By Sandra Ingerman — 2011
As we continue to experience change to the Earth due to climate changes, it is important for us to shift our perspective about what is happening.
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Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change.
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As my spiritual journey deepened, friends fell away. As I shed one identity after another, I no longer identified with the people attached to them.
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Within situations of physical and emotional abuse, negation and trauma, there are many experiences in life that can be too difficult to bear.
Yes, we must radically transform policing in America. But we cannot stop there. We must transform the pervasive systems of economic and carceral injustice that are choking our common life.
The world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization.
Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature.
Matt Kahn is a spiritual teacher and highly attuned empathic healer.