Having laid out my general proposition for an emerging Planetary civilization, I will now go into more specifics. Starting with a simple reminder of the present situation.
Planetary Consciousness includes systemic consciousness; we have to recognize that our world is an interconnected complex whole. This in turn means that each of us rapidly needs to move beyond an isolated particulate focus. Each individual is being challenged to not just see the bits, the parts that make up the whole but to recognize that there is a whole Earth system comprised of various interlocking sub systems.
In today’s ‘real world’ each individual has to be ‘practical’ and make a living. We all need money and we all like to have more money than we need, after all in an evolving culture, abundance and freedoms to make choices are valid and essential to our enjoyment and development.
Herein lays the great dichotomy
Outlining the situation in the Uranus Enchantment
Let us look at the small percentage of the world’s population privileged enough to have enough money to truly feel financially successful and confident about their place in the ‘real world’. In general they are good people, hard working and intellectually smart.
For example a comfortable or a generous income can most easily be derived from working in the Pharmaceutical industry, Banking and financial services, Science, the Military (officers) etc
Not all people working in these areas earn that much, but those who have worked hard enough and long enough to rise above a junior position are richly rewarded (the paradox here though is that one never feels one has enough, but leaving that aside for the moment) The financial rewards reinforce the feeling that one is doing it right, there is an underlying basic confidence about the self and its world view. Confidence is very attractive and it therefore hypnotizes more people to strive for financial success—to climb the corporate ladder.
Don’t they deserve their rewards; well yes they do, however…
The present system rewards specialization, the ability to have an isolated focus on a specific skill. If for example you are to be successful in science, by necessity—due to the extraordinary speed of precise developments and the subsequent amount of data— one has to be focused on the part, not the whole. Many of today’s scientists work in the Pharmaceutical industry, responding to the ever increasing diversity of health problems, or the challenges of food production or creating chemical based synthetic materials etc. In all cases the work requires them to respond to the immediate challenge to create a profitable solution, a short term solution to what looks like an isolated dilemma. A disease needs a vaccine but what is the effect in the human body over the long term? There is not enough time to find out, if a product is to compete in the market.
Likewise a large population needs to be fed, so we need high yield crops that are resistant to disease, hence we need genetically modified crops… no absolutely wrong. Greenpeace and many others have shown that this is just not true, the performance is disastrous over a few years as the whole eco system is wrecked, amongst other things the soil is depleted of essential nutrients, which is one of the main reason we need to eat food. And so on and so on we could go into further depth and greater detail and direct attention to masses of scientific papers and studies. But the point is very simple, isolated action is now detrimental to an interconnected planet, a planetary systemic approach is not just a futuristic idea but is the only way forward.
This small parts approach, which is endemic in virtually all Corporations requires admirable intellectual skill and a lack of awareness of the systemic repercussions. High IQ and yet limited awareness. There is no money, there is no time to ask deeper questions and see how the actions of production and service within the system are connected to the larger living systems of the whole human species and the natural world. On a very basic level this illustrates why all of the challenges of the world can be surmised to be due to a crisis in consciousness.
Now going on a deeper level, a large percentage of the more conscious individuals are in fact also working in the corporate world, after all that is where the money is, virtually all of the money. The very reasonable reaction to seeing that the system we have is not only crashing but is corrupted as well is “What can I do about it?”. We all have to earn a living.
Clunk! It requires from us all an acceptance of what is, without too much angry condemnation. An acceptance really means we have to look properly at what is, what is evident, what is the whole evidence of the whole system. This requires a generalist’s view rather than a specified reaction or localized focus.
To go from a system that is dying to a system that is newly emerging, requires a relatively long term view, a larger perspective and an understanding of the complexity of the planet we live within.
Take the Environmental Situation…
The environment is suffering from pollution and structural damage, pollutants and destruction from the Military, nuclear tests, depleted uranium weapons and the such like, possibly rival that of the pollution caused by the pharmaceutical industry. The solutions required of course completely undermine these industries.
However if we are truly to look at the environment we have to be realistic about what makes up the environment. A significant component of the environment is the human species. We cannot just look at the polluting industries without looking at the human species. We cannot just eradicate the obvious problem without understanding the causes.
The reactionary world-view to this, which is quite a popular, is that the human species is a virus and a mistake in nature and therefore it would be good if the population was greatly reduced. This is not a systemic view and this suggestion has not been thought out.
Human beings have evolved their consciousness when compared to that of human beings of a thousand years ago, (the start of rapid environmental decay) we cannot deny the wonderful developments of our culture as being separate from all life on Earth. The wonders of technology, music, art, the magnificence of cities, the available smorgasbord of entertainment and pleasure cannot be conceived to be purely a mistake. This simplistic answer of having a population cull to the environmental situation is humanistic self loathing which is low consciousness, destructive, negative and regressive. It is a dangerous idea that invites whole scale devastation, genocide, a doomsday comet, global war or even invasion by an extra terrestrial race.
So if we look at the human species with a systems approach we will see that there are developmental stages of consciousness. The developmental map shows us that which has power over us all to a large extent is the financially led consciousness of Uranus Enchantment.
The evolution of our consciousness is from an emphasis anchored in Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus Enchantments is towards Neptune, Pluto and Chiron Enchantments. Which is to say that evolution is from the empire mentality and values, absolutist moralist mentality and values, materialistic mentality and values towards the mindsets and values of the Humanitarian and spiritual revival of alternative culture; the interdependent, paradox acceptance, open responsive individualistic approach and the illuminated existentialist.
A full understanding of what I am saying above is only obvious with a study of The Enchantments of life.
However the essential point is that our environmental situation cannot be understood without understanding the human system, and the basic solution to the problems of our world is most obvious. The crisis is an opportunity—which has to be taken—which is to evolve. Evolution or annihilation is on the horizon.
A fearful approach to the enormity of the situation will yield a resignation to annihilation.
A realistic approach to the extraordinary world we live in—which is largely experienced as something very challenging but beautiful, amazing, exciting, awesome and delightful—is that we are developing, changing, transforming and evolving.
Therefore by understanding the system reality of our species (which outlines an evolution of consciousness) we do reinforce the implicit gratitude we have to be living and reinforce human evolution. In turn that will solve the more pressing environmental problems.
By consciously working with the planet in a progressive manner—rather than a return to some kind of Stone Age asceticism—the supply of clean water, clean air, energy, nutritious food, shelter will be met more than adequately.
The messy problem is that most of the dominant industries of today have to radically transform, be cut back and/or lose their power. The power battle is more than tricky, but in the end it comes down to public will.
The alternative consciousness movement and new breaking sciences are eroding the systems’ stranglehold from the inside; however it still looks like we need an external stimulus to shift.
I will look at one such possibility in Part Three
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