Climate disaster is upon us. If we don’t learn to live as part of Mother Nature, I don’t see how we can survive, and deal with the climate disruption.
At the moment, we’re moving further and further away from that, with right wing governments, with AI and big tech more and more central in our lives. Genetically modified foods, continuing to mine and tear Mother Nature apart for money – money isn’t even part of mother nature, it’s some kind of human fantasy.
We’re moving further and further from Mother Nature. It becomes more and more urgent that we remember our bodies, minds and spirits are part of the planet we live on, Mother Nature who created our life.
We can’t set it aside or give up because we can’t see a solution. The urgency of it keeps me inspired and creative. We have to imagine an alternative, a different future. If we don’t imagine it, we can’t do it. My job in life is imagining it and I hopefully inspiring everybody else to imagine it too.
When I see things happening that are not taking us in the right direction. I can’t say I never get angry and frustrated. I do, then I turn it into: well, then what would be better? What do we actually need to do instead? that keeps me having something worthwhile to do with my life.
This website presents a pathway to imagining a solution. I’m not presenting a fait accompli. I hope you can take this up and feel positive and creative about the issue – quickly!
the causes of climate change are within us
the planet’s elemental forces are out of balance. We’ve heated up the whole system by putting in too much fire.
we’ve unbalanced the physical climate because our cultural climate is too in love with fire. We need to go faster and faster, have more stuff. We need to fly across the world. Burn the candle at both ends. We love passionate intensity, violent heroes and war. Our cultural attitudes and desires are heating up the physical climate.
to restore our planet’s climate, we must cultivate a different cultural climate. We need to release the pressure and create a culture which balances the elements. change what we do in our life, what we want in our lives, so we don’t need to fire up everything and get hyper active.
we must heal our inner climate too; change our sense of who we are. we’re not isolated little beings, we’re part of the whole community of nature including other humans. therefore we have a responsibility to look after her.
First thing to do is change our relationship with nature. Not see her as a dead thing to use, but something we’re part of and we rely on for our survival.
Usually we think of the cause as fossil fuels. Why do we keep on using them? That’s the pattern of our Deep Mind, the ‘way things are.’ Our climate catastrophe is caused by the values and assumptions that colour the Deep Mind of modern industrial culture.
When we work with climate distress, with our meditation, we can see that we’re only distressed because we love life, and love the earth. Underneath our distress is love. Then we can transform that love into the strengths and vision we need, to cook the recipe for life, and live in it.
PATRIARCHY RECIPE
Greed
Money
Capitalism
Patriarchy
Dog eat dog
We are separate from nature
Exploit nature
Do you feel distressed by the climate emergency?
Wars, dictatorships, poverty, and destruction of nature?
Do you feel helpless and don’t know what to do?
There is another way to live. The work on this site is for growing a different recipe, in our Deep Mind. The Life Recipe.