Happiness and security are decisions we make. Our quality of life is entirely under our own control.
In the letter I quoted Mahatma Ghandi's great line "Be the change you want to see." This is truer than we realise. Change can only come from within. Just like a known fact can never have the power of a mystery outside influences cannot move us as deeply and as powerfully as we can influence ourselves. Positive thoughts open us to positive ideas which create positive solutions and result in positive lives.
This blog is officially "non-whiny" from now on. I have something to share and it's an amazing breakthrough in the way I am. The breakthrough is the simple acknowledgement that everything which impacts upon me I created. Whining over my lot in life or how the banks have damaged the economy or how governments have set us up to engage in resource warfare is a waste of energy.
Understanding how things have gone wrong is important. Diagnosing the illness is essential but the cure is always the same no matter what the issue. We are the solution, not wind power, not thorium, not an international consortium or military alliance. We are the solution to all our problems and, in the spirit of this truth, I am concentrating my efforts and energy over the next year to the following steps:
- Deriving as many real world solutions as my imagination and knowledge reveals to me.
- Securing my lifestyle here in Montpellier through my creative powers and ability to speak.
- Making contact and brainstorming as many people as I can via social networks to create virtuous circles.
- Forwarding the Open Source concept as the best model for developing a new way of life through example and practical work.
- Exploring the idea of being Zodi and removing the 'I' from thought and action so that the possibility of a new form of thought occurs.
This is all good news considering where I have come from:
Two years ago I hit rock bottom emotionally and financially. It took me a good year and the move to a new town to lift me out of that dark place. Montpellier is a fantastic place to live and it is bristling with opportunity and energy. That's where my human energy idea came from in the first place. Carcassonne could never have revealed such an idea to me because it is too sedate a place. So, yes, it's an insecure life but it is a lived life which is definitely what I have chosen. My choices brought all of this into being.
Fear, poverty, unemployment, depression, envy, frustration I chose all of these things. I brought them into being through choosing. Security, both emotional and social is also a choice I can make. Wealth, real wealth is a choice I can make. Contentment and freedom from envy is a choice I can make. I can choose virtuous actions and relationships every second of my life. So why don't I?
Done!
I choose to thrive. The change starts here, it comes from within. I choose to be part of something enormous and creative and infinite. I choose no longer to be 'I'. The powerless, insecure individual called Garalt Canton connects to the all powerful energy of the universe through a simple mental switch.
Here it is: 'I' becomes 'We'.
The individual advances to archetype simply through conscious choice.
What's an archetype?
It's the word I have chosen to use to describe the completely awakened presence that can exist through the framework of a human being. It's a tricky thing to picture but imagine the entire sum total of every thing you have ever thought, done, felt, changed, experienced and effected; Now multiply that by those you relate to and the sum total of their existence. That's an archetype. Pretty huge and mind-blowing isn't it?
Now let's imagine this at a higher level. Let's imagine what the archetype of a species might be capable of. Imagine if we no longer thought of ourselves as human or 'low-men' (that's what the word actually means) or smart animals as opposed to dumb animals any more. Imagine if we acknowledged that our unconscious, unthinking impact on our world has been profound and amazing in a frightful manner and then we made the choice to think, diagnose and act in a sentient, awakened manner.
Such a phenomenon as a sentient species would be extraordinary and all powerful, wouldn't it?
Such a thing could have the potential to colonise other worlds and, as our technology and nature advanced, even other galaxies. Why not? Life is unending.
Such a thing would be universal, galactic in its potential. Such a thing could only be measured in the very energy of galactic star-seed dust: Zodi.
So why not identify ourselves with this unstoppable force because this is the actual truth of living existence?
We are Zodi. Every single one of us is a distinct universe of experience, memory and thought.
We are Zodi. Every life is full of possibility and opportunity because the nature of Zodi is infinite
We are Zodi. We have all the authority we require through our own sentience.
We are Zodi. We combine this sentience at various depths with one another so that we can completely harmonize with everything or we can cause ripples and patterns all of our own.
We are Zodi. We can create our own universe simply by choosing to do so.
It is that simple. Welcome to sentience.
