Greetings to all!

A friend of mine, Lucila, sent me a quote a couple of days ago, which I would love to share…

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])

The message is to activate yourself, do something, take action. Through these lines I show you the tip of the iceberg, but each one of us has its own mountain to climb, and your own sphere of reality to improve. You can start by participating in cyber actions and getting informed. In this article, you can read about the weakly covered news about a bunch of Greenpeace Activists who, 4 days ago, blocked an oil drilling ship, hired by Shell, which was leaving Auckland, New Zealand, heading towards the Arctic; and through this cyber action, you can demand Shell not to destroy the Arctic.

And if you want to get informed, visit losverdes.org.ar (the greens), a political ecologic fórum, a movement which is beginning in Argentina, and our generation cannot overlook. It is a politic and social movement in construction, but it is one that includes Gaia in its agenda…

Going back to the initial quote, I would like to clarify that “God” is no longer the archetypal guy that observes and judges from outside. The whole universe is God, and what we manifest with our potential is the universe itself and the entire reality that surrounds us. In a biography of the Scottish naturalist John Muir (1938-1914), there is a fine description of the concept of God from a natural point of view:

  “God for Muir was a deliberately loose and imprecise term referring to an active, creative force dwelling in, above, and around nature. Continuously animated by that divine force, every part of the natural world was in constant flux – the earth moving under foot, glaciers flowing down mountainsides, plants and animals evolving and spreading. Always the flux was purposeful. Always it moved toward beauty. Always and everywhere it was holy.

Nature for Muir (…) was the name given to that part of the world that we humans did not create, that we do not manage, and that can and will survive our extinction. Nature was seldom imagined as a world completely free of human presence or influence – even the phrase “pristine nature” was more relative than absolute. Nature, Muir believed, included humans just as any community includes all of its inhabitants. But he made this critical distinction: while we cannot live without the forces and creatures of the nonhuman world, they can live without us. There is more to the world than humankind and its artifacts.” Donald Worster, A Passion For Nature. The Life Of John Muir. Oxford University Press, 2008. Pág. 8 y 9

As if wanting to close these Word with some images, Lucila has also sent me the following video. It is called Ashes and Snow, and it is Gregory Coldbert´s art and photography exhibition, which has already been seen by 10 million people, making it the most seen art exhibition in the history of art.

Thanx Lu for the help in this newsletter.

Huge hug,

Brian Longstaff.-

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