Going beyond what we know - the familiar

I'm heading off to Prana Festival for a week, so you won't get any updates from me for a while. I'm going to offer some talks and a workshop on the Transition Towns model and what I have seen as it's unfolded in New Zealand over the last two years. I'll leave you with this video and a few thoughts of my own.

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The video is of Dmitry Orlov speaking for a hour unpacking and describing collapse of civilisation, from his perspective of having witnessed it in Russia and studied the trends and signs of it in the US. 

Sometimes I wonder if the transition is going to be sudden or a gradual. Though I don't spend much time pondering, as I figure either way there is work to be done and fun to be had, if we are to reduce the suffering that tends to accompany changes we resist.

"Resistance to change is the action taken by individuals and groups when they perceive that a change that is occurring as a threat to them. Key words here are 'perceive' and 'threat'. The threat need not be real or large for resistance to occur."

This morning a friend sent me a review of Stewart Brand's book "Grow up Greens". Stewart was the author of The Whole Earth Catalogue, and it was surprising to read his views.

If there is one thing we can do today, that would have a huge impact on our ability to 'survive' perhaps it might be to inspect our values, because I suspect that if we do this for real we will find that the values we think we hold, are mostly tho se fed to us through the TV world of corporate media. If we change our consumption habits, end conflict and recognise we are all in this together, we have a chance to access the collective wisdom and design a new way of living that embraces and cares for all of humanity.

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