Charles Eisenstein spoke at Naropa University for the 2019 John and Bayard Cobb Peace Lecture Presentation.. This is a snippet of the talk.
“Today the dominant narrative, whether we recognize it or not , is a war narrative, not only on the obvious level of U.S foreign policy, identifying enemies around the world and bombing them, but also in our basic understanding of how the world works and how to solve problems. War thinking permeates the public psyche. To build a peace narrative, we need to identify the existing war narrative.” He went on to discuss the tendency for nature to be inherently chaotic and have intelligent organization simultaneously. And (paraphrasing here) that we will need to have a lot of genuine compassion not idiot compassion, really walk in another person’s shoes, and sacrifice our righteous identity for us to see some healing and growth out of the polarization that we are currently mired in.
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva- The Trimurti, Triple supreme divinity of Hinduism – representing Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction. Earth based spirituality discusses the cycles of Birth, Life, Death. Endless patterns of three; the Maiden, Mother, Crone. The Hunter, Father, Sage. What this says to me is that we cannot focus on one segment of the life and death cycles. We are going to need to give the other cycles their due attention. We have been focusing too much on destruction by way of controlling, rather than allowing and following the clues of a very intelligent natural Universe.
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