Shoemakers

I don't remember why I put the book on reserve at the library, off of what list I got it or what interview mentioned it but after reading it, SACRED DEMISE: WALKING THE SPIRITUAL PATH OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSE by Carolyn Baker, I have firmed up my belief that we are bound to survive by way of our local community and our own skills.

She speaks some hard truths about this nation and goes beyond the charts, statistics and data demonstrating the realities of our situation. There is a state of denial, "technology will come see us though this problem,", "this is America and we are the shining example to the world", "we deserve better and somehow it will all work out".

Baker explain in very clean terms that no elected official can do enough to change the -corporatocracy-- we have become. Only those ruling few elite can do it. The small measure we take to stop or delay the collapse of our society only makes it worst. In the other words, the collapse is the next stop in our evolution, transitions us to the fullness our humanity.

For us that have read Jared Diamond's book COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SURVIVE, this new book is not as surprising to read. Diamond's book takes in to account societies though out human history and tells about how their decisions on social order, nature, food and commerce pointed to their own survival or suicide. Great countries are not destroyed by enemies but by suicide. If you have not read this book, I highly recommend it.

Baker's book focuses on the change of consciousness that is needed to reach a place of accepting that our future is going to be like living 150 years ago. Communities would form that support each member in the group, people will be valued for skills like growing or preserving food, making clothes or furniture, medical homeopathic knowledge, forging in the wild. Commerce is going to focus on local products, local solutions and local needs. These will be the people that survive. In reality, I know many people that actually are on the path of living this way now in this area and I believe they have had the insight to feel this coming. It may appear as fringe to those that live in big urban sittings but there are many people who are the quietly transitioning to this lifestyle.

The question is, can you make your own shoes?

Mostly, SACRED DEMISE is about the spiritual path that is necessary to be peaceful with nature and the spiritual world. This is not about 20th century religion but about our connection to spiritual world in the sense of ingenious people. It is a must read for all of us.