In our ultra-competitive world, knowledge is power. Unfortunately, ultra-competitive greed power is not the power that we need primarily at this point in Earth’s history. We need to immerse ourselves in the pursuit of obtaining knowledge for reasons of holistic sustainability so that we can help our planet and everything about our planet. Never mind the foolish games we play sometimes in our money-centric world where knowledge is often sought for reasons of ultra-competition with one another. I am more interested in those that exhibit altruistic behavior. I love them more now. Maybe in the future, I will love everyone more if we all start desiring to obtain knowledge for loving and caring and helping one another and our planet. This way, knowledge is only used to produce beneficial upward spiral feedback loops instead of the opposite. Therefore, I suggest that all schools put knowledge acquisition in context to improve the world according to holistic, well-meaning pursuits. Imagine if our schools were transformed into ecological value, benefits, and value creation as the context and priority as soon as possible. Everyone ought to be included in the process because we need absolutely everyone on this planet working together if we are going to have a sustainable striving future. Therefore, ubiquitous immersion ought to be our goal instead of allowing those with the most ability to compete to get knowledge. Knowledge is the power to transition planet Earth. That is the power that we need. We do not need the power of warring or ultra-competing with one another. That type of power leads us towards doomsday sooner than we think. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone started working together and acquiring knowledge for these holistic reasons as soon as possible? If we did an assessment, it would be the selected alternative in a problem-solving exercise.

As with many occurrences in nature, love is a continuum concept. We should all strive to have as much love in our hearts as possible for fellow human miracles of God and nature. I see many things in this world as a relative continuum because, often, judging behaviors with black-and-white ways of thinking cause more detrimental impacts than imagined. In other words, every time we classify or categorize into fortified structures or what I call bubbles of exclusion, we are extremely anthropocentric and itinerant in our functioning. In fact, we can expand this way of thinking to almost any sort of classification, which is dangerous. The concept of black and white sort of relates to the borders and boundaries paper. If we spread love in our world, we will get more love in an upward spiral sort of way. I also have the philosophy that love is not like a toggle switch. It is difficult to turn it off when you have romantic love for someone. In fact, I do not believe that people who spend many years together can say they do not love each other anymore. They may not be intimate with one another anymore, but I find it difficult to imagine that they do not have love for one another. Maybe our system of self-righteousness has created a situation in which we are supposed not to love one another, and we are supposed to go through a messy divorce, become bitter, and loathe one another. It is a strange concept to me, but it seems to be the norm in many situations. I want to make a statement that I love you and will love you forever, no matter what. I may not love you as much as others in my life, but like nature, love is dynamic and continuous and has great potential to grow as time goes on once I know you better and more about what you are doing to love, care, and help one another on this planet Earth.

If you are stagnant and do not know what to do with your life as many adolescents and adults are these days, here are some thoughts I have put together on some things I have done in my life,  have been suggested to me,  or steps I would take. Our planet needs help in every aspect and in almost every way. Therefore, anything that involves helping people, helping the environment, helping society, helping your community, helping education, helping people without housing, helping your family, or contributing to any holistic, sustainable, striving ecological niche role (job) would help our planet immensely. Regarding getting an education, I believe education is about lifelong learning from the day you are born until the day you die. Remember, those things you are interested in learning today may be different than those you are interested in learning in the future, which is okay. Sometimes, you learn immensely about the similarities and differences in various types of education and learn an immense amount from that as well. I would start with a book like “What Color is My Parachute?” and take the website’s What Color is Your Parachute test. The next step is to go to the local career center in your area. In Florida, it is called the Career Source. For example, it may be called something different in other states, like the Career Center in Maine. These places have diverse abilities to help, including resume help, interviewing, classes on getting a job, career fairs, educational opportunities, meetings with counselors, computers and computer help, and anything you need to get started looking for a job.

However, you will notice that it may be overwhelming at first. These places could get you started, but remember, it is all up to you. You cannot expect them to get the job for you. Once you have taken a career assessment and have thought about what it is you may be interested in, it is time to select an ecological niche role (Career) path and an educational path for continual education. It is best to do both; otherwise, you become stagnant, losing sight of your aspirations and dreams. The next best place to go is your local university or community college, for example, in Ocala, Florida. I believe one of the closest colleges is The College of Central Florida. If college is not for you at this stage, there are other options like the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps, which is a spinoff of the Peace Corps concept, in my opinion, or the Coast Guard. Some people join the military, but I hope all the world’s militaries transform themselves and combine with the Earth’s Holistic Peace Corps. I hope that is enough to get you started.

I believe we should all be able to have the freedom to think what we want to believe, but at the same time, wouldn’t it be great if all the world’s religions, spirituality, Buddhism spiritual ecology, etc., all got together and focused on what we all have in common (similarity) as far as positive energy well-intentioned aspects go. Then, we can learn from our differences. This integrated, holistic spirituality would be an interconnected web of Earth spirituality centers/churches/synagogues/etc. All around the world. Deviations from the overall well-intentioned commonality theme or specific branches of beliefs could meet simultaneously in addition to a standard integrated service. This idea would get everyone focusing on the well-intentionedness that our loving and caring God would want us to focus on instead of being so divisive and competitive. Another benefit would be feeling welcome at any spirituality center/church/synagogue/etc. Anywhere around the world.

If we all worked together to spread love, hope, comfort, and joy throughout the world in a way that integrates the absolute best messages to people, we could bring more needed spirituality back into this world. Let me be clear that this transformation will not eliminate any positive, well-intentioned message from any one spiritual belief as long as it is a positive, beneficially impacting message for people on this planet. We must inspire people to learn about genuine kindness, love, compassion, and forgiveness worldwide. We must spread messages of helping one another and picking people up when they need help. We need inspirational words of wisdom in all forms from all that have something to offer if it adds to functioning that contributes to positive upward spiral beneficial behaviors on our planet. It makes no sense to me that we waste so much time spreading condemnation speech in some branches of spirituality, but I hope we can put these differences into a learning context to learn more about how they may impact our planet. I don’t know about other beliefs, but God is all about love. I have a hard time imagining anything else. Therefore, let us put it all in that context; otherwise, we risk contributing to destructive messages that may impact our world detrimentally by creating conditions that foster excess ultra-competition behavior. Imagine the inspirational fortitude that could help propel us forward when we all work together on our planet for strictly well-intentioned purposes. Other benefits include the ability to go to any integrated house of hope/love/peace/joy/comfort anytime, anywhere, and the ability to go more often because an integrated house of hope/love/peace/joy/comfort (including Nature) will be closer geographically, the ability to continually learn and put spiritual messages in context with Nature and our natural functioning, the ability to organize and help one another through missions and common purpose, the ability to maintain your current spiritual traditions, holistic rituals, and methods of praying as well as long as they are beneficially impacting in a well-intentioned multidimensional way. Wouldn’t it be great to be a part of the entire planet Earth’s population functioning holistically for all of our people and the rest of Nature? Imagine the cohesiveness and unity of purpose and enlightenment when we bring together all the spiritual, philosophical, and natural perspectives from those who know more about humanity, Nature, and God.

Ecological niche roles are different. Unlike what we used to call employment, there will be no firing, laying off, complacency, or doing anything to keep your position. There will be transitioning only. Once you have an ecological niche role (formerly called a job), you will stay in that role until you and your organization feel it is time to transition to a different role more suitable for your skills, desires, and educational aspirations. In other words, you will stay in your role until an educational opportunity or another ecological niche role in your current semi-permeable ecological niche organization is available. It will work in the future because everything is connected to everything else, and transitioning to a new role means transitioning to somewhere else in the connectedness. Otherwise, several opportunities will allow the continuation of education with a guaranteed ecological niche role at the end of your educational experience. There will be no unemployment because it does not make sense. We need everyone worldwide working together to save our planet and everything about it. We must recognize that the most important ecological niche role is being part of a family or a parent. Thus, everyone will have at least one ecological niche role connected to everything else. There is no limit to the number of ecological niche roles or ecological niche organizations you are a part of. It all depends on your willingness to contribute your ecological benefits, energy, and value to some part of our interconnected nature in a sustainable striving way. World without end…

I have been concerned about Earth’s life support systems that affect everything on our planet, including human health. Everything to me happens at a certain level, and I sometimes wonder if phenomenon like cancer is geographically distributed in certain areas more than others because of impacts on our life support systems. I talked to one person who mentioned it may have been radionuclides from atomic testing that are causing cancer. It may be partially true. But I wonder if it is more of a cumulative causation, including excessive pollution in all forms, multi-level exposure to carcinogens, or processes that have become out of balance in our systems. I wonder about acidification. I wonder that in areas with more acidity, there may be more cancer because exposure to more acidity in the environment will mean exposure to more acidity in the human body. I wonder if we can do a research project on more basic areas due to the natural occurrence of more basic bedrock formations, including limestone, dolomite, and others. It would be interesting to contrast various environments to see if there is any validity to this hypothesis. Furthermore, areas where cancer is of higher incidence may be areas coincidentally associated with other behavior traits that may increase the likelihood of getting cancer. These contributory causes include less healthy food, poor health, smoking, and a lack of fruit and vegetables (which raises acidity because of breathing problems). How I look at things is that everything is related to everything else. We are all part of the Earth, and the Earth is our home. How we treat our home is how we treat ourselves because the environment we create is the environment we ingest and breathe. If the Earth has homeostasis problems, so will we. I am worried about ocean acidification and that we are overwhelming the buffering capacity of the oceans, thus creating a situation where we will start impacting the primary producers, which will, in turn, affect the rest of the food chain and food webs, including us. We must strive towards natural Earth functioning, thus minimizing our impacts on our planet as soon as possible. Otherwise…?

It is rather interesting to me that the organizations and individuals with connectivity to those organizations that seek to blame individuals for all the problems on Earth may be the problem themselves.  I learned a long time ago that problem-solving is no easy task.  Closer to reality, it takes a long time to define problems.  Meanwhile, all those who are good at judging people, taking things out of context, playing blame games, or fooling people are only hurting themselves in the long run.  It is interesting how far people blame all the problems on one group or individual, for example.  Terrorism is such a thing as well.  Instead of trying to learn from our pseudo-systematic conventional functioning holistically, we all prefer to rush to judgment and blame those people who do the killing instead of those who are controlling.  We should work together with nature and every human being to bring world peace by loving and caring about one another first.  It concerns me that we have become all about being perceptively perfect.  These are what I call people in leadership positions who are not natural leaders.  People in leadership positions do everything for themselves and their politically allied associates.

In contrast, natural leaders do everything for everybody and everything else.  People in leadership positions make it appear that everything is just excellent and perfect.  On the other hand, leaders are real people who try to solve problems holistically, striving to do no harm and erring on the side of caution.  Leaders tend to blame others because they surround themselves with the types of people who are top-down judges and have a self-perception that they are perfect and can do no wrong.  Real leaders admit that problems are often more integrated and systematic and endemic to the way we have been conditioned to behave in our world.  It is time to transform.  We must stop looking up to people just in leadership positions because they are in leadership positions.  It is time to start solving problems and holistically preventing more and more problems from occurring in the future.  I have had enough control, power, and authority from those who primarily care about the bottom-line functioning and conventional stock market performance.  I believe that the priority ought to get everyone on Earth functioning together in a way that helps us survive in harmony with our society and the natural environment.  We must plan out a world based on learning, education, and knowledge-building for survival, expecting that the world will not end, at least anytime soon.  Everyone must act.

We can no longer let those in leadership positions determine our multidimensional fate.  We must look to those natural leaders who are responsible and knowledgeable about things of substance that matter more instead of focusing so much on pretending to be perfect while our society, families, individuals, natural environment, life support systems, and planet Earth get impacted detrimentally.  We must minimize the risk of our collective and integrated ecological perturbations into the future.  To do this, we must become a knowledge-building system that can visualize where, when, how, and why we must do things.  We can no longer play political games with outdated political tactics like out-of-context rules, laws, and regulations.  We must stop all the violence all over the world and give hope to those afraid of being impacted by the way things are in this world.  We must look over the horizon and anticipate what will happen to us and our planet if we do not alter course.  We must trust in our natural leaders.  Our real leaders may be all of us.  We must act according to our knowledge, ability, experience, and desire to improve the world.  However, it must be planned first by those who know more about how things can continuously adapt to a sustainable, striving world.  Those with more responsibility ought not just to feel confident in learning as it is easy to know out-of-context “facts” when you are in the know.  We must stop taking things from over-topped people and giving things to others for non-well-intentioned reasons.  We must work together and share what we know with those with more knowledge, skills, and abilities in research and interdisciplinary science for the most well-intentioned purposes, multidimensionally speaking.  We must know in context with everything else; otherwise, it is futile to solve problems because solving problems conventionally creates more problems somewhere else or at another place in time.  I favor holistic planning for the future.

Excessive rules and laws function as a way to control society and what we can and cannot do while working every day. However, this notion is flawed because ultra-opportunists have evolved to do absolutely anything else to one another to ultra-compete. Many have the philosophy that if it is not against the law, why not ultra-compete in that manner instead? We should not adopt a philosophy that anything else goes if it is not against the law, policy, and regulations. That is one reason the law is flawed. It is an infinite concept, and even if we had everyone on this planet writing laws, we would never be able to encompass all of nature and our functioning in every possible way. It is a futile effort. We must move beyond law, policy, and regulations to holistic prescriptive advice, education, and knowledge transference rather than law, policy, and regulations, which mainly exclude people by getting them in trouble instead of embracing and helping them. Holistic, prescriptive advice, knowledge, continuous learning, and education are all about helping people instead of hurting people. It is an all-encompassing concept that strives to do the right thing through learning in a loving and caring way instead of an ultra-competing way. Wouldn’t it be great if we all helped one another understand instead of wasting time memorizing laws, policies, and regulations while neglecting to transform our planet into a more sustainable striving functioning? In our current functioning, we care more about laws, policies, and regulations than people. We have evolved to believe that law, policy, and regulations are an end where that should be put in a knowledge education and holistic prescriptive advice context to simplify our functioning and switch our focus to system integration planning and the fundamentals of holistic functioning in a genuinely kind way. These should be the means to the end, the end being a sustainable, striving planet Earth in all its functioning and dynamic structure.