Hip Economics

Jayce Walker runs Eco-Groovy deals, a two-store outlet that sells recycled clothing and furniture. She mentioned she had her own economic theory that she based her business model on. ’ve tried to get an interview with her for years but she is a very busy woman, not only running two stores but also caring for people she loves as a few got sick and died. Here is the much-awaited interview.

“My economic theory is based on this little story about the difference between heaven and hell. Envision a big banquet table feast with all these people but they all have boards strapped to their arms and they're desperately trying to get the food in their own mouth, and they can't do it. That's Hell. In heaven the same people are reaching across the table and feeding each other - just sharing. That’s Heaven.

 This planet is so abundant that we could support every single person and be in alignment with the planet. We don't need government mandate to regulate how many kids we have because it’s about raising consciousness. You can't mandate raising people's consciousness, you can only model it.

So, I'm trying to do a new paradigm reality in an old system that is broken. It makes it harder for all of us to have abundance in this picture because not everybody's feeding each other. The system hasn't changed yet. I've always said you can't really mandate change; you can't force consciousness; it's an evolutionary thing.

I do believe that we have to work in the times that we're in, and that we're at the end of an epoch. We're recognizing that greed doesn’t work. Capitalism works when you have unlimited resources, but we have a limited resource planet and we're raping it for money and greed. If those billionaires were paying their fair share, it might work, somewhat. But if people are awakened, you don't need government really. The government would be just to helped transition and move things around and support the whole crew. But when it's about ego and trying to have more for yourself, beating out the other guy becomes like game of monopoly and the guy with the most toys wins. Honestly, too many toys are not sustainable and isn't even very fulfilling. Fulfillment comes from relationships that we have and how we care for each other.

 We're trying to do that here (at Eco-groovy deals) by keeping the prices low. It's hard because I've always wanted to just have a tip jar and have it work, but it doesn't work because we have an old system. So, I have to charge. I must figure out how to keep it all going in the system we have where we have to buy things and resell them at a level that supports the community, keeps my people, bills and taxes paid. I don't even take a paycheck for myself right now because I don't have to. I did in the early days, but my father passed and his life insurance policy helped me pay off my house and I have some Social Security. So, I'm not pulling anything right now as the owner because I have what I need. If we have what we need, we don't need more.

I do this because I want to be the change that I can see.

When I worked in corporate America I didn't sleep well at night. I was a sales Rep. I did a whole lot of stuff in the area of food as medicine, a progressive nutritional supplementation that's rigorously tested with science. It felt like a really progressive company, but still, I'm in airplanes and dressed in a suit, driving and flying around. I started teaching sales techniques because my sales technique was different than everyone else's and brought me up in the company. The kind of sales they teach you was to find the person's pain and then show them how your product will ease their pain. To me it was more about open your heart, listen to what someone needs and share how this can help. If it helps, they make that decision not you. You don't do it by manipulating, by putting them in a fear state in order to buy from you.

I just got out of all that. Long story how it all happened, but I always wanted to do second hand because it's sustainable. I talked to lots of different people in business and they all said it wouldn’t work, but it is working. Even though I get scared if I can make the bills every month, there is something about when you hold the light, and you work, and you're willing to put your love and energy into it, there are little miracles show up. I'm not doing it for the miracles. I'm always very grounded. I’ve been dealing with this physical plane and how the rules work, and what I have to do within that, but when something bad happens like an earthquake or a window breaks, or somebody steals our catalytic converter off our truck, somehow, I've been able get through every crisis. We've navigated our way through by little miracles that happen. I also know that they don't always happen. So, I also have to keep my radar on by me make good decisions in products and marketing to make sure that the 16 people that rely on me to get paid. I feel like I’m balancing between an idealistic world and a practical world. I used to be in the La La land a little bit more and the missing piece was accepting this is the system we live in.

I had to come to grips with what I do within this system we have now. How to understand this system and what kind of things I can do within that system to move towards a different one, a different paradigm. The slow ways is the fast way, if that makes sense. So this is the best I can do in a broken system and sometimes it almost breaks me. You know it really does. I gotta tell you, managing people and other people's perceptions is difficult. Everybody's different. Even though someone is yelling at me I must think - they don't know. It's not really me. It's something else, something that they’re frustrated with, and I represent that for them. But it's really not what I'm doing. So, I have to listen to people on the one hand with compassion and then also have a thick skin.

I just keep saying to myself that I'm going to keep going until I can't anymore. I'm trying to do the absolute best I can for people, for our planet within a broken system. I’m trying to be the miracle. I'm trying to be the change I want to see. I'm not perfect and I get frustrated. I get scared. But I know that it (not working for a vision) is why we fail.

The human spirit

Before this last election, I became uncommonly serene. It was not faith that it would all work out, but rather the realization that either America would change its mind, or we wouldn't. There was nothing I could do to swing it around. People had to come to understand what was happening on their own, through pain and disgust. The question was, how far did this whole circus have to go before the American people woke up? Instead of writing and railing, I felt the need to be silent and calm.

I would take walks in the forest and focus on my own well-being and higher self. We are all a part of that collective mind. Taking that responsibility seriously, it is up to all of us to work on cleaning our mental garbage. Like an onion, there are many layers. The more we work on becoming aware of ourselves, the more there is to uncover. I realized the other day that some of my reactions are inherited trauma from generations. Something happened to my ancestor, and their coping mechanisms are passed on to their kids, and it goes down the line. I may not even know what the trauma was that makes me react in my conditioned response.

So, there is more than we think residing within ourselves. By healing myself, I heal my ancestors, my family, my country, and humanity. I focused on being calm to tame the wild energy of the collective mind, becoming tranquil in the hysteria.  

At times, it isn't fruitful to react. There are other tasks to do. I am feeling called to work on an energetic level of holding harmony in a time of cacophony, keeping the love of this planet, of the very fiber of the universe, alive within me in this time of hate. It is difficult because the hate, the angst, the upheaval can seep in, and I find myself tumbling into arguing, fretting, and blaming.

It takes concentration, dedication, and a practice of meditation to keep the ballast of spirit afloat in this stormy sea of discontent. Each of us has a job, a part to play in these times. Some of us are called to be the truth speakers, drama players, warriors, victims, saviors, healers, or disruptors. But an unconscious and unseen job is that many of us could be the anchors. So, just because you're at home or doing your job doesn't mean that there is nothing that you can do for the larger struggle at hand. At this time, we are all called to clean up our inner world, be clear, and hold space within ourselves for humanity's evolution.

A homeless older woman on the street had a tarot deck on a blanket. I always listen to the crones, the squawk of the birds, or the babble of the insane. She said that astrologically, Trump would have a setback on the 9th of November, which was when he got booed at the opening of the NFL. She then pulled my cards and said that I was to be a co-creator. That I should stay away from the cities in June. There will be a small war within the cities. It was for the truth speakers and warriors to fulfill their destiny. But as a co-creator, I am called to make a new paradigm clear. Things will heal. We will go on, but we need a vision and clarity to reform ourselves.

Here is my little blog of hippy vision, sent out like a message in a bottle, in hopes that it touches those who read it and begins to weave a tapestry of a new version of humanity.

From the Hippy Think Tank

It’s hard not to talk about this Rump that is ruining everything. When we listen to the news, the rapid-fire horrors come at us incessantly. We’re left numb, stunned, and confused. This leads to apathy and hopelessness. Hence, I don’t write on this blog; instead, I lie in bed, eating ice cream while watching comedies.

Let’s be clear, it’s not actually the Rump-master, but the devious think tank behind him. These rapid changes coming at us are part of the think tank tactics - disrupt the system with quick blows, making it difficult for people to form a response. Behind the scenes, Think Tank Repugblicans Monopoly has been studying controlling the masses for a long time, waiting for the perfect figurehead to carry out their plans for full control.  

And also propping up this Emperor-with-no-clothes is the good ol’ apple-pie-nazism. Let’s face it, we have been harboring a rigid, racist, sexist, nazi-normality in the white suburbs of America since the beginning. I mean, American Jim Crow laws influenced German Na-zi-ism. If we didn’t idealize rich, blond, white men, we wouldn’t be in this position. We obviously need to reconsider our ideals.

But here, in this blog, coming to you straight from the hills of Humboldt County, the Think Tank of Hippy emerges, like a puff of hope, a counterthought that will undermine this coup.

The reasons why Rumpkin will not become the next Hit ler-

1.  Cheeseburgers will kill him. He is old and not in good health. He won’t live long enough to take over the world.

2. His big mouth and insecure wiener is alienating very powerful rich people.

3. During WWI, the German people were devastated and needed the economic and moral uplift that a strong leader, vented anger, and another war provided. But Making America Fart Again is dragging us down.

4. In other repressive regimes, like in Russia or China, they have not had a history of freedoms. They moved from a repressive Czar or Royal Dynasty system to a repressive communist elite. Taking people’s freedoms after they have already had them is a different situation. People know what freedom feels like.

5.  We have never had so much access to information before. When oppressive regimes were installed in other countries, information could be controlled. Now, one viral video, and you can never name a kid Karen again. And a salute to South Park!

6.  When the masses begin to move, it will be impossible to stuff everyone into their prisons.

7.   And now, the most devious, cutting, manipulative tactic of the (THC) Think Hippy Cauldron - Hippies believe in the goodness in people’s hearts.

Yep, that’s it. Beating, loving hearts.

The National Guard and the police are American people too, with families and (hopefully) a conscience. They may do some of the bidding of the Evil Overlord, but, at some point, they will be facing white America wearing red hats on the front lawn of the White House. Mainstream America, driven into motion by the rising prices of food, gas, and clothing at their favorite stores -Target, Costco, or the Dollar Store, will have their cheep-shit bubble popped and will get into their gas-guzzling pickup trucks and head to the lawn of the White House. The KKkranky police won’t attack their own.

This is an important point.  It’s imperative that it is not freaks, minorities, LGBTQRST, or long purple-haired hippies on the front line. We didn’t vote for this. It has to be the Good Ol’ Boys Club dismantling what they created.  This will be the turning point. Only then will we be able to truly shift the heart of America away from the toxic presumptions and beliefs that are holding us back from being one of the leaders of the future Earth.

This doesn’t mean don’t go to the protest. We need to protest for our own souls, to feel like we are saying ‘NO!’ to this. But be safe, put the white soccer moms pushing strollers and old white men waving American flags up front.

The pimple of pus is oozing. Now, everyone can see very clearly the ills of our society, government, and structures. We are here in this moment of Earth’s history to learn life's lessons and grow as a society. It is through challenging situations that we grow the most. When this pimple pops (probably during the obvious upcoming election frauds), we will be called to purge and uproot our nazi undertones, the corruption of corporate politics, and the very root of our glorification and idealism of wealth. Then, only then, can we truly move forward as a holistic America and a model for the world to follow.

After all these years, Jimmy Hendrix doing the National Anthem is still pretty radical.

Cool truck

the peace movement

Watching the news leaves me blinking in disbelief. It takes real consciousness to choose the lighter path in this time of little shop of horrors.  

Every chakra is engaged, starting with the head – enlightenment or confusion, the throat –clear voice or stifled silence, the heart- love or hate, solar-plexus open creativity or rigid righteousness, and finally the root chakra – feeling safe and open to our passions or fear, insecurity, and pent-up. Maintaining a calm center and energy flowing is like swimming upstream against a waterfall. Let’s face it – we’re traumatized.

In this time of upheaval, we must remember that we are meant to be here. What we do and feel is essential. If we want peace, we must find it within ourselves. If we want harmony, we can’t fight for that; we must live it. If we want justice we must insist on it again and again. It is the ultimate challenge – how to live in chaos and not engage-enrage but heal and deal. From Jesus to Nat Chit Hung to the Black Panther, this is what every inspiring story is about.

Each one of us has to decide what’s in our hearts. Do we want revolution, resolution or retribution? Each of these paths is very different. What we hold as a vision guides our actions. Maybe there is even a third option that we haven’t even thought of yet, for we are in the Age of Aquarius; it’s not just about long hair and drugs; it’s about testing every boundary and every idea of normal. This time is characterized by extreme ideals, with the side effect of making it difficult to relate on a personal level.  Dig it, we’re there.

We are adrift into a future we cannot rely on. So, all we have is this moment. This is it. This is life. Throw ourselves onto the steps of the Wit Howse, protest, and post signs, but part of the solution is also snuggling our cat, playing with our children, swimming in a river, or also humm… chocolate and wine? Can’t undo it all. Folly has been part of the human condition since day one. Our own happiness can’t be contingent on the outside world.

At every moment we are given an opportunity to live with integrity, uphold our values and nurture our relationships. The simple moments build a life. As the end line of the movie Don’t Look Up says, 'We had everything.' We must savor our scraps of freedom as they are being thrown away with this Idiocracy.

Folly will undo itself.

Karma will be rough for those who play along.

No one is safe until we are all safe.

And since we are trapped in this show of fools, we might as well cut loose and clown around.

There must be some way out of this said the Joker to the Thief… check out All long the watchtower.

simple yet fun