- You are born to play an
important role in an incredible story. When you discover your role,
your life will have meaning. Hundreds of millions of years were
required to prepare for this moment in earth's history and for the
role you now have an opportunity to play.
- In your role, your potentials
are many. You carry in the DNA in your cells the wisdom of the ages.
Your body is made up of the same atoms shared by all of the physical
universe. During the next seven years you will exchange every atom in
your body; thus, you will take part in a process of transformation and
creation begun 15 billion years ago.
- The moment you awakened into
life as an infant, the world you were born into began to lull you back
to sleep. Whether you recognize your role will depend on whether you
awaken from the sleep. For the human species, awakening is the climax
of a growing up process which began more than a million years ago.
- Most educational institutions
function to deepen your sleep. Society's institutions depend on your
remaining asleep. If you wake up, you will see the world differently.
Most of the things you are taught to think are important will no
longer seem important. You will become absorbed in a story that does
not require you to 'succeed' and to 'consume.' Whereas to be
successful in our present society requires you to remain in a
sleep-like trance.
- The trance-world is filled
with many good people who love their children and want the best for
them, but who are destroying Earth's life-support systems their
children will need to survive. "Goodness" is not the issue.
Neither is evil. There are no villains whose identification and
elimination will solve our problem. For the young human species to
play a role in life's next chapter in earth's story, a critical mass
of human consciousness must awaken soon. As one tiny, fragile person,
your life can make a difference.
 From
an Earth Literacy perspective, modern scientific breakthroughs are as
revelatory of God's creation as were the revelations of ancient religious
prophets. Earth Literacy is an effort to integrate modern and ancient
revelations. Earth Literacy is an attempt to interpret and understand the
emerging story of "New Cosmology." The New Cosmology, as a new
manner of thinking, is the gift of historian and "geologian"
Thomas Berry. The New Cosmology offers a bridge of understanding that
affirms all religions and all intellectual disciplines.
What is
Earth Literacy?
Welcome to
the Journey . . .
Earth
Literacy Overview
What is
an Earth Literacy Center?
Environmental
Ethics Institute - Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus
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