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Albert Einstein, smart man that he was, once said, “You cannot solve any problem in the samestate of consciousness in which it was created.”Ponder that for a little while if it doesn’t immediately jump out at you, and you’ll see the truth inthat statement. Of course it applies to the world at large today. But this post isn’t going to be oneof my rants (I’ll do that another day). As a reader of my blog you are well aware my belief in theoncoming changes that will affect this planet, the power of intention, and creativity, and thought.You know I believe how awesome, and utterly perfect you are. The only issue dear one is thatyou simply don’t remember your own power. Not that there is something within you that iswrong and needs to change and blah blah blah blah. To quote John Major Jenkins “…theunlimited divine self cannot be conceived or understood by the rational intellect, but it can bedirectly experienced.” Life is a wonderful journey of human experience. In my short twenty eightyears this go around on the planet, I have had my fill of emotions and I can’t wait for more. Ilearn every time I bleed, and I have only loved, never loved and lost, that’s just silly.But, back on topic.I have found that I’ve gone through some phases. Once you are aware of how f’d up everythingis, the manipulation and the lies, of course you want it to stop. But I think that by focusing onwhat’s wrong, we give our energy to that and that’s not where we want our energy to go. Instead,why not focus on how to make it right so we can create something new to replace what
we
fucked up. To quote Peter Russell, holder of degrees in theoretical physics, experimental psychology, computer science, an author and award winning producer, “The global crisis we arenow facing is at its root, a crisis of consciousness - a crisis born of the fact that we have prodigious technological powers but still remain half awake.” In light of that, I want to spreadthe good news and inform you today of the sweeping changes that you may not be aware of thatare affecting our current global structure in the business and political fields.While we are the ones we are waiting for, while we must BE the change we wish to see in theworld, once the old systems collapse (whoopee!) there must be new ones to take their place. Mymother once said that to point out a problem then offer no solution can do just as much damageas the problem itself. Which is true. I am not so naive to think that we can just wave our hand,get rid of our retarded illusion of democracy and materialism and patiently sit and wait for somegrand savior to come in and rescue us. That’s not quite how it’s going to work. Once we knock itdown, we must rebuild something else. You may think that the only changes in consciousness arecoming from the mystical, spiritual side and from the crazy new age ranters like me, whoregularly invite our higher selves back into body, and then have a nice cosmic flush (you gottatry it, it’s
 fabulous
. Go tohttp://www.ascensionhelp.com). But the truth is, the changes, the shift,the awakening, the ascension whatever you want to call it, is affecting everything. Theorganizations I’m going to mention may just have a purpose that resonates in your soul, that youwant to jump into, and volunteer your time and expertise to help spread the word, do the work and help everyone hit that catalyst point on their own journey of awakening. I’m not going to gointo a lot of detail here, I’m going to give you some cliff notes and whatever strikes your fancyI’m sure you’ll latch onto and research more in depth yourselves. I’m just the messenger 
 
I just finished reading (like five minutes ago) a book called
The Mystery of 2012
. Wonderful readI highly recommend for anyone who wants to know what’s going. It is a collection of articles andessays (lots of big words, I did a lot of dictionary.com jumping while I read it) on the 2012 phenomena from different perspectives. All agree, for the most part, that change is already hereand what we are experiencing is a awakening, a shift in consciousness that is a combination of this planets destiny and our own free will. (You don’t have to jump on the bandwagon but your higher self will keep trying to tap you on the shoulder to wake you up. You’re already participating in the waters of creation, the only thing left to do is shatter your illusion of separateness. That is the only sacrifice to make, but only make it when you are ready.) One of thearticles that really made me happy was written by Corinne McLaughlin. Corinne is an author,Executive Director for The Center for Visionary Leadership, coordinated a national task force for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, and taught politics at AmericanUniversity. You can learn more about her work at www.visionarylead.org. Corinne begins her article with a statement that I like to keep repeating, and repeating no matter how many times, or different ways it’s said because I think it’s so critical to understand, “Whynot imagine a better world in the future and live this vision moment to moment in the choicesyou make and the work that you do? In this way, you can help create it.” Creation, intention,creation, intention, energy follows thought, menchicaboola.Right now, yes right now, there exist social responsible businesses. Spiritual Capitalism is all thenew rave. Just because Fox News hasn’t told you so, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Don’tmake me go into the media is biased and full of shit speel, you should know that already. The profit above all and fuck everything else mentality doesn’t work. No big shocker there.Companies are starting to take notice and as CEO’s, and SVP’s, and middle management, and thecopy machine guy wakes up, they’re bringing those ideals to work with them. There is anInternational Spirit at Work Organizationhttp://www.spiritatwork.org/index.php(they are nowdormant, but I list them because their website is full of fabulous information). There is the WorldBusiness Academy which promotes corporate responsibility http://www.worldbusiness.org. There is the United Nations Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org/ which is all about environmental protection, human rights, and higher labor standards. They have 300 multinationalcorporations part of. There is The Natural Stephttp://www.naturalstep.org/which shows businessthe competitive advantage of sustainability and integrating environmental consideration intostrategic decisions and daily organizations.I don’t believe money is going to be around much longer, I mean once everyone wakes up, bartering will be acceptable but until then, Lifesystems of Health and Sustainability report thereis a 228.9 billion marketplace for ish focused on holistic health, the environment, social justice,sustainable living, etc. The Business for Social Responsibilityhttp://www.bsr.org/founded in the1990s has over 400 organizations and about half are fortune 500 companies. Companies like,The Body Shop, The Mens Warehouse, Timberland Company for example are on the list. We’veall seen Whole Foods around, one should shop there when dinero permits because hey, what weeat is pretty important and I dislike ingesting well, crap disguised as healthy food. So go aheadand keep shopping there. in fact go look up your favorite store and see if they’re on the list of any of those organizations and if not, cut em off (like Nike for example and those stoopid sweatshops, bleh). We can’t keep supporting the systems that are falling that’s just silly. I for one like
 
shopping in places that are on the Caring Consumer list that don’t test on animals. You can check them out herehttp://www.caringconsumer.com/. There are things we can do, things that are beingdone now to shift away from the bullshit into something better. And it’s only going to get better,trust me.USA Weekend did a poll, and spirituality has become the second most important factor in personal happiness. To quote Corinne, “Growing numbers of business people want their spirituality to be more than just faith and belief; they want it to be practical and applied. Theywant to bring their whole selves to work, body, mind and spirit.” Woot. Woot. There’s that throatchakra opening up, forcing us to speaking our truth, everywhere. There’s that solar plexus chakraexpanding, bringing in our personal power and our resolve to just say no to the dumb shit, andthat applies to the scenarios at work as well. It’s all interconnected lovies. Remember,separateness is the illusion. And don’t think for a moment that being a socially responsible business can’t affect the bottom line. It simply does. Happy people work harder period, you don’thave to be a rocket scientist to know that. Corinne reports in her article that a meta-study done bythe United Kingdom’s Environment Agency and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors called
Corporate Environment Governance
found that 85% saw a wonderful synergism betweenenvironmental management and financial performance.And just too really spin your mind a bit, do you know how many companies now haveMeditation classes and rooms at work? Would you believe me if I told you, Apple, Google,Yahoo, IBM, Raytheon Company do just that? How wonderful.And it’s not business. It’s affecting politics too. This makes me really happy. You know I’ve gotthat warrior spirit that hasn’t been satisfied in a while, now that I’m aware of these organizationstoo I’m going to have to look them up (to honorable battle!). There is the Tikkun Network of Spiritual Progressives,http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/index.phpand the Center for Visionary Leadership as mentioned above. There is also an even stronger movement and that’sfrom the independent sector, or civil society. That’s the organizations that locally see somethingwrong, realize the government isn’t going to fix it, so they’ve rolled up their sleeves, and aredoing it their damn selves. Woot Woot. Look around at New Orleans for example and you cansee it everywhere. Visionary Activist and Entrepreneur Paul Hawken wrote a book called
 Blessed Unrest 
(which is now on my to get list) and documents a whopping one million and probably more to date, of these groups worldwide. Can’t hold us down. And Gods and Goddess bless the World Wide Web for its ability to start movements, link people quicker and spread theword faster. You want to see examples of real world results of non adversarial politics that findsthe higher ground, and teaches both sides not to compromise but instead find that issue they canagree needs to be fixed and focus on that, check out The Truth and Reconciliation Commissionhttps://www.trcofliberia.org/. They helped usher in non violent change in the South AfricanGovernment along with the awesome effort of 10,000 people who received conflict resolutiontraining. No Government needed. Just people who came together and said, hey, I can do this.And I can do this. And you can teach me that, and bam, they got it done. Corinne says it the best,“healing, reconciliation and forgiveness are spiritual qualities very much needed today.” Howabout the awesome work done by the Search for Common Ground http://www.sfcg.org/whose mission is to “understand the differences; act on the commonalities.” This group has 300 staff members in more than 17 countries, holding under cova (back channel) meetings with Iranians
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Francisrosa

Its very nice! See the movie too!

reply05 / 08 / 2009
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