Warrior's Quest
describes a vision and a set of spiritual practices. Earthfolk awoke at a moment of transformation,
which typically involves a break-down and a breakthrough.
All of a sudden,
we clearly saw how we had been raised, educated and spiritually advised
to live according to this Warrior's Quest vision and spiritual practices.
We were forced to confront how each
of us had pledged allegiance and bowed
our heads and bent our knees in adoration of its god and faith. It
was a moment of life-changing challenge where we had to acknowledge and take
responsibility for how we had lived out in
our lives this Warrior's Quest.
It moved many to painfully
shed a lifestyle earned after a successful career
or to leave a career in progress or begin to live in such a way
that family members and loved ones expressed
indifference to hostility towards their transformation.
The Warrior's Quest imagination
is deeply embedded in the individiual
and communal psyche of most people. The breakthrough to Earthfolk imagining did—and
you should anticipate will—exact a certain amount of suffering.
The Warrior's Quest is
a vision
that has come to be the way through which
almost every religious, theological or spiritual tradition
(East and West)
has interpreted and molded itself.
While in these traditions there are stories, practices,
rituals and values expressed that mirror aspects of
the Earthfolk vision, practices and values, these
are but minor, subordinated or tolerated stories,
practices, etc., within the dominant Warrior's Quest tradition.
For example, despite Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, nonviolence is
not the dominant Christian practice. Likewise, despite the Buddhist
concept of karma and the call to do the least harm, it is not a
predominantly ecological or green movement. Hinduism's pantheon
is replete with goddesses but it is as mired in and expressed through
patriarchal imaginings as other major religions.
Continue—Quest
