I’m not sure where Jung would put paradigm shifts. He experienced several during his lifetime, wrote about them, and the shifts he lived through certainly influenced his search and his writings. But are paradigm shifts strictly cause and effect? If they are mass events, there are invariably synchronicities associated with them even if they aren’t immediately apparent. We’ve posted several of them.
As we enter day 63 of the oil spill, it appears that the repercussions of this catastrophe could be triggering a paradigm shift about a world energy based in fossil fuels. It may not be huge shift yet, it may not be at its tipping point, but there seems to be progress. According to the article here, Britain has tightened its oil rig inspections. Bulgaria dumped plans for a new oil pipeline that would have carried Russian oil to Greece. China is upgrading its blowout preventer system. Canada is tightening oversight of its deepest oil drilling ever,
off the coast of Newfoundland.
Despite muted responses from countries in the Mideast, the most important sentence in the entire article linked above may be this one: “The Gulf catastrophe also has sparked a debate over the practice of deepwater drilling itself – with some viewing the spill as reason to ban it altogether.”
Interestingly enough, we ran across another article about research being done by a Cambridge professor, Nicholas Boyle, that points to 2014 as a doomsday moment that will “determine whether the 21st century is full of violence and poverty or will be peaceful and prosperous. In the last 500 years there has been a cataclysmic ‘Great Event’ of international significance at the start of each century. Occurring in the middle of the second decade of each century, they include events which sparked wars, religious conflict and brought peace.” The past dates? These are intriguing:
1517: Martin Luther and the rise of Protestanism and church reformation
1618: start of 30 years war and decades of conflict in Europe
1715: establishment of the Hanoverians, who ruled Britain, Ireland, and Hanover
(in Germany).
1815: after the defeat of Napolean, the Congress of Vienna occurred and ushered in
a period of relative stability in Europe.
1914: WWI breaks out
Boyle sees the economic collapse that began in 2007 as the trigger for this doomsday moment. “Big economic changes lead to big political changes and we have not seen them yet.’My thesis is that we have got another crisis to come, and you can already see that in the questions being raised over the debts of nations rather than private credit debts.”
He believes that because of the colossal power of the U.S. military, America is key to which direction events may turn. “Everything, in the end, may depend on whether America can react more imaginatively to that decline than Britain was able to do in the years before 1914. The only conceivably peaceful route to that goal
is through a continuation of the pax Americana. “But both the world’s understanding of America, and America’s understanding of itself, will have to change fundamentally for that goal to be achieved.”
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The questions I have about Boyle’s research are about other obvious turning points in history: WWII, Vietnam, Iraq. Yet, there does seem to be a glimmer of hope in terms of a paradigm shift and oil. But after I read this Naomi Klein article here, I’m wondering if the shift is just in its infancy.
Here’s a bit of the Klein article that intrigues:
“In the late 90s, an isolated indigenous group in Colombia captured world headlines with an almost Avatar-esque conflict. From their remote home in the Andean cloud forests, the U’wa let it be known that if Occidental Petroleum carried out plans to drill for oil on their territory, they would commit mass ritual suicide by jumping off a cliff. Their elders explained that oil is part of ruiria, “the blood of Mother Earth”. They believe that all life, including their own, flows from ruiria, so pulling out the oil would bring on their destruction. (Oxy eventually withdrew from the region, saying there wasn’t as much oil as it had previously thought.)
“Virtually all indigenous cultures have myths about gods and spirits living in the natural world – in rocks, mountains, glaciers, forests – as did European culture before the scientific revolution. Katja Neves, an anthropologist at Concordia University, points out that the practice serves a practical purpose. Calling the Earth “sacred” is another way of expressing humility in the face of forces we do not fully comprehend. When something is sacred, it demands that we proceed with caution. Even awe.”
Watching countdown right now – this cap being removed sure doesn't look good. They're actually talking about not being able to stop the gusher at all because the pipes beneath the seabed may be broken/leaking.
does is occur to anyone other than me that perhaps the cap removal was not an accident but another deliberate act of BP to allow more to escape to lessen the pressure because they know the real danger lurking and are continuing to try to keep it secret – and that in doing so, these poor men lost their lives –
or am i missing something and/or is it just my cynical self speaking?
you said it, cjc – what a mess! and a horrific headache to me [in the literal sense] –
Just saw that the cap has been removed from the oil spill due to an accident with a robot, and much more oil is again gushing into the water. Also, it was announced that two workers "died". They are being evasive about the deaths. Now computer models regarding the tropics are not encouraging. What an unspeakable mess this continues to be, increasingly so. cjc
Earth's blood makes sense in that oil is the remains of dead plants and animals.
Another shift is taking place in that unlike previous centuries the US is lagging instead of leading in ecology attitudes about forcing others into believing what we believe and operation our government and economy the way our egos tell us others should live.
The McChrystal debacle is one example. of the US being a warlike country.
Ray
A tropical low. yes. However, our chief meteorologist on the local NBC channel, who is really great at his job, said they are watching it for potential development because the environment is "ripe" for it to grow and become more. 'Tis the season. Hopefully if it develops into a system it will go northeast, into open seas….better yet, that it will simply dissipates into nothingness. Last night at 9:33EDT I had severe vertigo, (non-Parkinson's) and felt sick. I'm able to rcognize symptoms that are planetary in origin. This was, and is. I woke in the middle of the night with a headache sufficient to get me out of bed for Tylenol. It still hurts this morning. I never have headaches except relative to planetary events. I'm sure it has nothing to do with this new tropical disturbance but do know something heavy-duty is brewing. When the symptoms are uncomfortable enough to make me reach for meds, the earth is getting ready to rumble. Wish I knew what, when, where, etc. Just must wait and see. cjc
Connie – it's just a tropical disturbance right now… thunderstorms (12:33 AM)
Barbara – we're not really a democracy anymore. We're owned by corporations.
The governments tend to pander to mega corporations like BP for their financial donations. The general population doesn't have enough money or anything the government wants except votes. Obama wants to keep the lid on the boiling emotions of the population with false promises, though it's plain to anyone keeping abreast of the situation is that the Gulf Oil Spill is totally out of control!
The oil and the chemicals being used to lessen the effect of the oil are hazardous and toxic to the environment: including humans. There will be long-standing damage to the area, the wetlands, the Gulf and the currents that carry oil out into the Atlantic Ocean.
The effects will be similar to those noted in the book review I did recently on "Slow Death by Rubber Duck".
People will have to keep on their respective governments' backs to ensure that safe measures are taken when using technology. Technically there are more of us than them.
wv: fisima
Just watched the local weather…for all interested parties, there is a tropical depression developing in the Atlantic, pretty far south of the Keys, etc, but they are watching it for further development as they say it has the pattern for doing so. Everybody please take deep breaths and start blowing really hard in a southeasterly direction! keep that thing away! cjc
*shakes head*
back again – couldn't remember the name of the two guys that you all mentioned in a post late last year – their site is redicecreations – and they had done a post on the thing of the ethiopian rift where the continent is ripping apart, geomagnetic storms and the issue then of a total pole reversal – anyway, just searched and found that november 5, 2009 post you all did but when i went to their site, it is now all by paid subscription – i was interested in seeing if they had anything about the gulf, and in particular, about the latest with the bubble –
interesting wv this time – "rewing"
marguerite, come on up, girl! i'm wanting my granddaughter and her little new family to do the same thing – they're in lake charles, too – and you know, shreveport is only about 250 miles inland from the gulf –
it is truly a sad state of things that the nation's president is having to appeal a decision of a judge sitting on an "oil-based" bench!
MArguerite – maybe a ghost is preferable right now to the oilspill?
Turns out the judge who blocked the moratorium owns drilling stocks.
https://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0622/judge-holding-drilling-firm-stocks-overturns-drilling-moratorium/
Very interesting post and article. The oil spill may very well be the last wake up call for people to change. It doesn't really surprise me that the judge blocked the moratorium. There was way too much money to be lost, if that continued. Just goes to show you that the oil companies are more powerful than our president! I, personally think that deep water drilling should be banned forever, or at least until the technology exists to make it safe. I am seriously thinking of retreating to my house in Maryland, for a year or two. But then, there will be the ghost to contend with!
From this post:
https://newglobalmyth.blogspot.com/2010/06/doctor-my-eyes.html
I'm hoping that got through? It's an http link? It's the methane gas info and explosive speculations? over at New Global Myth…
Obama is appealing the judges decision:
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf
Unbelievable. Here's the link:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/22/obama-offshore-drilling-m_n_621229.html
What?!
On the breaking news wire:"Judge blocks offshore drilling moratorium imposed by Obama administration after Gulf spill- AP"
What is the judge thinking? Why do we have President if he can't make decisions on behalf of our country?
I'm so angry…..
I agree with you, Sansego. I read the Coast to Coast program info online. A simple illustration of how utterly dependent we have become on electronics, and a funny one, (but not), is that yesterday afternoon the entire Island where we reside lost the Comcast TV capabilities. Video and audio were completely fragmented for hours, and still are today. I rarely watch TV, but my husband was furious because he's an avid watcher when not working. When we finally went to bed I remarked to him that the entire globe has become far too dependent on our gadgets, and when they're breakdown occurs, it's upsetting. Imagine how it would be if the Coast to Coast scenario manifests! Hate thinking about it. cjc
Sorry I missed Strieber on coast to coast. He and Art Bell were sure right on with the coming global superstorm. I follow his site – especially the section about potential for sudden climate change.
Streiber was on Coast to Coast AM last night and I was horrified by something he said may be a possibility for the 2012 event: something involving the sun, which would fry our complete electronic systems, rending everything useless. We are far too dependent on technology, that I would hate to live through the catastrophe of what might happen if that event took place. There's a reason why I avoid seeing movies like "The Road" or "The Book of Eli". I prefer a hopeful message about our future, not doomsday!
I really wish that more humans would spend time in introspection about how destructive our lifestyles are to the planet and do something to make changes necessary. Bush had the perfect opportunity after 9/11 to appeal to our better natures, but instead he encouraged us to shop, shop, shop…and said: "the American lifestyle is not under negotiation." Hate to disagree…but Mother Nature can easily render our consumerist lifestyles worthless.
Which info, Gwendolyn?
Excellent post you guys! Have you heard or considered this info, (since it really affects us very quickly now) …
Having read so many of the prophesies by various legitimate "prophets" over many years, it has seemed to me that their predictions were, in the main, accurate, but that the "timing" is almost always not on point. Could this be because Einstein was right and there really is no such thing as Time, at least as we perceive it? In the 1970s, a geophysicist named Dr. Jeffrey Goodman wrote a non-fiction text entitled "WE ARE THE EARTHQUAKE GENERATION". It was a compilation from many genres: psychics, scientists including geophysicists, etc etc. As time passed, nothing happened as that congregate of top-notch folks had said would happen. But guess what? Virtually everything written in that book is happening NOW. Right now. I'm trying to locate a copy of the book, as I didn't keep it. Their postulations were dead on, but their timing was off by close to three decades. A prtetty good case for Time being non-existent in terms that we perceive. cjc
great post and incredible article of klein – and interestingly, just as i'm reading at the point where she mentions the drilling "as deep in the ocean as jets fly overhead" there is a jet flying directly over my house – especially interesting, because as i've mentioned before, delaware does not have overhead air traffic – there are no commercial airports in this state – the air base here deals in cargo planes that you can reach up and touch when they come by – i cannot remember the last time i heard a jet fly over and i always notice because it is so rare – in any event, a jet directly overhead just as i'm reading that passage – and i look out the window into the sky to SEE just how deep the hole – a frightening thing – and then try to mentally calculate just how deep the center of the earth is, something i know that i know but cannot think of at the moment – in any event, about cayce, me, too, in laying hope upon his having been way off on dates – although i was reminded of his predictions about the future waterway up the country – and the result if other concern about a gas bubble under the rig came to be – it was calculated that 200 miles inland would be impacted if that were to come to fruition –
wv=imendu
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine remains one of my favorite non-fiction books. So any time she writes, I listen.
I've always hoped Cayce was wrong. Some of his dates have been way off, which always made me hopeful. But in the end, it all depends on a shift in consciousness. Don't think we're quite there yet in a planetary sense.
If you believe Edgar Cayce, it may be too late. The wheels are already in motion for a cataclysmic change on our planet. He always said things are not set in stone, that free choice can always be a factor. But after seeing how slowly any change can take place here in the US, and factoring in China, the Middle East, etc., I have doubts that we have time to make any changes large enough to stave off catastrophe. I have no doubt that what will come after is a thousand years of peace, but it will probably take a totally clean slate to get there. Once the planet is mostly annihilated, change will be easy.
I read the accompany article from Ms Klein and am deeply impressed with it. You might be on to something big here. Yes, a tipping point bigger even than the War on Terror which, in my opinion was fought mainly in Iraq for its oil wells.
We are ready as a public to have this shift; but not quite yet. We want pablum and are willing to accept it because we don't want to grow up. Keep us in Neverland, as long as ever. We want the fantasy to continue. Our anti-regs philosophy is super strong, super invasive. I do hope, soon, we can face our future with open eyes.
Yesterday I clicked over to Whitley Strieber's UnknownCountry site, and read his recent journal entries. His entry of June 17 was intriguing, "The Coming of the Omega Point". In that writing he references, from the Bible, Revelation chapter 20, verse 12, or 20:12, and remarks that it may have altered his view of things to come. It's worth the time to go over and read that entry in terms of shifting paradigms, especially considering that most of us know Strieber is not a Biblically-oriented person. (Not am I, for that matter.) However, it seems that astute and potentially reliable portents for our future are overtly "hidden" in many places we wouldn't necessarily think to look. I understand that the words "overt" and "hidden" are contradictory. It seems the truth of our potential tomorrows are in plain sight and we overlook them….or refuse to look at them because it is human nature to fear change, even if the change may be for our best and highest good. cjc
Though it's often hard to believe I feel that there is usually an element of good in every bad situation – no matter how horrific. I hope that this will soon be apparent for the oil spill.
This is a very interesting post and the article by Naomi was excellent.
With the destruction of the marsh's which are a barrier it does make me think that the visions so many saw including myself, of water overtaking the lower southern parts of the US could now possibly happen and just from erosion.
Years ago several people had published maps of the "new" US and it had water covering the west to Denver (could that happen now with all of these earthquakes? possible tsunami?) and water covering New Orleans. Interesting.
There is so much to think about.
I will continue to envision loving hands cleaning up the oil and sending loving thoughts to the gulf coast region.
There were space problems with the first version of this, so we reposted and lost Shadow's comment:
"dare i say that if some good comes from this disaster, it may have been worth it… us humans are way too nonchalant about what we do to our planet."