Going with the flow

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

 

-Buckminster Fuller

Awakening

The true crisis in our world is not social, political or economic. Our crisis is a crisis of consciousness… an inability to directly experience our true nature… an inability to recognise that nature in everyone and in all things.

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds

Distacco

Moderns who neither kill their own food, nor grow their own food nor bury their own dead would seem to have solved the problem by avoiding it; but in fact the resolution is simply delegated, nowadays, to nightmare, slaughterhouses, torture rooms, death squads, and ‘snuff’ films in which criminal priests perform obscene sacrifices to the gods of displaced responsibility. No one can truly avoid the continuous paradox of life/death as one continuous god or process. Such perception arises from the deepest labyrinth of our psyches, where there is no distinction between ‘primitive’ and ‘modern’. The only difference is that ‘primitives’ strive to be conscious of the paradox; ‘moderns’ try to escape it. But the paradox shows us and ontological maze we cannot sanely deny, destroy, or over leap; we have to learn to walk it again, to dance it, as our ancestors did, with grace, strength, and awe-full wisdom.

 

Monica Sjöö