I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the promised land.
I experiment on how more effectively to describe changing culture from mainstream American to more sustainably. I’m not talking about some abstract “environment.” I’m talking about restoring living by doing unto others as I would have them do unto me and of loving my neighbor as myself, the opposite of polluting.
I found a better way of describing the shift than just saying I’ve changed culture, I’ve passed a cusp, or I’ve overcome a threshold or reaction potential, like in a chemical reaction. I’m not saying the new way is original, but it communicates the change. Classics stand the test of time.
I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the promised land, and it is a land of freedom and abundance. That is, I have struggled to live sustainably and found a path to global sustainability—by governments, corporations, and 8 billion people.
What freedom? freedom from tyranny, craving, addiction, and pollution.
What abundance? Abundance of health, safety, security, family, community.
What path? A path of liberation, mutual support, and fun.
I looked back from the mountaintop and saw our valley so deep of despair, material rot, and hopelessness. We in it can’t see—we can’t imagine—that freedom and abundance. We tell ourselves it isn’t possible to protect ourselves from facing that we are complicit in creating our misery.
Only a few times in history have people been so trapped in so deep a valley. Only a few people have climbed their time’s mountain to lead people across. Today is one of those times and I am one of those people.
You may be asking yourself, “Who does this guy think he is?!?”
Read my book. It explains. You will learn why we feel helpless. You will learn why the path up the mountain looks so hard, so burdensome. Then I will share what I believe not one other person can share from personal, hands-on practical experience: how hiking that path is refreshing, liberating, and rewarding.
You may be thinking, “But what I do doesn’t matter, but only governments and corporations can act on the scale we need, but, but, but, but.” Keep watching this video and you’ll feel your objections—your protections for giving up on yourself, your family, your nation, and humanity—melt away. You’ll feel liberation. You’ll be liberated.
Once you start, you’ll see the path to global systemic change. You’ll see it’s challenging but rewarding and often fun. You’ll wish you had started earlier. You will see why nobody else tried. You won’t want to turn back. You will look forward to hiking that refreshing trail. You will look back at the valley of despair you left with compassion. You will want to help others climb out too. You will learn how to and they will thank you for it.
Then we will stride forward freedom and abundance together, 8 billion strong and free.
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