In my opinion, there is an advancing global tyranny - equipped with technologies and weaponries only dreamt of by previous tyrants, and above all fuelled and emboldened by a grand all-controlling vision of a new earthly reality.
Simultaneously, I feel millions of around the world sense we have a vision of our own. Not one grand centralised vision for all humanity, but a vision of visions - a vision of multiplicity, of communities, of harmony in-and-as nature, of emotional maturity and awareness - and therefore, of gratitude and peace and celebration.
The Concious Tribes Project, and specifically its basic text, “Love & Revolution”, offers a vision not just of where we want to go, but a vision of how we get there: by traveling together in what I all “Radical Honesty”, and “Conscious Relating”, and linking small, local Tribes. It offers a way of giving shape to the vision millions of us sense we share – a way of materialising it, of making it happen.
I believe millions of us dream of Our Own Great Reset - although not one we would want to trumpet as ´great´. We wouldn´t want to be part of some glorious crusade! Nor would we put it quite so (tellingly) digitally! But we share a sense of being part of a collective, energetic emergence.
Many of us see sociopathic centralists attempting to impose their vision of a Digital Earth - with their rhetoric and plastic medicines and plastic food and databases and guns – and we´ve thrown away whatever little trust we had left in these “leaders´” good intentions. We feel blessed with an unfamiliar freedom. We feel ourselves part of an emergence. We feel that emergence inside us. And when we feel this feeling rise in us, it is thrilling and daunting – and yet, I would say, the vast majority of us are not really united. We are united in our ideals. But in our everyday lives we are kept busy working to pay for the house and the car and mobile/cell phone and the entertainments we need in order to cope with the stress of so much working! We might be united on social media! But we are not united in real life!
“Love & Revolution” is a presentation and a proposition – it presents a multi-layered course of action. It is not just a Shared Vision, but a Shared Method - by which to activate the latent, heartfelt, sincere yet predominantly emotional/mental vision that millions of us share – and make it physical, make it real.
Radical Honesty and Conscious Relating and Local Action require presentness-to-self, and sincerity of self-observation, the capacity to discriminate Essence and Personality, self-responsibility beyond victimhood and blame, humility and softness of heart. Not easy! And I don´t expect every one of the millions of us who have a generally-similar vision to take up this specific, crystalised Shared Vision.
Millions of us seem to share a vision of empowered local communities, of decentralised cultures – not absolute centralised control; a vision of people living embedded in nature - not in smart cities on lab food; a vision of cultures with emotional intelligence - not the manufactured, brattish squabbling called war... But I don´t expect everyone of us to resonate with the Path of Radical Honesty and the Conscious Tribe. What I hope is that some of us will say “yes, Love & Revolution articulates what I already know. It puts it powerfully and clearly. I am going to start a Conscious Tribe here, locally, with my friends – and whoever else wants to join us”. And my hope is that these Tribes will be seeds - and as miraculous as seeds! Because, as we all know – within every acorn is an oak which produces thousands of thousands of acorns – each of which contains an oak, which... And so on, fractally.
Some people see our emergence as prophesied - as an astrologically-unavoidable collective awakening that heralds our entrance into a new age - an Aquarian Age, a Satya Yuga, a future of peace and plenty. They say that pushed by the patterns of the stars, or by the weight of the turning of the Yugas, or by the force of some other cosmic energy more powerful than human intention - we are now destined, as a species, to cross a threshold into a new age of harmony and happiness. In other words - that there´s nothing we need do! That might be true. I don´t know. But my feeling is that even if the birth of a New Age is inevitable, somehow, paradoxiacally, that doesn´t mean we can be passive. My feeling is that if it is to come about, it will come about because some of us gave ourselves as the instruments of its arrival.
In my opinion, if we live absorbed in thought, inside buildings; if we cannot circulate our grief and rage and pain; if we never talk to animals; if we blame others, pity ourselves, or live zoned-out in the television or dogma... If our bodies are stiff and afraid; if we are not spellbound by the moonlight; if we are addicted to materialism and obedience; if we don´t meet God, or the Goddess, or The Genderless Divinity when we have sex; if we are still busy proclaiming ourselves Messengers of The Absolute Truth - then... please!... let´s be realistic! Do we honestly believe that one day we will all, unexpectedly, despite ourselves, wake up enlightened in Eden? That is how I see it. I feel I am passionately idealistic, but also brutally realistic. I beleve that unless at least some of us unite within the Shared Vision I am describing, and other very similar visions, then the vision of a Collective Emergence, “our own great reset”, that millions of us share just won´t manifest. It will remain – just a good idea.
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Mark Josephs,
"Mark the Mystic Activist"
Aragon, Spain
Autumn/Fall, 2024
This article is taken from Chapter 13, “A Shared Vision”
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