How can we stay inspired to work towards a sustainable future?
We are living in times of acute crisis. The world which we are used to living in is changing from day to day, virtually. The technological advancement has become so fast that there is no way to control things anymore in the way it worked so far. We are now living in a system which is self-organized. Nobody on the top can efficiently interfere and cause a fundamental change, no matter if they are presidents of a powerful state who believes he can make his country safe and secure, or social activists who believe that destruction will resolve everything, especially lead to their own future as dictators of the world.
WHAT CAN YOU DO AND BE WHEN EVERYTHING IS DESTROYED? AND WHAT IF YOU HAVE PUT IN PRISON OR ERADICATED THE LAST PRESUMED TERRORIST?
You probably will be dead yourself or live in total poverty. The least thing you can expect that the changes are totally unpredictable when you deliberately work against them in a restrictive and fearful way by claiming to be as powerful as God in guiding the movement of the world. You are not, we are not. No technology will substitute the intrinsic human values, the feelings and desires we all have and the responsibility to find the very best way for resolving our problems - and this is not by proclaiming the EASY BUTTON or the old and often proved unfunctional ways of MORE OF THE SAME.
We are at this point in life because of the power of the solar masculine abilities to go out into the world and search for knowledge and visions and find ways to achieve them. Nothing bad about that, not at all. But it has been too one-sided. The feminine energies have been neglected, eliminated or at least constrained to operate on a very limited terrain. Politics and Economics, science and technology, masculine domains and brought forth mainly by men. Women, who try to raise their voice have to take into account that the systems they are operating in, are masculine systems. No wonder that we women after the women's liberation tried to become men, better men, but certainly not embodiments of the feminine power and ways of doing.
Actually, we women don't know how a feminine way could be. There are no role models yet.
As a consequence, we women have to do our best to find out what a feminine alternative could be to the present situation. You cannot tell yet that women in the main leadership positions would do better. Single examples in the world politics are not really convincing. But yes, those women are working within the masculine framework and not really interested in experimenting and finding out what a feminine framework could be.
Probably we need to build that up from the bottom by coming together and explore things from our personal perspective - which hopefully is more "feminine" than "masculine" just by our own experience of being a woman in the world. We need to sort things out, find out what "feminine" means and uncover our hidden biases and conditionings. It is a process and needs many of us women to collaborate in finding out how we can create a better world from our "indigenous" perspective.
That's why we have founded the WOMEN MATTERS series in THE WISDOM FACTORY. Women from different places in the world are coming together to explore their perspectives and their experience, always focused on co-creating something new and good in the world.
The below talk is about an important question:
Being surrounded by so many discouraging events and attitudes of other people: how can we stay inspired?
How can we be motivated to go on with the little we actually can do - as opposed to just give up and resign in the face of the unfavorable environment of a superficial culture which ignores the dangers it is producing?
If you feel inspired to join a conversation group, in English, German or Italian, please connect with us via email to paradisointegrale@gmail.com
(Watch previous conversations here and let us know what you think about it)
