To Be Positive -

Carolyn Baker wrote in her book,'Sacred Demise' - "I occasionally receive mail like this,"I've just unsubscribed to your email list. Your website is filled with negative stories and articles and I need to keep a positive attitude and do what I can to make my world better."

She continues, "How does one describe the tone of such a statement? Angry? Not really. Disappointed? Perhaps. Scared" Probably. But I think that righteous is the word I would use to describe the reader's perspective. By righteous I mean a false sense of doing of feeling "the right thing", but the problem with the righteous attitude is that it often leads to detachment from reality-not unlike Barbara Bush's comment that she doesn't want to trouble her "beautiful mind" with statistics about troops o civilian casualties in Iraq. It's all so American/Judeo Christian and of course, NEW AGE: keeping a positive attitude so that we never feel badly about what's actually happening."

"A righteous attitude bypasses those emotions (such s grief, fear, anger, or despair) and makes the state of the planet someone else's problem, not my problem. It communicates that one is above emotions and really doesn't want to soil his/her sanitized psyche with them. The addiction to a "positive attitude" in the face of the end of the world as we have known is beyond irrational. It is obsession that could only be cherished by humans; it is, indeed humancentric, as human beings are the only species that matter and as if the most crucial issue is that those humans are able to feel good about themselves as the world burns."

Usually having a "positive" attitude about collapse implies wanting it not to happen, believing that it may not happen, and doing everything in one's power to convince oneself that it won't happen. It is a unique human attitude.If we could interview a polar bear who had just drowned trying to find food because the ice shelves that he usually rested on which allowed him to regain strength during the hunt were no longer there, I would suspect he'd express a very different attitude."

She concludes,"any person who wants to "maintain a positive attitude" in this culture-the culture of civilization that is killing the planet-killing all the people and species that we all love-that person is not only irrational and deeply afflicted with denial, but he/she is exactly like the member of an abusive family system in which physical and sexual, assaults are occurring in the home in a daily basis, but that family member insists on "thinking good thoughts" and resents anyone who says what is so about the abusive system."

Excerpt from the book "Sacred Demise" - Walking the Spiritual Path of industrial Civilization's Collapse by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.

Now tell a kid that the dentist does not hurt? Is one being negative to tell that this treatment won't be just pleasure?

Positive, means that in spite of knowing the truth, which means the actual realities out there, we remain positive in the way we solve the problems we encounter best of our abilities. Ignoring the problems is not positive but denial - whatever we ignore come back with a vengeance.

The above mentioned book is written with much honesty and compassion. It is urgent that we wake up to the realities in order to help to transition into post-carbon area.
The author suggest to do some kind of ritual or spiritual practice in order to cope and balance what is about to be faced globally and as a humanity.



Warmest considerations and care!