Growing Edge

I'm heading into the Ecuadorian Rainforest to be with an intact indigenous tribe - the Achuar - a dream-based culture. Pachamama (Mother Earth) calls...

It's time to get serious about changing the Dream.

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

When I was five years old, I was introduced to the Magic Kingdom.  I loved all the themes, but especially enjoyed Tomorrowland and "The City of the Future."  I knew in my heart that technology
would make everything even better.

Fast forward fifty four years...

Cynicism is obedience. 

From a great article by Alex Steffan:

"Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the seeds of mistrust between those you would rule over: as Machiavelli said, tyrants do not care if they are hated, so long as those under them do not love one another."

A powerful video - story in images. (not to time scale, obviously). Enjoy.

From Charles Eisenstein:
"Every act that comes from the understanding of interconnection, of inner being, is a spiritual act, and
also a political act.

By acting from a different story, we disrupt the psychic substructure of our mythology. And we offer an alternative... any time that we give somebody an experience that doesn’t fit into the old story, it weakens that old story. It disrupts it. It could be an act of generosity. It could be an act of forgiveness. Anything that violates that understanding that we’re separate, and everyone’s in it for themselves,

Being in service to something larger than yourself. "

Wow and yes.  Watch:

Will Keepin’s Principles of Spiritual Leadership 

Adapted by the Pachamama Alliance from a presentation at Schumacher College, Totnes, England by Will Keepin of the Satyana Institute, Boulder, Colorado, this provisional set of “principles of spiritual leadership” provide the beginning of a collective inquiry into how we can apply spiritual teachings and wisdom in the work of global citizen game changers. 

(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 implement this intention. Even if our outward actions remain the same, there is a major difference in results if our underlying intention …