On Smaller and Larger Communities

This mess the world finds itself in isn’t the fault of the politicians. They are people who have taken the position to do the same all from a position of power and self advantage, only.

We have collectively allowed ourselves to get to this point. Instead of naturally letting community happen through our own growing compassion, awareness, and concern, we are continually trying to legislate it. In doing so, we help numb our human responses, avoid our responsibilities to each other, and deny ourselves our true potential to grow as human beings in a global community.

The way we have worded the laws and rules induce fear, distrust, some level of suffocating comfortability at the expense of freedom which leads ourselves to anger and our desires to escape.

Let’s face it, people, we just don’t want to deal with all of it. We self-medicate to desensitize ourselves, or chase short-term distractions, including technology, pornography, drugs, or self-righteous personal agendas. Alternatively, we avoid the problem entirely by assigning blame elsewhere, or by denying that the problem exists altogether. We numb ourselves into oblivion, not realizing that dialogue could be at hand.

There is another way: We accept the problems we have created. We learn from the problems. And then work together to discover viable solutions. We correct!

This is the only way we can grow as individuals and as a society. Without accepting responsibility or by blaming this group or that group, we just keep digging an even bigger hole, and environmental problems become environmental disasters that we can’t reverse. Environmental disasters do affect the ecosystem beyond Earth itself. This destabilizes life in the Universe, if indeed we are interconnected. Where do the small and large effect consequences fall back?

We have to deal with both the problems we have created ourselves, as well as the ones that are staring us in the face—even if our own hands didn’t dump the chemicals into the waterways or if our own power saws didn’t chop down the rainforest. We can’t keep suing one another to make the problem go away; we can’t continue to bury it underground and wait for the toxins to leach into our communities.

It doesn’t matter if it’s our physical garbage or our emotional garbage that we’re dumping. We can no longer hide it from the world. We must deal with it as our extended human body, which it is, or everyone will suffer. And that I want to avoid. I want not to suffer, I want you not to suffer, I want no one to suffer and even less do I want anyone to suffer because of me.

Becoming a true spiritual activist—being a true catalyst for change—can only happen when we change ourselves! This understanding opens awareness within us, and once we have this awareness, the universe makes it clear what we need to correct. These elements are the only way to transform selfish behavior into true and effective activism. When you think that you are being an “activist,” when you’re really just stuck in a personal agenda, you are actually creating a problem that is even harder to solve than the issue you are fighting!

Because we’re all connected, nothing outside of us will change until we change ourselves. We tend to want to “change the world” in order to make our lives better. Instead, we need to change ourselves in order to make the world better. It’s a paradox.

The more you want to change the world, the more you have to change yourself.

All the best,

Carlos Warter, MD