I suppose I and my contemporaries have been fortunate that our lifetimes have spanned the most extraordinary human era.  The years from c.1940 to c.2030 have witnessed more highs and more lows, more change and more colour, more light and more dark than any other era, so far.  As of this early morning, I thank my lucky stars for having survived, and ponder, would I have had it any other way ?  Of course, the answer is affirmative : so much of the change has been seriously detrimental to so many and so much; a nightmarish drift into crazy commercialism, loss and empty gain, political mayhem, and common destruction.  In these ‘Reflections’, I have often projected into another time – after the ‘Correction’ – because I see the modern world paradigm can only destroy itself, which people of my age have witnessed as progressive defilement throughout our lifetimes, clearly-sighted or not.  I was a born ‘watcher’, observer, witness, (think of it how you will), albeit influenced by dint of circumstance, naturally one of those countryside or maritime folk with what can appear to be second-sight, but more likely is a translation of intelligence and clear-sight; a double-faceted gift.  On the up-side, one can sometimes see a bigger picture, and ‘make provision’; on the flip-side, one’s good nature can be vulnerable to charlatans and lost souls. 

‘ Commerce is supported by keeping the individual at odds with himself and others, 

by making us want more than we need, 

and offering credit to buy what refined senses do not want.

The masses become shackled; 

I see how their eyes weep and are desperate – of course they feel desperate – 

for something, for some remedy that a poor soul feels needs to  be bought.

I find nothing more offensive than a god who could condemn human instincts in us 

that time in all its wonder have made perfect.

I find nothing more destructive to the well-being of life 

than to support a god that makes you feel unworthy and in debt to it.  

I imagine erecting churches to such a strange god 

will assure endless wars 

that commerce loves.

A god that could frighten is not a god – 

but an insidious idol and weapon in the hands of the insane.

A god who talks of sin is worshipped by the infirm.

I was once spiritually ill – we all pass through that – 

But one day the intelligence 

In my soul

Cured

       Me. ’  ^[1]

  It is, and has been, the apparently ambitious, but mistaken activities of ‘lost souls’ that undermined the wellbeing of the human species for all the reasons paraded previously; too often seduced by apparent easy comfort and convenience; too often using resources and fossil fuels mindlessly translated as ‘practical necessities’; too often the very opposite of essential awareness, of the vital, foundational breath that is connection to ‘Love, Life, and the Universe’; too often precluding any real choice.  While the extreme over-population of humans on earth can appear to offer obvious commercial opportunities, cheap-fixes for consumers actually degrade and pollute our environment, not unlike rodents in the house.  That mindless, posturing politicians too often dance the dance is everyone’s misfortune. 

  Any awareness – apparent cognition and recognition – however woolly or bizarre, may be described as some level of Consciousness.  We feed into our consciousness what we will.  On awakening of a morning, we might direct ourselves into the bathroom and kitchen to perform ritual tasks, sleepily.  On going to bed of an evening, we might follow a familiar nighttime routine – reading, for example – to relax the mind before switching-off the light and snuggling down for sleep.  Just for now, we might imagine our regular actions and motions involve an ‘Objective Consciousness’ – beaming our consciousness into and onto whatever we are doing.

  While it can be argued that our various senses feed into our consciousness how they may, it is recognised that sometimes some will not, for example when they are ‘switched-off’ by the host, (when sleeping), or by some external agency, (accident, anaesthetic), or deliberately blinkered by a Wrong Culture’s conventions; the contemporary nightmare.

  Much has been discussed about dreams and dreaming by others all over.  During our deep-sleep, something may stir our unconsciousness just a little, such that we may become subconsciously aware of one or several dream ‘movies’, not unlike a procession of situations, which in our dream state seem real, and we seem to be a part of in some way.  Whereas in the dream ‘movies’, we may seem to playing an active part, actually we are dream-observing active parts of our brains linking aspects of our life, sometimes seemingly rationalising, and ‘filing’ (as in office cabinets), particular passing thoughts, observations, uncertainties and fantasies from recent days, sometimes linked to past stuff.  And then we pass back into the oblivion of deep sleep.  For what it’s worth, we may imagine dream-awareness as ‘Subjective Sub-Consciousness’.   

  We may imagine Consciousness to have Subjective and Objective aspects.  Both Objective and Subjective Consciousness are determined by Mind, our ‘Real Consciousness’, the Us that is in control, (or not), who hopefully tells Brain what to do.  However, when Mind is absent, (asleep, distracted, wandering, unrealised), different parts of Brain can lure Us into foolish ways.  ‘Mr. X’, a cerebral automaton, may take over, temporarily driving the car, doing mundane chores, even making love to  one’s wife ^[2].  Thus, we can project that Mind and ‘Real-Consciousness’ are one and the same; and that an ‘Unreal Consciousness’ can be fabricated by Brain, when we’re not looking, not ‘watching’, when Mind wanders, is distracted, or perverted.  

  The Consciousness that scribes this piece is ‘Real-Consciousness’, a mix of Subjective Consciousness (receptive), and Objective Consciousness, (translating subjective reception into language, and transferring it into action – ‘watching’, speaking, typing, etc), both present and correct, always maintaining Open Reception ^[3] ; ‘listening’ and at once ‘translating’ and ‘acting’.  And I suggest that this awareness is the natural and normal way for Humans to be and to act.  And, by association, any human thoughts and deeds, beings and doings, are likely to be misguided without it; to easily go awry. 

  It follows that dimensions of Awareness and Consciousness need to be realised in stillness, and practised, which could be the foundation of all New Education.  How to balance this ‘stillness’ with the natural exuberance of children is quite simple as children, from around 50 months, naturally welcome it, (after a bout of fun and exercise), when practised in communicating, circular sitting groups, regularly, thereafter. 

  Adults need to unlearn so much indoctrinated claptrap, to re-educate themselves along ethical lines founded in common-sense and conscience, and in Real Consciousness, in profound spirituality, in the Intelligence In Our Soul.  

  Many of us have become dimly aware of approaching Artificial Intelligence, of automatic mechanisms and robots that can replace human activities more efficiently and in half the time.  For some, such will appear as commercial investment opportunities; for most, we will have little choice but to conform, to do what we are told in de-humanised environments.  Music for some ‘men in grey suits’, but slow torture for most sentient beings.

  And there can only be a deeper tragedy in all this.  Robots, like computers, are only as good as what is fed into them.  Real Consciousness, imagination, core creativity, the muse, originality, feeling, real care, love, real sexuality, real spirituality, profound stillness, cannot be fed into machines.  It appears intimated that the human race will become bound by inanimate robots; possibly, we will become redundant, Ho !  The ‘men in grey suits’ may imagine the most devious among them will control the robots, and the rest of us; but, as always, they continue to delude themselves, and mislead the world all the way to terminal catastrophe. 

  Time for everyone to Get Real.

  First, look within.  Find the courage to be completely honest with yourself, and with everyone else.  

  What have you got to fear ?

^[1]  ‘An Insidious Idol’, Meister Eckhart, c.1300AD.  trans. Daniel Ladinsky.

^[2]  See Colin Wilson’s ‘The Occult’, 1970.

^[3]  To Love, Life, and the Vastness; to the breeze in the trees; to beauty, colour, light, and truth.

                                                           12nov23.

  It’s time to ‘shift onto another foot’, to report Good News instead of the endless critical observations of a temporarily failed species; the doom and gloom that’s surrounds so many modern lives, the fantasy play-lives of some.  The apocalyptic vortex has only steepened, the madness only accelerated during my lifetime, along with the exponential rise in the human population.    

  Historically, early European adventurers settled in Britain hundreds of thousands of years ago.  Around 8,300 years ago, Britain – Plato’s Albion – became a recognised island ^[1] with regional nomadic peoples ^[2], evolving a natural island culture.  Following the Roman departure around 430AD, increasing numbers of north-western Europeans came to settle and spread.

  The millions of modern day Brits live amidst a confusing clash of cultures, great and small, with astonishing levels of ignorance about the turn of historical events.  In an age of increasing technology and access to information, so many young and middle-aged appear mentally locked-in to a level of shallowness, and subliminal depression, masquerading as contemporary ‘hip’, which difficulties appear to develop as time goes by; possibly, harbingers of the all-round disintegration of this modern era of Life.  

  And I find, too, that I know so little about what happened politically in the years when the last world-war ended.  Britain again faced bankruptcy to American war-aid, and the people elected the third Labour government in the face of Churchill’s wartime triumph.  What may have started as objection to inequalities of wealth and power, began to be fermented by trouble-makers ‘on the make’ with the advance of industrialisation and its offshoots around a hundred years ago, some justified, some not.  Whereas a mix of cultures has been generally a blessing and a boon, over-population has fermented a growing unrest inherent amongst our peoples.   

  In northern Europe, Anglo-Saxon and Norman descendants share a Viking heredity, a culture of greed, pillage, and violence.  For a thousand years and more, this abusive culture, which spread around the globe, adapting to different religions and ‘trade’, led to the present day come-to-pass, to imminent catastrophes, to the unstoppable trajectories of Climate Change ^[3], such that many people and life-forms will not survive.

  That a corrupt culture – expanding delusions of power, wealth and status taking wanton advantage of others – has marched in tandem with escalating technologies and horrific warfare, mass destruction of infants, siblings, parents, and property; so much horror and harm, so much hunger and hurt; and worldwide degradations of species and environments, multiplying migrations, and expanding financial and economic failures, ballooning addictions, sickness and mental-health stresses, relationship failures, and societal breakdowns, is consequential, not coincidental. 

  So, let’s put all that on one side for now, and move on.  Surely, to find a better way for the future can only be seen as a Good Thing ?  Tough to find good news within the existing paradigm.  That some will survive the inevitable ‘Correction’ ^[4]  has to be Good News, surely, looking at things from specie and environmental points-of-view.  That the ‘Correction’ will reduce world human population to manageable proportions, (likely, to be between sub-one and two billion, between now and say a hundred years’ time), and that survivors will need to ‘think it all out again’, have surely got to be Good Things, if bitter pills.  Other species surviving on planet Earth will surely rejoice. 

  Good News that the hitherto unchallenged Gods of Religion and Money will of necessity shortly be ‘put to bed’.  People everywhere are ‘reviewing the situation’, looking deeper into their hearts and minds.  And there’s little chance that any modern political paradigm, so-called political party, or party politician, can survive much longer.  ‘All Change’ time.  “Three, Four Cheers – Hurrah !”  

  Warfare will come to be seen as having been a conjoined breakdown in communication and relationship, promoted by fear and greed, ambition, lust, and human failure.  About bloody time humans come to reject all that and anything like it.  A safer and positive life awaits us all, if only we will contribute our better selves to it.  Has to be Good !

  Can we hope for awakened populations to ‘get down and dirty’, meaning to ‘Get Real’, honest and open ?  Can we hope that populations worldwide will move from the ‘blink-in-time’ ^[5] hidebound nonsense toward a resurgence of Truth and Justice ?  Sounds potentially like a Global Ethical Revolution – Gotta be Good !  

  Like me, you might rejoice if and when the media shed their sensationalist shenanigans, and their influence over prominent people and the public at large.  So much nonsense tailored to this prejudiced opinion or that; so many wannabes pandering to journalists and cameras to further their dodgy aims to the extent where few intelligent people any longer pay attention to media, other than a passing glance at absurdly pedalled prejudices; a little like reviewing a bookie’s starting prices.  The ‘power of the press’, and of media advertising and undesirable promotions will properly decease in the time ahead.  Can only be Good.

  The Healing of Humans will follow along lines of ‘tough love’ – not unlike the inevitable pain of an operation to put right an ailment – which can only be a Good Thing.  Small, communicating-for-real communities will reintroduce safe and friendly support and stability for their families, children, and oldies.  Land and nature-based education and play will nurture children and adults.  Competition will largely disappear, outside passing friendly sporting rivalries.  Agape – friendly love – may again come to predominate in all our everyday affairs.  Honourable romance will again come to be enjoyed within and between communities.  Relationships will find surer footings in understanding that it is natural, and all but inevitable, that in time individual parties may grow apart, which can be celebrated.  The children and young people will find love and inspiration within their communities.  Such dreams are the real stuff of us human beings, not idle fantasies.  They are Surely Good.

  If the people, priests, media, and ‘men in grey suits’, will lend themselves to it, there is still time to explore and put in place a fresh, pure, positive and compassionate Culture on Earth.  Cultures have tended to be founded on, and adapted to prevailing and promoted spiritual grounds.  It is there we could first look.  It can only be Good to turn from perdition to salvation, from petty politics to profound spirituality, if only for what will turn out to be a few, mainly young survivors. 

  Spirituality, eh ?  a minefield only if people plant landmines of opinion, pain and prejudice in the way.  If we can find our way to the ‘paradox of pure’ in human terms – the highest and lowest common denominators, supreme and simple both – we could find a real foundation for a real future for our children and grandchildren.  Gotta Be Good ! 

  Shall we ?

  And it can be said that the Anglo-Saxons and Normans of these islands and northern Europe have proved to be innovative peoples.  One imagines this intelligence has had to do with the seasonally changing climates of the latitudes, and with the necessary address to coastal winds and currents, and essential relationships with wildlife; possibly a mix of the lot.  Possibly some traditional instinct honed by aloneness, awareness, natural cunning, and survival. 

  Here’s a clue : each one of us has to do all our inner work ourselves; has to undertake that long and troubling inner journey that relies on complete honesty to discover who we really are, on our connection to the Vastness, the Great Spirit.  The care and nurture of our children and communities, and right education can and in time will lead to an Ethical Revolution, and the only possible route to salvation.  Gotta Be Good !

  It becomes the remarkable people of Albion and these fine islands to pioneer such a major historical re-think, to nurture Life, Love, and the Universe.

  So, what do you think ?

  Shall we ?

^[1] Around 8,300 years ago, rising sea levels, from receding glaciation, finally cut Britain off from the Euro-Asian landmass; the final part, from between the Rivers Ouse and Thames, connected to modern Netherlands, we refer to as ‘Doggerland’. 

^[2]  Some shall we say 6,250 years ago, when there were very few people on the land, nomad adventurers travelled freely where they would.  Nomadic hunter-gatherers, and herdsmen, tend to return to different home bases regularly.  

^[3]  ‘Even more relevant to present-day Global Warming than the current rate of emissions, is the far greater accumulation of CO2 at the Tropospheric Ceiling of our atmosphere, from previous decade’s emissions, that mainly causes the warming.  The time it takes ‘Greenhouse Gases’ to reach the Tropospheric Ceiling can be anywhere between 35 to 65 years.  Gases swirl, comingling with other gases around the planet’s surface for a while before beginning to rise, gradually.  The higher they go the colder and denser the air becomes and the slower they rise, Earth’s gravity increasing its resistance.  Once arrived at the Tropospheric Ceiling, they dissipate slowly over a period from a minimum 55 years to centuries.    See also next page. 

  ‘For simple calculation purposes, we may imagine CO2 takes roughly 35 years to reach the ceiling and remains there for say 65 years, a cumulative total of say 100 years.  Thus, the Global Warming we experience today may be seen as largely the result of CO2 accumulations from around 1920, about 100 years ago, or more likely from between the mid-1800s and early 1900s.  

  ‘The unavoidable conclusion is that future decades will experience ever more troubling Global Warming from exponentially increasing CO2 emissions since c.1920.  For example, 2050 will experience warming from the accelerating CO2 emissions in the 1950s and earlier; 2100 from emissions in the 2000s and earlier, and so on : a deadly prognosis.’                                                                                                                                      from ‘Charting Climate Change’, Gaunts Publishing, 2021.

^[4]  Nature always has, and always will find ways to correct or adapt to imbalances.

^[5]  In the great scheme of things, a handful of thousand years here and there are no more than a ‘blink-in-time’.

  The Almighties considered that the central problem on Earth was Human Inadequacy.  At root was the devil of human self-interest; envy, fear and greed promoting corruption and wrong relationships, and the misuse of money and material goods.  The source of that confusion was wrong spiritual foundation, wrong culture, wrong education, and stunted parenting through generations.  Religions were seen to have been a mixed blessing, all too often being linked to politics and ‘wealth’, too often to have been the cause of bitter conflict – human inadequacy.

  Humans tend to put their heads in the sand imagining that nothing too awful is going to happen for the foreseeable future, and they tend to see themselves as individually powerless to do much to make a difference without prejudicing their lifestyles, ambitions, hopes and dreams.  For many Earth creatures, living and surviving is more or less it.  They follow a conscious procession of life from birth through death, ‘flowering’ – putting on their ‘glad rags’ – to attract and mate; sourcing food and water, rearing their offspring from season to season, preparing them to survive by nurturing their beings, adapting, and conforming to wrong cultures.

  Humans have been brainwashed into believing that academia, as opposed to ‘real education’, can lead to power and riches.  Appalling soulless education has devalued real intelligence, produced witless state-fodder, disempowering adult life and the greater spectrum of children, and tended to diminish the human spirit through depression, disease, stress, diabetes, and cancer, in supporting absurdly corrupt governments and societies.   

  Science and industry increasingly pollute the planet’s air and water.  While humans may marvel or shudder at new achievements and may sometimes imagine it their purpose to push the boundaries of science and technology, these latter have too often proved detrimental to health and well-being.  So many of the problems facing humankind and planet Earth are the result of neglect in reviewing so-called science, industry, and technology, historical layer upon layer, quite the opposite of what ‘the system’ would have people believe.  Real human achievements are found in creativity : in art, design, language, music, speech, and writing, and in engineering too, but not in real communication as that has been compromised by wrong motivation.  Until mutual co-operation defeats the ego-trip of ‘competition’, and until the worth in a human being is found to be the stability and joy she or he shares, humans and the planet will suffer.  The essential object for change at this time, has to be the ‘Rejection of, coming to terms with the false Ego-Brain’ in the collective evolution of humankind.

  The Conference concluded that it was unlikely that many on Earth had any real sense of where they were in the slide towards apocalypse, except possibly some older people who may have observed and noted the accelerating decline of so much during their lifetimes.  The situation is confused by ignorant and self-interested politicians and businessmen, and by different scientific and university researchers arriving at different conclusions, some of which can be misleading, most amended later-on.  Added to the mix, ambitious journalists fabricate sensational nonsense; and a determination by certain powers-that-be to withhold information for fear of unrest.  

  Christianity, the religion, had much to answer for, some of it obvious, and some subtle.  For example, ‘forgiveness of sins’ on-a-sixpence has permitted people to behave abominably and get away with it.  Western so-called civilization has depended on that.  With removal of colour-tinted gels from their eyes, humans might see that the Abrahamic religions had encouraged them to ‘sell their souls to the devil’ !  So much of this sits upon shifting sands.  Humans have yet to find a common ground they can subscribe to whole-heartedly.  Consequently, they tend to adapt to whatever passing caravan seems to suit them best, often at an unholy cost to others.   

  Across the globe, humans have much in common, much goodness as well as much un-good.  The greatest warmth and generosity are found amongst the indigenous poor; the least, amongst the super-wealthy, often addicted to drugs, alcohol and vacuous nonsense.  Unless and until humans find a comprehensive and comfortable view of life and ideology that all can welcome and contribute to, divisions are bound to continue to plague all societies, countries, continents, and individual lives.   

  Over-population is a dilemma because one of the principal purposes of all life-forms is sexual reproduction to continue a species, to which was added joy, pleasure and ecstasy to make copulation of both the greatest moment and regular comfort.  The greatest, most important, most meaningful event in any human’s life is the birth of a new-born.  Humans must find a way to manage their populations, to link them to the availability of essential local resources, water and food.  It is over-population that caused high levels of urbanisation, over-use of resources, pollution, and sequential catastrophes. 

  The madness of ‘business’, stealing someone’s treasure only to realise that same treasure is coveted by others, and in time will be taken from them in turn, is the way of materialism.  This craziness embraces concepts of slavery and worklessness.  Mass-production, to provide for increasing numbers of consumers, relies on the mining of rare resources to fabricate huge machines to churn-out thousands of identical cheap products for the masses in set time-frames, needing to be adjusted and checked at high speed by robotic slaves incarcerated in massively polluting ‘factories’; providing super-wealth for a few.  Many of these products are ‘not good’ for humans; many parts are discarded, thrown away, adding to mountain ranges of waste.  The failed system fuels madnesses described as consumerism, dysfunction, obesity, and a spectrum of illnesses.  

  The phantasm that is their fiat-money cannot be ignored, meaning the dreadful plastic notes and fairground coins they have in their pockets.  ‘Fiat’ because it is fraudulent and valueless, based on nothing other than trend, whisper, speculative ‘confidence’, and convenience.  The concept allows for ‘taxation’ and mega-corruption, which ordinary god-fearing folk are required to fund from meagre resources, and for which aspirant grey clerks, so-called ‘professionals’, dictate the rules, charging unholy fees to administer them. 

  The approaching apocalypse will occur from a conjunction of several cataclysms: over-population, over-use of natural resources, wanton fossil fuel use and consequent pollutions; accumulation of poisonous gases in the atmosphere; climate change & altered environmental cycles causing drought, water-shortages, famine, wildfires, and migrations.  Pandemic, economic and financial collapse, bio-chemical and nuclear warfare are serious threats.  All of these threaten cataclysm.  Together, they will cause Apocalypse.  If human inadequacy is the first and major problem, the next most urgent are over-population, and fossil-fuel emissions, and the CO2 in the atmosphere.  

  In the near future we can perceive a number of dangerous whirlpools on collision courses, not unlike spatial gaseous attraction.  Imagine these different whirlpools dancing in space, and imagine a Big Negative Vortex drawing them toward it magnetically, only to consume them as its victims.  This is the image of the Apocalypse threatening demented humans, and all life-forms on planet Earth.  On a scale of things, humans are moving from an Era of Betrayal to an Era of Cataclysm.  A series of concurrent cataclysms will conclude in Apocalypse, which will all-but terminate human and most species’ life, but for possibly a few straggling, struggling survivors. 

The Conference then discussed Solutions.

  Humans need Global and Regional Policies to manage population growth, to care for the environment and for all species, and to cease all warfare forever.  And they need compassionate cultures to completely re-imagine education.  First, they need to undergo an accelerated un-learning and healing process; and primarily they need to re-learn honesty and honour.  Within five years, they must have un-learned the ways of the past five millennia.  They must re-learn love, light, and laughter, for-real.  They all need to practice contemplation and meditation, right education, right communication, and right ‘democracy’. 

  The ‘Men in Grey Suits’, who have marginalised fundamental good, can only be halted by humans the world over renouncing their foolish ways with non-violent protests in every town and city continuously until common-sense, peace and love prevail.  There needs to be a swift revolution of all the structures of society, legislative, judicial, and financial matters, ‘business’ and media.  For humans to survive, the changes needed immediately include sensible provision for all – water, food, housing, care, freedom from debt, sensible population management and care, sensible environmental care, and an immediate and total end to all industrial and poisonous gas emissions.  There is enough ‘wealth’ on Earth to provide a comfortable existence for all peoples while these provisions are being realised, but only if there is an immediate and total end to the notion of economic growth, globalisation, weapons manufacture, defence spending, and frivolous expenditure on space exploration.  Weapons everywhere need to be collected and destroyed.  Global Laws for people will need to be introduced to share water and food, and to prohibit violence and theft, introduced by some sort of Global Government; a compassionate assembly of sensitive, sensible and wise people who act consensually and only in the people’s best interests.

  New arrangements for meeting, listening, and learning can be introduced that involve everyone as much as they wish and are able.  Everyone will be able to be heard.  Small collectives of men, women, and children – their choice of numbers – will select and send one or two representatives to a next level caucus.  In turn, this group will select and send representatives to the next collective level.  In these ways, every person’s voice can be heard, and common sense and conscience can have their say.  Caucuses will maintain their numbers to manageable collectives of intelligent, compassionate, and wise people; whatever they agree.  At every level, every decision will be made by consensus only, however long that may take. 

  The concept of consensual groups will need to take root in every province and region on the planet.  ‘Politics’ need not be a dirty word.  It can come to mean positive and profound thought leading to consensus.  Old political and factional movements, political parties and polemic cannot exist, as they are limiting and destructive.  No political parties and no political elections.  Politicians and diplomats, as they have been known, need to disappear overnight.  Their bureaucratic hydras will vanish with them.  So-called police everywhere will need to adapt their roles to be carers and helpers, experienced in mediation and counselling.       

  To take part in a consensual group, a person will need to be honest and open, and to have addressed their ‘Personal Development’.  They will need to have come to terms with their daemons and Ego, and to have advanced to be clear and ‘clean’ within, to be free and mindful.  They will need to have learned to listen profoundly, and to express only their inner truths, rather than any claptrap, make-believe, dogma or generalisation.  To arrive at consensus, people will need to have shed their self-interest, or if and where it exists, to declare it openly in advance.  Differing points of view will be welcomed as introducing further vision.  An intention to find and reach right outcomes for the well-being of children and communities, and local fauna and flora, that chime with the group collectively, will lead to consensus.        

  Nation states, as they have been known, will re-arrange themselves according to local identities, language and custom, into regions of either a large enough number of people, or of a land area with its own environmental flavour.  Regions will become self-governing, each having an assembly to agree such regional mores it selects in collective consensual discussion, founded in both global laws and local custom.  Monarchies and republics will continue for as long as the people in those regions and nation states concur via collective consensus.  A good ‘royal family’ is of itself beyond value, positively preventing any other parties self-interested ambition.  How a monarch, and their family, is chosen – be that hereditary or selected for life – and what their role is to be, will be decided by regional elders.

  Could there be a danger of some quasi-authoritarian rule usurping a region?  The collective consensual system will determine what happens, not any other authority.  If one or several loud-mouths, or strong-in-the-arm folk, were to attempt to usurp control, the collective consensuses, above and below, could take care of the situation.

  Towns people will return to the land to assist with local food production, directed by existing countryfolk, farmers and gardeners.  Food supplies will become limited to nutritious foods, rather than flashily packaged junk.  People will become healthier and happier, re-finding their natural weight.  Health problems are likely to diminish as greater freedoms and camaraderie are re-established, and natural metabolisms reassert themselves. 

  All  earthly religions are misleading.  It is the factional competition in humans, theoretically wishing their tribe to be bound to a chosen ‘god’, which fights to the death in foolish attempts to achieve an unreal superiority.  Humankind must learn to replace its primitive ways of violent plotting for advantage, vengeance, and supremacy, with love and peace, compassion, and right ways within the Laws of Life and Essence, so as not to muddy their souls.  

  The laws of humans cannot be relied on as they will never suffice until they are fashioned by and founded on the Laws of Life.  Like a lost soul, humankind needs to return to the beginning, to unlearn much of what they have been taught to believe, and to refine themselves to the essence of Life.  Humans need to re-format themselves in truth, love and happiness-fulfilment, learn to communicate with all life-forms, learn to listen and receive, living by giving.  

  It would be helpful if, overnight, monies were to have no value or currency, and formal financial debts of all kinds be nullified.  All forms of interest-bearing lending can be prohibited.  Hoarded precious metals and wealth can be sequestered to provide for a transition period.  Commercial advertising will cease in favour of sober, creative public announcements and advice.  

  The Almighties cannot intervene overtly to save a child’s life, or a river or tree dying from pollution and disease.  Nor can they intervene overtly to save humankind or any life-form.  Humans need to learn to accept their ups and downs with grace, so that their inner-selves can approach more closely the Essence of Life. 

  Humans need to learn that they can do that, not from material thought or science, but from the power of Love and Life in harmony with eternal existence.  What they will gain is a sense of realness, an absence of envy, fear, greed and stress, and an increase in peace, happiness, security, and love.  Their first need is to become honest.  Thereafter, to become immersed in better parenting and profound education. 

  It will take time to resolve the human dilemmas of ‘wanting’, competition, rivalry, and revenge, to rediscover motivations for life in the vacuum left by their defunct financial system.  It will take time for people to stop seeking to take advantage of one another, to return to innocence, and for new systems of understanding human misdemeanours to be evolved and managed.

  There will need to be a transition period while humans become adjusted to real ways of thinking and being, while right spiritual, educational, and health systems are evolved as foundations for The Way Forward.  Humans will need time to recognise the real values of newly evolved cultural and educational foundations, and for them to take hold; for humans to begin to trust again.   

  A host of practical emergencies need to be addressed immediately, which many will find shocking.  All fossil fuel emissions must cease in quick time, essentially ‘over-night’, which stringency must negate procrastination.  Alternative, sustainable means of distribution will result in a reduction of goods available, and a reduction of waste.  Using ships and aircraft for carrying oil, gas, and globalised food distribution must cease immediately, also aircraft used for holiday travel.  Trucks and all oil-fuelled land vehicles will need to be banned.  Instead, only sustainable electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles can be permitted.  Excursions and farther travel by barge and sailboat, bicycle, horse, train, and collectively shared vehicles will become the way.  Plastics will be eliminated.  The imperative of ending all fossil-fuel emissions will be a most immediate challenge.  Failing that can result only in a desperate apocalypse for humans and all life-forms on the planet. 

  Only if humans cut fossil-fuel emissions overnight, and if they can avoid all forms of terrorism and war, and if no pandemic takes hold, they have at most ten years to have turned their primitive ways around and to have renewed their cultures positively to temper the worst of the devastation that approaches Life on Earth.  

  No ‘Earth’ time. 

^[1]  From ‘Come Sunrise’, Gaunts Publishing, 2019-20.