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  • Humanity Is Waking Up – But What Does That Really Mean?

    Humanity Is Waking Up – But What Does That Really Mean?

    When I say “humanity is waking up”, it’s not just a hopeful slogan. It’s an observation, and perhaps even a prophecy. But waking up to what? And in what way?

    At first glance, it might not look like humanity is waking up at all. The news screams of wars, corruption, inequality, and ecological collapse. We seem to be racing faster and faster toward the abyss. And yet, beneath the noise, something else is stirring.

    Waking Up to the Fragility of Earth

    We are beginning to acknowledge that our planet is not an endless resource but a delicate web of life. Fires, floods, extinctions, and climate chaos force us to recognize that humanity is part of this web, not separate from it. In response, more people embrace renewable energy, regenerative farming, and circular economies. It’s slow, uneven, but real.

    Waking Up from the Illusion of Scarcity

    Money has long dictated who eats and who starves, who thrives and who suffers. But a growing awareness tells us that money itself is an invention—an artificial system of scarcity. The real wealth of the world is abundant: food, energy, creativity, love. Movements for sharing economies, cooperatives, and even resource-based visions show that alternatives are possible.

    Waking Up to Our Shared Humanity

    Borders, races, religions, and ideologies divide us only on the surface. More people are realizing that beneath those layers we are one family. The rise of movements for global justice, equality, and indigenous wisdom signals this deeper recognition, even as old systems of control cling tightly to their power.

    Waking Up Spiritually

    Most importantly, humanity is waking up to something deeper than politics or economics. We are beginning to remember who we really are: not isolated egos, but expressions of one consciousness. This awakening shows itself in the longing for connection, the spread of meditation and inner practices, the search for meaning beyond possessions.

    Spiritually, this awakening means:

    • Realizing that love and compassion are not luxuries, but the very fabric of life.
    • Seeing that the ego’s chase for power or security cannot bring peace.
    • Trusting a deeper intelligence—whether we call it God, Source, Spirit, or simply Life—that guides us when we listen.
    • Recognizing that our thoughts and choices shape reality, and that we are co-creators of the world to come.

    The Tension of Our Time

    To say “humanity is waking up” does not mean everyone suddenly becomes enlightened. It means more and more people are questioning the illusions, breaking free of fear, and daring to live differently. But as this happens, the old system pushes back. That’s why our time feels so turbulent—both abyss and awakening accelerate together.

    This is not failure. It is birth.

    A Call to Each of Us

    If humanity is waking up, it’s not an abstract idea—it’s a personal invitation. Each of us is part of this shift. We can choose to close our eyes, or to see clearly. To cling to separation, or to live in connection. To act from fear, or from love.

    The real question is not “Is humanity waking up?” but “Am I waking up—and how will I live that awakening?”

    A Mirror in Story

    This is also the journey at the heart of my novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity. In the book, Benjamin Michaels awakens in a future awakened society that has left money and fear behind, learning step by step what it means to live in connection, compassion, and trust. His shock, his doubts, and his eventual transformation mirror the path we are all walking now.

    Reading his story is not just entertainment—it’s a glimpse into what our collective awakening could look like, if we dare to imagine it and live it together.

    👉 Get the book here and be part of the story of humanity’s awakening.

  • How Bad Is It, Really?

    How Bad Is It, Really?

    We go about our daily lives as if nothing is wrong. The sun is shining, sometimes it rains, and life goes on. Maybe a storm hits the news, a wildfire burns somewhere, or a flood takes a village—but then everything seems to return to normal. Shops are full, cars drive by, flights leave on time. So we ask: how bad is it, really?

    The Reality Beneath the Surface

    When we look closer, the picture changes.

    • Eroded Land: In the American Midwest, decades of industrial farming have stripped away rich topsoil. Heavy plowing and chemical fertilizers have left the land fragile, so fertile soil washes into rivers after heavy rains. Scientists warn that U.S. farmland is losing soil up to 10 times faster than nature can replenish it. In parts of Spain, desertification is advancing so fast that villages are being abandoned, orchards dry out, and the land turns to dust. And in the Amazon and Southeast Asia, clear-cutting vast areas of rainforest leaves bare earth that quickly erodes when the rains come. Once the trees are gone, the land often dries out completely—lush ecosystems collapsing into desert-like landscapes within years.

    • Ruined Rivers: The Colorado River once carved canyons and nourished ecosystems all the way to the sea. Today, it is drained to irrigate thirsty crops like alfalfa and cotton in the desert—fields planted because they are profitable, not sustainable. In many years, the river fails to reach the ocean at all. The Ganges River, sacred to millions, is choked with untreated sewage and factory runoff. Factories dump toxins because it is cheaper than cleaning their waste.

    • Vanishing Waters: The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, has been drained almost dry to irrigate cotton fields for global export. What remains is a toxic desert, scattered with rusting ships where fishing towns once thrived.

    • Poisoned Lands and People: In the Niger Delta, oil companies found it more profitable to let pipelines leak than to fix them. Vast swamps are now covered in oil slicks, rivers are poisoned, and entire communities are left with dead fisheries and unsafe drinking water.

    • Oceans and Reefs in Peril: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a swirling gyre of plastic waste twice the size of Texas—kills turtles, whales, seabirds, and fish. Microplastics are now found in human blood. Meanwhile, the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching again and again. Fossil fuels keep economies “growing,” but rising ocean temperatures are turning coral wonderlands into white graveyards.

    • Toxic Air: In Delhi, the air sometimes rises to 20 times above safe levels. Children grow up with reduced lung capacity just from breathing.

    These are not isolated accidents. They are signs of systemic breakdown.

    Why Is It Like This?

    The logic is tragically simple.

    • Profit over Planet: The Colorado is drained not by mistake, but because crops for export bring in money. The Ganges is polluted because cleaning up waste eats into profit margins. Much easier and cheaper to dump it into the Ganges. The Aral Sea disappeared so cotton could be sold worldwide. Oil continues to pour into the Niger Delta because safety measures cost more than they earn. Coral reefs bleach because burning coal and oil remains profitable, heating the planet and the oceans.

    Profit over People: While rivers dry and forests fall, millions of children go to bed hungry every night. In parts of Africa, families struggle to find enough food, while at the same time billions of dollars’ worth of grain are fed to livestock or wasted to keep prices stable. Extreme inequality means that a tiny fraction of humanity lives in obscene luxury while entire communities lack clean water, education, and basic healthcare. The system is designed to serve profit first, even when it means children starve while supermarket shelves in wealthy countries overflow.

    • Growth at Any Cost: Governments measure success in GDP, not in clean rivers or healthy soil. Every factory, every shipment, every barrel of oil counts as “growth,” even when it subtracts from life itself. We are locked in this mindset. We have to make money. At any cost, it seems.

    • Externalizing the Costs: Pollution is free. Companies dump waste and pocket the gains, while nature and communities pay the price.

    • Consumer Culture: Our throwaway economy thrives on constant demand for more—fast fashion, gadgets, cars, and single-use plastic. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one inevitable result of this model.

    All of these examples—rivers, seas, reefs, people, air and land—are chapters of the same story: a system that rewards taking without giving back. A system that liquidates the Earth for short-term profit.

    Is There Any Hope?

    After seeing this, it is natural to ask: is there any solution? Or is it already too late?

    What if… it isn’t?

    What if humanity suddenly decided that enough is enough? That we will no longer sacrifice the living Earth and poor people for profit? What if we chose, together, to protect and optimize this planet so that humans, animals, and all of nature could thrive here—side by side, in balance?

    What if the same intelligence, creativity, and technology that once exploited the Earth were redirected to heal it?

    This is not fantasy. It is a choice. Humanity could decide tomorrow to change course. But this would mean a radical change. Ending the root cause of all of this: 

    The Monetary System. 

    But, but, how can we? We need it to live! What about jobs and income and everything?? Understandable arguments.

    But there is a way. We could end the monetary system and still thrive on planet earth. We could live without money and trading and instead focus on healing the planet and ourselves in the process. We could in fact, with the technology we have available today, build a paradise on Planet Earth. A world that works for all living beings.

    And that is exactly what has happened in Waking Up. When billionaire Benjamin Michaels wakes up in a world without money and trading, he is at first shocked, desperate, and lost. But then he realizes: this was the best decision humanity ever made. To stop the destruction. To stop chasing endless profit. To build a society where people and planet thrive together.

    The book is fiction. But the question is not. 

    Would you like to be inspired and get lost in how this future world would actually feel like to live in? If so, I invite you to read the book. You can get it here:

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  • Are you a stupid robot?

    Are you a stupid robot?

    Bureaucracy: Turning People into Robots

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    “Bureaucracy turns people into stupid robots.”

    It’s a harsh observation — but one many of us have felt. How often have you tried to solve a simple issue with a company, a hospital, or a government office, only to be met with rules, forms, and polite but powerless employees who cannot actually help?

    It isn’t the people themselves who are “stupid.” Most of them are intelligent, kind, and capable outside of their bureaucratic roles. But the system they work within forces them into patterns where initiative is punished, compassion is inconvenient, and common sense is overridden by procedure.

    Endless examples

    We all know the feeling:

    • Healthcare: filling out five different forms with the same information, only to be told one signature was in the wrong box.

    • Taxes: an ever-expanding jungle of regulations, where even professionals struggle to keep up with yearly changes.

    • Immigration offices: endless queues, contradictory answers, and documents that expire before the next appointment becomes available.

    • Corporate customer service: agents reading from scripts, unable to deviate even when the solution is obvious.

    • Elderly care in Sweden: in 2025, the family of 94-year-old Gunnar in Sunne reported that home-care services failed to deliver meals for six days in a row. Staff said they were unaware of the task — a tragic example of how a simple “oversight” in a bureaucratic chain can leave a vulnerable man hungry, confused, and at risk.

    And let’s not forget those inside the machine. The poor bureaucrats employed to enforce all this red tape often suffer just as much. Many start with the desire to help people, only to find themselves trapped in rigid job descriptions where their humanity is suppressed. They are measured by compliance, not compassion. Their creativity and common sense are sidelined by “the system.”

    And if the system itself makes a mistake? Then the chaos is endless. Culture has reflected this again and again:

    • The film Brazil — a single typo mixing up the names Tuttle and Buttle leads to the arrest and death of an innocent family man.

    • Kafka’s The Trial — bureaucracy becomes a faceless nightmare where no one knows the rules, and no way out exists.

    • Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams brilliantly satirizes bureaucracy on both a small and a cosmic scale. Arthur Dent’s house is scheduled for demolition by British officials to make room for a local motorway. Moments later, the Vogon bureaucrats arrive and demolish the entire planet Earth — also to make way for a motorway, in this case a galactic hyperspace bypass. The parallel shows how bureaucracy, whether petty or planetary, can be absurdly destructive when carried out without humanity or common sense.

    These stories are funny, dark, or tragic — but they all point to the same truth: bureaucracy, when left unchecked, becomes absurd, inhuman, and destructive.

    The myth of “reducing bureaucracy”

    Politicians in every country have promised to cut red tape. They digitize forms, launch “one-stop portals,” or talk about “simplifying procedures.” And yet, somehow, the pile of rules keeps growing.

    Why? Because bureaucracy is built on control. Each reform adds another layer meant to fix a flaw in the last one. Instead of removing complexity, the system multiplies it. Digitalization often makes it worse: now you don’t just need the right paper — you also need the right password, code, or app that doesn’t crash.

    The result is the same: people acting like robots, following instructions instead of solving problems. And so do the workers themselves, who end up enforcing rules they know are senseless. Both sides — citizen and employee — are dehumanized by the same machinery.

    Is there an alternative?

    The world of Waking Up imagines a very different approach. In this future, bureaucracy is not replaced by more rules, but by intelligence — human and artificial — working together for the benefit of all. Instead of forms and signatures, advanced systems understand your needs directly and provide what is necessary without obstacles.

    Imagine a society where resources are allocated transparently and fairly, not through applications and waiting lists, but through real-time understanding of needs and availability. Where people are empowered to act with compassion and creativity, because the “system” is designed to support human flourishing, not stifle it.

    In such a world, no one has to play the role of the robot. Technology serves humanity, not the other way around. Bureaucracy, as we know it, simply disappears.

    A new dawn is possible

    This isn’t just utopia on paper — it’s the vision explored in Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity. A novel about transformation, healing, and the possibility of building a society where bureaucracy is no longer needed.

    Follow Benjamin Michaels as he awakens into a future where healing, cooperation, and human connection replace the cold machinery of bureaucracy.

    👉 Step into his discovery of a world without red tape — and imagine how it could change our own.

    👉 If you’d like to dive deeper into this future without red tape, order your copy of Waking Up here.

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  • Sameness vs. Oneness – A Deeper Kind of Unity

    Sameness vs. Oneness – A Deeper Kind of Unity

    (This article continues the reflections from my previous piece on “Sameness” and dives deeper into what true unity might mean.)

    In The Giver, society enforces peace by removing differences. Emotions are dulled, individuality is erased, and sameness becomes the guiding principle. No differences, no conflict. But also—no freedom, no creativity, no love in its true form. It is unity through control.

    The question is: is that the only way to achieve peace? Must harmony come at the price of conformity?

    In Waking Up, the vision is the opposite. Here, peace comes not from control but from trust—trust in human beings, trust in life itself. At first glance, that might sound dangerous. Won’t total freedom lead to chaos? But it doesn’t, because the foundation is not outer sameness, but inner Oneness.

    If we define ourselves as small, separate selves, then differences appear threatening. But if we expand our definition of Self to include everyone—to realize that we are all expressions of the same spirit—then harming another is as unthinkable as your right hand stabbing your left. Outer diversity becomes beautiful, not dangerous, because underneath it we are the same life, the same consciousness.

    So there are two kinds of unity:

    • Sameness through control (The Giver): “Let’s remove differences so we won’t clash.”
    • Oneness through spirit (Waking Up): “Let’s embrace differences, knowing we are already One at the core.”

    One narrows the self until nothing sticks out. The other expands the self until everyone is included.

    And that is the key: true peace doesn’t come from making people the same—it comes from remembering that, at the deepest level, we already are.

    ✨ If this vision resonates with you, dive deeper into Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity. Order your copy here:

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  • Does It Have to Be Sameness?

    Does It Have to Be Sameness?

    Many people fear that moving beyond capitalism would mean losing individuality. “Won’t it just make us all the same—like robots in matching clothes, with no freedom to be ourselves?” History gives us examples: the Soviet Union and Maoist China, where sameness was enforced through identical clothing, controlled expression, and strict conformity. Literature has reflected the same fear: in Lois Lowry’s The Giver, society solves its problems through “sameness,” but at the cost of love and freedom. George Orwell’s 1984 shows a world where individuality is crushed by totalitarian control, while Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World imagines a society where people are conditioned into uniformity disguised as happiness. All these visions echo the same worry: Does building a world that works for all mean sacrificing diversity?

    The Hidden Sameness of Today’s System

    Ironically, we already live in a kind of enforced sameness—though it often goes unnoticed. In today’s monetary system, no matter how unique your dreams or talents are, you must conform to one thing: money. Whether you’re an artist, a farmer, or a scientist, survival depends on earning, spending, and competing within the same framework. Profit becomes the universal measure, reducing human diversity to numbers on a balance sheet. Many people sacrifice their individuality—not because they want to, but because “it doesn’t pay.” In this way, capitalism itself quietly enforces sameness under the illusion of freedom.

    The New World Vision — Diversity as Strength

    But what if the opposite were true? What if a world without money actually created more freedom and diversity? This is the vision explored in Waking Up. Instead of flattening humanity into sameness, a moneyless world allows individuality to flourish. People are no longer punished for being different, for following their passions, or for contributing in unique ways. Diversity is no longer a threat—it becomes the very foundation of abundance. In such a world, cooperation replaces competition, and the wide variety of human talents and perspectives becomes the source of resilience and creativity. 

    This is basically how nature does it. Flourishing through diversity. And in the book humanity has adopted this too. No money, no coercion, only freedom and diversity. 

    The Deeper Root — The Ego and the Monetary System

    The real problem, then, is not diversity or sameness in themselves. The problem lies in the monetary system, which is born of the ego and perpetuates fear, greed, and conformity. In today’s world, the ego-driven pursuit of wealth forces us into patterns that limit who we truly are. Remove money, and suddenly individuality is no longer a liability—it’s an asset. Freed from the need to conform to profit, people can finally bring their authentic selves to the table.

    Flipping the Fear

    The fear of sameness is understandable. History and literature are full of warnings about systems that erased individuality in the name of stability. But a world that works for all does not mean we all become the same. It means we finally have the freedom to be different—without that difference being turned into inequality or exploitation. Sameness is not the price of peace. Awareness, cooperation, and compassion are.

    This is the journey explored in my novel, Waking Up — A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity. It asks: What if humanity chose differently? What if we built a world not of enforced sameness, but of celebrated diversity? If you’ve ever wondered what life beyond money—and beyond fear—might look like, Waking Up is waiting for you.

    👉 Get your copy of Waking Up here

  • GET RICH NOW!!!

    GET RICH NOW!!!

    (…or maybe get something far more valuable…)

    If you’ve been online lately, you’ve seen it — the modern gold rush is everywhere.

    The Frenzy of More, More, More

    Open Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube, and you can’t miss it.

    Trading bots promising “passive income while you sleep.”

    Crypto gurus flashing screenshots of six-figure months.

    “Work from home” programs that somehow require you to buy a $997 course first.

    Affiliate funnels. Drop-shipping empires. Side hustle coaches selling the dream.

    The hustle has gone 24/7. The ads follow you from your phone to your laptop, whispering that freedom is just one more grind away. And yet — for most people — the finish line keeps moving.

    The Unspoken Longing

    I don’t think people are addicted to money itself. I think they’re addicted to the hope of what it might bring: breathing space, freedom to do what matters, more time with the people they love.

    But when you’re buried in the scramble — juggling a job, a side hustle, a “passive income” project that’s eating all your weekends — it’s hard to imagine another way. The race feels normal. The cage feels invisible.

    That’s why I wrote Waking Up. It’s not another system to make money faster. It’s a story about leaving the entire money chase behind — and stepping into a world where life works for everyone. Both people and planet.

    Through the eyes of someone who wakes up in this society, you see what happens when human potential is freed from the endless need to earn. No schemes. No hustle. Just the space to live, create, and connect.

    The noise of “more, more, more” has never been louder. But so has the quiet hunger for something else. I believe millions of people already feel it — even if they don’t have words for it yet. And when they find Waking Up, it won’t just be another book. It will feel like a lifeline.

    A different vision

    Through the eyes of someone who wakes up in this society, you see what happens when human potential is freed from the endless need to earn. No schemes. No hustle. Just the space to live, create, and connect.

    An Invitation Out of the Noise

    If you’ve ever felt the exhaustion of the hustle — and wondered if there’s another way to live — you might find something in this book that you’ve been searching for. You can start reading Waking Up today, and let yourself step — if only for a moment — into a world beyond the scramble.

    Click HERE to begin your journey.

  • “A Page Turner” — Socialist Standard on Waking Up

    The Socialist Party of Great Britain has reviewed Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity in their August 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard.

    Reviewer Howard Moss calls the book:

    “A page turner… devoured in a single sitting.”

    The article recognizes Waking Up as part of a growing wave of international visions for a moneyless, borderless world based on trust, cooperation, and abundance — aligning closely with the values the Socialist Party has championed for over a century.

    📖 Read the full review here: https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2020s/2025/no-1452-august-2025/waking-up/

    Waking up

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  • How did it happen?

    How did it happen?

    People have asked. The world of Waking Up is well and good. But how did humanity actually get there?

    The shift that changed everything.

    People still ask:

    How did the world actually change?

    How did we move from a system of money, ownership, debt, competition, war and scarcity…

    to a world of cooperation, sharing, abundance, and peace?

    The answer isn’t simple.

    But it’s not mysterious either.

    It happened the only way it could:

    peacefully. Voluntarily. Gradually—then suddenly.

    It is important to emphasize that the transition to the new world happened completely voluntary on all levels.

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    🌱 The Seeds Were Always There

    Even in the darkest days of exploitation and inequality, people cared.

    Some gave their time. Some gave their voices. A few gave their fortunes.

    Philanthropy wasn’t new.

    For centuries, wealthy individuals had donated to causes—sometimes out of genuine compassion, sometimes for legacy, reputation, or tax benefits. But starting in the early 21st century, a quiet revolution of heart and mind began to stir.

    It didn’t look like a revolution at first.

    There were no tanks in the streets.

    Only a shift in consciousness.

    More and more people began to wake up.

    To see the insanity of endlessly pursuing profit while the planet burned.

    To feel the dissonance of having more than enough while billions struggled to survive.

    To ask: Is this really the best we can do?

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    🧠 A Global Awakening

    What followed was more than politics or economics—it was spiritual.

    People everywhere began questioning the foundational assumptions of the system.

    Not with anger. Not with violence. But with clarity.

    Billionaires, too, began to change.

    Not all at once. But the ripple became a wave.

    Figures like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and George Soros—already known for their philanthropy—began to do something different:

    They stopped trying to fix the system.

    They started planting seeds for a new one.

    They funded open-source education. Renewable cities. Regenerative agriculture.

    They began conversations, supported experiments, and—perhaps most importantly—stepped aside when others brought better ideas.

    They didn’t build the new world.

    But they helped fund its birth.

    Even those who weren’t ready to divest during their lifetime began to shift perspective.

    People like Elon Musk, known for pushing the boundaries of technology and ambition, also pledged to give away the majority of their wealth—after their passing.

    At first, it seemed like a safety valve, a way to give without letting go.

    But even that was a step. A public recognition that the accumulation of vast wealth could—and should—serve something larger than the self.

    Many of these posthumous pledges became part of the COL seed funds, as their estates were redirected—not to private heirs or trusts—but to humanity’s shared inheritance.

    Paradoxically enough the new moneyless world was created with money. 

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    🌍 Enter the Cities of Light

    The real turning point came when those ideas were brought together.

    Not just scattered projects and good intentions—but an integrated vision.

    The first Cities of Light were born as living prototypes—places where people could experience a life beyond money.

    They weren’t cults or communes.

    They were open-source civilizations.

    Testbeds for what could be.

    And yes, they were funded—at first—by people who had once benefited from the old world.

    People like Amo Michaels(Benjamin Michaels’ daughter)—once a billionaire, now a legend.

    She didn’t just donate.

    She divested. Buy She not only released her assets into the commons. She also actively helped plan and build the first cities. 

    She helped design the first COL as a gift to humanity, not a monument to herself.

    She wasn’t alone.

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    💫 The Power of Voluntary Transition

    That’s the key to it all.

    There was no war. No forced redistribution. No bloody revolution.

    It was a voluntary transition.

    One led by the willing, not the coerced.

    Because as the COLs proved what was possible—self-sustaining systems, meaningful work, joyful community—people stopped clinging to the old way.

    Even those who had power in the old world realized they were trapped by it too.

    They weren’t losing control.

    They were finally letting go.

    And what came instead…

    was something no one had expected:

    freedom.

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    📖 So… How Did It Happen?

    Like this:

    • People woke up.

    • Some of them had influence.

    • They used it differently.

    • Others followed.

    • A new path became visible.

    • And when people saw it, they chose it.

    That’s how it happened.

    Not overnight. But inevitably.

    Not with conquest. But with compassion.

    Not with force. But with faith.

    Not because someone made it happen.

    But because enough people said:

    “Let’s do this differently.”

    And they did.

    Would you like to read the story of a man who wakes up in this future and goes through trials and tribulations? If so, you can order the book HERE.

  • From Terminator to Teammate

    From Terminator to Teammate

    🤖 From HAL to GAI: How Our View of Artificial Intelligence Has Evolved And How My Fiction Is Becoming Reality.

    Dangerous Intelligence

    When I was born in 1966, the word artificial intelligence didn’t mean much to most people. If it meant anything at all, it probably conjured up an image of HAL 9000 — the calm but menacing voice from 2001: A Space Odyssey. A machine that turned on its creators. It wasn’t just intelligent; it was dangerous.

    By the 1980s, that fear had deepened. Skynet in The Terminator presented AI as the ultimate threat: cold, self-aware, and bent on eradicating humanity. Later, in the late ’90s, The Matrix solidified the narrative: AI had taken over, and we were its unaware prisoners.

    These stories reflected a collective anxiety:

    What if we create something smarter than us… and it turns against us?

    For decades, AI was the villain — a symbol of what happens when human ambition outpaces wisdom.

    A Shift Begins

    When I started writing my novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity in 2011, AI was beginning to appear in real-world discussions — but only in speculative circles. It wasn’t on the evening news, and it certainly wasn’t writing your emails or helping you brainstorm articles.

    At that point, AI wasn’t part of my story.

    But as the novel evolved — a vision of a post-monetary, cooperative, resource-based society — I felt something was missing. A world like that would need global coordination. But not from a government. Not from a corporation. From something… wiser. Non-biased. Helpful. Humble.

    That’s when it hit me:

    There should be a Global Artificial Intelligence.
    But not a tyrant — a guide.
    A mirror.
    A servant of humanity, not its master.

    And so, the GAI was born:
    A benevolent, decentralized, planetary AI that listens before it acts.
    That offers wisdom, not control.
    That helps humanity harmonize, not compete.
    (Unless, of course, there’s a game.)

    At the time, this felt like speculative fiction.

    But Then the Future Showed Up

    Fast-forward to the mid-2020s — and suddenly, AI is everywhere.

    It writes. It speaks. It recommends. It learns.
    It’s still far from global, but it’s undeniably intelligent — and it’s learning at a speed never before seen.

    And here’s the twist:

    People are not only afraid of it.
    They’re curious.
    They’re hopeful.
    They’re even asking:

    What if AI could help us?

    The shift is astounding
    • In 1974, people said: “Global AI? That’s impossible.”
    • In 1984: “If it exists, it’ll control us.”
    • In 2024: “If it’s transparent and benevolent… maybe it could help heal the world.”

    The world has caught up to my fiction.
    Or maybe — fiction helped shape the new imagination.

    Intelligence Guided by Love

    The GAI in Waking Up isn’t a solution to all problems.
    It’s a tool — a conscious extension of humanity’s highest values.
    It doesn’t dominate. It collaborates.
    It doesn’t replace human wisdom. It amplifies it.

    And perhaps that’s the core of the shift we’re seeing today:

    We’re learning that intelligence without love is dangerous.
    But intelligence guided by love is divine.

    This, to me, is the next great leap — not just in technology, but in consciousness.

    📘 Want to See How It All Comes Together?

    If you want to explore a future where humanity transcends conflict, where AI becomes a trusted ally, and where cooperation replaces competition — I invite you to read Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity.

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  • Global happiness Product?

    Global happiness Product?

    Gross national happiness. Or gross global happiness?

    How Gross National Happiness Is Paving the Way for a New World

    While the world has spent decades relentlessly pursuing GDP—Gross Domestic Product—one small Himalayan kingdom chose a radically different path. Bhutan, nestled between India and China, introduced the groundbreaking concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) in the 1970s. Rather than measuring prosperity through economic output alone, Bhutan posed a deeper question: What if true wealth was defined by happiness, well-being, and harmony with nature and each other?

    At the time, this idea may have seemed quaint, even idealistic. Today, it feels nothing short of visionary.

    The Four Pillars of GNH

    Bhutan’s GNH framework is built upon four central pillars:

    1. Sustainable and equitable socio-economic development
    2. Environmental conservation
    3. Preservation and promotion of culture
    4. Good governance

    In essence, Bhutan isn’t striving to be the wealthiest country—it’s striving to be the happiest. While critics argue about the economic trade-offs, Bhutan has managed to preserve its pristine forests, maintain strong social cohesion, and foster a profound connection between its people and the environment.

    After all, does money really make us happy? Or does it mostly serve to increase stress and anxiety?

    A Glimpse into a New Paradigm

    In Waking Up, we envision a world where well-being, not monetary wealth, is the driving force. There’s no poverty, no hoarding, no scarcity mindset. It’s a world where humanity has asked—and answered—the same question Bhutan posed fifty years ago: What truly makes life worth living? And then, it has built systems to support that vision.

    Could Bhutan be the first step in that direction? A living prototype? Just like the Cities of Light envisioned in Waking Up, Bhutan offers a glimpse that another way is not only possible—it’s already unfolding.

    The Message for the World

    What if the world followed Bhutan’s example? What if nations measured success not in profits, but in joy? Not in military might, but in the strength of their communities? Not in endless growth, but in balance with the Earth?

    This shift may seem utopian. But every great transformation begins with a question that challenges the status quo.

    In Waking Up, the world has already made that shift. But here and now, Bhutan is showing us the first steps. The seeds have already been planted.

    A Call to Action

    The systems we’ve created—monetary, political, societal—are manmade. That means they can be changed. Bhutan reminds us that radical shifts are possible when we dare to think differently.

    If you’re curious about what a happier world might look like, or how technology and spiritual awakening could merge to bring us there, dive into Waking Up. The book doesn’t just tell a story—it offers an inspiration.

    And if this resonates with you, share it. Talk about it. Imagine with others what a happiness-driven world could look like.

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