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Taming the Squirrel

11/04/2013

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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 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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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…

Lessons from Pachamama - Call to Change the Dream

Twenty five years ago, the Aschuar, an ancient indigenous dream culture deep within the Amazon rainforest in South America, began receiving warnings in their dreams. Their ancestral lands were at risk, not only potentially destroying their way of life, but all life, which depends on the rainforest, he lungs on Planet Earth. Receptive people in the North began receiving dreams of people with painted faces. When they eventually met these people, they knew them.

The Pachamama Alliance was born.

At the invitation of both the Aschuar and Sapura people, we set out on a journey in search of wisdom, a journey that would take us into the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest to encounter the wisdom of Pachamama and our own dreams. I've always been fascinated by dreams, the unconscious speaking to us and offering insights and so was drawn to this journey.

Pachamama means "Mother Earth" or more precisely "life force of mother earth."
The mission of Pachamama Alliance …

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