“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ―Richard Bach,
Illusions
We are living now during one of the most
important time periods in human history. Our global species is at a
turning point, the actions and decisions we take collectively over the
next few decades will determine the path humanity (and all life on our
planet) takes far into the future― towards either greater harmony or
chaos, stability or destruction.
If one turns on the television, the news
does not sound good. The mass media feeds our fears, warning of global
warming, terrorism, racism, wealth inequality, economic instability and
ecological collapse.
While most of these problems are real,
what the media (and our leaders) do not understand is how these issues
are ALL symptoms of the destructive ways so-called “advanced”
civilizations see the world and behave. That the way to solve these
problems requires that we grow up (as a species), cultivating a deeper
level of wisdom, compassion and creativity.
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels…” ~Albert Einstein
Our children and grandchildren’s future
depends upon our species become less materialistic, fearful and violent,
more generous, peaceful and caring. It requires that billions of people
“wake up” to a deeper sense of unity and love for our human family and
the Natural world that supports us.
Mother Earth needs us to mature, to
transform ourselves from a selfish caterpillar-like species (that
consumes resources mindlessly), to more spiritual butterfly-like beings,
who behave wisely, dance among the flowers and take joy from living
lightly.
The time has come for our species to evolve
our consciousness, to open our hearts, to question the predatory
behaviors and mechanistic thinking of our more technologically advanced
warrior civilizations.
For thousands of years people in Western
cultures have been wrestling with the illusions we’ve spun from our
dualistic “us vs. them” mindsets and belief systems. It’s like we’ve
been dreaming a shared nightmare together, grounded in the predatory and
feudalistic ways our societies have been organized, rooted in how we
live and think.
Across the centuries, the very
foundation of Western civilization has been based on ideas of separation
and superiority- men above, women below; kings above, peasants below;
humans above, Nature below; etc.
We’ve built walls of separation in our hearts and minds, a sense of sin and abandonment, believing that our entire species was “thrown out of Eden” by a sky God that lives far far away.