will we realise we can not eat money" Cree Indian Proverb
That is what came to me when I read your post...
And yet there are groups of us that know that there is another way...a kinder, simpler, softer way.
We are the leavers.
We are the carers.
We are the ones who will shine a light, share a conversation, encourage change...
We are the ones we have been waiting for,
and in that we are the ones who are standing up...
Thank you Julie.
A sorrowful post and yet a post that made me want to stand taller and taller to protect Mother Earth for the next generations to come...to leave her as best I can...
I've been back here a few times Julie, I just needed to sit with it for a while. What comes to mind now is that we have to witness the destruction, to know what we have done (humans), so that we rebuild humanity from the eyes of one that has seen what happens. If all we see is rainbows and unicorns, then where is our drive, where is our sense of urgency, where is our compassion. We'd stay where we are. Like any loss we are grieving what we are letting go of, painful as it is to make way for the new. The more we return to oneness, the more keenly we feel it, so we can, in community move forward in a more positive way.
The harsh realities of the path we are on makes it hard to keep hope alive for our survival as a species. At the same time traveling most of the year outside the US and spending time with people, especially young people in Airbnbs and hostels hope is stirred by conversations with them. In the places I have lived a few weeks at a time, mostly Europe, the Baltic and Balkan countries, New Zealand and Australia, unlike my experience in my home country, the US, there seem to be more leavers than takers. My personal research is exclusively anecdotal, but I am accepting it as valid reason to hope, because I prefer hope to despair.
Oh, Julie, sending you big hugs as you mourn those redwoods. 💔😥💔 I've pondered the start of the anthropocene a bit too. It does seem like the neolithic revolution surely played a part. And all those myths from Mesopotamia about the importance of order conquering the chaos of nature. But also, in more recent days (thanks to Renee Eli) I've learned about Jean Gebser's idea of the unfolding of different structures of human consciousness. One of the structures is what he calls the Mental structure, where humans started really having this individual perspective (simplified explanation). And the idea is that we're moving now from the Mental into the Integral. I know you and I are on the same page about this move to a more relational way. To me, the anthropocene really exemplifies the Mental structure. Although it's been rough going, and yes grief is absolutely part of that, I think the anthropocene/mental has been necessary. I love how you found such a beautiful trail of breadcrumbs for this post! That makes me smile!
Thank you Julie. My practice is to continue to express love and the joy of living and my heart is also breaking when I see and hear about what we are doing to our precious planet and to one another.
WOW! This is a very powerful post Julie.
"Only when the last tree has died,
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realise we can not eat money" Cree Indian Proverb
That is what came to me when I read your post...
And yet there are groups of us that know that there is another way...a kinder, simpler, softer way.
We are the leavers.
We are the carers.
We are the ones who will shine a light, share a conversation, encourage change...
We are the ones we have been waiting for,
and in that we are the ones who are standing up...
Thank you Julie.
A sorrowful post and yet a post that made me want to stand taller and taller to protect Mother Earth for the next generations to come...to leave her as best I can...
In honour of the beautiful work you do. 🙏
I've been back here a few times Julie, I just needed to sit with it for a while. What comes to mind now is that we have to witness the destruction, to know what we have done (humans), so that we rebuild humanity from the eyes of one that has seen what happens. If all we see is rainbows and unicorns, then where is our drive, where is our sense of urgency, where is our compassion. We'd stay where we are. Like any loss we are grieving what we are letting go of, painful as it is to make way for the new. The more we return to oneness, the more keenly we feel it, so we can, in community move forward in a more positive way.
The harsh realities of the path we are on makes it hard to keep hope alive for our survival as a species. At the same time traveling most of the year outside the US and spending time with people, especially young people in Airbnbs and hostels hope is stirred by conversations with them. In the places I have lived a few weeks at a time, mostly Europe, the Baltic and Balkan countries, New Zealand and Australia, unlike my experience in my home country, the US, there seem to be more leavers than takers. My personal research is exclusively anecdotal, but I am accepting it as valid reason to hope, because I prefer hope to despair.
Oh, Julie, sending you big hugs as you mourn those redwoods. 💔😥💔 I've pondered the start of the anthropocene a bit too. It does seem like the neolithic revolution surely played a part. And all those myths from Mesopotamia about the importance of order conquering the chaos of nature. But also, in more recent days (thanks to Renee Eli) I've learned about Jean Gebser's idea of the unfolding of different structures of human consciousness. One of the structures is what he calls the Mental structure, where humans started really having this individual perspective (simplified explanation). And the idea is that we're moving now from the Mental into the Integral. I know you and I are on the same page about this move to a more relational way. To me, the anthropocene really exemplifies the Mental structure. Although it's been rough going, and yes grief is absolutely part of that, I think the anthropocene/mental has been necessary. I love how you found such a beautiful trail of breadcrumbs for this post! That makes me smile!
Love this. I feel a lot of this as well, both for myself and for our planet. Can you talk more about sacred rage?
Thank you Julie. My practice is to continue to express love and the joy of living and my heart is also breaking when I see and hear about what we are doing to our precious planet and to one another.