Page added on August 17, 2016
From Deb Ozarko’s website:
I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: our world is in a massive state of collapse. As a result, we’re living in very uncertain times. One would have to have their head firmly planted in the sand to not understand how dire things are on all levels: social, cultural, ecological and with our biosphere. The collapse is accelerating at a rate that’s impossible to keep up with, and it’s not pretty.
This spring, I released an 18-page essay that exposed a deep inner knowing that has been with me all my life. It changed my life in ways that I’m still adjusting to. It liberated me in ways I didn’t know I was still bound to. And it connected me to amazing people like this week’s guest.
Carolyn Baker is the author of several books about our chaotic and collapsing times. She’s a truth-teller extraordinaire. Her background includes: adjunct professor of history and psychology for more than 10 years, psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years and she’s also a student of ritual and mythology with a personal meditation practice that spans more than 30 years. She offers life coaching both locally in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado and also internationally. She’s a prolific author with 11 books to her name, and she’s also the host of the New Lifeboat Hour podcast.
Carolyn is passionate about creating islands of sanity in a sea of global chaos. This is where our work aligns. Carolyn and I both share a passion for inspiring passion, purpose, love and presence in these turbulent and uncertain times. We both expose hidden truths and engage in difficult conversations normally swept under the rug in out denial-infected, pain-phobic world. Where my work is primarily about critical thought and consciousness in our flat-lined culture, Carolyn gets to the roots of our global crisis by exposing the toxicity of our culture: economically, ecologically, politically, and in every shape and form that it presents itself. In that exposé, she inspires people to live fully now.
As always, this is an expansive and unapologetic conversation that goes to great depths. Some of the topics we explore are:
As always, this is an expansive and unapologetic conversation that goes to great depths. Be prepared to be activated by Carolyn Baker.
9 Comments on "Creating an Island of Sanity in a Sea of Global Chaos"
makati1 on Wed, 17th Aug 2016 7:02 pm
Soft music playing with unicorns romping in the background … “Once upon a time … and they lived happily ever after”.
As if I am going to waste 1 1/2 hours listening to psychiatric bullshit.
Apneaman on Wed, 17th Aug 2016 7:03 pm
I’m also a student of ritual and mythology and in about an hour I will ritually devour the better part of a $12 greasy pork roast.
America Cannot Kick Its Meat Addiction
It’s doing just the opposite.
“As it turns out, that world is probably not going to materialize any time soon. Americans still love to eat meat — and in 2015, they increased their consumption of it faster than any other year in four decades.
According to the research and advisory firm Rabobank, the average American in 2015 ate around 193 pounds of beef, chicken, or pork annually, a five percent increase over 2014. And Rabobank predicts that by 2018, meat consumption will reach historic levels, with an average American eating around 200 pounds of meat per year.”
https://thinkprogress.org/united-states-meat-consumption-historic-increase-fccc1ebbf3aa#.r34z60fbq
Sissyfuss on Wed, 17th Aug 2016 10:53 pm
As far as meat consumption goes, I blame Dr Atkins because his diet does work. Regarding a relearning of our connection to nature most people are avoiding nature as much as possible because she’s pissed and she’s just beginning to kick our collective asses. We will all feel her wrath in the near future, not just Louisiana and Cali.
Davy on Thu, 18th Aug 2016 7:32 am
All this talk about food choices is stupid. Do you have choices when you are hungry? NO. We will all be hungry soon. Does globalism have a choice now that it is collapsing to change our choices? Limited to NO. The whole idea of what works and what doesn’t is stupid. It is stupid because it is beyond significant and meaningful change. Individual choice trumps any public policy especially in a collapsing world.
I have grown food industrially and now grow food permaculture. I have done the industrial agriculture. Many on this board are clueless of what it takes to produce food. Many have never put a $MIL on the line and experienced your ass pucker when a near drought or flood happens. I thank my lucky star I am out of that horrible feeling of industrial agriculture. I am now out in the hot with sweat in my eyes with insects all over my body cut, bruised, dirty and miserable at least once a day. I walk through animal shit and stink by the end of the day. How many do that then get on this board and talk about food and growing food? The reality is there is little we can do at this point accept eat and grow what we are doing at the level of the global. At your local level you should be taking a more proactive approach to food but we are stuck with a collapsing global food system beyond change.
The whole topic of meat or not is stupid. Yes grain fed meat is bad and wrong but it is what we are stuck with until it is no longer possible. When it is no longer possible it will come with a die off because there is no leaving meat and keeping the society we have. There is also the fact that a significant amount of the world can only support grazing. Do you want to end meat and try to grow plants on this land? Stupid says yes. Sure we can significantly end grain fed meat but are you ready to eat corn meal as a staple? Stupid says yes because stupid does not realize what this involves and the changes required. Stupid does not realize that changing the global food system at this level will end the global food system. Stupid is a modern man thinking he can change his modern stupid. I laugh when I read these dumbasses say we need to quit meat like we can. Dumbasses think we can change stupid. Stupid is globalism and dumbass is thinking one has the answers to that kind of predicament.
Davy on Thu, 18th Aug 2016 8:01 am
“China’s Empty Oceans”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-17/it-s-up-to-china-to-save-asia-s-oceans
“Chinese fishermen have more pressing concerns. According to reports in Chinese state media this week, overfishing and pollution have so depleted China’s own fishery resources that in some places — including the East China Sea — there are virtually “no fish” left. That’s a frightening prospect for an increasingly hungry country: China accounted for 35 percent of the world’s seafood consumption in 2015. Seeking catches further afield — including in Indonesian waters — isn’t really a solution; fish stocks in the disputed South China Sea have themselves fallen by as much as 95 percent from 1950s levels.”
PracticalMaina on Thu, 18th Aug 2016 9:33 am
Quick, someone get into the aquaponics biz in China, probably less energy intensive then sending a diesel boat 500 miles round trip for a very meager catch.
dooma on Thu, 18th Aug 2016 9:38 am
I agree with Davy, but it is not just the Chinese and the seas that surround it.
We are taking over four times the amount of fish from the oceans as we did in the 1950’s. This rate just cannot continue. So many people do not realise that a hell of a lot of nations rely on the ocean to meet the dietary protein needs of their inhabitants.
Against the massive floating factory fishing ships, trawlers with their spotting helicopters and modern fish finding technology, the fish don’t stand a chance.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 18th Aug 2016 9:46 am
There was an article recently about the importance of fish urine in fertilizing coral, it is apparently vital, so as fish population falls, their habitats will as well. Once the biodiversity present at reefs collapses, who knows how quickly the oceans food chains will fall apart.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 18th Aug 2016 9:51 am
http://www.livescience.com/55792-fish-pee-helps-coral-reefs.html
The first US town forced to move due to see level rise?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/18/us/alaskan-town-votes-to-move/