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

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So, and, and the deepest reaction pattern in civilization and the most problematic one is the pattern of got a problem, find the enemy and dominate it, whatever that is our, our, you know, the problem is our election, our democracy, that working very well must be flat, flattering your Putin, like find the problem. Some key influences were Wendell Berry, Ilya Prigogine, Lewis Mumford, Marshall Sahlins, David Bohm, Helena Nordberg-Hodge, Lynn Margulis… I could name some others, but really this is not primarily a scholarly book, and the list of influences won’t help much to understand it. That book embodies at least a decade of study and thought, but I was actively writing it for just four years. It’s like when you build a tower to heaven, no matter how high you build, you’re not actually ever any closer to the sky, but you’ve built a big, big tower.

And I think that, that it, this does not have to be like, you’re ripping up way something that’s so precious to you. Now I’m not saying that that the COVID virus is not related to this, to the sickness, but it’s, it’s interesting that, that there’s such a tremendous mobilization to do something about coronavirus, because we knew what to do. In many cases, because of licensing requirements, building codes, and so forth, it is actually illegal to do things we once did for each other. When I read Charles Eisenstein I felt as if I had just put on an extraordinarily clear, lucid, morally honest set of glasses.And take heed, it will open your heart and mind, arouse ire and derision, and change the way you think about your life. 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.

Legitimacy is a matter of collective perception, and we have the power to change people’s perceptions. No, this comes up for me as a, you know, sort of semi-public figure, you know, as, as like, if necessary, am I willing to sacrifice? By doing this, though, we attempt to borrow legitimacy from the very system we hope to subvert, and indirectly enhance its legitimacy by associating our own with its.Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment. Is that a success in the story of separation, it’s invisible, that kind of success, but there is a yearning in everybody that is visible from the story of inner being.

It is a future for humanity collectively, and it is a future for each of us individually, and for every level of society between and outside those poles: intimate relations, community relations, political relations, ecological relations. 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 holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are.