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The Astonishment
“We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many.
We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.”
~Mary Oliver
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In a society where nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind, we are all wondering about the purpose of this existence and where it is leading us. Modern societies have perfected the mechanisms of making people not feel necessary.
…Supporting the hypnotic state that alienates people and makes them invisible has become the “purpose” of humanity, a global religion of doom.
I see a way of demolishing this: communicate your truth, build pure and loving communities, connect to cosmic wisdom and let it transform you into a fertile land, a waterfall where humans can gather and drink awakening.
