Lessons in Trust: Our Human World #3
Sunset at Ko Phangan, Southern Thailand
In troubled times are when humans learn lessons, and make changes. Evolution does not take shape when the heart is content…
After all, if I'm lounging in my hammock on the verandah of my beachside bungalow with a book, my reggae tunes, my notebook, and a full view of the ocean, with lots of beautiful nature around me, fiery southern Thai curries for dinner, coconut shakes for thirst, there is nothing to be learned, no lesson to be reflected upon, because this is ULTIMATE LIVING!!! Life is just dandy, and there is nothing to be done except keep on enjoying it.
But in the bad times, we don't want them to continue... and since 2020 humanity has broken into an outright calamity.
For me, who had lost the trust in them at the turn of the century, the big lesson of our times for the collective human family, is that our understandable and admirable trust we have always placed in our scientists, doctors, and academics can be no longer. This is a real shame, because at the heart of the human essence is living with trust of others.
They have thoroughly blown it, failed us miserably, too fixated upon money, ego, and status amongst peers.
Dr Bruce Lipton, brilliant biologist of our times, and a pioneer of Epigenetics, said once that science these days is ‘often a show of hands’. Dr David Bohm, brilliant physicist of the 20th century, went into de-facto exile from America in order to continue his work and to get published, as his peers refused to engage in his cutting edge postulations and findings (now known as Quantum Physics).
A modern, hip, trendy, youthful ‘media scientist’, who I won’t name, appears on TV discussion panels apparently thinking that ‘overwhelming consensus’ means the science is fact. It’s an inherently anti-science statement, Orwellian in its make-up.
This is not to blame anybody, merely to make observations in the pursuit of lessons to be learned. Blame and solutions go together like penguins and polar bears.
That is, never.
This breakdown in our collective intelligence and trust has led to our total meltdown as a species, where words like quarantine, lockdown, 'social' distancing, mask, jab, ring of steel (Australian), self-isolation and all these other BRUTALISATION WORDS have become part of the everyday vernacular. This is deeply disappointing for us all, and indicates an extremely sad state of affairs. We are social animals, being torn asunder by our own ignorance. Language, after all, creates our feelings, and our feelings are what makes our life experience.
Not much point in blaming the politicians either, they are just wannabe gas stove repairers, only qualified for blowing inordinate amounts of hot air.
Nor the media, for they're just wannabe politicians, or, the politicians' secretaries.
Ultimately speaking, we can't even blame doctors, scientists or academics, for the root cause of everything is a woeful and anti-human school SYSTEM which represses all of us, doing its best over 12 years to stamp out our very human essence: that innate part of us which brings feelings like love, joy, freedom, peace, camaraderie into our consciousness, making it a deep pleasure to be human.
Don’t blame people: blame the system, understand the system and how it brutalises our essence, our heart, our soul, our joie de vivre, and then make changes.
So, surely, now, the fixing process. Education, Academia, Science, Medicine, and Media will be taking central stage, and must step up to the plate. But, these are just words, they are filled with individual human beings, and our world is shaped by individual human action. That’s you and me, dear reader! So, how to do?
The objective is simple: if we can no longer trust the 'experts', then we have to learn how to trust ourselves. And that means we have to learn who we are and how life works. And absolutely the same must apply to our scientists, doctors and academics.
I can say from my own experience as an educator, a researcher, and student of human life, that when we learn to trust ourselves, we can rather easily discern who in the fields of science, academia, medicine, media we can trust, to help guide us in our own lives.
This development of self-trust and self-knowledge must be the central mission and foundation for all of us, right now, from my perspective of things. I call it 'developing our Inner Authority'.
I will write on this in a few days.
