Change the Story, Change the World
Inspired by the integration of Māori culture and language into mainstream New Zealand society, Charles speaks in this video about how humanity can move from a story of separation - from each other and the planet's natural ecosystems - into a story of interbeing and connectedness. Watch video
Right now humanity is playing out the narrative of the hero and destroyer, so we are constantly at war. However, even at the very brink of our potential destruction, we can shift the narrative and come into our power as creators, stewards and caretakers, and build a better future for generations to come. Thank you to UpliftConnect for spotlighting Jamaica Stevens in this heartening 2-minute clip. Jessica is author and curator of Reinhabiting the Village. Watch video
"It is deep in the human psyche and the vast panoply of human cultures to tell ourselves stories about our world. A story is the lens by which a group interprets and controls its experience, creating meaning according to the values its members hold and most deeply believe. A story may be largely unconscious and unquestioned, and even assumed to be the only reality, although no story is inherently complete. "We authors recognize three stories commonly held in the industrialized world today: … Continue reading
"For some decades now, we have been going through a “spiritual crisis,”.... and that crisis can be seen as a struggle for the core narrative of our culture. The real “culture war” is not between one society's culture and another but between between the “old story” that tells us we live in a random universe made of physical particles and an emerging story, being in part recovered from a long (and often forgotten) tradition of human wisdom that says, No! We live in a meaningful universe pervaded … Continue reading
"This conversation with the amazing Gigi Coyle was recorded with a small live audience on a houseboat, where Gigi was recovering from knee surgery. "Gigi is a source of valuable wisdom for activists and change-agents today; a veteran of 1970's feminist and environmental movements, she has turned to deeper levels of activism. We connected on topics of ritual, surrender to a path, the importance of water, community, ambivalence and paradox, living our songlines, myth as a conveyor of truth, and … Continue reading
Guy Dauncey, Findhorn Fellow and author of the novel, Journey to the Future: A Better World Is Possible, shares his felt sense of an EcoRenaissance he sees emerging right now on our beautiful planet – the birth of a new vision, the promise of a new future. "....I feel this other future that is already happening today. I see it being lived out in the lives of people who have decided that they want to contribute something positive, who want their lives to be rich and purposeful, who are working … Continue reading
The Gifts of Nothingness Before they are able to enter a new story, most people—and probably most societies as well—must first navigate the passage out of the old. In between the old and the new, there is an empty space. It is a time when the lessons and learnings of the old story are integrated. Only when that work has been done is the old story really complete. Then, there is nothing, the pregnant emptiness from which all being arises. Returning to essence, we regain the ability to act from … Continue reading
Reprinted by kind permission of Michael Lindfield, Findhorn Fellow and Meditation Mount Board President The Ageless Wisdom explains that the soul is in constant meditation – patiently watching and waiting for signs of response from its earthly counterpart. The power and beauty of the Soul is live-streaming its radiant message of new possibilities 24×7 but sadly many are totally unaware that their essential nature is calling and therefore do not register these inner signals of renewal and … Continue reading
In this four-minute video, David Korten outlines the three basic creation stories and their impact on our lives. He then asks, What is our distinctive place within that larger creative process? What is our contribution? "Our lives have potentially infinite meaning in terms of the call to use our creative potential to enhance, to advance the development, the complexity, the health, the vitality, the creative power of life itself." David is the author of Change the Story, Change the Future: A … Watch video