Countdown: 896 Days Until the End

09Jul10

If the end of the Mayan calendar does in fact equal an end of days of sorts, then I think I’d like to document everything that happens to me between now and then. Let’s be clear about one thing, I cannot be certain that end of the calendar equals apocalypse but I do feel that some things are bound to end. At least in the way that we know them. Life will go on–here, on another plane, in a parallel world–but life as we know it may end and this is scary enough for many people who don’t take the time to think about what they do and why they do it.

Case in point last night, for example, after I declared that my diet is becoming almost exclusively organic, a certain someone who happens to be a very talented musician and songwriter therefore an artist therefore someone I expect to be more evolved (involved) said that he cannot resist eating a good steak. Just because you eat organic doesn’t mean you have to stop eating meat, we clarified, it just means making informed choices of where it comes from. “I don’t think about where food comes from” he replied and I couldn’t help myself. In typical brutal honesty nea style I exclaimed, “you’ll eat meat from a cow that was standing in its own shit its whole life… really”. He gave me a look but he can look all he wants. In today’s marketplace there is organic, free range, grass fed meat much more readily available than before and yes it takes a little extra effort to find it but it’s possible. “If any of us set foot in a slaughterhouse… a real operating slaugheterhouse, I doubt we’d be able to look at meat on our plate in quite the same way”. So my pleas and exclamations often fall on deaf ears and what of it. I’m tired of political correctness … everyone encouraging everyone to do whatever they goddamn please even when it sounds completely outrageous or outright harmful to themselves and others. No more. I have no one to impress and if the truth is too much to handle then so be it. At least later down the road when something happens as a direct result of their stupid actions they might remember a passionate female once upon a time telling them it was stupid. There was a warning they didn’t take. Becomes a lesson in paying attention to signs instead of ‘woe is me, why did this happen to me’. In case anyone’ s wondering I can take it as well as I can dish it.

Now back to the end of days, so let’s say that the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI) means that we as a species suddenly activate a few more brain functions that are currently running on ‘sleep’ mode. You do know that most humans only use about 10-15% of their brain capacity, right? Scientists are researching what the other brain cells are there for and slowly discovering a function here and there but it is still largely mysterious gray matter we carry in our skulls. The thing about nature is that nothing is wasted. Waste is a product of human society structures, and furthermore, arguably animals are smarter than humans because they use closer to 100% of their brain function thus rendering the whole ‘they have  a small brain’ comment moot, because at least it’s used at full capacity. So, what if at a certain place in time a switch goes off–cosmic equivalent of strong tides–and we are activated. Truly activated. Our perceptions are less clouded by our Ego and more connected to all living life forms. What if we suddently look at our world as though for the first time, having had no formal training in what any of it means, just taking it in for the first time what would we observe? What would we think of the structures in which we nest? What would we think about money? About talking and the things we say? What would we think of the people we work and socialize with? Our family? Our friends? The relationship between humans and pets? The discrepancy between what happens and how it’s reported on the news? The connection between money and success? Celebrities?

We have 896 days to evaluate these things and eradicate contradictions in our life so that we may survive the shift from doing things without thinking to living consciously.

The clues are all around us and also inside us

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