An interesting perspective on our relationship to environmental issues...posted on Facebook by Holos Institute: "A Prescription for Injuries of the Soul: Healing the Earth: Healing Us" by Carolyn Raffensperger...
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This is a great article. It asks some serious questions about healing our collective moral injuries and that this healing must be done in our quest to STOP destroying the planet. This line "the moral injury stemming from our participation in destruction of the planet has two dimensions: knowledge of our role and an inability to act" I find so powerful! We are participating in destruction and we feel impotent to do anything about our collective actions. I believe this points to, that as a society in the USA, we have become frozen and unmoved by the sorrow of others. So unmoved that our own destruction of mother earth unmoves us, and yet, that sorrow is raging within the collective unconscious just waiting for ways to come out; ways that manifest in violent and harmful ways, just as violent and harmful as the destruction we are forcing upon planet earth.
Thank you Bonnie for bringing this article into my awareness!