Dear Ron, Wow!
Hugh >"So now we are living in a time when we must create love, it is no longer >given. We must develope this ability quickly. We must counter the >corporate >domintion of our lives through our creation of love and we can enjoy this, a >new paradigm. These energies are real and present. The use of genetic >engineering is on the brink of dominating our food system and our childrens >diets. The womb is at risk of becoming an inaequate place to raise a fetus >to birth into the world. But we shall overcome this through our creation of >love." (S Storch) > >Michael Moore's movie Bowling for Columbine has touch a nerve. It gives >voice to the total irrationality of the gun culture and its source the >pervasive degree of fear that American society is uniquely suffused with. >Moore's says that the underlying reason is the racism that still exists in >our society. This is the love of nationalism, blood love, a form of love no >longer needed in the world. It is in the melting pot of America that this >now destructive form of love is being worked through and hopefully left >behind. If we are to 'overcome through our love of creation' it seems to >me we will need to be able to grieve deeply. Giving voice to the injustices, >and the doom and destruction all around us isn't contributing to the >'negative vibes' but part of our necessary process of grieving. There isn't >a day that goes by without my heart being heavy with the loss of life >somewhere. Developing the capacity to allow all the suffering to come in >isn't easy. Robert Sardello has been a voice in the wilderness for me. From >his book Freeing the Soul From Fear: >" ...if you've grieved, some very interesting things occur. Grieving is a >complete bodily phenomenon. It is not the same thing as sadness or >depression. Every cell of your body cries out in pain. Partly that is a >purification of soul life that makes possible the making of the soul as a >vessel that can be radically receptive. That can only come about by taking >in the suffering of all our fellow human beings. > When we go that deeply into grieving there is this amazing, paradoxical >phenomenon that all of the world suddenly becomes alive. The flowers are >vivid, the sky is vivid. That's a kind of turnaround of soul life where soul >is now open.... It is a task in which it may look like everything around us >is breaking apart,but I don't think that's what is happening. What is >happening is this movement toward developing the capacity to learn how to >create love in the world." Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
