{"id":929,"date":"2014-10-31T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=929"},"modified":"2014-10-31T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:57:22","slug":"inner-transition-commit-to-staying-awake-transition-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Inner Transition: Commit to Staying Awake | Transition US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionus.org\/blog\/inner-transition-commit-staying-awake\">Inner Transition: Commit to Staying Awake | Transition US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;\">Will cities and states along the Mid-Atlantic coastline wake up in time<strong>?\u00a0<\/strong>One drowsy regional eye opened during the September 2014 People\u2019s Climate March<strong>;\u00a0<\/strong>a brief but powerful awakened moment<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>The visual of400,000 people in New York City streets screamed public recognition of the intensifying dysfunction that precipitates climate change, economic contraction, and resource depletion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;\">The crowds are gone now. The\u00a0hoopla of frenzied, back-to-back strategy sessions quieted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;\">The murky, \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d mist has resettled. Now what? The challenge that the dispersed People\u2019s Climate Marchers, Wall Street flooders, and eco-activists of all stripes now face is far deeper than any policy, treaty, legislation or regulation can reach. The litmus test of authentic forward movement is to skillfully address the fear, greed and desire for power that warps the collective perception of self, others, and the Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;\">The sleep of deep-seated conditioning to\u00a0<em>want more<\/em>\u00a0is so irresistibly seductive. It\u2019s hard to stay awake when the pervasive fog of consumerism and desire for power hang heavy. Having more, and especially,\u00a0<em>wanting\u00a0<\/em>more, in order to strengthen one\u2019s identity is a mesmerizing trance that fuels the environment-destroying economy. And as we\u2019ve witnessed time and time again, in movement after movement, legislation is utterly impotent at the level of embedded human beliefs and identity formation. There is no legal shortcut. There can be no enduring outer transition without a corresponding inner-transition<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inner Transition: Commit to Staying Awake | Transition US. Will cities and states along the Mid-Atlantic coastline wake up in time?\u00a0One drowsy regional eye opened during the September 2014 People\u2019s Climate March;\u00a0a brief but powerful awakened moment.\u00a0The visual of400,000 people in New York City streets screamed public recognition of the intensifying dysfunction that precipitates climate [&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":[141,161,657,860],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-consumerism","tag-protests","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}