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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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