If in one of the most defining religious-political texts of the human species wed been charged with stewardship of the natural world, not some sort of adolescent, consequence-free control over it, what sort of spiritual understanding would have evolved over the millennia? What sort of technology? What would our civilizations look like if we believed in the depths of our beings that they were not distinct from but part of nature? What if, instead of organizing ourselves around the concept that we have enemies to subdue — survival of the fittest — we explored the complexity of our connectedness to one another and the whole of creation, even when the connections were barely visible? What I am coming to learn, as I ask such questions, is that this understanding is already vibrantly present in the collective human consciousness, drowned out as it may be by the special interests that run our world. These interests, which serve war and money, have belittled complex understanding as paganism and colonized, enslaved and slaughtered its primary keepers: the tribal and indigenous people of the world.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:53:55 +0000
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