Bring It Home

What I mean by this can be seen and applied in a number of ways… many more than what I’ll cover here.

Bringing it home, on a spiritual and psychological level: A lot of us feel passionately about things going on in the world around us. We make efforts to support and further what seems really important, while taking a stand against those things which threaten our cherished strong-hold, or which just simply work against our own sense of well-being. This way that people engage with life, and the established structures around us, is great, and often fruitful. There’s a lot of learning, growth, and progress to be experienced this way. And in the earlier stages of a person’s life, I think it’s particularly important to interact with others, and the world, in a way which isn’t too preoccupied with looking inward, but is more about just letting life (from within as well as externally) take you where it will, as each person finds their own way and place. The shift from being more outwardly active (as a way to really anchor into being here) to an effort at the understanding and appreciation of how this plays out inside us as well, is most beneficial when a person gets to a place of just wanting to go there as a natural part of their own process. So from a psychological or spiritual perspective, when a person is really wanting to look at, and sort out, what’s going on within that inner landscape, and grasp the key this has to offer in terms of true freedom… this site is geared toward you.

The Power Grid: With energy concerns being what they are today, it makes sense to me to do what we can to develop whatever local resources we have, as much as possible, in order to move away from the global market, oversized power grids, and dependence on foreign (or any) oil. This would be a step in the direction of more personal/local responsibility, greater independence, and freedom. Not that local energy grid systems wouldn’t be connected to a larger network… only that, given a crash of the grid in one area, this would be less likely to effect people on a much bigger scale. Conversely, lots of local systems (made up of diversified energy sources) able to function independently, could then more readily shore-up areas experiencing failure.
Agriculture and Town Planning: This pans out in basically the same way as the power grid. By planning a more locally secure (in terms of personal involvement and general good will), eco-smart and independent township, where whatever food can be, is grown locally, and many live within easy transit or walking distance to a more safe and social town environment… I think we’d really gain a lot on many levels.

In politics, physical health, diet, religion… the same basic concept applies: Try to be well informed, ask questions, trust in yourself and your personal perspective, do what you can to support this… and try to be very aware of what you’re doing when you impose your will, and your way, on another.

I believe it’s essential to be respectful of others free will. Our children need us to be very present, aware, and conscientious in our responsibility to them until they are adults. Our will is actually necessarily melded to theirs as a way to usher them into being a fully capable young adult. But beyond that, we have no right to impose our will on anyone unless they have proven to be incapable of respecting the rights and well being of others. And so this is where we run head-long into a dire conundrum within the human condition: who decides when someone is doing wrong by another… and does this include a person doing wrong to themselves? I offer one opinion on this in the “Forbidden Fruit” section.