The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism): 2

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We learn as well that all of our external institutions reflect our basic perceptions of the world, our invisible ideologies and belief systems.

As we awaken to the interconnectedness of all our systems, we see that we cannot change, for example, our energy technologies without changing the economic system that supports them. Eisenstein’s book is perhaps that most rare of books: the kind that can prompt major revisions in one’s worldview, even in long-established areas of thought that we hold dear. Technologies of Reunion seek to support the aliveness of the soil, listening and observing it as a living being, asking what it needs, trusting that its thriving is connected to our own. So I want to, you know, so now I’ve got to really give, and I’ve got to like give in a way that, you know, and we’re operating in the world of interconnectedness as a separate person. He presents data in dozens of categories showing that the world is far better off in terms of declining violence, longer lifespans, better standard of living, access to health care, declining child death and death of mothers during birth, etc.I mean, one of the things I’ve tried to do is to say, to, to leaders of organizations, all in the same industry, let’s get together. Not very surprising - the way that these gateways to conspiracy work is that they broadly embrace the feeling of the paranoid mindset and they casually point to other influencers who preach the harder stuff, but they make few claims of their own. Eisenstein repeats this a few times more - about how some theory like water memory gets a lot of criticism so there must be something to it. With a few unfortunate exceptions, you would be successful if you obeyed the rules of our society: if you followed the latest medical advice, kept informed by reading the New York Times, got a good education, obeyed the law, made prudent investments, and stayed away from Bad Things like drugs.

It will in fact require the kinds of technologies that are inaccessible to the consciousness that wants to escape responsibility for earth. Some of them are quite mundane; for example, regenerative agriculture and ecological restoration practices. There are some pretty obvious benefits of having this kind of technology but also potential downsides. Like I said, in that quote, it’s not that I’m advocating, never doing anything, but it’s to change the ground from which our doing arises so that we’re not trapped in old patterns.If you worked hard you could get good grades, get into a good college, go to grad school or follow some other professional path, and you would be happy. You don’t have to do, because you will do the unstoppable compulsion to act in bigger and wiser ways than knew possible has already been set in motion. The outward structures of misery yet remain, in society, in our selves, but a new self-world-story has formed within both. My point, though, is that the insights didn’t come from a dramatic life story or unusual discipline.

The holy weaves integral golden threads through the brocade of society, tying together its myths, its sense of itself, its cosmology, its history, and its story-of-the-people. One influence I can say that Chinese has had on my later work is that it helped me work more comfortably with paradox.I couldn’t have articulated the feeling at the time, but I just couldn’t accept my situation as good and right, sitting in rows in the classroom, forced to do things I didn’t care about, filling out worksheet after worksheet, watching the clock tick slowly toward recess. The more beautiful world my heart knows is possible is a world with a lot more pleasure: a lot more touch, a lot more lovemaking, a lot more hugging, a lot more deep gazing into each other’s eyes, a lot more fresh-ground tortillas and just-harvested tomatoes still warm from the sun, a lot more singing, a lot more dancing, a lot more timelessness, a lot more beauty in the built environment, a lot more pristine views, a lot more water fresh from the spring. And there, that was another of a series of experiences that confirmed my sneaking suspicion that there was a lot more to life and reality than I’ve been told. They helped open my mind to different ways of conceiving and perceiving the world that local traditions of Buddhism and Taoism offered.