I Think That There's A Hidden Darkness

The System Is Not Working. That Is How A Paradigm Shift Begins: The Established Way Of Seeing The World No Longer Functions.

Political Movements For Justice Are Part Of The Fuller Development Of The Cosmos, And Nature Is The Matrix In Which Humans Come To Their Self-awareness Of Their Power To Transform. Liberation Movements Are A Fuller Development Of The Cosmos's Sense Of Harmony, Balance, Justice, And Celebration. This Is Why True Spiritual Liberation Demands Rituals Of Cosmic Celebrating And Healing, Which Will In Turn Culminate In Personal Transformation And Liberation.

Creation Is All Things And Us. It Is Us In Relationship With All Things. All Things, The Ones We See And The Ones We Do Not; The Whirling Galaxies And The Wild Suns, The Black Holes And The Microorganisms, The Trees And The Stars, The Fish And The Whales - The Molten Lava And The Towering Snow-capped Mountains, The Children We Give Birth To And Their Children, And Theirs, And Theirs, And Theirs.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.

To Recover A Spiritual Tradition In Which Creation, And The Study Of Creation, Matters Would Be To Inaugurate New Possibilities Between Spirituality And Science That Would Shape The Paradigms For Culture, Its Institution, And Its People.