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Nan,
I was just talking with my mother-in-law about this. She is so
focused on the problem - what is wrong, and fighting against it. Educating
people about how horrible it is (whatever it is - in this case she was
talking about prisons). I rather think the direction is to talk about what
might be ( not what will be) and what could be - but with the soul in it,
as you pointed out. I don't think we can find our way to a positive future
without that connection to *****, and also a continual openness to what is
and what can be, rather than a condemnation of what is. Because there is
just as much good out there, we just have to focus on it.
That is a challenge. And for me today, in this particular day, it
is a particular challenge. My day is clouding up with negatives. I can
feel them taking over my soul.
I think the positive future unfolds. I don't think it is a linear
path - I don't think we set our sights on a particular goal and get to the x
marks the spot place. I think the x keeps moving and turning into y's and
other things. But I don't really know. I just try to keep hoping.
Jill
At 10:30 AM 3/25/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Is an intellectual trying to figure out a total vision how to get to
>sustainability an oxymoron? If Anne Wilson Schaef is right that it's a 12
>step recovery process, then it can't be done with the left brain. I have met
>in person and by email several visionary environmental authors and they all
>seem less than happy about their work. Stuck. ;-D
>
>"When ...Ted Turner funded a competition to find a fictional work
>demonstrating
>a plan for sustainability, ten thousand
>manuscripts poured in. And yet, reports Turner, "we did not have one
>plausible
>treatise on how we could get to a sustainable, peaceful future."'(Chellis
>Glendinning's, "My Name is Chellis and I'm in recovery from Western
>Civilization.", 1994, p 206)
>
>Maybe my focus should be on healing myself from the addictions of the
>Dominator
>paradigm.
>
>>From Anne Wilson Schaef, Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science. "Years ago,
>theologians talked about sin as an alienation from God. Alienation from our
>spirituality allows us to commit all manner of destruction on ourselves, other
>people and the environment. Alienation from God is an alienation from
>ourselves. Addictions are necessary for us to deal with the pain and to
>achieve a level of pseudo-functioning when we are alienated from our
>spirituality.
>
>A new paradigm must, by necessity, be one that facilitates our reconnection
>with our spirituality. In the new paradigm, there is a recognition and an
>assumption that we are spiritual beings. This assumption accepts the reality
>that we are, by nature, connected with what we have called God and all of
>creation. It is through our addictions that we shut off this awareness and
>alienate ourselves from this natural oneness." (p. 304)
>
>
>
>Nan Hildreth Nan.Hildreth@pdq.net
>
>It's all a dreadful muddle of nutcases, addicts, and hypocrites. And I shall
>struggle not to be one of the worst of them. ;-D
>
>"Humor is the WD-40 of healing." - George Goodstriker, Kainai (Blackfoot)
>Elder Canada quoted in Native Wisdom for White Minds, by Anne Wilson Schaef
>
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