The Tipping Point

In this episode we are discussing current events and society coming to a tipping point, when different ideas become accepted as the new normal makes you more capable to achieve your goals and dreams.

Transcript

Welcome to Life,

Lessons and Laughter with your host Glenn Ambrose.

Hello everyone.

Welcome to the podcast.

Today we are going to talk about the tipping point.

Know what I mean,

Ben?

I do know what you mean.

Okay,

What do I mean?

Well you talk about the tipping point a lot.

I think the episode that we did on the Great Love Project I think was the first time you brought up the tipping point,

But I'm not sure.

The definition of the tipping point is the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger,

More important change.

You talk about 51% a lot.

I think it's actually on your website.

I think you're right.

On thegreatloveproject.

Com I put that on there because it's the mentality of shifting things.

The world that we're in right now has a lot of issues.

I think everybody's aware of that,

Especially now in the political climate with the elections coming and everything.

So it just brings a lot of awareness to all the issues and then people discussing what the solutions are.

Some people think we should go this way and some people think we should go that way.

That whole dialogue which kind of spawned the topic for today.

So the tipping point is yes,

We do have a lot of issues and if we're going to survive,

Like I'm going to talk about it from a spiritual perspective.

In the spiritual perspective,

If we're going to survive as a species,

We're going to have to start changing the way we're doing things,

Which is the basis of evolution.

Trees evolve when it's necessary and it's necessary.

We've used our minds to create all kinds of things to make our lives easier and to create all kinds of mass weapons of destruction that can kill lots of people at once.

And I mean it's only a matter of time with the technology that we have out there that some bad people get a hold of some bad things and it could really literally kill us as a species.

So that's what I believe is forcing the spiritual shift that's going on towards the tipping point where we start living in a new reality.

So it's happening at this time in history because it has to.

And I think there's a lot of similarities about how mankind was living and what was important to mankind for thousands of years until we get up into the recent past.

The changes that have happened in social consciousness since 1960 to today are dramatic.

So that's a sign of the shift that we're going towards.

And if we don't need 80% of the people thinking a certain way,

So the whole theory behind the tipping point is that it's 51%.

If we get one more percent than half,

Then it's going to tip the scales.

And hopefully the other 49% or whatever is necessary to really bring this shift into being slides over when we hit that 51% tipping point.

Once you reach the tipping point,

That's why it's called the tipping point,

Which is kind of a dramatic name.

You know,

If you're looking at something on a scale,

Once you reach this thing,

It becomes lopsided and it just goes.

In sociology,

The tipping point is a point in time when a group or large number of group members rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.

I think most recently,

I think that there's a lot of points in history when we can look at a tipping point.

And you might not be able to identify exactly when the tipping point happened,

But you can see that it happened and it happened quickly.

Right.

You can see things starting to lean up to it and then all of a sudden it hits that tipping point and then all of a sudden there's mass change.

And then you go,

Oh my god,

Where did that happen?

Well,

There was a time preceding that that was leading up to the tipping point.

I think that maybe one of the most recent examples of the tipping point is the issue of same-sex marriage in America,

Just how the country dealt with that stuff.

I remember when I was in high school in 2005,

Like my senior year,

I was writing,

I was in a speech and debate class and I had to take a stance on the Defense of Marriage Act.

And it was like,

Why is this the thing?

I don't understand why it's a thing.

And it maintained a thing for nine more years after that,

10 more years after that.

And every politician that you would think,

2008 Barack Obama was in favor of civil unions because that was the,

You know,

Political people have the,

Politicians have what is PC and they stay under that tipping point.

If it's not 51%,

They're not for it.

They do,

They play that tipping point specifically.

But then all of a sudden it was like,

Boom,

Boom,

Boom,

Everybody supports it.

We realize now that over 51% of the American population is in favor of this and you can feel it and like it's just,

All of a sudden everybody's coming out in favor of it.

And the laws change quickly.

Right.

And a lot of things are like that.

It's because,

See people,

A misconception is that we're going to have 51% of the people standing up in public waving a flag in a certain direction.

That's not what the tipping point looks like.

The tipping point looks like 51% of the people being open to walking in a different direction.

Now there might only be 10% of the population or 20% of the population that's standing up and yelling off the rooftops,

But 51% of the population overall are in favor of it.

And that's when it tilts dramatically.

So I mean this shift that I believe we're coming to is a lot quicker coming than people realize because like if you look at the example you just gave and at every other example of large social change,

If you look at it from an outside perspective without dissecting it too much and understanding the energetic aspect of it and a spiritual aspect of it,

Then it kind of looks like a small group of people incited very large change.

And it's always like that.

If you look at social change,

It always looks like a small group of people.

And in a verbal,

Loud way,

It's true.

It is a small group of people that incites that change.

But it also takes another,

You know,

Like let's just throw numbers out there.

Let's say it takes 20% of the people to stand up and scream it from the rooftops.

Then all of a sudden you get another 31% of people that are quietly behind it energetically that are sitting at home and they're not talking about it,

But they feel the same way and they're putting energy towards it the same way.

That's their new belief system.

Well that adds up to the 51%.

So it's not like we have to have—that's why it happens so quickly when it happens because we get that 20% and then as we're gradually building our way up to 51%,

Nobody thinks anything's happening.

Then all of a sudden it hits that tipping point and boom,

Everything switches and it looks like an outside perspective that it's a very small portion of people that have changed it and it's actually a larger percentage.

Yeah,

There's a huge—I don't know the exact verbiage to use for this,

But if you look at healthy living,

Like health and wellness,

In the last several years—and several can be five or ten or whatever—it is by leaps and bounds expanding to this all-natural,

Organic,

Completely different than the healthy fads being lean cuisine that's filled with sodium still.

It is,

It's shifting quickly,

And the interesting part too is if you look closely,

You see the resistance to change too.

So right now,

I don't ever remember restaurants up until several years ago,

Maybe 10,

Maybe 15,

I don't know,

Where they prided themselves on the most fattening piece of food that they can put on a plate,

Where they go,

Oh come have our triple cheeseburger with eggs on top and bacon and pork.

And if you can eat this,

It's free.

And people are flocking to try this new thing that's completely opposite of— The KFC Double Down.

It's completely opposite of what the health movement is.

So whenever there's change,

There's resistance to change.

There's the other side.

Now McDonald's is like,

Hey,

Try our chicken nuggets.

They don't have antibiotics.

Yes.

And it's like,

Okay,

It's good.

These are positive movements.

The positive changes,

And most of it is going to go—you know,

That's the other aspect of it to understand when we're looking at the shifting,

Is that it's energetic.

The positive energy is more powerful than negative energy.

So what happens is if you have 20% of people that are going in a positive direction,

They're going to have stronger energy than the same amount of people going in a negative direction.

So it's just that's what—because it's called evolution,

It has to work that way.

If you have 50% going,

We need to evolve,

And 50% going,

No,

We need to resist evolution,

Well,

Somebody's got to win.

And evolution always wins.

It always evolves.

So we always move forward.

So that's the energy of things.

So it's that—because we all know the truth within us,

And we all are good at our core,

We all want to survive,

We all want to live in a good,

Happy,

Healthy,

Peaceful,

Loving way.

There's a desire for that within us.

So if you've got somebody dangling that,

And then somebody got dangling chaos,

As a general rule,

We're going to lean—if we have an option,

We're going to lean in a direction of something that makes us feel good.

People who are disconnected with their truth and not in touch with themselves,

Well,

They can lean in a place of chaos,

Too.

You know what I've always thought was funny?

I get the ying and the yang politically of liberal,

Conservative,

And stuff like that.

I've never understood why progressive could be seen as a bad thing to anybody,

Because when in the history of the world have things not progressed?

And I'm not saying specific people that consider themselves progressive.

The word progressive being used for something like that,

Things progress,

They have to progress,

There has to be progress.

Yes,

The nature of everything is to expand and become more of.

So that's true,

But I think in certain aspects,

I think it was that Eckhart Tolle was talking about people getting too attached to a word and starting to even slant its meaning.

So you can start using a word like progressive in areas to promote your own way of being,

And that's when it starts getting cloudy.

Like Tolle was talking about the word growth,

And he's like,

People are so attached to the word growth that in times of recession,

They'll actually refer to it as negative growth.

And it's like negative growth because the corporate mentality is always more profit,

More profit,

More profit.

In that situation,

Profits progressing,

Is that always a good thing?

No,

It's not if it's at the detriment of society.

So if you're hurting people by trying to get more profit,

Then all profit is not good.

That's why we need to focus on noble profit and having a quality profit.

We can expand without sacrificing people.

So yeah,

I think that right now the change that you're talking about is everywhere that you can see.

And I think that the internet is a huge – obviously there can be a case to make that the internet is horrible and there's nothing but hate and hate speech and vile things on it,

But the internet really,

What it does and a big part of it is knowledge.

The sharing of knowledge is what has had a direct impact on getting closer and closer to this tipping point.

The reason why people,

Like mass majorities of people,

The vast majority of people,

Are now going like,

Oh,

We haven't eaten real food in 80 years in America,

Is that no one knew that they weren't eating.

Like you're told it's food.

You're going to eat the food.

And I mean it's true with everything too because it's all how it's used.

Do I think that we are heading towards a tipping point because we need to and there's serious problems in this society?

Yes,

I absolutely do.

However,

Part of the resistance to that tipping point feeds off of fear.

So I heard some of the political stuff going on that they were talking about.

Somebody was talking about a while ago,

Now this was months ago,

Was talking about how much crime and murder and killing is going on in the United States and it's so horrible and all this stuff.

So I just kind of got curious and I'm like,

Where are we compared to where we've been?

And I looked it up and basically we have a lower murder rate than the last time,

I think it was like in the 1960s.

So the murder rate is dropping per capita.

And is the murder rate that we have acceptable?

No,

It's a problem.

Of course it's a problem.

But the crime rate and the murder rate has actually dropped since the 1960s.

But people wave this fear around to try to keep people locked in it and say that everything's bad.

And it's like,

Well,

It's not to excuse the problem.

There is a problem,

But it's not necessarily that everything's always getting worse.

We are walking towards some solutions.

I think we're walking towards some unconsciously.

I don't think we really know what we're doing yet.

But it's our natural progression to lean towards a solution.

So I think eventually we're going to,

Well,

It's my hope that we get there.

And I even saw,

It reminds me of Tolle.

Whenever the conversation comes to this point,

I have this flash of Eckhart Tolle going,

Well,

I think somebody asked him or he was talking about it and he goes,

Are we going to make it as a species?

I don't know.

We might.

It's up to us.

I mean,

Nothing's written that like,

Oh yes,

We're going to tip in time and shift into a new way of thinking or no,

We're not.

We're going to blow ourselves up first.

That's in our hands.

That's why I don't think people put enough weight to be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi's statement.

It's that,

I mean,

Yes,

That sounds neat and start with yourself.

And Michael Jackson even sang about it,

The man in the mirror,

All that stuff.

It's a wonderful little thing that we think of and we throw around,

But what does it actually mean?

I mean,

If you look at society as a macrocosm of the individual.

So whatever is going on inside of me is experienced in my outer world.

So what's going on inside of me gets mirrored to what's going on outside of me.

So if I look at society's problems and go,

Oh,

Society's all messed up.

Well,

Why is that?

That's because the individuals who make up that society are in conflict within themselves.

And that's what's being expressed as a group in group consciousness.

That's what's being exposed.

So when everybody's sitting there,

Generally everybody's sitting around at home going,

Oh my God,

Isn't that horrible,

The things you see on the news?

Like 10% of the population is actually causing all the problems.

If 10% of the people in our population were the problem,

We'd be fine.

We wouldn't have all these issues.

But the problem is the majority of people in our society have conflict within themselves and they're not working on it.

That's why everybody,

We have such a problem with drug and alcohol addiction.

That's why we have such a problem with antidepressants and everything.

And boy,

I keep going back to Tolle for some reason.

But Tolle was sitting there going,

Everybody thinks that we should take everybody off the antidepressants and everybody get off of drugs.

If we did that,

If we just snapped our fingers and everybody stopped taking the drugs that was just keeping them calm,

This whole world would go bananas in a week.

Because we're not dealing with the stuff that's going on inside of us.

So we keep turning to these things to anesthetize us so we don't feel the internal struggles that we're dealing with.

So that's what's really meant to be the change you wish to see in the world.

If everybody at home sits there and starts slowing down and getting quiet and feeling the emotions that are bouncing around inside of them and dealing with them and finding some peace within themselves,

If people start doing that one at a time,

Then the collective energy is peaceful.

And then all of a sudden,

You know what?

We won't have to find the solutions to all these problems.

The solutions will just arise because that's what we're looking for.

Right now,

We're looking for conflict.

So guess what?

We find,

Because there's conflict running around within us.

So that's the real meaning of be the change you wish to see.

The only person you can change is yourself.

So if everybody starts focusing on changing their inner world,

It's going to reflect in a more peaceful consciousness as a society.

I was just thinking about the— I've got to kick my soapbox over.

I think I'm going to get up on one of my own.

This is not an endorsement for anyone or any third party or anything like that.

But there are almost 400 million people in the United States.

There is such a small fraction of people that vote in the primaries for either party of that.

And then of those primaries,

The people that win,

Win a percentage of the people that voted for only their party.

So you're talking about winning the primary with like 10% or under of the population voting for a person.

And then 100% of the population,

Which is never 100% vote,

But get to vote on two people,

Right?

So if we're talking about a 51% tipping point,

There is over 50% of the people in the country that are not choosing,

That are not thinking for themselves,

Or are,

And not being actively a part of it.

So if there is a tipping point and an awakening,

Change could happen.

Yes,

But it's not going to happen by some magical candidate.

No.

But that's what I'm saying.

There is no.

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.

If you're waiting for a magical candidate to come and take all of the.

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.

And to fix all our problems in the United States,

Yeah.

It's not going to happen.

And we discussed this briefly earlier.

Even if,

Let's say there was a magical candidate,

The political system isn't set up to give that magical candidate the power to change everything that needs to be changed.

So it needs to be a change of thinking,

A change of ways of being.

I see it all the time because you were talking about the internet,

And as you were talking about that,

I was thinking,

What is the internet to me?

And the internet to me is unlimited knowledge,

As you mentioned,

But it's also an expression of spirituality.

It's an expansion of the spiritual awakening.

It's helping us approach our tipping point.

It's a beautiful thing.

It's also helps me in my business and all that stuff,

But it's nothing but good to me.

Why?

Because that's what I use it for.

Whereas people use it for the negative,

Well,

Guess what?

They're going to get negative out of it.

But that large shift of thinking,

It is a way of being.

Our political system,

In my opinion,

Couldn't be fixed.

All the little problems couldn't be fixed if we elected the right person in the next 100 elections because the system's broken.

So if we sit there and we go,

You know what?

Instead of Democrats and Republicans fighting against each other,

Because their whole goal is to be the correct party,

Instead of trying to be right,

What if we tried to be happy?

What if we tried to do things?

What if the whole goal was to work together to help humanity?

Well,

Then we'd be fine,

But that's what it's going to take.

That's what it's going to take.

And I know it sounds idealistic and it sounds big and it sounds like,

Oh my God,

It's never going to happen,

But that's exactly what it felt like.

If you were to have polled everybody in the United States back before the Civil War and said,

Hey,

Do you think blacks are going to have rights?

They'd be like,

Oh my God,

No,

It's too big of a thing.

And there's too many people that think the wrong.

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.

That's what it looks like right before the change happens.

It always looks like that.

It always looks insurmountable.

But then somehow it happens with that tipping point,

With maybe the 20% being loud about it,

The other 51% being not as vocal,

But open to it.

And then all of a sudden it's shifting the energy and everything going in that direction.

Right.

I mean,

There's a lot of things that are on the internet about like,

We're sheep and the whole point of politics is to pit me against you so we argue about who's right and we don't pay attention to what they're doing.

And part of it is true.

I mean,

Part of it is true.

That's definitely.

.

.

Well,

I mean,

Yeah,

That's like saying,

Is there deception in politics?

Right.

But it's like if there's a tipping point to come to where when something is genuinely and generally not accepted anymore by the masses,

We do live in a country that we are fortunate enough that it can change.

So if the majority of people are actually putting energy towards this change,

To a positive change and not fighting with each other,

But to a positive change,

Then real things could happen.

Right.

And I mean,

What's funny is there's been so much political talk nowadays.

Like the conversation in politics has gotten to the point where the people who are very much into politics will look at the other party and go,

The other party thinks that all people should die.

And then that party looks at them and they go,

Well,

The other party thinks that all people should run around with no rules and be able to kill and maim each other with no consequences.

Like,

That's what it's gotten to.

And it's like,

No,

Neither of those is true.

Nobody thinks that.

But they take these microcosms of issues and they blow it so out of proportion that they're so far away from the truth,

Nobody can even see what the heck they're talking about anymore.

So when it gets back to like,

Well,

If you vote for something that hurts people just to win,

That's not okay with us.

When we get to that point where it's really simple,

Then all of a sudden we'll see that change start.

And I mean,

Like you said,

When this shift occurs,

Which it's already occurring,

When we hit that point,

It is going to everybody who's resisting the change,

Their minds are going to be blown at how quickly this society actually tips.

It's going to be beautiful.

You know?

God,

I hope so.

Well,

You know,

Like I said,

If you look at history as what happens when we look at social change,

That's how it was.

That's how it's been in every other situation.

Now this is a larger,

More dramatic change,

But it's still a macrocosm of the microcosm.

So these smaller social changes where you had the majority of people going,

I don't see how that's going to change,

And then all of a sudden it does,

And it happens quickly,

And they go,

What?

And it takes people years to actually wrap their brains around what just happened.

You know?

That's what's going to happen again.

And that is the whole point,

Getting us to that 51%,

Is the whole point of The Great Love Project,

Which you can find at thegreatloveproject.

Com.

Share what you love using the hashtag,

Hashtag thegreatloveproject.

And Glenn,

Where can they find you?

They can find me at life-enhancement-services.

Com.

So thanks for listening everybody,

And just start working on yourself and stay open to the possibility of change,

Because it's coming.

So embrace it.

Thanks for listening.