We are to some extent creating models out of structures of a very dualistic nature. Understandable. There is the belief that if we do more, engineer our way into this new ‘system’ then we’ll get there. But it is the ‘trying’ and ‘striving’ process itself which is the addiction we have. To be ‘out there’ and ‘getting somewhere’ when all this is ultimately what got man into the trouble we are in.

The really difficult emotion that drives things like competition, comsumption, insensitivity to ourselves and others is fear. Fear doesn’t go away though by ‘doing’ something about it. Fear attaches itself in so many ways ans sustains itself. It is at the route of our striving, competitive and aggressive way of life. When we are in the grip of it unconsciously we can’t rest, can’t feel and we don’t believe that any other way of being exists. So we replace our experience and awareness with compensatory and temporary sense of freedom from fear through ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ in all it’s forms. It does transform when we analyse it, reproduce it artificially or punch something hard.

Because fear is hard-wired into us physiologically we can only realise a different state when we learn to relax. So there’s learning to relax physically. That means ‘tolerating’ being relaxed and making it our priority. This is because we will be forever striving for the freedom to ‘be’ in the outer world if we do not feel inner freedom to be on the inside. Outer freedom gives us a limited ‘fix’ of inner relaxation and ‘oneness’ until it’s over. So we get addicted and have to ‘have’ more. TV, holidays, love, sex, attention off others. Our personalities are the software in search of the switch to take away the inner tension and fear and return to peace, or freedom.

I’m writing all this here because it really does scare me that there’s not a lot of time if future generations are to have any hope of a reasonable life.

Have you embodied this in a spreadsheet that others might use whereby they enter the data for their local town / area, drawing on references you and others may provide. For example, information from “Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air” by David McKay http://www.withouthotair.com/

In addition, this spreadsheet could list urls for such things as case studies that provide exemplars and reference material for the EDAP.

I am capable of creating such a spreadsheet, with links out to project files for calculating project feasibility (financial and environmental), but I hesitate to re-invent if the EDAP spreadsheet is already out there.

Thanks

best wishes,

Mathilde

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