blog038 What Would You Like On Your Toast?

When Al Gore delivered “An Inconvenient Truth” he showed us the last little bit on the right-hand side of the graph below, the most recent 10,000 years. We were shocked to see how far above normal the carbon-dioxide (CO2) level already is. 

But this is NOTHING compared to how far the methane (CH4) already is above 420,000 years of normal, and increasing faster than ever. In the short term, methane is a 120 times more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2*, collecting far more heat, and when methane breaks down it turns into CO2 anyway. The 400 billion tons of methane clathrates frozen in the Siberian tundra and under the arctic sea are already melting, unstoppably bubbling into Earth's atmosphere. We are far beyond the tipping point.

There is already enough methane in Earth's atmosphere to cause a +16°C global temperature rise, and it is only beginning to come out. We are toast.




* Ref:  
1. http://arctic-news.blogspot.ch/p/arctic-methane-alarm.html
2. http://www.carolynbaker.net/2013/08/19/19-ways-climate-change-is-now-feeding-itself-by-guy-mcpherson/

blog016 Making A New Agreement

Peter and Roswita firewalking

The quality of the space that is held determines what is possible in that space. (For example, walking barefoot across burning coals without burning your feet only occurs in a space held by a firewalking trainer. Outside that space your feet would become fried bacon.)

As a trainer for Next Culture Research & Training Center I have seen miracles beyond belief. In Expand The Box, Possibility Labs and Trainer Labs people regularly make life changes that put them on completely new sets of train tracks in their life. They suddenly get an entirely new future.

As their future unfolds, the confusions, delusions, and contusions central to their previous experience fade away mirage-like while life circumstances rapidly conform to their new shape . As incredible as this is to observe in others, it's even more astonishing to experience in one's own life.

I know this because it keeps happening to me.

I figured out that Possibility Trainers live in ongoing transformation because they are integrated into their training spaces - constantly at risk of rapid learning. P-Trainers cannot be lifted onto a pedestal and esteemed from afar. Instead they are in the dirty ditches and stinking gutters of personal development work, navigating all worlds, and learning to deliver whatever is needed and wanted for the participants to unfold their incredible potential. These processes cannot help but also change the trainer's life.

For example, my processes bring me into finer alignment with my core purpose. The way I would say it now is:  I am here to use memetic engineering to upgrade the morphogenetic field of the human race through the radically responsible thoughtware of Possibility Management.

How can this occur?

Actually it has already occured, although ripples from the stone-tossing have yet to hit the shore in most places.

Possibility Lab

Early in 2011a group of men at a Men's Lab, and also a group of Possibility Trainers agreed that next culture already exists. They have become that stand, both individually and as a group. The decision has already been made. It's not some future wish, not a fantasy world.

Each man and woman who made this new agreement now holds that space where ever they are as a bond. When they are not together at the same place the bond spreads over the Earth and becomes a network. The network of critical connections creates a system of infuence, a morphogenetic field.

Let it be known this has already been decided. If you wish, you can also decide: "Next culture already exists. The game is on."

A morphogenetic field is the shape-making field establishing the thoughtforms, words and deeds of a human culture. A morphogenetic field is created through agreement, through critical connections between communities of practice.

The morphogenetic field that has so far shaped the bulk of humanity is: I am my body. I am my mind. I am separate. In order to survive I must fight to win as much as I can regardless of what others lose. This is very old thoughtware.

The morphogenetic field of next culture is: I am the Earth right now having the experience of "fill in your name". We are all one. I already survived as a child and now life as an adult is a winning happening game.

It is not our planet.

Engaging winning happening requires shifting from adolescence to adulthood, including learning a different form of speaking and communication. The language of winning happening includes four skills researched by John Croft (the subject of a future blog).

I want to offer you a challenge:

Transformational wonders of clarity and possibility occur in trainings because of the space of the training. The training space is held by the Trainer. If you are a Trainer and can create and navigate possibility training spaces, how many people can you hold that space for? Fifteen? Fifty? Five hundred? Will you practice with me to ongoingly generate and hold that space for the entire planet Earth starting now? This would be a decision. You decide it. I already decided. If you decide too then it becomes an agreement between us. Will you keep developing your space-holding intention muscles so that holding possibility-space for the Earth becomes second nature to you?

Let me know how it goes...

... and, thanks.

PS: Please watch this video (3:47): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZCNRzQ0IH4

Midway Journey coming 2012

There is an island, so far away from civilization that it deserves respite from ruin, yet life on this island and the surrounding ocean is being annihilated so certainly by modern culture's ignorance and greed that it can no longer be denied. Watch Chris Jordan's film in 2012 and let your sensibility change your awareness - and your life.

blog011 Connecting is Subversive

A ten thousand year civilization of patriarchal empire has domesticated a third of the world’s population and enslaved most of the rest of us through increasingly invasive means of disconnection. The most sustainable (and subversive) thing you can do is connect. Connect with yourself. Connect with other people. Connect with the Earth.

Think of modern school where students are divided according to age. In sustainable school the older children naturally teach younger children, deepening their own understanding. Modern school taught us to cut off from our imagination and submit our creative intelligence to an all knowing authority. Alone we competed against others for grades. In sustainable school students succeed by helping each other learn. Imagine that.

Modern media purposely disconnects us from reasonless self acceptance, self knowledge and self satisfaction. Subliminal doubts are implanted that can only be quenched when you buy mouth wash, life insurance, and the right car to look sexy. By disconnecting from mainstream media you will more easily refrain from giving your center away to authority figures. You will refuse to allow another person to represent your voice or your vote. You get your life back.

Modern culture teaches us to fear our neighbors, fear strangers, and pray that a mighty military force can protect an unconscionable way of life. But quivering in this childish victimhood disconnects you from fulfilling your true adult destiny. Deep inside there burns a longing to live the life you were born for, which always turns out to be some form of service to humanity.

To connect with your destiny, with your neighbors, with strangers, and with the Earth, bring together a circle. Regularly hold space for ninety minute dialogs among fifteen to twenty people. Pass around a talking piece so that each person holding it can speak uninterrupted from their heart and tell the story that is in front of them. Ask people to suspend judgment, avoid discussion, let each person be heard, and let themselves be known. This is sharing. Through sharing we connect. You can feel it happening.

There is a way to connect to another person as deeply as the Na’vi of the planet Pandora connect in the film Avatar. It happens through your eyes. Here is how. Find a willing partner. Look gently into the black center of each other’s eyes. Relax. Lower your internal numbness bar. Shift from thinking to sensing. Don’t speak. Don’t move. Don’t touch. Navigate yourself to undefendedness. The connection happens automatically through mirror neurons in your brains exchanging experiential knowing. Through you the Bright Principle of love becomes aware of itself. You can feel it happening.

Fulfill your longing to connect – with yourself, with others, and with the Earth. It is delightful; it is ecstatic. It makes you immune to the deceptions of civilization and leads you over a bridge into sustainable culture.