Trends
I find it quite interesting the trends that I see while browsing certain tag threads on the WordPress site. I like to follow certain tags in order to see who is posting about certain topics. Because I am interested in the idea of Love, I follow the tags Love, Joy, Hope, Passion, Compassion, Generosity and Receiving, among others. I can’t help but notice that these 7 topics receive a very large range of posts per day. I imagine that the average number of posts with certain tags is a good indicator of how present a thought is in the “collective consciousness”. Some threads get literally thousands of posts per day, like family and art and photography. Here is how the words associated with Love fare.
Love receives approximately 45 posts per hour or 1000 posts per day.
Joy receives approximately 5 posts per hour or 120 posts per day.
Hope also receives approximately 5 posts per hour or 120 posts per day.
Passion receives approximately 4 posts per hour or 100 posts per day.
Compassion receives approximately 3 posts per hour or 75 posts per day.
Generosity receives approximately 7 or 8 posts per day. Yesterday, of the 7 posts on generosity that appeared in the thread, 3 originated from this blog.
Receiving receives approximately 1 post per day.
It seems we do not truly understand the components to Love. We are all searching for Love, but beyond Hope and Joy, and maybe a little passion and compassion, we really seem to be lacking in our ability to give and receive Love. It is time to embrace Generosity. It is time to embrace a Spirit of Receiving. Even I do not use the tag Receiving in my posts…
It is time to change the collective consciousness. It starts one blog at a time.
What will you tag with Generosity and Receiving today?
Nice observation!
Please forgive me if I come across as being overly negative in the following. My concern is that even if what you say is true and that ‘we are all looking for love’, how can you reconcile 1000 daily posts about love with the overwhelmingly more popular posts that deal with anything from pop trivia to politics? I’d guess Kanye West would receive more posts/comments/likes for a comment about the colour of the fluff in his navel than any post about love would receive.
It seems to me that Western culture at least has embraced the ‘spirit of receiving’ far too much already, and until we can rid our minds and the minds of others of the materialist trappings of consumer capitalism then any attempt to change the collective consciousness is doomed to fail. There is no collective consciousness; we sleep walk through our lives. There are enlightened individuals like yourself maybe, and by the way I really respect your farming idea, but the vast majority of the world do not, cannot, will not try to live in love any more than is convenient for their own selfish desires.
I realise it’s easy to be negative about such things, and that the real challenge is to be found in creating solutions, but though I’m trying really hard I don’t see any quick fixes. I guess what I’m asking is, how do we change consciousness?
You cannot. You can only change your own consciousness. Kanye is a distraction. He is safe and easy to access. He will never hurt you. He is the perfect distraction for someone afraid to engage in true Love. Allow others their lives. It is not for you to control what they think. You can change how you think. You can seek out alternative to the pop media. Honestly, I could not name a single Kanye song. I feel like he might have done the “drop it like it’s hot” song. The best way to Live in Love is to spread Love through positive actions. Be the first. Be the one to to try something new. Do not think “it is impossible because no one else is trying”. Understand that it will be impossible until you start to try. But as soon as you begin to Create Love around you, anything is possible. It is, at the end of the day, up to you.
To be clear, I have no idea what Kanye West does either. I just used him as an example as a a lot of people do act and behave as if celebrity or popular culture is important. Why is this? What can be done about it?
If you cannot change consciousness then why do you write this blog? Why did you even bother to reply to my comment? I think we CAN change people’s consciousness, and I think you think that too or you wouldn’t be trying to do such things as creating a community bank and farm. I think that’s the point I’m trying to make, that ‘living in love’ is not something we can simply do in our minds, expecting the rest of the world to follow suit, it is only in doing that we make things happen. Not only that, but to allow other people to be misled, to be dehumanised, to be enslaved by the system, is that living in love? Do we not have a responsibility to each other?
I love that you are a doer as well as a thinker, but my concern is that people reading your post might think it is enough to simply think about living in love, and that through this kind of wishful thinking the rest of the world will fall in line. Thinking is not enough. Love is doing.
I do not disagree with you. Perhaps the best way to get others to change is to lead by example. The point I am trying to make with this blog is that Love is inclusive. I am changing myself, but in the process I invite everyone to share in my journey and join me if they wish. I cannot force people to change. But I can show them an alternative way of doing things. It is hope that allows me to rest satisfied that others will make the commitment to join in, on their own accord.
I genuinely do applaud your efforts and agree that people do need role models to learn from. I guess we differ slightly in our views of how passive love is. Maybe I need to practice patience!
Slightly related I’ve also been lucky enough to be given a small amount of land to grow fruit and vegetables on. A fair sized allotment (though not as large as your farm!) the land will be available this summer so perhaps I’ll be able to learn a little from your experiement. Maybe an international seed swap sometime in the future!
In the meantime I’ll be watching your new forum closely. I have a few ideas for projects that may be useful, but need to think them over first…
Keep up the good work,
AA
Thanks for all the thoughtful comments!
You’re welcome, thanks for the inspiring posts!
Ahhh, receiving. The hardest one of these topics for me! I’d like to be available today to receive and metabolize love, compassion and joy without feeling like I owe someone/something in return or finding a way to joy bust (a topic I’m working on for an upcoming post). Thanks for the reminder!
It is true, for many guilt free receiving is the hardest part of Love.
I received the Kreativ Blogger Award and I’m passing it on to you. With love, Maria
Thank you Maria!
Thanks for your insight. I believe you are right on. It is so sad that we find it so hard to give and receive love when that is what God intended our purpose to be.
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