I’m on a quest for empirical understanding of the World as it is.

For a life philosophy that is embracing, open and inclusive, for me and my family.

For understanding of the current challenges of the West from the lens of living it and experiencing the ride.

It’s easy being from a place like New Zealand 🇳🇿 to make theoretical judgments from afar.

It’s another thing all together to see it with your own eyes 👀, feel it in your body, and watch it in your finances.

Many people are struggling and a few others are thriving. The gap between them is clearly increasing.

There is more to buy and less able to buy it.

There are more opportunities for abundant health and less having it.

There are more ways to connect and less people taking them.

The world is going through a divide and it’s more than the wealth gap.

It’s a health, happiness, purpose, intelligence and opportunities gap and it is growing fast.

It’s everywhere if you want to see it and I’m seeing it in the most abundant places on earth.

California, Pacific North West, British Columbia.

If it’s this bad here how bad is it where the opportunities are not?

Everyone knows it’s not working but no one wants to bet on an answer anymore.

I have my ideas 💡 but it’s too early to say.

Fear is the ultimate enemy.

Defeat it and win a life of endless possibilities.

Let it defeat you and remain a psychological embryo, half formed and underdeveloped, unable to reach your potential for a full life.

Fear is within, NOT without.

The enemy is the fear of the unknown and unfamiliar, of change, and of realising our own greatness. The fear of social scorn, of missing out, of failing and taking risks.

It is fear born of the mind, devoid of reality and detached from the physical realm. 

Fears based on actual threats to our physical body are acute, occasional, and grounded in a tangible concern we must physically avoid. This kind of fear can be managed and it is NOT the enemy we must defeat. 

It is the fear of what could be, NOT what is, that cripples us.

By taking less risks; avoiding raising families, having holidays over adventures, missing golden opportunities, choosing comfort over growth, doubting our ability to love and be loved, and ignoring the inevitability of death - that which gives life its urgency and meaning is missed.

We allow others to tell us how to act, make decisions on our behalf, and dictate our behaviours all because we are afraid, afraid to live.

If COVID showed us anything it is that people can be manipulated to behave in unusual ways all through perceived fear.

Fear is a tool used by the powerful to control the weak but the powerful are NOT the enemy. They simply understand the power of fear to coerce. 

To disarm them we must face our fears. Then they have no power over us.

When we realise that fear is a feeling and that sensations do not have to dictate our thoughts and actions we begin claiming back the power to create our own life.

Feeling the fear and pushing through it is a process that strengthens over time. Fear can become, rather than a barrier to growth, a hurdle to leap over. 

Fear can motivate us to act, for it is action that breaks the power of fear.

As the fears of the mind weaken our capacity to handle perceived danger increases. We become bold and our courage empowers us to dream bigger, to expand our realm of possibility, and to think and act on our own terms.

Win one battle over fear, soon many battles, and eventually the war. No longer can the insidious doubts and anxieties of the mind prevent us from standing in our truth and we become whole.

We have moved from a psychological embryo to a fully formed body-mind capable of creating and living out an authentic existence.

No one is blocking us from living a life of love, wholeness, authenticity and abundance.

Our fear is.

When will you overcome it?

We live in a world where young couples are more excited about having dogs than children.

Does this concern anyone?

At the core of the system we have created is control.

We created it over millennia to manage the impulsive behaviour that is innate in us.

To manage our wildness and our baser instincts.

In exchange we are safer than ever before and the price we pay is our aliveness.

Railing against the system of control from our place within it we say we want freedom will simultaneously exerting control over others in all areas of our life.

We love control because it gives us a sense of security, safety and power.

Those souls who relinquish all control of others are doomed to be controlled themselves and those who do not control even their own impulses soon face the collective judgment of society.

The toddler knows no self control yet simultaneously seeks to control others. Hence we exercise parental control in order to modify the wilful child’s behaviours to make them socially acceptable.

School is a control system, as is a job. Government is control but so is every business with employees.

Control runs our world.

To change the system requires the relinquishing of control. To do so safely we would have to give up the things that we so badly desire. Power, money and materialism. We would have to want different things.

To want different things is to live in a higher state of consciousness. It’s a change in the human condition, a radical shift in our psychology away from accumulation, extraction and control to connection, community, creation and surrender.

The change is mental, emotional and spiritual. The change begins within.

Thanks for the welcome guys. I feel truly blessed to be on an open source, decentralised platform that’s not going to constantly feed me back my own biases.

Thank you nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe for setting me up on Nostr and for continually challenging my mindset to move from scarcity to abundance for all.

I’m getting there.