Rehabilitating Humanity
If we are able to heal ourselves and our connection with the earth, then we can heal the earth. Or, more accurately, become a part of its healing. In that way we don’t have to take responsibility for the problems of the earth, because the problems really live inside us. We’re not the bosses of nature, nature is our boss. Or, rather it is our Mother
... See moreJez Hughes • The Heart of Life: Shamanic Initiation & Healing In The Modern World
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Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more
Nora Bateson • Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training.
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there’s also a rising widespread realization that we must adopt this framing if we are to solve the humanity-level problems that it seems we must solve. We might say that viruses and glaciers and CO2 and storms and heat have only so much parental patience for our infantile, childish behavior.
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
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I would say that an honest assessment would reveal that all of us have caused harm, some of which has been systematized and sustained. And all of us need healing in our lives. Recognize that the healing need is a universal one, and tell yourself the truth about your parts of that.
Adrienne Maree Brown • Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
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We need to see ourselves as part of a symbiotic, greater whole and start planning for a “long now” that looks deep into the future. This means changing the storytelling formula […] so that the main character is no longer the human but instead our planet.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
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Humanity is going through a coming of age ordeal – just like a teenager goes through in an indigenous community when put in a situation where our world falls apart, when our child’s identity is no longer functional; put into that space between stories so that we can step into the adulthood of the species – a space in which our gifts are turned towa... See more
Charles Eisenstein • Presentation to Uplift Festival, 12.14.2014
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