We are the Revolution
Just a few more thoughts on Solstice as it winds down. Not everybody of coarse practices with the amount of vigor that I do. The teens are there having fun, and it is hard not to get caught up in the laughter during the ‘serious’ event. As I look around me there are some really old people doing this. Some are setting in chairs, some have to put their arms down now and then, as do we all as there is always that one kriya that no matter how hard you try to maintain… anyway the revolution:
Just to begin because I think he is a forward looking person, Yogi Bhagan said before he passed, that the time of a spiritual leader has passed and no one shall follow him. What he meant by that is that there would no longer be a central figure as in the past. And since his passing what remains is a board to take over all the functions that he once served. As we move into the Aquarian age from the old age, the Piscean Age of command and control- into an age of greater cooperation. In between that change is going to be a certain amount turmoil, but also great opportunity.
I believe we can and need to make changes to our society on a large scale. My proposal, and I am not the only one thinking this way, is that we work away from the central control model to a distributed network. Sort of like a web, or a mesh, inter-connectivity- much like the internet, and actually using the internet- sort of an electronic democracy. Call it a universal blog… We need a system that changes and adapts to the needs of people very quickly, whether it is a health crisis, housing, natural disaster, monetary crisis, making budgeting decisions. How long does it take the government and central control to respond to any of those? And many times the solution is worse than the problem itself.
The government is here to serve us, but instead we seem to have to serve it with questionable benefit and much disharmony. How about a system set up in this fashion - where no one part is the whole system, and if any one part of the system breaks down it continues to function without that part.
Some of the problems of today are the direct result of too much central control, and some of the by-products are war, lack of action when action is required such as the current energy crisis, politicians acting in their own self interest rather than that of humanity at large. It is time to end the command and control value system. It is time for all who desire to be, to be a part of the decision making process to have the power to do so. As a collective group- we have high intelligence, as separated groups, or individuals we have low intelligence.
Buckminster Fuller once said that the best way to change a system is not to fight it, but to build a better model.
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