Greg VoisenToday, the conversation Greg Voisen and I had about my book “Blinded by Progress” posted as podcast number 436 on Inside Personal Growth. That number lets you know that Greg has been in conversation with a lot of authors about a lot of different topics that comprise “personal growth.”
Listen to our conversation and you’ll quickly sense that Greg’s understands personal growth to be a vast terrain, and that he explores it with authors because he believes we humans have greater capacities for positive participation in our planet’s processes than we have yet used collectively.
To be sure, some teachers of what has been passed along as personal growth have, in fact, advanced MultiEarth, not OneEarth, practices. But the conversation Greg and I have emphasizes that the personal growth we most need today focuses first on the deadend to which MultiEarth practices are taking us. That starting point assures we will use the underused capacities of our spirit-infused humanness as the adventure into OneEarth living requires. UNLESS we recognize just how compromised the future inhabitability of Earth is under MultiEarth practices, the personal growth we advocate will be cosmetic, and not get us to shift as fully as we are capable of. OneEarth practices require our greatest capacities; MultiEarth practices keep us in the illusion that these are beyond our reach.
Or as Greg picks up on so astutely, the subtitle of the book, “Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us,” names why personal growth, individually and collectively, is essential: the crises upon us are delusional, and require soulwork as well as external choices. OneEarth living requires spiritual energies to be activated. OneEarth is a world permeated with dynamic sacredness, and needs us to connect with all species, Earth, our deep and divine Self, and every form of “Otherness.” We need to make that connection with such love that we fit in with this pervasive sacredness as full partners.
Take a close look at Greg’s work. You may want to become what he calls an “Insider” with Inside Personal Growth. I also urge you to get into the Great Conversation by commenting on the conversation Greg and I had together. I believe that our comment energies add to the great shift underway.