Specisl Journal Entry 01-01-2050: The Met( ͭ )apump

Special Journal Entry JANUARY 1, 2050 Saturday If Conscious Love Is the WHAT? or the WHY? The HOW? is met( ͭ )apump ‘Infinite’ I to I Naturally, waking up this morning to realise it’s actually the 1st of January 2050 felt off-the-scale surreal, meta, super-déjà-vu-ish – given that essay competition I entered at what was such a delicate point in my own life and did seem the twilight of anything we might call civil society on Earth. But I, we, haven’t just survived. Our species has patently EVOLVED. And it isn’t simply DESPITE the way everything was back in 2024 – but critically BECAUSE of it all. For a start, it might have seemed so ironic that there were cash prizes involved. Yes – a cash prize was offered for the thing that essentially saved the world of its rabid materialism. How crazy is that?! This is surely one of life’s greatest unfathomable mysteries – like a bottle of champagne being offered to whichever alcoholic could solve alcoholism, right…? Where logic might suggest it was absolutely doomed to not just failure but screaming disaster. Yet if we’d only ever stuck with logic, where would we be? Surely not thriving as we now are! So what happened? What did I do?! I came up with what some called the ‘Second Most Important Invention in Human History’. The first being the wheel. What others called THE most important… Though in a sense it wasn’t an ‘invention’ as such at all. A Saviour of our kind? That’s what some said. In any event, it was the thing that made all the difference: the met( ͭ )apump ~ this veritable neuro-psycho-spiritual ‘Internal Combustion Engine’! SO EASY TO GRASP YET SO PROFOUNDLY EFFECTIVE!!! Because it wasn’t, isn’t, just an idea, an intellectual meme. Because it was and is a source of energy – an ever-accessible, usable, inexhaustible thing that always makes some degree of difference. However noticeable or unnoticeable it might at first be to others, since 2024 it’s increasingly come to be known with the understanding that without some pumping of ENERGIES being involved it effectively DOESN’T EXIST. With energies, it could move mountains. Without energies, it couldn’t make a hole in a wet paper bag. And with enough people realistically grasping this, soon enough the right kind of mountains started to be moved… Being on the brink of such mass-scale disaster gave us the focus that we otherwise would never have had – nothing less than that power of focus that was essential to change the dynamic of how it was all going… So… Met( ͭ )apumps energetically connected all the world’s religions, mystical traditions, spiritual approaches, all the best of humanities as they’d never been so connected before – each finding its own weddings with physics, biology, neuroscience, psychology… All the ‘HOW?’s people could ask could all at once be answered with this critical KNOWHOW – this core common denominator of understanding that without such pumps, nothing we were aspiring towards could be done. Like loving one’s enemies – literally impossible without met( ͭ )apumps. Of course, people didn’t even believe in the power of the met( ͭ )apump except insofar as such pumps had taken place within them ~ AS WE BELIEVE, SO WE PUMP… And so, believed, the unbelievable happened and spread far and wide – people’s met( ͭ )apumps CONSCIOUSLY ALTERING CONSCIOUSNESS – straddling energies, pumping ideas; straddling ideas, pumping energies…. Pumping META – multivalently, self-observantly, transformationally… Pumping METTA – the ever-present living potential of loving kindness. All that could be imaginally-actually pumped! Heartfulness and Mindfulness meeting and melding like Gaia and God – or, as different people came to put it, like Jesus and Buddha, Maria and Caroline, Kabbalist and Sufi, and so on – every person’s met( ͭ )apumps helping activate those of others… As a kind of ‘missing evolutionary link’ for affective energies…. And the rest, as they say, is history. With met( ͭ )apumps, we saved the Amazon, restored ecological balances, climate stability – notwithstanding the likes of the MEGA-BIG BUSINE$$ giants of thirty years ago – like the Amazons of the world’s Bezoses. Through this subtlest ‘X’ factor we found our way to the key human determinants impacting the lives of our own and other species, leveraging rights issues worldwide, evolving sustainable energy production – notwithstanding all the impacts of eXce$$es like those of the world’s Musks. Yes ~ we realised the met( ͭ )a within ourselves – notwithstanding what came of the Meta of the world’s Zuckerbergs. With all the pressures at play in 2024, with the met( ͭ )apump and all it invisibly and visibly, silently and sonorously pumped from WITHIN, we began turning back the tide, retrieving humanity’s societies and the planet’s ecosystems from the All-Consuming Mega-Machines of Consumer Mind & Culture. Oh yes. The hitherto unknown, unbelievable or absurd became the known, the self-evident, the vital. Because, met( ͭ )apump or not, we were, are and will always be RIDDLED with ‘pumps’ – perception-pointed, perception-pointing, affect-animated, affect-animating mechanisms. Like breathing, like imagining, these work ongoingly whether we consciously engage with them or not. And with all that was spelt our ‘at large’ and ‘at small’ in 2024, we could clearly enough see and grasp that we COULD so see and grasp them! Engaging with our feelings, with all the energy of our moods, our attitudes, our desperate fears and hopes, we could PUMP THESE PUMPS!! Separating ourselves from ourselves, declutching, re-engaging, connecting with ourselves that much more deeply…. So that’s what happened. – that’s what WE did. And now – LOOK WHERE IT’S GOT US!!!! Time for a bit of celebratory verse, I reckon… Met( ͭ )apump presence through pneumatic oxymoron to ever re-get to grips with as a romance with a war on Effable-ineffable wild-‘wild’ symmetrical lexicon luck like a field made met( ͭ )a physical as quasi-con (Oh yes – back in 2024, how many at first thought it was just some con…. ?!!)

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