tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:33:17 +0000awakeningchangecollapseenvironmentextinctionfearhigher consciousnessland clearingnew agenew humanityplazaHuman Evolutionnew millenniumGodVegetarianconsumerismlifematerialismmeatmeat-eaterveganvegitarianweatlhExploring The Potential For Global Environmental Collapse & Accelerated Human Evolutionhttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)Blogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-3140985376040407905Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:51:00 +00002008-10-18T17:51:54.962-04:00The distribution of wealth is unbalanced, thats obvious when glancing at the numbers.  Political influence and legislation doesn't necessarily favor the rich (in general terms), but the market definately does (not that there's anything wrong with that, its just the way it is).  I'm not saying it has to be balanced, I'm saying that policy should designed to influence the balance between http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/distribution-of-wealth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-7833069963716410245Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:49:00 +00002008-10-18T17:50:10.248-04:00The man who bloodies his hands I believe has the capacity for MUCH more respect for the life he is taking.  I think generally speaking, society has no respect for the life that gives us sustainance.  We call fat people we don't like cows, we call cops we don't like pigs, we call wimps we don't like chickens.  There is no respect.Hunter's have proven to be valued stewards of the environment.  Thehttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/man-who-bloodies-his-hands-i-believe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-1360957848740027544Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:46:00 +00002008-10-18T17:53:47.787-04:00If you believe population is causing a problem, please let me know what that problem is andI'll show you a solution.  Problem is, no one wants to sacrifice in order to fix the problem!  You'll send me stuff saying this is wrong, I'll send you stuff saying this is how to fix it, you'll send me stuff saying "you can't expect everyone to give up eating fish and meat." and you won't do it. Roundhttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-you-believe-population-is-causing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-8509925338798217590Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:43:00 +00002008-10-18T17:44:24.801-04:00Wholeness is as much of an illusion as seperateness.  The recognition of wholeness requires, in the least, the contemplation of there being a "seperate", for without seperation the definition of something being or becoming whole is incomplete.  Therefore, because God knows what it is to be One and is seeking the experience of being seperate, our goal as being on a spiritual path would be twofold.http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/wholeness-seperateness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-8607475933704249188Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:41:00 +00002008-10-18T17:42:34.905-04:00I wanted to point outsomething... "It is all  about creation, the experience of thatcreation, reflection of the experience of that creation, the recognition of the gift to God thisexperience is in his/your journey of self discovery, and finally, the role that "gift of reflection" of the experience of that creation plays in bringing about more creation."I think one could probably place http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-wanted-to-point-out-something.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-472024377633391006Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:39:00 +00002008-10-18T17:40:22.519-04:00The characteristics of a graduated ego may be seen transformed and seemlessly incorporated with other forms of definition of self and group, making it difficult to recognize there's an ego in there at all (even though there is).As a society, we currently are compartmentalizing attributes of the human psyche, ego (service to self) being one of those attributes.  What we find with a http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/its-all-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-2197163762407917002Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:37:00 +00002008-10-18T17:38:18.720-04:00Everything that I do, think, and experience is mine, I own it, and no one can take it away from me. That being said, the spiritual path, I believe, has to do with awakening parts of you that still slumber.  Those parts of me that I am not in conscious awareness of are mine and I'm going to go get them.  Whatever is the source that is keeping "knowing" from me will become my partner in explorationhttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-am-convicted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-2453891048791447166Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:36:00 +00002008-10-18T17:37:30.662-04:00I'm voting Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.  I'm voting Republican because I own a gun, and to increase local taxes in order to put more cops in my neighborhood, or to give those cops a decent salary is unnecessary.  I can do it myself!I'm voting Democrat because I love the fact http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-you-voting-democrat-or-republican.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-4635892721966755273Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:02:00 +00002008-02-20T22:03:37.981-05:00consumerismlifematerialismweatlhMaterialism/Consumerism has succeeded as becoming the reigning king of the modern world. Almost all action that mankind does is measured in some means by this intangible creation. Though mankind claims to be concerned with the well being of other creatures he shares this planet with, this concern falls very, very short of the power material wealth and its measuring ugly-stick has over it.It is http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/02/reigning-king-of-modern-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-8917798611169191952Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:36:00 +00002008-02-04T08:56:32.184-05:00meatmeat-eaterveganVegetarianvegitarianBecoming a vegetarian stems for the most part as a result of a spiritual quest by an individual or a society who decides to stop eating meat. Progression of spirit NEVER involves BECOMING a meat eater. So, we can safely assume that consideration and implementation of becoming a non-meat eater is positive spiritual progression. As people on a spiritual path, becoming vegetarian is an unavoidable http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/02/should-you-become-vegetarian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-3598339852380099186Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:58:00 +00002008-01-18T19:03:55.576-05:00Our consumerism is not on a future collision course with the biosphere, it collided the day consumerism was defined and implemented as the economic standard and unit of measure for success. The theory and practice itself is based off a system that is so obviously unsustainable that a grade school student has enough knowledge to label it foolish and ignorant.We have collided as a species with our http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2008/01/collision-course.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-8085517790579984523Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:51:00 +00002007-12-24T02:31:59.707-05:00awakeningchangecollapseenvironmentextinctionfearGodhigher consciousnessHuman Evolutionland clearingnew agenew humanityplazaExcerpt from Baird T. Spalding's "Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East" Vol. 3 Copyright 1935 - pg 56-60"The cycle is fast closing in which the blind of the whole race have led the blind into a welter of ignorance, superstition, and delusion created by those who believe as human beings think, rather than that which is true and real. The civilization that has risen on the delusions andhttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/12/from-man-to-god-man-to-god.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-2371943167410096597Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:43:00 +00002008-02-04T22:14:06.255-05:00The momentum behind our culture ensures a quick and painful death. Our only hope for saving is Divine Intervention. There is a big problem with that too though. He will only be coming for the righteous. Which puts us right back in the same position we’ve found ourselves in… screwed.The two choices will become more and more apparent, and the decisions you make will come with greater and greater http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/12/momentum-behind-our-culture-ensures.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-700816484813746483Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:41:00 +00002007-12-12T20:42:22.745-05:00True faith is not something you have in order to save yourself and avert hell, true faith is something you have in order to save everyone else through deliverance of love and compassion.In the end, will we be sorry because we screwed ourselves or will we be sorry because we screwed everything else?http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/12/faith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-197801705892993601Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:46:00 +00002007-11-05T21:50:01.575-05:00awakeningchangecollapseenvironmentextinctionfearhigher consciousnessland clearingnew agenew humanitynew millenniumplazaMankind has done horrific things, but that does not define me, and I am mankind. Mankind has killed without love, compassion, or remorse, but that does not define you, and you are mankind.The Earth has been given the gift of compassion, of altruism, of reason, of thought, of contemplation, of realization of spirit, of selflessness, of perception, of creation through mankind. We are the pinnacle http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-will-you-define-mankind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-9010790077771899616Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:44:00 +00002007-10-26T09:54:40.148-04:00awakeningchangecollapseenvironmentextinctionland clearingplazaThe question most definitely will arise in you. It happens to all of us eventually. Maybe during a short commute to the corner grocer. Really it could happen anywhere. The removal of another wooded corner lot, or even a vast stretch of forest, though preferably not ancient or virgin forest. But it really doesn’t matter what triggers it, but it always, eventually, gets triggered. You ask yourself,http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/question-arises.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-8750179810296489823Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:50:00 +00002007-10-10T18:51:18.685-04:00We, as humans, have defined ourselves, both physically and spiritually, as seperate from nature and our environment, and this couldn't be further from the truth. We are extensions of nature and are intrinsically entwined in it, and we are different in that we have been blessed with the ability to see where we came from and where we are going. I believe in the stewardship of nature, and I also http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/wake-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-2988608706752517857Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:45:00 +00002007-10-10T18:45:33.649-04:00The health of an ecosystem relies in part by the diversity of living organisms inhabiting that ecosystem. This living diversity is one that, unknowingly, works and evolves through the millennias as a unified whole. The illusion of boundaries in this natural system do not exist. All events, all life forms, all inanimate landscape features, all otherworldly influences participate in a single, http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/spirit-of-diversity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-2867403768371002808Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:53:00 +00002007-10-10T00:54:19.218-04:00You are God, experiencing You.http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/who-are-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-3944314380074260873Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:52:00 +00002007-10-10T00:56:09.055-04:00awakening"The answer is not scientific, but it can be found in your sciences.The answer is not religious, but it can be found in your religions.The answer is not philosophical, but it can be found in your philosophies.The answer is not in your spirituality, but it can be found in your spirit.When I mention selflessness, altruism, heroism, bravery, having hope, finding joy, loving, sacrifice, charity, http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/awakening.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-7339929542946588632Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:49:00 +00002007-10-10T00:50:35.383-04:00"Hatred is not a sign of healing.Hatred is not part of the healing process.The Creator will forever continue to challenge your heart,Until you are able to find Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…For your Executioner." -Will Adamshttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/hatred-is-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-4368262182052992530Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:46:00 +00002007-10-10T00:48:54.358-04:00higher consciousnessHuman EvolutionWe are products of evolution. We are the result of 4 billion years of the evolutionary process. The Evolution of Life is the result of the continuing cooperation of Earth systems. Any system that does not participate in the compliment of their larger system will eventually fail, without exception. This is death. Death in the natural world is not the result of competing species. Death is thehttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/human-evolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-4762989700439526966Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:38:00 +00002007-10-10T00:40:53.779-04:00fearnew agenew humanitynew millenniumWritten just before the new millennium:"Poised before the new millennium,we look over the edge and down upon history.The brief glimpse shows us the awesome destructiveness of the creative mind.A mind who turns its head towards the bright light of technology,and shields its eyes from the blinding white of wisdom.The bridge of evolution is weak beneath our feat,but the intelligent mind is here.Willhttp://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/lay-down-heavy-burden-of-fear.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-146278072626549445Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:58:00 +00002007-10-06T23:19:21.268-04:00"Above all, we must cultivate great compassion for our fellow beings, including all nonhuman creatures with whom we share this precious planet and upon whom we have inflicted so much suffering because of our profligate and largely irresponsible lifestyle."- excerpt from "Green Yoga" by Georg and Brenda FeuersteinThough I have not met Georg and Brenda in person, we have been communicating with http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/yoga-environment-and-human-evolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788543274895041946.post-6325952103936977076Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:03:00 +00002007-10-06T21:54:06.158-04:00I was meditating the other night and a thought hit me concerning this environmental crisis we are in and its something I want to eventually speak about. It has to do with three challenges humanity faces, any one of which could influence how tough things are really going to get for humanity.I have always been concerned with species extinctions. It is believed that if we continue to drive species http://oneplanetonelife.blogspot.com/2007/10/environmental-pessimism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Will Adams)0