Reply To: Election Results in the US and Deeptime

[Orla Hazra]

Dear Barbara, Welcome to the deeptime perspective! As you note, each being has agency and is  ensouled by cosmogenesis to dream. Great work you were doing animating people beyond your state and comfort level.  Networking is a critical capacity for us to engage now, we can transcend boundaries and nations through our networking, even from our houses via zooms on internet.  Nothing like being in community though, on the ground face to face. In the very end of our session last night we were talking about how a deeptime perspective helps flip and broaden the issues we aim for and believe in. Not only are we addressing the ‘soul of the nation’, we are addressing the soul of the Earth, the ancient concept of Animus Mundi.  Through networking and collaborating on issues with oneanother , sharing our strengths within and across social and bioregional boundaries, we can come up with solutions together.  In Florida, there is a group  (inspired by Capra’s systems theory) that has been meeting since 2020, all through COVID each Monday (Douglas Bonar on this feed is a founding participant).  Topics and issues are discussed with the intention of networking across the state to strategize  ways forward when the leading powers are enacting legislature contradicting the flourishing of the Florida bioregion human and non human. It has been very inspiring to watch the unfoldment of inspiration across networks,..we can’t address issues from within our network silo’s .  The strength is in the dynamic patterning of the whole.  We have a long way to go to get deeptime perspectives proclaimed and enacted by politicians, but we can do anything on the ground locally, or internet. I often think of the Earth Charter.  Many cities across Earth have adopted the Earth Charter (EC) and point to the various principles (crossing the spectrum of social justice and environmental sustainability) as goals for their communities.  What has not been done very effectively, and needs to be done for effective enactment of the Charter is to ground communities first in the EC Preamble.  The preamble states a ‘belief and declaration…We belong to a vast and evolutionary universe”…that is the paradigm shift needed to engage the principles in a sustained way. Am just mentioning this as an example of a network having a great set of principles and yet struggling to get them enacted by agencies adopting them.  Our DT network has the strength in being able to foster the belief and self declaration of belonging to a vast and evolutionary universe. Each network has a strength and can potentiate the other. We need networks fostering the understanding, and then networks applying the understanding in their communities, all networking. In the scheme of our 13.8 BY Universe, as the song goes “We’ve only just begun…….”…Our Universal destiny is unfolding via Cosmogenesis through the Dream of the Earth.  It will be wonderful to share our communal dreams and schemes  networking  in the Deeptime Cafe’s.