Grief has been described as love with nowhere to go.
One of the things that has always resonated with me is your ability to connect with your emotions. It doesn’t get talked about enough, I say this as a 48 year old male. We don’t set an example that this is a valid way to navigate the world.
Your journey from a materialistic perspective to one of interconnection mirrors my own, this has been unfolding in a profound way over the last few years. I use the same words and make the same clarification about the definition of materialism. We each have our own gateway into this connectedness journey, and in my case if I look back there were many on ramps that I ignored. The path for me was being intentional about feeling my feelings, a small thing with profound ramifications. Notice the tingling up your spine, the shivers you get, the moments of tightness and constriction. Your body and your mind are here to work together, spending more time building this awareness is a powerful thing, in truth it is an internal compass.
My journey to greater self awareness and consciousness is something that I started to experience in my mid forties, my daughter started her journey in her late teens. Our collective consciousness seems is evolving, we see it in successive generations. My hope is that a better understanding of ourselves and our connectedness are the tools need to help us make a planet preserving, planet loving transition.
Social fracturing has been with us since we became human. I just finished reading Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. Cooking evolved homo habilis into homo erectus. In order to cook routinely, we needed to hunt and gather, which produced the first surplus, even if surplus only lasted a few hours.
Surplus meant property. The time spent for cooking and its preparation required protection. Protection fell to men, so cooking fell to women, trapping women in bondage to a male protection racket. So slavery has been with us since we were homo erectus, and slavery is certainly a fracturing social institution.
The carbon pulse has lengthened lives and allowed reduction in childbearing, making each child and marital bond more precious. A social benefit of the carbon pulse is a reduction of human and animal slavery, and another is permission to love and grieve. Perhaps as we turn the peak of the pulse, we can experience what Joanna Macy calls The Great Turning, and begin to heal from our original homo erectus conflict.
Healing is never pleasant. It hurts. It itches. It has side effects. Go ahead and weep, dear Nate, and may you be healed. Your grief is rooted in love.
Your followers feel your love, and we love you in return. Namaste.
Did you see, https://ourworldindata.org/climate-change-support? The perception gap is smaller than you think. Most citizens of the US perceive it as larger than it is, with climate deniers also having the most mistaken impression of their fellow citizens. Our society is less fractured than it appears.
How can there be a spiritual side to our predicament? What is "spiritual?" We are all composed of atoms, just like every other species. Indeed, we, as a species, evolved from other species. You said you were a material person and then veered off into the immaterial. It's the physical laws that led to our predicament. As a species, we consume resources as fast as we can. Humans are particularly good at consuming and inventing the tools to eliminate the bulk of other species who compete with us. That has inevitably led to the predicament we face. It's physics. The physical aspects of our predicament are not going to change, no matter how much we feel connected to everything. Please stick to the material world.
Woo is OK, Nate. Woo is just knowledge that the mass of humanity has lost touch with, is innate but now lost by most humans. Being emotional is OK, too, as that helps us experience life instead of intellectually deciding what reality is. So, tell me, what was your trip to Auroville for anyway? Why did you go? Unless I missed it (in which case I apologize for the following), you have not told us – as promised – why you went, what you planned on accomplishing, what you were wanting to get out of it, what you did get out of it? Is that because it is hard to articular it at the soul level, to a humanity not there psychically with you? Was it because it only has meaning to you as an individual soul that is part of the oneness of existence, and therefore is not completely applicable to other individual souls that are part of the same oneness? You don’t have to answer these question to your followers, but you do have to answer them for yourself. Keep up the good (evolving) work.
Grief has been described as love with nowhere to go.
One of the things that has always resonated with me is your ability to connect with your emotions. It doesn’t get talked about enough, I say this as a 48 year old male. We don’t set an example that this is a valid way to navigate the world.
Your journey from a materialistic perspective to one of interconnection mirrors my own, this has been unfolding in a profound way over the last few years. I use the same words and make the same clarification about the definition of materialism. We each have our own gateway into this connectedness journey, and in my case if I look back there were many on ramps that I ignored. The path for me was being intentional about feeling my feelings, a small thing with profound ramifications. Notice the tingling up your spine, the shivers you get, the moments of tightness and constriction. Your body and your mind are here to work together, spending more time building this awareness is a powerful thing, in truth it is an internal compass.
My journey to greater self awareness and consciousness is something that I started to experience in my mid forties, my daughter started her journey in her late teens. Our collective consciousness seems is evolving, we see it in successive generations. My hope is that a better understanding of ourselves and our connectedness are the tools need to help us make a planet preserving, planet loving transition.
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Deep sympathy for your loss of Maisy.
Social fracturing has been with us since we became human. I just finished reading Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. Cooking evolved homo habilis into homo erectus. In order to cook routinely, we needed to hunt and gather, which produced the first surplus, even if surplus only lasted a few hours.
Surplus meant property. The time spent for cooking and its preparation required protection. Protection fell to men, so cooking fell to women, trapping women in bondage to a male protection racket. So slavery has been with us since we were homo erectus, and slavery is certainly a fracturing social institution.
The carbon pulse has lengthened lives and allowed reduction in childbearing, making each child and marital bond more precious. A social benefit of the carbon pulse is a reduction of human and animal slavery, and another is permission to love and grieve. Perhaps as we turn the peak of the pulse, we can experience what Joanna Macy calls The Great Turning, and begin to heal from our original homo erectus conflict.
Healing is never pleasant. It hurts. It itches. It has side effects. Go ahead and weep, dear Nate, and may you be healed. Your grief is rooted in love.
Your followers feel your love, and we love you in return. Namaste.
Did you see, https://ourworldindata.org/climate-change-support? The perception gap is smaller than you think. Most citizens of the US perceive it as larger than it is, with climate deniers also having the most mistaken impression of their fellow citizens. Our society is less fractured than it appears.
How can there be a spiritual side to our predicament? What is "spiritual?" We are all composed of atoms, just like every other species. Indeed, we, as a species, evolved from other species. You said you were a material person and then veered off into the immaterial. It's the physical laws that led to our predicament. As a species, we consume resources as fast as we can. Humans are particularly good at consuming and inventing the tools to eliminate the bulk of other species who compete with us. That has inevitably led to the predicament we face. It's physics. The physical aspects of our predicament are not going to change, no matter how much we feel connected to everything. Please stick to the material world.
Woo is OK, Nate. Woo is just knowledge that the mass of humanity has lost touch with, is innate but now lost by most humans. Being emotional is OK, too, as that helps us experience life instead of intellectually deciding what reality is. So, tell me, what was your trip to Auroville for anyway? Why did you go? Unless I missed it (in which case I apologize for the following), you have not told us – as promised – why you went, what you planned on accomplishing, what you were wanting to get out of it, what you did get out of it? Is that because it is hard to articular it at the soul level, to a humanity not there psychically with you? Was it because it only has meaning to you as an individual soul that is part of the oneness of existence, and therefore is not completely applicable to other individual souls that are part of the same oneness? You don’t have to answer these question to your followers, but you do have to answer them for yourself. Keep up the good (evolving) work.