Jumping In Time: A Grandmother's Guide Through Chaos

By Anjali Walsh

This is for young people out there who wonder
what on earth is going on....
Here is a loving reminder of our evolutionary wings!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anjali Walsh
• Release date: Feb 1, 2017

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JUMPING IN TIME

a grandmother’s GUIDE THROUGH CHAOS

Written by Anjali Walsh

Cover art by Daniel Hend

This is for my grandchildren....

Arjuna Pinnell, Solomon Dass, Sophia and Max Sharpe,

Raphael Pinnell, Gigi’s yet-to-be-born baby....

and for our friends Charli, Jacob, Jaiia, Bodhi,

Timna, Moksha, Honey, Beau, Tilly and Nicolau...

and any other young people out there who wonder

what on earth is going on....

Here is a loving reminder of our evolutionary wings!

You cannot solve a problem on the same level of consciousness that created it."........     Albert Einstein

What is happening all around us?

Is our world collapsing?

Yes it is....we’re at a crisis point!

Our planet is having a systems breakdown...

If it were a ‘person’, we could say it’s having a ‘nervous breakdown’!

All our systems.... our environment, our relationship to our planet, ideas about education, our concept of work, the way our countries are governed, our energy systems, ..... all our ideas about these have changed so dramaticallly in the last 50 years since new technology has moved our thinking into a much larger picture.

But our actions, like outmoded governments still warring against other countries for dwindling oil supplies, have remained backward.... adding to the problems and quite unable to create innovative solutions to the crisis we’re experiencing.

What is a crisis?

The Chinese have a symbol for ‘crisis’, which has two meanings...

one is danger and the other is opportunity!

Ervin Laszlo, a systems theorist, describes our present situation as a ‘chaos point’...."A chaos point is the crucial tipping point in the evolution of a system in which trends that have brought the system to its present state break down and it can no longer return to its prior states and modes of behaviours. It is launched irreversibly on a new trajectory that leads either to breakdown or to breakthrough to a new structure and a new mode of operation.’

That’s where we are in the history of our species right now...

and that’s also how evolution operates...

So now we need to look at the really BIG picture to see how evolution has brought us as a species to this point.

Evolution operates by ‘punctuated equilibrium’, .... long periods of slow change punctuated by sudden apparent jumps.

And right now we’re in ‘JUMP TIME’ (Jean Houston)

‘Nature selects for what co-operates best’......Biologist