Do we truly KNOW what we are doing?

I watched the movie...at times I felt amazed (at the beautiful connection to nature of the indigenous people from Africa), at times I felt anger (the spread of Western control of debt, at industrial exploitation of the land and resources, and at the arrogance of this mentality), at one point I cried. All in all I felt the film touched my heart deeply.

No, we don't know what we are doing. We are removing ourselves from the natural rhythms of Mother Earth at an unhealthy and unsustainable rate.

We can't see it though because our lens is adjusted to only the individual level, and not the collective whole of who we are. One quote stuck out for me in particular,

"If we view the world as a machine, we become a machine. The machine mentality that has simply said the universe, nature are mechanistic processes. That's brought us only so far. And that's exactly the crossroads. One of the things that we see now in our current economic crisis is that it was in large measure driven by an abstraction of economics apart from ecology, apart from nature itself. It became a global casino, a roulette, a building on itself."

I feel that our need to maximize profit (greed) is our greatest threat to not only our connection to our spirituality, but perhaps survival as well. I don't know.

Thank you for sharing this. Love and blessings dear friend.

Great video! Unless we get back to the natural we are doomed. You would like the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

Letting life be life

"Attempting to control external events

will never keep us safe.

Control is an Illusion.

Whatever we try to control,

we separate from ourselves.

Whatever we try to fix,

we ruin.

Life is sacred,

and flows exactly as it should

We return to our breathing.

It knows exactly what to do,

rising and falling without conscious control.

In the same way

We sometimes have excess

and sometimes lack.

We sometimes assert ourselves

and sometimes hold back.

We sometimes succeed

and sometimes fail completely.

Our practice is to see all of this

without taking it seriously."

~Lao Tzu

heart? is that supposed to be a metaphor?

We are, and have always, been making things up as we go ^_^