Ons het die Groot Verkiesing oorleef en dit lyk of die wêreld weer asem haal. Daar is reeds ‘n gees van versigtige positiwiteit en optimisme te bespeur. Die gevaar is nog nie verby nie, maar tog …
Lees ek hierdie bemoedigende boodskappe en oproepe tot vernuwing op die internet raak:
- ‘n Nuwe boek deur Matthew Fox: “Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic-And Beyond” Fox, Matthew, Starr, Mirabai: 9781663208682: Amazon.com: Books
A time of crisis and chaos, the kind that a pandemic brings, is among other things, a time to call on our ancestors for their deep wisdom. Not just knowledge but true wisdom is needed in a time of death and profound change, for at such times we are beckoned not simply to return to the immediate past, that which we remember fondly as “the normal,” but to reimagine a new future, a renewed humanity, a more just and therefore sustainable culture, and one even filled with joy.
Julian of Norwich (1342–ca.1429) is one of those ancestors calling to us today. After all, she lived her entire life during the worst pandemic in European history—the Bubonic plague that killed 40-50% of the population….
Miskien is dit tyd dat die vrouens begin oorneem by die verstokte ou mans en hulle ego gederwe, uitgediende idees en ons in ‘n post-post moderne era begin inlei.
Of in die woorde van Dr. Marc Gafni:
Our intention is to articulate a shared vision of what it means to be a human being. Our intention is to articulate a shared story of the New Human and the New Humanity which in-forms us of the core truth – that that which unites us is far greater than that which divides us.
That doesn’t mean that we think that there are not significant differences. That doesn’t mean that there’s not enormous pain. But great humans and great countries and great communities transform pain into art. The art of the evolution of consciousness and culture into a New Story.
‘n Nuwe storie, dit is wat ons nodig het, ‘n storie weg van politiek, weg van haat en verdeling en vergelding. ‘n Storie van ‘n nuwe mens en ‘n nuwe Aarde soos Barbara Marx Hubbard dit gestel het:
On June, 2003 she said there was nothing to fear in the disintegration all around us. She said our crisis in the world is actually a birth. She invited the audience to become as midwives so we might “gentle the collective birth” taking place, the birth of a conscious, creative, loving and high-tech new species. She invited the audience to become this new species and to assist others in becoming the new species as well. She implored the audience to not be afraid. “Disintegration is necessary for the birth of something new to take place,” she said and she spent the rest of her life helping with the birth of this new human beging.
En as ‘n mens so om jou kyk dan lyk dit voorwaar asof daar ‘n nuwe soort mens besig is om gebore te word. Die ou siteme is uitgedien, die nuwe geslag jongmense moet ons nou verder vat, en alle aanduidings is daar dat dat hulle dit wil en kan doen. Onseker tye lê voor, maar ook opwindende tye.
“for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path.” Here it is. “And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”
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