The real issue is what do we do? How we got here may not matter, Mother Nature goes on its own ride!

On 7/7/2019 at 8:02 PM, Lost in Translation said:

And what? Climate change in an of itself is a non-issue. The real issue is what do we do? All I hear in this regard is something along the lines of "we should bankrupt the civilized world on the hope that we can reduce temperatures by 1-2 degrees centigrade in 50 years." That's not a compelling argument. Why create a financial crisis to maybe avoid a climate crisis? So what do we do?

You might want to study the empirical evidence better to put the "civilized world" into ecological context.
When you say, "All I hear" - you are talking about corporate-state mass media control. You're not talking about the actual empirical evidence.

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-breaching-carbon-threshold-mass-extinction.html

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Today's oceans are absorbing carbon about an order of magnitude faster than the worst case in the geologic record—the end-Permian extinction. But humans have only been pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for hundreds of years, versus the tens of thousands of years or more that it took for volcanic eruptions or other disturbances to trigger the great environmental disruptions of the past. Might the modern increase of carbon be too brief to excite a major disruption?

According to Rothman, today we are "at the precipice of excitation," and if it occurs, the resulting spike—as evidenced through ocean acidification, species die-offs, and more—is likely to be similar to past global catastrophes.
"Once we're over the threshold, how we got there may not matter," says Rothman, who is publishing his results this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Once you get over it, you're dealing with how the Earth works, and it goes on its own ride."

So try to realize that these "civilized humans" that you speak of are completely clueless about the effects of civilization on planetary ecology!! It's kind of hilarious.

Now this is a Daoist website - Daoism actually is NOT based on Western civilization (contrary to all the New Age Westernized Platonic Esoteric b.s. on this site).

So in other words you can practice Daoist meditation Neidan and step outside the purvey of Western civilization, as it were. Humans, modern biological humans, have been around for over 1 million years and Daoist meditation is from our original human culture - the San Bushmen training states to visualize fire at the base of the spine to turn water into boiling steam as healing electromagnetic energy - called N/om.

So what should we do? The Daoist meditation activates the pineal gland which resonates based on the Solar-Lunar electrogravitic energy that exists and resonates through the Equinox and Solstices and Full Moons, etc. So yes over hundreds of millions of years the Moon will change its trajectory to Earth. Right now the full moon resonates particularly with the Sun to create the 24 hour days, etc.

So then when we activate the Yuan Qi this is the Cosmic Qi from virtual photons - relativistic quantum physics. The highest technology of all technologies is INSIDE us!!

That's really all we can do. Realize that Western Civilization made a lot of fun technology but at great expense to the ecology of the Earth but there is a bigger dynamic at play that Western civilization "exists within."

Most people are NOT willing to make that consideration - even despite this being a Daoist website. haha. Quite hilarious actually.

a good book on Jesus is "Christ in Egypt" - the author died young from breast cancer - she worked too hard. No one read her stuff hardly - too academic - and now that book is free online. Kind of tragic. But it's an amazing tome of academic analysis on the origins of Jesus. Yes the ancient spiritual training is very real. Check out what happened to Andrew Zimmern when he went to the original human culture that has done this training since 70,000 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBFToDoxYX0 people have no idea what they're missing since the training is actually quite strict.

Toward what I believed to be the end of the evening, Xaxe, a great hunter, healer,and shaman, laid hands on me....I felt the energy, his energy, surge through my body. He had his hands on me for about twenty-five or thirty seconds, but it felt like he had only touched me for a split second. Time stood still. I literally had a short out of body experience. I could see him touching me from just above my body, almost like I was floating six feet off the ground, watching myself. All of a sudden I was back in my body observing an image of him thumbing through the book that contained all the pictures and moments in my life. I saw images of my childhood I hadn't remembered in years, pictures of my mother and me walking on a beach and shelling, very strong images. At the time, both during his touch and immediately afterward, I described it as him flipping through the pages of my life....Later the next morning, I spoke with Xaxe about the trance dance. He told me he wanted access to me in a way that was not possible through a translator....Xaxe's curiosity was such a caring, loving gesture....When he detached from me it felt like someone was unplugging a lamp from a wall socket. As he let go of me and continued to dance around the fire, I spontaneously burst into uncontrollable tears....I had been stripped to my emotional core, completely stunned by what I had witnessed so up close and personal.  

Andrew Zimmern, The Bizarre Truth: how I walked out the door mouth first – and came back shaking my head (Random House, 2009), 234-5.

 Cargill is the world's largest private corporation yet most have never heard of Cargill. Cargill works with the US as "food for peace" imperialism - aka "food dumping." So Cargill recently admitted they can't stop all the deforestation they caused when Cargill put illegal soy bean storage elevators in the Amazon rainforest. At the time the "liberal" corporate-state mass mind control media was PROMOTING Cargill's raping of the Amazon rainforest.

 I even wrote an article against this - in 2006. Now the "liberal" news is pretending like they were not part of the problem when they could have done something about it. That's the typical corporate-state "time frame." So that Kim Iverson lady says the Democrat Elite is now stating Iran attacked the US - that's the Rockefeller Big Oil agenda - while the "new green deal" is dismissed as unnecessary idealism by naive young people (AOC).

So as long as indoctrination is effective then ignorance will be bliss. People either blame "the left" (thinking that the liberal elite are the "left" which is a total joke) or people blame the "right" (meaning the brainwashed lapdogs trained to "sick" the poor outsiders of the Empire). Yes as Chomsky points out - controlling people's minds is much easier than controlling people physically.

 https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/stop-cargills-destruction-amazon/ So here is my article - when that was published in a local "free" (no one reads) newspaper website - at the same time the local "liberal" corporate-state mass mind control was saying the OPPOSITE.

Cargill puts up $30 million to fight deforestation in Brazil - StarTribune ... www.startribune.com/cargill-puts-up-30-million-to-end...in-brazil/511237702/ Jun 13, 2019 - Cargill Inc. is putting up $30 million to fund new ideas for ending deforestation in Brazil, where the conflict between economic growth and ... So now the corporate-state news tries to "spin" it as a PR puff piece. pretty creepy. So then you click on the link and what does the ACTUAL print article state?

Cargill says goal for ending forest destruction in Brazil will be missed

I guess you don't read my blog http://elixirfield.blogspot.com
This is not about some individualistic mission. There can be Daoist masters or other spiritual healers but yes the overall trajectory of life on Earth is quite different - that is a structural imposition that Westerners like to ignore. I recommend reading Noam Chomsky's book Year 501: The Conquest Continues or the book "Ecological Imperialism" by professor Alfred Crosby.
 
What have I done "individually"? Yeah I literally ate out of dumpsters for 10 years since the US wastes so much food - while riding a bicycle all year long about 10 miles a day. I also worked for half a dozen environmental nonprofit organizations - Greenpeace and Citizens for a Better Environment and UW-Madison Greens and Resource Center of the Americas and Clean Water Action - and others. I did lots of "volunteer" activism - organizing coalitions and campaigns.
 
Yes I did humanure composting - and still do. I grow mushrooms in a mini-forest now.
 
So I've been doing environmental activism since the mid-80s - I became vegetarian in high school and started a recycling program at my high school and then I picked up 2 big garbages full of JUST cigarette butts along the Mississippi river.
 
I planted an acre of chestnut trees - and pulled out 5 acres of buckthorn (european invasive) with a pick axe. I worked on an organic CSA farm full time for a summer and then 2 years in an organic fruit warehouse job.
 
Yeah it's been fun but I was definitely going against the grain - people think I have just wasted my life and "done nothing." haha.
 
So technically you can not live on your own land as a "permanent resident" unless the building is "up to code" - international code council - so you need to have "facilities" for certain building size and electrical smoke detectors hard-wired in - so electrical wiring and then pressurized water and some kind of septic system or into the utilities. This takes at least 30 thousand US dollars just to be a legal "permanent resident" - to have a "domicile."
 
But if you live in a tent then you can legally live on your land for 7 months a year on a short term basis and then camp for 2 weeks at a time and then you can camp for free in the national forest also for 2 weeks at a time. So I bought land nearby the national forest - and so I can grow mushrooms and then camp year round for free. Technically I will be "homeless" so I could not have a driver's license as that requires a "permanent residency" to get a photo ID. So I would just have to use bicycles for transportation but as I said I already did that for 10 years nonstop while living in the city.
 
So that's been my life. How about your life?

 Professor Naomi Oreskes wrote a great book on how Plate Tectonics was not accepted by US scientists for decades - I think it took the Navy to finally map the ocean floor. But the empirical evidence for continental drift was too overwhelming so the Brit scientists knew it was true. So she wrote that book in the early 2000s and I promoted it on guerrillanewsnetwork around 2004 to 6. I said at the time that Western scientists would NEVER "catch up" with the empirical truth of global warming. So then Professor Oreskes switched over to focus on how scientists can not handle global warming empirical evidence.

Basically there is an inherent deductive trajectory to science based on the structural drive of the symmetric mathematics going into higher dimensions. But this drive rooted in exponential growth is actually not accurate. Reality is based on complementary opposites from the 5th dimension that is non-local - what science now calls "noncommutative phase." Hardly anyone knows about this but math professor Alain Connes promotes noncommutative geometry.