Grieving could offer a pathway out of a destructive economic system. Our failure to deal with the collective and individual pain generated as a result of our destructive economic system is blocking us from reaching out for the solutions that can help us to find another direction . . . We don’t need more scientific data or superficial behaviour change initiatives, but rather to engage individuals at a deep emotional, psychological and spiritual level . . . As mythologist Joseph Campbell pointed out: It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal – carries the cross of the redeemer – not in the bright moments of his tribe’s great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair. In particular we need to grieve for the destruction we have wrought so that we have a chance to heal ourselves. “Humanity has developed a very deep ability to push devastating information about the impacts of our actions into our subconscious and this is a danger. We are numbing ourselves to this life going out. “Expressing grief has always been a cathartic experience and a rebalancing mechanism, and I believe it is a part of building the foundation for any new story we might want to tell.” tinyurl/nrlxg3x
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 03:32:21 +0000
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