Humanity by Design

We need to stop NOW. Stop the bombing, Stop the killings, Stop the violence. Humanity needs a full pause. We are so traumatized by our upbringing, belief systems and history that we don’t even recognize one another as our brothers and sisters. Everyone identifies or aligns with something, be it country, belief or personal experience but few identify as human. This ignorance allows wars, genocide, murder, slavery, theft and much more to happen in the world.

Everyone in the world needs to take a long deep breath immediately. If emotions or fears arise after that first breath, then take another one, and another one, as many as are needed until the urge to react subsides. We all carry pain, hurt and fear within us through personal, societal or generational trauma. Until that is addressed, we will continue to act the same year after year, generation after generation. It is unimaginable to lose a child, a family member or an entire neighbourhood. The emotions or complete deadness inside the survivors, the dead, hollow feeling of those experiencing war, murder, rape, mutilation, slavery. The mind also is capable of reacting to unrealized fear or a trigger from past trauma which may enable horrible, unnamable actions in order to feel safe. Imagine growing up being treated lower than dirt, like your life is valueless. Imagine being told daily that there are enemies at every corner who will attempt to murder you and the only way to be safe is to attack first. Imagine trusted parties or those that should ‘know better’ turning a blind eye or even enabling the horrors. Imagine believing that every action is justified because it’s harm or be harmed, kill or be killed and it has been that way for generations. Imagine being unable to ever feel safe because you are restricted or have nowhere else to go. Imagine having no identity or culture and being born into a world where you are more likely to die, join a gang or overdose on drugs than you are to finish elementary school. Imagine not having access to water or food or education because of skin colour or gender or race. Imagine this story the world over, 8 billion people who are capable of amazing accomplishments wasting away due to personal, societal or generational trauma and fear. That is how many humans have operated for millennia.

It’s time to choose another path, a path that leads to greater human connectedness, a path of peace, of joy, of unity, the path of LOVE. This Manifesto recently revealed itself. It reminds us what it means to BE a Human:

• LOVE the self, each other and the world

• EMBED wellness into every aspect of our lives

• If one of us is suffering, we ALL are

• Measure every decision by its IMPACT to the planet

• RESPECT every species

• HEAL from past trauma and evolve

If we could agree on these simple items as our foundation, then we can begin to move forward and evolve as ONE species, together. This is a shift in our current living but it can be done, it will be done, not in the future but now, by US.