I recently had a conversation with a friend who claimed that in her sitting meditation she had come across a sadness and a feeling that the earth was indeed dying. She claimed that when she let her mind go and just sat from a place in her heart she felt that the planet could indeed die at the hands of humankind and that the threat to her life was real.

I told her I felt that in even thinking that we are working to create it. But how do you balance hope and optimism with pure denial and ignorance. We have to look at and FEEL the reality of the situation we've created, we have to look at the utter and total destruction of the global ecosystem and understand it's ramifications.

But at the same time I DO believe in this idea of Creer Es Crear (to believe is to create) and what we believe is also of utter importance in this moment in history. While sitting with our hearts and eyes open, we also have to envision that for all the destruction and harm we're causing we still live and exist in a world of abundance and endless natural emergence. Life is blossoming up around us all the time. If we line up with nature's endless and ubiquitous power in an act of circular synergy rather than linear opposition, we will find ourselves wondering how we ever felt fear and scarcity.

But what I'm really talking about is Choice. How we choose to see our world has a direct correlation to the world we have created, are creating, and will create.

There's been so much hype about 2012 and the end of the world, there are people claiming that it's all coming down and that a big crash is imminent. I say 2012 isn't about the end of the world it's about choice, the choice we're facing. We can believe/create the end of the world, or we can step out of our lazy complacent and programmed selves to recognize that we can believe/create something else. Something that is abundant and beautiful.

A lot of people say that the dominating structural paradigm of capitalism etc won't let it happen and the only way forward is for it all to come crashing down in order to start anew. In fact I've said that in this very blog. I'm actually a big fan of the 'we all fall down' scenario, most of the time I agree that the only way things will shift is by major catalyst.

But I guess what I'm trying to say is that the world hasn't ended yet, and rather than us putting our energy into envisioning collapse, we should be redirecting that energy into WAKING ourselves UP, and once that's done WAKING UP those around us rather than giving up on it all and planning our doomsday options. Believe me I've done plenty of the latter. I currently have 3mths of food and water in my van and enough fuel to travel 1200 miles in any direction.

The truth is we live in a vast web of interconnectedness, not only in nature here on earth but in our entire living universe. What we think, feel, and act upon is directly manifest into reality, and the more of us who buy into collapse as the 'only' way, the faster our world is collapsing around us. How we see the world and how we see each other becomes our reality... so the question becomes, what are you buying into?

None of this is to say, sit back everything's fine... it's to say NOW is the time to realize our potential to affect the world in which we live, to get off our personal ego-trains and reach into the ripple of time and space, and to examine your personal choice and then stand up for what you still believe in.

peace,d