{"id":2953,"date":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/guy-mcpherson-pursuing-love-and-excellence-during-catastrophic-climate-change-on-our-beloved-planet\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:15:31","slug":"guy-mcpherson-pursuing-love-and-excellence-during-catastrophic-climate-change-on-our-beloved-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/guy-mcpherson-pursuing-love-and-excellence-during-catastrophic-climate-change-on-our-beloved-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy McPherson: Pursuing Love and Excellence During Catastrophic Climate Change on our Beloved Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the intro before we went to air - I asked Guy if he was open to me looking at ALL possibilities and to even humour me in my indulgences. <\/p>\n

So read on dear reader - this is a very unique interview and I will summarise what subjects I was unable to totally cover at the end.<\/p>\n

I knew this was going to be an insightful interview, because Guy had already laid down the parameters of his argument:<\/p>\n

That in 10 years humanity on our planet would become extinct.<\/p>\n

Well, I am 12 years older than Guy and have heard statements like this before... but 10 years!<\/p>\n

Then he opened the door to take him up on his following statement on his website: Nature Bats Last<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As always, I\u2019m open to alternative views. In fact, I\u2019m begging for them, considering the gravity of this particular situation.<\/p>\n

I was ready for Guy, but I needed another hour to be able to build out a more compelling case for a global shift in consciousness. Or to at least seed
\n the ideal.<\/p>\n

One of my first interviews (that I do not have a record of) was with NZ\u2019s top scientist for 2004, Peter Barrett. At that time he was Director of the Antarctic
\n Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington.<\/p>\n

In his acceptance speech for the Marsden medal for exceptional scientific achievement he stated: \u201cWe have to change our ways because continuous growth
\n and business as usual on our planet, will cause us to become extinct within the next 100 years.\"<\/p>\n

Well, the status quo in Wellington were not happy and he was asked to recant and offer up another statement, which he duly did, and stated: \u201cthe end of
\n civilisation as we know it!\"<\/p>\n

That same year I also interviewed James Lovelock, instigator of the Gaia hypothesis, that our planet is a super organism. He too implied that we had reached
\n a tipping point.<\/p>\n

His two subsequent books The Vanishing Face of Gaia and The Revenge of Gaia were grim and pessimistic outlooks at what was happening due the sustained
\n abuse and avarice that we humans have been engaged in, especially over the last 70 years in exploiting our great sustainer. <\/p>\n

He too said that we would not make it into the next century.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cEnjoy life while you can. Because if you\u2019re lucky, it\u2019s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was early 2008, however he later stated in 2012 that he was an alarmist. He still maintains that by the end of this century 80% of the population
\n will be wiped out. <\/p>\n

When hearing Guys pronouncement last week that \"humanity would become extinct in 10 years time\", I was already case hardened. As a \u2018trooper\u2019 it did not
\n phase me - I was\/am ready.<\/p>\n

I've been steeled for this since 1975, when I read the Doomsday Book by a Gordon Rattray Taylor. This book covered the fate of what we as a humanity were
\n doing to our planet.<\/p>\n

In one nights reading it shocked the daylights out of me altering me substantially to this day.<\/p>\n

His foreboding narrative of the future of Planet Earth painted a collision course with the death of humanity, into a morbid, lifeless, Martian outlook.<\/p>\n

So I opened up with the recent Paul Henry morning TV3 show where \u2018NZ\u2019s loose canon and fervent denier of so many things\u2019 was totally gob smacked.<\/p>\n

For this was the first time of hearing of his 10 years death sentence to his future dreams, unfinished diatribes and indulgences. He was like a goldfish
\n blowing bubbles, yet looking very closely at Guy, you could see his eyes intently staring out at the world.<\/p>\n

The original 4 minute sound bite interview turned into a 10 minute one, as Paul wavered all breaks for advertising. He wanted more information about his
\n starkly shortened future!<\/p>\n

In short, Guy maintains that planetary temperatures are all locked in already. We have blown the thermostat of our planet and we can\u2019t do anything now.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like giving the command for an oil supertanker that has been at top speed to stop! This takes something like 120 miles or so to bring it to a complete
\n halt, as its momentum is so powerful.<\/p>\n

Guy encourages us to go back to the land, take action and protest this takeover, such as in South Dakota at Black Rock.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the right thing to do\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

People today suffer from NDD or \u2018Nature Deficit Disorder\u2019. We have lost our connection and don\u2019t know where much of our food comes from. Hence our lack
\n of consciousness of our living planet. <\/p>\n

There are always consequences. Year after year we have failed to solve the problem of growth at all costs. Not to mention the poisons we produce due to
\n extraction of resources from the bounty of the land we inhabit.<\/p>\n

We have had the warnings time and time again and we took no action.<\/p>\n

We have all been born into the situation to find we are now born into captivity!<\/p>\n

Lack of Connection<\/h3>\n

Kevin says the 1% are not burdened with empathy, to care about what they do. It\u2019s a huge social disconnection that when they make decisions, they hurt
\n the world.<\/p>\n

My question to Guy: <\/p>\n

\"Do you think we have sociopaths running the high end of our planet?\"<\/p>\n

Yes, we have. He could argue that we are all part of the problem because we (in my words) have all become consumers, consuming ourselves and our common
\n future. That basically 95% of us always vote on our bank balance and what\u2019s in it for Me?<\/p>\n

Kevin then jumped in and stoically stated that he wanted to be the last person planting the last tree on our planet, before the lights go out. I then leapt
\n in and said I would be there with him! Ready to eat of the fruit of that tree!<\/p>\n

We are Slow Learners<\/h3>\n

Then I introduce the concept that:<\/p>\n

50 Years ago we heard that we would destroy our civilisation possibly in around 100 years or so - if we did not change our ways. <\/p>\n

20 years ago they revised it to possibly 40 years.<\/p>\n

15 years it was down to 30 years.<\/p>\n

Now Guy today is saying about 10 years to go...<\/p>\n

It nearly rhymes with.<\/p>\n

50 years ago the human race were only using 10% of their potential.<\/p>\n

20 years ago they then said it was 7%.<\/p>\n

5 years ago it was down to 5%.<\/p>\n

2 years ago it was we were only using 2% of our potential.<\/p>\n

So we are using less and less of our potential … to find out we're using less and less of our potential …<\/p>\n

What is going to happen in 5 years time?<\/h3>\n

Guy jumped in and said yes, we have totally lost our way.<\/p>\n

Changing the Whole Focus: From Disaster to Changing of Human Consciousness.<\/p>\n

Without grinding into what is actually happening … temperatures rising, droughts, catastrophic events, etc. (I was even going to ask him about Geo
\n engineering however our time was short and this is covered in my summary at the end.)<\/p>\n

I decided to beat a path to the inner self, to our potential as a human and what can we as a humanity do, seeing the situation in Guys words was so dire.<\/p>\n

Albert Einstein said that we cannot solve the problems with the same consciousness that caused them in the first place.<\/p>\n

Where do you see yourself in relationship to this Guy? And he says he is all for it, but we have not done anything about it.<\/p>\n

Next, Nikola Tesla said \"when mankind starts researching the invisible he will make more progress in 10 years that he will have in the whole of civilisation\".<\/p>\n

Guy says that there is a lot that we do not know, because it is invisible and we have not learnt enough to become more evolved.<\/p>\n

Tesla talked about the \u2018luminous akasha\u2019 as to where he tapped into Akashic Records . Akasha is a sanskrit word that Buddhists believe in \u201ca permanency
\n of records in the Akasa\u201d and \u201cthe potential capacity of man to read the same\".<\/p>\n

What do you think Tesla was saying here? (listen to the interview for more).<\/p>\n

We are one Molecular Unified Energy Field.<\/p>\n

What about the fact that our planet is one unified molecular field that we are all connected - you to me in the gigantic sphere of atomic frequency - the
\n air molecules between us, our bodies and this building is all one field oscillating at a particular frequency.<\/p>\n

Guys says \"we are that\". <\/p>\n

This is fact YES? We are \u201cone field\".<\/p>\n

We Humans are the Nerve Endings of Our Planet<\/h3>\n

I mention that James Lovelock says that we humans are the nerve endings for Gaia, Mother Earth and that when someone stands up in the Amazon with a sign
\n saying \u201cNo more deforestation!\u201d they are a nerve ending telling the world that the Amazon is wanting help.<\/p>\n

Same for someone standing up in Palestine with a sign saying \u201cWe want Peace\u201d. This again is another nerve ending communicating with all other nerve endings
\n that we need to change, stop war and heal for Peace.<\/p>\n

Well the planet is inflamed and the ones who are hearing the Earth\u2019s call and feeling this calling deeply, are coming in with compassionate mindfulness
\n to be a part of \u2018her immune response!\"<\/p>\n

Guy says that he is open to a miracle - and that we need to \u2018Passionately Pursue a Life of Excellence\u2019<\/p>\n

We have the saying the \u2018anima mundi' which is Latin for World Soul? So for arguments sake we could be all connected at the energy unified field?<\/p>\n

We share the one breath - all of us.<\/p>\n

This is all unseen and is invisible.<\/p>\n

Kevin adds that the Nuclear power stations in the US are still going and there are dangers of invisible radiation escaping. The US government has now extended
\n the power station\u2019s licenses by many more years. Even though virtually all have passed their use by date.<\/p>\n

They are now extremely dangerous because the cost of decommissioning them is outrageously enormous.<\/p>\n

The Japanese reactors at Fukushima are equally dangerous because they have been idle and out of action for 5 years. They are now being recommissioned,
\n and this is fraught with problems.<\/p>\n

Guy says of Tesla and regarding \u2018the invisible' that there is so much we do not know. He talks of 'dark matter' and that science is now recognising there
\n are many other Universes other than our own. It\u2019s a Multi verse.<\/p>\n

And he says about a change of consciousness - is there enough time for a change of consciousness? … Mass consciousness? He says he does not know,
\n but is open to it for sure.<\/p>\n

Also mentioned are Walter Russell<\/a> (the American mystic) and Viktor Schauberger<\/a>, who have seen into the invisible. <\/p>\n

Schauberger, (known as the 'father of water'), was able to lie down beside rivers and \u2018become one with them\u2019 in consciousness.<\/p>\n

Meditation was mentioned as a way of being able to find solace from the outside world as well as heal from grief, which is what many people are experiencing
\n as we learn of the plight of our home planet, mother earth.<\/p>\n

The conversation then moves to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross<\/a> where 1600 people came to listen to her tell of her research at the Auckland Town Hall. She had interviewed 20,000 people who had had \u2018near death and
\n out of the body\u2019 experiences that we were more than a mere body.<\/p>\n