Toward a

Participatory Worldview

RECONNECTING

We cannot depend on governments to heal our wounds.

We have to help each other.

--Hene, Maori Woman Elder

People at the grassroots level are the only ones who can change the direction Western culture has taken.

It is only as we reach out to one another across barriers of race, nationality, political systems, and beliefs that we can connect the severed and heal the broken.

We people of the world are one people. We belong to a creation and a universe that lives and breathes as one organism.

~ Only we can rejoin ourselves ~

Anne Wilson Schaef

quoted from Native Wisdom for White Minds

As a Beginning -

A Prayer for World Vision - The Reverend Doctor Joan Kavanaugh, The Riverside Church, New York City
New Version of the Lord's Prayer - From the Book of Common Prayer of New Zealand

Authors

Morris Berman - The Reenchantment of the World
David Ray Griffin, editor - The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals
Sara Holbrook - poems for children
- Feelings Make Me Real
- Some Families
- The Dog Ate My Homework
Marlo Morgan - Mutant Message - Down Under -- "...recounts a unique, timely, and powerful life-enhancing message for all humankind: It is not too late to save our world from destruction if we realize that all living things--be they plants, animals, or human beings--are part of the same universal oneness. If we heed the message, our lives, like the lives of the Real People, can be filled with this great sense of purpose."
Anne Wilson Schaef - whose writings are the inspiration for this page.
- Beyond Therapy; Beyond Science
- Native Wisdom for White Minds
- When Society Becomes an Addict
Ken Wilber - The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science

Beauty - Art and Music

The Dale Warland Singers
INNOVATORS - a Compact Disc by Emmy-award-winning Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon, celebrating the genius of some of the world's greatest innovators (on the Treble V label)
NATIVE WISDOM - another CD containing World Music of the Spirit - a Narada Collection. This CD is a companion to Anne Wilson Schaef's Native Wisdom for White Minds, mentioned above, and includes an introduction by Dr. Schaef.

Links

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Native American Resources
Native Peoples Information Pointers
NativeWeb - A cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples.
Web of Connections - Here are some of our friends, kindred spirits and fellow travellers, along with useful resources and other sites to which you might want to connect. (from the Findhorn Foundation)

Programs and Institutions

Beyond Therapy - Living in Process - Developed by Anne Wilson Schaef, the purpose of Beyond Therapy, Living in Process work is to provide an educational experience in the Living in Process System and community while learning how to confront the addictive process.
The Findhorn Community, Scotland - An international community and developing eco-village of about 350 people living, studying and working together; founded in 1962 and known for our work with plants and nature, we have since become a centre for spiritual and holistic education as well.

Recovery

Sobriety and Recovery Resources

Religious

Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church - A fully inclusive, reconciling congregation, in Minneapolis, MN
The Riverside Church - Interdenominational, Interracial, International; New York City

Tape Libraries

The New Medicine - Audio Tapes

Writings

The Opportunity of Adolescence - by Terry M.
Our Deepest Fear" - a poem by Marianne Williamson
Out There - a poem by Deborah Mears
RADICAL LIVING - a sermon by The Reverend Jeanette Pettit
"Volunteers!" - by Erma Bombeck

The Litany of the Circle

Every part of this earth is sacred, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy. The rocky crest, the juices of the meadow, the beasts, and all the people--

All belong to the same family.

Teach your children that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. The water's murmur is the voice of our father's father. We are part of the earth, and the earth is part of us. The air is precious, for all of us share the same breath.

This we know; the earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.

This we know; all things are connected, like the blood which unites one family.

All things are connected. Our God is the same God, whose compassion is equal for all.

For we did not weave the web of life; we are merely a strand in it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

attributed to Chief Seattle

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