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Interesting video. A thousand years ago, we didn’t live until 80 years old, population was under control, and human discovery was in the early stages of exponential growth, which continues to accelerate. If Darwin is right (and he is), humans will evolve imperceptibly closer to being able to thrive in an austere environment and more crowded spaces – the hierarchy of the species will change with longer lives. The paradox is that a prolonged life might actually kill us.

The paradox seems logical actually – every life’s journey is a march toward death. But “how we die” (whether stress or natural cause – if you differentiate the too) also evolves with our ability to survive longer. Have our advancements in foods, medical technology, weaponry, and manufacturing outpaced the evolution of our emotional and mental capacity to handle a longer life. The capitalism of evolution – it’s not the quality of life, but it’s length. The talus of mining gold from the masses, the chaff sifted from the wheat, is made of stress, which becomes abundant – eventually exceeding our stores of wealth.

Life itself, in this changing environment, has become fertile grounds for stress to flourish, as the “new dominant species.” As man seems to be the most intricate (some call it “advanced”) species in terms its level of consciousness, self-awareness with others, and craft for emotional manipulation – we have perhaps un-naturally accelerated our own evolution and even misshapen that for all species. Since stress is our offspring – how do we correct its course?

Imagine trying to make a vase on a wobbling potters wheel…the clay is disproportionally distributed and centrifugal force causes the form to collapse in our hands. The wheel of life is wobbling out of control; the Hopi Indians call this, koyaanisqatsi. What makes us unique from the Baboons is a profound awareness of where we come from and where we are heading – and the capacity to do something about it. We can true the wheel of life, one spoke at a time.

As the video closes, the researcher offers that correcting the course of stress is one of regaining the balance between “giving” and “receiving.” He and others understand that the dynamics of social hierarchy and the stresses both imposed and felt between its layers, comes full circle to effect all levels within the environment in time and space (us here and now and our posterity). The video suggests that we recreate our environments to not just prevent stress, but to take the time to see our environments as they are, just “differently.” If you don’t like the view, change your perspective…see the cities as a verdant forest of waving trees, the tides of love and strife in the world as “seasons,” and the malfeasance of others as minor squalls in natures magnificent storms.

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It is easy to forget, and impossible to know, that where we are today is the result of a change someone made or failed to make in the past.

They taught us in land navigation that the best way to never get lost is to shoot our azimuth (direction we wish to go) at the farthest object in the distance along that azimuth. “Keep your eye on it, and go.” Little, more near things get in the way; a tree, a house, a lake, but the same principal applies in circumnavigation. Pick a mountain peak, a tower, and go. 

As we unite to change society as a culture, it’s also important to consider how we engage the tempo of change within ourselves – our individuality. I may not be the perfect “person” today, but over span of my life, I can become more perfect through recalibration (change) applied to my own behavior. Extrapolating this across an eternity – if I recognize Karma, and my faith or religion embodies this – then perhaps the entirety of my imperfect life, is redeemed through continual moral recalibration; I become more perfect through the countless soul journeys and incarnations beyond the bounds of This – One – Life. The reasons of small change today may not become clear until another lifetime. And even then, the soul we’d become, would know little of what it chooses today… your soul “today” has the advantage of knowing. Personal change happens in the “now-ness” of being…there is nothing to wait until tomorrow for.

Within our True heart, is the compass of divine direction. Where is your heart pointing? Find the true unchangeable heart center, and it will navigate the changes around you. The unchangeable (immutable Truth) can cause change… can endure change, is the result of change.

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What’s on my mind lately? Thanks for asking.

I’m hungry; I cannot ask for food, I must ask for permission. I am hurt; I cannot ask for a doctor, I must ask permission. I’m safe under my tarpaulin roof; I cannot ask to remain where I live, I must ask permission. I was just asking “why”; now I cannot ask to them to stop beating me, it just is. My son is 9, he asks many questions; our school has been razed.

I have learned to not blink when a bomb goes off, all I ask is to close my eyes each night to the sounds of my father singing, my mother cleaning dishes in the basin. I don’t need to blink, but may I close my eyes in reposeful sleep, with the remembrance of my sister who, in slow motion, blinks one last time as the missile strikes. I ask to bury her…there is no land left for the living, let alone the dead.

I will not ask permission to be brave, and fearless, and humble, and perseverant, amidst all this death and destruction. You need no permission, ask me to teach you life, by living. Do not be inspired by my endurance of oppression, but rather my resilience to ask, to live. Ask.

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