profit manufacturer who denies the magic injection to billions of people unable to pay their ransom.

What could go wrong?

For those of us with compromised immune systems, take a look at your medicine cabinet. Notice how what ails you never gets cured? Medication is designed to maintain you in relative ‘comfort’, just for as long as you keep taking it…forever. Will you ever get tired of being someone’s revenue stream?

This is what happens when you give your sovereignty away.

Yet you still have a choice.

Our bodies are designed to heal. Find out what your body needs to produce wellness and do that.

The moment we reclaim our sovereignty, we will realize we have nothing to fear.

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Personal Growth Philosophy

When Less is Truly More…

Wisdom teaches us the only thing we actually know is the truth we are finally ready to realize.

Everything else is opinion tainted by a lifetime of subjective experiences.

As such, the more we know, the more we realize we don’t know.

Yet through this epiphany we discover authentic humility, which slows judgment long enough to create space for more truth to be understood.

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COVID-19 Personal Growth Social Evolution

The Elephant in the Room

We are all victims of cognitive dissonance, inspired by a society based on lies that our souls know aren’t true. Time to call a spade a spade so we can all find peace.

We are not free. If we were, we would spend our time doing what brings us joy.

We are not independent. If we were, we would produce our own air, water, food, shelter, atmospheric pressure, biodiversity, language, and everything else we need to survive.

Competition is toxic when you must compete to eat. Currently, 12% of American households report food shortages. COVID-19 revealed in the competition for resources to take care of ourselves and our families, we are defeating the essential workers of our society…who are amongst the lowest earners in America.

Self-Interest is self-defeating. How long would any of us survive if we had to rely only on what our family and friends produce?

What is true is humanity grew to dominate our planet by working together against our predators. And now that our predators are defeated, we are defeating each other and the natural ecology that sustains us.

To wake up from the nightmare we are living, all we need to do is remember who we are and how we survive each day.

Had enough of this nightmare? Time to wake up and participate in co-creating a world worth living in.

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Personal Growth Social Evolution

The Life We Seek

When you strip away all the labels and quiet the noise of our toxic society, you create space to remember who we are and how we survive each day.

We have food to eat because many people we will never know produced it and brought it to market so we can buy it.

We have shelter today because many people designed it, constructed it, and maintained it so we can buy or lease it.

We have clothes to wear…You get my point.

If you are grateful to be alive, and appreciate the lifestyle you enjoy, steep on the fact that none of it is possible if you had to rely only on what your family and friends and people just like you produce.

If you find yourself fearing, hating, or hurting people who appear different than you, take this moment to acknowledge you are harming the hands that support you.

For those of us who have pets, we realize our pets bless us with unconditional love. Ever wonder why? They know very clearly who takes care of them every day.

Nothing in nature lives independently.

If you really want to change this toxic society, start by loving unconditionally the hands that feed you, clothe you, and produce every thing you need that you are unable to produce for yourself.

The life we seek begins the moment we remember.