Pine tree canopy, shot taken from below.
RETHINK
‘I want a millionaires boot camp where they can sweat out their unimaginative narratives.’
book 4, building // www.easy-town-books.com
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#OurFuture #photography #photohighlightsFeb26 #nature #etbs #trees #forest #forestfriends
Two seagulls on a roof, looking at each other.
‘I bet that if we nurture each other, we will be nurtured by each other. And if we nurture the planet, it will nurture us.'
THE END OF ALL WARS
the-end-of-all-wars.net
#OurFuture #EndAllWars #photography #mono #coast #scape #nature #photohighlightsFeb26
Yellow, orange lichen.
PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS NATURE
Charlie Alice Raya
February 2026
Mutually beneficial relationships
drive prosperity.
Competition divides.
#photography #nature #usedom #fungifriends #mycology #lichen #EndAllWars #OurFuture #ClimateAction #photohighlightsFeb26
Dear billionaires,
shattered dreams, throwing tantrums?
It doesn’t have to be that way.
You could get yourself a new dream.
One that makes sense, that cures your lack of imagination & vision.
One with a future.
And it might help you to finally graduate from nursery to kindergarten.
Red, entangled twigs coated in a thick layer of ice.
WAVE OF DEFIANCE
The best of all defiances
creates a world
where people & planet thrive.
#OurFuture #ItsOurWorld #ActForThePlanet
& PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS Jan 2026
by CHARLIE ALICE RAYA
Iced veins
26 Jan 2026, Seebad Ahlbeck, Usedom, Baltic Sea
#photohighlightsJan26 #photography #nature #trees
‘I take a very simple attitude towards the so-called elite. If they were great and clever people, we wouldn’t be in all this mess.’ quoted from book 2, travelling, part 2, by Charlie Alice Raya
street life, 2007-2010, Berlin photo series by Charlie Alice Raya dog walker with small dog
THE TURNING POINT
‘I take a very simple attitude towards the so-called elite. If they were great and clever people, we wouldn’t be in all this mess.’
#OurFuture #photography #streetphotography #filter #elite #rethink #resist
Grasses and yellow wildflowers.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
and one where we choose to use what we have to build a world where people and planet thrive.
#OurFuture #newyear #photography #nature #climate
‘Are you serious about attending a millionaires boot camp?’
Rose nodded. ‘Money does strange things with the mind. And from what I hear so do the boot camps.’
@patmillsuk.bsky.social @patrioticmillionaires.org @patmillscanada.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social
#writersofbluesky #money #future
Old tree, shot from below, featuring a massive branch with thick canopy, photo, as usually on this account: Charlie Alice Raya
It seems quite unknown that it’s possible to shape a world that thrives.
Admittedly our present economic & political systems are useless for that task.
But then, that’s part of the beauty. We can start over, and we can use all past mistakes as guides to steer away from.
#photography #shape #future
Several kinds of lichen on bush twigs.
‘True power — if you think about God — true power is in creation, not in destruction, oppression or tyranny. A true and powerful leader will create not destroy.’
Charlie Alice Raya, book 3, shaping
#power #money #finance #investments #photography #nature #lichen #fungifriends #creation #leader
Wide shot, moonlit night, lit sea bridge and village, Seebad Ahlbeck.
‘He didn’t have the imagination to build the world, he just knew how to use it.'
book 3, shaping, Charlie Alice Raya
#imagination #future #finance #investment #planet #global #Cop30 #photography #sea #mono #blackamdwhite #seabridge #usedom #landscape #night #blueskyartshow #beach #reflection #moon
today’s
IMAGINATION BOOST
for #millionaires
(If you’re not a millionaire, join as if you were.)
Imagine you stand in your kitchen, and suddenly your #world turns upside down and you think: What if everything I know about running a #business is wrong?
What would you do?
#photography #sea
Wild patch of an old forest creek.
‘There is not a shred of rationality in destroying our planet, in continuing with an economic system that exhausts us, in going along with a political system that fails us every day. We have the minds to be rational. We can decide to end the war against ourselves.’
#photography #nature #actnow
Hello @billgates.bsky.social, you might not know this thanks to the company you keep, but there is nothing more powerful than to restore the planet.
You know, true power, if you think about God, true power is in creation, not in destruction.
I’m happy to offer an imagination session - or several.
LOL 😂
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes that Bill Gates’ ‘main contention is that funds are very limited.’ to tackle climate crises heads on.
This coming from a billionaire is hilarious & shows just how much imagination is missing, and how many narratives need a good rethink.
Therefore 🧵👇
If you are a millionaire or a billionaire, you are welcome to challenge me or to make use of my imagination.
For people and planet, I am at your service.
Charlie Alice Raya
@charlie-alice-raya.org
Dwarf beeches.
‘I decided to develop millionaires boot camps around the globe. There are millions of us, and most of us have lost our minds, hearts and souls. If a single day of sweating, dreaming & rethinking can set me on a track to finding my mind, heart and soul, then it can do that for others.’
#photography
IMAGINATION boosts for millionaires & billionaires, part 2 About dolphins, boats & CONNECTIONS
‘We cannot hope to save our own skins if we don’t connect to nature. We cannot hope to rethink and reshape our world if we don’t connect to each other.’
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
👇 #CONNECTIONS 👇
Autumn view of a lake, Wolgaster See.
‘Let me connect some of our dots. We spoke of the divides between people as a potential root cause of war — not just the divides between genders but also between people of different ages, abilities, origins and more, and not least between those who assume a role of dominance and those who suffer the dominant. These divides are partly created by the narratives of the strong and the weak, the predator and the prey, the superior and the subordinate, narratives which are deeply ingrained in our minds. These narratives tell us that dominance is a natural imperative which every creature of worth seeks. But taking a closer look at nature offers another perspective and one that is more promising because it shows that, for example, the lion doesn’t kill for dominance but for sustenance and as part of its role in the ecosystem, and with that the lion contributes to the overall balance in nature — not to some gamble for power.’ We smiled, some of us scribbling notes, and one of us said: ‘But why did we start seeking dominance in the first place? What was the lure?’ ‘The promise of more gold?’ One of us chuckled. ‘You’re saying we were blinded by some shiny metal and had to get more of it? And we figured that the best way to get more gold would be to put ourselves in a position of dominance?’ ‘Sounds about right.’ ‘Maybe it was love that started it all.’ ‘What?’ several of us exclaimed.
Think about it: You love your partner and you want to show your love, so you bring them the sweetest strawberries, the fattest fish, the most beautiful flowers. And since you want to give them the best of the best, you begin to accumulate riches for your love. Think about the people who built whole palaces for their partners. And since we tend to be blind when we are in love, we might have lost sight of everything and everyone around us — until we had become greedy exploiters who no longer knew why they had started hoarding riches in the first place.’ Several of us smiled and one of us said: ‘If love got us into our mess, love can get us out of it, too: the love for human ingenuity, the love for human’s humour and their ability to dance, the love for the adrenaline rush we experience when we create or cheer together.’ ‘And we can carve new ways to show our love.’ One of us chuckled. ‘If winning the heart of another is all we ultimately want, we can easily do so without destroying each other’s nations and the planet just to hoard riches which might impress someone.’ ‘And maybe we can evolve into beings who are less impressed by shiny things. I for one take the sweet strawberries over a metal any day.’ Two of us exchanged a smile, another one of us chuckled, and one of us rolled their eyes, saying: ‘Let’s return to the original gold argument. We can easily demonstrate that there is enough gold on our planet to pave every road with it. All we have to do is come together, extract together, and then design our settlements the way we envision them.’ ‘You’re right. There’s no need to fight over something like gold. There is no need to be the richest or the strongest. In fact, we can provide much better for all of us, love or no love, if we cooperate. I wonder, is it our lack of imagination or simply
insecurity or even impatience which made us choose the path of dominance?’ Some of us shrugged and one of us said: ‘The lack of thinking. If our ancestors had thought it through, they would have discovered the benefits of coming together instead of dominating, exploiting and fighting.’ ‘Maybe religious thoughts kept them from thinking beyond the believes of our ancestors.’ ‘Possible. Religions with their absolutes don’t invite thinking. They divide us and create a sense of superiority.’ One of us gasped. ‘Bloody rivers of my veins, I just realised that nature doesn’t know the concept of the divine or of worship — unless you want to count the wolf’s howling at the moon.’ ‘That’s an interesting thought!’ another one of us exclaimed. ‘Nature doesn’t have a concept of the divine. The natural world doesn’t have morals. It doesn’t comply with our ideas of right or wrong. Maybe that’s what annoyed the clergy, and that’s why they alienated us from nature and from our bodies.’ ‘Nature doesn’t have a book of rules nor an almighty god—’ ‘—but why not? It seems such an important feature to humans.’ ‘Because that’s not the way to achieve balance? According to their books, gods want things to be in a certain way. Gods don’t want to evolve or move in cycles. With gods you have all the weight on one side of the scale — on God’s side, eternally stuck in one story.’
RETHINKING WHAT MONEY IS FOR
‘If winning the heart of another is all we ultimately want, we can easily do so without destroying each other’s nations and the planet just to hoard riches which might impress someone.’
THE END OF ALL WARS
#booksky #photography #gold #money #rich #rethinking #actnow 👇
‘In 2024 I came across a column by George Monbiot titled: Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all. It’s a perfect starting point to make a case for an imagination boost for the rich — of all proportions.’
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
#EatTheRich? #future
My education has done everything to cripple my imagination, to block my ability to think beyond what I know, to stand in the way of my ability to dare create visions outside of the narratives of our time.
The MILLIONAIRES BOOT CAMP on DAY 9, FOCUS, in book 4, building
INSPIRED! 👇
#finance #booksky
Autumn forest track, fairytale like.
CAMPAIGNS FOR OUR FUTURE
& the MILLIONAIRES BOOT CAMP
It is a truth not universally acknowledged that most millionaires lack imagination.
If they had imagination, they wouldn’t be millionaires.
They would build a world where people and planet thrive.
🧵1/10
#photography #imagination #millionaires
Splashing waves at beach.
This is an offer & experiment.
Our world is one big mess, entangled in stories & narratives which harm us & our planet.
Imagination offers a way to create visions for a world that thrives.
I’d be happy to test whether I can’t tickle your imagination into creating instead of depleting.
#photography
MONEY 2/2
Testing the money narrative:
What is the record of making the world about money?
Does the focus on making money serve planet and people?
Is there a more beneficial narrative?
What’s your answer?
Miniature coastline formed by wind and algae at the beach.
MONEY 1/2
Whenever in doubt, these three questions can help:
‘With every narrative, we can ask: What is this narrative’s record? Does this narrative serve us? Is there a more beneficial narrative?’
quoted from
THE END OF ALL WARS
#money #photography #actnow #rethink
🧵👇 see an example 👇
Can you imagine having all this power at your fingertips and blowing it on a stupid yacht?’
‘Why?’ Devery shouted.
‘That is the essential question.’
book 2, travelling
Some eight or nine yards away, a hunched figure sat in the sand, cross-legged, his back leaning against a low sand- coloured wall. He looked like an Asian monk. But this was Africa. It was burning hot and dusty and yellow. Alice shook her head. She was sitting in the sand too, Devery and Andy were on either side of her, their eyes fixed on the monk, their faces excited. Alice asked them what the monk was doing here. But they didn’t answer. Didn’t they hear her? She tried again. No reaction. Instead they threw another question to the monk as if they were throwing a banana to a monkey. Alice looked at the monk again, and his big mouth turned into a grin, revealing large teeth. ‘What is good and evil?’ Devery repeated keenly. ‘There’s no such thing,’ retorted the monk. ‘It is a simplification at best. There is stupidity. An awful lot of it. But that's mendable if people put their minds to it. Stupidity is laziness of thought — and misinformation. The savage has sway over—’ the monk dropped his head with a snigger. ‘Over what?’ Andy shouted excitedly. But the monk didn’t react. ‘The savage has sway over the human?’ Devery called. The monk lifted his head again. ‘Oh, yes!’ ‘What’s wrong with the savage?’ Andy pressed on.
The monk grinned. ‘The savage believes he is better. Better. Better. The best!’ The monk rocked with laughter. ‘THE BEST! That is the crown of stupidity.’ The monk stopped, his face suddenly benign. In a much deeper voice he said calmly: ‘But that is mendable. Stupidity and superiority complexes can be cured. But there is something else. Something that is much more deeply buried and therefore—’ ‘Therefore what?’ Andy shouted, but the monk just stared at Devery. Devery jumped to his feet, like a pupil eager to please. ‘This has something to do with good and evil. This something that sits deep.’ ‘BRAVO.’ The monk applauded and bowed his head. ‘Indeed, this something is the reason why people came up with good and evil. The idea of good and evil serves humans to—‘ The monk winked at Alice and dropped his head again. Alice wanted to get up too, but she couldn’t move. Why? But she could could shout. ‘What is the deeply rooted thing?’ At once the monk lifted his head and spat: ‘ANGST!’ Alice felt a cold shiver run down her spine. ‘Tell us more,’ Devery called. But that didn't work. Alice heard a crackling noise behind her. Something was burning. There was smoke in the air. ‘Is angst evil?’ Andy tried and the monk laughed. ‘Oh, dear boy. Of course, angst isn't evil. Angst is just angst. A good invention of nature. Supposed to protect you from danger. But alas humans …’ The monk shook his head. ‘Oh, humans! They forgot how to master it, use it, how not to be governed by it. There were times when humans had a better understanding of angst. Knew it for what it was. An alarm
system, not something that trenches their whole being—’ The moment the monk stopped, Andy shouted: ‘Why can’t we understand again?’ ‘Because, dear boy, humans realised that they have better control over other humans if they don't reveal what angst is for. So they didn't pass on the knowledge. Only a few did to a few. Hardly anyone knows how to deal with angst today. In fact, humans do all sorts of things to increase it. Humans are so stupid. But you see, boy, angst, when left to its own devices, is dangerous.’ The monk dropped his head, his whole figure went limp. Now he looked more like a heap of clothes than a person. The crackling sounds were getting louder. The fire was coming closer. The air became smokier. ‘We have to run!’ Alice shouted. But she couldn’t hear her voice nor could she turn to see where the fire was burning. ‘What is the danger?’ Devery called in a concerned voice, as if he was afraid the monk wouldn’t look up again. But the monk’s head reappeared, his eyes fixed on Devery. ‘Angst makes one human lash out at another. It makes another human brag about an orgy in the hope of getting some applause because he is so afraid that nobody loves him. And the next human uses angst to control others, to sell them medicine, an insurance, a matrimony, hatred towards the stranger. And angst makes humans feel bad about themselves. Which makes it so easy to manipulate them, push them towards bending their knees to a master. Angst. It makes a teenage girl go pregnant because she’s afraid of facing life on her own. And she thinks the child will make the father stay. Worse, she thinks her family will finally see her if only she had a child. But all they see is the child and her failure. And she sees it too and breaks. Angst. Angst does terrible things to humans. There are people who have been driven to a degree of confusion, they might never escape it. And they are dangerous.’ The monk fell silent. They all did. Fire, Alice thought. Fire.
She looked from Devery to Andy. Why didn’t they hear her? The monk looked up again, his expression calm. ‘Angst can make people evil of sorts. It turns one into a master and the other into a slave. It’s deep-seated. But it’s not a necessity. And mostly it’s stupidity that keeps people from getting to grips with their angst.’ The monk paused, his eyes briefly flashing at Alice. Alice grimaced. ‘Fire,’ she whispered. The monk turned to Andy again. ‘See, boy. Even the rich are full of angst. They are afraid of failure, of losing their fortune, position, influence, popularity. Some are even afraid of being unjustly rich. Afraid. Hah. They could go out and change the world. Can you imagine having all this power at your fingertips and blowing it on a stupid yacht?’ ‘Why?’ Devery shouted. ‘That is the essential question.’ ‘Fire,’ Alice whispered. All of a sudden, the monk jumped up, looking very much like a gnome in a long robe. Andy, Alice and Devery shot to their feet, standing shoulder to shoulder, their eyes fixed on the approaching oddity. And then the oddity started to shout at Alice, madness in his eyes: ‘You, you — YOU!’ Pointing a finger at Alice, he shouted again: ‘You, you — YOU!’ The monk came to an abrupt halt in front of Alice, his robe nearly touching her shirt, his fierce eyes glaring at her. ‘YOU are full of angst and fear and anger and stupidity.’ And then he calmed, his stare softening, and he said, with some sort of weird smugness on his strange face: ‘But you also have strength.’ He took a step back and laughed out loud. He was laughing so hard that he nearly choked on his laughter. Still laughing, he turned and shuffled off towards the sandstone buildings. The moment Alice relaxed, the monk jerked his head around and called over his shoulder: ‘Just imagine what you could achieve if you mastered your angst. If you conquered your fears. If you sent your anger back to hell. If you ripped out your stupidity. Just imagine what you could do!’
#angst #finance #philsky #booksky #econsky #money #investments #actnow #tipingpoints
Waves rolling onto the beach.
‘Even the rich are full of ANGST. They are afraid of failure, of losing their fortune, position, influence, popularity. Some are even afraid of being unjustly rich. Afraid. Hah. They could go out and change the world.’
#angst #photography #ocean #beach #eatTheRich #future
For more ANGST see 🧵👇
