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A shot from the Climate March in NYC yesterday. Beautiful to see the people of this country standing together to help protect the Planet.

Posted on September 22, 2014 by underthebluedoor • Posted in Activism • Leave a comment

Photo: Michael Polard

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← Bob Blackley’s birthday is a good day for his neighbors in Winston-Salem, NC. Every year on his birthday, for the last 3 years, Bob has stood on a street corner handing out money to strangers. The first year, it was $700, then $750, and now $800. That’s a $5 bill for 160 people. Bob doesn’t care who the people are, or what they plan to do with the money. He says, “Anything they want, if it puts a smile on their face, it’s theirs.”

“Immersed in what some call “consensus reality,” one’s very sanity comes into question for believing the principles of interbeing. We are permitted to entertain them as a kind of spiritual philosophy, but when we start making choices from them, when we start living them even ten percent, people begin to question our sanity. We may even question our own. Alongside the self-doubt comes a profound feeling of alienation. Just this morning I heard ten seconds of a news segment on immigration reform. An image sprang to mind of a vast apparatus of fences, checkpoints, ID cards, paperwork, interviews, borders, security zones, and official “status,” and I thought, “Wait a minute – isn’t it obvious that Earth belongs to everyone and to no one, and that there should be no borders? Isn’t it hypocritical to make life unlivable somewhere through economic and political policies, and then to prevent people from leaving that place?” The two sides of the debate don’t even mention that viewpoint, so far outside the bounds of respectable thought it lies. The same is true of practically every issue of public controversy. Isn’t it insane to think that I am right and everyone else is wrong? In a way, it is insane – insofar as sanity is a socially constructed category that serves the maintenance of dominant narratives and power structures. If so, it is time to be insane together! It is time to violate consensus reality.” ~ Charles Eisenstein — The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible →

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