due to the amount of time i'm spending on the ecopsychology MoonLetter, i haven't been able to update this blog.
so i will announce an official hiatus. i really encourage you to sign up for the MoonLetter if you're interested in this area of psychology/philosophy/ecology/politics.
:)
why are you here? what drew you to this blog? what were you looking for when you googled? why have you come back?
why am i here? i need a place to talk about these things. explore the issues that give me this feeling of a swollen throat, this feeling of enormous grief welling up inside me. this grief that is triggered when i see the suffering.
this was my response to:
it's just a small thing. a small contribution (i hope). if we could just pay more attention to the patterns and rhythms, see how they affect us, as humans, rather than just the sea... see how they affect us more than just as SADD... maybe we could start to understand more of our interconnectedness...
so that's what i try to do with my moonster. remind you of the rhythm, invite you to recognize it within yourself...
these were my thoughts on:
to actually tackle this, to grasp it... to think about how wrong our world is... (no, i am wrong. what i mean to say is that our relationship with the world is wrong) this is unfamiliar territory. maybe not for you and me. (i assume here that you, the reader, are concerned with the same things as i am, and so this territory is not strange...)
everything feels out of whack. it's not just me. (sure, my life is full of foibles and dysfunctional family dynamics.) it's everything. it really is, isn't it?
it's so funny
(not funny ha ha)
how we go all this way
just to realize
we've come in a circle
that what we needed
was here already
but the people who knew
we wouldn't listen to them
we hurt them, tortured them
raped them
but they knew all along
the indigenous
the Eastern philosophies
about how we're all interconnected
how we need each other
how we are nature, too.
these were my thoughts on:
For having a sense for how all phenomenon mirror each other, intertwine, and arise only in contact with one another, radically undoes our more usual dualistic, isolated-in-the-head, feel for the world.
p. 26
Among those who do speak directly to social issues, there is nonetheless a tendency to reduce these to the outward "manifestations" of our inner state of consciousness, rather than to consider how socioeconomic and political forces themselves contribute to that inner condition.
p.21
my thoughts:
The Buddhist-Poet Gary Snyder remarks: "If people can acknowledge their membership in the fabric of the whole, acknowledge that they are part of the habitat, part of the network, part of the web, and feel that the welfare of the web is their welfare, and their welfare is the welfare of the web – in other words, not be mindlessly but mindfully one with the whole – that is an extraordinary spiritual and political step right there, and it dumps the cartridges out of the weapons."
p.17
my thoughts:
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on holiday... back on 22 june
In this light, many environmental groups may actually be exploiting our emotional condition -- our fear, guilt, and so forth. Macy herself says that the grim information held up by activists "by itself can increase resistance, deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness."
p. 15
my thoughts:
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