Although, my dear, dear friends, I cannot begin to describe how overjoyed and honored I feel at the beginning of our adventure together and how absolutely grateful I feel to all of you willing to turn up, to explore in both the most exalted and also the most grounded and pretty way. The mystery of the great force of sacred activism that is attracting us all.
I never feel myself the teacher of sacred activism.
Sacred activism is my teacher. And I try to share whatever I am learning from this great force of birthing with you so that you can feel as joyful and strong and compassionate and filled with sacred energy as possible because that's going to be essential for the future of humanity.
So the adventure that I feel I am on with you is through your grace of willingness to turn up and I know that there are many who belong to my group who are doing wonderful things already with all of their hearts.
The adventure that I feel I'm on with you is an adventure...
Devastating fires are raging across the states and the world, the news from climate scientists is alarmingly dire, the chances of America becoming fascist expand with every atrocious lie and dark-hearted destruction of the laws that have kept us safe and continuing to hone our democracy. I could go on, but you get the point.
If you don’t believe that fascism can take over America, please watch this 10-minute video from Tim Snyder, the author of the brilliant On Tyranny. Then take a few minutes and read about the alarming new report from the IPCC (read the actual report here or watch the video) on the growing urgency for the world to deal with climate change.
The apocalypse is here and everyone who is half awake knows it. I have known that this would come for 20 years and I have known too what my job was: to keep telling the truth even when I was derided and marginalized and to keep offering humanity grounded and sane tools to deal with an unprecedented...
For thirty years now, I have believed three related truths; that the exploding global crisis we are obviously in is, in essence, an evolutionary crisis, on whose outcome depends the future of the human race and a great deal of the natural world; that this evolutionary crisis is a mystical crisis with two phases, that of the dark night process and the potential Birth that it makes possible of an embodied divine humanity; that the birthing force of this new humanity is Sacred Activism, the marriage of profound and universal spiritual stamina, faith, passion, compassion, and urgent inspired wise action in every realm of Earth life.
Everything I have done and written has been dedicated to this vision and I hold passionately and doggedly to it because I know it isn’t my vision but the one I have been entrusted with to live, honor, make available and protect, whatever the difficulty and resistance that inevitably arise in world drunk on scientific fundamentalism, cheap new age...
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