| As Morpheus said in the 'Matrix' 'There's | | | | men who control more wealth than 3 billion people |
| something wrong--you don't know what it is, but | | | | on the planet, and have split us from our |
| it is there--like a splinter in your mind driving you | | | | universally connected spirit. They steal from our |
| mad. It's the world that's been pulled over your | | | | natural spiritual estate, have rendered the planet |
| eyes to blind you from the truth.' The truth is | | | | incoherent and toxic, and are driving us into an |
| simple: It's that humanity has been imprisoned in | | | | abyss. |
| the mechanized matrix designed by our lesser | | | | The ancient right brain's spiritual structure of |
| brain. | | | | monism is eco-centric. It is literally a sacred, |
| Our brains have two hemispheres, right and left, | | | | miraculous bridge of light between the visible and |
| each with distinctive functions that are meant to | | | | invisible realms. Illuminating, creative, expansive, |
| work in tandem. The left-brain is egocentric. It | | | | poetic and empathic, its view is to unify all |
| divides and separates and without regard to | | | | existence based on context, compassion, caring, |
| complex contexts, subtle connections or | | | | and cooperation. This is the brain of Golden Ages, |
| long-term consequences, its focus is short-term | | | | for a new economy of eco-social entrepreneurs, |
| gain. | | | | and for the next 2,000 years. |
| Its duality sorts existence into hierarchical slots of | | | | The right brain is the intuitive translator of the |
| opposites: superior and inferior, physical and | | | | inherent, pantheistic spirituality that is archetypal |
| spiritual, black and white, friend or foe. Lacking | | | | imprinted into the deepest fibers of our soul. This |
| comprehension of life's natural connections, it | | | | life-sanctifying covenant, billions of years old, is |
| seeks to fix the world by its autocratic and | | | | stamped into the DNA of our ancestral memory |
| fragmenting style: 'you're with us or against us,' | | | | that gives us a hunger for reverential relationship |
| 'survival of the fittest,' 'might equals right.' Pitting | | | | to nature. The universality of this archetypal |
| existence into 'us or them' breeds: Nazism, | | | | spirituality is depicted by the similar gods and |
| fascism, militarization, racism, sexism, xenophobia, | | | | goddesses, myths, folk stories, art, and images |
| homophobia, anti-environmentalism, and war. | | | | that are found in widely varying cultures |
| The stratifying, myopic left-brain denies the fact | | | | throughout time. |
| of the unifying principle: that all of Creation is an | | | | The common lexicon of the cosmos, eternity, and |
| inherently interwoven, interconnected, | | | | our soul is symbol. We can read the elegant cave |
| interdependent whole. Uni-verse means one | | | | paintings of France from 38,000 years ago, or the |
| metered poem or song. Cosmos means one | | | | stories that ancient Egyptians told with their art of |
| unified, holistic whole. The unbreakable Natural Law | | | | 5,000 years ago, and they resonate because of |
| of the Cosmos is order, balance, and equal return. | | | | the constant symbols of the underlying secret |
| What is done to a part is done to the whole. We | | | | story of the cosmos. The astonishing beauty of |
| cannot escape cause and consequence. | | | | ancient Golden Ages, their colossal architecture, |
| For example, prior to the nuclear fallout from | | | | philosophy, literature and their way of being, was |
| Hiroshima, Nagasaki, from nuclear testing, and | | | | in many ways richer and more radiant than our |
| leakage from the nuclear plants, and the nuclear | | | | own, because their coherence flowed directly |
| waste buried in land and at sea, there was no | | | | from this right-brain connected spirit. |
| isotope strontium-90 outside of laboratories. Now | | | | Connected spirit illuminates the world; |
| it in inside every person and animal on earth. In | | | | disconnected spirit devolves it. A statement |
| addition, the billions of tons of Agent Orange, | | | | amplified by the past 100 most warring and |
| defoliants, depleted uranium, pesticides, herbicides, | | | | ecologically disastrous years from billions of years |
| industrial pollution, automobile exhaust that are | | | | of global existence. |
| dumped into the environment, and the toxic | | | | All around the globe today, from every hamlet to |
| specters that ghost from our landfills, haunt the | | | | every high-rise, connected spirit is the quality we |
| entire eco-system, including our bodies. We are | | | | would, intelligently, most highly value and prize. It is |
| the environment. 3,000 Americans die from | | | | the quintessential spirit of Renaissance. The only |
| eco-related cancers each day. You, me, our loved | | | | spirit that will save and evolve humanity, and |
| ones are threatened by 500 disconnected, myopic | | | | enhance all life on the planet, today. |