The Women Gathering retreat – at the recent Fairmont Chateau Montebello in November – has left me increasingly curious about my/your/our future. (Stay tuned: Blog post to come re the discovery of a ‘Free Fall’ exploration and its impact.) Much has stayed with me from that experience, not the least of which is the thought, below:
We are rapidly approaching the sharp edge that separates our greatest despair and our greatest hope. We will soon have no option other than to choose which side of the blade we ride into our shared future.
The seeming free-fall of our species has gone beyond the challenge of our foolish choices ; our self-absorbed and mindless grabbing for the ever increasing ‘more’ on the outside, at the cost of the corresponding ever-decreasing connection to the inside…as we collapse into that which will become the buffet for another. Without that inner link, we are adrift in a sea of directionless and increasingly lifeless iniquities and become the mindless mortar between the bricks of another’s reality.
That we individuate; that we come to know ‘unique’ demands that we awaken – and stay awake! – to an internal reference for possibility. It’s not always easy; it’s not always fun; and it is essential to the collaborative creation of a meaningful world. The current collaboration from a deep coma of external referencing is killing us.
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