{"id":16261,"date":"2016-01-10T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16261"},"modified":"2016-01-10T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:06:46","slug":"2016-the-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16261","title":{"rendered":"2016: The Year Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twoicefloes.com\/2016-the-year-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016: THE YEAR AHEAD<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><em>This brief piece appears in New Dawn magazine, Jan 2016 edition. The editor asked me and several other authors and thinkers to give our 500 word perspective on what 2016 will bring. Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newdawnmagazine.com\/\">newdawnmagazine.com<\/a>\u00a0and get your copy of this great mag.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>2016 will rigorously test people\u2019s readiness to embody their truth. Can we live the wisdom and transformation we\u2019ve been cultivating over years of study, journeying, and contemplation? Can we summon the strength to have our outside accurately reflect our inside? Are we ready to run our own world yet?<span id=\"more-13874\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In many schools of mystical study, polarity is a key principle. The student is taught that everything in life is dual. All phenomena have pairs of opposites, as observed in the primal forces of birth and death, day and night, order and chaos, joy and sorrow. Over time, through experientially mapping and understanding the interplay of each set of polarities in our own lives, we may gradually determine a point of equilibrium that reveals the hidden teachings of these mysterious fluctuations. What we must be careful to avoid, is clinging to just one end of life\u2019s naturally divergent polarizations. And herein lie the trials set forth in the world\u2019s current crises.<\/p>\n<p>At every turn, the synthetic culture of Empire implores us to throw our hearts and minds into unconscious polarization. It wants us to radicalize ourselves to either patriot or terrorist, believer or atheist, white or black, liberal or conservative, strong or weak, and then embark on an endless crusade to reform, condemn, or destroy the other side. This one-way polarization renders all participants impotent, regardless of which side they pick. This subtle but devastating trick deactivates our will and we automatically forfeit our capacity to rule ourselves. Lost in unconscious polarization, we serve Empire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016: THE YEAR AHEAD This brief piece appears in New Dawn magazine, Jan 2016 edition. The editor asked me and several other authors and thinkers to give our 500 word perspective on what 2016 will bring. Read more at\u00a0newdawnmagazine.com\u00a0and get your copy of this great mag. 2016 will rigorously test people\u2019s readiness to embody their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[259,11591,11592,6092,11593],"class_list":["post-16261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-empire","tag-neil-kramer","tag-polarization","tag-twoicefloes","tag-world-crises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16263,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions\/16263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}