climate change: a call to re-enchantment
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Cathy, I hear you/read you and feel you. I resonate with the grief, the tears and the pain on many levels. I try to take a stand for the Earth through the heart. This means that the heart’s natural response to this tragedy of loss is grief and it needs skillful ways to be with indeed – ways like the Openhand way. The song really captures this paradox! Thanks for sharing.
Yes, it’s not ‘spiritually sexy’ to talk about environmental catastrophe etc though I feel Climate change is a call to returning to an erotic relationship with Nature (the cosmos, ourselves and each other). I would like to share some reflections:
Climate change is a crisis of values/sensibilities and not just a crisis of technology, politics, economics, capitalism etc. In other words, it is a crisis of relationship: a lack of eros.
For me eros (well, here is another greek word) goes beyond enjoying nature, it seeks to connect more, to expand the knowing of Nature. It opens up to Nature as an expression of the divine (this includes her shifting to the 5D) – it activates more connection. Eros is infinitely expanding and boundless. It expands the experience of Nature multidimensionally. So, to me, there is a need in the world to sense Nature and the cosmos differently: to open up to the sacredness of both, which is liberating. It instigates a letting go, a sense of trust and a living life to the fullest. I therefore, take refuge in the dynamic of eros, also because:
“Eros moves us towards enlivening connections and ignites our desire to make a distinctive contribution to the world” (Whitehead & Whitehead, 2009. “Holy eros: towards recovering the passion of God”).
