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	# 2021-12-06 - Please Have Compassion by Ganga Devi Braun

	Excerpt from Ganga Devi Braun [1] interview hosted by Michael Dowd.

	The current mass extinction event is happening because of choices and
	culture that we have created. Every several million years the planet
	goes through mass extinction. We are at choice how we want to be
	involved in that. We need to learn and embody what is the opposite
	of domination and extraction at every single level we can. We can't
	just silo issues [and pit them against each other].

	I am a very intellectual person. I can be very cerebral. I can get
	stuck in my own mind, and suddenly a sense of despair and pain
	[arise]. I find that when i start my days like i did today, moving
	my body and connecting with the Earth; choosing not to just be here
	in my head but to be in my entire body; I feel that's a radical act
	of transforming humanity because i feel, like so much of humanity,
	we're just in our "Oh how can we solve this problem by reducing it to
	its smallest part?" We have this massive imbalance where we
	overwhelmingly live there...

	I have a lot of chronic pain. I know many people in my generation
	have chronic pain and many health issues. I have fibromyalgia, Lyme
	disease... Many people in my generation have issues like this in our
	bodies, which makes it really hard for us to show up for the world
	when our bodies are challenged. It makes it hard for us to make a
	living in an economy where it is impossible for people of my
	generation to have savings or any kind of cushion. We can't graduate
	from school without being under a mountain of debt. On top of that
	we have these physical issues. On top of that we have existential
	dread.

	Please have compassion. Many people feel that life is not worth
	living. If you really study life, you will find that it is
	definitely worth living. But you have to be living as if you are
	alive, as if you are a living organism, as if you are a part of a
	larger ecosystem. As soon as you make that shift, you start having
	mystical experiences all the time and you realize that you are never
	alone. We are all here for each other if we choose to be. And if we
	choose to be, then life is much more meaningful.

	[1]
	Interview with Ganga Devi Braun

	[3]
	Ganga Devi Braun bio

	tags: collapse,compassion,notes,podcast

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