THE SPIRIT OF OUR TIME
This is an article examining our current time of transformation and how a new global calendar system will take us into a new time paradigm. The Tenstrong calendar puts time back in the hands of people and acts as a global cultural framework promoting co-existence and intentional thinking to support us in our endeavor to explore our potential as human beings.
This is an article examining our current time of transformation and how a new global calendar system will take us into a new time paradigm. The Tenstrong calendar puts time back in the hands of people and acts as a global cultural framework promoting co-existence and intentional thinking to support us in our endeavor to explore our potential as human beings.
THE TRANSITION
There is no doubt that our time is a
time of significant transformation as we try to adjust to the circumstances we
find ourselves in as a global society. Our social harmony and our environment
are under extreme stress. To help us resolve and overcome this time of stress
it is important that we understand what our transformational process actually
is. To do this it is first helpful to try and define what our transitional destination
is? What defining moment should we say heralds the completion of our
transition? I think it is wise to simply define the completion in terms of our intention.
Describing a time when individuals or humanity as a whole use the Resource
Economic System Tenets (R.E.S.T) as there guiding principles for decision
making where we value co-existence, altruism and resourcefulness over
individual wealth. To be at rest essentially describes our shift of focus away
from the rat race to explore our true potential as human beings.
The spirit of our current time can be
simply understood as an evolutionary process, both a personal and collective
one referring to the change in our overall spiritual nature, describing our intellectual,
social and ethical development.
Our transition can be simply defined
using the acronym E.V.O.L.V.E.
E Enlightenment by receiving truthful
information or insight
V Validate and Value information
O Optimise by Opting
to change in light of information
L Living the change
you want to see in the world
V Voice your
knowledge and share the vision with others
E Enlighten others then
proceed to evolve through the cycle and so on
To further
grasp the scope of our transition we can look at it from a broader perspective,
in terms of ages. We refer to our current time as the age of information; the
transition could simply be understood as the time of overlap between the age of
information and the age of being. The length of time the transition takes depends
on two main factors the availability and strength of information that we receive
and our ability to process that information to the point where we make our
choice and actively partake in the next evolutionary stage.
THE TRANSITIONAL NARRITIVE
Let’s not understate or kid ourselves
on about our situation and the scale and difficulties of the task we have ahead
of us to transition into the world we envision. Because where we are right now
and where we want to go is completely different, from war to peace, from
nationalism to global unity, from competition and monetary economics to
altruism and a resource based economy, from a ruling elite to collective
governance, it’s a story of total global reform.
But it’s not just the scale of the challenge
that’s significant what differs most about our transitional narrative is that
our challenge is a collective one describing our quest to evolve as a planetary
species. There is no longer a clear notion of another adversary force that is
endangering our existence as we are all one and as one we are potentially both
the solution and the problem. There is in a sense only variation of
understanding, actions and commitment that separate us apart and hinder our
progress.
Our spiritual evolution is only half
of our story the other half of the story is about our ability to transform our
social/economic systems that have taken us this far and now are identified as
being at the root of our problems. The capitalist system is failing but the
problem is too many of us are reliant on it to provide us with energy and food and
we can’t just transition over and live in an alternative system because it
doesn’t exist yet.
MOVING FORWARDS
The spirit of our times is about
building that alternative system. But again we are faced with difficulty as we
must try to do this within the constraints of our current system and before it
totally collapses, failing to do so would likely end in much more human
suffering and possibly chaos.
So what the transitional narrative of
the spirit of our time is essentially about is our endeavour to create and
build a sub culture within the current system based on the principals of
altruism and resourcefulness. The intention of doing this is to at least
provide us with a safety net sub culture system that we can fall into if the
current systems collapse but the preferred option would be to build the sub
culture up to a point where its stronger than our out-dated/current cultural
ways and takes over as our culture of choice and we go through the transition
in a much less chaotic and haphazard manor.
What needs to be emphasised is our
need to act now! And make the transition happen sooner rather than later, and
that depends on our ability to building the subculture sooner rather than
later. Our narrative should therefore be one of focused action because our
current situation is nothing less than a disaster waiting to get worse as approximately
1 billion people on the planet are currently starving and many are dying each
day because the current system is failing. These figures could quite easily
triple if our current economic system broke down before we establish a strong enough
replacement one to transition into.
Our new culture is already growing
all over the world as many people are exploring more environmentally friendly energy
and food production systems but most importantly we are helping each other and
sharing ideas without expecting monetary rewards. But all our efforts need to
be unified together and told in a narrative to give our subculture a defining
form.
The foundation of any culture is
supported by its beliefs and values through the stories that are told within
that culture. A new and defining narrative will act to create the foundations
of our new paradigm culture. Our new narrative must define us in a way that
creates a big enough gap between the old us and the new us to avoid people
resting in both paradigms at once and making it clear that our evolutionary
process is significant and transformative.
MAKING THE TRANSITION HAPPEN SOONER RATHER
THAN LATER
There is no doubt that such narratives exist
and are widely spread today in different forms like our transition into the age
of Aquarius but most significantly the narrative of the world changing at the
end of 2012. This time event is very important it marks the end of the Mayan
long count calendar. It is believed that the end of the calendar on 21 of Dec
2012 marks a time when our solar systems transitions across the centre of the Milky
Way galaxy. This cosmic transition has been identified as being a time of great
spiritual enlightenment and the beginning of a golden age. This time event is heavily
charged with the accumulating energy of hope and expectation that we are
heading into a new harmonious paradigm. This energy is the energy of the spirit
of our times that must be given a direction and channelled for the betterment
of our world. What if we could make it
happen by offering a more suitable and appropriate narrative for our time in
the form of a new global cultural calendar. Our time is primarily controlled or
managed through our calendar system. How we use our time defines who we are. A
new global cultural calendar will define humanity as one and will act to create
the foundations for our new cultural approach and in doing so will give life to
the spirit of our times.
Changing time through calendar reform is a
defining step in our evolution as up until now we do not have a unifying global
cultural calendar system and our internationally accepted current calendar the
Gregorian calendar is culturally out-dated and structurally inefficient but
most important calendar reform forces us to think about how we use our time on
a day to day basis. Our calendar system is very important in two main ways; its
structural design determines the number of days in our living cycle (currently
the 7 days of the week) this number of days affects the tempo of our existence.
Equally as important the calendar system automatically becomes our overarching
cultural framework as each day name becomes integral to our identity as people
within the system. The day names should therefor reflect who we are and what we
believe in. Our day names are in fact our most powerful cultural resources and
can be used to support the values we believe in. By simply having and using a
calendar with day names that reference the true spirit of our times we create and
establish a new time paradigm.
THE TENSTRONG CALENDAR
HARNESSING
THE SPIRIT OF OUR TIMES
The spirit of our times calendar that
I am proposing is called the Tenstrong calendar it has been created by
exploring the functional potential of a calendar as a fully utilised social
system. It is designed to function as a global calendar uniting all people
under one overarching cultural system by promoting core human values as our
determining principles for decision making. The Tenstrong calendar is a decimal
calendar which arranges our days into 10 day living cycles. This reordering of
our calendar days to a 10 day system is essential to create a profoundly more
suitable calendar that is more in tune with our beliefs and understanding
today. The Tenstrong calendar is however currently designed as a transitional
calendar where both the 7 day system and the 10 day system can be used together
in our time of transition. The 2013 Tenstrong
calendar can be view in full and downloaded from the internet at http://tenstrongcalendar.blogspot.com.au/
The Tenstrong calendar system is like
any other system it is a work in progress which can be altered to fit our
situation, understanding and values.
The main advantage of calendar reform
is that it gives us the opportunity to rethink how we should use our time
within our living cycle.
A study of how we use our time in Australia in
relation to addressing environmental issues was the subject of a recent book
published this year titled Time bomb by Barbara Pocock, Natalie Skinner and
Philippa Williams from the work life institute of South Australia. The overall
message in the book was that most people are time poor and to busy trying to
keep up with demands of day to day life and work commitments that even with
access to the latest environmentally friendly technologies they were more likely
to opt for a quicker less friendly option to save time.
Calendar system reform is essentially time reform it is the most
important change we can make to transform our world and how we exist in it. Time
is one thing we can’t afford to waste.
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