The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the …
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Trailer – Facing Adversity: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life
Facing Adversity: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life is an hour-long documentary that explores the magnitude, depth, and speed of our growing planetary crisis, and the opportunity to meet this crisis consciously. The film begins with a visual exploration of key adversity trends facing humanity and includes short stories from people around the world being impacted …
Time to Push by Charles Eisenstein
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. – Carl Sagan The human collective has in the last several years transitioned into a new stage of its birth process. I will draw from Stanislav Grof’s concept of perinatal matrices, a four-stage description of the psychodynamics of birth. Stage 1 is Uterine …
Shambhala Warrior Prophecy as Told by Joanna Macy
Findhorn Fellow, Eco-philosopher and root teacher of The Work That Reconnects, Joanna Macy, shares the twelve centuries old Shambhala Warrior Prophecy from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, which is said to come true in our time. She invites you to listen to it as if it were about you.... "There comes a time when all life …
A Great Turning: The Process by David Korten
A Great Turning to an Ecological Civilization cannot be led or imposed by institutions created to secure the relationships of an Imperial Civilization. Leadership must come from We the People. With no precedent or model to guide us, we must learn as we go, sharing the lessons of our experience as we withdraw our support from the institutions …
Falling in Love with the Earth ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
In 2014, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requested Thich Nhat Hanh to provide a statement about climate change and our relationship to one another and to the Earth. This statement was published on the UNFCCC website, ahead of the Paris Climate Summit in September 2015. Now, in 2021, in the lead …
The Three Narratives Shaping Our World ~ Joanna Macy
Joanna identifies three stories or versions of reality that are shaping our world so that we can see them more clearly and choose which one we want to get behind.
The Origin of the Term The Great Turning by David Korten
The term The Great Turning has come into widespread use to describe the awakening of a higher level of human consciousness and a human turn from an era of violence against people and nature to a new era of peace, justice and environmental restoration. Most people are not aware that this awakening is underway, because positive change …
Your Exclusive Preview of The Great Turning at Findhorn!
We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive preview of our new spiritually-inspired initiative: "Future generations, if there is a liveable world for them, will look back on this epochal transition we are making to a life-affirming society. And they may well call this the time of The Great Turning. It is happening now." …