Taking Control of our Destiny

One of the most important things we can do to empower ourselves (to help us take control of our own lives) is to learn as much about ourselves and our community as possible. This means we need to think about how our physical environments (ecology, biology, consilience theory), our social environments (sociology, social holography), and our mental environments (neurology, psychology, intersectionality theory) interconnect to produce what we call reality.

Once we better understand our present situation, once we are anchored in the present, we can then start to look towards our past to understand how we got to this point in space and time. After we learn about our past and our present, we can use these two "points" to estimate where it is we are likely to go next if we change nothing in our lives or in the society we create together.

We can then make a choice:

• Do we accept things the way they are because they work for us? -OR-
• Do we seek to change where we are headed because the past and present do not lead us to a healthy future?