Joanna Macy: Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path This 20 minute interview with Joanna Macy will help answer an essential question: How are we going to live our lives fully, with ...
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"We will need to do something more than grouse, vote, or be political activists in the external world."
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In this and a subsequent set of articles I will be suggesting that if we truly wish to be effective in transforming an oppressive, dominator-based political/economic system, we will need to do something more than grouse, vote, or be political activists in the external world. We will need allow our consciousness to evolve/grow/be catalyzed - and do whatever we can to support others in doing the same.
"We can't solve the problems we face at the level of ego, so we either grow up or go extinct."
- Christopher Bache
youtube.com/watch?v=YCohm_CilUY
Contemplate the multiple levels of transformation needed on our planet - individual and family dysfunction, national, cultural, biospheric. It can feel profoundly overwhelming - and with good reason. On the other hand, what is there to do besides dedicating ourselves to transformation - as "the only game in town?"
Even if the process has not yet risen to consciousness (and regressive energies are fighting for their life!), we humans are beginning to identify ourselves as planetary citizens, members of the family of humanity. Imagine roots growing underground.
A key insight: if we wish to build a new world, we will need to become new people.
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