Freedom From Within

Waking Times: Our dominant worldview still prefers to believe in the fantasy that we are a living species within a non-living universe, and that we can go about as ‘business as usual’ with a worldly indifference. This is the myth that the solid, material world is ‘out there’ and we are just separate bodies wondering around within it.

And so, we put everything at a distance from us, believing that there is us and then there is the external world. This belief system has been responsible for humanity feeling it has the right, or even duty, to conquer and control the world around us. Yet in doing so we have orphaned ourselves not only from our own surroundings – from our life environments – but also from our own sense of self. We have alienated ourselves and become a discontented species.

We have created and cultivated for ourselves a view of the world that is dry and barren – like rusting metal in a wasteland. A world of separate objects may have been reassuring for us, yet in the long term it is not life-affirming. We only have to take a look at the world today to see that things are not going well...read more>>>...