The Right World View

Dear Oprah and the Word,
This emotional change, as opposed to more thinking and doing; our more normal culturally biased response to effect change, is really about changing our relationship with the source of our life. Our cultural life view is that we live “on” the Earth and the Earth is a collection of things we are charged with using and possessing to prove our value and usefulness. Ours is a culture of consumerism. The Earth and the Universe are a collection of objects to us. How much of a fulfilling emotional relationship can a person or a culture have with a collection of objects? I’d say industrial consumerism by evidence of the amount of depression, anxiety disorders, drug use to escape it and the amount of suffering brought on all Earth’s life forms is a bankrupt worldview.
Our culture is not even based on the on the true understanding of the nature of the universe we live “in”. We live in an unfolding universe that requires our awareness of our, and all its subjects’ place in relationship to the fundamentals that support life.
I’d like a culture that lived in deeply bonded relationships with our enveloping Earth community.

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