Turn Your Attention Away from Materialism

Becoming a Revelationary for Nature is not a passive pastime.

Passive

– not acting to influence or change a situation.

It is an active engagement.

Active

-participating or engaged in a particular sphere or activity in a positive or spontaneous rather than a passive way.

-of a person’s mind or imagination: alert and lively.

So identify the strands of capitalism that really gall you. The bits that make you growl, or throw your head back and howl.

It might be the nonsense pedalled by the advertising industry, for example, that disturbs your mind. Our lives are saturated by advertisements. Advertising works only for the private owners for profit brigade. So therefor this revelation requires active engagement.

Listen to/watch/read the ads through the eyes and ears of a revelationary. See the trickery. Notice the thinly disguised face of capitalism leering from behind the airbrushed photos. The blatant lies.

When the ones selling something you want come up, watch how your mind sits up and tells you that you must buy it. Remember – your mind has been heavily shaped by capitalism, so expect  turbulence. Your conditioned mind is coming up against your core values. So this situation offers to you resistence for you to push through.

Notice how you begin to justify buying that thing. Consider the repercussions that the manufacturing and disposal of this product may have on the earth. Think of the enormous cost of making ads like this and see how these considerable investments pay off. They work. So don’t let them work on you. 

The ads are not saying ‘Buying this product will lift your mood for a few minutes, but it won’t enhance your life in the slightest. You don’t need it. So save your money, change yourself  instead and spare the planet.’ 

The problem is not in the product, it’s in your sense of wanting the product. 

So just be with the bodily sensation of that persistent sense of wanting until it passes. Try to not add thought to it, because that will definitely exacerbate the situation. Just be with the feeling of it. Whatever you do, don’t start analysing. 

Exaccerbate

• make a problem, bad situation or negative feeling worse.

If the thing still plays on your mind, repeat the exercise. Remember you have nature as your ally against capitalism. Check in with any entity whose mind hasn’t been shaped by capitalism. Your cat, for example, has no problem turning its back on the ads. So be a copy-cat. Cultivate aloof disinterest.

Put your money into what you need, not what you want. Choose to feel happy with what you already have. Feel the success when you don’t give in to the temptation. This action is key to building up your resistance. 

And the Revelation is a resistance movement against a life-threatening system of governance that has turned free people into slaves. By taking this action yourself, you’re already making yourself useful to nature. Don’t underestimate the effect on other people who observe you making these changes in your life, even if you never speak of it.

You may find then that you can turn your back on all that fakeness and walk away. You’ll realise that commercial ads have no place in the emergency that is global warming. They will no longer have the power to disturb a revelationary mind. 

They are gone from your life. Ping! One strand in the madness is over for you.

Make conscious choices that align with nature and serve your own core values, rather than feeding the private owners of industry that serve the ongoing wrecking-ball of capitalism.

Your irritation might beabout the fast fashion industry, for example…….

• Or why there’s so much disease and ill health in our society.
• Or the fact that our elders are undervalued and talked down to.
• Or your fury might be to do with our poisoned waterways.
• Or why the multi-million-euro porn industry is flourishing. 
• Or that industrial farming subjects chickens, pigs and cattle to a life of misery.
• Or that hate-speech is spreading through the human family like wildfire.
• Or that wildfires are spreading across the earth as never before.
• Or that every screw and nail and toothpick and piece of food is wrapped in plastic.
• Perhaps it’s the on-going promotion  of luxury cars/perfumes/beauty products, so inappropriate at this time of global emergency.
• Or that industrial forestry pretends to be of benefit to nature.
• Or the fact that the word ‘reduce’ never passes the lips of a politician.

Look into the ones that tug at your sleeve, begging you to take action. Explore with depth to see what you can discover – what action you can take – if not outwardly, then inwardly or both. 

If you become practiced at emptying your mind from circular thinking and filling up your senses with nature, you might be amazed with the ideas that emerge between the two of you. 

Remember, of the two of you, one has had it’s mind incapacitated by generations of capitalist shaping. The other one has functioned with living knowledge from the dawn of time. So be in and with nature at every possible opportunity and hold your special place in your heart as you go through your days.

Whatever gets your goat – take it on. Learn all about the how’s and why’s of that strand you’ve identified for yourself. The process of finding out will help you to detangle yourself from its grip or cut it out of your life entirely. Be as relentless to the task as the system is to its promotion.

Beware of the temptation to talk endlessly to others as a form of action. It’s not action – just procrastination. Don’t burden yourself with trying to change anyone. Just work it through your own being with nature woven into every aspect of your life.

This is how you’ll build up resilience. Take small, consistent actions within yourself every day towards dismantling the aspects of capitalism that don’t align with your core values and that prevent your mind from  being free.

Photograph by Gearoid Coakley – Coakley Photography. Irish red squirrel, free of the desire to own anything.