Re-Centering in Earth-Consciousness after Getting Off-Center

So many things demand the center of our attention. However, nothing demanding the center can be there without our consent. We choose what we put at the center of our consciousness. It’s a wonderful power to claim because, at this moment in time, our species has gotten off-center and needs to re-center.

Here’s what I mean.

In the big picture, Earth is now demanding the center of our attention through all the ecological crises. Our children and grandchildren want us to agree that Earth is a deserving center for our consciousness. The viability of their lives in the remainder of this century absolutely depends on us living Earth-centered ways. Civilization has gotten us off-center.

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Sizing Up Our Great Work

Two provocative quotes stand as epigraphs at the head of Chapter Two in my next book. The first is from Thomas Berry; the second from Jungian psychotherapist James Hollis.

(1) The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner. This historical change is something more than the transition from the classical Roman period to the medieval period, or from the medieval period to modern times. Such a transition has no historical parallel since the geobiological transition that took place 67 million years ago when the period of the dinosaurs was terminated and a new biological age begun.

(2) It is far easier to walk in shoes too small for us than to step into the largeness that soul expects and demands.

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OneEarth Living after the 2014 U.S. Midterm Elections

Thomas BerryLots of candidates won in the U.S. 2014 midterm elections who speak and vote in ways hostile to our planet. Paradoxically, many progressive initiatives and propositions on ballots received majority victories. I won’t offer an analysis in this blog. Instead, I’ll offer a quote from Thomas Berry that reminds us all what our Great Work is no matter how elections go.

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