For sure it's testimony to there being more to go after than money and fame, which is so valuable to comprehend in this materialistic world we're living in.
I agree that the Universe Story is a crucial context for a cultural shift in who the human is and our species role in this evolution of life on this planet. Indigenous people get it. A movement that makes sure children are raised with this reality-based story will go a long way toward a consciousness shift that sees every form of life as kin and family. Someone said: The new Buddha will be a sanga. I believe the shift will not be orchestrated around a single effort or idea or pole. Each one of us who carries the light of the whole must now activate our selves, our networks and our resources to apply the sense we hold to wherever we can wield influence. All our tributaries will join as life nourishing rivers that carve and influence the human landscape. It will not be one thing, one idea, one project that can cause the shift. It will be our hearts responding to one love for the magnificence and beauty of organic life here, and our desire to preserve and enhance its potentials for diversity, growth, consciousness, belonging.
Our body is a teacher. One heart circulates the nutrients and hormones to the many functions fulfilled by other organs. The Universe Story inspires a noble outlook on why each human is here.
It must be promoted along with every life-affirmiing, earth-centric initiative --concurrently.
A Gap in our implementation: We need a means of collectively reinvigorating our will to stay faithful to making the changes that are called for. Sundays could be the time of collective sharing our love for the Earth, our inspired efforts to restore and enhance her ecosystems, our collective hope for a healthier, saner future. Each person's efforts would be celebrated.
I see additional initiatives that I feel are significant aspects of a cultural shift. The energy and direction of the conversation you introduced here are VITAL.
Let's encourage each other as we develop our ideas into actions
You raise the point about celebrity suicides - I think there's tremendous insight out of those tragedies - so many people put blinders on their hearts and sacrifice everything for the chance of being famous, but to what end.
For sure it's testimony to there being more to go after than money and fame, which is so valuable to comprehend in this materialistic world we're living in.
I agree that the Universe Story is a crucial context for a cultural shift in who the human is and our species role in this evolution of life on this planet. Indigenous people get it. A movement that makes sure children are raised with this reality-based story will go a long way toward a consciousness shift that sees every form of life as kin and family. Someone said: The new Buddha will be a sanga. I believe the shift will not be orchestrated around a single effort or idea or pole. Each one of us who carries the light of the whole must now activate our selves, our networks and our resources to apply the sense we hold to wherever we can wield influence. All our tributaries will join as life nourishing rivers that carve and influence the human landscape. It will not be one thing, one idea, one project that can cause the shift. It will be our hearts responding to one love for the magnificence and beauty of organic life here, and our desire to preserve and enhance its potentials for diversity, growth, consciousness, belonging.
Our body is a teacher. One heart circulates the nutrients and hormones to the many functions fulfilled by other organs. The Universe Story inspires a noble outlook on why each human is here.
It must be promoted along with every life-affirmiing, earth-centric initiative --concurrently.
A Gap in our implementation: We need a means of collectively reinvigorating our will to stay faithful to making the changes that are called for. Sundays could be the time of collective sharing our love for the Earth, our inspired efforts to restore and enhance her ecosystems, our collective hope for a healthier, saner future. Each person's efforts would be celebrated.
I see additional initiatives that I feel are significant aspects of a cultural shift. The energy and direction of the conversation you introduced here are VITAL.
Let's encourage each other as we develop our ideas into actions
You raise the point about celebrity suicides - I think there's tremendous insight out of those tragedies - so many people put blinders on their hearts and sacrifice everything for the chance of being famous, but to what end.