Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
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Carl Jung experienced a massive heart attack in 1944, at the age of sixty-nine. In his near death experience, he saw the earth from 1000 miles above, in a “gloriously blue light.” After his heart attack, he wrote much more directly about what he thought and what he believed.
Since the heart attack, I experience more and more clearly and painfully that the institutions I work with on a daily basis with are not compassionate systems. The Court System is far more concerned with inflexible justice than with individual circumstances and mercy; the Correctional System similarly is overwhelmingly concerned about punishment rather than rehabilitation. The psychiatric unit at the hospital routinely drugs people having religious experiences.
What is missing from these systems is a sense of the Feminine and a sense of the Sacred; this is heart failure on a massive scale.
The whole planet is threatened by global warming, a reflection of the current state of unconsciousness. Perhaps this wound to the Earth, the sacred ground will live on, will bring about an awakening on a global scale.
Since the heart attack, I experience more and more clearly and painfully that the institutions I work with on a daily basis with are not compassionate systems. The Court System is far more concerned with inflexible justice than with individual circumstances and mercy; the Correctional System similarly is overwhelmingly concerned about punishment rather than rehabilitation. The psychiatric unit at the hospital routinely drugs people having religious experiences.
What is missing from these systems is a sense of the Feminine and a sense of the Sacred; this is heart failure on a massive scale.
The whole planet is threatened by global warming, a reflection of the current state of unconsciousness. Perhaps this wound to the Earth, the sacred ground will live on, will bring about an awakening on a global scale.
Non nobis solum sed toti mundo nati.
Not for ourselves, but for the whole world we were born.
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