What We Do Now

David Price
5 min readJul 17, 2024
Van Gogh

Be awake to strategies of transmissional delusion that are all over our news, social media & in the mouths of our politicians & many corporate executives… Do not be ruled by fear or futility. The future rests on what we do now.

— Joan Halifax

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They say that there’s a part of our consciousness…that believes everything we speak out loud, and believes that we are speaking to ourselves, always, no matter who we are addressing. This aspect of ourselves does not know the difference between a movie for entertainment, and “real life events.”

…But in this long, long history of humanity, that has been immersed in so many layers of illusion, delusion and deception, it has come to pass, that, at some point, I must revisit and consider all that I “think I know.“ Where did this information come from? And why?

…my elders said to me that the intellect is the least reliable way of knowing anything. Now I add to this, that even my own eyes and ears are not particularly reliable, given the input they are receiving. So I must turn to my feelings, to my feeling center. And also to my own spirit (both of which are denied and denigrated mercilessly in the Power Over Paradigm). These are my deepest centers, sources, for discernment.

This Mother Earth is always a source of Truth as well. She is not contrived out

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.