It is a strange and regrettable truth that a system of any kind doesn’t have to be principled, ethically run or morally correct to exist, to survive or to experience longevity – no matter what the cost, impact or consequences might be to anyone not directly involved or those who are in reality its victims or those that it exploits.

What any system does need to work well, to work efficiently and to survive in the very long time or in perpetuity, is balance, and for it and everything it produces or projects to be fair.

The system that we have is well established in the sense that nobody alive today could tell you either an accurate or true story about what it was like before it existed.

But the system that we have today is built on the foundation of the belief in money. And money doesn’t exist.

Everything in our lives is interconnected with everything in everyone else’s lives in some way.

Like a giant jigsaw puzzle, all the different parts come together to make one big picture.

But the parts are always changing (people, technology, thinking etc). And as we can only look after or move the parts of the puzzle around which are our own responsibility within our own lives to do, we have been led to believe that it has become necessary to trust others with responsibility for the parts that we believe to be beyond our own control.

Over time, that trust or rather the power over others that it commands has corrupted the people that hold it. Yes, that’s our politicians. But more importantly, it’s the people leading business and finance who appear to have or possess all the things that our politicians believe that they need to have or possess – just like we have all been conditioned to think we need too.

Feelings are a funny thing. In fact, we are constantly told by people and the world around us that our feelings, gut feelings or the instincts or that knowing that cannot always be elucidated with words, should be overridden.

The messages of the world insist that it is the messages and ‘things’ that are outside of us that are the only thing we can trust.

That is of course, unless those feelings are not really feelings at all, but are in fact the emotions that relate to our own perceived vulnerabilities and ideas of isolation. Thoughts that we are then ‘progressively’ encouraged to shout about from the rooftops.

‘Weaknesses’, celebrated openly with others can then be exploited to weaken others and make them believe they are vulnerable too. All at our own expense whilst our willing participation in this charade fuels a system that has evolved to benefit only the few.

That feeling of disquiet that we all have, is like a knock at the door or an internal alarm clock going off. It’s the real you, reaching out to say that something that isn’t good for us is going on right here, right now.

Whilst I am using the metaphor of an alarm clock and telling you that its time for us all to wake up, this isn’t the clarion call of the ‘great awakening’ that those who are converting a material form of self-interest into one sold as spiritual piousness would like us all to buy-in and believe.

Insisting that anyone must be part or this or that, or have specific knowledge or experience to be accepted is no better than the demands of a money obsessed society that insists you have to demonstrate your wealth to be accepted, to ‘get in’ or ‘to be someone’.

The awakening, or process of waking up I am talking about, is that of learning or rather re-learning to trust yourself and the feelings that you might inexplicably have.

Instead of looking to the worlds and words or others and everything outside of yourself for answers to YOUR questions, you should  instead look to the yes / no, right / wrong, feelings that come without internal dialogue or commentary and without reason and without emotion.

Instincts, when trusted, will always deliver. Simply because you have had the good sense to look within and not gone without.

None of our lives are simple – no matter what anyone else thinks.

The complications within our own lives or ‘bubbles’ mean that we really are blind and deaf to anything and everything going on outside of our own bubble – unless there is something within our bubble which gives us a specific interest is something that could also be very specific outside of our bubble. A specific something going on in one of the many worlds that make up the whole world that sits beyond our own.

A disaster could be unfolding in the world bubble and life of the person sat on the table next to me in this Starbucks, but I cannot see it because I have had no reason to do so.

This is the way that we all look at everything.

It’s how the whole world and the many worlds that exist within it work.

Until any problem or the many problems from many bubbles come into our lives and touch us directly, they may as well not actually exist.