Dear Editor,
Something new and powerful is rising in the world. Us. Each and every one of us citizens of the world is now waking up to the realization that together, our growing inner strength can shift the drama that is unfolding globally.
Let’s name that drama, because in order to bring in the new, we must be aware of the old and consciously let it go.
We are all aware that there is a heightened energy of disregard for humanity that is causing chaos worldwide; disruption of lives and livelihoods is significant and intense levels of suffering are evident.
According to journalist Karen Hao, author of ‘Empire of AI’, interviewees from around the world all expressed that ‘when they encountered the empire, they felt a complete loss of agency to self determine their future.’
Many of us feel that way as well because that is the dominant energy of the current race to Superintelligent AI.
We are in a technological age where a few are making life and death decisions for the many.
Pope Leo XIV spoke of this current technological age as presenting ‘one of the most urgent moral challenges (1) of our time’, and indicated that unless the capacity to be the architect of one’s own life is returned to the people, ‘the digital age will not be post-colonial, but colonial in another form’.
This emergent reality, as tough as it feels, paradoxically offers us an unprecedented opportunity to make the needed shift.
Old energies of colonialism, dominance and authoritarianism need to be dismantled wherever we find them, in ourselves, in countries and in corporations, in favor of new energies of inclusion and Love for life.
We must go higher.
We must apply wisdom and a sense of responsibility to the next seven generations of human beings in all of the choices we make, and move to higher ground.
Each of us, singly and together, has the capacity to become the wisdom bearers that will crystallize a shift to a higher way of being.
We, the people, do have a say in the kind of world we want to create. We have the power to say ‘yes’ to life. This is the time, this is the moment.
We are being called to honour the deep truth and beauty of who we truly are at our core: brilliant, light-hearted beings capable of creating a world where compassion and caring flourish, and where everyone you meet is a soft place to fall.
We are being called to engage the new energies of cooperation and shared community that are already ignited within us.
We are being called to bring forth a new, harmonious way of being that honours life.
“In order for the world to be different, you have to be able to imagine it, to articulate a vision for the world that you do want. It cannot come into being without that.”
– Dr. Masum Momaya, Former Smithsonian Curator and Global Cities Fellow
‘I am imagining peace, love, unity and harmony for the entire world, not only Guyana. And it will happen. It will happen.’
– Stella Adele Davidson Marks, Centenarian
It is time to rebuild our Earth Village so that new communities of respect, trust and laughter can flourish and grow. We can do this by creating wise change and implementing wise action in whatever small way we can.
Keep it simple. Be kind to everyone, do one good thing for yourself each day, listen to your neighbor, share the fun-filled aspects of yourself with others, appreciate yourself and the gifts of the natural world, be enchanted by the iridescent hummingbird at play in the noni tree, chat with the newspaper man who has been riding his route for decades, create a symphony, fall in love with yourself, plant fruit trees and kitchen gardens galore and share the harvest, explore the idea of creating a community wellspring of abundance to which you can offer your creative gifts and from which you can receive what you need (someone else’s creative gifts), uplift others with your poetry and art, wave a cheery ‘thanks’ to the garbage truck driver picking up your skip bin at 4:00am, every day say ‘good morning’ with a lilt in your voice to the uncommunicative newspaper boy and be delighted when he replies to you one day three weeks later, cultivate a compassionate community, enter a breathing space of stillness, allow deep relaxation and rejuvenation, and let harmony flow like a river through your being and your life. Each sincere act of change has the power to create lasting transformation for the good of all our relations.
Let me tell you a story. When my friend Rebecca went back to school in order to more ably take care of her two children, I helped to take care of her six year-old daughter MacKenzie until Rebecca returned home, sometimes very late in the evening.
One day I took MacKenzie for a walk to the nearby creek. There had been a deluge of rain in the days prior, and the creek had overtopped its banks, once again inundating the land and revitalizing the natural ecosystem of the floodplain. A new landscape was sculpted by the floodwaters that was breathtaking in character; landmark trees and brush were gone, water was trapped in large floodplain puddles, and small rivulets meandered infinitesimally slowly downstream. MacKenzie went over to the largest (~35’) puddle that was clearly quite polluted and said: ‘Something is wrong. We have to get the water flowing again.’ I looked at the huge puddle and, being the resident adult and physicist, I advised that we would need to dig trenches to release the water. It would be quite a task and we had no shovels or spades. ‘ Let’s leave it,’ I said. ‘Others will come and take care of it.’
MacKenzie responded:,‘When I can do something, I do it now.’ She walked slowly around the large puddle a few times, observing carefully. Then she got a sturdy stick and with a single flick of her wrist, created a small channel in the floodplain soil. Immediately the water started to flow in no small measure, and quickly become a rivulet on the move. I was rendered speechless.
What I learnt that day from a six year-old was that sometimes seemingly intractable and/or complex challenges can have an unexpectedly simple solution if you have the commitment and the right mindset.
‘When I’m in my commitment, I’m in my heart and there, I’m unlimited! Nothing can stop me, I’m unstoppable, I’m formidable, I’m effective, I’m true to myself and I can make an infinite, unequivocal difference!’
– Lynne Twist,
co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance
‘The superintelligence we are looking for is already here. It’s us.’
– Audrey Tang
2025 Right Livelihood Award Recipient
So let’s link arms and co-evolve a heart-centered planet of togetherness. Why not?