Building Social Capital Important Now | Steve Beckow

Building social capital in our neighborhoods is important now. Arnsberg, Germany

By Steve Beckow, April 1, 2022

(Golden Age of Gaia)

I’m following all the terrible things that are happening in the world, but the work to build a foundation for Nova Earth is more gripping.

It’s a tough battle because world events are on an unimaginably complex level and carried out with impeccable timing and thoroughness. It can be absorbing and the plight of millions alarming.

And yet the desire to lay at least the intellectual foundations for Nova Earth is a greater draw.

Right now I’m learning things about the building of social capital. I believe that building social capital is one thing we can and must do – the sooner the better – to lay a strong foundation for Nova Earth.

Social capital is the goodwill that’s generated from compassionate and charitable acts, from working together to improve the neighborhood or life in it, and similar initiatives. It’s meant as a qualitative measurement of social bondedness.

I say that we need to start building – or rebuilding – social capital in our neighborhoods and in the world now, to offset the destruction that the deep state is causing.

Something that happened for me today was so small and inconsequential and yet it so profoundly showed me the value of social capital that I feel reluctant to mention it.

You may understand some of its impact if you understand that this is the troll under the bridge speaking. This is me “coming out” into the world. (1) So far, no great track record of creating social capital.

However I was feeling love today, as a I walked toward coffee with a friend. Feeling love usually leaves me in conflict when I’m out in the world. My troll’s tendencies don’t include smiling. The best I get up to is a concerned wariness. They don’t include noticing anyone else as I walk or taking the initiative to thank a stranger. Head down, I’m usually deep in thought.

Today I took a big leap and smiled all the time I was outside. I thanked a street cleaner for helping keep the neighborhood beautiful and was surprised when he “got it.”

As I passed a young woman outside a coffeeshop, she accidentally spilled her coffee. But given that she was crochetting something, she ignored it. I went into the coffeeshop, got a bunch of napkins, and brought them back to her. She beamed at me. And I didn’t brush off the action. I beamed back.

If you knew me, we’d have to keep you from falling out of your chair in amazement. But a change is happening.

These two interactions, I assert, built a small amount of social capital probably in all three of us. It did in me. My step was lighter. I felt brighter. My feeling of being connected to my West End neighborhood (I live two miles from where I was born) rose. I got the principle.

My first venture out from my beachhead in the social territory of love had been very successful. I might do it again. And again.

While I’m here, I’ve mentioned something else a few times: My body is changing. I looked in the mirror this morning and I appear to be twenty years younger. Muscles are gradually reforming; signs of ageing, of which there are not all that many, are receding. Slowly but surely, I think, we’re being refitted to stand the higher vibrations of Light awaiting us.

This is our world. Look what shape it’s in. Change begins with us; it begins at home; it begins in our neighborhoods. (2)

Building social capital is as simple as a smile. If that’s all you ever do, and you do it a lot? Far out, man! You de best.

Footnotes

(1) See “I Feel Happy, Said the Troll Under the Bridge,” August 24, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/08/24/i-feel-happy-said-the-troll-under-the-bridge/ and “Thank You to the Troll Under the Bridge … and Goodbye,” January 26, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/01/26/thank-you-to-the-troll-under-the-bridge-and-goodbye/

I have to thank a friend who has been teaching me sociability.

(2) On changing ourselves rather than trying to change others, see “The 9D Arcturian Council: Multiple Realities, Timelines & Versions of Everything,” March 31, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/03/31/the-9d-arcturian-council-multiple-realities-timelines-versions-of-everything/.