The core of my Nobel synthesis... or something.

Follow up to vision.html. In my travels and explorations of human nature and energy currency, I’ve decided to commit my life to creating Sustainable Intentional Communalities, with equitable trade and lifestyle arrangements and work agreements that make sense on an energetic level. Each person works as hard as s/he feels they need with an understanding of the real cost of luxury and empathic understanding around working less and treating the essential less intense work that some call domesticity with more respect. Society needs to reframe around the raising of children.
I think that when a person chooses to bring another being into this world, considerations need to be made around having and giving enough resources, on all levels so that human being can function as well as possible. This means, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Psycho-social needs, parents who want their children to go into the world as adults with the ability to create great things in the world need to provide for the child’s food, shelter, safety (Emotional safety not to be underestimated), family love connections, social needs, love and education, with respect to the child’s age and stage of development. I lean Rudolf Steiner-ish in my views on human development, though not a radical Steinerist.
So a society needs to have caregivers for children above all. Some moms are more suited to caring for children full-time. Some families need to prioritize more carefully around procreation with their available energy resources. A lot has gone on in the modern world around attention problems. No one can deny that. Mental Illness, television, crime, violence desensitization, sociopathy, rampant addictions in all levels of society on a vast range of mind and body altering substances at astronomical doses with holy questionable outcomes. Adjusting our lives toward our intuitive goals as conscious people to creating a village that understands attention will be one of the top Google ways to save the world. [and this will be my essay, Larry and Sergey! October 20th, baby]
Domestic women need to be provided for, old fashioned, style. I’m sorry to burst the bubble on feminism. I am a feminist and didn’t love staying at home full-time all the time, but my infant daughter demanded it and I’m glad I listened. I left medicine for a number of reasons, not the least of which was a maternal need to be home with my children. I fought and fought through med school but my function as a mother both what it was for my children and what it did for my soul were so much more important that my career suffered. And without husband, what’s a mother to do?
I worked as a domestic provider to a number of other folks instead because, like a greeting card I received once, in the recapitulation 2007 album, “The ordinary arts we practice at every day at home have more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.” I have learned remarkable lessons from living in people’s homes and really witnessing their lives. Nothing I could’ve learned in a 15-30 minute interview or even months of therapy once a week. So I feel really good about how this work has really strengthened me as a healer and educated me as a philosopher, though I receive little credit because of the small paycheck and coincidental geographic instability associated with my rugged version of self-education. (as soon as the money rolls in, sweeties, I’m gonna Clara Zachannasian all over your asses… with hundreds that smell like money. Hahahahaha!)
But most importantly (and this is my Nobel Prize shit here), I’ve drawn on my shamanism and esoteric work, my psychology training, my vocation and socioeconomic hobbies and realized that people function in society at the level to which they are psycho-socially developed. Maslow’s Pyramid parallels chakra development. When I was high-functioning, as a doctor, I was giving back to society at a level 4, with my emotional body. When my emotional body was killed in the custody struggle of my divorce, I didn’t have the soul strength to function as a doctor. I had to go down to functioning on lower levels to build myself up. Ironically, writing falls into level 5, creativity, the will, the throat chakra, the butterfly. And the insight stuff is level 6-7, so it makes sense in some ways that I work on a domestic level 2 while writing about the lightning storms I’m chasing.
This comes back to the Village and what jobs we need. People generally choose jobs on the level they already function. Each person chooses how much of what type of energy they take in and put out in life. Some people are kinesthetic and aesthetic and their dollar value tends to be higher than people who use their blood sweat and tears to build the structures and appliances we take for granted. Why is this and is it fair? I don’t know. In a small village, I don’t know what the capacity for entertainment is. There is still a capitalistic real world that deals with money outside my Village concept and so there would be some cross over, this is sorta the apocalypse list, where entertainment is mostly by hobby… who knows?
At the base level of function are food, shelter and safety (f/s/s). There would be farming and lots of people into moving their body in productive yet simple ways would get satisfaction from producing food. Builders create our safe structures and products. A safety protection force is needed at higher population numbers than I anticipate in my tribe, but in areas where resource-scarcity is greater than the human social skills, behavior can be violent, necessitating a system to deal with violence.
At the next anthropologic level (that I’ve just sorta divined as a hobby with some psych background), humans next form packs: families. People form relationships to help each other get f/s/s so their loved ones don’t die. In Maslow’s pyramid, we need family attachments and love to develop further. So we need people to raise children, because everyone values children. Part of raising children until they are self-sustaining is an education system, so we would have a variety of educators in subjects that devote their community effort toward educating the children, teens and adults.
In my caregiving work, chakra 2 is the level of care I’m working at, providing work around domestic duties, which are usually tied to relationships (Nanny as “Mother’s Helper”) and it would make sense that the person or family in need of my services would have trouble in this area. Dysfunctional family is such a commonplace term that it one needs to be really over the top to get on a television talk show, except that the stories are sounding more and more common everywhere I go. So the family unit is breaking down would be the diagnosis. So, creating my little vision tribe is how I propose to save the world. Fixing families will allow people to develop further along Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. Creating small villages that focus their energy on sustainable practices with intention on the base needs, society as a whole will evolve.
The current focus in elite public education in the Bay Area in California has second graders in pre-pre-algebra. So, we’re trying to force a 7 year-old to function on high analytic levels in his being? Redirecting education towards what is reasonable and appropriate skill building for a child based on human development is much more practical. The child is ready to learn how to do things with her body, be it domestic, crafts based or athletics. The brain gets developed after the body, silly. And even still, in Waldorf education, after the physical body is developed, then one focuses education on the emotional body: humanities through story and art until the child reaches puberty and then the maturing person is ready to get academic and take on math and science with a solid foundation. So a village needs educators, which ranges from level 2 through 4, 5, 6, in higher society. The size of the village would determine our needs and then we outsource to an urban region for higher education.
Beyond that, a small village or any society needs vocationists: mechanics, tradespeople, handimen, seamstresses and other physical production efforts. These are level 2-3 in Maslows-Chakra terms. People who still primarily operate with their hands and don’t have to socialize to a large degree. Unfortunately, this is the area most devastated by the economic policies around overseas movement of factories and such. How many people function on this level who didn’t go to college? These jobs are still necessary to society and in the setting of the fuel situation and transportation of goods, this is a sensitive topic. Blue-collar job loss has probably been a significant factor in the other problems on the 2-3 levels of society: the family and community.
Healers. There is some debate (even if it is mostly my own) about the need for a “healer.” I have gone through a number of existential crises over my calling to be a doctor. I felt I needed to know how to do basic procedures like appendectomies and delivering babies in an apocalypse. I still haven’t learned those as well as I’d like. There is an issue about doing this service for money. There is clearly a value on doctoring and given the level of human development and energy service being requested, the reward should be equitable. I crumbled under the hypocrisy of the system providing care inequitably and losing a lot of energy to inefficiency and making choices based on propaganda around a billion-dollar industry. People undoubtedly need healing and services and doctors need to be paid and such but the need for a healer is different than the need for an M.D. So if the apocalypse hits and I say that I’ve delivered a few babies and know mostly what to do in a given situation, you can decide if you want my care or not.
The need for a society to have a system to deal with the (rampant) illness of the populace is an ethical one. Most developed societies have chosen to provide this level of service and support the training of physicians and nurses. Given that the US seems to be struggling on the more basic levels, this may explain the deficit. Is there not enough money to cover to this level? Is there not enough interest? When one looks at how most Americans eat and treat their bodies, some doctors get annoyed that patients ask for their advice at all. I certainly came down on my grandma about spending $50,000 of Medicare’s money in one hospital visit and not knowing what they had done as she continues to swallow soda, cereal and ice cream. Add to that the $10,000 worth of prescriptions she gobbles per year and it would seem there is the money but the decisions around who gets what are clearly in need of greater examination. So people want more service than they are willing to put up the energy for, that is where I found the crux of the matter.
Where the world, though mostly the US, has gone wrong in its decision-making over the last century is choosing to use energy on higher levels that one is really willing to create. We made huge strides in technology, agriculture, medicine, entertainment with the consequences of life being made so simple that we were convenienced into disability. We didn’t actually evolve to that level. Emotionally, most people are barely functioning on the second or third chakra level and are being asked to produce in the world off borrowed resources (time, sleep, fossil fuel, plastic containers, fast food). That is the core of sustainability versus what is not sustainable. It is not sustainable to want more than we create. It would be great if we could restructure our society so that we can develop further to create more in the world. People who get f/s/s, family nurturing, social support and soul-intimate love, they are able to genuinely create in the world and attain higher levels of spiritual development. Everyone else is borrowing.