It is January the 1st 2050 and my dream came true about the great possibilities that led us to becoming the cooperative society that we are now. Who would have believed it in 2024? This is how it happened: FIRST I deactivated my retirement by becoming the host of ‘Decolonising our Minds’ on the DTN mighty network and by following my passion and beliefs that a deep transformation of our dysfunctional and fractured society is possible. The foundation was laid when women and men related kindly in mutual respect and deep k~NOW~ing (kinaesthetically~BEING~aware in their bodies). How did we achieve that? By slowing our lives down and practicing breath~, body~ and energetic~awareness, listening with all our senses, responding by sharing our feelings, our personal stories, our ‘inner pilot’ – heartfelt values – and our personal truths. SECOND we all became aware how much our minds were colonised and started the process of decolonising the whole of our body~heart~minds. How? By taking our quintessential soul~selves seriously and talking to each other as if all of us truly mattered and were able together to heal & transform our world. In this way our confidence grew organically – first slowly, then in spurts because we inspired each other – and we started to talk to people in our wider local communities and were astonished how many people were on the same wave~length with us. We had underestimated the silent energetic transformation that had take place all over the planet already. THIRD Having recovered the intimate connection to our hearts, we encouraged each other to be the unique beings we were meant to be and were delighted in our authenticity and diversity and newly discovered infinite potential. Our inherent creativity and other birth rights like curiosity, joyfulness, affectionate relating surfaced and convinced others that a deep transformation was on the way. Our fears slowly dissolved and our growing courage explored new ways of BEING and DOING and BELIEVING. Dismantling our internalised limiting belief systems, we learnt to trust our imagination and intuition; visualising better ways, we grew out of our conventional behaviours. FOURTH more and more people started to identify as earth citizens and became members of earth households nested in communities, bio~regions, continents, the earth. Mother~child bonding was revered as primary source of wellbeing for the next generation while the whole community took response~ability to support kids and adults with care & kind~ness, beauty & harmony, clarity & truth~fullness for the benefit of all. In earth households we learnt that conflicts are opportunities to learn and grow out of immaturity and to comprehend the consequences of our behaviours. We used all the tricks in the books of ‘good parenting’, including ‘tough love’*.
FIFTH a household needs good management – ECONOMY – to fulfil the foundational needs of it’s members (e.g. deep belonging, universal basic income, affordable housing, fulfilling work). As a person is nested in a household – as a glass of spring water is part of the spring – so can personal assets be nested in the communal ownership of common resources. Weaning ourselves off the trappings of so-called ‘civilisation’ – wastefulness was despised and ENOUGH replaced greed & perfectionism – we turned away from drama, man-made crises & trauma. As our values shifted from quantity to quality, economy became an integrated part of Soul Purpose Ecology**. SIXTH our perception of TIME changed too – from linear planning of stressful events through time into dynamic pulsating moments experienced in time – which reshaped our perception of REALITY. We realised that we were co~creating each new moment. When our living conditions deteriorated, we needed to listen and learn from nature and indigenous people to support earth in her healing. Mothers and indigenous peoples have nurtured life against all odds for thousands of years and so we started to learn from them. Women and nature were again revert and respected as life givers & life transformers; birthing & living & dying became part of the dance of Creation. SEVENTH our new found strength in authentic selfhood and cooperative relating made us a growing collective force to be reconned with. As our agency grew, we were able to practice together civil disobedience (e.g. paying taxes into funds controlled by us, peacefully not obeying rules & laws), to deal with the deteriorating cultural and natural environment. We set-up citizen’s assemblies to solve crises on local and bioregional levels and we learnt from ideas already successfully practiced somewhere else on our planet. We employed creativity & humour, the arts in all it’s forms, joyful celebrations and healing ceremonies that included all generations. EIGHTHS nevertheless the government did not recoil from using police & military to reestablish ‘law & order’ and many of us became sacrificed. It became increasingly obvious that our man-made systems of religion, family, education, medicine, finance, business, governance, police, justice, military, science & technology were dysfunctional constructions because they did not put the needs of life on earth at the centre of their purpose. Systems too needed to be deeply transformed by people for people. Consciousness raising & soul searching was needed. That’s were global disasters played their role as transformers. The loss & grief was a big tidal wave.
NINTH Cooperations emerged as a necessity to survival. Collective wisdom matters, we matter! Cooperation is build on shared values, attitudes & believes like belonging to one earth, fair distribution of resources, willingness to be and do one’s best by continuous learning and evolving. We are all now very aware that there are bigger local and global challenges ahead of us and not everyone is willing or able to grow & change. There are many diverse parallel realities and always will be. All we can do is to embody the attitudes, behaviours and believes we wish to experience, encourage growing, give a helping hand and have faith in the self~healing power of nature. TENTH Resources are still not fairly distributed and decision making power is still not totally inclusive. In the coming decades, our hopes are that police & military will become ‘Worriers of Peace’ in support of life. AI and other potential highly destructive technologies are still not humanely transformed and patriarchal religions haven’t totally lost their rigid hold on our minds. But our collective healing has accelerated over the past decades. Resistance is melting, subversion is seeping through, conscious awareness is expanding because it feels so much more humane to live one’s full potential in a cooperative society based on ancient wisdom of indigenous cultures.
⁉ Doesn’t it⁉
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* Tough love = if you decide not to behave humanely but to behave like a crocodile, you will be speared.
** Soul Purpose Ecology describes the sacred bond between nature, humanity and spirituality.