A new relationship with animals, nature and each other.

Posts from the ‘Humans’ category

    End These Religious Festivals Now!
    Pope Francis and Mother Earth
    Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
    An Emerging Consciousness

    The Tree of Knowledge

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    In the story of the Garden of Eden, our early ancestors find themselves confronted by a choice.

    They’re already developing an increasingly complex self-awareness that gives them the ability to think in terms of good and bad. And they’re acquiring an existential understanding of their personal mortality.

    As this awareness grows, they find themselves hearing two voices: one calling them back to a state of innocence in paradise; the other beckoning them forward to a future where they might become “as gods” in their own right, taking dominion over the world, freeing themselves from their animality, and even becoming immortal.

    (Second in a series about how and why our relationship to our fellow animals has deteriorated to the point of an unfolding mass extinction.)

    An Emerging Consciousness – Part Two

    Does the empathy that certain people have with nonhuman life constitute the seed of a new kind or level of consciousness?

    Could it be possible for a body of people, who are of like mind and heart in relation to our fellow animals, to give rise to a new kind of collective consciousness?

    At a time of mass extinction, it’s a notion that, however fanciful, may be the only future available to us.