Hello earthlingib I appreciate your feed back thank you.
I personally feel it is pioneering because it is hard to do and because we are carrying stories with us of how the world works. I feel it would require a great level of unlearning and re-imagining. I feel it is the current mind set that is causing ruin to our lives, when we think in terms of, jobs, bills, business, money, profits, industry we are carrying on with the business as usual mindset. I feel when we open our minds up to being present to nature we invite conversation with trees, plants, the land, the wind, the rain, the rivers and seas, we move away from the left brain thinking mode that brought us to this place and move towards a heart felt imaginative right brain mode.
Iām calling for a pioneering project that is a journey of the heart and imagination, we do not need to be perfectionists, we can all learn from one another relatively quickly when in that state of interest and flow. A massive factor of the disease in our society is boredom, schools make learning boring, jobs make work boring, bills and tax forms make life boring, so much of our society is founded on boredom and it can lead to escapism and addiction. I say lets make life more interesting and wonderful, lets have more music and song, more jokes, abundance of fruit and nut trees, let the land grow. Lets bring humanity back in balance with nature, we are not the true destroyers of home world earth we are merely victims like horses ridden into battle, I say the true criminals here are the parasitical microbiome in our guts corrupting our bodies and aligning our way of life to suit their being.
Iām not sure what youāre calling for, but I do live close to nature and have tried to prepare enough wood to keep the heating on for the winter - without machines. And have tried to grow some food, also without machines. Maybe your imagination will provide you with food and heating and clothes, but for most of us, that means hard work. Still, perhaps the pioneering right brain project can do more than meets the eye. Time will tell.
Are you serious about microbiome being ācriminalā?
I wouldnāt really call mirobiome criminal simply because it is what it is, but our microbiome in the gut effects how we behave and is likely a major cause for much of the behavior of society as a whole, and in effect we are like horses that are ridden on since the microbiome in our bodies does what it can to direct our actions. I guess having a balanced symbiotic microbiome in our guts would help change things on a large scale (both within and without reflecting one another)
Imagination I feel is a major factor for changing the direction of action, and it can feed you. I feel many people work hard around the world but are still very malnourished as I feel what provides food is soil, rain, sun etc.
What Iām calling for is a mass transition of a way of life from one of ill health to one of wholeness, wellness, balance and harmony with one another, ourselves and nature as a whole and it requires I feel a lot of unlearning and imagination of another way of being (I guess learn from children, like becoming a child again full of wonder, play, enthusiasm, curiosity, etc, but also bringing in the balance of aged wisdom)
Do you not think that what we put in our bodies influences what kind of microbiome develops in them? For health, we need some components manufactured by the microbiome, and also our bodies manufacture some proteins based on the DNA contained by the microbiome. So your metaphor of them riding us might be a bit simplistic.
It is kind of true that food is produced by soil, rain and sunā¦ but via plants. We cannot eat soil. And soils being largely impoverished (and their microbiome largely killed off by chemicals), rain being unreliable causing cycles of droughts and floods, and sunā¦ wellā¦ overheating the planetā¦ perhaps than the call to restore the planetās soils, water and carbon cycles is in order. Which many people are already working on and we all need to get involved and help themā¦
Anyway.. I think I am a bit too earthly for your idealsā¦ Perhaps other people āget itā? I wish you luck on your journey and may it be a fulfilling one.
Thatās exactly it, what we put in our bodies influences what microbiome develops (is that me wanting the doughnut caked in chocolate and sugar or the microbiome sending signals in my body creating cravings). Itās widely accepted that microbes outnumber human cells by a considerable margin, with estimates suggesting that around 90% of our cells are microbial. Think about the microbiomes that we are born with and the mother eating what she eats will effect what microbiome will develop in the child. The metaphor of us being ridden like horses is simple because its a deep subject here, but if anyone becomes interested theres a link here to a beautiful documentary by essentia foundation https://youtu.be/YxU0ZTt_3YY?si=cGYhSZcWyRrSXPf_, there also beautiful people like Zak Bush who go into detail and much more online.
No we donāt eat the soil but act more like gardeners in tune with the land and our bodies, Iāll leave another link here its about permaculture Geoff Lawton Greening the Desert https://youtu.be/keQUqRg2qZ0?si=M5yEAo25xRq2SyBe
I donāt think anyone is too earthly for re-imagining a new way of being (I myself am a laborer) personally I believe its the earth re-imagining through us to co create a more harmonious world.
This is so funny.. .if you want to call for us to eat different things, then sureā¦ many people do that too. If you want to call on people to start doing permaculture, then sure, join many people who do that. Thatās not what you said initially though, at least not in those wordsā¦ But sureā¦ I agree: we need to change what we eat, and we need to practice permaculture. Simple. Down to earth. Literally.
Recent reading about embryonic cells for eyes (in humans) being identical to those of the skin. So, an out-of-the box question:
How to pay more attention to what our skin sees?
If anyone thinks itās a daft question, try using your imagination..creativity can answer lots of questions like this, they may not be scientifically correct but thereās something useful about the process..
Thanks for sharing the video @James , on the subject of Nature, did you know that Albert Einstein is recorded as saying something along the lines of āwhen we look deeply into Nature the mystery of reality unfoldsā - the actual quote is accessible online, and here we have found many inspirations through observations of Nature.
Hello AllBrightClub and thank you for that fun imaginary exercise with our skin. I find I become more sensitive to my surroundings, like noticing my whole body. Your exercise reminded me of dr Bruce Lipton and his research into cells and how the environment effects what cells will become instead of genes being the reason for what they become, also another phenomena came to mind being āEmergenceā, how small simple elements can come together and form complex structures.
Einsteins quote is beautiful, it emphasizes the immense wonder and beauty of this world. Thank you
Hi All! The WEAll Voice group is going to meeting next week on July 15th, we are going to be going over a narrative literature review, and beyond GDP language, and more! Sign up here. Meeting Registration - Zoom
Re:" It means using the same promotional tools that businesses use successfully today, but for a visionary purpose.
Thanks for the links. Iāll certainly take a closer look.
WEALLās leaders need to prioritise this and get cracking immediately."
Has there been any progress on this front? I have figured out how to engineer virality on this that getās people asking āHow do I start this in my area?ā āHow do I get involved?ā āOmg we could have wellbeing economies in 5-10 yearsā and āThis is the kind of movement that changes world historyā and reached over a million views from just a few posts.
Just from my extremely limited experiments while housing insecure and chronically ill. If we were organised around this, imagine how quickly we could take this mainstream.
Also, I am putting together a mastermind group of community wealth / wellbeing economy influencers on Tiktok, Youtube, and Substack. I have built a data dashboard to gauge our reach with a coordinated approach across various audiences.
Does anyone know of anyone involved in WEAll who would be interested in helping coordinate this project or help manage the dashboard or with outreach?
We have a strategy that uses not only virality with the storytelling techniques myself and Matt Golding have tested, but utilising the same network effects that made the #metoo movement successful.
Please let me know if you are interested or know of anyone ā or know of any podcasts I could go on to talk about the results weāve had.
I believe we can take this mainstream in the culture in 3-6 months with just 6-10 people.
Hi @jfriday. Iām not an influencer, but I am actively working to advance community wealth principles and practices in South Africa. Iād love to connect and hear more about this project and your plans.
Hi jfriday, Iām just looping my comms colleagues @KatePetriw and @francesrayner into this thread, to see if this might align with some of their work.
Any time. We need more than just influencers. We need people on the dashboard and people doing the networking / network weaving and outreach too, which is really the higher leverage move.
I realise I need to put together a video presentation of āthe planā so I donāt just look like that meme with the guy and the post it notes linked together with string and crazy eyes!
Lol not sure which to reply to, but @earthlingib and @James I donāt think this is a binary.
There is compromise here. And good one, imo anyway. The fact is there is only ~ .5 acres of land per person (assuming a pop of 10 billion for growth, and subtracting the most extreme climates, but including non arable land that we have the tech to fairly easily deal with) so dense housing isnāt bad per se. The ideal is about 5-8+ per house on 2.5-4 acres of food forest/biome equivalent. Throw in a small greenhouse if needed. This gives you enough room to meet all your basic modern needs mostly, if not completely, autonomously. Then you can connect with your neighbors doing the same or group up even tighter on more land, and either way produce more of everything.
However, you could also convert modern urban infrastructure, offices, and homes to support food forests and interior hanging gardens and the like. From my research the first key to any successful global wellbeing society is going to be people taking the production of their necessities back into their own hands and that is completely possible.
Here, check out my project. The Decentralized Communal Autonomy Framework. Youāll probably enjoy the material autonomy manual sections on this.
Also, just cause this is the media channel, Iām gonna share the first bit of āmarketingā Iāve done on tik tok too. @jfriday would you be willing to check out the posts and give any thoughts? Thereās only 3 so far with the next one being similar but saying roughly what the description of the latest one says and planned for about 24 hours from now. TikTok - Make Your Day
However, here is the main link in case any of you donāt have or like tik tok, which I completely understand. Itās just really powerful atm.
Weāve been amazed by the response to the first Reclaim the Economy Week. There are now 80 events planned for next week across 25 countries.
There are 36 online events so even if thereās nothing happening in your community there are plenty of ways you can connect with others.
Check out the map (or spreadsheet is handy for searching by date).
If youāre posting on Instagram please invite @reclaimtheeconomy to collaborate so the post appears there too and use the hashtag #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek wherever youāre posting - weāll find and reshare your posts. English language comms pack is here and you can find French, Spanish and Portuguese versions at reclaimtheeconomy.org
On Monday next week weāll launch a global petition and throughout the week weāll be sharing content online designed to reach new audiences and we have some exciting irons in the media fire. Weāll be really grateful for you helping to make a big noise. Reshares of social posts like these on Instagram and LinkedIn (others coming soon!) are much appreciated.
Thanks so much all! I feel very proud to be part of this movement
