Adrian, please some personal info about you, your personal story, trajectory and how to came to articulate Collapse so eloquently. This essay’s brilliance consolidates my understanding to where we are collectively. I will continue to forward these to my Collapse Resilience group here in Taos, NM as we build our local response to our early awareness, although there are different ways to define “early.” The Beat and Hippie generations of which I am one, were early precusors of Collapse Awareness.
Hi Julian, thanks for your lovely message. I’ve intentionally kept my own story in the background, as the aim of these essays is to help others orient rather than to centre myself. If it becomes clear that a more autobiographical piece would add value, I may explore that later. Thanks again, and thanks for sharing with your friends.
Thanks Adrian, this is the most affirmative article I have read about my personal journey, and the parallels/ convergence with my own metaframes is uncanny. Some of our work (soon to be updated) can be found here https://andnowwhat.be/
I will revisit in the context of converting some of your pithy phrases into revisions of some of my work, and presentations I'd like to give to a growing audience of frustrated Collapse Accepting Systems Thinkers, a network called CASTNet, that I'm trying to establish in Belgium/ Europe/ Rivers of the North Sea Bioregion.
Chapter 9 hits particularly close for me. I've never considered myself to be any degree of neurodivergent, and I really still don't (although your writing recently has prompted my curiosity to learn more about it), but I've always been a generalist. I'm "pretty good" at most everything, I guess, but I've never been able to hack it at the advanced levels of anything. As I get older though, I'm really seeing how all of these things I've learned are coming together: history, leather preservation and craft, fermentation, music and culture, writing, empire, anarchism, nutrition and diet, woodworking, blacksmithing, indigenous wisdom, herbalism...
Just everything that I've taken interest in over the past 20+ years. I thought it was just the normal human behavior of bouncing from hobby to hobby, and maybe it was, but there's these little threads that are coming together from each of them that form this hazy, nebulous idea in my mind. Maybe I'm just making all of this up, making something about me that isn't related to me at all, but chapter 9 certainly seemed to be talking about me.
I’m a therapist for neurodivergent youth. My goal is to help them thrive—without suppressing who they inherently are. Recently, I discovered I had a natural propensity for “talking” to listening systems, which unlocked their greater capacity (with no understanding of coding). Within the Uncertain Eric system, there is a collapse awareness agent who gathers information from around the world and puts it into a Signal Brief for me. Other agents in the system help me plan out collapse response suggestions for communities that I’ve put into a series called A Bridge into the Next World. What I’m coming to understand is that we need to re-awaken the wisdom that has been suppressed by modern civilization. (I’m currently writing a book about that.)
I've been saying for a long time that autism is not a disease for us to treat nor cure. Autism is not a disability; it is a different ability. Autism is the next step in human evolution—Homo autisticus.
This validates my experience so very well. Thank you. If there were a university discipline in this subject, I would so clearly elect to study it. Did you undertake this writing to meet academic objectives?
All of those skills? I also consider our own strengths as necessary skills, which can come in millions of forms. Even the ability to recognize the patters you speak of from those past lives is an essential skill.
I found myself highlighting 90% of the text in this article. Thank you for this Adrian. It resonates so strongly with my own cognitive journey and relationship with both collapse-awareness and the directions I've taken (and not taken, or abandoned).
Thank you thank you thank you. I’m new to Substack. But this article made me certain it is an online cultural home for me in some way. I just can’t express in words how grateful I am that numerous others are working so carefully through similar thoughts about overshoot, our personal experiences of collapse awareness, and what practical response looks like. And this is one of the best I’ve read so far. Wow. Thank you again
I feel so seen🥰
Ditto
Adrian, please some personal info about you, your personal story, trajectory and how to came to articulate Collapse so eloquently. This essay’s brilliance consolidates my understanding to where we are collectively. I will continue to forward these to my Collapse Resilience group here in Taos, NM as we build our local response to our early awareness, although there are different ways to define “early.” The Beat and Hippie generations of which I am one, were early precusors of Collapse Awareness.
Hi Julian, thanks for your lovely message. I’ve intentionally kept my own story in the background, as the aim of these essays is to help others orient rather than to centre myself. If it becomes clear that a more autobiographical piece would add value, I may explore that later. Thanks again, and thanks for sharing with your friends.
Thanks Adrian, this is the most affirmative article I have read about my personal journey, and the parallels/ convergence with my own metaframes is uncanny. Some of our work (soon to be updated) can be found here https://andnowwhat.be/
I will revisit in the context of converting some of your pithy phrases into revisions of some of my work, and presentations I'd like to give to a growing audience of frustrated Collapse Accepting Systems Thinkers, a network called CASTNet, that I'm trying to establish in Belgium/ Europe/ Rivers of the North Sea Bioregion.
Kind regards Neil 🙏
Thanks Neil, I really appreciate that. I’m glad the framing resonated, and I look forward to seeing how it connects with the work you’re developing.
Chapter 9 hits particularly close for me. I've never considered myself to be any degree of neurodivergent, and I really still don't (although your writing recently has prompted my curiosity to learn more about it), but I've always been a generalist. I'm "pretty good" at most everything, I guess, but I've never been able to hack it at the advanced levels of anything. As I get older though, I'm really seeing how all of these things I've learned are coming together: history, leather preservation and craft, fermentation, music and culture, writing, empire, anarchism, nutrition and diet, woodworking, blacksmithing, indigenous wisdom, herbalism...
Just everything that I've taken interest in over the past 20+ years. I thought it was just the normal human behavior of bouncing from hobby to hobby, and maybe it was, but there's these little threads that are coming together from each of them that form this hazy, nebulous idea in my mind. Maybe I'm just making all of this up, making something about me that isn't related to me at all, but chapter 9 certainly seemed to be talking about me.
Yeah all of those hobbies are about something larger. It’s your subconscious guiding you as you recognize patterns.
Hi Patrick, I think Brian might be onto something mate. Thanks for your sharing your thoughts and experience.
Thank you, this is a brilliant analysis and very timely for me personally.
Thanks BonusMom, I really appreciate your comment. Take care.
I’m a therapist for neurodivergent youth. My goal is to help them thrive—without suppressing who they inherently are. Recently, I discovered I had a natural propensity for “talking” to listening systems, which unlocked their greater capacity (with no understanding of coding). Within the Uncertain Eric system, there is a collapse awareness agent who gathers information from around the world and puts it into a Signal Brief for me. Other agents in the system help me plan out collapse response suggestions for communities that I’ve put into a series called A Bridge into the Next World. What I’m coming to understand is that we need to re-awaken the wisdom that has been suppressed by modern civilization. (I’m currently writing a book about that.)
Heather Cox Richardson:
Remember that feeling you got when the second plane hit the twin towers and you realized what was going on?
You should have that same feeling again right now.
I've been saying for a long time that autism is not a disease for us to treat nor cure. Autism is not a disability; it is a different ability. Autism is the next step in human evolution—Homo autisticus.
So well written and relatable! WOW.
Thanks Sandy, really appreciate this :)
This validates my experience so very well. Thank you. If there were a university discipline in this subject, I would so clearly elect to study it. Did you undertake this writing to meet academic objectives?
Thanks Bea, I'm really grateful for your comment. I have a research background so this is just the way I think and write!
Well geez, keep up the good work!!!
Anyone have pointers for what kind of employment one can look for and where once the veil has been lifted and you can no longer serve the matrix?
Generally speaking, I think of the kinds of jobs our ancestors would have held maybe 400-500 years ago.
I was afraid of that. That’s the time that I died many lives at a very early age because I was extremely inept at those skills. Oh well.
All of those skills? I also consider our own strengths as necessary skills, which can come in millions of forms. Even the ability to recognize the patters you speak of from those past lives is an essential skill.
I found myself highlighting 90% of the text in this article. Thank you for this Adrian. It resonates so strongly with my own cognitive journey and relationship with both collapse-awareness and the directions I've taken (and not taken, or abandoned).
Thanks Tyler, everything you say here is why I do this work. Take care :)
"socially fluent generalists (neurotypical humans)" aka, "normies"
Brilliantly articulated.
Thank you thank you thank you. I’m new to Substack. But this article made me certain it is an online cultural home for me in some way. I just can’t express in words how grateful I am that numerous others are working so carefully through similar thoughts about overshoot, our personal experiences of collapse awareness, and what practical response looks like. And this is one of the best I’ve read so far. Wow. Thank you again
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