In response to my comment, she wrote that she wanted "to be kind but honest". Those are two of the most important things in the whole world to me. Kindness and honesty.
And.
It is significant that she wrote the word but, instead of and. Let us be kind and honest. They go well together.
Her desire for kindness and honesty inspired me to take this seriously and go beyond a line or two on social media.
This morning I awoke from a dream about two old friends. One of them has invested the 2nd half of her short life into the western medical establishment while her wife has invested her life into her own personal truth, the earth, and plants. My mind wandered gently as I first became aware of being awake until wide awake happened as thoughts arrived at the "kind but honest" comment. Her "very livelihood", (and possibly her sense of self), is “under attack”. There are becoming two groups of people that can benefit from a mediator as our human culture moves forward. I want to mediate between people who have their personal identity wrapped up in science and government agencies and people like me, who have our personal identity wrapped up in Love and Oneness and Infinity.
The first thing that comes to mind is the movie ‘La Belle Verte’ by Coline Serreau. She offers a bold, beautiful, funny story about how we can move forward from where we find ourselves. (see partial transcript below)
This person that offered her kind but honest comment helps me feel encouraged through a series of pictures she took herself to share her appreciation of the earth's seasons. It helps to remember the earth. This mediation I want to engage in will be led by the earth and my deep relationship with her. The earth is strong beyond any human strength, beautiful in a way that can break through any human suffering, and resilient beyond the deepest human fear. The earth is steady and dependable, we can rely on her to hold us lovingly in the face of extreme darkness. She will never turn away from her own expansion and magnificent growth. Our earth offers Life and only Life.
The Life she offers comes from universal Wisdom. Wisdom that gives a polite nod to our human knowledge. The Life that earth offers comes from the Love that is able to embrace human understanding of what we call science while resting in the Wisdom that encompasses and dwarfs it. How big is the sky? Lie on your back and look up at the sky. Just feel it. You are so small. And, you are so big because you are the sky. You are being held by the earth as you lie on your back and gaze at the vast Love that holds all of it.
Our human society will change. Our human society has changed immeasurably and people walked together through those changes. Some holding weapons and some holding hands with their neighbor. Imagine if we could step back from our personal investment in the current paradigm and gaze upon the grand picture that is unfolding. We are living in a time of great change. The kind of change that we read about in history books in high school. What were those people feeling while they worked their jobs and shared meals with their families? Were they living gracefully as society changed around them? We can notice the momentous event as it’s happening and fight for things to stay the same, protecting our tiny version of the truth. Or we can notice this societal shift and stand in awe of the kind AND honest energy expanding beyond human knowledge out towards Universal Wisdom.
Look up at the sky.
I would like to meet with you. Maybe we could start a bridge group. People from different sides coming together to share ideas and build bridges across the vast divide that we think exists between our ways of living. The intention would be to practice understanding each other as humans, and to offer and receive kindness and honesty.
La Belle Verte
1:29:50 - (into the movie one hour, 29 minutes, and 50 seconds)
Two young men are describing their world to young women from earth:
Lots of lakes. We all live on lakes. It’s hot but it rains every night. We have no houses. We live in nests in the grass. When we wake up, we swim in the lake. We eat, we wash, then we play games to strengthen ourselves. Each family has its games. We do trapeze.
Old folks, 100?
Mom does. She’s 150. She’s had her third set of teeth. At 135, you grow a new set of teeth. You would if you lived longer. We also died young during the industrial age. Some families jump. Others do tight rope walking.
Who runs the planet?
No one does… Everyone. Once a year, village delegates meet on a mountain top.
A mountain top?
After a 2-hour mountain climb, you’re smarter. We also have contraception meetings. After the harvest, we decide how many babies to make.
In the morning we play. Then we eat.
What do you eat?
Lots of things: fruits, vegetables, olives, raw-vegetable kebabs, cereals…
No meat?
No, we eat beans. Beans are great. We eat everything raw.
You don’t have fire?
We don’t use it anymore. Just for forging knives once a year. Then we work the fields. Then we work on our brains. Telepathy, intuition, galactic voyages, spatial mathematics. (Kids do it best).
Can you predict the future?
No, I can’t.
Even if you concentrate? No visions?
No.
Too bad.
Knowing isn’t always fun.
But I wish I could.
Ask the boys. I was lousy in archeology.
Our industrial age ended with the trials and boycotts.
Trials?
Poisoners of human, animal and vegetable life were convicted of planetary genocide. Who?
Fabricants of food, tobacco, alcohol, medicine, nuclear arms, cars. Architects, doctors, politicians who profiteered.
That’s a lot.
It was a civil war. Then came the Boycott. People stopped buying and threw away anything toxic. No more buying, no more power. What could the police do? What was that era called? Pre-renaissance chaos.
There was re-birth?
Yes. Can we try a car?
So cars do interest you!
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