I am learning to make a stand for being a Game-Changer Qualities of a Game-Changer Cultural historian, the late Thomas Berry said the Great Work of our time is to carry out the transition from the current period where humans are a devastating presence on the Earth, to one where the human presence is mutually beneficial to the planet and the entire community of life—a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship. To do this we need to undergo, at both an individual and collective level, a fundamental transformation – a virtual reinvention of what we consider a human being to be. This Great Work requires a critical mass of conscious, committed individuals working collectively to “change the game.” As a game-changer, I aspire to embody these qualities: 1. I see the human family, in all its diversity, as an integral component in the whole of the web of creation, and I am committed to building a society that reflects and reveres the sacred and interconnected nature of all life. 2. I stand for, and act from a grounded and informed vision that a sustainable, just and fulfilling future for all beings is urgent, possible and essential. 3. I recognize that the universe is friendly and that the evolutionary force that put the stars in motion is moving through us, and is a dynamic, self-organising process whose grace and guidance we can trust. 4. I realize that the human role and responsibility now is as an evolutionary activist, intentionally engaging with the momentum of evolution to shape the future as it is being brought into being. 5. I understand that the collective transformation of our society requires a completely new definition of what is possible in being human, and requires that we enquire deeply into questions such as: “Who am I, really?” and, “What is my relationship to the whole?” 6. I recognize that the social injustice and environmental exploitation in our world are not the “natural order of things,” but rather, are the logical outcome of intentionally designed systems of power and privilege that operate economically, politically, socially, and technologically to perpetuate inequitable access to resources and opportunities. 7. I am able to discern the cultural stories that perpetuate inequity and concentrate power and privilege, and I live from and share new stories that create the paradigm for a just and sustainable future. 8. I am no longer “food” for the system. My actions and interactions move in the direction of undoing rather than consciously or unconsciously being complicit with existing systems and structures that perpetuate an unjust, unsustainable, unfulfilled world. 9. I engage in effective personal and collective actions that strike at the root causes of the global crises, and I involve others in taking those actions as well. 10. I experience being an integral member of a vast and growing evolutionary movement toward reconciliation and wholeness. I recommend fellow Earth dwellers take the time to get out into nature and to meditate to learn how to be for this work.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:30:41 +0000
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