Clearly learning to live more locally is at the core of this discussion. What follows is then, if have the courage to walk this path, a practice of unraveling all the ways that we participate in the homo-colossus culture. Quitting a job that involves ridiculous business travel, or the production of some product or service that only exists because of the former over-abundance of cheap fossil fuel. Learning to commune with the natural world again, to regain sensitivity to it and thus cherish its sacredness; gardening, keeping chickens, foraging; beginning to appreciate our somatic addiction to power and mobility – the absurdity of pressing our toes toward the floor and claiming the power of hundreds of horses. Perhaps, more simply, appreciating the exquisiteness of a hot shower, losing track of ‘which day of the week’ it is and simply living each moment of today. Learning how to get along with other people; coming together as an occupy movement or community initiative and becoming aware of all the ways in which we project conditioned skill-sets of the past that were developed from a fear-perspective – ways of subtle manipulation and control – onto to the possibility of a more authentic group consciousness.

As these layers come up into awareness, we can peel them away and hold a space for a new personal paradigm to emerge, recognizing the difficulty in simply being in that place of uncertainty.