The flourishing of all life

The following quotation is from an article by Charles Einsenstein which highlights the collective assumption behind our present destructive way of being in the world.

“The deeper causes of climate change are identical to the deeper causes of most of the violence, injustice, and ecological harm on Earth. Some say that cause is capitalism, but the former socialist countries were just as rapacious as capitalist countries, if not more so. I propose that the root cause of ecocide is the world-story of modern civilization. I call it the Story of Separation: the story that holds me separate from you, humanity separate from nature, spirit separate from matter, and soul separate from flesh; that holds full beingness and consciousness to be the exclusive province of the human being, whose destiny is therefore to rise to domination over the mechanical forces of nature to impose intelligence onto a world that has none.”

At this time, activism needs to take a number of forms. One form is to consciously live into a new Story of identity, purpose, and values - a Story beyond that of Separation; a new Story which centres on interbeing and turns on the principle of unity with diversity.