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What you've written makes me think you are not familiar with Brian Swimme, who could go down in history as one of its memorable changemakers. Just to get your attention, he says that the (inevitable) adoption of the Universe Story as humanity's creation story would create as big a shift as Copernicus did, taking Earth out of the center o…
What you've written makes me think you are not familiar with Brian Swimme, who could go down in history as one of its memorable changemakers. Just to get your attention, he says that the (inevitable) adoption of the Universe Story as humanity's creation story would create as big a shift as Copernicus did, taking Earth out of the center of the universe. And it's not some fanciful idealism but it's what science delivered to us which we haven't caught up with given as complex and enmeshed as all the gears of civilization are. The changes that will be wrought -- if we last long enough to get to them -- would reorder a world where money, that rules now, does not want to relinquish its position. For a little aside, it's why alcohol is legal and psychedelics, that revolutionize thinking, aren't.
How much can I say here? Before Hubble we thought ours was the only galaxy and although now we know there are 2 trillion, our story of who we are and what we are doing here hasn't changed to fit that radically changed understanding. And we thought it was a dead universe, all fixed, with Earth here for our use, but now we know it's an expanding universe -- i.e. it's alive, creating newness all the time. And that it had an origin whereby it all has evolved together, all interconnected. If we got it that we are one humanity (an inspirational storyteller delivers that), we would care about each other instead of the rugged individualism that still rules the day. How to get that story delivered? Join me in looking, as per my invite: "Looking for a committee to think with for a conversation to save the world" https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/looking-for-a-committee-to-think.
What mystics delivered, as per all the wisdom traditions, now has science to validate those perceptions. We ARE one. How much healthier it would have been had we not put gods outside ourselves, and seen Jesus and all the others who are worshipped as having pieced the veil of dense humanity to show us the bigger picture (where we all are sacred creatures in a sacred universe...just look around) that it is game-changing to tune into now.
Can I connect you to Brian? Could he do a program for your people?
I'd be delighted to be connected with Brian 🎉
And to be clear: i agree that adopting such a story at the level of even a culture (and even better at scale of humanity at large) would be completely transformative. That's the very logic of the second renaissance narrative. The point I'm emphasizing is for us to think in some depth about *how* such a major change in a core cultural narrative comes about. It took several hundred years for modernity to mature and to be adopted by a state elite. Let's hope this time it goes faster 😉
Connecting to Brian has to wait a while. From him: "I'm having surgery on my kidneys next week. The doctor said it'd be two weeks to recover, but it could take six weeks."
You're asked THE question. How? We didn't have the internet before. Also, the up-against-the-wall we find ourselves, where we are ripe for a shift.
It's a question I'll pose for that committee I'm looking for. This was the follow-up post I made to the invite I put out that's above:
"The urgency of NOW/Searching for what to do" https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/the-urgency-of-now
I will seed that with Ideas I've been posting. Here's a summary of them I did a while back: "What's on A ROADMAP TO THE FUTURE? What we-the-people can do" https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/whats-on-a-roadmap-to-the-future