What would a flourishing Earth be like, from your perspective?
A reply by Winslow Myers, one of the Collins Foundation Press book contributors.
The Earth, as an expression of the universe process, is already flourishing perfectly. We humans are presented with the opportunity to center ourselves — our economics, our governance, our rituals of community and spirit, our ways of resolving conflict — within this stupendous, unfolding process. Our identity has been restricted by a limited and material conception of self-interest. As the negative effects of this limited identification bring the 65 million years of the Cenozoic era to an end, our very challenges and our adolescent resistance to meeting them have become the seeds of a further emergence.
To die to old habits and bloom into a new identity will be painful. But there is no going back. While there is still much to explore, for the first time we know the outlines of our origin story. We know that the universe has direction. For 13.7 billion years it has been alive, moving, dynamic, changing. It continues to push toward greater complexity and deeper consciousness. We humans are an integral part of this process and subject to its laws. We can have faith that we contain in our unknown depths the cooperative power that will enable us to flourish as abundantly and creatively as the universe itself.
Winslow Myers
www.winslowmyers.com
Living BEYOND WAR: A Citizen’s Guide by Winslow Myers a 2009 book for a safer 21st century
Available from Amazon & Orbis Press - http://traubman.igc.org/bwbook.htm
Winslow Myers wrote a chapter in The Evolutionary Epic: Science’s Story and Humanity’s Response entitled “An Artist’s Perspective on the Evolution of the Human.” Available at CollinsFoundationPress.org or on Amazon.
