Ecological Belonging
ecological-belonging.orgSaved by Tijn Tjoelker
Ecological Belonging
Saved by Tijn Tjoelker
Our work is to allow this passion to affect our existence, to let the inner ecology of our lives come to touch the outer ecology of the earth.
As a species and as a society we’ve successfully cultivated our capacity for certainty and control, for separation and subjugation. Now, for our own sanity and the planet’s survival, we need to cultivate our capacity for uncertainty, for openness, for connection to each other and all that unites us. We need to reclaim our inherent creativity as the
... See moreAt some point in our headlong rush towards ‘progress’, we cut ourselves off from the communal crucible of close human connection that nurtured our species for hundreds of thousands of years. Since we first settled into agricultural civilisation we’ve engineered a series of socio-economic systems that have incentivised us to consistently exploit one
... See moreThrough prototyping new forms of mutual aid community such as the Conscious Change Collective, we’ll have the opportunity to foster our own thriving micro cultures of human interaction, and embed ourselves in the kind of reciprocal trust networks that can radically increase our ability to cope with any societal crises that may emerge. We’ll be invi
... See morebeyond the reward of securing the health of our biosphere for generations to come, we may just rediscover a kind of deep communal satisfaction that most of us in the modern world had forgotten was even possible. A felt sense of connection, belonging and togetherness that so invigorates the human condition that we’re left smiling at days end, eager
... See moreThe closer we can get to the natural world, the sooner we start to realize we are not separate. And that when we create, we are not just expressing our unique individuality, but our seamless connection to an infinite oneness.