Dear Friends,
New scientific discoveries (that the subjective experiences of mystics have long affirmed) reveal a dynamic, living universe with which we can connect. The traditional scientific mechanistic view of a dead universe has led to environmental destruction, alienation and despair. In contrast, a living universe is full of hope, communion and the promise of higher capacities and discoveries as our journey gradually reveals the 95.9% of the universe that is presently unknown to us.
The New Story is about belonging, communing, cooperating, caring and sharing. It is about aligning with divine purpose and learning and listening to Nature as our teacher. It is about all of us as agents of the whole Kosmos, working together to make choices that align with purpose, generate life, and take responsibility for the integral functioning of the whole.
The wonder and beauty of a purposeful life becomes the supreme value of the New Story. We are living within an alive, evolving, purposeful universe with a community of diverse life forms on Sacred Mother Earth whom we depend on for love and care.
The New Story describes Earth as a living superorganism—“a self-organizing, self-regulating, continuously adapting, evolving community of life on whose health and well-being our own health and well-being depend—now and forevermore. Indeed, we must look to the structures and processes of Earth’s community of life as a model for the living human economy to which we must now transition.”
How then shall we live?
Once we hear the New Story
Once we dance the song of Life
How then shall we live?
-Nancy Roof
