possibilitism:
The world has hit critical stage.
We are globally facing emergencies in the climatic, political, social, ethical, technological and economic spheres.
The world is at a turning point.
A time has come when humans discover that the way they understand and see things has a part in determining how things go.
A time has come when humans learn that training their minds to work in their own benefit is a tool not only for personal liberation, but also for our collective liberation.
A time has come when humans reveal to themselves that they have agency in how things happen in a large scale in the world.
A time has come when humans exercise their total creative freedom to help conjure up futures that actually benefit all of humanity, nature, and planet Earth.
Ways in which we’re getting there:
imagining
unimaginable
futures
Imagination is one of our greatest, yet most underrated tools to create versions of society that go beyond the current existing state.
When used purposefully for the collective's benefit, when fully aware of its creative power, and when applied with diligent practice, human imagination can act as the missing tool to create desirable futures for humanity.
However, not just any desirable future.
It is imperative that the futures we come up with seem unattainable at first — that is key.
Why is that:
In order to pivot a world that has gone too far in undesirable ways, we have to practice imagining in new, bold and idealistic ways.
We need to develop and apply new tools entirely. We need to paint with new colors, use new language, think new thoughts.
Because as long as we remain kept within the boundaries of what the current way of thinking believes is possible, we will never attain all of the apparently impossible things we can and should want for our planet and humanity.
In order to create something that is totally different than what
& materialism
capitalism
have conditioned us to understand as reality and what is possible, we will need to implement exactly what these old frameworks have taught us to view as
impossible
It is time to start imagining versions of the future in which far out concepts that appear currently unattainable, have in fact been achieved.
Futures that feel absolutely unbelievable in how incredible they are.
Futures that seem totally far fetched, when imagined from today’s standpoint.
If thinking of:
hunger being extinguished poverty being eradicated inequality ceasing to exist world peace being attained capitalism being in the past the air being free of pollution cancer being extinguished the oceans being free of plastic humans knowing how to telepathically communicate humans knowing how to levitate all of the planet's waste being eliminated extinct animal species reemerging people seeing others as diverse extensions of themselves borders between countries being deemed unnecessary people living meaningful, artful lives humans learning how to consciously heal themselves planet's earth biomes fully regenerating and thriving all species acknowledging each other's wisdom and participation in the creation of a fruitful reality for all living beings
brings up feelings of impossibility, suspicion or the pointlessness of you spending your time doing so, then you’ve reached a very valuable part of yourself
the skeptic
The skeptic, is the part of us which summarizes all of the things we’ve ever learned about reality and how the world works, in order to help us define what we believe to be possible or not.
Traditionally skepticism is associated with intelligent and necessary questioning tendencies, it investigates and scrutinizes in order to consider and accept notions.
Running into our own skeptic when thinking about these far out concepts being attained is a natural response and points at a couple important things.
First, encountering our skeptic confirms that we have in fact succeeded in envisioning versions of the future that challenge today's notion of what is possible — which is what we had set out to do.
Furthermore, if the skeptic holds as much power as defining the boundaries of our own beliefs, it is crucial for us to realize that these definitions have been created by a framework whose limits we're being invited to
expand
Possibilitism invites us to think of our internal skeptic, not as a hindrance but as a gatekeeper instead.