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Taming the Squirrel

11/04/2013

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Denise Rushing

Dedicated to re-enchanting Planet Earth with a New Story. Founder of New Story Center. Lives on Dancing TreePeople Farm in Upper Lake, California. More: www.deniserushing.net

Principles of Spiritual Leadership

Will Keepin’s Principles of Spiritual Leadership

(also published as Principles of Spiritual Activism - Source: http://www.earthlight.org/essay40_deboer.html)

Explanation reposted from https://transitiontownmedia.org/the-twelve-principles-of-spiritual-leadership/:
The following is from a presentation at Schumacher College, Totnes, England by Will Keepin, president of the Satyana Institute, Boulder Colorado. Will describes the principles as the beginning of a collective inquiry into how we can apply spiritual teachings in social change work.
1. The motivation underlying our activism for social change must be transformed from anger and despair to compassion and love. This is a major challenge for the environmental movement, for example. It is not to deny the legitimacy of noble anger or outrage at injustice of any kind. Rather, we seek to work for love, rather than against evil. We need to adopt compassion and love as our foundational intention, and do whatever inner work is required to i…

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible

Charles Eisenstein author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, offers a heart-opening view of this moment in time. Watch:

If you haven't read his book, you are in for a treat.

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Befriending Our Despair

As compassionate, sensitive, open people, we can all be overcome by the magnitude of the losses we
see every day. Even the most optimistic among us will be affected by the staggering losses and the daily affronts to our values, sensibilities, and even our sanity.

It is painful. So painful that sometimes we are tempted to close up rather than live from the heart.

Joanna Macy and her "work that Reconnects" asserts that we ought not be afraid of the pain of the world.

If you are not afraid of it, then NOTHING can stop you.

The Rigged Game

I am unaccustomed to rage.

Even as a child, I understood that the game was rigged. Over time, I've become even more aware... though I have had the luxury of not having to think about it all the time--to not have to face it, and the feelings it brings up, day in and day out. All day. Every day.

Until this week.

This week has been particularly difficult (the supreme court nomination hearings) and has exposed yet a another level of the rigged game. It brought up in me a deep rage--and I felt it all week in the pit of my stomach... I was struck by the injustice of it all.

I felt like throwing up.

It gave me the opportunity to imagine what others have felt over generations of systemic injustice.

I understand that I am both privileged and oppressed. I've benefitted from the rigged game in so many ways... from being able to walk into a store without suspicion to having access to higher education. I have also suffered from the rigged game--from wanting society and power structu…

The Time to Mobilize is NOW...

First, here is an excellent article by Bill McKibben on our current response to Climate Castastrophe:

https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii

The net of it is this: it is time for a world-wide large scale mobilization for a "war" we are currently losing. We can turn it around if we put the same level of intensity and energy into fighting it as we did WW2.

Second: Here are the top 100 solutions courtesy of Paul Hawken and his research team. "Drawdown" covers proven solutions that ALL need to be implemented in order to reverse Climate Change:

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

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