A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Simone writes in reply to our article It is time to start thinking about the big picture: 

“There seems to be such a plethora of information [about the pandemic, vaccine adverse effects, etc.] coming forward at the moment but the level of cognitive dissonance is so high that it appears that nobody is listening.” 

I do know that some have begun to listen, but few as yet are speaking out. More to the point, the technology juggernaut keeps steam rolling along. If nuclear weapons don’t overwhelm us, then government mandated biotechnology, nanotechnology, A.I., microplastics, or 5G will.

It can be very overwhelming. An article in the UK Telegraph reports “NHS staff take over 626,000 sick days for mental health in one month“. Anxiety, stress, depression and other psychiatric reasons accounted for a third of the record levels of sickness absence across the health service in June, official UK figures show. Here in New Zealand, comparable figures are not being published, so we are consigned to live in ignorance, whilst waiting hours to be seen in ED.

In our more than 600 articles published to date we have probably said close to all that can be said about the dangers of biotechnology experimentation, with scientific references to boot. If you need to see it all in one well-illustrated, simply-put article try Twenty Reasons to Completely Reject Biotechnology Experimentation on Substack. 

However, if next to no one among those taking decisions for us are listening, what should we do now? Are we powerless to change the course of events or are we far more powerful than we realise?

Last week we were given a sharp lesson on who is really in charge of the nation, catastrophic winds and driving rain enveloped much of the country. Shouldn’t we be starting to understand our relationship with natural law? How is natural law structured? Can we influence or cultivate our relationship with the power of nature?

Darwin’s theory of evolution is the crucible of the modern scientific outlook which has also coloured our social thinking, leaving us feeling trapped by events beyond our control. The whole world has been captured by a Darwinian interpretation of genetics, which has designated the origin of life (and ourselves) as the result of random occurrences along the long corridor of time. Such a misinterpretation has given free reign to gene editing at great risk to life.

The idea that life is in any way designed has become an object of ridicule and derision, the hallmark of the luddite (see our post The Goldilocks Factor in Genetics). Yet the notion that life isn’t designed is incongruous with our personal experience. We are totally familiar with the design process which proceeds from our BEING to THINKING to ACTION. We design our lives and living spaces, yet deny the world is designed. How absurd. 

The absurdity goes deeper. The structure of natural law from the perspective of physical theory follows a very similar path from Cosmic Law to Universal Fields to specific interactions. It is just a question of who or what is doing the designing. The difference is almost semantic. Is there a personal God or a Universal Holistic Power of Law? Whatever is believed, the debate between those propounding the notion of a designed creation and those promoting a random world misses the point. The process of evolution is actually the rise of sentience, or to put it in its widest context, the rise of consciousness.

Consciousness is something we can all understand, it is not a mystery but our own self, our everyday companion, our means of thinking, observing, deciding and acting. And, as we have explained in our article “The modern age cannot be an age of biotechnology“, the observer lies at the heart of physical theory. We are inextricably linked with the laws of nature. Therefore we can learn to live in harmony with natural law.

Quite apart from whatever the government might plan for us, we have a unique opportunity here in New Zealand to form a powerful network of influence, not based on government proclamations but based on the cultivation of our common relationship with natural law. This is not a rejection of national law, rather a recognition of the power of nature and the means to connect with that power within ourselves.

I am very aware that my readership and that of other organisations seeking reform like VFF, NZDSOS, The Health Forum NZ, FSU, the New Zealand Centre for Political Research, the New Zealand Daily Telegraph and many others form a very broad church with a wide variety of views, some of which are seemingly incompatible, but we should not be driven by rival slogans and sound bites, rather by deeper understanding of our BEING. No one can succeed in enforcing uniformity, but we all enjoy a common source in our humanity. The essence of this humanity is universal consciousness, the source of natural law, which alone transcends difference.

There are a lot of seemingly ordinary things we can all aspire to in order to foster humanity, health and well being without invoking conflict. These are some we try to practice:

• A time of deep meditation in early morning and at sunset
• A walk in the morning sun, perhaps barefoot
• Learn a set of simple Yoga postures
• Breathing deeply in the fresh clean air we have an abundance here in New Zealand
• Sincere prayer and behaviour in accord with culture
• Kindness to animals, including a lighter diet with less red meat
• Cultivating a garden, taking time for arts and crafts
• Eating organic foods, free from harmful pesticides and herbicides, thereby endorsing sustainable agricultural practices
• Abandoning processed foods, instead preparing meals with fresh ingredients
• Speaking the truth sweetly, ensuring we do not cause anger or offence
• Avoiding polyester and plastic clothing, furniture, carpets and containers, to reduce microplastic contamination
• There is space enough in New Zealand to live away from 5G rather than intensifying housing densities in polluted, stressful urban environments
• Investing in positive initiatives and programmes.
• Constructing houses that are free of poisonous building materials, facing east in order to admit the morning sun

But do all of these amount to a formula for an improved society? In my experience, even one of these will do. 

There was a time in the 1990s when meditation became very popular in New Zealand. At a critical threshold, with more than 1% of the population participating (35,000+), a national renewal was initiated. In 2017 the Journal of Health and Environmental Research published my research paper entitled “The Effect of Coherent Collective Consciousness on National Quality of Life and Economic Performance Indicators-An Analysis of the IMD Index of National Competitive Advantage. This found that in both Norway and New Zealand as the 1% meditation threshold was surpassed, a measure of national competitive advantage calculated from more than 224 social and economic indices jumped significantly (p<0.000000000000003) when compared to 44 other developed nations.

Subsidiary analysis and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data confirmed that the changes were unusually broad-based (p <.000000065), sustained, and balanced in nature with five years of high growth, low unemployment, and low inflation. Taken as a whole, the findings suggest a prescription for balanced and sustained growth based on a method to enhance quality of life and innovation among a population.

The results show that a few people practising deep meditation for a few minutes morning and evening in the comfort of their own home can raise the quality of life of everyone in a nation. A study published a few days ago in SSRN entitled “Quantification of the Global Maharishi Effect: A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Three Most Violent Countries in the World” illustrates the enduring power of meditation in a world beset by conflict. An assembly of 10,000 meditators from around the world held in India for two weeks from December 2023 to January 2024 had a measurable significant effect of reducing violence in conflict hotspots.

For those who value periods of deep silence in meditation practices revered by cultural and religious traditions, this will come as no surprise. Such values, mostly lost in the fast paced modern world, can be restored for those who have the time to uphold balance in their own lives and in the collective consciousness of the nation. The collective consciousness of the nation is the unseen governor of the nation. Politicians are in the hands of the influence of collective consciousness. If stress, untruth, violation of natural law and tension are predominant in society, the government will take poor decisions and engage in destructive behaviours. Conversely, if individual and collective consciousness rises, positive evolutionary trends take over the destiny of the nation.

It is in our hands, as we sow so shall we reap. It is no good wringing our hands in despair and shouting in anger. We are not being heard and will not be heard as long as the levels of collective stress remain high. New Zealand is a large enough country with spaces enough to engage in positive behaviours that will reduce collective stress, cool fevered behaviour and assuage pent up frustration. A rising tide of consciousness can lift the world out of problems. A rising tide lifts all boats.