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Puttin’ On The Brakes
There is perhaps another reason we are witnessing so much pain in the world today. The entire species is deeply into a transition period from a fear-based world to a love-based one.
It is recorded in the prophecies of many indigenous people and now we are here.
During this time, Babylon — the exploitive, greed-based, unconscious 5000-year-old system that has spread across the planet — is now both being revealed and trembling on the verge of collapse — environmentally, socially, financially, spiritually. Apocalypse means “revealed from behind the veil.” — Robert Roskind
Most problems in the West come from not knowing how to stop. Of not knowing what to do when we’re not doing anything. Remember that precisely we created that artificial separation between,. ′′ LEISURE ′′ and ′′ BUSINESS ′′ nec-otium =no leisure. We live like the donkey behind the stick with the carrot, -; we are promised that if we strive a little harder -; we will reach a reward and be happier — but upon reaching a certain age we realize it was a lie. That’s why a majority of people in our society get depressed as they grow old, because they have lived a farce.
And so we live in a short circuit of chronic anxiety, not knowing how to stop without feeling guilty.
And so we project that guilt in towns that still know how to stop and shame them by calling them lazy…