Introduction to Let’s Go!
Let’s Grow!
by Steve Beckow
Posted on January 26, 2024
I’ve long missed the influence of what we in the 1970s called the “human growth movement” or the “human potential movement.”
It revolved around what enlightened psychologist John Enright called “awareness, responsibility, and communication.”
I’d like to kickstart it again, if it were in my power to do so. No matter what’s happening outside, we as a planet are moving ever closer to being a global family. And the skills of the growth movement will be needed.
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The growth movement followed the stormy Sixties, when a “counter culture” of youth tried to stop the Vietnam War and pull down the deep state, exactly as we’re doing now.
We owe a great deal of our political character as lightworkers to the civil-rights workers of the Fifties, feminists and anti-war activists of the Sixties, and the growth movement of the Seventies.
I cannot put a value on what I learned from Cold Mountain Institute, the est Training, Vipassana meditations, and Enlightenment Intensives. Inestimable. Their influence saturates and colors my writing.
Paradise ended in 1982 when the deep state engineered a recession, followed by the first “jobless recovery” I know of. Instead of offering employees severance packages, etc., corporations simply laid them off and did not rehire them later.
What the economic downturn masked was the automation of the workforce. Automation created a buyer’s market for labor wherever it was applied. It saw the withering of labor unions, the disappearance of secure employment with a benefits plan, and the loss to our youth of their economic future.
In exchange for cellphones and video games.
Work was automated; jobs, careers, professions – all went into the automation paper shredder without a thought being given to supporting the affected people through their transition or what would become of our children’s future.
It left a working and middle class prostrate from financial and economic body blows.
It left our children bereft of the life/adaptive skills of working as part of a stable company, with opportunities for expansion (advancement), and a secure future.
Of course, the deep state offered itself as our economic saviour with such nonsensical notions as “trickle-down” economics.
Nothing trickled down, except attempts to control. This was an economy based solely on greed. You could have whatever you could get away with. What we see today is the result.
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Meanwhile, the growth movement died on the vine in 1982. No one had money any more for courses or travel.
A Canadian journalist, David Olive, summed up the attitude:
“Stop finding yourself, pal. It’s time to get back to work — if you still have a job, that is.” (1)
Many people did not have a job and were in effect abandoned. And their situation was not covered by a complicit press.
The tone of business discussion, which I monitored during this period, was highly competitive: us against them; we have to pounce first; he who hesitates is lunch; etc. (2)
Now we see the outcome of all that, yet we don’t pin the responsibility where it belongs: On what we call the deep state, the cabal, the New World Order. The puppet masters behind the curtain.
We think of them as our saviors when what they seek is control over us.
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The Earth Alliance of white-hat military and civilians is dismantling their operations as we speak. (3) We can afford to leave that to them. Warfare today is not what it was. We’d probably be in the way; hence the desire to have us be indoors when the takedown of deep-state actors occurs. (4)
Wrap all of that up in leftover Christmas paper and put that aside. All of that is prelude to awakening the desire in me to create a renaissance (in my case, on the Internet) of the growth movement.
I’d like to have the communicational skills of the Seventies back. We already spoke from our hearts then. We valued being in touch with our feelings and were much more in touch than people are now. We had momentum in the direction of what turns out to be the purpose of life: Self-Knowledge.
We just need to recover it. Right now, there’s only me doing the work of rebirthing, as well as running a busy blog and … you know the story. So I have to restrict myself to mostly commentary.
But I invite anyone still around who remembers to join me in the effort.
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