The Fate of Humanity

The new documentary 2012: Time For Change discusses modern society and it's lack of connection to the natural world. I stumbled on this documentary yesterday while looking through Netflix. This is now one of my favorite documentaries!

The gods first created people out of mud, but they were not well beings; they lacked emotions and insight. They were then destroyed by a great storm. Next the gods made people out of wood, but they had no direction. They were destroyed by a great flood. Finally the gods made people out of corn. They had great insight, balance, and were powerful, so the gods blew a mist over their eyes. They slowly moved away from the natural world, and so we are today. The end of this era is coming. We need to evolve our consciousness to reconnect with the natural world. The age of wisdom is coming, and we must change in order to continue our survival on earth. 


Our consumer culture is a "materialist prison" (Daniel Pinchbeck). We're running out of resources, and we are ruining the earth. We must change our consciousness and actions. Can we escape this routine of destruction that is our way of living? Why does congress refuse to fund alternative energy or fund the creation of bike trails and better sidewalks for pedestrians? Are these politicians all in the pocket of big businesses such as oil and agriculture? We need to free ourselves! 


We had a lack of elders to lead the new movement for change in the 1960's. Now these once-children are the elders we need to lead us out of the dark and into the new era. If we can all change our consciousness and our actions, with the guidance of elders, we can become more spiritual and save our earth and existence. 

Armageddon really means transformation. This does not need to be the end of time, or the demise of humanity, but ti does need to be a time of change. We cannot continue living this way, or this will become a time of destruction and death. 


If people are constantly being reminded of the dire situation our society is in, and the doom we're facing now, why are they not mobilized to do something about it and affect change? This is because people cannot really grasp what they are being told. It's a tough thing to accept emotionally. Also, change is difficult for everyone, even small change. We are programmed to resist change. Not to mention the fact that we're effectively controlled by the system (in a way similar to the Matrix), where capitalism has us and we do not want to escape. We cannot even fathom living differently, and our politicians continually tell us that resistance is futile and nothing will ever change, so just relax and go with it. 


According to Einstein, we cannot fix the problems by using the same mindset we used to create them, instead we must change our way of thinking. 

Alex Grey painting of Pres. Obama