||| FROM DOMENIC VERBANO |||
As people start to awaken to how we have all been played, by the controllers of this world, I want to put out a call for us all to come together, again. We need to re-unite. They have tried their hardest to divide us: Democrats/Republicans, Vaccinated/Unvaccinated, Black/White, Gay/Straight… You name it, they try it. They are good at that. The people telling you to hate, are the ones who are corrupted. We, human beings are generally beautiful people, who love and care about each other, and this Planet. Look around at how our Island Community stepped up and assisted all of the people to making it through this “pandemic”. I don’t even see any homeless people left on the streets, drug addicted or otherwise… I believe, perhaps, we have housed them all… Even under this spell of Covid fear and lying, that we have been under, we took care of each other, we came together, and we helped each other. So, as we awaken to the Truth about how we have all deceived by this fear-based nonsense, I hope we can become the caring, loving society, that we already are, underneath all the made up drama.
Even with the damage done by the deceivers, and the lust and the greed of this world, we still have the potential to turn this All around, and turn this Earth back into the Paradise, that it is meant to be. For, what is truly important? Life is important! Living things are important! Life Matters! Joy and Happiness for the individual come from the whole web of life being Happy, and Joyful. May we use what just happened to us over the last 2-3 years to totally awaken from the dysfunction of our society, and embrace the Loving and Caring that is the Real Power that can transform this World.
We need to stop believing these top-down narratives. Humanity has been lied to, forever. Whatever is crafting the narrative for Earth’s societies lies, cheats, and steals… They kill us, and this planet, for profit, an insatiable greed.. We all see this. We all know this. The system we live in is corrupted, it is based on this lust or fear that can never be satiated… Even some of the most benevolent seeming environmental organizations, at the top, are driven by this greed. Humanity has been so deceived. That is what has created this trash heap we are living. We need New Ideas, beautiful thinking, we need to step outside of the box that we have been ushered into for generations. And I have a suggestion: Just Stop Listening. Stop listening to these psychopaths at the top of the Media establishment as they try and shepherd humanity into demented and destructive states of reality. Use your Own Creative Mind, your Own Loving Heart and create a New Reality, a better reality. Look around you. Feel what is happening! Didn’t Buckminster Fuller say: “You don’t need to fight the old systems, you just need to create new ones, that make the old ones, obsolete”? We need to transform this World into something that we can happily and contentedly give to the Future Generations of Earth. A Future that is not corrupted, a Future that is beautiful and worth living in. We need to unplug from the mentally ill who run these old belief systems that usher society around. This society is largely created by television. And the programming is crap. Trust Yourself. Trust your own imagination. Trust You Own Ideas. That is how this society gets out of this death spiral… Trust Yourself and Do What is Right. It all comes back to the Heart, Humanities’ Heart. What do we want this World to be like? Do we want to continue to listen to our mental slave masters that lie to us over and over and over again? Is not a little suffering, a little of coming out of our comfort zones, to live life a different way, without Fear, worth it? To create a Brighter Future? Do we care about our Earth? What are we leaving the youth in this world? What are we leaving all of life? A debauched planet? We cannot allow this current system to continue… The current status quo, that we all live within, is not sustainable, and we all know it. It is Time For New ideas. I love these islands. I grew up here. I believe that these islands have the emotional and spiritual capital that we can tap into, so we make the changes that are necessary.
So what to do? HOW do we do this? It has to come from within You. What do you want to love? We need to look around us and see the pain, the suffering. What do the Natives say? “The Earth Needs our Tears”…? Open Your Heart to the darkness you feel all around you… Humanity will likely make or break our future based on this Generation, right now. What do we want? What do we want our future to be like?
When I first came to Orcas 15 years ago, I saw the potential of these island communities to become a Human Society that affirms loving and caring. I saw that we could become a template for human societies that benefit the Earth, that benefit All Life. Societies that affirm Love and Caring as the principal goals of our existence. A Way of living that affirms all of life, in its’ myriad forms. I saw, and still believe, that could stop our taking ways, and truly enhance all ecosystems, truly benefit the Earth. We need to Do That Now. Much of the groundwork to help each other in these islands is already Done: The Exchange. We have a beautiful Community Resource Center. We have a wonderful Food Bank, feeding all the humans that don’t have food. We have many other people and organizations who have worked very hard from their Caring Hearts to help all of us. They see and believe in the interconnectedness of all life. They understand that when one falls, we all fall. Yes, we already have much of the on-the-ground structure needed to create a Beautiful New World. Can we all embrace that this old reality is over? It has failed. It never served our species. Unquenchable greed has eaten up the whole world. It is horrible. I believe that Humanity largely realizes this, and we are primed to make a leap into a Society of Love. A new way of being, much more at peace, without the Fear and the Lust. A society where we don’t cower in Fear, but where we Give Back. This is humanities’ future! But, we have to figure out how to do this. I see it is an exercise in reaching beyond what we believe is possible, into darkness of the void, using your imagination and a loving heart and bring into Reality the New. We can do this!
I feel that these islands have a such a Soul of Integrity and Beauty, we have a lot to work with. Perceive it, Feel it. Let’s bring in the New Society that appreciates All Life. A Society of Peace. We have incredible potential; we just need to harness it. Turn off that TV that is destroying your mind. Plant a Garden. Plant a Garden that feeds all of life! What a Thought! Change is needed. What we do now, will not see us through. Change is Needed. Breathe through this dysfunctional reality, this apathy. The light has always been these, above these stormy clouds. Money is not necessarily the problem, or the solution. It is a Change of Thinking. An Open Heart. An appreciation of all of life. An embrace of your neighborhood. Do we really want to continue to live our lives in Fear, Lust, Power, Money, Control? Humanity will make or break this World, in this Generation. Which way do we want to go?
I agree that television and the powers behind it are hugely destructive. I quit using about 2004 (only after being a dragged-in user by my spouse).
i agree with this statement: “ I saw the potential of these island communities to become a Human Society that affirms loving and caring. I saw that we could become a template for human societies that benefit the Earth, that benefit All Life. Societies that affirm Love and Caring as the principal goals of our existence. A Way of living that affirms all of life, in its’ myriad forms.” We can STILL create this!! and it begins with ending the divisive rhetoric and incitement against people who simply want their medical freedom, freedom of speech & protest and the freedom to question authority. Life Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness is a Traditional Liberal and All American value. Sadly, there’s been a dark energy and alot of baseless fear mongering that has infected the hearts and minds of many islanders… and it HAS TO STOP! Attacking others is NOT how we move past the Covid hysteria and division that has been generated by the leftist media propaganda machine and many local leaders. We move on by creating the heart-centered Human Society that you envision. Begin today to OPEN YOUR HEARTS to others, GIVE THEM A MUCH NEEDED HUG! and lets get back to being HUMANS standing for LOVE and ACCEPTANCE and NOT fear and division.
i agree with this statement: ” I saw the potential of these island communities to become a Human Society that affirms loving and caring. I saw that we could become a
template for human societies that benefit the Earth, that benefit All Life. Societies that affirm Love and Caring as the principal goals of our existence. A Way of living that
affirms all of life, in its’ myriad forms.” We can STILL create this!! and it begins with ending the divisive rhetoric and incitement against people who simply want their
medical freedom, freedom of speech & protest and the freedom to question authority. Life Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness is a Traditional Liberal and All American
value. Sadly, there’s been a dark energy and alot of baseless fear mongering that has infected the hearts and minds of many islanders… and it HAS TO STOP!
Attacking others is NOT how we move past the Covid hysteria and division that has been generated by the leftist media propaganda machine and many local leaders.
We move on by creating the heart-centered Human Society that you envision. Begin today to OPEN YOUR HEARTS to others, GIVE THEM A MUCH NEEDED HUG!
and lets get back to being HUMANS standing for LOVE and ACCEPTANCE and NOT fear and division,
Bravo! I commend and support these words of wisdom. Thank you for the articulation and leading with your heart. I am thrilled to see such a powerful, loving and insightful message in the Orcasonian. I don’t think I’ve met you before Dominic but I would love to connect further. Please get in touch with others who are receiving, giving and sharing this message of love, freedom, truth and peace for humanity at large starting with our beautiful island community. We’re stronger together. Courage is contagious. Freeorcas@protonmail.com
Domenic – Thank you for your heartfelt words. Your compassion, love, and grief for the world is clearly deeply in earnest.
The challenge, as I see it from many miles further down time’s trail, is how to live with one foot in the old world and the other in the new one? How does one survive in the existing reality while simultaneously trying to bring about the world that we all feel this one could be? How does one live an ethical life in the midst of rampant excess? How does one refrain from being either a hermit that abnegates the world or a cynical sybarite? Is there no middle path?
This is, of course, the classic philosophic dilemma of pragmatism versus ideological purity. My personal trajectory has been from, “No compromise in defense of Mother Earth!” to a hopeful but skeptical pragmatism. One thing that I have definitely learned is that one must have control of resources (psychic, social, economic, etc.) in order to influence events in the direction that we deem best. One other thing I have learned (the hard way) is that CHANGE COMES SLOW.
And I have learned that if that change is to last, it must reflect a true change in people’s hearts and minds, not the top-down “We know better” pronouncement of how it’s going to be from now on. This is the essential failure (in my humble opinion) of the communist revolution. In it’s infancy, and in it’s purest form, communism is simply extending the ethos of the family to all of society. You do not charge your children room and board, do you? What about your aging parents? “To each according to their needs and from each according to their abilities.” That is a grand idealistic goal, and as usual, the devil is in the details. Who decides what your ‘needs’ and ‘abilities’ are? Someone must administer collective resources and especially when those resources are scarce, there is going to be disagreement about distribution!
Most of the long lasting and successful idealistic societies that I am familiar with have had a spiritual/religious basis: Buddhist and Christian monasteries/convents, the Amish, the Shakers, etc. In a specifically secular society such as the current United States of America, we have chosen to forgo the binding element of common spiritual belief. That ‘American Experiment’ is proving to be pretty challenging in the increasingly difficult times we face. It really IS about values. Where do you place individual autonomy against the needs of your community? I am not advocating for any particular ideology but I DO think that without a shared world view, how can there be consensus?
Again, the devil is in the details, but I see the fracturing of America as (ultimately) a good thing. 330 million wildly diverse people is simply too many to try to organize effectively. The USA needs to acknowledge that the vast majority of it’s citizens would be better served by splitting into multiple self governing semi-autonomous regions. I propose we revision the Federal government as a Jeffersonian style limited government that deals with foreign affairs and a (severely limited) national defense force and leaves everything else up to regional governments. I realize that this parallels the dissolution of the (former) USSR and with good reason we should fear the rise of autocratic pseudo-populist politicians such as Vladimir Putin. But what other choices do we have?
Believe me there’s still homeless and not all the addiction has been solved on these islands. We lost a son to an overdose Christmas Day. He sought help here and couldn’t get what he needed here or at least how they were dishing it out. There’s a HUGE DRUG problem on this island. Get out of your entitled Bubble and open your eyes. May be watch “Plant of the HUMANS “ and get back to me. It’s UNSUSTAINABLE and We Know It. We are at the TIPPING POINT. Hold on tight and get right with Spirit.
This is a beautiful, hopeful, heartfelt letter. Though it seems that we are far from solving many of these problems in our community and elsewhere, it is true that we have it within ourselves to solve them – we always have. Living heart centered is the answer to all our woes – living fear centered cuts us all off from our hearts and keeps us from being open. All populist uprisings are based in the basic premise that we KNOW in our hearts and minds what to do, to free ourselves from systems that would tell us what to believe and try to make us believe we are small and insignificant and worse – not connected to each other and to all Life on earth.
My heart hurts to read Randal Monge’s post. I knew his stepson. He was a beautiful soul. He is gone too soon and the world is a lesser place without him. This should never happen – we still do have a huge hard-drug problem affecting kids and adults. Both things are true; what’s in the letter and the reality that we have a long way to go and little time to do it. How shall we live, even if this seems like “the end?”
This that you said, Domenic:. “A society where we don’t cower in Fear, but where we Give Back. This is humanities’ future! But, we have to figure out how to do this. I see it is an exercise in reaching beyond what we believe is possible, into darkness of the void, using your imagination and a loving heart and bring into Reality the New. We can do this!”
The part where you said that this (this whole life we are given!) is an exercise in reaching beyond what we believe is possible – being unafraid of the darkness of the void – including the darkness and refusal to see in our own darkness and hurt places. The darkness is where imagination is born’ it is not to be feared. It is not evil in itself. From facing our shadows, we can own it, heal it, and achieve what seems impossible. Running from it and denying that it exists is, I believe, the cause of all our woes. What Randal says is what we need to do. Hold on tight and get right with Spirit.
Just don’t look up.