the mindful canary

Sometimes it takes a profound illness to upset the apple cart enough that a thorough re-examination of your life takes place. If that re-examination focuses deep enough, profound realizations may result and awareness can greatly expand. If this does occur, I can tell you this… there is no going back, because the old pieces will never fit into the context of the new awareness. You are forever changed. In this case, the old saying, what doesn’t kill you makes you grow, can be seen as true.

An illness of great magnitude can be the catalyst that shatters your old story of who you were and what meaning you gave your life and your context within the greater whole. It is my belief, in fact, that the illness is way of pointing out the incoherencies of your life and it can be the portal into a journey of balance and wholeness. A disease or dis’ease, is really a fracturing of self due to incoherency. In the case of many diseases, it is our choices that lead us there. If these choices are incongruent with other belief systems we may have or if it is part of an incongruent collective conscious (society’s shared views) then we will experience a disharmony which will be projected as physical symptoms. Often these physical symptoms will be symbolic or metaphoric in nature depending on the code behind the projector, namely our thought forms. Many gifted psychologists have made careful observations into this phenomenon. Carl Jung was one such person who mapped out some of the symbols and their meanings as it related to unbalanced minds and the realities which they project. His work still stands today and can be helpful when exploring deep, lasting healing work.

Look at your illness as a chance not only to heal physical symptoms but as a great opportunity to heal yourself at the level of your thought forms, your emotional health and your spiritual connectedness. Then as you gain insight as to why you became fractured, you can aim to heal the larger macrocosm of society and beyond.  Remember healing is an inner job.  Start there and work outwards, one thought and action at a time.

The basic needs of mankind are harder and harder to meet within our current societal framework. Healthy shelter, food, air, water are now rare commodities, at least in a somewhat coherent state, Yes these things are available, but in very toxic, adulterated forms. Thus, our basic needs are no longer met easily and/or freely.

Through the mantras flown atop of globalism and consumerism, we have allowed ourselves to be conditioned in accepting new norms of what it is to be healthy, along with the manufacturing of the very framework of our reality. Through a veil of greed, ego and separation (from a connected society), social engineering finds its mark on the human herd with carefully crafted scripts to ensure the loop of madness and separation continues.

Pills replace natural means and all balance is lost in this new, skewed paradigm. Disease is big business and parasitic consumer models are hoisted and maintained.

With society more and more compartmentalized, it is no wonder that concepts of connectedness fall on deaf ears. Herd mentality, along with prodding from the usual suspects, keeps many hived into their patterns of self destruction. Messages blaring forth from corporate elite owned media, sets the tone of our society. The herd plods along in predetermined tracks and conditioned to respond like Pavlovian, “consumeristic” dogs looking for their next, tastier, and much bigger, newly enhanced, bone. It’s akin to mass hypnosis.

This is what we face changing in order to heal our planet and thus ourselves as a subset of the healing equation. How do we go about shocking the monkey back to freedom from a wired in slavery? How do we deprogram the mainstream cult of separation? How do we jog the groove that is leading us all to our collective demise?

I think we must start by grass roots movements, but with a difference. Many grass roots start out well meaning but get sidetracked and some times even infiltrated by special interests. What is needed is a sound philosophy from the start. A philosophy that points all individual members back to the underlying principles of responsibility, compassion, connection, and equality. What must be instilled, is the ability to cut through the clutter of our social structure, and mine for coherency, leaving behind everything else that causes separation, disease, and harm. Information and discernment are the tools that can bring back harmony. Patience and steadfast intentions are required to see the job through. I liken this to the job our immune systems do for our bodies everyday. Aware beings must take on the responsibility of a metaphoric immune system within the ailing societal structure to bring back a global homeostasis.

First though, is the commitment to see it through until the last human being reconnects to a higher realization whereby we don’t pollute, we place emphasis on quality experience, not just quantity, we demonstrate equality at every turn, etc.

We must reign in the perpetrators of greed and power by influencing laws, education, and re-establishing a media that is free to report, without influences by corporations and global powers. We must return to a real system of checks and balances and where hidden agendas can come to light and be dismantled. Political structures must be overhauled completely and special interests must be washed away to a structure that puts people first and corporations a distant last. We must shine a light on all the long established organizations that have broken the trust of the citizens of our world that pretend to serve the people but covertly serve special interests. We must see profit in a new light, where profit means that human beings thrive in all ways (health and happiness) vs it’s current meaning of purely monetary gains through competition in the market place.

In totality we must shine a light of coherency on all things and see how things connect; what serves the whole and what doesn’t. We must heal ourselves and each other in all ways until peace, harmony and balance is fully realized.

I am sensitive to the dis ease of mankind.

In a nutshell, environmental illness, and pretty much every disease, is a reflection of our collective incoherency. At the spiritual level it can be seen as disconnectedness.

We can think of ourselves as cells within a larger body. That body being all of humanity. What some cells do, influence the rest of the body. If any cells spew toxins and wreak havoc, then the other cells are affected by that onslaught. The main point here is, that there is a microcosm/macrocosm effect going on. As above, so below.

Due to the fact that we are all connected, when enough cells fail, the body fails and vice versa. Thus it is important for the whole of mankind to take note of the casualties of toxic overload on the individual “cells”, as a similar plight will surely follow the greater body soon afterwards.

 What can I, we do to change this picture? Ask yourself what a particular choice has on you and others. What are the ramifications of a given choice. Does it ripple forth into the world with coherency and harmony or does it create disharmony and chaos? If we are to heal ourselves individually, we must heal collectively as well. The healing required is holographic in nature with the smaller pieces influencing the bigger pieces and also the other way around.

We must make coherent choices based on this holographic and holistic awareness. We must ask our selves what cost our choices have, what their impact has on the whole and choose responsibly. It can be distilled down to the simplest of equations. Cause and effect. It is a paradigm of connectedness. What you put out comes back to you and your children and their children and also spreads far and wide.

So, be sure to spread harmony with your choices. Influence reality in a way that makes us all healthier and more connected. If we can all do that, then the entire expression of life heals and returns to balance.

“Man never learned to fly by focusing on the ’staying on the ground of things.’”

In any and all disease manifestations, it is extremely important that one evolves one’s awareness to the point of breaking any form of a victim loop that may be running in one’s consciousness both actively in the conscious mind or hidden in the subconscious mind. How we see ourself wires us into a particular construct of reality that will be repeated over and over.

Labels, if improperly used, can become jailers of the mind and limit our potential, especially when it comes to healing. If we buy into the label and what it means, it hives the mind into a limited self view. The danger here is quite obvious. It is imperative not to harbor ourselves to any dis-empowering label and instead leave ourselves open to expanding potentials based on ever changing information and awareness.

For me the term “environmental illness” is only a term pointing to a territory. It is only a symbol or map. It is not the territory. If we cling to these types of labels we endanger ourselves getting drawn into generalities and then succumb to a type of herd mentality. Labels often bring with them baggage such as: once you have this illness, you have it for life, or this is the best way to treat it, or…..

Labels are another form of separation in an already, overly fragmented world. Life is a holistic endeavor. When we stay focused in on particular things rather than take a more expansive view, we limit our potential and the view to our reality also shrinks. Often labels keep us focused on problems(static information) rather than solutions(expansive and adaptive information).

What was “true” yesterday may not hold true today. We are dynamic evolving beings by our sheer nature; therefore, always check to make sure what you thought was a fact yesterday in your life remains so. It may have changed due to new context within an evolving structure of expanding information. Keeping an open mind leads to greater potentials and possibilities that can bring us to places far beyond our current limitations.

Victimhood equates to separation from infinite potential. It has us seeing ourself as incomplete, less of a person, limited. We use all kinds of outer verifications to keep ourself justified in this belief pattern. One only has to break the loop. There are many ways to do this and perhaps the simplest is to ask questions such as: Is this really true? How would things be if…? What would have to happen for…to occur? You get the idea. The key is to re-frame the information in a way that frees the mind to see possibilities instead of only limiting beliefs and problems.

Break free from self limiting beliefs and code your mind to see expansion and greater potentials and any victim loops you may have running, will quickly dissolve.  Take responsibility for your life. Empower yourself.  Be free.

“A thousand beating at the leaves. One snipping at the root.”

If we equate all life forms on earth as one big connected organism, what we have before us is a very sick being. What we see, taste and touch before us in our collective world is out of balance We see a raft of disease with names such as, adrenal exhaustion, ankylosing spondilitis, allergies, alzheimer’s disease, angina, anxiety disorder, arrhythmia, arterial schlerosis, arthritis, asthma, attention deficit disorder, autoimmune dysfunction, and those are just the a’s.

We are collectively projecting an incoherent reality. We must balance the aberrant code that has created our current state of being and return to a state of balance, where disease disappears and health and harmony returns. We do this first by taking stock on what we have created, and how we created it, and then trace a map back to the branches that led us astray from potentially more balanced roots. It is from our balanced roots that we will be able to map out new routes, that flow easily to a much more coherent, healthy state.

In order to map out our problem we just need look at what is showing up and the decisions that led to this. We then follow the energy back to its root decisions. We can use money, and influence as ways to trace things back. We use things that keep track of the flow. In the process we must question everything. Nothing is sacred and everything had a starting point that was decided upon, then created. These creations can be seen “the cause” and how these creations function within the whole of our reality can be seen as “the effect.” in other words, once we indentify what the main creations are we can then evaluate how these creations influence our reality.

From this vantage point of cause and effect we can evaluate what effect various things are having on us both individually and collectively. As we do this, patterns and themes emerge that can be seen as branches flowing out ever bigger main branches and stemming all the way back to roots. From this evaluation forms a map back to critical nodes of decision that have rippled forth, creating our current collective reality.

Once we have the map of what our current reality is, and how it was formed, we can take steps to influence it back to a state of harmony.

I am a symbol of sensitivity in a toxic world. I am a symbol, a way shower that is being ignored. I am sensitive to the incoherency of our collective creation. One name for this is environmental illness. I choose to see myself as a map maker, a beacon for the way back to balance.

Our accumulated toxicity is asserting itself back upon the perpetrators. Some of us are very sensitive to this cause and effect and as a result have manifested environmental illness. We are the collective blinking dashboard light that says there is a problem and that this problem may affect the entire vehicle. We are the pioneers of responsible living because we have connected to the whole and taken its pulse to find an ailing heart. We aim to heal that heart.

I am very much a symbol for humanity to take note and heed from. Sad though, symbols like me are still being ignored and even shunned. My symbol is taboo for many. People are seemingly oblivious to cause and effect in their lives. They are so rooted in consumerism and toxic lifestyles that they fail to connect the dots that have us failing as a species.

Environmental illness is a sign of the times that we have created with our choices. These choices will take us further along a path far beyond what these symbols currently represent, and well into a mass, self inflicted culling, wrought with pain and suffering, beyond imagination.

We become what we think and do. We influence others by these same thoughts and actions and thus our environment forms. Look at our environment to get a sense of how we are doing. We must do better. Masking the blinking light is no answer. Taking responsibility is. Join me in mapping out a new, shared reality, one of balance and coherency, peace and harmony, health and well being and of connectedness and holism.

We are not creating our lives in a vacuum. We are influencing all other aspects of creation with our thoughts, actions and creations. They ripple out and have an effect on everything else in our holographic universe. When we finally become aware of this, it behooves us to create responsibly, with harmony within the whole, in mind.

The world is chalk full of examples of our current collective incoherency. We have caused the demise of thousands of species. We have poisoned our food, our air and our water out of arrogance, greed and power. In the wake of our disconnected mental disease, we are seeing physical disease manifest in our reality. We see cancers, diabetes, MS, and a raft of diseases so extensive in their numbers, that they fill volumes of books. All this disease is a direct outcropping of our diseased minds, minds that are in competition, compartmentalized, and that are cut off from any holistic realization of cause and effect.

Many have become wired into addictive loops that keep society trudging along on a path of collective and self destruction and further separation from ourselves and each other. In the process, we are creating chaos in the form of pain and suffering at profound levels.

We must perform a pattern interupt on a grand scale if we are to realize our healing. If we can heal ourselves and mankind, we can then journey on to realize greater potentials. If we can’t pull out of our current tail spin, the result will be obvious.

We cannot just pull away from the greater society to try and save ourselves because in the end we will all fall as the majority continues on their path of polluting and destroying our ecosystem, our home. We must both attemt to find our sanctuaries as well as influence society to change, in order to bring harmony to the whole. It is in this venture we will all flourish. Conscious beings must step up to the plate and be brave, communicate, and be understood. Coherent communication can and will bring about coherent change.

A brave canary tribe moves forward singing a multi timbre song. One song, many voices.

Join the choir.