What are the secrets of the elite, top 1% of the most successful business-people, athletes, politicians, leaders, scientists, philosophers, yogis, enlightened saints, geniuses, secret societies, and the happiest and healthiest peoples and communities? Discovering these unbelievable mysteries is a core theme in my book Unity (a free PDF), and their secrets are distributed throughout.
People aspire to a higher standard of living, to achieve goals, and to emulate the upper social strata. It's for our spiritual and ego satisfactions. There's a special urgency to shift from the ritual buying of destructive foods, housing, and transportation. The implication is a complete transformation in thinking and living.
These secrets—ideas that are generally unknown to the masses and not properly understood—involve very practical methods to dramatically improve our lives. I focused on the interconnected issues of food and climate change because I consider these two of the most important issues facing humanity, but the ideas are applicable to literally everything.
In terms of food, the secret "mystery" of the most successful organizations involves veganism. It's nearly impossible to overstate the importance of a plant-based diet and an attitude of empathy and respect towards other people and also non-humans. Basically, if you want to be happy, healthy, sustainable, and/or Enlightened, then it's critically important to be vegan.
In terms of solving the climate change crisis, we need to recognize that the outer environment is a reflection of our inner environment. This isn't just a metaphor. The unifying message of the highest regarded yogis, saints, spiritual masters, geniuses, et al., is that everything is an interconnected ocean of energy-consciousness. Our environment can be profoundly effected by our thoughts. This is why it's very encouraging to see meditation and yoga becoming more "mainstream." One you perceive this, even if just for an instant, it changes your life.
Developing the ability to effect our environment by "thinking" is like training for any other skill. One doesn't become a master at a musical instrument, qualify for the Olympics, or start a billion-dollar business without a ton of practice, passion, and dedication. Likewise, one cannot prevent storms, facilitate rain, provide energy medicine, or reduce atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to 280 ppm through focused meditation without significant training. It takes about 10,000 hours of practice, according to some, or about 10 or more years of discipline according to other traditions. Directly perceiving this energetic "nondual", "unifying" reality of our environment is the core of the Mystery Initiations of many secret societies.
With climate change, we need to both dramatically change our lifestyle and culture to reduce our fossil fuel energy consumption, but we also need a group of dedicated energy workers/warriors—perhaps 144,000, a sacred number—to facilitate a dramatic re-balancing for environmental stability. I'm looking for these people who can initiate the leading edge of their community to the Secrets. They are the catalysts for a transformational shift in humanity to awaken from its nightmare slumbers to an evolutionary shift in consciousness.
An awakened culture is unfolding. Communities are breaking their destructive addictions to junk foods, drugs, automobiles, and debt. It's becoming easier and easier to embrace a healthy, just, and sustainable society. Local economies are enriching communities and the environment. People are discovering their life's purpose. The seeds of hope and excitement are growing and flowering. The mysteries of life are being revealed and accessible to everyone for the first time in history.
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