The freeways will start to crack open, and the skyscrapers will become home to thousands of animals.  Eventually, there will be no visible trace of any human structure.  It will be an animal’s world.  There will be no wars, no weapons, no fear, just existence.  The consciousness of the world at that point will be almost entirely present moment and there will be no regrets or worries.  Life after people will be very diverse and resilient.  It will also be abundant, due to the lack of a primary exterminator, us.  Everything will pretty much coexist in balance with everything else, and create a harmonious world that nature itself intended.

Whether us humans go extinct in 1000 years or 1,000,000 years, the fact remains that life will go on.  New species will flourish and ones that depended on us for the sustenance will suffer.  We will be gone and the rest of the species on this planet will simply be allowed to live.  They will be free in the most absolute sense.  Kind of like we used to be.  There will be no guidelines, no rules.  Just nature.  Just a diverse array of lifeforms competing for resources and territory, with safeguards to keep them from getting out of balance.  Without humans destroying natural habitats, many environments will come back that had previously been destroyed.  All it takes is a little time and nature always recovers.  So, maybe it’s not such a big deal that we are destroying the planet.  We will probably destroy ourselves before we ever get to destroying the entire planet.

I don’t think humans can get back into balance with nature.  I don’t think they can coexist with other creatures as equals.  We are just too smart at this point.  We know too much.  We know how to create these fantastic civilizations where we wield all the power over all other living things.  We can’t go back to what we once were.  It’s not that we can’t, it’s that we simply don’t want to.  Human life is good for a good portion of the people, although things are getting worse.  But the thought of living in a grass hut or a cave, catching our own food, and bathing in a lake just seem silly to us.  We’re smarter than that.  We can do things that other creatures cannot.  We have opposable thumbs, damn it!  We’re comfortable in our lives.  Our air is conditioned and we are shielded from extreme temperatures of any kind.  We are the kings of the world right now.  And we are really reluctant to give up our throne.

Our time will come and go, however.  Something will make humans extinct.  Be it a plague or a natural disaster, we will go extinct eventually.  Our throne will finally be vacant and will most likely stay that way for millions of years, or forever.  Human beings are nothing special, other than their intelligence.  If we didn’t have that, we would be goners in the wild.  How in the world would we hunt for food if we didn’t know how to make tools?  There are tons of theories on how we developed our superior intellect, but nobody truly knows for sure.  All we know is that it has allowed us to be at the top of the totem pole for tens of thousands of years and only now are we starting to pay for the exploitation and destruction of our home planet.  It’s just a pattern we’ve been running since grain agriculture and it just kind of got out of hand.  Now we have nearly 7 billion humans, who consume at the highest rate in history with most of them having no knowledge of the consequences of their actions.  But our cycle is reaching a tipping point if it already hasn’t.  Things are starting to get worse and there is nothing we can do about it.  Since we are consuming more than we can produce from the Earth, production will go down, as will consumption, which will lead to all sorts of economic  problems, which will lead to people being hungry, which may or may not cause a drop in population.

All I know for sure is that a world without humans will be a world where everything else is just allowed to be.  Sure, there will be competition, but there will not be extermination.  No animals are going to clear-cut forests.  They are not going to have nuclear power plants.  There will be no processed food or pharmaceuticals.  It will be a clean world, a natural world,  one where every organism has a chance to thrive, instead of just one species and the species who are considered useful to that one species.  No exploitation, no destruction.  Just pure life, the way nature intended it to be.

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We can tap into another reality at any time we want to.  We just have to know how.  We have to have the consciousness for it.  But what is the true nature of reality?  What is the real truth?  Which lens is most accurate?  The question is unanswerable, because for one there are too many lenses to look through.  Another problem is that different lens are more accurate for different people.  It’s hard to really know which lens is the most accurate, but we can explore different lenses to see which one works better than the one we are using.  Or we can use the multi-lens approach, tailoring each situation to the best lens for the job.  But I’m sure this takes years of practice to calibrate which lens is best for each individual situation.  I believe that subjective reality is one of the primary steps to getting your reality in better order, simply because it allows for what you believe to be true.

It is a creative belief system, with potentially unlimited possibilities, but the major limit being our own minds.  We can explore our inner space indefinitely, and this is a way to truly flourish, independent of the objective universe, although the objective universe is contained within the subjective framework.  But the objective universe is only there because we believe in it to be so.  But our belief is truly rooted there as of now because that is where our consciousness is wrapped up.  Sure, it has led to unbelievable understanding and advances in technology, so it is useful in the framework in which it works, so it cannot be completely dumped.  But relying solely on the objective lens creates fear and uncertainty.  It creates a feeling of lack of control.  But when the subjective lens is placed before the objective one, it can make the objective world a creation of consciousness, and therefore more flexible and less pronounced.  The subjective lens accounts for much more than just the objective world.  It brings that all experiences are possible and that if we wish to create them, we can by intending it to be created.

It reminds me of the mantra, “If you believe it, it is so.”  Very true.  But not always.  You’ve seen cult suicides, and other indoctrinated people who believed what they believed only because their consciousness was controlled.  You can believe whatever you want to believe, but it has to actually work for you.  It has to encourage growth, not stagnation.  It has to empower you, not disempower you.  It has to open your mind, not close it.  A closed mind is one of rigidity and clinginess.  People cling to their beliefs, even in the most contradictory experiences.  When you see something that contradicts your beliefs, you need to open your mind and find something that will explain it,  otherwise you are perceiving reality inaccurately.  And that would be a damn shame because it would hinder your ability to function in the real world.  The more removed from reality your beliefs are, the worse off you are.

A few years ago, I tried out the subjective lens, and intended money to come into my life.  I had absolute strangers giving me $5 where I worked.  At the time, I was a bagger at a grocery store and when I went outside to retrieve the shopping carts, I was finding money everywhere.  I was getting large tips from people I helped out, and this one incident threw me over the edge.  A man called for my attention when i was in the parking lot and said, “Come over here for a moment.”  So I did.  ”I just wanted to thank you for what you did yesterday.  You helped my mother bring her groceries to her car and I just wanted you to have this.”  He gave me a $10 bill.  I had never even imagined something like this would happen unless it had to do with my intention for it to happen.  I thought to myself, “Wow!  This is really true!  It made my life better in every way possible!”  Of course, we forget and go back to old habits, so I did, and lost parts of that belief system.

I’m going from personal experience when I say that intention-manifestation does work, but it only works to the extent you believe in it.  If you have doubts, those doubts will appear in your manifestations.  If you don’t actually believe you can manifest $50,000 dollars just by intending it, you won’t.  If you think these things are impossible, stop reading now.  Your beliefs will stop you from experiencing anything beyond your realm of possibility.  In a subjective framework, anything is possible.  Your only limitation is if you don’t truly believe this.  I’m not quite there yet, but using reference experiences and other people’s supposed experiences, I figure that it can only enhance reality, not degrade it, so it is empowering by its very nature, to say that you (consciousness) are the very creator of this reality and are everything you experience, not just your physical body.  It is the dream scenario in my previous post.  You are all that exists, all that you are aware of, all your thoughts and the thoughts that you perceive to the in the global consciousness.  It’s all you.  Other people are you.  The planet is you.  The universe is you.  Everyone and everything is connected.  There is no you and I.  It is all I.  Or we.  We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.  Life is nothing but a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.  Einstein proved that, so why haven’t we taken it seriously yet?  Because we (I) am not ready yet.  But I’m getting there.

And when we believe that we are all one, all part of the same whole, in this together, we start to have compassion.  Compassion for all that is.  We realize that to hurt another is to hurt oneself.  To hate someone is truly to hate a part of yourself.  Non-duality.  A belief in this can create quite an interesting life I bet.  It is a very empowering way to view reality and no matter what happens, you know you are safe, even beyond the death of your physical avatar.  If you die in a dream, you don’t die for real.  Your physical body is but a manifestation of consciousness and is just another one of your creations.

I’ll expand on this later when I have more time.  I just manifested a lunch with my grandparents.  But I hope I have convinced you that you should care about who we are and that we should get to the roots of reality to perceive it accurately.  Remember, an accurate belief enhances your life and the lives of those around you, while an inaccurate belief causes problems, especially if it closes your mind to other schools of thought.  This is why subjective reality is the most empowering belief I’ve found so far.  It encompasses everything and anything, as long as you are open to it.  A jack of all trades.  It is how we all live our lives, but with many belief systems tacked onto it, some that even negate the subjective paradigm.  A God making himself powerless.  Anyway, happy existence to you!

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People who live lives based in spirituality or other belief systems could have it all wrong.  But many of them do not suffer for it.  Especially if it is a consciously-chosen belief system, not a socially-conditioned one.  A socially-conditioned belief system is nothing more than dumb luck, the family you were born into, the culture you live in indoctrinate that belief system into you.  You mostly associate with those who believe the same as you and rarely ever go beyond the box of your little belief-created world.  Many people never even change one belief about their spiritual practices in an entire lifetime.  Even if they do have questions, social pressure holds them back from getting answers.  They just go with the flow of their little world.  Outsiders are different, so they are deemed dangerous, much like the condemning of the Muslim faith in American media.  When’s the last time you saw a lead story about a peaceful Muslim movement?

Of course, those that choose their spiritual lives consciously have most likely tried at least a few belief systems and found one that worked best for them.  There are even those who have multiple religions or perspectives when it comes to spirituality (see Steve Pavlina).  These are conscious choices and are more certain beliefs in my book, because there was at least a period of spiritual exploration that took place.  There were questions asked.  Answers given.  And there was growth beyond the socially-conditioned path of spirituality.  It makes more sense to try out different beliefs about reality and see which resonate with you than to just pick one and stick with it, no matter how close-minded it may be.  Even atheism doesn’t explicitly claim, “There is no God,” just that there is no proof of God.  At least they are man enough to say, “I don’t know.”  Or maybe I’m thinking of agnostic.  Even Buddhism does not say whether or not there is a God and does not say what happens after death.  Why?  Because these people are not dead.  At least they are not making false promises, or creating delusions that most people would regard as insanity from the outside looking in.

Experience is the only tool we have to create our belief systems.  Everything else is what I would call “a leap of faith.”  Unless we have directly experienced it, then we do not know whether or not it is true.  For example, suppose you read in the paper that some building got bombed in another country, killing hundreds of people.  Then the next day, an article comes out saying the first article was false, a mistake, a hoax even.  But it was real yesterday, you say.  But the only thing that was truly real to you about that whole experience is you reading the article claiming that a bomb went off, killing hundreds.  You weren’t there to witness it or the after-effects.  So you don’t know whether or not it is real.  I’m sure it would be out of your way to go all the way over there and verify, but you don’t have to do that.  Because it didn’t even happen, as you will soon find out.  But how do you know the retraction is true?

This is why I find it hard to put my trust in ideas or philosophies I haven’t tried for myself and enjoyed the results.  Sure, taking a leap of faith can help sometimes, like if it makes your life that much better, go ahead and do it.  But I feel like taking too far a leap into the wrong faith can corrupt.  The only thing you can ever be sure of is the present moment and what is around you.  Everything else is a leap of faith.  Your reality is what it is at every moment, and nothing else.  That is the only thing you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt.  Your experiences are only real because you were there.  Otherwise, they are pure fantasy.  So wouldn’t a belief system focused on the present moment make a lot of sense?  Or at least a belief system based on the culmination of all your present moments up today (i.e. your experiences)?  To do anything more would be taking a bit of a risk, but you can always come back to first principle.  You can keep an open mind about all belief systems, but know in your heart that all you know for certain is that you are here right now, existing, doing whatever it is you are doing.  And it is then that you have no need for answers because all the answers you seek are right in front of you.

So, I am advocating a belief system based on experiences and the present moment.  It is logical, but at the same time spiritual.  You can have spiritual experiences and they are valid because you yourself experienced them. You can keep an open mind and experiment with any beliefs you want, but they are not your identity.  You don’t need to rely on someone or something telling you how it is because you know how it is based on your experience.  It does not claim there is a God, or that there is no God.  It does not claim anything, other than what you actually, tangibly experience.  It is certainly grounded in reality.  It is certainly fool-proof.  It cannot be wished away or simply changed.  It is what it is and that is all.  Simple, yet very profound.  It needs no labels or converts.  It simply just is, for now at least.

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I would say then that most of these corporations are evil because their very foundation is one of evil. In the world that we live in, it is impossible to “get ahead” except when you do the cutthroat things that everyone else does. I know that is a generalization, but that is the way most people do feel. It’s always about being better than your competitors. “Better” being a subjective term here. Better may mean exploiting your third world workers better so that you can afford to charge lower prices. Just ask Walmart about that. Or it could mean providing a better value than other companies that do similar work. The latter is grounds for an enlightened company, while the former is standard practice in the business world. Instead of increasing value, these companies cut down the overhead by belittling those low on the totem pole to increase profits while not really providing any more value.

A business’s main motive today is profit. That is what guides nearly every corporation on the face of this Earth. It is not their service that guides them. Sure, they have good service, but that’s only because it increases their net worth over time. They don’t really care about their customer base, except to the degree that it will increase their net profits. It is not about anyone, not even the CEO. It is about their stock price. It is about their balance sheet. It is about their expansion. It is a group of people working for the expansion of this entity that is almost imaginary, because it exists only on paper. But all these people devote themselves to serving this “master,” as if it will give meaning to their lives, or simply allow them a place to live and food to eat in this unforgiving society.

It’s really hard to think of many corporations that don’t operate this way. I’m sure there are some, but they are few and far between. Where are the companies that have a primary motive or service and profit is simply a byproduct of the exceptional service they provide? I’m sure we’ve not heard of many of these corporations because they remained small and thrived that way because it is likely it is run by a small amount of people who truly believe in their service first principle. A large corporation gets too muddled to maintain that value system across the board. Once it reaches a certain size, it can no longer be one of the “good guys.” At that point, it needs to keep expanding or crash and burn. See Starbucks as a prime example. It just had to close a ton of stores due to its over-expansion. It used to be one of the “good guys,” but it became too big for its own good and look what happened.

I would liken most corporations to that of a cult. It is always looking for new followers and uses underhanded tactics to get them. For example, some of the supermarkets around here are now selling gasoline at a lower price if you spend so much money inside the store. Like I said before, it is a way to beat out the competition, or to be exactly like the competition, so that the corporation doesn’t miss out on any missed opportunities that other corporations have taken up. When you take out your supermarket club card, it is further proof in brand loyalty. They actually call these cards “loyalty cards.” They take down all your information and start tracking your spending habits. They give you coupons in exchange for your “loyalty.” The little reward for being a part of this particular cult.

It is rather amusing in its own little way, how corporations have perpetually conditioned us to like them. We even feel we need them to provide for us. In Walmart we trust. This reminds me of Project Mayhem. In case you are unfamiliar, it is a group from the movie Fight Club that basically tried to destroy the corporate culture in very unconventional ways. And the funny thing is that they had almost everyone on their side. All the people in the bottom rungs of all corporations were secretly a part of Project Mayhem, so there was no stopping them. Sure, they may have gone too far in blowing up all the credit card companies, but who in this world would benefit from them staying functional? Besides, all the buildings were empty.

Now, I’m not advocating for any violence towards any corporation, but it seems like that would be the only thing that these bloated beasts would understand, other than a total bankruptcy, which is something we can also work to create. For example, we are the lifeblood of these corporations. Without us, they crumble to the ground. We support them, feed them, and even work for them. Some of them are better than others, but most of them are pretty much the same. What if we only supported local businesses that were smaller, autonomous, and were more concerned with service than profits? One of two things would happen. The first is that the local businesses would become larger and larger to support the demand, thus becoming yet another large, bloated corporation. Or they would only accept as much business as they need, thus staying the same size, yet still being able to thrive. The odds are going for the expansion because most of these small businesses yearn to be bigger and make more profits. But those that have the courage to stay small and still thrive are the companies I would support because at least they are setting up a model that doesn’t lead to Walmart or Target. They are not evil corporations, but self-sufficient cells that serve the larger body of the economy.

That is what we need in this world. A ton of small, diverse corporations that provide unique and valuable service, not cookie-cutter corporations that essentially give the same service for essentially the same value. I say we boycott the big boys in the corporate world and start looking for smaller, more independent companies that provide value and service in the ways we wish the faceless, bloated monsters would. A company that connects with the consumer one on one is much better than a company with no connection other than their giant logo out front and on every sales flyer. I just feel it is a much better model and it is definitely a step in the right direction. Whether humanity as a whole will wake up to this new way of doing business is yet to be seen, but I believe the tides are shifting in this way of consuming and it would certainly be a breath of fresh air in a world where brand names and logos are now the most recognizable symbols in this society. Service first, profits second. Just some food for thought…

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I’m just saying that in order for these corporations to get to the size they are today, they had to exploit someone or something to get there. They had to walk over hundreds of other corporations just to be on top. And is that the world we really want to live in? A zero-sum game, where those who are willing to sleaze their way to the top are honored and not reprimanded? We truly need to think about this part of the economy just as much as how many jobs there are. I will follow up on this idea later because I believe that it is important.

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