This is a powerful description of the journey from denial, to collapse awareness, through to collapse acceptance (what Michael Dowd calls “post doom.”) Many are in this place now and many more are on the journey. Some of us are gathering to be in service to life and regeneration, as this is what our heart calls us to do. I’m so appreciating your writing, Gabriel, and sharing often with our community of earth regenerators.
What I find the most difficult is to share this with gratitude and not hope but something strong and positive despite the grim outslook.
Somehow I trust the process. Not for my own well being or redemption, for the larger process at play. A form of maturity that will seed the next generation of consciousness. Like a learning that will migrate to the other side, and in doing so I have found joy where we are. I have found something that feels strangely peaceful...
I hope I can communicate this. I am not a prophet of doom.
Thank you for this, Gabriel. A perfect description of what brought us to this point, and how, once the story breaks, we can choose (in all the ways that's possible) how we want to live in this time. I embrace the brutal truth as an invitation to remember what matters most. ❤️
Thanks for the text, sharp and strong. A gardener here, 30 years on the topic. What started as an intuition (life struggles against the Earth) led to a conviction (after completing Masters’ degree in ecology and philosophy). I'm now convinced that denial is a bigger issue than you wrote, and it's not going the way you said: it's not that the ecological crisis needs to be accepted, but that our 400-year-old worldview needs to be rejected (mourned and then amended).
You wrote: "Story was man's genius. It is now man's downfall." You should amend it to: "Story was man's genius. It should now be living beings' genius."
Meaning: Descartes was right to say Man is anti-natural, but he forgot to mention all life is the same. Animals, plants, they're all part of nature, self-artificial and fighting the Earth. This mistake explains the ecological crisis and our denial to it.
This is a powerful description of the journey from denial, to collapse awareness, through to collapse acceptance (what Michael Dowd calls “post doom.”) Many are in this place now and many more are on the journey. Some of us are gathering to be in service to life and regeneration, as this is what our heart calls us to do. I’m so appreciating your writing, Gabriel, and sharing often with our community of earth regenerators.
Thank you dear one, I appreciate so much.
What I find the most difficult is to share this with gratitude and not hope but something strong and positive despite the grim outslook.
Somehow I trust the process. Not for my own well being or redemption, for the larger process at play. A form of maturity that will seed the next generation of consciousness. Like a learning that will migrate to the other side, and in doing so I have found joy where we are. I have found something that feels strangely peaceful...
I hope I can communicate this. I am not a prophet of doom.
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Thank you for this, Gabriel. A perfect description of what brought us to this point, and how, once the story breaks, we can choose (in all the ways that's possible) how we want to live in this time. I embrace the brutal truth as an invitation to remember what matters most. ❤️
Thanks Maya.
I like to look at he psychology behind our geopolitic... maybe too late to change anything, yet maybe not too late to own what we have done.
❤️
Thanks for the text, sharp and strong. A gardener here, 30 years on the topic. What started as an intuition (life struggles against the Earth) led to a conviction (after completing Masters’ degree in ecology and philosophy). I'm now convinced that denial is a bigger issue than you wrote, and it's not going the way you said: it's not that the ecological crisis needs to be accepted, but that our 400-year-old worldview needs to be rejected (mourned and then amended).
You wrote: "Story was man's genius. It is now man's downfall." You should amend it to: "Story was man's genius. It should now be living beings' genius."
Meaning: Descartes was right to say Man is anti-natural, but he forgot to mention all life is the same. Animals, plants, they're all part of nature, self-artificial and fighting the Earth. This mistake explains the ecological crisis and our denial to it.