{"id":16529,"date":"2018-03-14T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16529"},"modified":"2018-03-14T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T13:53:53","slug":"the-great-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16529","title":{"rendered":"The Great Turning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/haLkLDfLBok\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Great Turning<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday, March 14, 2018<\/p>\n<p>When we look down on the Earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also at the same time, looks extremely fragile. \u2014Ron Garan, NASA Astronaut [1]<br \/>\nI have set before you life and death, therefore choose life. \u2014Deuteronomy 30:19<br \/>\nEco-philosopher, Earth elder, spiritual activist, and friend Joanna Macy (b. 1929) promotes a transition from the Industrial Growth Society to a Life-Sustaining Society. She calls it the Great Turning, a revolution of great urgency: \u201cWhile the agricultural revolution took centuries, and the industrial revolution took generations, this ecological revolution has to happen within a matter of a few years.\u201d [2] She is hopeful as she sees many participating in: \u201c1) Actions to slow the damage to Earth and its beings [holding actions]; 2) Analysis and transformation of the foundations of our common life; and 3) A fundamental shift in worldview and values.\u201d [3]<br \/>\nThe Center for Action and Contemplation has focused primarily on the last dimension, fostering a change in consciousness. Here\u2019s how Joanna Macy and Molly Brown describe this crucial shift in perception and values:<br \/>\nIt is hard to undertake the holding actions or initiatives . . . unless we are nurtured by deeply held values and ways of seeing ourselves and the world. The actions we take\u2014and structures we build\u2014mirror how we relate to Earth and each other. They require a shift in our perception of reality\u2014and that shift is happening now, both as cognitive revolution and spiritual awakening. . . .<br \/>\nThe insights and experiences that enable us to make this shift may arise from grief for our world that contradicts illusions of the separate and isolated self. Or they may arise from breakthroughs in science, such as quantum physics and systems theory. Or we may find ourselves inspired by the wisdom traditions of native peoples and mystical voices in the major religions . . . that reminds us again that our world is a sacred whole in which we have a sacred mission.<br \/>\nNow, in our time, these three rivers\u2014anguish for our world, scientific breakthroughs, and ancestral teachings\u2014flow together. From the confluence of these rivers we drink. We awaken to what we once knew: we are alive in a living Earth, the source of all we are and can achieve. Despite our conditioning by the industrial society of the last two centuries, we want to name, once again, this world as holy.<br \/>\nThese insights and experiences are necessary to free us from the grip of the Industrial Growth Society. They offer us nobler goals and deeper pleasures. They help us redefine our wealth and our worth. The reorganization of our perceptions liberates us from illusions about what we need to own and what our place is in the order of things. [Moved] beyond tired old notions of competitive individualism, we come home to each other and our mutual belonging in the living body of Earth. [4]<\/p>\n<p>Gateway to Presence:<br \/>\nIf you want to go deeper with today\u2019s meditation, take note of what word or phrase stands out to you. Come back to that word or phrase throughout the day, being present to its impact and invitation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yielding<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2026you are that one\u2019s slaves whom you obey\u2026 \u2014Romans 6:16<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him.<br \/>\nIf a child gives in to selfishness, he will find it to be the most enslaving tyranny on earth. There is no power within the human soul itself that is capable of breaking the bondage of the nature created by yielding. For example, yield for one second to anything in the nature of lust, and although you may hate yourself for having yielded, you become enslaved to that thing. (Remember what lust is\u2014 \u201cI must have it now,\u201d whether it is the lust of the flesh or the lust of the mind.) No release or escape from it will ever come from any human power, but only through the power of redemption. You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the only One who can break the dominating power in your life, namely, the Lord Jesus Christ. \u201c\u2026He has anointed Me\u2026to proclaim liberty to the captives\u2026\u201d (Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1).<br \/>\nWhen you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous control it has over you. Even though you say, \u201cOh, I can give up that habit whenever I like,\u201d you will know you can\u2019t. You will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded to it. It is easy to sing, \u201cHe will break every fetter,\u201d while at the same time living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus will break every kind of slavery in any person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Turning Wednesday, March 14, 2018 When we look down on the Earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also at the same time, looks extremely fragile. \u2014Ron Garan, NASA Astronaut [1] I have set before you life and death, therefore choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16532,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions\/16532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}