How a Positive Mindset Can Transform the World
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What if the future isn’t something that just happens to us — but something we’re all co-creating, moment by moment, thought by thought?
It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of everything that seems broken. Climate chaos, rising inequality, political turmoil, war, the ever-churning anxiety machine of modern media. We’re taught, both subtly and directly, that the best we can do is cope — survive the storm, maybe plant a tree, but don’t expect too much.
But what if the problem isn’t just the systems we live in… what if it’s the mindset behind them?
The Inner World Shapes the Outer World
Waking Up, the novel I’ve written, didn’t begin as a book. It began as a question: What would a truly awakened society look like? What kind of economic system would it have? What would it be like to live in..?
The answer took me on a decade-long journey — through philosophy, neuroscience, spirituality, systems thinking, and countless hours of deep inner work (including recovering from a massive stroke). What I came to understand is this: our world is a projection of our beliefs. Not just as individuals, but as a collective. We’re living in the outer expression of inner assumptions — about ourselves, about each other, about what’s possible.
In the book, the protagonist Benjamin Michaels wakes up from cryosleep into a world where money no longer exists. It’s not a utopia built from technology alone, but one rooted in a different mindset. Scarcity has been replaced by natural exchange. Fear has been met with trust. Competition has been dissolved into collaboration.
This is not fantasy. It’s a mirror — showing us what could be, if we chose to see differently.
From Scarcity to Abundance
Most of today’s systems — economic, social, even educational — operate from a story of lack. There’s not enough time, not enough resources, not enough to go around. And if that’s the story, then fear, hoarding, and hierarchy become the “logical” responses.
But what happens when we change the story?
In Waking Up, society functions on what I call the Natural Exchange System (NES). It’s not based on control or credits, but on contribution and connection. People do what they love, share what they create, and trust that their needs will be met by others doing the same combined with technology. Like in nature, every part does its thing and is fulfilled in doing it.
This isn’t just fiction. It’s a thought experiment — and like all powerful thought experiments, it begins to affect the real world by planting new seeds of possibility.
Collective Positivity: Not Naïve, but Revolutionary
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about pretending everything’s fine when it’s not. This is not toxic positivity or spiritual bypassing. It’s about daring to imagine a better outcome, even when the world seems determined to self-destruct.
Constructive hope is a radical act. It refuses to accept the current trajectory as final. It asks: what if we are not doomed? What if collapse is not the end, but the compost from which something more beautiful can grow?
Every great shift in history began with someone who believed differently. Who dared to hold a vision of peace in a time of war, of equality in a time of oppression, of wholeness in a world divided.
That’s what this book is. That’s what my journey has become.
A Mirror to Ourselves
The title Waking Up carries multiple meanings. On the surface, it’s about a man awakening into a new society. But underneath, it’s an invitation to all of us. To awaken from the dream of separation. From the illusion of helplessness. From the conditioned belief that this is “just how things are.”
Because here’s the truth: the future is a mirror. It reflects back whatever we project onto it.
If we project fear, we get fear. If we project hope, we begin to see possibilities. And if enough of us choose to imagine — and act on — a more loving, connected, abundant world… that mirror begins to shift.
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Hope Is a Strategy
No single mindset will save the world. But the world can’t truly change without one. Before we build new systems, we have to believe they’re possible. Before we birth a new society, we have to dream it into being.
*Waking Up* is my offering to that dream — a story for those who haven’t given up, and those who almost have.
So I ask you:
What kind of future are you imagining today?
And what would happen if you let that vision guide your next step?
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