The Dream — Hive

Why don’t most people talk about sustainability and where we are going as a species in day to day conversations? It doesn’t seem to be a popular conversation in bars or clubs. People usually talk about sports, relationships, and the evils of those in power, but not about how they could change global events ─ why?

I would say a major reason is because the ideologies (belief systems) that govern the Western industrialized world have taught us to be self and family centered and focused on competitive individualism, where success in terms of the money-time model are the main values taught.

We believe that we are teaching our children the right way ─ and yes its good to be well mannered citizens and not to harm others, but we have simply blotted out the massive sore we can not face; that beyond our family houses and immediate societies malls, is a world that is being governed unsustainably and that is headed for disaster. A global train smash is where we are all headed, if we do not wake up out of the materialistic dream. Yet, living in the consumerism system, it is hard to look beyond that wall ─we have families to take care of. Yet, turning our eyes away does not mean the truth is not going to one day make our existence nightmarish, in cities particularly.

For society to become adaptive, we will need to see beyond our own immediate family environment, to become concerned and value what is going on in our greater environment and teach our children to ask questions such as: Where will our food come from in the near future? Not Woolworth’s I can assure you. For this questioning to happen, societal values and beliefs focusing back onto our relationship to nature will have to become important enough to be taught as a primary value ─ that is, if we do not want to die out in a sudden extinction caused by an economic collapse.

As Terrence Mckenna once said “It's important that people take back their minds”─ to start asking what will our world be like for our children we love, when they are embarking on adulthood and for their children? Do we even care about that today? Let’s be honest ─ I think most people don’t go there at all, but rather the question is; what will be for supper tonight.

To start seeing beyond today's western work ethic and societal living, we will need the old visionary plant teacher medicines: Banisteriopsis caapi, Echinopsis pachanoi and Psilocybe cubensis and sustainable communities.

We are currently, as a society, divorced from nature. We must RE-connect ─ if we are to have a future here. But the current consumerism focused system has enslaved us well enough that we do not have the energy to even entertain that thought ─so only when we take our time back then we can free our minds again.

A good question then is: what would it mean to you, and what sacrifice would you need to make, to have your time back again? That would be the starting point from which we can re-initiate a new Golden Era of Human Civilization ─ because right now the sore is festering.

Phytoalchemist: Jean-Francois Sobiecki