Help Bring About The Ecozoic Era
Follow The Pathway To A. Magnificent Future
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If we cannot make ample ecological corrections, we will enter the Technozoic era—that bleak time when technology, affluence, and human population will cause severe impacts on the natural world.
If we fail to enter the Ecozoic era, it is difficult to imagine that the future will contain any semblance of the relative paradise we now inhabit.
To help bring about the Age of Sustainability, commune with nature,* learn how to tend to your dreams as described in the unabridged text to the Heartwood Path, and consider what actions you can take to help make the environment more sustainable.
The next major event in the unfolding of the cosmos is on the horizon. As human beings extinguish thousands of species each year we are forced to make big changes in the way we relate to the planet. In doing so, we will recognize that the natural world is not only our primary provider but also the primary way divinity is revealed to us. If we can examine the terms of the human-earth relationship and then make necessary corrections, the Ecozoic will replace the Cenozoic. If we cannot make such corrections, we will enter the Technozoic era—that bleak time when technology, affluence, and human population will cause severe impacts on the natural world. If we fail to enter the Ecozoic era, it is difficult to imagine that the future will contain any semblance of the relative paradise we now inhabit.
Fortunately, we have already entered a time that is the necessary prerequisite for the dawning of the Ecozoic Era. In important ways, this time is similar to the first Axial period (800-600 B.C), which is marked by the spawning of the world’s great religions. In this second Axial period, we are becoming more aware and appreciative of an integral view of religion and spirituality. This integral view leads us to adopt the “pereNNIAAL philosophy” that underlies all religion, a view that fosters a connection to our source in the Divine, a connection to our individual and collective selves, a connection to our neighbors, and a connection to the harmonious energy and intelligence that pervades and surrounds us all. In this second Axial period we will develop paths of paths and, in so doing, become inter-spiritual in ways that enable us to be deeply committed to a variety of spiritual preferences. We can see the emergence of this inter-spiritual perspective in the way some in the present generation neither knows nor cares about the differences between religious denominations. If such indifference is worrisome to you, just know that every new journey brings understandable fears.
To An Age Of Sustainability…
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HumaNatureConnect Activity
If this is not a day when you prefer to spend time in nature without an agenda, do the following activity:
Start-up Protocol
Read The Text — Use your literary sense, your mind sense, and your reason sense to read your way towards happiness and sustainability but do not just be an arm-chair traveler. Use your other natural senses as you also spend healthful, fun, and productive time in nature on your way to Gladandgreen Junction.
Attractive Natural Being — With pen and journal in hand, go to a natural area and look around to find a natural being that is attractive to you.
Appreciation and Gratefulness — While admiring your chosen being, appreciate it with your inhalations and give it gratitude with your exhalations.
Consent — Once you find an aspect of nature that is attractive to you continuously for at least ten seconds, think of your continued attraction as your consent to have a connection experience that will lead to your optimal functioning.
The Natural Senses — After gaining consent to enter into a connection experience with the natural being, have available the list of Natural Senses. Mix it up by using at least one radiation sense, one feeling sense, one chemical sense, and one mental sense, to widen your perception, and add variety to your experience.
HumaNatureConnect Activity — After reading the text, finding a natural being, appreciating it, gaining its consent, and scanning the list of natural senses, use your heightened awareness and nature-induced optimal functioning to do the following activity and engage in as many follow-up components as you see fit.
