Inner Transition: Commit to Staying Awake | Transition US.
Will cities and states along the Mid-Atlantic coastline wake up in time? One drowsy regional eye opened during the September 2014 People’s Climate March; a brief but powerful awakened moment. The visual of400,000 people in New York City streets screamed public recognition of the intensifying dysfunction that precipitates climate change, economic contraction, and resource depletion.
The crowds are gone now. The hoopla of frenzied, back-to-back strategy sessions quieted.
The murky, “business as usual” mist has resettled. Now what? The challenge that the dispersed People’s Climate Marchers, Wall Street flooders, and eco-activists of all stripes now face is far deeper than any policy, treaty, legislation or regulation can reach. The litmus test of authentic forward movement is to skillfully address the fear, greed and desire for power that warps the collective perception of self, others, and the Earth.
The sleep of deep-seated conditioning to want more is so irresistibly seductive. It’s hard to stay awake when the pervasive fog of consumerism and desire for power hang heavy. Having more, and especially, wanting more, in order to strengthen one’s identity is a mesmerizing trance that fuels the environment-destroying economy. And as we’ve witnessed time and time again, in movement after movement, legislation is utterly impotent at the level of embedded human beliefs and identity formation. There is no legal shortcut. There can be no enduring outer transition without a corresponding inner-transition
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