Leaks:
Sources and Inspirations
"In media res," an
ancient Latin saying, "Everything starts in the middle of something
else!" So has the Earthfolk
imagining. As noted, it has been emerging as a
movement within movements. As mentioned, there is no "Earthfolk"
except as you enter into a
nurturing embrace with a Beloved and unleash the vital zest that
heals and makes whole the Living Earth. But...everyone comes from
somewhere.
From within one Big Story or another. From one or several traditions,
groups, ideological camps, activist organizations, etc.
An emphasis on the Pathways is that we
Earthfolk realized that the Big Stories that collaborated
to make fully present the Warrior's Quest vision through creating
and dropping the
Atomic Bomb could not be re-formed or re-imagined.
Many have tried, for millennia.
Our own experience is that when
we focus on an aspect
of a Big Story that "should" lead
to an Earthfolk action, such as honoring the relationship we
humans have with all living
entities in
the vital web of life, we end up validating the
Warrior's Quest tradition—a classic "unintended
consequence."
For example, no hero,
saint, avatar, exemplar, etc., from the Abrahamic tradition
has been an effective
peacemaker. Certainly, not Jesus of Nazareth, of
ancient memory. Nor Martin Luther King, of recent memory. No other
Religious Big Story has flowered
into
a practice of nonviolent peacemaking. Not Buddhism, Hinduism,
Taoism, Voodoo, Native American spiritualities, nor even the pagan
revival
movements
of present
times. No force—love force, peace force, whatever it might be called—flowing
from these movements has stemmed to the slightest degree the Warrior's
Quest Lone Male march to creatively imagine, produce and drop the
Atom Bomb.
Continue—Leaks
