I'm definitely sold. And I just discovered that the participants in an organization built around his work, who I thought were like me, are first tuning into the most profound aspect of what Brian is communicating. With his wisdom now being mine, too, I have absolute faith in it!
Brian Swimme will be presenting on the topic of his documentary film, 'The Journey of the Universe', and on his book 'Cosmogenesis', at the Seattle Jung Society on May 16 and 17, 2025, both in-person and online. Information and registration can be found at www.jungseattle.org.
admiring of you not being in overwhelm. and remaining undaunted ….that said…for this recovering Christian….Pope Leo….gives me some hope. Don’t give up, Sue.
Every time there's a new calamity, I have this odd feeling regarding how wised up Americans are getting. This is like a giant university for learning about our country, where we are becoming informed in ways we have desperately needed for redoing antiquated ways we have been thinking and running the world that were leading us to disaster. I always see the hopefulness in how the horror of the moment, and horror isn't even a strong enough word, can lead us to salvation.
and here again is to hopefulness.......rather than despair at what seems like the total lack of any ethics being honored, or even addressed here in the USA today...but then again...the new Pope...lifts my heart a wee bit!
While I love Brian’s high-level vision, I continue to believe our failure to implement it over the past decades is not so much due to people’s failure to hear the message, but that we live in a system which effectively blocks our ability to change course and act upon it.
I believe you’ve re-posted something from Corbin Trent in the past. Relevant to the above is my comment to Trent’s post today, attempting to explain the Democratic Party’s failure to prevail. My comment:
Two words: “Citizens United”.
… not the sole problem or cause, but emblematic of the same. We’ve come to a point in society where money dominates all other needs, concerns, and values. Everyone must first bend the knee to money (even for their right to continue to exist) before anything else can be considered.
Moreover, a pivotal destructive secondary effect of a money-centric society is that it gradually turns each of us into lone agents who are predisposed to compete, mistrust, exploit — and in the worst case, sabotage -- each other in our drive to “get ahead” in life. Clearly, this thwarts the vital need to work together for mutual benefit as a society and evolving species.
The grand vision truly needed is that of a society where money (if it exists at all) is the servant of people, institutions, environment, and living systems, rather than their master.
As a species, we largely know what to do — it simply can’t be implemented within the current system. Can we make such a transition without first suffering a Stone Age-level reset? I don't know, but it’s up to us.
Did you see last week's post, https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/an-epidemic-of-courage? It laid out where we are and what we might do, where dealing with the money situation is fundamental. One quote: "Over and over again those with money are now buying their way through politics. Even if we were to use a general strike, what is our goal? What is it we want to have should we cause enough havoc to make it impossible for Trump‘s government to govern? Stopping Trump is not enough. We need a vision that is appealing to all sectors of society." And the rest of the post was all about how we could change that system to avert a reset to the Stone Age, where it would take eons if we ever could get an industrialized world operationalized again.
You have supported Brian for so long. He couldn’t ask for a better advocate to put his message out!
I'm definitely sold. And I just discovered that the participants in an organization built around his work, who I thought were like me, are first tuning into the most profound aspect of what Brian is communicating. With his wisdom now being mine, too, I have absolute faith in it!
Brian Swimme will be presenting on the topic of his documentary film, 'The Journey of the Universe', and on his book 'Cosmogenesis', at the Seattle Jung Society on May 16 and 17, 2025, both in-person and online. Information and registration can be found at www.jungseattle.org.
admiring of you not being in overwhelm. and remaining undaunted ….that said…for this recovering Christian….Pope Leo….gives me some hope. Don’t give up, Sue.
Every time there's a new calamity, I have this odd feeling regarding how wised up Americans are getting. This is like a giant university for learning about our country, where we are becoming informed in ways we have desperately needed for redoing antiquated ways we have been thinking and running the world that were leading us to disaster. I always see the hopefulness in how the horror of the moment, and horror isn't even a strong enough word, can lead us to salvation.
and here again is to hopefulness.......rather than despair at what seems like the total lack of any ethics being honored, or even addressed here in the USA today...but then again...the new Pope...lifts my heart a wee bit!
While I love Brian’s high-level vision, I continue to believe our failure to implement it over the past decades is not so much due to people’s failure to hear the message, but that we live in a system which effectively blocks our ability to change course and act upon it.
I believe you’ve re-posted something from Corbin Trent in the past. Relevant to the above is my comment to Trent’s post today, attempting to explain the Democratic Party’s failure to prevail. My comment:
Two words: “Citizens United”.
… not the sole problem or cause, but emblematic of the same. We’ve come to a point in society where money dominates all other needs, concerns, and values. Everyone must first bend the knee to money (even for their right to continue to exist) before anything else can be considered.
Moreover, a pivotal destructive secondary effect of a money-centric society is that it gradually turns each of us into lone agents who are predisposed to compete, mistrust, exploit — and in the worst case, sabotage -- each other in our drive to “get ahead” in life. Clearly, this thwarts the vital need to work together for mutual benefit as a society and evolving species.
The grand vision truly needed is that of a society where money (if it exists at all) is the servant of people, institutions, environment, and living systems, rather than their master.
As a species, we largely know what to do — it simply can’t be implemented within the current system. Can we make such a transition without first suffering a Stone Age-level reset? I don't know, but it’s up to us.
Did you see last week's post, https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/an-epidemic-of-courage? It laid out where we are and what we might do, where dealing with the money situation is fundamental. One quote: "Over and over again those with money are now buying their way through politics. Even if we were to use a general strike, what is our goal? What is it we want to have should we cause enough havoc to make it impossible for Trump‘s government to govern? Stopping Trump is not enough. We need a vision that is appealing to all sectors of society." And the rest of the post was all about how we could change that system to avert a reset to the Stone Age, where it would take eons if we ever could get an industrialized world operationalized again.
Thanks Suzanne - I may have skimmed it but will check again to see any practical thoughts on changing the current system.
... yeah - I'm no big fan of the Stone Age