Spiritual Awakenings
essential thing for these societies is not the individual, but the relationship between individuals, which they view as a thing in itself. They’ve understood the
essential nature of humanity as a coming together—a communion—and as a consequence, they live happier lives with lower divorce statistics, fewer troubled children, less crime and violence and a stronger community. They have chosen
a better way to live, a more authentic way to be—the way, I believe, that you and I were meant to live. And they do so because they’ve bought into another narrative—another worldview of who we are and why we’re here. The crises we have faced on
every front have occurred precisely because we are operating according to an outdated set of rules. The scientific story of who we are has drastically changed, and that we must change with it in order to survive. The competitive impulse that is now a major part of our self-definition and that forms the undercurrent of all our lives is the same mindset that has
created every one of the large global crises now threatening to destroy us. If we can recover wholeness in our relationships, in my view, we will begin to heal our world. We can recapture
our sense of the connection between things, but it requires a very different set of rules from the ones we currently live by. We need to perceive the world differently, relate to others differently, organize ourselves— our friendships and neighborhoods, our towns and cities— differently. If we’re not to be separate, but always attached and engaged, we need to
change our fundamental purpose on earth as something more than one based on struggle and domination. We must look at our lives from an entirely different perspective, a larger vantage point, to notice the connections that tie us all together. It doesn’t have to be like this.
Not for one more day.
Lynne McTaggart, author of the international bestsellers The Field and The Intention Experiment, is one
of the preeminent spokespersons on consciousness and the new science She will speak at a special IONS Tucson event at 6:30 p.m., July 26, at the Berger Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available at IonsTucson. org. For more information visit
TheBond.net.
NaturalTucson.com
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