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# 2021-12-06 - Please Have Compassion by Ganga Devi Braun
Excerpt from Ganga Devi Braun [1] interview hosted by Michael Dowd
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The current mass extinction event is happening because of choices and
culture that we have created. Every several million years the planet
goes through mass extinction. We are at choice how we want to be
involved in that. We need to learn and embody what is the opposite
of domination and extraction at every single level we can. We can't
just silo issues [and pit them against each other].
I am a very intellectual person. I can be very cerebral. I can get
stuck in my own mind, and suddenly a sense of despair and pain
[arise]. I find that when i start my days like i did today, moving
my body and connecting with the Earth; choosing not to just be here
in my head but to be in my entire body; I feel that's a radical act
of transforming humanity because i feel, like so much of humanity,
we're just in our "Oh how can we solve this problem by reducing it to
its smallest part?" We have this massive imbalance where we
overwhelmingly live there...
I have a lot of chronic pain. I know many people in my generation
have chronic pain and many health issues. I have fibromyalgia, Lyme
disease... Many people in my generation have issues like this in our
bodies, which makes it really hard for us to show up for the world
when our bodies are challenged. It makes it hard for us to make a
living in an economy where it is impossible for people of my
generation to have savings or any kind of cushion. We can't graduate
from school without being under a mountain of debt. On top of that
we have these physical issues. On top of that we have existential
dread.
Please have compassion. Many people feel that life is not worth
living. If you really study life, you will find that it is
definitely worth living. But you have to be living as if you are
alive, as if you are a living organism, as if you are a part of a
larger ecosystem. As soon as you make that shift, you start having
mystical experiences all the time and you realize that you are never
alone. We are all here for each other if we choose to be. And if we
choose to be, then life is much more meaningful.
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