Albert Einstein, smart man that he was, once said, “You cannot solve any problem in the same state of consciousness in which it was created.”

Ponder that for a little while if it doesn’t immediately jump out at you, and you’ll see the truth in that statement. Of course it applies to the world at large today. But this post isn’t going to be one of my rants (I’ll do that another day). As a reader of my blog you are well aware my belief in the oncoming changes that will affect this planet, the power of intention, and creativity, and thought. You know I believe how awesome, and utterly perfect you are. The only issue dear one is that you simply don’t remember your own power. Not that there is something within you that is wrong and needs to change and blah blah blah blah. To quote John Major Jenkins “…the unlimited divine self cannot be conceived or understood by the rational intellect, but it can be directly experienced.” Life is a wonderful journey of human experience. In my short twenty eight years this go around on the planet, I have had my fill of emotions and I can’t wait for more. I learn every time I bleed, and I have only loved, never loved and lost, that’s just silly.

But, back on topic.

I have found that I’ve gone through some phases. Once you are aware of how f’d up everything is, the manipulation and the lies, of course you want it to stop. But I think that by focusing on what’s wrong, we give our energy to that and that’s not where we want our energy to go. Instead, why not focus on how to make it right so we can create something new to replace what we fucked up. To quote Peter Russell, holder of degrees in theoretical physics, experimental psychology, computer science, an author and award winning producer, “The global crisis we are now facing is at its root, a crisis of consciousness - a crisis born of the fact that we have prodigious technological powers but still remain half awake.” In light of that, I want to spread the good news and inform you today of the sweeping changes that you may not be aware of that are affecting our current global structure in the business and political fields.

While we are the ones we are waiting for, while we must BE the change we wish to see in the world, once the old systems collapse (whoopee!) there must be new ones to take their place. My mother once said that to point out a problem then offer no solution can do just as much damage as the problem itself. Which is true. I am not so naive to think that we can just wave our hand, get rid of our retarded illusion of democracy and materialism and patiently sit and wait for some grand savior to come in and rescue us. That’s not quite how it’s going to work. Once we knock it down, we must rebuild something else. You may think that the only changes in consciousness are coming from the mystical, spiritual side and from the crazy new age ranters like me, who regularly invite our higher selves back into body, and then have a nice cosmic flush (you gotta try it, it’s fabulous. Go to http://www.ascensionhelp.com). But the truth is, the changes, the shift, the awakening, the ascension whatever you want to call it, is affecting everything. The organizations I’m going to mention may just have a purpose that resonates in your soul, that you want to jump into, and volunteer your time and expertise to help spread the word, do the work and help everyone hit that catalyst point on their own journey of awakening. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail here, I’m going to give you some cliff notes and whatever strikes your fancy I’m sure you’ll latch onto and research more in depth yourselves. I’m just the messenger

I just finished reading (like five minutes ago) a book called The Mystery of 2012. Wonderful read I highly recommend for anyone who wants to know what’s going. It is a collection of articles and essays (lots of big words, I did a lot of dictionary.com jumping while I read it) on the 2012 phenomena from different perspectives. All agree, for the most part, that change is already here and what we are experiencing is a awakening, a shift in consciousness that is a combination of this planets destiny and our own free will. (You don’t have to jump on the bandwagon but your higher self will keep trying to tap you on the shoulder to wake you up. You’re already participating in the waters of creation, the only thing left to do is shatter your illusion of separateness. That is the only sacrifice to make, but only make it when you are ready.) One of the articles that really made me happy was written by Corinne McLaughlin. Corinne is an author, Executive Director for The Center for Visionary Leadership, coordinated a national task force for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, and taught politics at American University. You can learn more about her work at www.visionarylead.org.

Corinne begins her article with a statement that I like to keep repeating, and repeating no matter how many times, or different ways it’s said because I think it’s so critical to understand, “Why not imagine a better world in the future and live this vision moment to moment in the choices you make and the work that you do? In this way, you can help create it.” Creation, intention, creation, intention, energy follows thought, menchicaboola.

Right now, yes right now, there exist social responsible businesses. Spiritual Capitalism is all the new rave. Just because Fox News hasn’t told you so, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Don’t make me go into the media is biased and full of shit speel, you should know that already. The profit above all and fuck everything else mentality doesn’t work. No big shocker there. Companies are starting to take notice and as CEO’s, and SVP’s, and middle management, and the copy machine guy wakes up, they’re bringing those ideals to work with them. There is an International Spirit at Work Organization http://www.spiritatwork.org/index.php (they are now dormant, but I list them because their website is full of fabulous information). There is the World Business Academy which promotes corporate responsibility http://www.worldbusiness.org. There is the United Nations Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org/ which is all about environmental protection, human rights, and higher labor standards. They have 300 multinational corporations part of. There is The Natural Step http://www.naturalstep.org/ which shows business the competitive advantage of sustainability and integrating environmental consideration into strategic decisions and daily organizations.

I don’t believe money is going to be around much longer, I mean once everyone wakes up, bartering will be acceptable but until then, Lifesystems of Health and Sustainability report there is a 228.9 billion marketplace for ish focused on holistic health, the environment, social justice, sustainable living, etc. The Business for Social Responsibility http://www.bsr.org/ founded in the 1990s has over 400 organizations and about half are fortune 500 companies. Companies like, The Body Shop, The Mens Warehouse, Timberland Company for example are on the list. We’ve all seen Whole Foods around, one should shop there when dinero permits because hey, what we eat is pretty important and I dislike ingesting well, crap disguised as healthy food. So go ahead and keep shopping there. in fact go look up your favorite store and see if they’re on the list of any of those organizations and if not, cut em off (like Nike for example and those stoopid sweat shops, bleh). We can’t keep supporting the systems that are falling that’s just silly. I for one like shopping in places that are on the Caring Consumer list that don’t test on animals. You can check them out here http://www.caringconsumer.com/. There are things we can do, things that are being done now to shift away from the bullshit into something better. And it’s only going to get better, trust me.

USA Weekend did a poll, and spirituality has become the second most important factor in personal happiness. To quote Corinne, “Growing numbers of business people want their spirituality to be more than just faith and belief; they want it to be practical and applied. They want to bring their whole selves to work, body, mind and spirit.” Woot. Woot. There’s that throat chakra opening up, forcing us to speaking our truth, everywhere. There’s that solar plexus chakra expanding, bringing in our personal power and our resolve to just say no to the dumb shit, and that applies to the scenarios at work as well. It’s all interconnected lovies. Remember, separateness is the illusion. And don’t think for a moment that being a socially responsible business can’t affect the bottom line. It simply does. Happy people work harder period, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that. Corinne reports in her article that a meta-study done by the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors called Corporate Environment Governance found that 85% saw a wonderful synergism between environmental management and financial performance.

And just too really spin your mind a bit, do you know how many companies now have Meditation classes and rooms at work? Would you believe me if I told you, Apple, Google, Yahoo, IBM, Raytheon Company do just that? How wonderful.

And it’s not business. It’s affecting politics too. This makes me really happy. You know I’ve got that warrior spirit that hasn’t been satisfied in a while, now that I’m aware of these organizations too I’m going to have to look them up (to honorable battle!). There is the Tikkun Network of Spiritual Progressives, http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/index.php and the Center for Visionary Leadership as mentioned above. There is also an even stronger movement and that’s from the independent sector, or civil society. That’s the organizations that locally see something wrong, realize the government isn’t going to fix it, so they’ve rolled up their sleeves, and are doing it their damn selves. Woot Woot. Look around at New Orleans for example and you can see it everywhere. Visionary Activist and Entrepreneur Paul Hawken wrote a book called Blessed Unrest (which is now on my to get list) and documents a whopping one million and probably more to date, of these groups worldwide. Can’t hold us down. And Gods and Goddess bless the World Wide Web for its ability to start movements, link people quicker and spread the word faster. You want to see examples of real world results of non adversarial politics that finds the higher ground, and teaches both sides not to compromise but instead find that issue they can agree needs to be fixed and focus on that, check out The Truth and Reconciliation Commission https://www.trcofliberia.org/. They helped usher in non violent change in the South African Government along with the awesome effort of 10,000 people who received conflict resolution training. No Government needed. Just people who came together and said, hey, I can do this. And I can do this. And you can teach me that, and bam, they got it done. Corinne says it the best, “healing, reconciliation and forgiveness are spiritual qualities very much needed today.” How about the awesome work done by the Search for Common Ground http://www.sfcg.org/ whose mission is to “understand the differences; act on the commonalities.” This group has 300 staff members in more than 17 countries, holding under cova (back channel) meetings with Iranians and Americans to prevent war. The Common Ground News Service provides solution oriented articles about the good work being done to resolve conflicts in the Middle East that CNN won’t tell you about. And there’s more, like the Public Conversations Project http://www.publicconversations.org/pcp/pcp.html, or the Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy, http://imtd.org/cgi-bin/imtd.cgi or the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation http://www.thataway.org/. What an awesome bunch of lightworkers I tell yah.

Barbara Marx Hubbard has an organization called the Foundation for Conscious Evolution http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/content/ and in 1984 ran for the US Vice Presidency. At that time she proposed “a ‘Peace Room’ which was eventually to become as sophisticated as our war rooms. Its purpose is to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working to heal and evolve our world.” Now imagine if we could get the NSA and CIA’s supercomputers to do that. What might we see?

Hmm. Anyway, I’ve written enough for this time. But articles, organizations, people such as this with real world experience and knowledge who support this shift in conciseness because they believe and see it, well, I ask again, how much more evidence do you need? And it’s not so much that these organizations are just sprouting up now because they aren’t, they’ve been around since the 1980s and before, it’s that we as a collective are finally taking notice and giving them more energy to succeeded and climb out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into. To quotes James O’Dea, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, “The phenomenon we are discuss is not an ideological counter to the status quo; it is to be understood more accurately as a quickening in the center of our being - a quickening less susceptible to fear arousal, not condition by the gratifications of competitive advantage, but stimulated by experiences of wholeness, unity, and interconnection. It is what philosophers and theologians call the emergence of nondual consciousness.”