When Progress Meets Nature

Creating New Stories for Our Times

Natural laws are always guiding us to find balance and wholeness. It’s in the very design of how we were created. But our societal conditioning has been engineered and hardwired in a way that’s not aligned with nature.

Listening to the tracks running through our mind — even our unnatural separation from nature — allows us to become more aware of our unhealthy programming and begin taking action.

Our current world worships and celebrates progress but recent times have shown us that when it comes to our own humanity not much has changed.

The power structures we’ve created in the world include mind control, military force, censorship, media control, and the use of surveillance technologies that keep us locked in a scarcity mindset.

What we’ve been led to believe is progress and innovation is simply a delusion, as most of the systems in place continue to serve only those with the most power.

Most of the money in the world is held by the few who have an insatiable need to amass more and more, and to do so they simply need us to tune in to their programming, obey their rules, and continue to consume in the name of progress.

But this is a time not just to learn but to act, as Aldous Huxley shares:

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

This obsession with achieving and succeeding, which are the underpinnings of progress, are unnatural. When you go under the hood, you’ll find deep anxiety, depression, addictions, suicide, loneliness and disease.

When we are out of balance with life, fear shows up in our minds and our body. The belief that constant progress is needed keeps us stuck in living in the past or future.

Our opportunity is to learn from nature and be truly present.

When you feel that everything in your life and the world around you is out of control, pay attention to how you define control.

What needs to be controlled?