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Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Knowing, Doing & Being
- Preparing for and embracing de-growth
- Getting your perspective straight
- Ways to participate
If you have not yet read Part 1: Signs Of Distress available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
How We Fix This
At Peak Prosperity our model for squaring up to reality and taking action has three components.
Knowing – refers to gathering the best and most complete data and letting it tell the tale. Often this is hard work, mainly because much if it is ‘not happy data’ and sometimes leads to grief, such as when I view the decline in butterfly populations.
Doing – once armed with the data that says “DO SOMETHING!” we figure you should probably do something. The Eight Forms Of Capital framework in Prosper! lays out a great starting point for anyone. Stepping through each form of capital not only makes you more resilient for any future that might arrive, but happier, more well connected, and healthier today. It’s a win-win and that’s why we like it. Of course Adam and I live what we preach, so there’s nothing in there that we are not following ourselves.
Being – nothing that we do will matter in the end of we humans do not find a new way to be on this planet with each other. We need to be able to tame our egos to the point that we can finally know when to say “enough!” because we know that more stuff isn’t where our happiness and contentment come from. Further we need to remember that are a part of not apart from nature. Reconnecting to the natural world is a huge and important part of being alive and content. Mastering being allows us to experience lives of amazing abundance, in part by being grateful for what we do have rather than consumed by what we do not have.
Once we are on the path of aligning ourselves and our actions with the reality of the world we become…
Joining The Quiet Revolution
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Knowing, Doing & Being
- Preparing for and embracing de-growth
- Getting your perspective straight
- Ways to participate
If you have not yet read Part 1: Signs Of Distress available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
How We Fix This
At Peak Prosperity our model for squaring up to reality and taking action has three components.
Knowing – refers to gathering the best and most complete data and letting it tell the tale. Often this is hard work, mainly because much if it is ‘not happy data’ and sometimes leads to grief, such as when I view the decline in butterfly populations.
Doing – once armed with the data that says “DO SOMETHING!” we figure you should probably do something. The Eight Forms Of Capital framework in Prosper! lays out a great starting point for anyone. Stepping through each form of capital not only makes you more resilient for any future that might arrive, but happier, more well connected, and healthier today. It’s a win-win and that’s why we like it. Of course Adam and I live what we preach, so there’s nothing in there that we are not following ourselves.
Being – nothing that we do will matter in the end of we humans do not find a new way to be on this planet with each other. We need to be able to tame our egos to the point that we can finally know when to say “enough!” because we know that more stuff isn’t where our happiness and contentment come from. Further we need to remember that are a part of not apart from nature. Reconnecting to the natural world is a huge and important part of being alive and content. Mastering being allows us to experience lives of amazing abundance, in part by being grateful for what we do have rather than consumed by what we do not have.
Once we are on the path of aligning ourselves and our actions with the reality of the world we become…
by
Chris Martenson
Following up on our recent warning about the situation in Syria, Chris sits down this week for a conversation with The Saker, who writes extensively on geo-political and military matters. The Saker (a nom-de-plume), is a former intelligence expert with professional and personal insights into Russia and the Middle East.
He shares our deep concern for the dangerously misdirected current state of US foreign and military policy, as well as the potentially lethal repercussions these threaten to have in the powderkeg that is Syria.
In this week's podcast, The Saker provides an excellent distillation of the complex forces in play in Syria — as well as in the brewing friction between the US and Russia — and why the risk of nuclear war has now grown higher than it has been in decades.
The Saker: The Syrian Powderkeg
by Chris MartensonFollowing up on our recent warning about the situation in Syria, Chris sits down this week for a conversation with The Saker, who writes extensively on geo-political and military matters. The Saker (a nom-de-plume), is a former intelligence expert with professional and personal insights into Russia and the Middle East.
He shares our deep concern for the dangerously misdirected current state of US foreign and military policy, as well as the potentially lethal repercussions these threaten to have in the powderkeg that is Syria.
In this week's podcast, The Saker provides an excellent distillation of the complex forces in play in Syria — as well as in the brewing friction between the US and Russia — and why the risk of nuclear war has now grown higher than it has been in decades.
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Understanding The Ego & How It Can Be Manipulated
- Shifting Our Own Minds
- Creating A World Worth Inheriting
- Becoming The Change We Wish To See
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Way To Save Ourselves available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
In beginning to tackle this big topic, first, let's take a closer look at the ego.
The Ego
Humans are indeed set apart from the other sentient species on the planet such as dogs, elephants, whales, and dolphins. But what makes us 'special’ is not the use of language or tools. Plenty of other animals make use of both. Humans seem to be unique in having an ego.
The ego is the part of the mind we interact with (almost) entirely each day. It mediates between the conscious and unconscious parts of ourselves, and is how we interact with the world. It forms our sense of personal identity. For most people it's a fair statement to say they are their ego. They identify with it fully, just as I did with mine until not that long ago.
The ego thinks, assumes, that it is everything about you.
One feature of the ego is that it is always, and forever, in a state of wanting. It needs more and more and MORE all the time. The ego sets goals and attains them, but is rarely if ever satisfied by reaching a goal. If it obtains one, it immediately sets a new one. Therefore it remains in a perpetual state of wanting as it strives towards each new goal.
Ekhart Tolle, who has had a huge impact on my thinking, puts it this way…
How To Be
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Understanding The Ego & How It Can Be Manipulated
- Shifting Our Own Minds
- Creating A World Worth Inheriting
- Becoming The Change We Wish To See
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Way To Save Ourselves available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
In beginning to tackle this big topic, first, let's take a closer look at the ego.
The Ego
Humans are indeed set apart from the other sentient species on the planet such as dogs, elephants, whales, and dolphins. But what makes us 'special’ is not the use of language or tools. Plenty of other animals make use of both. Humans seem to be unique in having an ego.
The ego is the part of the mind we interact with (almost) entirely each day. It mediates between the conscious and unconscious parts of ourselves, and is how we interact with the world. It forms our sense of personal identity. For most people it's a fair statement to say they are their ego. They identify with it fully, just as I did with mine until not that long ago.
The ego thinks, assumes, that it is everything about you.
One feature of the ego is that it is always, and forever, in a state of wanting. It needs more and more and MORE all the time. The ego sets goals and attains them, but is rarely if ever satisfied by reaching a goal. If it obtains one, it immediately sets a new one. Therefore it remains in a perpetual state of wanting as it strives towards each new goal.
Ekhart Tolle, who has had a huge impact on my thinking, puts it this way…
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