Yes emotional and intellectual discipline internally. Thank you. How do you get back to that place if you feel disillusioned- which you must do at times? I think it’s practice and prayer? Anything else you particularly find helpful?
You learn to navigate these things. I think meditation is the best equalizer. It's also understandable in the middle of all this to feel a genuine grief about wht's going on. I find that if I let myself have the grief, I can feel it inside myself when it's gone beyond honoring my feeling into indulging them. That's when I know it's time to get up, snap out of it, and do something to try to help.
Yes. And it is about snapping out of the bad habits we’ve created. Speaking personally. Thank you 🙏 Meditation and thank you for your book Illuminata. It helps me daily even the days I’m struggling I know to open it and become a clearer version of myself.
The guns need to be turned into gardening tools, the ‘demonizing’ into creative visualizations we are becoming angels and friends to all life. The way things are going, it may be time to consider future lives…
Till then, may we awaken to each other’s genius for co-creative peace. Intellect alone don’t work no more, heart now needs to speak; needs to speak from one and all. Stop all wars, love one another, maybe have 3 presidents at once, not one. Love the earth, stop selling kids guns and internet games of war. Wage Peace! Your Department of Peace is needed now!
I agree with you and would like to add that the entertainment industry with the abundance of violent movies out there normalizing this behavior needs to stop.
You wrote/said it sooooooo right-on perfect ❤️❤️❤️ !
I've never been in a situation I couldn't talk through or walk away from ... except when I was pre-talking age and I bit a hairy angry leg.
Later my aunt said she thought I slowed the offender down a bit.
But after that time, I've always been somehow able to talk thru situations and walk on.
Maybe sometime in the future I might have to be physically violent or yell but not yet so far since that hairy calf (leg below knee).
I'm 65 years old and maybe I'm lucky so far.
The 1960's were a Huge influence, too -- passive sit-ins to not go to war, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, Gloria Steinem feminism, a few weekend commune visits w/ natural herb gardens and clay pots handmade from riverbank clay.
These all influenced and stuck with me and all of that is always the way for me to go.
It works.
Anyway I don't know how you put the words together so well
“All is not hopeless if we recognize it is not human nature but a dominator model of society that in our age of high technology inexorably drives us toward nuclear war…. There are alternatives to a system founded on the forced-based ranking of one half of humanity over the other.” - from The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler.
This may be one of the most important books women can read if we want to know the eons of peace our planet has experienced. Only with the rise of the patriarchy, what Eisler calls the “dominator model,” some 5000 years ago, have we experienced such division, exploitation, and destruction.
"Cometh the hour, cometh the woman" One of the most vital messages of our times. It goes deep into the roots of violence and the impact of violence and the reverberating impact through generations and it all comes down to self leadership. Thank you for your courage, wisdom and intelligence.
"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me..." I am doing my work and truly aware of how deeply all humanity is connected. I catch myself falling and failing, but oh how I rebound! Like the mitochondrial network under our feet, what I send out matters. Thoughts matter, words matter, actions matter, from infancy to elder hood, from the top and loudest to the vulnerable and silenced. Thank you for speaking so profoundly.
A new movement has recently emerged in the United States, leading to the formation of a “Goodwill Party”. Their candidate barely crossed the threshold to qualify for the first televised debate. She is ready to represent all people who yearn for a more wholesome society based on both freedom and justice, while emphasizing compassion and practical action instead of a large set of impossible goals that may impress the electorate but fail to deliver actual results.
The moderator gives the Democrat, Republican and Goodwill candidates 5 minutes each for their opening remarks. The Goodwill candidate goes first.
“Hello, my fellow Americans, all of whom I genuinely and humbly wish to represent, not because of your religion or ideology but simply because you are fellow humans and I acknowledge our shared humanity.
This election cycle is estimated to cost over $10 billion in donations for expensive advertising. I have raised only about $50 million, compared to my two opponents sitting here next to me. However, there’s one very important thing you need to know. All of my contributors are fully aware that every penny is going towards three main projects:
1) renovating elderly care facilities and publicly acknowledging those companies in the industry who voluntarily reform their business practices to be less predatory and instead use their money to the fullest on the people.
2) empowering local communities with resources for mapping, documenting and legally challenging companies who knowingly emit highly toxic pollution into the air, lakes and streams of low-income urban areas.
3) developing a food sharing program that partners grocery chains with local food banks to help minimize otherwise wasted produce while feeding hungry families who can barely afford to pay their bills.
What will the other candidates do with all their billions of dollars? Spend it on negative ads? Put millions of signs in yards? Boast about their reputation while promising to make good on their impossible platform after being elected?
The people working in my campaign, my advisors and many supporters, are in it for the right reasons. We’re already involved in doing what is practical, productive and benefits the people.
I yield the remaining 2 minutes for my opponents who will need every second! I love you, my fellow Americans, and I’ll leave ideology out of my work. Who do you trust?”
———————-
….perhaps a dream, you say, but I believe a goodwill movement is coming before long. It will stretch beyond elections as many people become inspired into action to heal the broken parts of our fragmented world.
———————-
Carl Sagan (1988): “Although we must cooperate to an unprecedented degree, I am not arguing against healthy competition. But let us compete in finding ways to reverse the nuclear arms race and to make massive reductions in conventional forces; in eliminating government corruption; in making most of the world agriculturally self-sufficient. Let us vie in art and science, in music and literature, in technological innovation. Let us have a honesty race. Let us compete in relieving suffering and ignorance and disease; in respecting national independence worldwide; in formulating and implementing an ethic for responsible stewardship of the planet.”
Yes. Peace and the love that sustains it are a force for change. Please continue to speak louder and louder, Marianne, encouraging us to be louder from our hearts, our souls, our minds. This is what we desperately need in our country. Loud voices of love that have no boundaries of left or right or any sort. Yours is well positioned to be that lead voice. Speak so not just we who are already there with you hear you. So much love and appreciation for you. Breah
As you would know, Marianne, the foundations of war and violence lie in child abuse.
Robin Grille’s magisterial Parenting for a Peaceful World spells out how unresolved trauma plays out on the world stage. He draws on the work on psychohistorian Lloyd deMause.
The most immediate implication is that municipalities and health services would do well to invest in supporting young parents in learning how to bring out more of their nurturing side than their punitive side.
Of course, many if not most adults have unresolved trauma. Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score describes highly effective experiential healing techniques for resolving trauma. We’ve gone way past Freud.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not invent these techniques. I selected them first, because people can get great results using them for themselves, and, secondly, because they can be easily introduced to people we know when appropriate.
In doing so, we are not acting as a professional therapist, but as trainers.
I am project lead for Stable Planet Alliance’s League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Our vision is that regular people, such as those who comment on this thread, step up to a new level of leadership and responsibility and introduce such techniques to people they know. They actually contribute to fostering the cultural evolution necessary to evolve a peaceful society.
Importantly, Evolutionary Catalysts, also talk about catastrophic ecological trends – a hothouse earth, for example, will be unbearably horrible – with a view to transforming the system that drives our destruction. It takes thinking.
Marianne, This is so powerful. Thank you. I just forwarded this to 51 of my family and friends. I also just ordered bumper stickers that simply say Matt 25:31-46. I get that the inner work is so important. Thank you Thank you Thank you.
I love it when you sound divinely angry. May human beings hear your message!
Marianne-May your voice for the cultivation of peace resonate throughout the world.
And let's continue to support her call for this too!
God bless you Marianne for your good work and message.
I grew up with guns but always used them respectfully. And I have supported peace all my life.
But then again I had good parents growing up.
Important to hear.
You are blessed Foster!
Yes emotional and intellectual discipline internally. Thank you. How do you get back to that place if you feel disillusioned- which you must do at times? I think it’s practice and prayer? Anything else you particularly find helpful?
You learn to navigate these things. I think meditation is the best equalizer. It's also understandable in the middle of all this to feel a genuine grief about wht's going on. I find that if I let myself have the grief, I can feel it inside myself when it's gone beyond honoring my feeling into indulging them. That's when I know it's time to get up, snap out of it, and do something to try to help.
Yes. And it is about snapping out of the bad habits we’ve created. Speaking personally. Thank you 🙏 Meditation and thank you for your book Illuminata. It helps me daily even the days I’m struggling I know to open it and become a clearer version of myself.
Yes, indeed, Marianne. Bravo. One must just step out and do something!
The guns need to be turned into gardening tools, the ‘demonizing’ into creative visualizations we are becoming angels and friends to all life. The way things are going, it may be time to consider future lives…
Till then, may we awaken to each other’s genius for co-creative peace. Intellect alone don’t work no more, heart now needs to speak; needs to speak from one and all. Stop all wars, love one another, maybe have 3 presidents at once, not one. Love the earth, stop selling kids guns and internet games of war. Wage Peace! Your Department of Peace is needed now!
I agree with you and would like to add that the entertainment industry with the abundance of violent movies out there normalizing this behavior needs to stop.
yes yay
I agree 🙂❤️ !
You wrote/said it sooooooo right-on perfect ❤️❤️❤️ !
I've never been in a situation I couldn't talk through or walk away from ... except when I was pre-talking age and I bit a hairy angry leg.
Later my aunt said she thought I slowed the offender down a bit.
But after that time, I've always been somehow able to talk thru situations and walk on.
Maybe sometime in the future I might have to be physically violent or yell but not yet so far since that hairy calf (leg below knee).
I'm 65 years old and maybe I'm lucky so far.
The 1960's were a Huge influence, too -- passive sit-ins to not go to war, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, Gloria Steinem feminism, a few weekend commune visits w/ natural herb gardens and clay pots handmade from riverbank clay.
These all influenced and stuck with me and all of that is always the way for me to go.
It works.
Anyway I don't know how you put the words together so well
and Yes 🙂❤️ !
Irene, I think you did just fine with your words! Joan
“All is not hopeless if we recognize it is not human nature but a dominator model of society that in our age of high technology inexorably drives us toward nuclear war…. There are alternatives to a system founded on the forced-based ranking of one half of humanity over the other.” - from The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler.
This may be one of the most important books women can read if we want to know the eons of peace our planet has experienced. Only with the rise of the patriarchy, what Eisler calls the “dominator model,” some 5000 years ago, have we experienced such division, exploitation, and destruction.
"Cometh the hour, cometh the woman" One of the most vital messages of our times. It goes deep into the roots of violence and the impact of violence and the reverberating impact through generations and it all comes down to self leadership. Thank you for your courage, wisdom and intelligence.
"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me..." I am doing my work and truly aware of how deeply all humanity is connected. I catch myself falling and failing, but oh how I rebound! Like the mitochondrial network under our feet, what I send out matters. Thoughts matter, words matter, actions matter, from infancy to elder hood, from the top and loudest to the vulnerable and silenced. Thank you for speaking so profoundly.
Good words Dawn. And I love that hym you started out with! It has a catchy melody but I have forgotten all the words! Thanks for your views, Joan.
The year is 2028. It’s the 17th of June.
A new movement has recently emerged in the United States, leading to the formation of a “Goodwill Party”. Their candidate barely crossed the threshold to qualify for the first televised debate. She is ready to represent all people who yearn for a more wholesome society based on both freedom and justice, while emphasizing compassion and practical action instead of a large set of impossible goals that may impress the electorate but fail to deliver actual results.
The moderator gives the Democrat, Republican and Goodwill candidates 5 minutes each for their opening remarks. The Goodwill candidate goes first.
“Hello, my fellow Americans, all of whom I genuinely and humbly wish to represent, not because of your religion or ideology but simply because you are fellow humans and I acknowledge our shared humanity.
This election cycle is estimated to cost over $10 billion in donations for expensive advertising. I have raised only about $50 million, compared to my two opponents sitting here next to me. However, there’s one very important thing you need to know. All of my contributors are fully aware that every penny is going towards three main projects:
1) renovating elderly care facilities and publicly acknowledging those companies in the industry who voluntarily reform their business practices to be less predatory and instead use their money to the fullest on the people.
2) empowering local communities with resources for mapping, documenting and legally challenging companies who knowingly emit highly toxic pollution into the air, lakes and streams of low-income urban areas.
3) developing a food sharing program that partners grocery chains with local food banks to help minimize otherwise wasted produce while feeding hungry families who can barely afford to pay their bills.
What will the other candidates do with all their billions of dollars? Spend it on negative ads? Put millions of signs in yards? Boast about their reputation while promising to make good on their impossible platform after being elected?
The people working in my campaign, my advisors and many supporters, are in it for the right reasons. We’re already involved in doing what is practical, productive and benefits the people.
I yield the remaining 2 minutes for my opponents who will need every second! I love you, my fellow Americans, and I’ll leave ideology out of my work. Who do you trust?”
———————-
….perhaps a dream, you say, but I believe a goodwill movement is coming before long. It will stretch beyond elections as many people become inspired into action to heal the broken parts of our fragmented world.
———————-
Carl Sagan (1988): “Although we must cooperate to an unprecedented degree, I am not arguing against healthy competition. But let us compete in finding ways to reverse the nuclear arms race and to make massive reductions in conventional forces; in eliminating government corruption; in making most of the world agriculturally self-sufficient. Let us vie in art and science, in music and literature, in technological innovation. Let us have a honesty race. Let us compete in relieving suffering and ignorance and disease; in respecting national independence worldwide; in formulating and implementing an ethic for responsible stewardship of the planet.”
Yes. Peace and the love that sustains it are a force for change. Please continue to speak louder and louder, Marianne, encouraging us to be louder from our hearts, our souls, our minds. This is what we desperately need in our country. Loud voices of love that have no boundaries of left or right or any sort. Yours is well positioned to be that lead voice. Speak so not just we who are already there with you hear you. So much love and appreciation for you. Breah
As you would know, Marianne, the foundations of war and violence lie in child abuse.
Robin Grille’s magisterial Parenting for a Peaceful World spells out how unresolved trauma plays out on the world stage. He draws on the work on psychohistorian Lloyd deMause.
The most immediate implication is that municipalities and health services would do well to invest in supporting young parents in learning how to bring out more of their nurturing side than their punitive side.
Of course, many if not most adults have unresolved trauma. Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score describes highly effective experiential healing techniques for resolving trauma. We’ve gone way past Freud.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not invent these techniques. I selected them first, because people can get great results using them for themselves, and, secondly, because they can be easily introduced to people we know when appropriate.
In doing so, we are not acting as a professional therapist, but as trainers.
I am project lead for Stable Planet Alliance’s League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Our vision is that regular people, such as those who comment on this thread, step up to a new level of leadership and responsibility and introduce such techniques to people they know. They actually contribute to fostering the cultural evolution necessary to evolve a peaceful society.
Importantly, Evolutionary Catalysts, also talk about catastrophic ecological trends – a hothouse earth, for example, will be unbearably horrible – with a view to transforming the system that drives our destruction. It takes thinking.
As always, I would be happy to talk.
Andrew Gaines FRSA
Andrew.Gaines@evolutionarycatalyst.net
Andrew, I am glad you never give up on your pursuits! Joan
Thank you... 💜🙏💜🙏💜
Marianne, This is so powerful. Thank you. I just forwarded this to 51 of my family and friends. I also just ordered bumper stickers that simply say Matt 25:31-46. I get that the inner work is so important. Thank you Thank you Thank you.