The old systems are collapsing. New ones are required to take their place.
My life's journey has been breaking out of cages. Not of iron, but for the mind.
At first, I didn't even know that I was in a cage (much less several). I had been taught that I was free: that I was living in the most free country in the world, as illustrated by the fact that I was forced to stand up every day and declare my allegiance to it not unlike a member of the Hitler Jugend.
As I have done so, I have traveled the world learning how we can all be free together. This is what I am sharing here.
We live within a series of systems. They are mutually reinforcing.
And the bedrock of them is a kind of force that is so ubiquitous that it seems completely natural to us.
However, it is not natural. In fact, it's so unnatural, it's making us fat, sick, and killing us.
I have been researching and designing alternative systems that we can use once we decide the current ones are not serving us.
Why? ...because the maps of happiness that I was given as a child did not work.
The Golden Rule is the simplest one-line teaching to turn things around.
If you're curious about how to get out of the situation we find ourselves in, it's more about us changing and less about the people in power. It's more about us collaborating and less about changing politicians.
Nonetheless, we have been taught that it won't be practical and we can't do it. Therefore, we're acting in many ways daily that actually violate it and harm ourselves and others. So, it's a little more complex than that. We need to:
- Unlearn the language of violence
- Practice virtues such as compassion and love
- Learn to expand our minds
- Learn to expand our hearts
- Learn how to communicate those things that are truly alive within us
- Practice! A lot! Love. Touch. Communication.
- Do what we want to build a better world.
Join me.
When we look at all the horrific things going on around us, and that's exactly the problem. How do you want it to be instead? Well... just make it that way!
I'm here to help you. We need each other in order to make it happen.
My friend asked me today what we could do:
- Opt out
- Speak out
- Do what you want
I am creating structures and systems to hold the birth of the new world that is coming.
I invite you to commit to leaving violence behind. And I invite you on the journey with me to learn how to free yourself from the cages you may find yourself in.
I am creating systems and educational journeys and experiences that will allow us to do that.
Contact me to find out more.
Ryan Orrock
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