Ode to the Quantum Children

For you would know beyond
beyond
an authority God
command and control
doctrines and dogmas

For you would know peace
as something native, elemental
and not as a temporary/relative pause
amidst unending chaos.

For you wouldn’t have the need to argue
for you see it all, at once, all the time.

For you don’t feel the separation,
for you are not separated and you’ll know it.

For you feel love and only love
for you are love and only love and you’ll know it.

For you wouldn’t seek infinity through determinism
for you wouldn’t need to
for you’ll be infinity in/at every moment
and you’ll know it.

For you, beloved Quantum Children,
would be in that paradise, which for us now
lies beyond the bounds of determinism.

Oh you are all on the way there/here already, aren’t you.
And you are all already there and living, breathing, being.
Awaiting our arrival.

We are on the way, on a path of dynamic/fluctuating distance.

It’s a good thing, it’s a relief
that time isn’t a deal-breaker in this.

Alternate title: Ode to the Quantum People

Also, apologies for the ‘incorrect’ usage of the technical term/the form of poetry – the ‘ode’.

Connections: From fear/power to love. Moving from aggressive/toxic masculinity.

From fear to love.

From fear-based hunger for power to love.

From competition to co-operation.

From judgement to fundamental, universal respect.

From aggression to gentleness.

From distressed nervous systems to calm, free nervous systems.

As thoughts-feelings about the ever-continuous move from fear to love kept happening, I came across these connections:

  1.  The Divine Feminine and the Power to Change the World
    “But something much deeper is going on. Masculine behavior has run its course as the model for power. The arms race, world wars, civil conflicts, and an insane buildup of atomic bombs symbolize masculine aggression reaching some kind of apex that is also a dead end. The urge to fight and to turn competitors into enemies, nations into armed fortresses, and everyone into winners and losers won’t save a planet that needs emergency medicine.

    We find ourselves in a drastic state of imbalance because one entire half of the human psyche, the feminine, has been suppressed, violated, or ignored. The human mind isn’t a chaotic morass.”

  2.  I Don’t Want to Be the Strong Female Lead

    “I thought back to the films I watched and stories I read burrowed deep in the stacks of the library. I began to see something deeper and more insidious behind all those images of dead and dying women.

    When we kill women in our stories, we aren’t just annihilating female gendered bodies. We are annihilating the feminine as a force wherever it resides — in women, in men, of the natural world. Because what we really mean when we say we want strong female leads is: “Give me a man but in the body of a woman I still want to see naked.”

    […]

    It’s difficult for us to imagine femininity itself — empathy, vulnerability, listening — as strong. When I look at the world our stories have helped us envision and then erect, these are the very qualities that have been vanquished in favor of an overwrought masculinity.

    […]

I don’t believe the feminine is sublime and the masculine is horrifying. I believe both are valuable, essential, powerful. But we have maligned one, venerated the other, and fallen into exaggerated performances of both that cause harm to all. How do we restore balance? Or how do we evolve beyond the limitations that binaries like feminine/masculine present in the first place?”

Economics where Love is Viable

Economics in which

  • kindness is not ‘loss-making’
  • fundamental respect is never a ‘cost’
  • judgement is discouraged
  • value of something will not be measured on just ‘convenient’ methods
  • definitions are considered ‘work-in-progress’ until they work nourishing-ly and sustainably for all, and not just sweet deals for some.
  • living based on compassion and kindness is not a ‘cost’ that works against you (same as the 1st bullet above)

Economics that reflect, support and inspire an evolution from fear to love, from power to love.

Photo by Becca Tapert

For further research:

  • Degrowth
  • Universal Basic Income (here’s a video on this)
  • Social Dividends
  • Gift Economy
  • Sacred Economics (book)
  • “A business can be a model for a new social & economic order”
    – Proposals for the Feminine Economy (book)
  • “Anything without a monetary exchange value is {considered} invisible, outside economic logic. These “externalities” are the counterpart of Galileo’s excluded subjective properties (only that which can be measured, denominated, counts). They are also counterpart to the “other” that technology makes of the world. Herein lies the fundamental difference between modern economies and natural ecologies.”
    – The Economics of Other (book chapter)
  • Interest and Self-Interest (book chapter)
  • “The logic of interest is the logic of an addict. It assumes that always and forever, we will find some way to feed an endlessly growing need to consume. ”
    – The Crisis of Capital (book chapter)

A cross-over from Fear to Love

I feel that there is a passing-over or crossing-over happening, from fear to love. I sense this in a wide, big picture, global scale. In a humankind scale. It is possible that it’s all in my head. But almost all of us are anyways going about the world based on things in our heads. I might as well stick with what I sense/choose to believe/feel – a crossing-over of sorts, from fear to love.

I like to believe, and I find supporting observations to substantiate, that there are now significant number of (mostly young) people who are attempting to not lose their innocence so much while growing up.

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