Engagement

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself.

I have been 'asleep' for many years. A combination of factors, personal, psychological, emotional, spiritual have given me the excuse to ignore the outer external reality, to a great degree. I would rather not have known exactly how bad things were. And certainly not done anything to help fix it.
For a long time I was focused inwardly; nothing wrong with that. However, it came at the expense of what was happening in the outer.
I didn't want to really get involved in community, state or national politics,
I thought if I ignored it, it would go away. I wasn't totally oblivious, but was not very engaged.
I mouthed the typical sayings that we are poisoning the earth and how we live is unsustainable and agreed...
and simply went on living my life.

Last year I learned about Peak Oil and Read The Long Emergency.
A part of me looked forward to the big crash/reset - the isolationist in me was still strong. I thought we needed that level of suffering and it would bring people together. And it would…but.

Then something happened a few weeks ago. I began reading about economics and this led to learning more about our Financial systems and then a web site and then book by CHS.
When I read:

"That is why I subtitled this book "Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation." To
believe that we can prosper individually without regard for the actions of our fellow citizens and the State (government) is simply not practical. Yes, a handful of very rugged people have the experience required to live in the deepest remains of wilderness; but the wilderness cannot support more than a handful of people, and most of us do not have the requisite skills or ruggedness to survive that splendid isolation.
This, then, is a practical book for the rest of us."

Something in me shifted. I let go of the isolationist direction, took personal steps to minimize its effect and suddenly it seems a whole world opened up. (It also led to a better personal life ;-)

I am reading more and making up for lost time.
OMG we are in serious trouble.  Is it too late to change? I don't know. I think it is for some.
I also saw the film 2012:TimeForChange. This showed me a vision for a new way to live. Smaller, more communal and more responsive to our environment and each other. Showed me what is possible and a deeper value for what I do: teaching people how to develop software. Rather than creating bookkeeping systems for the Elite and State, the software could be used to support new types of currencies, businesses and endeavors to benefit us all. A new look at what it means to work, contribute, Be Alive.

Kinda like being overweight: I thought a diet would help.

No. A diet: changing eating habits for a while to regain certain weight, then resuming same habits that caused the weight, is not the answer. I have to radically change my eating habits. Permanently.

We have to radically change our living habits.

I rejoined Facebook and G+ and have been writing and posting there. I like the idea of the Fair Tax and am learning more and helping to spread the word. That's all I can do at present.
And will continue to do so here.

Does anyone read this? IDK. Words appear in the mind and I type and they appear on the page.

So, like myself, have you been ignoring the bare, cold truths out there? and if not? what have you been doing to plan for yourself, your family, your community, nation and world?

We need a new way to live. It has some of the feel of the possibility and energy of the 60s. I was too young then to do anything but be influenced. But I think this time I can do more.

I'll be writing here more and sharing what I've found, what's going on and hopefully this will entertain, enlighten and encourage you to tune in, turn on, and drop out (of old patterns of behaviors and beliefs).

Nemo's Notes is Evolving to Fit the Times

I've heard it said that humans only change out of necessity and that necessity has to be brought about by crisis. (Ok, Terrence McKenna says psychedelics can do it as well, and faster, but, I digress).

At a company I worked at, it seemed management was incapable of taking any impending deadline or issue seriously, if it was more than 2 weeks out. Now, that worked OK (sorta), if the problem could be resolved within two weeks.

When it couldn't all hell broke loose.

People historically sought spiritual development to ease suffering. Who the hell would go through that crap if their life was perfect and all shits and giggles?

Even the promise of  Freedom, whatever the fuck that is, is not enough to get people off their ass. Especially if they have not tasted, or simply can't remember what it felt like.

So, perhaps the current challenges and threats to survival, sanity... provide a need, a necessity, to learn how to clean up our act. Necessity being the mother of invention.

Question is if it's too late. If nature cashes our check, I don't imagine there will be a lot of pissing and moaning over us across the rest of the planet. In fact, it might just breathe a sigh of relief.

The image at the top is one that came to me years ago: A rabbit pulling itself out of its own hat. The image seems perfectly apropos. Hasn't made it to tattoo status yet, but give me time.

I am starting this blog to educate, warn, entertain and help us to wake up to what is going on, organize,  and not just survive, but thrive. The current state of how we are and run this planet is not sustainable by any definition.

We need to adapt, help each other...or we'll simply disappear.

What can you do? well, start with these links:

http://www.oftwominds.com/Survival/OverviewSP.pdf

http://www.2012timeforchange.com/

and tell someone about this. Share, read, think. breathe.

And don't give in to complacency or fatalism.

It is as it is, but not as it seems.

The Doors and the Airplane nailed it 40+ years ago. Now it's our turn (for some of us, lets finish what we started).

Five to one, baby 
One in five 
No one here gets out alive, now 
Gonna make it, baby 
If we try 

The old get old 
And the young get stronger 
May take a week 
And it may take longer 
They got the guns 
But we got the numbers 
Gonna win, yeah 
We're takin' over 
Come on! 
] 
Your ballroom days are over, baby 
Night is drawing near 
Shadows of the evening crawl across the years 
Ya walk across the floor with a flower in your hand 
Trying to tell me no one understands 
Trade in your hours for a handful dimes 
Gonna' make it, baby, in our prime 

Come together one more time 

The Doors Five to One 

We should be together 
Come on all you people standing around 
Our life's too fine to let it die and 
We can be together 
All your private property is 
Target for your enemy 
And your enemy is greedy

We are forces of chaos and anarchy 
Everything they say we are we are 
And we are very 
Proud of ourselves 
Up against the wall 
Up against the wall motherfucker
Tear down the walls 
Tear down the walls 
Come on now together 
Get it on together 
Everybody together 

We should be together 
We should be together my friends 
We can be together 
We will be 
We must begin here and now 
A new continent of earth and fire 
Come on now gettin higher and higher 
Tear down the walls 
Tear down the walls 
Tear down the walls 

Won't you try 

Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together

Zoltar Lives!

It would appear my wish was granted.


For a fairly long time I've felt that I've been waiting for something...on hold.
Went through a painful divorce last year, but we are both still close friends and both doing better for it.


I've been reading off and on about the coming crisis we face. Last week I "happened" on a book that has energized and inspired me. Then this weekend, in taking a break from the book, watched: DMT: The Spirit Molecule. After it was done I was looking around for something "lighter" to watch and "happened" on this: 2012:Time For Change.
I think you can see why it captured me so. The balance between the book's careful analysis of where we are, how we got here and why this time is different and the movie's impact caused a shift.


Somehow I feel called, purposeful. I'm writing, reaching out and participating. Reading, sharing.
Me, Mr. isolationist. Well, not so much anymore. Perhaps it's as simple as the survival instinct overcame the isolationist instinct.  Or maybe a bit more. Maybe consciousness is evolving and I'm being carried right along with it.
There comes an agonizing reappraisal of technique and 'practice'. The brutal negation of ND work was useful, and now time to move on. Don't Stop, Further:

Words are false; only the meaning they convey is true. They are illusion, but they give a meaning. Therefore, all is illusion but to understand the illusion, illusion is needed. For example, to remove a thorn in your finger you use another thorn; then you throw both of them away. But if you keep the second thorn which was used to remove the first one, you'll surely be stuck again. 

Much movement and reconnection. Lots happening. Lots of Mo'.

You'll see more to come.

Wonders and mystical and magical.

And, we're in for a rough ride. 

It's going to 'worse' before it gets better.

"Ladies, hold back the edges of your gowns, we're going through Hell."

Stay tuned...


P.S. It ain't just me.