“A single, seemingly powerless person who dares to cry out the word of truth and to stand behind it with all his person and all his life, ready to pay a high price, has surprisingly greater power, though formally disfranchised, than do thousands of anonymous voters.” Havel – Artist and Revolutionary Leader Czechosolvakia
These rare and divinely inspired people emerge in every generation. They are ahead of their times , they see the world as it could be and they fight for that dream, knowing the risks. At every turn they know they may be blocked and yet they continue.
To Boldly Go
Driven by some divine inspiration, they fear neither death, imprisonment, poverty or disenfranchisement because their own interest is secondary to the driver to contribute to a better world for now and in the future. They are the Star Trek pathfinders.
They open people’s senses to what is really going on and they shine a light on the path to what’s possible. And it is through the memory of their bravery in standing up and being counted that we find our own strength .
What would you give your life to?
Is there some idea, cause, belief that you would devote your life to ? We can only ponder under what circumstances we would stand up, be counted and face the direst consequences of breaking out of current thinking paradigms.
Every day we are being asked to make a choice. We are given the choice to support that which we don’t agree with or to stand up and say ‘I challenge this’.
Being True to YOU
There’s an episode of House, the 4th Season, where one of the candidates for a position in the dept of diagnostic medicine under House agreed with House’s diagnosis even though he was sure House was wrong. Why? He was being filmed for a TV documentary. He said later that it would ruin his chances of a career if his future employers saw him being disagreeable.
Of course the character evolves as his ‘shameful’ secret is revealed and he is no longer able to hide behind the mask he created. Through this process he learns to stand up and accept himself and value his opinions… He becomes honest, he dares to differ and as a result House hires him. He’s also a damned fine diagnostician!
Do The Right Thing
We all have our own sense of integrity of what is the right thing to do and what is not. The Native Americans have the ‘one law’. The law is to always consider other and the greater good in every action we take. I’d add another ‘rule’. Follow your deepest fascinations and that which you feel naturally drawn to do. Like this we can evolve.
Insinuation v Revolution
Every day we have opportunities to do the right thing. And sometimes the right thing is not always direct protest.
Because there are times when it is more effective to flow with the system gently the way the water soaks into the earth nurturing and reviving it and encouraging new growth by just being water and doing what water is meant to do.
Follow Your Fascinations
We all have purpose, meaning and a unique set of gifts that are our contribution to the world. When we follow our fascinations, our joy and our bliss we will sow the seeds for the future through our unique contribution to the world.
Dream the World Into Being
In the midst of these seemingly chaotic and exoponentially, rapidly evolving times, did you ever stop to wonder what kind of world you’d like to leave behind for the next generation and the next and the next and what unique gift you have to offer the future?
Jacque Fresco did. This 83 year old French designer and futurist, dreamed a design for a world that is technologically and socially possible, fair to and respectful of all life, virtually crime free and where law is not necessary. This world is a paradise of creativity and technological evolution for the betterment of all mankind and the entire system we are part of…
Proposal for A New World
Wanna know what he has proposed?
www.thevenusproject.com An amazing design for the future
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PS Even if this world does not come into being in our time here on earth, imagine what seeds of potential we can sow for the generations to come.
PPPS We are tenants of this earth and there is an unspoken harmonic agreement that says in return for our tenancy we agree to leave the property in good shape for the next tenants.